So...this is part of Facebook's "please don't class action us" effort and a product manager goes on video to say that the current batch of entry level languages and examples (which my kids mastered in middle school) are too hard for his target audience (women) so we need to step back to a simpler language with fewer moving parts? OK Facebook, do you really want to own that, "women are dumb so we'll come down to their level" (as long as you don't sue us) message?
>> Why is your MySQL server directly on the internet?
Did you read the part about the attacks being largely from India?
These are the people who flood forums with questions like, "My company just got a contract to do IT for [huge US corporation] and they use something called MySQL to hold all their online customers. My boss told me I need to make MySQL 'PCI compliant' this weekend but I've never used it before. Can you please tell me what PCI is and what I should type in MySQL to turn on PCI?"
(Serious question, since our editors didn't tell us why Go was created, what Go's intended purpose was and whether or not anyone is actually using Go.)
>> Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks?
Unplug, eh? Well I've heard about this cool new technology called "WiFi" that may someday replace all the coax and twisted pair cables that connect all our phones and computers today.
>>...museum...displays...could very well inspire the next generation of space explorers, which are kind of necessary because the ones we have now are expected to die at some point.
I like NASA. I like space exploration. However, I don't like NASA spending its limited time and resources to buy up antiques when it could be working on MORE space exploration.
I only take a single Post-It note to meetings. That helps people around me prioritize. Then, once I'm done with the stuff on the Post-It, I recycle it.
(I used to take copious notes and kept them forever but that just pissed people off; there's comfort in having their thoughts from the past forgotten.)
The CEO might be out of a job once the shareholders figure out that YouTube's new premium service (YouTube Red) seems to be named after a porn site (RedTube).
>> Symbols appear to be less predictable and placed in different locations of the password
I disagree with the paper's conclusion based on the passwords I've seen, which FREQUENTLY just end in a "!" or other common character. Here's a different paper that goes into symbol frequency; I pulled out the relevant bit.
In almost all cases (90%), only a single special character was used. The most popular special character sequences were all single characters: exclamation point (“!” – 29%), period (“.” – 19%), “at” symbol (“@” – 15%) and hash (“#” – 14%). These were followed by the single dash (“-“), dollar sign (“$”), space (” “), asterisk (“*”), and plus sign (“+”), each making up between 3% and 6% of the single-character special character population. Passwords containing multiple special characters mainly (68%) just repeated the same special character, such as “##” or “???.” - http://resources.infosecinstit...
>> who among us here doesn't just buy the cheapest gas they can find?
Oddly enough, I don't. I buy from who has the 1) most convenient stations (as a commuter I just want to get to work and back) that 2) have the fastest pumps (as a commuter in a place it snows I don't want to stand around) and sometimes 3) look clean enough to have nice restrooms (especially if I'm traveling with my family).
Um...yes. In case anyone else is whooshing, the parallel there is that you're probably less likely to acquire either good from a company that provides both that you are from companies that specialize in each.
Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as a firearms company buying a blood substitute firm.
When I first heard this years ago I wondered if Intel was trying to strangle Microsoft OS's from both ends: crappy processor performance combined with bloated AV software that used up any cycles not currently being used to apply the latest updates or ship the user data back to the mothership.
>> Barry Schwartz, a psychologist who helped bring this idea to the fore, has been advocating for less choice, and offers this suggestion: "The secret to happiness is low expectations."
>> federal government software developed in-house...so that it can continue to benefit American people and other branches of governments
Funniest thing I read all day. When's the last time a branch of government said "we want to adapt that other branch's software"? What we get instead is "we need a $2.5B XXX system, and it all has to be custom built because we're unique and awesome."
As a brand, HP means nothing more to people anymore than "some company that makes printers."
For it to thrive for the next 20 years, what HP should do is: 1) Get some consumer/business cred (and market share) back by selling "the longest lasting print cartridges" 2) Buy up the 3d printer market and develop a brand that builds on "InkJet" and "LaserJet" like "3DJet"
Those are kind of a big deal in corporate America. If you find a good zero-day in either of those, the market might pay more than that just to exploit it at a single company, let alone a universal exploit. I'm thinking Microsoft may need to put some real money into this program to keep researchers on the light side of the force.
You realize what the endgame is here, of course. It's to elevate the organizers to the point where they get paid to shut up (usually with no benefit to the community they claim to represent) as soon as they declare interest in a lucrative project.
See Jesse Jackson for a great example of this. Lots of protesting, leading to little or no improvement in "his" community but instead large financial gains for himself and his family (e.g., beer distributorships for his sons).
Wow, I had no idea it was still going. I saw there was some kind of Epic Rap Battle thing with MythBusters and some crappy new cast and I'd figured whatever they'd tried to pull with that had killed it.
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So...this is part of Facebook's "please don't class action us" effort and a product manager goes on video to say that the current batch of entry level languages and examples (which my kids mastered in middle school) are too hard for his target audience (women) so we need to step back to a simpler language with fewer moving parts? OK Facebook, do you really want to own that, "women are dumb so we'll come down to their level" (as long as you don't sue us) message?
>> Why is your MySQL server directly on the internet?
Did you read the part about the attacks being largely from India?
These are the people who flood forums with questions like, "My company just got a contract to do IT for [huge US corporation] and they use something called MySQL to hold all their online customers. My boss told me I need to make MySQL 'PCI compliant' this weekend but I've never used it before. Can you please tell me what PCI is and what I should type in MySQL to turn on PCI?"
