Courtney Malone

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Reading

This page lists the books and papers I’m currently reading

Current Books:

Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain

Papers:

Technical Advances in the SGI Altix UV Architecture(06/02/10)

So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users(03/31/10)

Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and
clouds(09/08/09)

Optimization Aspects Of Carcinogenesis(08/04/09)


Toxic Equity Trading Order Flow On Wall Street(08/03/09)

Ksplice: Automated Rebootles Kernel Updates(07/14/09)

Unclassified Report On The President’s Survellance Program(07/14/09)

When Corrections Fail: The persistance of political misperceptions(07/12/09)

Moral Intuition: Its Neural Substrates and Normative Significance(07/12/09)

Villains, Victims and the Virtuous in Bill O’reily’s “No-spin Zone”: Revisiting World War Propaganda Techniques(6/18/09)

Engineers of Jihad(4/25/09)

Inside The Middle Class: Bad Times Hit The Good Life(4/23/09)

A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism(4/23/09)

Parity Lost and Parity Regained [A formal analysis of modern RAID implementations](10/24/08)

Sustainable Energy– without the hot air(8/30/08)

First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the combined results with DAMA/NaI(8/25/08)

Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change(8/20/08)

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments(7/29/08)

Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of E. coli(7/01/08)


Approximate Matching for Peer-to-Peer Overlays with Cubit(6/18/08)


Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents(3/13/08)


Studying Malicious Websites and the Underground Economy on the Chinese Web(12/05/07)


The Effect of Dark matter on the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution(12/01/07)


The Late Time Behavior of False Vacuum Decay: Possible Implications for Cosmology and Metastable Inflating States(11/29/07)

Quadrennial Defense Review Report(11/27/06)

Dynamic control of lattice spacing within colloidal crystals(11/12/06)
Related multimedia materials

Nonthermal Hard X-ray Emission and Iron Kα Emission from a Superflare on II Pegasi(11/11/06)

3D Numerical Experimentation on the Core Helium Flash of low-mass Red Giants(10/28/06)


Detection, Stimulation, and Inhibition of Neuronal Signals with High-Density Nanowire Transistor Arrays (08/29/06)
Supplemental materials for above


A Direct Empirical Proof Of The Existence Of Dark Matter(08/21/06)


US And Global Imbalances(05/15/06)

National Security Law Report, Special Issue: The NSA Surveillance Debate(05/10/06)

ZFS Administration Guide(04/20/06)

The Pioneer MASER Signal Anomaly… (03/29/06)

Route to high temperatures by current amplification in the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) (03/27/06)

Understanding and Minimizing Ground Bounce (03/24/06)

Minimizing Ground Bounce & Vcc Sag (03/24/06)

Frangipani: A Scalable Distributed File System (02/17/06)

Metadata Efficiency in Versioning File Systems (01/12/06)

Signaling Vulnerabilities in Wiretapping Systems (12/22/05)

Ion Trap In a Semiconductor Chip (12/21/05)

The Neurally Controlled Animat: Biological Brains Acting with Simulated Bodies (12/12/05)

Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems (12/09/05)

Manipulation and Assembly of Nanowires with Holographic Optical Traps (11/14/05)

Older Stuff:

The Fuller Memorandum The Fuller Memorandum

The ABC's of Political Economy: A Modern Approach The ABC’s of Political Economy: A Modern Approach

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers

Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

Windows Internals, 5th Edition Windows Internals, 5th Edition

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Meditations in an Emergency Meditations in an Emergency

Eden Eden

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion

Strong Motion: A Novel Strong Motion: A Novel

The Entropy Effect The Entropy Effect

Pro OpenSolaris Pro OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris Bible OpenSolaris Bible

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Old Man's War Old Man’s War

The Light of Other Days The Light of Other Days

Overqualified Overqualified

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon

Fiasco Fiasco

Days of War, Nights of Love Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners

Market Forces Market Forces

Blood Meridian Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Animal Liberation Animal Liberation

All The King's Men All The King’s Men

Two Treatises of Government Two Treatises of Government

Leviathan Leviathan

The Temporal Void The Temporal Void

Candide: Or Optimism Candide: Or Optimism

The Social Contract The Social Contract

Oil! Oil!

