Music Companies Sue Internet Provider RCN For Enabling ‘Massive’ Piracy
For roughly two decades, copyright holders have been sending takedown notices to ISPs to alert them that their subscribers are sharing copyrighted material. Under US law, providers must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers “in appropriate circumstances” and increasingly they are being held to this standard. Several major music industry companies have filed lawsuits against a variety of Internet providers. With help...
Steal This Show: ‘How To Hack A Democracy’
Here are part one and two of our chat with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan. Tang taught herself programming at an early age of 8 and she says that she’s a ‘civic hacker’ who uses her specialized skills to help rather than harm. Part one includes Taiwan’s 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, which marked the first time the country’s legislature has been occupied by citizens, and which led to a radical...
Getting started with HTTPie for API testing
HTTPie is a delightfully easy to use and easy to upgrade HTTP client. Pronounced “aitch-tee-tee-pie” and run as http, it is a command-line tool written in Python to access the web. read...
Variables in PowerShell
In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it’s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or a number (an integer). read...
SparkFun continues to innovate thanks to open source hardware
When SparkFun Electronics founder and CEO Nathan Seidle was an engineering student at the University of Colorado, he was taught, “Real engineers come up with an idea and patent that idea.” However, his experience with SparkFun, which he founded from his college apartment in 2003, is quite the opposite. read...
