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If you haven't heard of it, EME, or Encrypted Media Extensions, could be a part of the W3C specification that would allow a website to control a visitors web browser. The goal would be to restrict access to content, this ranges from restricting ...

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act which would enter U.S. law if passed, the House of Representatives will be voting on this in the next few days. There are many flaws with this, the EFF has a good FAQ about CISPA. In short it gi...

If you are American it is possible that by violating the Terms of Service of a website (which constantly change without warning) that you are a criminal. With that in mind, here are my Terms of Service: By visiting this website you are exceeding your authorized access. Therefor...

The discussion about implement DRM in HTML has been ongoing on the W3C mailing lists for a while now. Sometimes it seems more of a flame war than others. Companies like Netflix, Microsoft and even Google are trying to push for a standard that would allow the content distributors to...

The more time goes by the more I feel money is not only evil, but also a device that is blocking our society from evolving properly. I'm sure everyone does at some point. I wanted to write a complete and long post about what I think, but that might take years before it happens. So ...

The other day I finally got to see Louis CK live, at the o2 (which is a shitty place for comedy). One word: Hilarious.

So there, we're even, I downloaded his stuff without paying, but then I got a bunch of friends who never heard of him to go watch his show. And they enjoyed t...

If you haven't heard by now, then here's the news, Ubuntu is developing their own display server (Mir) to replace X. The fun part is that their already is a replacement been under development called Wayla...

There are too many emails being sent from donotreply@domain.tld addresses. These addresses explicitly don't exist and/or will not accept emails, yet they are the sender/replyto of important emails like order confirmations and what not. I've recently seen this for domain name tran...

While playing around with the menus (some minor CSS3 effects) I realised it would be possible to make some sort of Etch A Sketch. Maybe not quite as good, nor as magic. But it's still fun and takes just a few lines of CSS to be added to some basic HTML divs.

Same data as the previous one, but I got the Pie Chart-ish feeling I was looking for.

Microsoft has launched an attack campaign against Google by launching Scroogled.com. Not to be mistaken with Scroogle which was a search engine that anonymised Google searche...

Too many times lately I've read prejudice criticism about certain groups of people as a whole, like Gypsies, Muslims, Jews, etc... The critiques of these opinions often use the term "Racist". The defenders of these opinions retort that it's not racism if they're not talking about r...