Redemption Ark Redemption Ark

Absolution Gap Absolution Gap

The Organization Man The Organization Man

Cradle Cradle

When You Are Engulfed in Flames When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five

All She Was Worth All She Was Worth

The Divine Invasion The Divine Invasion

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Valis Valis

We We

His Master's Voice His Master’s Voice

There Is a God There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

The Corrections The Corrections: A Novel

The Limits to Capital The Limits to Capital

Pleasant Hell Pleasant Hell

The Disciplined Investor The Disciplined Investor

Parecon Parecon: Life After Capitalism

Mirror to America Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

Edge City Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov

Backfire Backfire: Carly Fiorina’s High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard

The Geography of Nowhere The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape

Sleepwalking Through History Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years

Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice

Crabgrass Frontier Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

Omon Ra Omon Ra

Consciousness Explained Consciousness Explained

The Dreaming Void The Dreaming Void

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est

Down There on a Visit Down There on a Visit

A Single Man A Single Man

Sun Geek's Guide To Native LDAP The Sun Geek’s Guide To Native LDAP: A Native LDAP Blueprint

Freedom Evolves Freedom Evolves

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Marooned in Realtime Marooned in Realtime

The Peace War The Peace War

Indexed Indexed

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society

Another Country Another Country

Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley: Understanding How Sarbanes-Oxley Affects Your Business

HIPAA in Daily Practice HIPAA in Daily Practice

Giovanni's Room Giovanni’s Room

The Gnostic Gospels The Gnostic Gospels

Pattern Recognition Pattern Recognition

Blindsight Blindsight

Exile In Guyville Exile in Guyville: How a Punk-Rock Redneck Faggot Texan Moved to West Hollywood And Refused to Be Shiny And Happy

The Year of Living Biblically The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

PCI Compliance PCI Compliance: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance

CCNA Official Exam Certification Library 2nd Edition CCNA Official Exam Certification Library 2nd Edition

The Accidental Time Machine The Accidental Time Machine

Axis Axis

Halting State Halting State

Missile Gap Missile Gap

OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture

A Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World A Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World

Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

Boot Disk Management: A Guide for the Solaris Operating Environment Boot Disk Management: A Guide for the Solaris Operating Environment

Airframe Airframe

IP SANS: An Introduction to iSCSI, iFCP, and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks IP SANS: An Introduction to iSCSI, iFCP, and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks

Storage Virtualization: Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management Storage Virtualization: Technologies for Simplifying Data Storage and Management

Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Second Edition Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, Second Edition

Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People

Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

What All Network Administrators Know What All Network Administrators Know

Classic Shell Scripting Classic Shell Scripting

Three Roads To Quantum Gravity Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

My Tank Is Fight! My Tank Is Fight!

The Partly Cloudy Patriot The Partly Cloudy Patriot

An Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe An Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Investing The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Investing

Crucible: Kirk: The Star to Every Wandering Star Trek: Crucible: Kirk – The Star to Every Wandering

Crucible: Spock: The Fire and the Rose Star Trek: Crucible: Spock – The Fire and the Rose

Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows Star Trek: Crucible: McCoy – Provenance of Shadows

The God Delusion The God Delusion

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos

Circuit Design Circuit Design with VHDL

The Areas of My Expertise The Areas of My Expertise

Me Talk Pretty One Day Me Talk Pretty One Day

Engines of Creation Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology

Nanosystems Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Profits of Religion The Profits of Religion (Fifth Edition)
Project Gutenberg Version

Glasshouse Glasshouse

Rainbows End Rainbows End

Blood Music Blood Music

Spin Control Spin Control

VHDL by Example VHDL : Programming By Example

Woken Furies Woken Furies

Cybernetics Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

VHDL Starter's Guide VHDL Starter’s Guide

Chaos Chaos: Making a New Science

End of the Affair The End of the Affair

Judas Unchained Judas Unchained

Pandora's StarPandora’s Star

Altered CarbonAltered Carbon

Singularity SkySingularity Sky

Iron SunriseIron Sunrise

AccelrandoAccelrando
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Mathematical Theory of Communication The Mathematical Theory of Communication

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution

Black Reconstruction
Black Reconstruction in America

Are We Spiritual Machines?: Kurzweil vs. The Critics of Strong A.I. Are We Spiritual Machines?: Kurzweil vs. The Critics of Strong A.I.

Spin Spin

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things...Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things…

Hiding In The MirrorHiding In The Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, from Plato to String Theory and Beyond

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil