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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 07:54 AM EST |
Pity the BBC wasted 2/3 of the piece asking Eric
Schmitt about how much tax Google pays instead of focusing on the actual purpose
of the piece.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 08:03 AM EST |
Apple trademarks its retail store design
Just think about it
the next time you visit an upmarket fashion store, an art gallery, a B&O or
Loewe store or any of the myriad other similar establishments. Which, now that
Fruit has bought itself a trademark, are all horrible copycats who clearly can
do not better than to copy the insanely great works of Fruit.
From the fine
article: "The trademark covers Apple's use of a "paneled facade" of glass,
recessed lighting units, and perhaps most obviously, lined rectangular tables.
As Reuters notes, Apple has already protected aspects of its store design,
including a design patent on its glass staircases. Some of Apple's competitors,
including Microsoft, have been accused of borrowing elements of its store
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 08:06 AM EST |
I have a small project I'm considering. Nothing fancy, but it might be useful
to other people as well.
Thing is, the programming language I know best is Basic. I used to use
Fortran, but that was thirty years ago, and I've mostly forgotten all I knew.
I'd really prefer not to learn a new language right now.
So I need a Basic package that works well on OSX and Linux (BSD too
would be good). I'd also like a package that allows me to output code for
Android and IOS. Not asking for much, am I?
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 09:17 AM EST |
Not a like, just a thought based on recent news and postings.
PJ asked what effect criminalizing software researchers might have on the
domestic IT industry. Speaking for myself, around a decade ago I made a
conscious decision to *not* research anything to do with securing the
software I write, as it seemed any attempt to research this material would flag
me on various (unofficial) watch lists as a potentially suspicious individual if
I
wanted to understand this stuff. I voraciously consume anything that comes
into the mainstream press, or sites like this, but avoid actively researching
the
topic. The situation seems more dire now than it did a decade ago, it
depressed me how little my colleagues are even aware of some basic security
issues. It is one thing learning to not write bugs (buffer overruns are
generally bugs waiting to happen) but another to be aware of broader notions
of attack (a poorly crafted hash function may be fine for non-malicious use).
Given the interpretations attached to the CFAA today, I my same sense of
caution makes me wonder how anyone can consider developing internet-
connected software today. How do I know that the software I write has
permission to connect to a remote computer in the way that I code? What are
the implications for any bugs in my code? How do I test/develop this?
It seems like any attempt to write internet enabled software, unless I am
exceedingly lucky and accurate, is an invitation to do jail time and have a
criminal record that would likely bar further employment in the industry.
Think for a minute what I am likely to do writing my own web browser or, the
home project I keep kicking around, a news reader. Do I have a perfect
implementation of the HTTP/NNTP protocols? Am I sure I will not access a
public DNS server in some way not strictly in keeping with the protocols?
Where is my agreement with the DNS system that simply respecting the letter
of the protocol is sufficient for access to be authorized?
Is this the legal environment of risk we want to build the next generation of
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and the rest upon?
Yes, the odds of having exactly zero legal problems are high, but if for any
reason I come onto the radar of a DA like Cameron Ortiz, then I would appear
to have no recourse either. This is not the software industry i joined 20 years
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 10:05 AM EST |
Ne
w Help Desk - Nifty Doorways Uptight Infinity Edition on a 21"
Monitor
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 10:20 AM EST |
Enjoy! This is a good one.
XKCD
Webcomic
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 10:58 AM EST |
Researchers
from Rapid7 found severe vulnerabilities in UPnP libraries used in thousands of
products --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 11:34 AM EST |
Diagnosis [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 02:32 PM EST |
NZ Herald
Accused admitted downloading one track, denied
uploading same plus another. Probably speaks to the
ignorance of some users
about what filesharing software is capable of doing. Note also the itemized
"invoice". No Jamie Thomas eating dragons this side of the ocean.
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 03:48 PM EST |
At
around 8pm, on January 26, reports appeared on Weibo and Twitter that users in
China trying to access GitHub.com were getting warning messages about invalid
SSL certificates. The evidence, listed further down in this post, indicates that
this was caused by a man-in-the-middle attack. --- The following
program contains immature subject matter.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 06:02 PM EST |
Link
Antigua and Barbuda have been given the power by the
World Trade Organization to sell or give away U.S. copyrighted media downloads
without compensation to the rights holders.
The WTO issued the ruling
suspending U.S. copyrights in the islands late Monday, and is part of the
fallout over a 2007 legal flap concerning online gambling.
Oh
boy. This could get ugly.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 07:01 PM EST |
Not many Fakebook users left here, I hope. But for those who do look for
Friends of my friends who are single women and live near
Helsinki,
Finland and are older than 30 and younger than 39.
be aware that
Facebook logs your searches, and who knows who they show them
to...
f-secure
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 02:34 PM EST |
What's the most common job for American women?
The same as it
was in the 1950s: secretary.
[...]
In the category of administrative
assistants, women outnumber men more than 20 to 1, but still earn less than
their male counterparts -- about 87 cents to the dollar.
Full-time female
secretaries and administrative assistants earned an average salary of
$34,304 in 2010.
For men, it was $39,641.
Annalyn Kurtz, CNN[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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