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If Microsoft and eBay aren't safe from social engineering attacks, who is? "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link"
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Pat McGovern, a visionary in the IT publishing industry who founded the International Data Group, died on Wednesday at the age of 76.
IDG announced this morning that McGovern died at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. The cause of death was not disclosed. The newly elected Walter Boyd succeeds McGovern as chairman of IDG. RIP Pat McGovern
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A software architect who had worked for Microsoft for seven years was arrested today in Seattle by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is accused of, among other things, leaking code from Windows 8 prior to the operating system's launch in October 2012. Kind of ironic when you think of all the people that don't want Windows 8
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He must be so, so disappointed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Link does not appear to work for me for some reason (blank page, no error message)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Odd. Just tried it again, and it works for me. Adblock maybe stopping the whole page? Here's the Seattle PI report[^] on it.
TTFN - Kent
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No - it's back up now. Peculiar.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Curtain #1 ~ He musta not been happy the Start button went away and, instead, chose to start a new chapter in his life.
Curtain #2 ~ Some say Windows 8 is just as, if not more, abysmal than prison. Perhaps he was merely seeking a better work environment.
Curtain #3 ~ No more windows for him for a while.
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I'll go with Curtain #3, Monty!
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Agreed: Curtain #3 is the winner.
TTFN - Kent
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Licensing a big, brand name 3D engine (like the Unreal engine) to build your video game has always been… kind of hard. Pricing was, generally, done on a case-by-case basis. You had to explain what you were up to, negotiate for weeks, yadda-yadda-yadda… it wasn’t exactly easy to just jump into. "For less than the price of a cup of coffee a day..."
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Researchers have documented an ongoing criminal operation infecting more than 10,000 Unix and Linux servers with malware that sends spam and redirects end users to malicious Web pages. Beware the approaching army of penguins
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The Linux Foundation's OpenDaylight Project conducted a third-party survey that found 95 percent of networking pros want open-source software-defined networking technologies. Open source foundation's survey finds people like open source. News at 11.
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The top lawyer for the National Security Agency and others from the Obama administration made it clear to the US government's independent oversight board that tech titans knew about government surveillance while it was going on.
NSA general counsel Rajesh De told the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Wednesday that tech titans were aware that the NSA was collecting communications and related metadata both for the NSA's "PRISM" program and for "upstream" communications crossing the Internet. I am not all that surprised...
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So the company knew but Zuckerberg himself didn't?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Page said, “I’m just very worried that with Internet privacy, we’re doing the same thing we’re doing with medical records, we’re throwing out the baby with the bathwater. We’re not thinking about the tremendous good that can come from people sharing the right information with the right people in the right ways.” Of course, the "right way" is "give it ALL to US!"
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Will somebody thing about the babies?!?
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Cloud versions of software make licensing even more complex. "So, the Labyrinth's a piece of cake, is it? Well, let's see how you deal with this little slice!"
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But even a long-time Flash booster like myself can read the signs of the time. Flash may not be dead, but it is certainly dying, and the killer is not Steve Jobs, mobile devices, or HTML5, but Adobe. They are slowly neglecting Flash to death. Keep trying, Ming. You'll win eventually.
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He's clearly in denial. With Apple refusing to support flash on iOS and Google's decision to stop allowing it on Android the writing was on the wall. Adobe could've kept pounding money down the rathole all day long, but without mobile support it would still be a doomed platform.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Starting today, Oculus is taking pre-orders for the Oculus Rift DK2, a refined version of the Crystal Cove prototype that blew us away at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, taking home our award for Best in Show. It also just so happens to be the last developer kit before the company announces the long-awaited consumer version of its headgear. Sony may just have announced its own virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4, but as far as headgear is concerned it seems like Oculus is already on the home stretch. "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
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Enough of these shenanigans. Just tell me where I can buy one.
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I'm very, very tempted.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What was intended as a set of personal practices has become a doctrine. And despite the mainstream adoption of Agile, the loss of its original intent has undermined its effectiveness. "We were liberated from the fold, that's all, and the world looks just the same"
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If the devil were to seize the throne of God he would be compelled to act the same.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In a challenge to one of Google's more controversial practices, a group of students in California are suing Google, claiming that the company's monitoring of Gmail violates federal and state privacy laws. "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!"
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