Category: Quick Posts
Stanford researchers outsmart captcha codes
The only two that came out unscathed, Google and ReCaptcha.
Ars Technica – Apple launches iTunes Match: music hoarders need not apply
Seems like a great deal if you either have a lot of music that is in cruddy versions or are away from wherever most of your music is a lot.
American Civil Liberties Union – It Was Close, But We Won: Viva Net Neutrality!
Yeah for Net Neutrality, boo for my State Senator being the one who introduced this resolution.
Mozilla Popcorn – Making video work like the web
The concept is basically at points in the video you can load in data from the web about the video or what’s shown in the video from Twitter, Wikipedia, Google Maps and other stuff.
Prop Store – Butter Cup Valley
Behind the scenes photos of Return of the Jedi, what more do you need to know?
GMane.Comp.Version-Control.Git – Linus Torvalds on C and C++
Programmers are an opinionated bunch.
ExtremeTech – Mozilla puts Firefox on a memory diet
I still use Firefox as my main browser but this is a needed improvement.
GeekWire – Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated
Some really interesting stuff in here.
DARPA Shredder Challenge
Neat challenge, it would be cool to work on this problem but image analysis is so far out of my area of expertise.
BBC News – Blackberry PlayBook operating software update delayed
Who could have guessed that people would want native email, calendar and contacts apps?