Category: Quick Posts
TechCrunch – Google Changes Its Rank Algorithm In Response To DecorMyEyes Story
Nice job Google, kicking out the cruddy merchants.
CNET News – Congressman wants WikiLeaks listed as terrorist org
In short everybody has a reaction, overall mine is Wikileaks is a valuable service, in no way is it a terrorist organization.
NYTimes.com – Public Opinion on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
So the public supports allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve and now the military says there’s really nothing wrong with it.
BBC News – EU launches antitrust probe into alleged Google abuses
Not too shocked that Google is accused of abusing it’s power, that being said I actually would be shocked to see Google found guilty.
Quora – What types of things does Netflix A/B test aside from member sign-up?
Simple, logical, proven, same as what Appple aims for sounds like a good plan.
NYTimes.com – Color-Coded Terror Alerts to Be Dropped by Homeland Security
It only took the Department of Homeland Security 8 years to realize what a stupid and useless metric this was.
David Walsh Blog – WebSocket and Socket.IO
Really great instructional and demo of a neat technology.
SQL injection with raw MD5 hashes – cvk | nc -l -p 80
Seemingly impossible to build a password that would after being MD5 hashed return a SQL injection, but nope it is possible even within a reasonable time frame.
Bookselling This Week – The Challenges of Free Speech
Defending free speech means to defend even those things that are controversial.
A List Apart – CSS Positioning 101
Position is easily in that class of properties that I use a lot without really knowing what’s going on.