The problem with email security is that once the attacker knows your email address, he can then go onto acquire the password through either phishing or guessing your password reset information. A simple solution that would mitigate against that is to provide the email identity in two parts, a private identity and a public email aliase. People send email to the public email address but only you can login with the private ID. The private ID is never transfered to any third party.
"Some great inventions began in humble surroundings - think Bill Gates and Steve Jobs toiling in their garages - so I'm not being critical".
Steve Jobs yes, Bill Gates no, he toiled in the exclusive Lakeside School. And Apple and Microsoft owe more to Steve Wozniak and Paul Allen than the former two mentioned.
"For this to work, companies would first of all have to agree to run their update process through said package manager. You don't think this will ever happen, do you?
Ubuntu manages to do this through Synaptic and Update Manager
"Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of Russia's leading search engine, Yandex.. suggested Google was guilty of foul play with its Chrome browser, which picks the company's own search engine as default for users, rather than offering a choice between rivals including Yahoo, Bing and Yandex.
That's not true, at least on my version. The default is Google, and under that a popdown menu offering `Ask Jeeves', Yahoo or Bing. Unlike ms Internet Explorer which defaults to Bing and doesn't mention Google Search.
"A newly surfaced Microsoft patent application, reports GeekWire, describes a 'user-following engine' that analyzes your posts on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to deduce your mood, interests, and even your smarts".
If Google did this it would be a gross invasion of our privacy...
"Business is usually more concerned with people than technology", MrKettlePot
You have got to be kidding, business is to do with making money for the owners. Business chews people up and then discards them like empty husks. Similar to the above poster, the only people to thrive in a `business environment' are psychopaths..
"When a CIO says you canâ(TM)t have that report needed tomorrow for three weeks, because he/she has to keep the modem lights blinking, they have become irrelevant"
There is just so much wrong in the above that I can't be bothered correcting it...
"You know, if you have a CIO with business sense and tech sense, why do you need the CEO?"
Because the CEO and the CFO are old college buddies who make sure to hire on the CIO from outside the company and keep recycling the IT staff so as no-one will catch on that they are both clueless. Meanwhile the company is going down the tubes.
The PHBs realize they really don't understand technical issues and therefore denigrate the job in a delusional attempt to feel good about themselves. Followed by wishfull thinking on behalf of the CFOs.
"CIO role will eventually cease to exist, claim CFOs" link
ref: masters of innovation, strategy partners. terms of alignment, breadth of business perspective, departmental boundaries, process-centric view
While they were about pre-inventing the iPhone couldn't Microsoft have figured out how to render colored animated shapes on my screen without exposing my bank account details to some anonymous eastern European hacker.
"The threat to the freedom of the internet comes, he claims, from a combination of (1) governments increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, (2) the entertainment industry's attempts to crack down on piracy, and the rise of "restrictive" walled gardens such as (3) Facebook and (4) Apple, which tightly control what software can be released on their platforms". link
"This is almost solely an issue with the communities related to web development. We're basically talking about the Ruby, JavaScript and NoSQL movements. These communities are among the worst there are. Ignorance, both of social norms and technology, are serious factors in why this is the case", AC
I don't program and don't have a wife who's involved in software production, so I cannot speak from authority, but I can't believe there is a causal relationship between a programming language and male sexism, come on, you cannot be serious, this is a very clever and well written troll - right.
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Dynamic Link Library (DLL): this is the method Microsoft programmers employ to enable computers to exchange data. (page 286)
from: "WORM" `the first digital war' by Mark Bowden
"Was he really naive enough to think that these were the actions of some rogue managers and that the company would be thrilled to have him put it all in writing?", crazyjj
"It has been 17 months since Jack B. Palmer first made a quiet complaint through internal channels at Infosys, the giant Indian outsourcing company he works for, saying he suspected some managers were committing visa fraud" link
"J. Peter Bruzzese questions whether Microsoft receives unfair criticism in the media, while Apple, Facebook, and Google seem to get away from missteps unscathed".
I would have thought it's the exact opposite. A more relevent question is how much does each company spend in engaging in planting false stories in the tech press.
`On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, IEEE Spectrum looks at how the tragedy accelerated the improvement of communications at sea"'
At least one ship heard the SOS and failed to respond, the main improvements in the aftermath of the tragedy is it became compulsory to respond to a distress signal.
Slashdot Mirror
Black-Scholes a rehash of a formula derived from physics, as derived from differential equations as derived from Newton and Leibniz (1675)
The problem with email security is that once the attacker knows your email address, he can then go onto acquire the password through either phishing or guessing your password reset information. A simple solution that would mitigate against that is to provide the email identity in two parts, a private identity and a public email aliase. People send email to the public email address but only you can login with the private ID. The private ID is never transfered to any third party.
"Some great inventions began in humble surroundings - think Bill Gates and Steve Jobs toiling in their garages - so I'm not being critical".
Steve Jobs yes, Bill Gates no, he toiled in the exclusive Lakeside School. And Apple and Microsoft owe more to Steve Wozniak and Paul Allen than the former two mentioned.
