Viewing profile — osth

http://www.archives.gov lynx -dump http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_tra... |sed '/The right of the people to be secure/,/be seized./s/ \[ Redacted \]/'

Except if you account for the fact that some other UNIX-like OS do not use bash as /bin/sh. You could even say that using bash as /bin/sh "is specific to Linux." How to fix: /#!\/b…

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/743252/nsa-pdfs-redact... Missing: How much did this cost? Did the government (taxpayers) overpay?

"The result of this is that we have a large over educated part of the population who will have a very hard time finding a job." Consider the alternatives: a large under educated pa…

"If code doesn't receive constant love, it turns to shit." But it sounds like this code was receiving "love", only the "love" was coming from run-of-the-mill "just get it to work" …

Questions: 0. How important is simplicity (modularity) to the project? 1. Will Tox work for user "idontrungentoo"? Will it compile on Solaris, BSD, etc. 2. Will the GUI be optional…

Sounds like mirroring and ftp servers (or even bittorrent) would work just fine for distributing copyright-cleared video. Indeed that's how I remember it being done before YouTube …

Even better: http://cpudb.stanford.edu/cpudb.1333574285.tar.gz

VJ: "... Yet the economics of the internet tends to ensure..." This may be the problem. Change the economics, solve the problem. Specifically, do away with the idea of "backbones" …

Schaffer: "... we consider Snaphax to be unlawful circumvention device under ..." Lackner: Mr. Schaffer, are you a lawyer? Please elaborate on why you consider Snaphax to be unlawf…

I don't measure latency as including rendering time. Maybe I'm not "rendering" anything except pure html. I measure HTTP latency as the time it takes to retrive the resources. What…

Ah, the bikeshed. IMO the most relevant bit of pop psychology I've ever seen wielded by a programmer in a mailing list/online forum. It's validity is so seemingly self-evident, I'l…

"I actually don't think that's the case." Neither do I. I think people make honest mistakes. Alas, under pressure, people also try to cover them up. I forget where I read it but so…

Amen, OP. herge: You could also use the "data" program from Hobbit's netcat.

Still the best article I've seen on this whole affair was the one at foreigpolicy.com back on June 11: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/2012/06/11/to_protect_and_defen... The US actual…

"What happened to simple protocols?" Answer: The Internet is still running on them, 30 years later. Whenever I read something like "simplicity is hard", it makes me cringe. I hear …

I wonder if header compression is primarily to allow for ubiquitous, large cookies. Cookies were originally and with few exceptions remain a hack to try to add state to transaction…

Yes, a major appeal of pipelining to me is efficiency with respect to open connections. It's easier to monitor the progress of one connection sending multiple HTTP verbs than multi…

Thanks for the reading material. You omitted the sentence before your excerpt where Mr. McManus suggests we move to a multiplexed pipelined protocol for HTTP. I'll go further. I sa…

OK, while we are reviewing the beliefs and actions of past Secretaries of War, how about Henry L. Stimson? He once said, "Gentelmen do not read each other's mail." Now, this was wh…

Yes, I understand there are buggy servers and proxies... and I use a browser that has settings to accomodate them. However... I do not know about HTTP bugs that affect pipelining .…

I trust in theory this is true, but I've never personally observed this in practice. I guess SPDY fans' marketing of this "feature" would be more convincing if I could see a demons…

I choose HTTP/1.1 pipelining. Uncompressed headers are useful. Ordered records are returned (unlike SPDY), where "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" is the record separator. Been using this for a de…

I would have thought Adblock's userbase too small to be of concern to Google.

That's a little scary. I would have figured smart programmers would know these things. Most of the case law that has shaped this area of jurisprudence involves obvious criminals, m…