I put together a little primer at work on the FCC’s new net neutrality rules. As I was fact checking myself, a thought struck me…
Might the new wireless rules be a politically brilliant policy disaster?
Hear me out.
After ISP lobbying, what is the biggest obstacle that net neutrality faces? Public opinion. Not that public opinion is against net neutrality per se , but that net neutrality is too confusing and drowned out in the midst of unemployment, the Tea Party, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Wikileaks and all around apathy and ambivalence.
In other words, the American public takes it for granted, [...] Continue Reading…
I’m mainly putting this here for my own memory. If you’ve ever tried to install an SSL cert and sat there in terror of restarting your webserver cause you just know it’s not going to work on the first try, then you should be aware that you can test the key and crt beforehand…
$ openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in /path/to/your.key | openssl md5
This should output a long MD5 number.
$ openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in /path/to/your.crt | openssl md5
This should also output a long MD5 number. If the numbers match, your SSL should work. If they don’t then your webserver is going [...] Continue Reading…
Got my Space Battleship Yamato soundtrack shipping confirmation, and the translation is its own special kind of awesome:
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Quantity Product Price Shipped Subtotal
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1 “SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO” OR ¥ 2,381 1 ¥ 2,381
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Subtotal: ¥ 2,381
Shipping: ¥ 2,000
Eligible ¥ 0
Total: ¥ 4,381 (USD 54.27)
Credit card payment: ¥ 4,381: Visa (USD 54.27)
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This order “CD to buy one or [...] Continue Reading…
Consider this current state of affairs…
We live in an age where large corporations or their associations (think RIAA) are suing individuals and file sharing services for millions of dollars, while not making it any easier to actually, ya know, buy their copyrighted material. There are millions more dollars being spent on developing ever more complex DRM to secure said copyrighted material. Joel Tenenbaum got hit with a $675,000 ruling (note: the judge later took a zero off of that) for illegally sharing 30 songs. RIAA unsucessfully sued the Russian allofmp3.com for $1.65 trillion – yes, with ‘T’.
I don’t want [...] Continue Reading…
Actually, mime-type is always important to set, but usually your webserver is smart and you don’t even notice. Anyway, I was having some headaches at work with really poor video performance on certain browsers and devices for videos we hosted in Rackspace Cloudfiles, namely anything webkit (Safari desktop, iPad, Chrome) except the iPhone. Videos would spin endlessly unless the file was hit directly, new files weren’t recognized, all sorts of things. In the extreme, Safari 4 would either floor the CPU or crash outright (note: I did not, at the time, realize this was related). If I switched the video src [...] Continue Reading…
A quick look at any World Cup history reveals that Brazil is the only team to play in every cup, has the most tournament wins (five) and is tied for most final appearances with (West) Germany, with seven each. Both those statistic reveal a quite a level of dominance – Brazil wins 27% of the World Cups. But I want to turn that on its head and ask: Who has knocked Brazil out? And who has beaten them at all in the World Cup? [...] Continue Reading…
As many Python folks have discovered, upgrading to Snow Leopard can cause some pain for development. For the most part, this involves reinstalling a bunch of things (macports, python itself and whatever python packages you use). This has been a hassle for me, but up until today it was just time consuming, rather than actually difficult. Apparently if you upgrade xcode (like I did for the new iphone stuff), unless you explicitly choose the old SDK, xcode blows it away.
So today, while trying to compile multiprocessor on Python 2.5, I got this:
Compiling with an SDK that doesn’t seem to [...] Continue Reading…
While I already think the nails are in the proverbial coffin for Flash, and it’s no secret I’m happy about that, it hit me that Adobe’s see-no-evil/hear-no-evil attitude with regard to bugs is really the worst thing they could have done and they are much more their own worst enemy than Steve Jobs. Microsoft learned the hard way that they could never control how crappy some of the Windows applications we’re going to be, but that Microsoft would still get the blame if an app crashed all of Windows or other apps (or just slowed everything to a crawl [...] Continue Reading…
There was a brief mention at the web framework battle royale at sxsw (twitter: #frameworkbattleroyale ) about Java and Enterprise environments and I was reminded of an old peeve of mine: the old enterprise vs. “cool” webby frameworks battle. I don’t want to jump into either the battle or the definition of “enterprise.” For the purposes of this post I’m simply going to define “enterprise” as “acceptable to institutions that only use software described as enterprise.” Realistically, we’re really just talking about Java and .net based platforms and frameworks vs. everything else 
Which brings us to what has always [...] Continue Reading…
A followup to last night’s rant on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. BarackObama.com has posted a form to send a letter to your local rep. It can’t hurt…
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