Here is an A - Z list of some Javascript idioms and patterns. The idea is to convey in simple terms some features of the actual Javascript language (rather than how it can interact with DOM). Enjoy...

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Wir geben jeden einzelnen Tag Geld für Unterhaltungsinhalte aus und ich bin es verdammt noch mal leid, mir dauernd vorwerfen zu lassen, ich würde Urheber nicht respektieren, während ich selbst einer bin. Nur eben einer, der nicht rumheult wegen des Internet, sondern anders Geld mit seiner Arbeit verdient als vor 20 Jahren. Insert Bob Dylan quote here.

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Und wenn ich eine englischsprachige TV-Serie oder einen Film wegen bekloppter und überholter Regionsabkommen nicht legal bekomme, dann dauert es trotzdem keine halbe Stunde, bis ich ihn habe, und DAS, liebe Industrie und liebe Leistungsschutzrecht-Journalisten, ist nichts anderes als völlig grandios und daraus wäre ein so unfassbar großes Geschäft zu machen, denn nicht nur ich würde dafür bezahlen (und tue das an den Stellen, an denen es möglich ist bereits), ... Ich WILL den Urhebern und Produzenten der Inhalte, die ich mag, mein Geld geben, denn sie haben es verdient.

Der 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York entschied, dass der Programmierer Sergey Aleynikov durch das Herunterladen von Programmcode von den Servern seines ehemaligen Arbeitgebers Goldman Sachs keinen Diebstahl begangen habe.

Weil der Code nämlich auf den Servern noch vorhanden ist und Sergey durch das Runterladen keine “physische Kontrolle” über irgendetwas erlangte. Die drei Richter des Berufungsgerichtshofs wiesen ausserdem die allgemeine Interpretation zurück, irgendwelche Daten könnten Gegenstand eines Diebstahls sein, ausser Geld. Was mit Aleynikov nun konkret passieren wird, müssen die US-Gerichte formulieren, aber für die Definition von Begriffen wie “geistige Leistung” und “geistiges Eigentum”, vor allem im Zusammenhang mit dem alten Rechtsbegriff “Diebstahl” ist die Entscheidung grundlegend. Wie jedes Kind verstehen kann, liegt kein Diebstahl vor, solange das Original noch an seinem Platz ist.

While the law seems aimed at blackmarket tools that can be used to create malware infested sites, it’s also likely to criminalize tools used by researchers, developers and black hats alike – including tools like fuzzers, the Metasploit penetration testing tool and the wi-fi sniffing tool Wireshark. (Perhaps even the command line would be outlawed.)

U.S. law remains murky or outright dangerous for security researchers, hacktivists and curious citizens. Provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act make it a crime to get around encryption built into products, with only a few exceptions. And federal prosecutors have tried to prosecute citizens under federal anti-hacking laws for violating the terms of service on a social network.

The E.U. ban could, if enacted, have consequences across the pond. Recently, the U.K. approved extradition of one of its citizens to the U.S. to face copyright infringement charges for a site that linked to online television shows.

Staffers in the European Parliament are facing a challenge to their ethics. A company is offering all of them a gift which could not only compromise their independence, but also get them in hot water for copyright infringement. The people working at the European Parliament now need to make a choice: Leave the gift on the table and earn the respect of the citizens they’re working for, or compromise on ethics.

The company in question is Microsoft, and the gift is a bunch of proprietary programs. Through the Parliament’s administration, Microsoft is offering staffers (though probably not MEPs) gratis licenses to Microsoft Office, Project (a project management software) and Visio (a diagramming tool). This happens under the so-called “Home Use Program“.

The most obvious problem is that the parliament’s staff are working on regulations that govern the very business that is now making a gift to them. That’s a clear conflict of interest which can’t be explained away.

nformation Assurance (IA) in the field of communication and information systems is the confidence that such systems will protect the information they handle and will function as they need to, when they need to, under the control of legitimate users. Effective IA shall ensure appropriate levels of confidentiality, integrity, availability, non-repudiation and authenticity. IA shall be based on a risk management process.

Where the protection of European Union Classified Information (EUCI) is provided by cryptographic products, such products shall be approved as follows: ...

“... If you ever decide to switch devices, with IPG you’ll always be able to take your e-books with you. You bought them, you own them, and we’ll always make sure that you have a way to convert your e-books to the latest and greatest devices. Changing devices and platforms shouldn’t mean throwing away your library.”

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In January, Apple released its iBooks 2 app for authoring e-books to be displayed on the iPad. The fine print on the licensing agreement says that any book created with the iBooks authoring app can only be sold in the Apple store, because the program’s proprietary design elements give Apple a stake in the product, and thus the right to tell you what to do with the book you create using it.

As an example of this in the last book, written in 2010, an 8 character password made up of both upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols would have taken 2.25 years to crack. The same password now would take just 57 days. I have included the data in a table for you here, heat mapped with what I consider to be safe and unsafe password combinations. Where does your password fit in the table and how secure is it?

