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That's not a technical problem tho', it's social/organizational. If you make passwords too complex and change too often and enforce it in software, you simply encourage people to write them down, save them in the browser, etc. Or people will be phoning the helpdesk every day to get a reset, and security as a whole will be discredited as a waste of time. NOTE: I'm not saying that it is a waste of time, but the best policies in the world are of no help if people simply refuse to follow them.

The truth is passwords are not like toothbrushes - they don't actually need replacing every three months. Only if some event has occurred (e.g. a sysadmin leaving the company). They don't get weaker over time. Why not let someone keep the same decently strong password for as long as they're an employee? I guarantee this will be actually more secure.
that's overused. "do the exact opposite," that is. superficial understanding without an actual construction.
awesome. just sucks not to be a student anymore. argh.
I may be wrong, but deactivating automatic updates is not something a normal user would know how to do, since probably he doesn't even realize, that their Chrome browser is constantly being updated.
Those who do deactivate the auto updates are more tech savvy users, who will probably be careful to update it manually from time to time, as they realize the advantages of upgraded software in terms of performance and security.
I absolutely love the auto-update feature of chrome and wish more software had it. It has made developing webapps for Chrome much easier. I never have to care about old Chrome versions, like I do for IE and Firefox.

As for the not maintained applications, I think users should stop using them (and upgrading to a maintained alternative). Old applications should not be the reason for not upgrading the platform under which the app runs.
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Also, does anyone else really love that architecture at the Watson research center? That just looks like a place I'd want to work. Lots of wood, stone and glass. Love it. Wired had some details on the building and the cafeteria is right out of mad men. So much better than "open plan" (We're too cheap to give code monkeys space).

Here are the pictures:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/watson-jeopardy/?pid=...
Some cool stuff here: http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/

The real challenge behind Watson is the natural language parsing. Instead of abstracting information away from their sources(like a graph), sources seem to have been left intact in sentences in Watson's memory. Watson would read through this information in a way alike to how it interprets a question, and it would try to create links and possible answers based on connections in sentences from many sources(this gives thought on why pun questions are difficult for Watson). I can't speak on behalf of the mathematical implementation of the answer choices, but this is the high level way that Watson finds answers. Those videos talk about the cool stuff behind the algorithmic challenges of Watson.
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Looks like you're getting a bit defensive for some reason. I was using "you" as a generic pronoun (I could have said "one would be" instead but that's more wordy and is IMO less clear).
I find it a bit ironic that this link is hard to read/parse...
I really hope they do kick the Kindle off of the iPhone. I read about ten or twenty Kindle books a month. I read them on my iPhone when stuck somewhere waiting or whatever, I read and search them on one of my computer monitors while at work, and I read them on my Kindle device in bed.

And, if Apple fucks this up on the iPhone--as they apparently are willing to do--then I will finally muster up the effort to get an Android phone and stop using iOS. As a user, I have long been offended by all kinds of things about Apple's behavior since the naziPhone debuted. But I am too lazy and unprincipled to do anything about it.

I mean, it's one thing to try to make a system friendly to incompetent and technically handicapped users. Apple does that with the Mac, and the Mac is the best platform out there for almost anything you might want to do. Because you can turn on the right mouse button. You can turn on full keyboard access. You can install Mondomouse and resize windows from any edge. You can fix all the simpleton-friendly crap and it is a kickass system. (And you can script all that stuff, so you don't need to do it over and over again when you provision a new Mac.)

However, it is a whole different thing when you design a system for the low-competence user, and then actively work to prevent any user from fixing the resulting shortcomings. When you even try to make it illegal to fix those (an endeavor in which they failed, thankfully).

I hate that. And so lately I claim to hate Apple and their fascist little phone, but the good parts are so damn good I cannot bring myself to get rid of it. I was really on the verge of junking my naziPhone 3GS and not getting the 4 when it came out, but then there was that damn Retina Display and I knew I would be carrying another beautiful crippled little mussoliniPhone around with me.

But if Kindle stops working on the iPhone, at long last I will be freed! I have so many kindle books, use them on multiple devices every single day, and that would just be the straw that broke the camel's back and with it the beautiful little 320ppi animated chains that bind me.

Then my phone would suck in lots of little ways, but I wouldn't have a huge corporation trying to stop me from fixing those things. FREEEEEDOM!!!

So here's hoping.
> Just figure out what EE did, and then do the exact opposite.

Even if that was the mantra, that's figuring it out from the start.

