Four short links: 6 May 2010

Ethics, Regulation, TCP/IP, and Time Travel

  1. Ethics and EconomicsThis paper looks at the evidence that suggests that ethical behaviour is good for the economy.
  2. FCC to Regulate BroadbandTwo FCC officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce Thursday that the commission considers broadband service a hybrid between an information service and a utility and that it has sufficient power to regulate Internet traffic under existing law.
  3. TCP/IP and IMS Sequence Diagrams — watch SYN, ACK, payload, etc. packets to and fro to understand what really happens each time you fetch mail or surf the web. This is what Velocity-type devops performance folks care about.
  4. How to Build a Time Machine (Daily Mail) — extremely readable article by Stephen Hawking about the possibilities of time travel.
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