Links for 02-01-2008
Resolutions for writers; new generation botnets, knot topology…
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1 – New Year’s Resolutions for Newbies (and laspsed Oldies)
“Here’s the list of New Year’s resolutions I would have made when I first got serious about writing if I’d known then what I know now …” Jim van Pelt shares the wisdom.
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2 – Storm, Nugache lead dangerous new botnet barrage
“With no C&C server to target, bots capable of sending encrypted packets and the possibility of any peer on the network suddenly becoming the de facto leader of the botnet, Nugache, Dittrich knew, would be virtually impossible to stop.”
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3 – Tied Up in Knots
“By tumbling a string of rope inside a box, biophysicists Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith have discovered that knots—even complex knots—form surprisingly fast and often.” I smell an IgNobel Prize.
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4 – Commons Misunderstandings: ASCAP on Creative Commons
Lawrence Lessig shreds ASCAP’s FUD about Creative Commons licences for musicians.
