2011 Apr 27, 3:12Prescriptive spec on URI parsing. "This document contains a precise specification of how browsers process URLs. The behavior specified in this document might or might not match any particular
browser, but browsers might be well-served by adopting the behavior defined herein."technicalrfcreferenceuri
2011 Apr 27, 2:23"The gradual disappearance of open wireless networks is a tragedy of the commons, with a confusing twist of privacy and security debate. This essay explains why the progressive locking of wireless
networks is harmful — for convenience, for privacy and for efficient use of the electromagnetic spectrum."laweffwirelessinternettechnicalprivacysecurity
2011 Apr 27, 2:22"Larry Lessig gave a new talk at CERN last week about copyright and how it has affected open access to academic or scientific information"
2011 Apr 27, 2:21Competing price setting algorithms create a very high priced book. "But Peter Lawrence can now comfortably boast that one of the biggest and most respected companies on Earth valued his great book at
$23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping)."humorinternetblogsciencebookcommercead
2011 Apr 20, 2:27"JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Patch defines the media type "application/patch+json", a JSON-based document structure for specifying partial modifications to apply to a JSON document."jsonreferencepatchmimemimetypetechnical
2011 Apr 18, 4:28"President Barack Obama stands by a cut-out picture of First Lady Michelle Obama during a visit to Miami Central High School in Miami, Fla., March 4, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete
Souza)" humorphotoobama
2011 Apr 17, 12:51"Web-based protocols often require the discovery of host policy or metadata, where "host" is not a single resource but the entity controlling the collection of resources identified by Uniform
Resource Identifiers (URI) with a common URI host [RFC3986]."hostrfcreferencemetadatatechnical
2011 Apr 14, 11:27If only all web compat issues were so easily fixed: "If someone knows about any websites I can personally take care of contacting them and trying to get them fixed."w3creferencefileapistandard
2011 Apr 14, 5:11This page and esp. the final comment on the page were very helpful with describing how to parse XML in PowerShell.powershellxmlxpathtechnicalprogramming
2011 Apr 8, 2:32"Since writing lock-free code is issuch a headache-inducer,you're probably best off making some other people suffer the headachesfor you. And those other people are the kernel folks, who have
developedquite a few lock-free building blocks so you don't have to. For example, there's a collection of functions for manipulatinginterlocked lists.But today we're going to look at theone-time
initialization functions."technicalwindowsprogrammingraymond-chenlockthread-safety
2011 Apr 8, 2:28Trailer for the upcoming video for the upcoming Beastie Boys album. Took me a second viewing to realize that was Elijah Wood and to see the DeLorean (from the future?!). humorvideoyoutubebeastie-boys
2011 Apr 8, 2:07"On average their method gets to within 690 metres of the target and can be as close as 100 metres – good enough to identify the target computer's location to within a few streets.", "When a landmark
machine and the target computer have shared a router, the researchers can compare how long a packet takes to reach each machine from the router; converted into an estimate of distance, this time
difference narrows the search down further."technicalinternetprivacygeogeolocationsecurity
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