Monthly Archives: January 2010

An Offering to the Singularity: The Sheep Enterprise

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Once the Singularity arrives and we have all been uploaded to androids, we will surely dream of electric sheep. But how will we take care of these virtual flocks? Luckily, “The Sheep Enterprise” from 1950 explains everything one needs to know about raising and maintaining sheep, electric or otherwise.

Cover of "The Sheep Enterprise"

The Sheep Enterprise: How to establish and maintain the farm flock
Circular 657 (revised version of Circular 534)
University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics
By W. G. Kammlade and U. S. Garrigus
May, 1950

PDF with searchable text, 8 MB, 48 Pages, slightly chewed by mice.

Over One Billion JSessionID’s Served!

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The 2006 RandomCoder article, “JSESSIONID considered harmful” mentions that a Google search on URLs with “jsessionid” in them resulted in 76 million results. Now in 2010, there are over one billion pages with “jsessionid” in the URL!

Although I understand the motivation behind URL-based session-ids (support cookie-less users), it seems inconceivable that all billion of these pages actually need cross-page state, even for casual/anonymous visitors (including search engine robots). I wonder how much bandwidth, memory and processing power are wasted to create empty session objects and shuffling around useless JSessionIDs in URLs and cookies.