That wasn't the mantra though; EE was only one of the influences.

Watch Joel's tech talk (www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ) - they really did figure a ton of it out at the start.
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Unfortunately either my scroll wheel breaks or I get RSI in my index finger long before I reach the bottom..
> Incidentally there is one online group who could eat Anonymous
> for breakfast - Mumsnet. If Anonymous ever took them on, they'd
> be grounded before you knew it.

For those less inclined, this seems like a joke as Mumsnet seems to be a UK online parenting community mostly consisting of mothers and presumably they would 'ground' Anonymous whom are supposedly just a bunch of punk kids.
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While everything posted in the first tier of comments is true, so-called stealth mode is not a inherently bad idea.

It just means you keep some things to yourself for a while.

niyazpk demonstrates an actual use of the word stealth: you've got an advantage that would be immediately obvious to someone doing the same crap as you. you don't have to do anything special to draw attention to how easy it is to do crap.
You take a contemplative whizz. And then go back and keep kicking arse.
Well, for a lot of apps exclusivity, will mean that everyone else could do a clone of the app for another platform, but not you yourself. Which would mean that you can do it too, only under a different name.
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"What if some eople have turned off automatic updates and never receive the new update?"

You can't turn off automatic updates in Chrome.

"It just creates thousands of configurations for a web developer to worry about."

Absolutely the opposite. I don't know why this is so hard to see. When users aren't given the option to update, they all end up with the same version. So there is literally only one configuration to worry about.
Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft should drop IE and start using Webkit ?
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I think this is more of a strategy question. I'd approach this problem by defining each user to belong to a plan. Then with authorization gems such as CanCan, define the actions that can be accomplished with each role.

For example, one ability definition would be for adding new files. It would check that the user's used space has not exceeding the user's plan allotment.

I hope this helps some, but I doubt you'll find a silver bullet gem or service because this requires some deep application logic.
The Zune was never well-known enough for its name to be tarnished. The marketing was so low-key and sporadic that it hardly seemed to penetrate much beyond Redmond. Not to mention that it was basically non-existent outside of the US.
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Only if the contestant waits until the light goes on (what Watson has to do). If the human anticipates the moment the light will go on he can be _much_ faster. Or he can be too fast and get the delay - well, that's the risk.

The whole discussion looks fishy. Yesterday, the consensus seemed to be that Watson was at a disadvantage because of it's build in buzzer delay and the fact that it has to wait for the visual clue.
Today, when Watson performed better, the consensus (at the moment) seems to be the opposite.
So, the system hasn't changed, but the better Watson performs the more opinions are brought forward why this is an "unfair" contest.
I never said anything about a guarantee. I'm just saying that if you want to hire a programmer, the fact that there are thousands and thousands more of .NET programmers doesn't make hiring any easier. You want quality, not quantity.
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I wonder when Watson gets the textual clue: the instant the clue appears on screen? The moment Alex finishes reading it? A midpoint? Is it trickled word-by-word at about Alex's speaking or average human sight-reading rates?

If Watson has confidence at the moment ringing-in is allowed, it seems it will always win. So how much time it has to achieve that confidence, as a function of how the text is fed, may be more important than buzzer mechanics.

Based on the same general idea of a common starting point that motivates waiting until after the entire question has been read before allowing any ringing in, I could see there being a tiny 'common period' where all buzzes are considered as coming in simultaneously, with the person chosen to answer then being chosen in round-robin fashion (or for maximal drama, favoring whoever is behind). After the tiny common period, it would be strictly based on first-to-buzz.

It would take away a twitch-timing factor that has been important for human champions, too, but offer more fairness with regard to computers and even people with slight ticks or timing problems.
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It's also a little cowardly to write a post like this and then disable comments on it.
..which is why Joe Hewitt's Three20 framework was such a big deal.

Three20 wasn't a big deal because it was different from Apple. The noise behind Three20 is that it was (and still is, to a large degree) a cluttered mess of a framework that made it near impossible to use one part without importing the whole thing. I believe that Joe Hewitt has basically said as much on Twitter as well.

If you were to instead point out Apple's template code as a good example of code that is widely-used and not very good, you would have a much better analogy..
Disagree with the parent on both points.

I read the first few chapters of the translation.

