A historical collection of our writing.
Today we are continuing on with the web request cycle. After the browser has parsed the URL and obtained the IP address of the server via DNS, the browser now has to communicate with the server. That is done using the so-called Hypertext Transfer Protocol or HTTP for short. The beginnings of HTTP […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Stewart Brand is infamously reported as saying “information wants to be free”- the rallying cry against any limits on information ownership, the mantra for free content and ideas. Which obviously leads to scorn and mockery: “You’ll often hear cypherpunk weenies with poorly-thought-out philosophies […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
In my Tech Tuesday posts I have covered main memory and storage (by the way, coming up tomorrow: HTTP). If you have read those or otherwise follow hardware, then you will find this short piece from BBC Technology News on a new technology known as ReRAM quite interesting. Essentially, ReRAM holds […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
With SOPA and PIPA shelved at least for the moment, it is time to start thinking about alternatives. It would be a shame if we limited our collective thinking here to slightly different versions of those bills instead of exploring what a different approach to copyright could be that doesn’t try to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
How do you boil a frog? Slowly. Apparently the same is true for endusers and even software developers. That at least is what Apple seems to believe. And while this has been debunked for frogs (they do jump out as the water gets too warm), it’s not clear that the same is true for humans. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This will be a bit of a wonky and short post with a longer and less technical one to follow some time soon. Google has just announced a coming update to their privacy policy which will essentially make it possible for Google to integrate all the information it has about a user across its many […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