Forbes—one of financial journalism’s most venerable institutions—now employs a company called Narrative Science to automatically generate online articles about what to expect from upcoming corporate earnings statements. Just feed it some statistics and, within seconds, the clever software produces highly readable stories. Or, as Forbes puts it, “Narrative Science, through its proprietary artificial intelligence platform, transforms data into stories and insights.” Don't miss the irony here: Automated platforms are now “writing” news reports about companies that make their money from automated trading. These reports are eventually fed back into the financial system, helping the algorithms to spot even more lucrative deals. Essentially, this is journalism done by robots and for robots. The only upside here is that humans get to keep all the cash.

To celebrate the history of math and its impact on the world, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released Minds of Modern Mathematics, an iPad app that re-imagines a classic 50-foot infographic on the history of math created by husband-and-wife design team Charles and Ray Eames and displayed at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City.

The app, which can be downloaded from the iPad App Store, is an interactive vintage-meets-digital experience for students, teachers, and tech fans that illustrates how mathematics has advanced art, science, music and architecture. It reinvents the massive timeline on the history of math from 1000 AD to 1960 that was part of Mathematica: A World of Numbers...and Beyond, IBM’s milestone World’s Fair exhibit.

The Linux kernel will (hopefully) soon support "seccomp filter" (or "mode 2 seccomp"). Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has it available now, and Chrome OS will be using it shortly. This document is designed as a quick-start guide for software authors that want to take advantage of this security feature. In the simplest terms, it allows a program to declare ahead of time which system calls it expects to use, so that if an attacker gains arbitrary code execution, they cannot poke at any unexpected system calls.

Add sandbox mode for Linux's new seccomp filter

In this wiki, we describe the steps required to create an example integrated web environment based on the following IBM products: Connections, Portal, Domino, Sametime & Quickr Domino. The wiki introduces the example environment we create, describes the system architecture, prerequisites, the installation and configuration of the above products, and at the end, how to create common navigation across the products to create the integrated web experience. While doing this, we provide explanation of the steps, the choices we made, and some possible alternatives. The goal is to show you how you can create a similar environment for your deployment.

Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time, and others of her contemporaries were inclined to drop the modification by sex. She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics: symmetry in nature and the universal laws of conservation. Some consider Noether’s theorem, as it is now called, as important as Einstein’s theory of relativity; it undergirds much of today’s vanguard research in physics, including the hunt for the almighty Higgs boson.

Wie die Ritter der Tafelrunde den Gral sucht der Stubnblues das schönste Lied. Natürlich mit der heimlichen Hoffnung, dass wir es nie finden, stattdessen ganz viele beinah perfekte Lieder.

Mit dem Stubnblues gehen wir sehr wohl die letzten Fragen an. Wir ahnen aber, dass wir die Antworten nicht finden werden, also streben wir ein Scheitern auf möglichst hohem Niveau an. Der Augenblick zählt dann oft mehr, als langfristige Konzeptionen.

The patent being asserted by Sewell and his crew is USPTO Patent #1,042,012, first granted to the American Mathematical Society in October 1912, subsequently renewed, then acquired by Apple at an unknown date.

The first entry among the patent's Claims describes "A quadrilateral having all four interior angles of 90°, opposite sides that are parallel, and congruent diagonals that bisect each other."

Yes, Apple is asserting a patent on the rectangle.

With some coworkers, we challenged each other to write the smallest possible game of tron in javascript (an exercice known as javascript golfing).

This page explains our final version (219 bytes). We initially worked alone but then exchanged ideas and tricks, so erling & mathewsb deserve most of the credits!

our code was originally 226 bytes, but "Cosmologicon" pointed out a way to save three whole bytes, bringing us to 223 bytes.

With p01, we then came up with a way to save another 11 bytes (making the game 212 bytes). He also suggested keeping track of score, which takes 9 bytes but is totally worth it!

skrounge found a way to save 2 more bytes, brining the game to 219 bytes.

Team Telefónica felt the full force of the Southern Ocean earlier today when they were slammed by two monster waves in over 40 knots of wind on their way to Cape Horn on Leg 5.

There was no WiFi signal when on the desk in front of the window in my room, but after some experiments, I discovered that the signal was quite good... on the ceiling of the bathroom," emailed Marc Petit-Huguenin.

"I have a Nexus S phone, so I taped it on the ceiling of the bathroom, and used tethering over Bluetooth to bridge the gap to the desk," he explained. This is a slow connection, but good enough to send emails over SMTP or use vi [the popular Unix text editor] over SSH."

Working behind the scenes, a team of IETF attendees negotiated with the hotel and were granted access to the wireless network by Sunday night. "[W]e've done a variety of configuration tests and changes," he wrote. "We believe we have improved the situation for most hotel guests. However, there may be instances where our changes (due to some holes in our understanding of where exactly some of the APs are located, for example) have made things worse in specific areas."