Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
by Cheryl Mendelson · 4 Nov 1999 · 1,631pp · 468,342 words
dangers. If the trespasser is a child, you face a greater risk of liability, especially if the child was drawn to your property by an “attractive nuisance,” such as a pond or high tower or some fascinating machine. If you had reason to know that children were likely to trespass and also
Engineering Security
by Peter Gutmann
missed originally) 84. This extreme brittleness was the problem that more or less killed real-world use of the RC4 cipher. RC4 presented an incredibly attractive nuisance because it was the perfect algorithm for non crypt-expert developers to use to encrypt data, transforming an arbitrary-length string into an equal-length
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas · 28 Feb 2012 · 1,150pp · 338,839 words
the trolley, the zoo, the views of the destruction of Pompeii left from the Centennial Exposition, and railroad tracks with standing freight cars and other attractive nuisances to deal with. We were chased from time to time by what we called railroad dicks, always more exciting to run from than mere cops
The Hacker Crackdown
by Bruce Sterling · 15 Mar 1992 · 345pp · 105,722 words
new modem which had been purchased by credit-card fraud. Police took this opportunity to seize the entire board and remove what they considered an attractive nuisance. Plovernet was a powerful East Coast pirate board that operated in both New York and Florida. Owned and operated by teenage hacker "Quasi Moto," Plovernet
JavaScript: the good parts
by Douglas Crockford · 15 Nov 2008 · 273pp · 46,214 words
should obviously avoid JavaScript's worst features. Surprisingly, perhaps, we should also avoid the features that are often useful but occasionally hazardous. Such features are attractive nuisances, and by avoiding them, a large class of potential errors is avoided. The long-term value of software to an organization is in direct proportion
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. The worst features of a language aren't the features that are obviously dangerous or useless. Those are easily avoided. The worst features are the attractive nuisances, the features that are both useful and dangerous. B.6. Block-less Statements An if or while or do or for statement can take a
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block or a single statement. The single statement form is another attractive nuisance. It offers the advantage of saving two characters, a dubious advantage. It obscures the program's structure so that subsequent manipulators of the code can
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes · 14 Sep 1999 · 1,060pp · 265,296 words
enterprise to a few, but impeded its extension. In despotisms, it is dangerous to be rich without power. So in Turkey: capital accumulation proved an attractive nuisance. It aroused cupidity and invited seizure. Over time, the size of the Ottoman empire grew to cover all the Muslim Middle East (including Syria and
Jennifer Morgue
by Stross, Charles · 12 Jan 2006
it too easy to reach the chief," Johanna murmurs. "When you're as rich as the Billingtons it makes you a target. Money is an attractive nuisance. We're currently tracking six stalkers and three blackmailers, and that's before you count the third-world governments. We've got enough schizophrenics to
Atrocity Archives
by Stross, Charles · 13 Jan 2004 · 404pp · 113,514 words
citizen and they've got her research findings; interesting, but nothing fundamentally revolutionary. Furthermore, with enough information about her out in the public domain to attract nuisances like the Izzadin al-Qassem hangers-on who tried to snatch her in Santa Cruz, they don't much want her around anymore. Which is
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
by Michael P. Lynch · 21 Mar 2016 · 230pp · 61,702 words
sweetest of intentions. The NSA database could be described as a pool of information. This is an apt metaphor. In law, swimming pools are called attractive nuisances. They attract children and, as a result, if you own a pool, even if you are a watchful, responsible parent yourself, you still have to
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, 126–28 “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?” (Bostrom), 193 Aristotle, 171 artificial intelligence (AI), 116, 176 assassinations, 83 assumptions, in data analysis, 162 attractive nuisances, 98 authority: appeals to, 60–61 in educational models, 151 evaluation of, 62 questioning of, 34, 61–62 trust in, 34 automobiles, information technology compared
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow · 15 Sep 2008 · 189pp · 57,632 words
infringement, without offering any evidence to support those claims, without having to go to court to prove their claims (this has proven to be an attractive nuisance, presenting an irresistible lure to anyone with a beef against an online critic, from the Church of Scientology to Diebold's voting machines division). The
Forever Free
by Joe Haldeman · 14 Oct 2000 · 230pp · 63,891 words
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy · 15 Apr 2016 · 719pp · 181,090 words
Saturn's Children
by Charles Stross · 30 Jun 2008 · 360pp · 110,929 words
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
by Ted Conover · 20 Jan 2010 · 418pp · 133,703 words
The Scientist as Rebel
by Freeman Dyson · 1 Jan 2006 · 332pp · 109,213 words
Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam · 15 Dec 2020 · 220pp · 66,323 words