Supreme Court Ruling Over Search Mobile Phones May Really Be The First ‘Internet Of Things’ Ruling By Shawn DuBravac Advocates of digital privacy scored a major victory when the Supreme Court recently ruled that police need a warrant to search […]
Internet Industry Hate Taken To Insane Levels: Ridiculous Proposals To ‘Nationalize’ Successful Internet Companies By Mike Masnick Over the last few years, there’s been a ridiculous rise in a bizarre form of anti-Silicon Valley populism, in which people are encouraged […]
100 Percent Efficacy By Andrew Sullivan That’s the effectiveness of Truvada in preventing HIV infection in the latest large study just unveiled at the AIDS conference in Melbourne: PrEP had no significant efficacy in people who took fewer than two […]
Decoding Notch’s vinyl tweet By next step, someone has to make a vinyl image generator July 22, 2014 at 12:21PMvia Waxy.org Links http://ift.tt/Wworbl
Verizon’s Netflix throttling exposed By hiding Netflix activity through a VPN is 10x faster than connecting directly through Verizon July 18, 2014 at 3:57PMvia Waxy.org Links http://ift.tt/WgDMMN
Level3 Proves That Verizon Is Absolutely To Blame For Netflix Congestion… Using Verizon’s Own Blog Post By Mike Masnick As you know, despite Netflix having already agreed to pay Verizon’s shake down fee to avoid interconnection congestion for its streaming, […]
NBC Removes Reporter from Gaza After He Witnessed Israeli Assault on Children By Rachel Blevins Foreign Correspondent for NBC News, Ayman Mohyeldin, witnessed the murder of four Palestinian boys via Israeli airstrike on Wednesday. After providing a July 18, 2014 […]
I missed putting up the water quality numbers from this spring, but in the mean time it turns out the Champlain Water District has the Water Quality Reports up on the web. Unfortunately, they’re huge PDFs since they seem to […]
I had a pressing need for mysql-5.1.40 to be installed for work reasons a couple of weeks ago, and found the state of mysql releases in gentoo to be lacking. I cobbled together the following ebuild using the binary RPM […]
One simple way to handle user-time-zone localization in an app is to always store the timestamp in UTC, and localize viewing/editing of that timestamp in a specific timezone. By default, Django traffics in the single settings.py-configured timezone. Timezone handling appear […]