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caskey’s del.icio.us bookmarks for 2006-04-19

Sex cues ruin men’s decisiveness —
The Proceedings of the Royal Society B study found they were more likely to accept unfair offers than men not been exposed to the alluring images. The suggestion is that the sexual cues distract the men’s thoughts, preventing them from [...]

The pictures to the right from Richard Stiennon’s post on Threat Chaos show the paths of the system calls used by IIS on Win32 and Apache on POSIX to service a single HTTP request. This pictures demonstrates, fundamentally, why IIS on Win32 is simply a bad engineering choice when it comes to security.
Every system [...]

Everyone is a twitter about the Evergreen DN-2000, which brings the no-frills mp3 playback possibilities down to a rock bottom JPY999 price. Frankly, USD 8.50 is pretty cheap for an mp3 player, however the catch is that you supply your own storage in the form of an SD card. Even at USD50-100/GB, that’s [...]

Ian Fieggen has taken it upon himself to rename the simple double-slipped reef knot as the Ian Knot. While it’s always nice to see someone take an interest in the ancient art of knot tying, what infuriates me is when someone creates new terms for something that they have no business claiming rights over.
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