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AnnouncementsArticles of interest The sods must be crazy: OLPC to drop tablets from helicopters to isolated villages (ars technica)Ars technica is reporting on an odd plan for how to distribute the One Laptop Per Child's XO-3 touchscreen tablet: "'We'll take tablets and drop them out of helicopters into villages that have no electricity and school, then go [back] a year later and see if the kids can read,' [OLPC founder Nicholas] Negroponte told The Register. He reportedly cited Professor Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiment as the basis for his belief that dropping the tablets will encourage self-directed literacy. [...] Among the major challenges that the OLPC project was never able to fully overcome during its laptop days were supporting the hardware in the field and providing teachers with the proper training and educational material. In light of the cost and difficulty of tackling those issues, its not hard to see why the eccentric stealth drop approach looks appealing to Negroponte."
New Books The Art of Readable CodeO'Reilly Media has announced the publication of The Art of Readable Code by Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher. "After reading this book you'll be able to look at your own code and realize why it might be unreadable. More importantly, you'll be armed with a lot of principles and techniques that will let you comb through your code to make it better."
The Tangled WebThe Tangled Web is a new book from No Starch Press, written by Michal Zalewski. "Michal Zalewski, one of the world's top security experts and author of Google's Browser Security Handbook, explains how browsers work and why they're fundamentally insecure. Rather than simply list known vulnerabilities, Zalewski examines the entire browser security model, revealing weak points and providing crucial information for shoring up web application security."
Event Reports Videos from the 2011 Embedded Linux Conference EuropeThe folks at Free Electrons have released videos from the Embedded Linux Conference Europe that was held in Prague, October 26-28. All of the videos are in WebM format, in two different sizes, and have been posted much more quickly than has happened in the past, thanks, no doubt, to lots of hard work from Free Electrons. "Below, you'll find 51 videos, in both a 1920×1080 HD format and a reduced 800×450 format. In total, it represents 28 GB of video, for a duration of 2214 minutes, that is more of 36 hours of video. We hope that you will enjoy those videos and that these will be useful to those who couldn't attend the conference."
Upcoming Events Paul Fenwick to keynote at LCAThe linux.conf.au organizers have announced that the event's third keynote will be given by Paul Fenwick, who will be talking about "known bugs and exploits - in your brain." "Humans - as a species, we suck! The only real evolutionary advantage we have is our brains, and by using them we've become the dominant species on the planet. Our brains are superbly adapted for our survival and success in the environment in which they evolved - the African savanna 200,000 years ago. Our brains are not-at-all suited for modern life, and are plagued by a raft of bugs and unwanted features that we've been unable to remove."
Events: November 17, 2011 to January 16, 2012The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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