Tag: internet
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In search of a word
(This post is nothing to do with science and not much to do with computing, but it’s my blog, my rules…) I am from Belfast, in (being technical and not political) Northern Ireland. I left there when aged 12 and sometimes some people express surprise that I still have the accent – but the truth […]
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Which VO2Max figure is correct? (The perils of relying on the Internet)
I have just run 2.42km in 11 minutes and 17 seconds. According to this site that means I have a VO2Max of 46.3 and I am in the top 10% of 47-year-olds. Seems unlikely, but I would not complain if it were true. According to this site, though, I have a Vo2Max of 39.4 and […]
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What Rowland Hill really meant
A new letter from Rowland Hill, the Victorian postal reformer has been discovered: My proposal for a universal penny post was adopted, but I greatly regret it. It is true that my proposal, on adoption, led to vast increase in mails, and contributed to the greater wealth of the kingdom. It eliminated, at a stroke, […]
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Poisoning the internet
This news item struck me as interesting and even borderline alarming – as it suggests that 18% of all traffic (and 41% of UDP traffic) on the Internet is from one attempt to poison BitTorrentnetworks worldwide: a truly extraordinary finding, but one that seems well grounded, at least on first blush. For those who do […]
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