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2011 Hugo Award Nominees
1006 valid nominating ballots were counted, 992 electronic and 14 paper.
Best Novel
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
Feed by Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Best Novella -
http://www.asimovs.com/2011_04-05/images/511Nebula10_sultan.pdf
When Leah Hamakawa and I arrived at Riemann orbital, there was a surprisewaiting for Leah: a message. Not an electronic message on a link-pad, but an actualphysical envelope, with Doctor Leah Hamakawa lettered on the outside in f lowinghandwriting.Leah slid the note from the envelope. The message was etched on a stiff sheet ofsome hard crystal that gleamed a brilliant translucent crimson. She looked at it,f lexed it, ran a f ingernail over it, and then held it to the light, turning it slightly. Theedges caught the light and scattered it across the room in droplets of f ire. “Diamond,” she said. “Chromium impurities give it the red color; probably nitrogen forthe blue. Charming.” She handed it to me. “Careful of the edges, Tinkerman; I don’tdoubt it might cut.”
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"...if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject—which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride."
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Schneier on Security: New, Undeletable, Web Cookie
A couple of weeks ago Wired reported the discovery of a new, undeletable, web cookie:
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s most popular sites are using a tracking service that can’t be evaded -- even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ “incognito” functions.
The Wired article was very short on specifics, so I waited until one of the researchers -- Ashkan Soltani -- wrote up more details. He finally did, in a quite technical essay:
What differentiates KISSmetrics apart from Hulu with regards to respawning is, in addition to Flash and HTML5 LocalStorage, KISSmetrics was exploiting the browser cache to store persistent identifiers via stored Javascript and ETags. ETags are tokens presented by a user’s browser to a remote webserver in order to determine whether a given resource (such as an image) has changed since the last time it was fetched. Rather than simply using it for version control, we found KISSmetrics returning ETag values that reliably matched the unique values in their 'km_ai' user cookies.
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Pastebin.com - FAQ [Frequently Asked Questions]
What is Pastebin.com all about?
Pastebin.com is a website where you can store text for a certain period of time. The website is mainly used by programmers to store pieces of sources code or configuration information, but anyone is more than welcome to paste any type of text. The idea behind the site is to make it more convenient for people to share large amounts of text online. -
You can list a directory containing 8 million files! But not with ls.. | Something People Want
I needed to list all files in a directory, but ls, find, and os.listdir all hung. This is my story.
NOTE: there is no good reason that you should ever have 8 million files in the same directory, but if you do, this is your solution .
TLDR: Write a C program that calls the syscall getdents directly, with a large buffer size, ignore entries with inode == 0. -
SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers | Smylers [blogs.perl.org]
SSH has many features which are helpful when working regularly with files on remote servers; together they can give a vast increase in productivity over the bare use of SSH. If you regularly use SSH, it’s worth spending a little time learning about these and configuring your environment to make your life easier.
This was presented at Yapc Europe 2011 in Riga. If you’d like me to come and talk about this at your user group or workplace, please get in touch.
Multiple Connections
Often it’s useful to have multiple connections to the same server, for example to edit a file, run some file-system commands, and view a log file all in different terminal windows. Except sometimes that can seem too much hassle, so we compromise and end up repeatedly cycling through quitting and restarting a few different commands in one window. -
Zynga targeted in patent infringement lawsuit | Media Maverick - CNET News
Agincourt Gaming, a new entrant into the social-gaming sector, filed a lawsuit today accusing Zynga of violating two of its patents.
The company, whose Web site touts a Facebook game called Pantheon, seeks unspecified monetary damages and a permanent injunction against Zynga, one of the Web's social-network game developers. Zynga representatives were not immediately available for comment.
Agincourt, which focuses on the social-gaming space, said it "owns foundational patents that claim priority back to 1996 and cover the processes for credits-based online gaming and a prize redemption system based on the outcome of game play."
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