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From analyzing the way you walk to your heartbeat, these futuristic authentication systems could be here soon. Until these authentication methods get hacked, that is
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Er, yeah.
If someone manages to crack your password, you change your password.
If someone manages to fake your biometrics/whatever, you... um... get a different body?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft announces a new dumb phone, known as Nokia 130, which it calls "the most affordable mobile phone with video and music player". Why does that phone have so many buttons?
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I ask myself, if someone want a phone, why one buys a "video and music player"...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Wow. Must be an exceptionally slow news day.  This makes the InfoWorthless article I snarked on below look good. Like the Android + Bing phone that came out a month or two ago; this is part of the production queue MS ended up with when they acquired Nokia's phone business. MS's opinion of the value of that part of the package was made clear when they announced that they were winding down the part of the business with the last new products coming out in ~6 months and all of them being discontinued in ~18mo; with the 12k people working on them slated for layoffs. The PR is standard marketing BS; notable if anything only for being in English and on the main page when it's clearly something that will only sell in the developing world. (When you live on a dollar/day, cost trumps everything even if being able to check for what markets are offering the best prices/etc will make the phone pay for itself.)
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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Dan Neely wrote: Must be an exceptionally slow news day.
Slow news day, week, month. There's hardly been anything happening. All the iFolk are doing nothing but iterating on rumours of the next iPhone, and Microsoft seems to busy laying people off to do anything noteworthy.
I could (and do) go on, but shorter version: if you know of any worthwhile news sources or items, please do let me know.
TTFN - Kent
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If I find any, I will.
In the mean time, The Insider should have a minimum quality floor; not a fixed length if it means forwarding crap on slow days.
#NecroticEquineFlagellation
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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Wow. Amazing how the world changed. Now something that is essentially just a phone gets called "dumb phone" while at the same time so-called "smart phones" are anything but a phone (ok, you can use it to make phone calls, but I don't see many people do that, they all walk down the street staring at and touching the screen rather than holding it up to the ear.) 
Why not call a phone a phone, and this "smart phone" thingy something else... let's say... a "pocket computer"... or "communicator" (OK, maybe that's too much Star Trek and might piss some people off). Or just "dumb PC" while we're at dumb vs. smart versions of technology.
"Nokia 130 is a dumb phone for dumb phone buyers. That means it stays true to the core of the dumb phone by offering lots of standby time (up to 36 days in single-SIM trim and up to 26 days in dual-SIM trim), physical buttons, and externals which appear to be typical of old Nokia phones (meaning, durable). It also has a 1.8-inch color screen, a storage expansion slot, Bluetooth, USB, FM Radio, LED flash (works as a flashlight), and can play music for up to 46 hours or videos for up to 16 hours."
OK, to someone like me who uses a phone for making phone calls and maybe send some SMS (I'm a weirdo, I know), these specs sound pretty appealing. One month of battery life! Now that's what I call efficient. Although I think it's quite offensive to speak of "dumb buyers" when people don't care about more features and like to have a phone that is not a power-wasting hog.
...and at least dumb phones don't try to dumb their users. 
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Microsoft is touting three key reasons as to why Windows 8.1 is "better." The company doesn't explicitly tell us what or who the operating system is being compared to, but you can easily venture a guess that Microsoft is comparing Windows 8.1 to older versions of Windows, including Windows 8. Behold the PROGRESS!
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Countless posts on Stack Overflow are vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Along with several other users, I always raise this when it shows up – this is something that really just shouldn’t happen these days. When Jon Skeet speaks. People listen.
Hopefully
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When Jon Skeet speaks. People listen.
You kidding right? Even god would add an eleventh commandment, people still will write SQL by concatenating strings...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Yeah, thus the "hopefully" on that, but ... yeah. Never gonna happen. 
TTFN - Kent
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And some people insist in "filtering" techniques, like e.g. sql injection in asp.net C#[^] who even links to a WTFy blog, and won't accept an answer which tells them the correct way. "NO, I WANT A CLASS ..."
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I have a printed copy of Bobby Tables hanging on my cube wall right next to this one[^]
His point is well taken, but I have to ask - if someone can contaminate your process with a custom Culture object, then isn't SQL injection the least of your concerns?
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The very nature of programming is evolving faster than you might think, thanks to these powerful tools. Item #0: Coffee
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Item #0.5: Computer...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Dang! Forgot that one.
TTFN - Kent
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hmmmm, #1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #10, #13, #14, #15 have been around for eons (in computer terms) in one form or another. Nothing really new there.
#5? WTF is he talking about?!!? PaaS is about Amazon, Google, Azure, and other such platform providers, not some wonky customizable website, that would be Waas or SaaS (Software as a Service).
#7 App Containers have been around for a long time too, since early nineties at least. Of course, this is the first time they've been applied to web server farms. Good idea that should have been done a long time ago. The tools were already there.
#8 hmm. Also old-is-new again. Automated Data Processing (ADS), Prime, AOL are all instances of this "old" tech. Yay! It's been reborn and rebranded.
#9 this is cool
#11 This is similar in nature to #5 & #7, what's so damn new about VMs? Oh, it's because my dentist neighbor now knows what they are.
#13 Microsoft SMS or Novell Zenworks anyone? or IBM's similar product?
#14 SourceForge has been around for at least as long as the web.
*snore*
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Tough crowd 
TTFN - Kent
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Even by infoworld's normal wretchedly low standards; that's pathetic.
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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Microsoft's plan to integrate its Cortana digital assistant technology into Windows Threshold is looking more likely, according to a new report. Great. Now when you complain to your computer, it will talk back
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Why? Too much junk in the trunk. All the way down to 52% of the internet. Dooooooooomed!
Sure, n% of them are WordPress sites that haven't been updated in years, but they still exist.
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Can anyone in the peanut gallery tell me if this is worth looking at from home? My employer's firewall has broken ReadWrite for the last month or so...
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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