Object creation and deletion is handled for you, but have you ever thought about how it works, when is memory freed, etc.? Think of everything in python as an object. Even something as simple as this, and since’s its a string, you can invoke any string method. When you lose access to some object, that memory is freed on its own. If you assign a string to a variable, you will find the memory locations are the same. Calling __del__ only removes access to the object from the local or global namespace. It does not mean the memory location has been freed.

So it’s delayed, it’s not that big of a deal. Features found in the Nexus phone that are missing will be a nice addition, but the big news is flash support is coming. But flash is client side, so I wonder how well that will work on the droid hardware? Even if it renders just fine, is flash the right direction?

I can see a use of this type of attack for getting around captchas. If I host a web page that gives you access to download free mp3s, and all you have to do is complete a captcha to get it, what if I get that captcha from another site? I mean, when you load my page, I load the site I want to attack and show you their captcha instead?! That would basically make you my captcha-cracking conscript!

The interesting part is 1/8 was just allocated. That’s hard to look at without reading it as one-eighth. IANA predicts all address blocks will be completely assigned by late 2011. I guess the real switch to IPv6 will be a forced one after all.

Internet Explorer garbled the terms and conditions when I installed Google Chrome for Windows. It doesn’t seem to be a language pack thing, so what’s going on here? More importantly, what terms and conditions am I bound by? I accepted the terms you see pictured and installed chrome, so now what?

Which is better? Which is faster? For a desktop system, I don’t think it really matters if you have to process a bunch of rules. How many can there be, and how much network traffic are you seeing anyway? It’s probably more efficient to modify your sysctl.conf, but it seems more organized to do it all with iptables.