Tag: internet
Ars Technica – Newzbin2 builds block-averting measures into its software
Every time someone tries to prevent information from being reached on the Internet someone else finds a way around it.
Read Write Web – How’s Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good
Do Not Track, is a nice idea but not much more than that.
Fraser Speirs – A Supercomputer in Every Backpack
Same problem I’ve been thinking about for a long time, our education system is built for the jobs of the past not the jobs of the future.
RScott.org – GoDaddy’s New “Selective DNS Blackouts” Policy
As if you needed another reason to not use GoDaddy.
BBC News – Netherlands makes net neutrality a law
The Netherlands of course makes the right call.
The Faster Times – AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out
Highly depressing read, both into the writing practiced at AOL and what this business considers important (just generating stupid trivial trash to generate pageviews).
Twilio Engineering Blog – Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issue
Twilio on how to build a service that was able to deal with Amazon’s downtime.
CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes
When this goes through (though possibly not this year) some business is going to make a mint providing a back-end service to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a purchase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Checkout should start building that now, if they haven’t already.