If it bothers you that I’m doing this, I want to point out that everyone is going to be doing crap like this after the FCC rips apart Net Neutrality. It’s time for the web to organize and stand up against these thugs before they ruin everything that the web stands for.
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us8676045 – Photography lighting (Amazon) – Issued Patent
Photographing subjects against a white background, where that background is lit to, in effect, be overexposed and thus providing what is known as a high key image is a standard technique. see the following link for more info.. in fact looking at the pictorial description it looks remarkably similar..
via us8676045 – Photography lighting (Amazon) – Issued Patent – PRIOR ART REQUEST – Ask Patents.
Observations of an Internet Middleman
That leaves the remaining six peers with congestion on almost all of the interconnect ports between us. Congestion that is permanent, has been in place for well over a year and where our peer refuses to augment capacity. They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to their paying customers. They are not allowing us to fulfil the requests their customers make for content.
Five of those congested peers are in the United States and one is in Europe. There are none in any other part of the world. All six are large Broadband consumer networks with a dominant or exclusive market share in their local market. In countries or markets where consumers have multiple Broadband choices (like the UK) there are no congested peers.
via Observations of an Internet Middleman | Beyond Bandwidth.
Shouldn’t a broadband consumer network with near monopoly control over their customers be expected, if not obligated, to deliver a better experience than this?
Symantec And Security Starlets Say Anti-Virus Is Dead
“The overall detection by anti-virus software in January was disappointing — only 70.62 percent. For February it is even worse — only 64.77 percent was detected. And in March the average detection was 73.56 percent. That might not sound too bad but it means that 29 percent, 35 percent and 26 percent was not detected,” the company’s report read.
Containers bring a skinny new world of virtualization to Linux
So why should you bother with containers? For one simple reason: You can stick a lot more containers on a single server than you can VMs. How many more? Try two to three times more.
via Containers bring a skinny new world of virtualization to Linux | ITworld.
How to win at rock-paper-scissors
After losing with a rock, for example, a player was more likely to play paper in the next round than the “one in three” rule would predict.
This “win-stay lose-shift” strategy is known in game theory as a conditional response – and it may be hard-wired into the human brain, the researchers say
Apache Cordova
When using the Cordova APIs, an app can be built without any native code (Java, Objective-C, etc) from the app developer. Instead, web technologies are used, and they are hosted in the app itself locally (generally not on a remote http server).
And because these JavaScript APIs are consistent across multiple device platforms and built on web standards, the app should be portable to other device platforms with minimal to no changes.
via Apache Cordova.
What are colored coins?
What exactly are colored coins? I’ve tried understanding, but I don’t quite get it yet . . . Do any examples exist?
via alternatives – What are colored coins? – Bitcoin Stack Exchange.
Colored coins are a method to track the origin of bitcoins, so that a certain set of coins can be set aside and conserved, allowing a party to acknowledge them in various ways. Such coins can be used to represent arbitrary digital tokens, such as stocks, bonds, smart property and so on.
The colored coins protocol is decentralized just like Bitcoin, but the current effort to develop an implementation is done under the BitcoinX project (tentative name), which also aims to provide some related services.
As this is still under development, you will not find any existing examples.
You can read more about it in Overview of colored coins (work in progress).
Lapse-Pi Touch – A Touchscreen Timelapse Controller
Functionality
The User interface allows you to:
- position the dolly on the rail via the motor control buttons
- change the motor pulse duration between shots
- change the delay between shots
- change the number of shots
- see what time is left for the current sequence
- start and stop the time-lapse
And it’s all done using a few simple screens with a simplistic, easy-to-use touchscreen user interface. The following video shows it all in action.
U.S.: Stop using Internet Explorer
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a part of Homeland Security known as US-CERT, said in an advisory released on Monday morning that the vulnerability in versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer could lead to “the complete compromise” of an affected system.
“We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem,” Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute warned in a separate advisory, that US-CERT linked to in its warning.
via U.S.: Stop using Internet Explorer – chicagotribune.com.