What's stopping Google from writing their own ultra intelligent electronic agents (UIEA)
"For this to work, companies would first of all have to agree to run their update process through said package manager. You don't think this will ever happen, do you?
Ubuntu manages to do this through Synaptic and Update Manager
Where did Motorola refuse to license patents related to h.264 to Microsoft to be used on the Xbox 360?
I mean it is Microsoft who is threatening Google downstream developers over their use of Android. Answer the first point first ..
When Victor selects entanglement he sends an effect backwards in time to the original photons.
"Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of Russia's leading search engine, Yandex .. suggested Google was guilty of foul play with its Chrome browser, which picks the company's own search engine as default for users, rather than offering a choice between rivals including Yahoo, Bing and Yandex.
That's not true, at least on my version. The default is Google, and under that a popdown menu offering `Ask Jeeves', Yahoo or Bing. Unlike ms Internet Explorer which defaults to Bing and doesn't mention Google Search.
"A newly surfaced Microsoft patent application, reports GeekWire, describes a 'user-following engine' that analyzes your posts on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to deduce your mood, interests, and even your smarts".
...
If Google did this it would be a gross invasion of our privacy
A scientific cul-de-sac, in my opinion, like phlostigen, a faulty scientific theory ...
The Windows AV market is saturated so the AV companies are all about talking up the Mac and Mobile malware scare ...
"Business is usually more concerned with people than technology", MrKettlePot
..
You have got to be kidding, business is to do with making money for the owners. Business chews people up and then discards them like empty husks. Similar to the above poster, the only people to thrive in a `business environment' are psychopaths
"When a CIO says you canâ(TM)t have that report needed tomorrow for three weeks, because he/she has to keep the modem lights blinking, they have become irrelevant"
...
There is just so much wrong in the above that I can't be bothered correcting it
"You know, if you have a CIO with business sense and tech sense, why do you need the CEO?"
Because the CEO and the CFO are old college buddies who make sure to hire on the CIO from outside the company and keep recycling the IT staff so as no-one will catch on that they are both clueless. Meanwhile the company is going down the tubes.
The PHBs realize they really don't understand technical issues and therefore denigrate the job in a delusional attempt to feel good about themselves. Followed by wishfull thinking on behalf of the CFOs.
"CIO role will eventually cease to exist, claim CFOs" link
ref: masters of innovation, strategy partners. terms of alignment, breadth of business perspective, departmental boundaries, process-centric view
While they were about pre-inventing the iPhone couldn't Microsoft have figured out how to render colored animated shapes on my screen without exposing my bank account details to some anonymous eastern European hacker.
"The threat to the freedom of the internet comes, he claims, from a combination of (1) governments increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, (2) the entertainment industry's attempts to crack down on piracy, and the rise of "restrictive" walled gardens such as (3) Facebook and (4) Apple, which tightly control what software can be released on their platforms". link
And is Apple now making air planes?
`In 1991, Myhrvold predicted the emergence of the iPhone down to the smallest detail' link
I'm quite frankly amazed as to why at the time, he didn't patent the innovation ?
"Either it's a false story or kickstarter has a crappy system", TheLink
I concur, going by her website I suspect it's an attempt to drum-up some business.
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FIREWALL - software that blocks unauthorized access to a computer or network while permitting authorized communications.
from: "WORM" `the first digital war' by Mark Bowden
"This is almost solely an issue with the communities related to web development. We're basically talking about the Ruby, JavaScript and NoSQL movements. These communities are among the worst there are. Ignorance, both of social norms and technology, are serious factors in why this is the case", AC
I don't program and don't have a wife who's involved in software production, so I cannot speak from authority, but I can't believe there is a causal relationship between a programming language and male sexism, come on, you cannot be serious, this is a very clever and well written troll - right.
--
Dynamic Link Library (DLL): this is the method Microsoft programmers employ to enable computers to exchange data. (page 286)
from: "WORM" `the first digital war' by Mark Bowden
Me against my brothers until a cousin comes;
Me and my brothers against my cousins until a neighbor comes;
Me and my brother and my cousins against the neighbor until a foreigner comes;
and then we open up a Computer Shop on Tottenham Court Road and get rich.
"Was he really naive enough to think that these were the actions of some rogue managers and that the company would be thrilled to have him put it all in writing?", crazyjj
"It has been 17 months since Jack B. Palmer first made a quiet complaint through internal channels at Infosys, the giant Indian outsourcing company he works for, saying he suspected some managers were committing visa fraud" link
"J. Peter Bruzzese questions whether Microsoft receives unfair criticism in the media, while Apple, Facebook, and Google seem to get away from missteps unscathed".
I would have thought it's the exact opposite. A more relevent question is how much does each company spend in engaging in planting false stories in the tech press.
`On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, IEEE Spectrum looks at how the tragedy accelerated the improvement of communications at sea"'
At least one ship heard the SOS and failed to respond, the main improvements in the aftermath of the tragedy is it became compulsory to respond to a distress signal.