Last Friday, an agency of the German government issued a warning against the use of Internet Explorer. What has been the impact on Firefox and the Mozilla community?
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February 07 2010
February 03 2010
(nein, nich mein Zimmer)
January 30 2010
Evolution of a Python programmer.py - GitHub
Toller Vergleich, wie unterschiedlich man Code schreiben kann.January 29 2010
January 20 2010
“— heise onlineGoogle lässt Map/Reduce patentieren
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Als Erfinder nennt der Antrag aus dem Jahr 2004 Sanjay Ghemawat und Jeffrey Dean. Sie hatten in demselben Jahr das Map/Reduce-Verfahren in einem Vortrag (PDF-Datei) auf der OSDI-Konferenz vorgestellt. Es eignet sich besonders für den Einsatz in massiv parallelen Umgebungen, deren Knoten die Map- und Reduce-Schritte unabhängig voneinander ausführen können. (ck)
“— Heirs to Sherlock Holmes Face Web of Ownership Issues - NYTimes.comFor a 123-year-old detective, Sherlock Holmes is a surprisingly reliable earner.[...]
At his age, Holmes would logically seem to have entered the public domain. But not only is the character still under copyright in the United States, for nearly 80 years he has also been caught in a web of ownership issues so tangled that Professor Moriarty wouldn’t have wished them upon him.
“It is,” said Jon Lellenberg, the American literary agent for the Arthur Conan Doyle estate, “enough to make lawyers’ eyes roll up in their heads. Even British lawyers
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January 18 2010
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
January 17 2010
January 15 2010
“— FAZ.NETEin Echtzeit-Experiment
Der Mensch wird zum Datensatz
Von Frank Rieger
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Print Version der besseren 26C3 KeyNode (mp3)
WoW meets Datenschutz
Blizzard hat die Charakterdatenbank von "World of Warcraft" erweitert. Neben viel Bling Bling kann man sich jetzt einen RSS-Feed zu allen halbwegs wichtigen Events eines Charakters geben lassen. Dieser minutengenaue Feed zählt zB auf, wann der Charakter welchen Boss getötet hat oder wann er welchen nützlichen Gegenstand bekam. Im Regelfall ist das schlichtweg ein Tracking der Onlinezeiten.
Hier die dazugehörige Diskussion im offiziellen deutschen Forum.
Tenor: Gut fürs Spiel, schlecht fürs RL.
January 06 2010
Singularity 101
A series about Superhuman intelligence and the technological singularity.January 05 2010
“— http://catpad.net/michael/apl/Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL
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January 04 2010
“— KotakuWanted on drug dealing charges, Alfred Hightower skipped the country after a warrant was issued for his arrest. But he didn't stop playing World of Warcraft and that's how police caught him. The Howard County Sheriff's Department in Indiana discovered that Hightower, was a big fan of some "warlock and witches game", eventually piecing together that it was World of Warcraft.
Blizzard provided the sheriff the suspect's IP address, account information and history, his billing address, and his online screen name and preferred server. Deputies then used the information to pinpoint Hightower's location in Canada.
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January 01 2010
December 29 2009
Maybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...



