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Thursday, May 20. 2010
BigQuery and Prediction API: Get more from your data with Google ( via momb, 19.05.2010)
The Prediction API enables access to Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Upload your data to Google Storage for Developers, then use the Prediction API to make real-time decisions in your applications. The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant information to your users.
Thursday, May 20. 2010
Adobe Flash To Eliminate Bandwidth Costs With P2P (TorrentFreak, 19.05.2010)
Kevin Towes, Product Manager of Adobe Flash Media Server told Beet.TV that the upcoming release of the Flash player will include new P2P technology that will “significantly change the way we think of media delivery.” According to Towes, this technology could in some cases completely eliminate bandwidth costs.
Thursday, May 6. 2010
UKash, one of the few prepaid voucher companies in Europe ("privacy aware payment"), is now also the first legal vendor of virtual credit cards in Europe: Apparently you can buy prepaid vouchers and turn them into a 3-month virtual Mastercard (no physical card is issued, card number is delivered by email, CVV2 by SMS). http://www.ukashneo.com/
Thursday, May 6. 2010
A friend of mine asked me for DVD case insert templates. Because the net is full of crap, I've bookmarked some good sources:
- http://www.oasiscd.com/graphics/templates-dvd.asp (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, FreeHand, QuarkXPress, CorelDRAW)
- http://www.snjcd.com/templates.html (dito)
- http://www.effectuality.com/digital_templates.shtml (also has Word templates)
Wednesday, May 5. 2010
QUOTE: Deutschland wehrt sich gegen die Digitalisierung seiner Gesellschaft, während Google ungerührt weiter in die Zukunft investiert: Recorded Future, ein Startup das Vorhersagen über die Zukunft trifft, zeugt von einem euphorischen Innovationsbegriff, den wir auch hierzulande dringend brauchen.
Sunday, May 2. 2010
Take a moment and guess how large the database of all Wikipedia articles is, in all languages, in all countries together.
Continue reading "The Size of Information: How much space does Wikipedia need?"
Sunday, May 2. 2010
Good luck, and happy coding! 
Sunday, May 2. 2010
QUOTE: The UNIX-HATERS Handbook? Why? Of what earthly good could it be? Who is the audience? What a perverted idea. But then again, I have been sitting here in my living room—still wearing my coat—for over an hour now, reading the manuscript. One and one-half hours. What a strange book. But appealing. Two hours. OK, I give up: I like it. It’s a perverse book, but it has an equally perverse appeal. Who would have thought it: Unix, the hacker’s pornography.
"Dennis never found the problem with his Makefile. He's now stuck in a dead-end job where he has to wear a paper hat and maintains the sendmail configuration files for a large state university in the midwest. It's a damn shame." -- Garfinkel et al., Programming in Plato's Cave, Donald A. Norman: The UNIX Hater's Handbook (1994)
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Saturday, May 1. 2010
I use Postfix as SMTP server. By default, it includes every user's IP and hostname in outgoing mails, even internal ones. As there is no need for the outside world to see what IPs I am using internally, I dedided to remove IP headers from outgoing email. This does not have to mean that they're not logged. And besides, at the moment I am the only one using my server, so mails can still be traced to me. This post explains how.
Continue reading "Remove IPs from Outgoing Mail (Postfix SMTP)"
Saturday, May 1. 2010
Immer wieder befremdlich wie viel Mühe man sich gibt, um ein einfaches DVD-Cover zu verlinken. Und nicht mal dann macht es rechtlich irgendeinen Unterschied, es bleibt einfach illegal. Man bettelt sozusagen den Rechteinhaber an, doch bitte bitte nicht abzumahnen (und sowas wird schön teuer). Ganz böse: Mit der Google Bildsuche nach dem Cover suchen, und das erste Ergebnis verlinken. Google sagt dazu: "Image may be subject to copyright.". Und das ist inzwischen gerichtsfest:
Das höchste deutsche Zivilgericht sieht keine Urheberrechtsverletzung in diesem Google-Dienst (BGH, Urteil v. 29.04.2010, I ZR 69/08). Die Entscheidung dürfte eine der bedeutendsten Urteile aus dem Bereich des Urheberrechts der letzten Jahre sein. ( heise online, 29.04.2010)
Und um die Ecke gibts die DVD in allen erdenklichen Formaten zum (illegalen) kostenlosen Download. Inzwischen sollte ja bekannt sein, dass man den Produktnamen nimmt, dazu eine beliebige Filesharingplattform oder glatt mehrere, und schon erfüllt Google seine Aufgabe - Suche ( Scroogle-Suche: produktname torrent OR rapidshare, Google erklärt wie's geht). Eine verfahrene Situation, in die sich das Urheberrecht da bringt. Und eine große Aufgabe für die globalisierte Gesellschaft. Wird langsam Zeit, dass darüber logisch diskutiert wird.
PS: Wenn ich nun oben statt "produkt" ein konkretes Produkt nennen würde, ist das dann schon illegal?
Saturday, May 1. 2010
Saturday, May 1. 2010
QUOTE: The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone's trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath.
Charles Stross: The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash (30.04.2010)
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