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awaythrow··on IE10's 'Do-Not-Track' Default Dies Quick Death
Good for privacy litigation. "My client had DNT in her browser set to 'on' and the company intentionally ignored this and tracked her actions on the web, vioalting her right to privacy and causing monetary damages in the amount of $________."

Web developers might hate it, but DNT could be potentially good for end-users who want to make privacy claims. It's just one extra header. A few extra bytes. Meanwhile things like XML and JSON, which add considerable bloat to web responses, are accepted without any complaint.

awaythrow··on The US Census now has an API
Excellent. Much easier than requesting API keys and parsing JSON. But that's just my opinion. CSV is beautiful. Simple and easy to manipulate into some other format if desired.
awaythrow··on Netflix begins the deployment of their own content delivery network
But you need a lot of extra RAM compared to the usual filesystems. Is that correct? If yes, is using ZFS worth the cost of the extra RAM?