Bei einem Jahresumsatz von 31,4 Milliarden € erlöst Amazon 995,7 € pro Sekunde. Die Verkaufsschlager waren die Kindle-Lesegeräte und das neue Amazon Tablet Kindle Fire. Das Tablet habe sich laut Konzernchef Bezos „sowohl in den USA als auch in Europa“ hervorragend verkauft. Das Wachstum des vergangenen Jahres ging allerdings auf Kosten des Gewinns, der um beinahe die Hälfte eingebrochen ist.

Django, a Python web framework, consists of an object-relational mapper (ORM), back-end controller, and template system. MongoDB is a document-oriented database (also known as a NoSQL database) effective for scaling and high performance. In this article, learn how to call MongoDB from Python (using MongoEngine), and integrate it into a Django project in lieu of the built-in ORM. A sample web interface for creating, reading, writing, and updating data to the MongoDB back end is included.

In einer Untersuchung, die SPIEGEL ONLINE vorliegt, hat Voss untersucht, welche Gruppe von Autofahrern am meisten geblitzt wird - und welche die meisten Unfälle verursacht. Sein Fazit ist eindeutig: "Radarkontrollen führen, so wie sie aktuell durchgeführt werden, nicht zu einer Verminderung des Unfallrisikos."

"Wir kaufen euch eure Gefängnisse ab, wenn ihr uns 90% Füllstand garantiert". Die US-Bundesländer sind praktisch alle hoch verschuldet, insofern ist der Anreiz der kurzzeitigen Cash-Infusion hoch.

Das mit dem Füllstand ist ja auch genau der Anreiz, den man der Regierung einer modernen Demokratie geben will! Der Anreiz für den Staat, die Leute mehr zu kriminalisieren! Ich sehe da großartige Synergieeffekte mit ACTA und den anderen Gesetzesentwürfen der Contentmafia!

Die Berufung bei dem Ami, der gerichtlich zum Rausrücken seines Laptop-Passworts gezwungen wurde, wurde nicht angenommen. Damit ist das jetzt "Case Law", dass das Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht in den USA nicht mehr gilt

However, if the code is not recognized, Internet Explorer will accept it anyway and allow the requester full access to the user for third-party cookie purposes. Google didn’t do this “in a manner consistent with the technology,” Microsoft suggests, as it used the following message:

“P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."

Microsoft described being able to bypass its browser’s privacy settings in this way as “a nuance in the P3P specification,” but as was pointed out by El Reg last year and in academic papers in 2010, it’s a tactic that’s been widely used to circumvent the privacy wishes of the browser user. Microsoft is one of a dwindling band of companies still using P3P, and this latest admission will increase the decay in support.

Most programmers think the XQuery language was developed to satisfy a niche market: A data querying and transformation language designed to handle XML data. In the case of relational databases, the prevailing practice is to use SQL for non-XML data and use XQuery for XML. This article makes the case that the powerful programming constructs available in the XQuery language make it a better programming language than SQL, and that this improvement in expressiveness and ease of use is enough to warrant the design of databases with an increasing emphasis on XML data types.

GitHub’s geektastic 14,000-square-foot loft mirrors its mission: to democratize computer programming. GitHub.com is best thought of as Facebook for geeks. Instead of uploading videos of your cat, you upload software. Anyone can comment on your code and add to it and build it into something better. The trick is that it decentralizes programming, giving everyone a new kind of control. GitHub has shaken up the way software gets written, making coding a little more anarchic, a little more fun, and a lot more productive.

And the software world loves it. GitHub now has more than 1.3 million users, and over 2 million source code repositories — eight times the tally from just two years ago. ... Two years ago, GitHub was a team of eight, holding company meetings in San Francisco cafes. ... In July, they took over the former digs of blogging outfit Six Apart. GitHub is growing fast — and it hasn’t taken a dime of venture funding.

Georg Schramm kandidiert nicht für das Amt des Bundespräsidenten. In einer Erklärung fordert er die Abschaffung des Amtes oder eine Direktwahl.

As it turns out, a Han Solo in Carbonite was brought on set since Nathan Fillion is such a huge Star Wars fan. The props team joked around and added it to sets whenever they could, it apparently became a running joke. It didn't get grabbed out of every scene before shooting though.

