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CSI: Xbox - how cops perform Xbox Live stakeouts and console searches

2012 Jan 10, 2:33

Fascinating anecdotes on criminal investigations involving game consoles.

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The League of Moveable Type

2012 Jan 9, 1:57

Cool fonts, cool name.  Fonts are ready for use on your website.

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Color Thief, script for grabbing the color palette from an image (lokeshdhakar.com)

2012 Jan 7, 6:42

Picks out dominant color or palette from an image. Not only is that cool, but it is in JavaScript using canvas, and is licensed under Creative Commons attribution.

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One-click, in-browser MP3 recording and hosting

2012 Jan 3, 2:48

Cool, although I was hoping this would be done in HTML and JS. Now that would be impressive.

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Hacking Google for Fun and Profit (andrewcantino.com)

2011 Dec 28, 5:34

First hand account of security researcher reporting security issues to Google and details on the security issues.

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A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers (catonmat.net)

2011 Dec 28, 3:36

perl -lne ‘(1x$_) =~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ || print “$_ is prime”’

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Namecheap to Donate $1 to EFF for Every Domain Transfer on December 29th (namecheap.com)

2011 Dec 27, 2:42PermalinkCommentstechnical dns

Anti-SOPA registrar will help you leave GoDaddy for anywhere, even the competition

2011 Dec 23, 1:42

I’ve heard of hover previously. Sounds like a good place to go.

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"Another World" (game) Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)

2011 Dec 23, 1:38

Description of architecture and reverse engineering of code for the classic game Another World.

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HTTP Status Cats

2011 Dec 14, 6:29

HTTP Status Cats Usage: http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/[http_status_code]

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MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet, Why Can't The US? (techdirt.com)

2011 Dec 10, 8:31

FTA:

The MPAA is getting pretty desperate, it seems. MPAA boss Chris Dodd was out trying to defend censoring the internet this week by using China as an example of why censorship isn’t a problem. It’s kind of shocking, really.

“When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn’t do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.”

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I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent… (torrentfreak.com)

2011 Dec 10, 6:49

Public site that tracks who (by IP address) downloads what and lets anyone view this.

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No Copyright Intended

2011 Dec 9, 4:31

“How pervasive is it? There are about 489,000 YouTube videos that say “no copyright intended” or some variation, and about 664,000 videos have a “copyright disclaimer” citing the fair use provision in Section 107 of the Copyright Act”

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Show HN: Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos (switchcam.com)

2011 Dec 8, 11:07PermalinkCommentstechnical video concert music

Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year (techdirt.com)

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draft-liman-tld-names-06 - Top Level Domain Name Specification

2011 Dec 4, 3:00

“The syntax for allowed Top-Level Domain (TLD) labels in the Domain Name System (DNS) is not clearly applicable to the encoding of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) as TLDs. This document provides a concise specification of TLD label syntax based on existing syntax documentation, extended minimally to accommodate IDNs.” Still irritated about arbitrary TLDs.

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Google+ Now Lets You Conference People Into Hangouts With Free Voice Calls | TechCrunch

2011 Dec 4, 2:55

“To activate the feature, simply start a Hangout, click the Invite button at the top, select “Phone”, and enter a phone number. If the recipient picks up, they’ll be instantly connected. The free offer is supposed to last through 2012.”

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Swiss government keeps downloading legal after piracy study

2011 Dec 4, 2:28

“One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been wondering what to do about it. … The overall conclusion of the study is that the current copyright law, under which downloading copyrighted material for personal use is permitted, doesn’t have to change.” Wow, that sounds like almost reasonable and understandable copyright law.

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JavaScript Array methods in the latest browsers

2011 Dec 3, 6:46

Cool and (relatively) new methods on the JavaScript Array object are here in the most recent versions of your favorite browser! More about them on ECMAScript5, MSDN, the IE blog, or Mozilla's documentation. Here's the list that's got me excited:

some & every
Does your callback function return true for any (some) or all (every) of the array's elements?
filter
Filters out elements for which your callback function returns false (in a new copy of the Array).
map
Each element is replaced with the result of it run through your callback function (in a new copy of the Array).
reduce & reduceRight
Your callback is called on each element in the array in sequence (from start to finish in reduce and from finish to start in reduceRight) with the result of the previous callback call passed to the next. Reduce your array to a single value aggregated in any manner you like via your callback function.
forEach
Simply calls your callback passing in each element of your array in turn. I have vague performance concerns as compared to using a normal for loop.
indexOf & lastIndexOf
Finds the first or last (respectively) element in the array that matches the provided value via strict equality operator and returns the index of that element or -1 if there is no such element. Surprisingly, no custom comparison callback method mechanism is provided.
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With WP7 Mango available for all, Microsoft pushes ahead with new updates

2011 Dec 1, 3:22

“including driver updates to enable Internet sharing on some models such as the HTC HD7” Just upgraded and saw this. Very cool.

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