At Natanz, for almost 17 months, Stuxnet quietly worked its way into the system and targeted a specific component — the frequency converters made by the German equipment manufacturer Siemens that regulated the speed of the spinning centrifuges used to create nuclear fuel. The worm then took control of the speed at which the centrifuges spun, making them turn so fast in a quick burst that they would be damaged but not destroyed. And at the same time, the worm masked that change in speed from being discovered at the centrifuges’ control panel.

— Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions

Apple just dropped a nuclear bomb on all of us with their new App Store subscriptions announcement. Here’s the summary: “We’re going to take 30% of your web app revenue. Just because we can.

— Why you should fight Apple’s Subscription Extortion

When the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before the universal search engine Google was launched. And so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion.

— How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker

[Sl]ēdzis - vai precīzāk – ļoti izšķirīgi ir lēno slēdža ātrumu iespēja (no 1/30 uz leju). Gandrīz droši, ka visi klasiskie Zenīti ir bez šīs slēdža opcijas, bet ar fediem vai zorkijiem tas ir jāskatās konkrēti. Kiev ir ok.

Praktiski tas nozīmē, ka sadzīves ainiņas, tipa Manas draudzenes krūtsgali no rīta, var būt problemātiski pareizi noeksponēt.

— Īsais ceļš uz analogo fotogrāfiju | FK