HP Storage Hardware Harbors Secret Back Door | threatpost - hopefully puts an end to the regular "we need to switch to HP because it's much better than NetApp" discussions. And yes, that was sarcasm.
Archive 16. December 2010
The Self Publishing Revolution: Amazon in the Book Banning Business. This time it's against erotic (ok, let's be honest: pornographic) books by Selena Kitt. But who says Amazon will stop there? And even if Amazon naturally has the right to no longer offer a book in the future (there are enough alternatives for eBook stores), what gives them the right to delete sold books besides their ToS? After the 1984 embarrassment, one thought they had understood. But there the cause was a rights violation by the publisher that Amazon reacted to - this time it's pure arbitrariness. The whole thing confirms my approach of never buying eBooks that I can't free from their DRM. Necessary as an investment protection. (and of course preferably buy books without DRM if possible)
Bottle: Python Web Framework I should also take a look at as an alternative to web.py - because in Bottle the app is simply a collection of functions with routes and mappings and not always a class. In addition, the functions can have different parameters for different verbs and JSON is directly supported as an output format. For web services, this sounds even more streamlined than web.py - and it also looks cleaner in structure to me.