The evidence is that a contributor who is down-voted produces lower quality content in future that is valued even less by others on the network. What’s more, people are more likely to down-vote others after they have been down voted themselves. The result is a vicious spiral of increasingly negative behaviour that is exactly the opposite of the intended effect.
Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple
As demonstrated, this vulnerability wasn’t a result of insufficient system testing; it was because of insufficient unit testing. Keith Ray himself wrote a “Testing on the Toilet”8 article, “Too Many Tests,”11 explaining how to break complex logic into small, testable functions to avoid a combinatorial explosion of inputs and still achieve coverage of critical corner cases (“equivalence class partitioning”). Given the complexity of the TLS algorithm, unit testing should be the first line of defense, not system testing. When six copies of the same algorithm exist, system testers are primed for failure.
New PostgreSQL guns for NoSQL market
In particular, PostgreSQL 9.4 natively supports JSON JavaScript Simple Object Notation which is quickly becoming the format of choice for sharing data across different systems, often using the REST Representational State Transfer protocol. The success of the MongoDB document database has been built in large part on the growing use of JSON.
PostgreSQL’s structured format for saving JSON, called JSONB, eliminates the need for restructuring a document before it is committed to the database.
Don’t celebrate OpenStack’s success just yet
Media, content creation, and life sciences struck Stitt as good examples for where OpenStack enjoys stronger greenfield adoption. Those areas revolve around the generation of entirely new data, rather than the manipulation of existing data; everything newly created can simply be deployed fresh into OpenStack.
It’s hard to ignore the overall enthusiasm around OpenStack — the near-doubling of attendance to 4,500 at this year’s summit is a sign of how interest is mushrooming. And the overarching presence of Red Hat shows how it’s working to make itself as synonymous with OpenStack as it did with Linux — but the existence of other vendors all vying for attention also raises a cautionary note that, open source notwithstanding, the OpenStack market runs the risk of becoming as fragmented and contentious as Linux itself.
via Don’t celebrate OpenStack’s success just yet | Openstack – InfoWorld.
MediaGoblin
MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. It’s also:
- The perfect tool to show and share your media!
- Building tools to empower the world through decentralization!
- Built for extensibility. Multiple media types, including video support!
via MediaGoblin.
The Tiny Box That Lets You Take Your Data Back From Google
For open source developer Johannes Ernst, what the world really needs is a simple device that anyone can use to take their data back from the wilds of the internet. So he designed the Indie Box, a personal web server preloaded with open source software that lets you run your own web services from your home network–and run them with relative ease. Any system administrator will tell you that setting up a server is just the first step. Maintaining it is the other big problem. Indie Box seeks to simplify both, with an option to fully automate all updates and maintenance tasks, from operating system patches to routine database migrations.
via Out in the Open: The Tiny Box That Lets You Take Your Data Back From Google | Enterprise | WIRED.
A completely assembled device costs $500.
This is just a linux box with standard server packages installed and probably a customized management system. Running your own web server does not take your data back from Google unless you run your own search engine. The main type of data Google retains for its customers is email. Running your own email server does keep your personal information from Google. However, from the article:
For now, it won’t include an e-mail server since spam filters make it so hard to run one from home.
Glenn Greenwald: how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers
But while American companies were being warned away from supposedly untrustworthy Chinese routers, foreign organisations would have been well advised to beware of American-made ones. A June 2010 report from the head of the NSA‘s Access and Target Development department is shockingly explicit. The NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, servers, and other computer network devices being exported from the US before they are delivered to the international customers.
via Glenn Greenwald: how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers | World news | The Guardian.
Music Distributor Claims Right to Monetize JFK Speech
Somehow the system has ‘awarded’ Believe Digital and Harley & Muscle “the rights” to go around monetizing this particular JFK speech based on their remix of the work more than 50 years later. That may have happened because speeches themselves don’t qualify for ContentID, potentially designating Harley & Muscle as the original publisher. However, those very same rules could also exclude their track from ContentID, but clearly didn’t.
via Music Distributor Claims Right to Monetize JFK Speech | TorrentFreak.
Mobile is burning, and free-to-play binds the hands of devs who want to help
Recent data shows 20 percent of mobile games get opened once and never again. 66 percent have never played beyond the first 24 hours and indeed most purchases happen in the first week of play. Amazingly only around two to three percent of gamers pay anything at all for games, and even more hair-raising is the fact that 50 percent of all revenue comes from just 0.2 percent of players.
This is a statistically insignificant amount of happy gamers and nothing that gives you a basis to make claims about “what people want”. I think it just as likely that mobile’s orgy of casual titles is due to simple bandwagon-ism or, in other words, not knowing what people want.
via Mobile is burning, and free-to-play binds the hands of devs who want to help | Polygon.
The oRouter Is A Tor-Powered Linux Box That Secures Your Internet Connection
As an end user, the process of using the oRouter is designed to be exceedingly simple. It’s zero configuration, meaning that you plug it in and then connect to the Wi-Fi network it provides. Unlike the Tor download, it requires no additional software in order to work. Once connected, as you browse the web and use online services, you’re actually using Tor (via Wi-Fi), thereby securing your communications from eavesdropping. In addition, for an extra layer of security, the oRouter’s MAC address (hardware address) changes every 10 minutes.
via The oRouter Is A Tor-Powered Linux Box That Secures Your Internet Connection | TechCrunch.