Control Structure #18: Deep Fried Webservers

Chris takes a break from sleep mode and HOTS to bring you another episode, and Andrew blows a gasket over marketers, followed by a discussion about Google Reader, Linux, OS security, password security, education, WebGL, Firefox, and Youtube.

Links

• Blizzard Entertainment:StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
• At The Nexus #67: Mr. Bycicle » The Nexus | The Nexus
• From the Composer of Skyrim – Soule Symphony No. 1 by Max Steiner Agency Inc. — Kickstarter
• Jeremy Soule Interview & PLAY!
• Valve Predicts Fan-Funded Game Development Future | Kotaku Australia
• Release of Steve Jobs biopic reportedly delayed for more marketing | Ars Technica
• Official Blog: A second spring of cleaning
• Issue 33181 – chromium – Implement RSS detection natively in Chrome – An open-source project to help move the web forward. – Google Project Hosting
• Google Reader joins graveyard of dead Google products – Slate Magazine
• When Google kills Gmail
• Supreme Court upholds first-sale doctrine in textbook resale case | Ars Technica
• EU fines Microsoft €561 million for not giving users a browser choice | Ars Technica
• zegenie Studios Linux Distribution Chooser
• Results of the 2013 /r/Linux Distro Survey
• HP Communities – Pwn2Own 2013 – Enterprise Business Community
• All Chrome OS hack attempts fail at Pwnium 3 | Geek Pick | Geek.com
• IT Talent Shortage Or Purple Squirrel Hunt? – Global-cio – H-1B –
• The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer
• CS in Vietnam
• Nerds
• xkcd: Devotion to Duty
• A Whole Lotta Nothing: LinkedIn is a Virus
• Why I’m Switching (Back) to Firefox – campaul [dot] net
• Publishers not happy with Amazon’s efforts to claim .book domain name | Ars Technica
• New gTLDs: first ICANN approvals for end of April! | NetNames Blog
• .xxx – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Someone Calculated How Many Calories A Mouse Click Burns | TechCrunch
• Zephyros Anemos – JavaScript and WebGL
• On WebGL — Acko.net
• WebGL | the Andrew Bailey
• Electronic Arts Announces Change in Executive Leadership | EA Press Room
• Ctrl+Alt+Del – Sillies – (2013-03-12)
• Please, Stop Helping the Hackers Guess My Passwords | Andrew Munsell
• Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, passwords cracked wide open | Ars Technica
• YouTube
• Strip Search – New Episodes Every Tuesday & Friday!
• Words of Contradictory Wisdom | the Andrew Bailey
• Weak security in our daily lives
• Hacking the <a> tag in 100 characters
• Checkboxes that kill your product — Alex Limi
• IrfanView – Official Homepage – one of the most popular viewers worldwide
• The World Has No Room For Cowards — Krebs on Security
• Security reporter tells Ars about hacked 911 call that sent SWAT team to his house (Updated) | Ars Technica
• Details on the denial of service attack that targeted Ars Technica | Ars Technica
• The Obscurest Epoch is Today — Krebs on Security
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Jeremy Williams – Eighty-eight
• Josh Woodward – Let It In (instrumental)
• tryad – The Rising (instrumental)

Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.