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Aug 22, 4:04Demo of marked-up video with the people and places shown in the video popping up along side in real time.
video html html5 javascript technical mozilla Aug 14, 5:34pInvoke.net is a wiki for the C# interop declarations for various Win32 functions.
pinvoke c# csharp consle api windows reference wiki technical Aug 13, 11:47Other characters sets for HTTP headers: "By default, message header field parameters in Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) messages cannot carry characters outside the ISO-8859-1 character set. RFC
2231 defines an encoding mechanism for use in Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) headers. This document specifies an encoding suitable for use in HTTP header fields that is compatible with
a profile of the encoding defined in RFC 2231."
rfc language localization charset http technical reference http-header Aug 13, 11:46RESTful machine learning API from Google... "The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant
information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity."
rest ai google programming analysis machine-learning development technical Aug 13, 4:38Blobs are coming and they're bring with them a new URL scheme...
blob html5 url html file api javascript technical uri guid Jul 26, 6:56"But in addition to all the views, you can go directly to the back-end that drives all the data: The MSDN/TechNet Publish System (MTPS) Content Service. With that interface, you can request the
back-end data and format it any way you like."
msdn web microsoft reference webservice technical Jul 20, 6:45Hack based on DNS rebinding plus home router's web front end.
security technical web router dns dns-rebinding hack Jul 14, 3:40Finally get Android 2.2 onto my G1!
android phone g1 google hack technical cellphone todo Jul 13, 6:27"Occasionally the Technical Community Network group sits down with some of Microsoft’s most influential technical employees to capture their stories. Instead of examining specific technologies, BTC
takes a closer look at the person, the career and what it takes to produce world-class software."
microsoft msdn podcast channel9 c++ programming technical video Jul 12, 7:11How to get around Hulu's physical location filtering: Use something like Fiddler to add the X-Forwarded-For header that HTTP proxies with an IP address associated with a phyiscal location you desire
and block your port 1935 which Flash uses for RTMP (see http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/164/tn_16499.html)
hulu proxy security tv howto technical Jul 8, 11:07"!undef [macro]" to undefine a macro...
microsoft reference programming technical msdn build Jul 5, 8:38"This way the player appears to control their own character without any latency, and provided that the client and server character simulation code is deterministic – giving exactly the same result
for the same inputs on the client and server – it is rarely corrected."
network programming game technical quake history Jul 5, 4:23Cross-site scripting attack on YouTube over the weekend: "That turned out to be as simple as using two script tags in a row (<script><script>fun scripting stuff goes here!), as noted by
F-Secure researcher Mikko H. Hypponen on Twitter—the first of the two tags would get stripped, and the second was allowed through."
technical youtube security cross-site-scripting javascript Jul 1, 10:51"Sometimes it’s hard to judge whether an engineering effort has been successful or not. It can take years for an idea to catch on, to go from being the butt of jokes to becoming an international
imperative (IPv6). Uniform Resource Names (URNs), which are part of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) family, are conceptually at least as old as IPv6. While not figuring in international
directives for deployment, they-and the technology engineered to resolve them-are still going concerns."
ietf urn uri history technical internet url Jul 1, 3:33"By charting the production of new books, new music albums, and new feature films over the last decade, the authors tried to see whether creative output went up or down in correlation with
file-sharing." They find that creative output is going up while piracy also increases. But this is correlation not causation. They can't say there wouldn't be more creative output with less piracy.
Regardless, still an interesting statistic.
arstechnica copyright law economics ip piracy music technical Jun 29, 6:40A fan made Kings Quest sequel gets an official go-ahead: "After negotiations, the C&D [cease and desist] has been officially rescinded, and Phoenix Online has been granted a non-commercial
license to release The Silver Lining!"
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