As anyone who's been on the Internet for the last week knows, Nathan Fillion and Firefly are still attached at the hip. And even though he's got a hit crime procedural on ABC, the once and future (if he has his way) Mal Reynolds can't help but sneak his love for Joss Whedon's cult hit into his new gig.

The references started in Castle's second season, after the fear of another Fillion show not making it past a first season faded.

Even opponents of Hadopi acknowledge that the law has resulted in a change in online behavior, though they dispute whether its effect on music industry sales has been beneficial.

Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, a group that campaigns against restrictions on the Internet, said the law had resulted in increased use of virtual private network software and other anonymity tools.

“Apparently some of its intimidation is having a psychological effect,” he said of the three-strikes law, but added: “The political costs of creating an institution like this are tremendous.”

Stories like that of Robert Thollot, a teacher who lives near Saint-Étienne, in central France, have not helped. Mr. Thollot was accused of illegally downloading songs by David Guetta and Rihanna, as well as the film “Iron Man 2.”

Die Mozilla Foundation fordert in einer Mail an Certification Authorities (CA), auf das Ausstellen von Zertifikaten für Unter-CAs zu verzichten, die zum Überwachen von verschlüsseltem Datenverkehr genutzt werden. Hintergrund ist der vor Kurzem bekanntgewordene Fall der von Trustwave aufgebauten Man-in-the-Middle-CA.

When someone says they are a hacker, what do they mean? Are they just big computer geeks? Are they doing illegal criminal things, breaking in and stealing passwords? Mitch Altman, inventor of the TV-B-Gone, tells us hacking is about thinking differently about the world around you. Featuring the folks at the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, who show off their projects with bikes, toys, clothes, food, electricity, and even outer space!

Das deutsche Immaterialgüterrecht ist so veraltet, dass eigentlich nur totale Technikverweigerer unter Schweigegelübde nicht mit ihm in Konflikt kommen können. Manche Politiker fordern deshalb eine Liberalisierung - andere dagegen eine Verschärfung. Allerdings sind auch Urheberrechtsextremisten keineswegs vor versehentlichen Verletzungshandlungen gefeit, wie das Wiki Netend zeigt. Dort werden Immaterialgüterrechtsverstöße von Politikern gesammelt, die durch besonderen Einsatz für mehr Monopol- und Verbotsrechte für die Rechteverwerterindustrie auf sich aufmerksam machten.

Easy enough to avoid government dots; just don't buy printers from Canon, Brother, Casio, HP, Konica, Minolta, Mita, Ricoh, Sharp, or Xerox.

An international team of scientists have created the world's first biological computer that is made from biological molecules and can decode images stored and encrypted within DNA.

Built by U.S. and Israeli researchers from the Scripps Research Institute in California and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have created a computing system from a mixture of DNA molecules, enzymes and ATP, the substance that gives energy for human cells. The computer was able to decrypt information from a DNA chip.

Tomorrow's computers will constantly improve their understanding of the data they work with, which in turn will help them provide users with more appropriate information, predicted the software mastermind behind IBM's Watson system.

Computers in the future "will learn through interacting with us. They will not necessarily require us to sit down and explicitly program them, but through continuous interaction with humans they will start to understand the kind of data and the kind of computation we need," said IBM Fellow David Ferrucci, who was IBM's principal investigator for Watson technologies. Ferrucci spoke at the IBM Smarter Computing Executive Forum, held Wednesday in New York.

If you’re a fan of tower defense games, you’re going to love Doodle Defense – at least I think you will. Played with a whiteboard, a Kinect, a projector, and a Mac computer, Doodle Defense takes drawing games and tower defense to a whole new level. While the concept of the gameplay is the same (prevent units from travelling from the entrance to the exit), how the game is played is very different to what we’re normally used to.

Instead of dragging and dropping buildings and towers on our computers, Doodle Defense is played with a marker on a white board. Players use a marker pen to draw mazes in order to slow down the invaders, and towers to destroy them – however, they’ll have a finite supply of ink so they’ll have to use it wisely in order to win the game.

Google has become the largest public DNS service in the world, an event that might either please or frighten you, depending on your view of Google.

The company launched Google Public DNS in December 2009 and on Tuesday said its service is handling more than 70 billion requests a day.