Clearly identifiable: NATO wants individual signature for every internet user. The next pig that will be driven through the village. Military facilities are not exactly known as birthplaces of democracy, so I'm not surprised to hear such nonsense from that direction. But it will certainly be interesting to observe which politicians and which lobby groups will pick this up. Wouldn't be surprised to see some of the hardliners from Berlin or e.g. the rights extortionists of the music industry. Oh, and it will certainly be funny to see what the "data protectors" will not say about it.
Archive 30. September 2011
Data Protection Officers: Social Plugins Not Permissible in Germany - Golem.de. Great, with this, almost all external linking will go down the drain. Loading JavaScript libraries via a delivery network? Forbidden. Displaying YouTube videos? Forbidden. Displaying Flickr slideshows? Forbidden. The fact that such an absurd perspective leads the entire internet ad absurdum will surely please rather than concern the political level. At least the part that already stands out due to regular misunderstanding. Sometimes I have the feeling that the current group of "data protection officers" are only moles for hardliners in the parties who would like to regulate everything to death. Because only a dumb and quiet citizen is a good citizen. This has nothing to do with real protection of our data - because these "data protection officers" do not take action against the transmission of flight data or intra-European account movements to foreign intelligence services. Nor do they take action against nationwide central databases that are being built through the introduction of the central tax number or the electronic patient card (or in the future through a toll for private cars that will surely come at some point) - there is only half-hearted, weak-kneed "protest". There is nothing to be heard about the threat of fines. Who believes that the "data protection officers" would bravely throw themselves in front of the lions in the internet to protect our data, also believes that lemon folders would fold lemons.
dust is a JavaScript template library used in Kanso. Functionally very similar to Django Templates, though with slightly modified syntax.
Kanso Framework. That sounds very interesting - a framework for programming JavaScript CouchApps. So applications that are written in JavaScript and run entirely from a CouchDB installation. The server only needs to provide a CouchDB instance and that's it in terms of requirements - and since CouchDB comes with replication by default, you can easily scale up or implement fault tolerance - simply form a cluster of several CouchDB instances. Equally interesting are replications of the production database to another pot, such as a private developer machine or various other scenarios that are possible with CouchDB. Since the whole thing is based on CommonJS as the language base, JavaScript is not quite as bad as if it were used raw.
StatsModels: Statistics in Python — statsmodels v0.3.0 documentation. Not my focus at the moment, but with this module you can examine numbers for their statistical model.
pandas: powerful Python data analysis toolkit — pandas v0.4.1 documentation. I think I haven't had this before, but it's quite interesting for number crunchers and list comparers: a quite powerful toolkit for analyzing large datasets, especially with handling missing data and aligning data on a common basis. Overall, not entirely uninteresting for a project at work where I frequently deal with larger datasets from external sources.
websites - How do I suppress the address bar in mobile Safari? - Apple - Stack Exchange. Bookmarked because I just want to remember this - it's quite practical for web applications if the silly address bar is not there (at least if you work with Single-Page-Applications that do most of the work on the client)
"Algorithm" is Not a Four-Letter Word. Algorithms and their diversity and why programmers should deal with them (keyword: mental bench press) using the example of algorithms for generating labyrinths.