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« on: January 12, 2016, 09:56 AM »
Good grief. They just arrived. That was lightning quick!
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But still... Berries?-Renegade (January 11, 2016, 09:50 PM)
Where do you think dyes come from?-Deozaan (January 11, 2016, 10:19 PM)
If they'd go back to 'dumb ads' then I think that they wouldn't have this problem. Images... and pay the artist/photographer. Like magazine ads. But... progress, right?-wraith808 (January 11, 2016, 10:09 PM)
IMPORTANT: uBlock Origin is completely unrelated to the site "ublock.org".
Personally, I would much prefer a "dumb" display than a smart TV.-Deozaan (January 11, 2016, 08:53 PM)
Who would want to be a solipsist? You would be a supremely religious atheist, a totalitarian anarchist, a serial-killing war-mongering suicidal pacifist, a criminal kingpin who is also the police, an institutionalized maniac who is also a psychiatrist. Who would want to be such a conflicted manic-depressive? Being a serial killer with immortal victims would add to your insanity if that is possible.Hm-m-m-m ... those descriptives seem applicable to a few of the politicians I have known-Arizona Hot (January 09, 2016, 12:01 PM). Particularly when it comes to their understandings of the internet
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-barney (January 09, 2016, 12:11 PM)
I looked up Solipsism earlier, and this is the first thing that came to mind:
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If you're a big Star Wars fan, it's not to be missed. But why am I bothering to say anything if you if you are?-40hz (January 07, 2016, 08:26 PM)
You've probably seen it twice already and are planning on going back at least once more, right?-40hz (January 07, 2016, 08:26 PM)
New Year’s deal: MSP432 LaunchPad™ Development Kit for $4.32!
To get your New Year started off right, MSP developers can now test out the ultra-low-power and high performance MSP432 LaunchPad Development Kit for only $4.32 with the TI Store coupon code 432@432.
That's right, only $4.32, marked down from the regular price of $12.99. So get your MSP432 LaunchPad Development Kit today! This deal is only for a limited time.
1Wamp Electric Guitar Amplifier - Open Hardware
1Wamp is a one Watt small guitar amplifier based on a JFET guitar pre-amp, the Big Muff Pi tone control and the LM386 power amplifier. This portable amp is an open hardware project designed by ElectroSmash using only free and open-source tools.
David Cameron: Taxes will rise unless we can raid bank accounts
David Cameron claims he will "have to put up taxes" unless tax officials are given draconian powers to raid people's bank accounts
Real Burning Lightsaber - YouTube-Arizona Hot (December 30, 2015, 02:11 PM)
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Woman stuffed $1.9 million in purse over 15 years-Arizona Hot (December 31, 2015, 01:00 PM)
A presentation by white hat hackers who decompiled and studied the volkswagon cheating firmware:
https://media.ccc.de..._dieselgate#download-mouser (December 31, 2015, 12:07 PM)
The HTTP 451 Error Code for Censorship Is Now an Internet Standard
The 451 HTTP status code is now official in the eyes of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the independent organization responsible for many of the internet’s operating standards. Now, when an internet user hits a web page that has been blocked for legal reasons (read: censorship), they may be presented with a 451 error instead of the more generic 403 “forbidden” error. This is a win for transparency.
The 451 code has been on the table for two years now, having been first been put forth by software engineer Tim Bray in 2013, who was in turn inspired by a blog post by security thinker Terence Eden. Eden’s call for a censorship error code is clear enough:My ISP have recently been ordered to censor The Pirate Bay. They have done so unwillingly and, it would seem, have complied only with the letter of the ruling. Their block is, for now, trivial to circumvent. I am concerned that this censorship will become more prevalent. As network neutrality dies, we will see more sites ordered to be blocked by governments who fear what they cannot understand.
So, Eden proposed a code and Bray ran with it, using “451” in reference to Ray Bradbury’s censorship dystopia Farhenheit 451. Web standards are, however, not changed overnight.
In a post published on Friday, Mark Nottingham, chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group, explains a bit more. “Initially, I and some others pushed back,” he writes. “HTTP status codes are a constrained name space; once we use everything from 400 to 499, for example, we're out of luck. Furthermore, while 451 met many of the guidelines for new status codes (such as being potentially applicable to any resource), there wasn't any obvious way for machines to use it -- i.e., this was something you could do in a header or the message body of a 403, so it didn't seem to justify expending a status code.”
Sites began to use the code anyway on an experimental and unsanctioned basis, and Nottingham and co. received more and more feedback from administrators in favor of the code. Crucially, advocacy orgs Lumen and Article19 expressed interest in having a machine-readable flag that could be used to spider the web in the hunt of censored websites. That’s just what a new HTTP status code could offer.
Finally, the support was there. Some technical details still need attending to, but the code is ready to use immediately. What can it actually do?
“By its nature, you can't guarantee that all attempts to censor content will be conveniently labeled by the censor,” Nottingham explains. “Although 451 can be used both by network-based intermediaries (e.g., in a firewall) as well as on the origin Web server, I suspect it's going to be used far more in the latter case, as Web sites like Github, Twitter, Facebook and Google are forced to censor content against their will in certain jurisdictions.”
There’s still nothing stopping a government from forbidding the code’s usage, however, which is a serious but perhaps unavoidable limitation.
Or, if you're in no hurry the C.H.I.P. computer can handle audio input/output and is cheap.-4wd (December 29, 2015, 03:17 AM)