Looks like HBO’s chief technology officer wants to call DRM by another name. Digital Consumer Enablement. How counter-intuitive is it to call a system meant to impede things “enablement”? Some sports cars can’t go onto the market without a limiter. Notice how it’s still called a limiter and not an enabler. Digital Consumer Enablement, would [...]
(Please read “What Colour are your bits?” and its followup. They make a great explanation for computer scientists of when a number isn’t a number.) I’m sure by now everyone has heard of that famous integer and its hex representation that’s been all over digg. It’s the key that can be used to decrypt just [...]
Courtesy of Slaw, I’m now reading through the list of recommendations from the review committee. Slaw lists the recommendations in a recent blog post. Recommendation 23 The Committee recommends that PIPEDA be amended to include a breach notification provision requiring organizations to report certain defined breaches of their personal information holdings to the Privacy Commissioner. [...]
Well, so ends my day at IT360. My last seminar of the day was with Kris Hadlock who I berated for saying that Molson was a good Canadian beer. He’s a cool guy who managed to hack up a few proof of concept scripts for the audience after he was done speaking. My notes don’t [...]
Part two of the seminar. Lots of code I won’t paste. Also explains some of the tools used. firebug at getfirebug.com allows you to expand the DOM at the bottom pane, the active element is then highlighted at the viewing pane also good for css because you can look and see the css for a [...]
This is a three hour tutorial from Kris who is pushing his Ajax book. It will go over, from start to finish, the creation of a sidebar chatbox that’s database driven and Ajax enabled. I’m not going to type up pieces of code but I will note concepts. Firebug is a firefox extension that allows [...]
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