While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot slightly off the ground and move it in clockwise circles. Now draw the numeral “6” in the air with your right hand. Your foot will involuntarily reverse direction.
Category: Legacy
Cory Doctorow has published his second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe. Like his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory’s made his book freely available for download under a Creative Commons License.
Cory has a write up of what he’s trying to do:
The future is my business, more or less. I’m a science fiction writer.
One way to know the future is to look good and hard at the present.
Here’s a thing I’ve noticed about the present: more people are reading more words off of more screens than ever before. Here’s another thing I’ve noticed about the present: fewer people are reading fewer words off of fewer pages than ever before. That doesn’t mean that the book is dying
— no more than the advent of the printing press and the de-emphasis of
Bible-copying monks meant that the book was dying — but it does mean
that the book is changing. I think that literature is alive
and well: we’re reading our brains out! I just think that the complex
social practice of “book” — of which a bunch of paper pages between
two covers is the mere expression — is transforming and will transform
further.
(The comments are also quite worth reading.)
Excuse me while I pick up my jaw.
- MagpieRSS with REX parser – to handle invalid feeds using REX: XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions
- U.S. rejects Japan’s mad cow test
Investigators have found only 27 of 98 animals that were raised together and may have shared the same source of feed before being shipped to the United States in 2001.
More discussion at: Mad Cow Killer Worries About ‘The Magic Burger’
In an unscientific poll, currently, over 93% of voters would prefer a peanut butter sandwich over George W. Bush as the next president.
The Awesome Destructive Power of the Corporate Power Media
This commentary, however, is not about the merits of Howard Dean. If a mildly progressive, Internet-driven, young white middle class-centered, movement-like campaign such as Deans flush with money derived from unconventional sources, backed by significant sections of labor, reinforced by big name endorsements and surging with upward momentum can be derailed in a matter of weeks at the whim of corporate media, then all of us are in deep trouble. The Dean beat-down should signal an intense reassessment of medias role in the American power structure.
I’ve been looking around and am sort of surprised that no one has created a comprehensive PHP secure cookie/session library. Am I missing something?
- DB sessions
- Optional Client-Side Login Hashing
- Request-based Session Regeneration
- Page Tokens (even better w/ Session ID masking)
- Optional IP Locking
- User/Session checking/limiting
- Cookie Envelopes
- Forging/Brute Force detection, actions (tarpitting, lock-outs/bans)
- Cookie shredding
DSS Papers to write:
- Methods for controlling personal data propagation within SSNs
- Trust models in DSS systems
“NOBODY showed up? I would think having a high Sardonix rating would be a nice piece of “hacker-street-cred”
This isn’t Compton.
You’re not going to go on an interview and throw up your Linux “signs.”
Slackware beeyotch. Represent.
apt-get 4 life, thug.
Werd.
So, I’ve only had layovers in Alaska and Missouri. Does that even count? In any case, yes, I’m due for a big-ass roadtrip sometime.