jbrackett | 9 years ago | on: It’s Not Just the Drug War (2015)
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jbrackett | 10 years ago | on: How World's Largest Legal Ivory Market Fuels Demand for Illegal Ivory
"...but there's an absolute ban on importing ivory to the US."
This is not true even for African Elephant ivory, at least not yet. [1] There is also legal ivory trade in Mammoth and other animals such as wart hog that can easily be found at gem shows, knife and gun shows, etc.
I talked to a guy from the Ukraine at a knife show who was selling Mammoth tusks recovered from Russia and apparently had quite a time at the airport but he was able to bring in his supplies for sale.
[1] http://www.fws.gov/international/travel-and-trade/ivory-ban-...
jbrackett | 11 years ago | on: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham
If you go here: https://fiber.google.com/newcities/
and hover over the main cities it gives you a breakdown.
Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Morrisville, Raleigh
It has it in the hero picture at the top here: https://fiber.google.com/cities/raleighdurham/home/ as well.
jbrackett | 11 years ago | on: Movement to get rid of Adobe Flash started 3 years ago. Flash is still alive
I don't think it does. It uses swfobject2 [1], a js project, to detect if flash is installed and give you a frowny face if it is.
jbrackett | 12 years ago | on: Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
After seeing this I went to see if AngularJS had anything built in to mitigate JSON hijacking and they do. It will strip ")]}',\n" off of json responses if included from the server.
http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$http#description_security-...
jbrackett | 13 years ago | on: It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go
I went into the article thinking it was going to be about some way of renaming functions or something. Probably just my limited internal definition of the word refactor. After reading I would say Go has a cool built in way of using the adapter pattern. More interesting than renaming functions.
jbrackett | 13 years ago | on: Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven
Hrmm that's embarrassing... well it's mentioned below the fold and everyone knows people don't pay attention to that stuff. :)
jbrackett | 13 years ago | on: Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven
You should take a look at http://www.gradle.org/ if you haven't already.
I worked on an ant project and decided we needed to convert to a better build system. I started down the path of Maven, but Gradle changed my mind because of the conciseness.
It uses the groovy language so hopefully it doesn't fall into the same trap as described in the post.
jbrackett | 13 years ago | on: Mario 3 recreated with CSS3 animations and media queries
I'm seeing the issue using Firefox 16.0.2 on OSX Lion.
jbrackett | 14 years ago | on: Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox
Yes, my understanding is that this is inherent in the technology.
AnandTech had a pretty good article about it a few months ago. I'm sure there are others as well.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5518/a-look-at-enterprise-perf...
jbrackett | 14 years ago | on: Upcoming Firefox Support Changes (dropping Win2K, XP RTM, XP SP1)
Apparently the big change is to use Visual Studio 2010 for the Windows builds.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end-of-f...
jbrackett | 14 years ago | on: What's new in Firefox 10 (shipping this week)
In the past they have provided a full list of bugs fixed. My guess is that they will tomorrow when it's released.
This should be pretty close though: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?op_sys=All&quer...
jbrackett | 14 years ago | on: The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ever read
It is quite an old article. As it says it may be in the archive though I did not check.
page 1
They make this point while acknowledging that the "War on Drugs" does disproportionately affect African Americans and women.
Throughout the article they make several statements that indicate to me they think there should be more discretion allowed on deciding which punitive actions should be taken.