>> Hi! It looks like you're swearing...
Clippy is that you? Were YOU written in Go?
Why the hell would anyone use Go?
(Serious question, since our editors didn't tell us why Go was created, what Go's intended purpose was and whether or not anyone is actually using Go.)
>> Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks?
Unplug, eh? Well I've heard about this cool new technology called "WiFi" that may someday replace all the coax and twisted pair cables that connect all our phones and computers today.
>> ...museum...displays...could very well inspire the next generation of space explorers, which are kind of necessary because the ones we have now are expected to die at some point.
Found the baby boomer. What do I win?
I like NASA. I like space exploration. However, I don't like NASA spending its limited time and resources to buy up antiques when it could be working on MORE space exploration.
Because when I'm up late at night "working" in my office, I'm often really fragging noobs. This way the wife and kids stay asleep...
I only take a single Post-It note to meetings. That helps people around me prioritize. Then, once I'm done with the stuff on the Post-It, I recycle it.
(I used to take copious notes and kept them forever but that just pissed people off; there's comfort in having their thoughts from the past forgotten.)
>> CEO of Youtube can't afford a second computer
The CEO might be out of a job once the shareholders figure out that YouTube's new premium service (YouTube Red) seems to be named after a porn site (RedTube).
>> Symbols appear to be less predictable and placed in different locations of the password
I disagree with the paper's conclusion based on the passwords I've seen, which FREQUENTLY just end in a "!" or other common character. Here's a different paper that goes into symbol frequency; I pulled out the relevant bit.
In almost all cases (90%), only a single special character was used. The most popular special character sequences were all single characters: exclamation point (“!” – 29%), period (“.” – 19%), “at” symbol (“@” – 15%) and hash (“#” – 14%). These were followed by the single dash (“-“), dollar sign (“$”), space (” “), asterisk (“*”), and plus sign (“+”), each making up between 3% and 6% of the single-character special character population. Passwords containing multiple special characters mainly (68%) just repeated the same special character, such as “##” or “???.” - http://resources.infosecinstit...
>> compromised machines included a CCTV at a local mall, just a couple minutes from the Incapsula headquarters
Clearly, the correct thing to do is move the HQ further away from the mall, right?
>> You should see more discoveries like this in the future
I'm sorry, I don't currently have access to the Kepler space observatory. Perhaps YOU'LL see...
>> Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, experts from India, the United States, and Bangladesh
No China? Well, then, enjoy your BS session.
>> who among us here doesn't just buy the cheapest gas they can find?
Oddly enough, I don't. I buy from who has the
1) most convenient stations (as a commuter I just want to get to work and back) that
2) have the fastest pumps (as a commuter in a place it snows I don't want to stand around) and sometimes
3) look clean enough to have nice restrooms (especially if I'm traveling with my family).
Price of gas? I don't really check...
Um...yes. In case anyone else is whooshing, the parallel there is that you're probably less likely to acquire either good from a company that provides both that you are from companies that specialize in each.
Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as a firearms company buying a blood substitute firm.
When I first heard this years ago I wondered if Intel was trying to strangle Microsoft OS's from both ends: crappy processor performance combined with bloated AV software that used up any cycles not currently being used to apply the latest updates or ship the user data back to the mothership.
>> Of course, brands don't much matter in commodity businesses.
Actually, brands matter a great deal in a commodity business. Think of Coke/Pepsi (making soda), Nike/Adidas (making T-shirts and shoes), etc.
>> Barry Schwartz, a psychologist who helped bring this idea to the fore, has been advocating for less choice, and offers this suggestion: "The secret to happiness is low expectations."
C'mon, "Barry" we know who you really are.
>> federal government software developed in-house...so that it can continue to benefit American people and other branches of governments
Funniest thing I read all day. When's the last time a branch of government said "we want to adapt that other branch's software"? What we get instead is "we need a $2.5B XXX system, and it all has to be custom built because we're unique and awesome."
As a brand, HP means nothing more to people anymore than "some company that makes printers."
For it to thrive for the next 20 years, what HP should do is:
1) Get some consumer/business cred (and market share) back by selling "the longest lasting print cartridges"
2) Buy up the 3d printer market and develop a brand that builds on "InkJet" and "LaserJet" like "3DJet"
>> Core CLR...and ASP.NET
Those are kind of a big deal in corporate America. If you find a good zero-day in either of those, the market might pay more than that just to exploit it at a single company, let alone a universal exploit. I'm thinking Microsoft may need to put some real money into this program to keep researchers on the light side of the force.
>> Community groups...voice their concerns
You realize what the endgame is here, of course. It's to elevate the organizers to the point where they get paid to shut up (usually with no benefit to the community they claim to represent) as soon as they declare interest in a lucrative project.
See Jesse Jackson for a great example of this. Lots of protesting, leading to little or no improvement in "his" community but instead large financial gains for himself and his family (e.g., beer distributorships for his sons).
>> YouTube to launch TubeRed, not to be confused with RedTube
My only two thoughts are 1) Are we celebrating April Fools' Day early? and 2) Or is Yahoo's CEO now running YouTube?
Either way, this is dumb and funny on many levels.
>> Mythbusters Ending After Next Season
Wow, I had no idea it was still going. I saw there was some kind of Epic Rap Battle thing with MythBusters and some crappy new cast and I'd figured whatever they'd tried to pull with that had killed it.