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Gowex, the Spanish wi-fi firm, admits to false accounts for four years

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The Madrid-based company supplies free wi-fi services in major cities across the world – including Madrid, London, Shanghai and Buenos Aires.

via BBC News – Gowex, the Spanish wi-fi firm, admits to false accounts for four years.

This company recently came to Chicago.

From: Free Wi-Fi service Gowex arrives in Chicago on June 3, 2014.

Gowex, a Madrid-based telecommunications company, launched a local network this week with 450 Wi-Fi hot spots, covering neighborhoods from the Loop to Lakeview with its ad-supported service.

Eight Ways to Blacklist with Apache’s mod_rewrite

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With the imminent release of the next series of (4G) blacklist articles here at Perishable Press, now is the perfect time to examine eight of the most commonly employed blacklisting methods achieved with Apache’s incredible rewrite module, mod_rewrite. In addition to facilitating site security, the techniques presented in this article will improve your understanding of the different rewrite methods available with mod_rewrite.

via Eight Ways to Blacklist with Apache\’s mod_rewrite | Perishable Press.

Microsoft backs open source for the Internet of Things

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The AllSeen Alliance is an effort to standardize device communications. The code that it champions, called AllJoyn, was initially developed by Qualcomm but was subsequently made open source. Big vendors have been recruited to support it, and the AllSeen Alliance now includes LG, Panasonic, Sharp and Haier, among others.

via Microsoft backs open source for the Internet of Things – Computerworld.

How Welcoming Will the Smart Home of the Future Be?

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This approach of binding our smart devices to our personal accounts may be an easy engineering decision today, but it will make less sense as more devices show up in households with multiple family members. Families shouldn’t be forced to decide if the dishwasher is bound to Mom’s Gmail account or Dad’s. Instead, the household should have its own identity, with different family members having different levels of access depending on their needs.

via How Welcoming Will the Smart Home of the Future Be? | MIT Technology Review.

Not sure why a dishwasher or any household appliance would need user authentication or even user management.  Does it matter if the person doing dishes is authorized as long as the dishes get washed?

The Distributed Database Internals of InfluxDB

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You’ll learn how data is replicated within a cluster, how failover occurs, and the evolution of how his team decided to split data across a cluster of machines. Paul also touches on distributed consensus with Raft, replication fault tolerance with a write ahead log, and how we schedule frequent tasks to run in a reliable way across a cluster.

via The Distributed Database Internals of InfluxDB – open source software.

How To Create a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu

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With the help of some advanced selectors a dropdown menu can be easily created with CSS. Throw in some fancy CSS3 properties and you can create a design that was once only achievable with background images and Javascript. Follow this tutorial to see the step by step process of building your own pure CSS dropdown menu.

via How To Create a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu.

Also here:  Another Simple CSS3 Dropdown Menu

Intuit beats Web encryption patent that defeated Newegg at trial

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TQP has been arguing for years that using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) combined with the RC4 encryption cipher infringes its patent. The company’s former owner, renowned “patent troll” Erich Spangenberg, acknowledged during a trial last year that he has made more than $45 million in settlements on the TQP patent. TQP is one of dozens of patent groups that he owns.

via Intuit beats Web encryption patent that defeated Newegg at trial | Ars Technica.