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icepickon U.S. Attorney issues statement defending prosecution of Aaron Swartz

I misread it at first. Thanks for pointing that out.

icepickon U.S. Attorney issues statement defending prosecution of Aaron Swartz

"personal financial gain"

No. You don't get it. Try again.

icepickon Ruby 1.9 lands NaCl support, can run in Chrome

Has anyone built this and have a demo?

icepickon ZFS released for Mac OS X

I'm running ubuntu 11.10 + ZFS for Linux. Works great.

http://zfsonlinux.org/

icepickon Why Bundler 1.1 will be much faster

Does ruby's Marshal have the same problems that python's pickle have? Could you construct a valid Marshal bitsting that when loaded would run malicious code? Is this exposing folks to a MITM attack on rubygems?

icepickon Why XMPP Will Be Huge Very Soon

"eJabberd does really weird things to us".

Describe the weird things, please. I'm about to deploy ejabberd for a production site, and I'm interested in your experience.

icepickon Why XMPP Will Be Huge Very Soon

http://code.stanziq.com/strophe/ is probably a good start.