The book probably couldn't stand on its own. But it was quite interesting as sort-of commentary on Tolkien - even with Tolkien characters completely shifted, it needed to have Tolkien characters to be worth anything. And suppressing that kind of speech is problematic.
Only when you directly link from Google. If you try to search anything on the site itself? It tries to con you into signing up.
I think that by "concurrency" you meant "competition." Are you perhaps a German speaker?
I don't understand, what does Steve Jobs have to do with this fictional bullshit, and how does it make Jobs greedy?
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very Interesting attempt. I would like to give a try.
Btw, did u do some math in arriving at length of cable or the number of winds? Did u try increasing number of winds etc?
umm yeah giant as in $100 billion in revenue and about $15 billion in net income. Not a bad business at all. I should hope to be so boring.
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Disagree. This is not binary unless you are a small shop. Operational activities produce tangible products via shipping. R&D Departments produce concepts.

Concepts as a "product" are just a useful marketing opportunity on the back of your research. Everything else that went into the research, and all the learnings that come out of it, flow into your future products, even if its years down the track.

The two examples they provided don't hold water either. Nokia and Microsoft produce concepts: yes. They both have significant research departments, it's to be expected. It completely discounts their market share (historical or current) and the sheer volume of released products.

Any business that grows to a point will start doing concept work and research. It's the same as any creative or product process - sometimes you have to bang through a whole lot of useless concepts before you have worked through enough ideas to understand which parts of which end point work as a whole.

Concepts are basically like any other form of failure - they're the pile of learnings that help you get closer in the next iteration.
Because it's also claiming that such people exist.

I'm not saying P(x) ≡ Q(x), but ∃x P(x) ∧ Q(x).
The 'real' story is that HBGary charges that big bucks to tell other companies and/or government agencies about how they aren't following security best practices, yet they themselves weren't doing so. I don't think that anyone would be ragging on HBGary for lax security if Anonymous had pulled out some 0day kernel exploit to break into HBGary's systems.

They failed in:

- Keeping their systems patched and up-to-date.

- Convincing/forcing their users to use strong passwords.

- Convincing/forcing their users to use separate passwords per system.

- Convincing/forcing their power users/admins to use a unique, strong password on key systems (i.e. Google Apps Admin).

- Not-invented-here syndrome (or maybe security through obscurity -- hey! if we use an obscure CMS then it won't be exploitable!) with respect to their CMS. I can be a little lax on them here. Had they chosen 3rd-party software people would doubtless be railing on them for which off-the-shelf 3rd party software they were using (e.g. had they been exploited through a Wordpress vuln, then people would be lambasting them for using Wordpress vs <insert-cms-here>).
Lame excuses! Watson is impressive, but I'm disappointed by the lack of any hint of comprehension behind its answers. When it's wrong, it's often nonsensically out-to-lunch, and its 2nd/3rd best answers are also often batty.

If it's just trained-up on statistical correlations between trigger phrases and likely answers in the constrained Jeopardy domain, then 90 32-core/512GB RAM servers seem like overkill.
EE (ok, and W3Schools) was the main reason I started using Chrome's 'Personal Blocklist' extension. I am loving it.
<rant>As others have said, the most serious thing is that it is a security company, and they seem to have ignored EVERY security best practice ever! Did they do anything right?

As a security specialist myself, I always do my very best to follow best practices, not only to protect myself, but to show others that I am willing to follow my own advice. I have met security people doing presentations that need to elevate to admin, and they are logged in as admin already. Sometimes even with UAC turned off. This completelly shatters my confidence in them. I am always logged in as normal user and have long (20+) passwords, and make sure people see that I have long passwords. I don't hold others to the same standard, but I know people. If they see that I use 20+ characters, they will not think that the 10 that I want them to use is that bad.

This is the way the security landscape should work. We should all set ourselves to much higher standards than the advice we give others. We should always follow up on it. We KNOW lazyness will cause breaches, so therefore we should never be lazy when it comes to security. For a security company - and especially the president - to have such low security lowers the confidence for the whole industry.

Yes, security is asymmetric. That is why companies must always follow at least the recommended best practices. If they are followed, the target might be too hard to break into and a hacker might go someplace else where it's easier to break in. Targeted attackers might still get it, but we should all make sure they have to work DAMN hard to succeed! If we start thinking that the attackars will succeed anyway, we might as well drop all defences. Display the admin passwords at the bottom of the "About us"-pages.

Bottom line, HBgary fucked up good. They showed the world that they give advice that they don't follow. They deserve the burn and anybody thinking about hiring them should think again. Even if they change the problems that allowed this breach, the basic problem is that they obviously don't understand security. If they did, none of this would have happened.

</end rant>
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I was there doing the same. Amazed me. Sean is my name if we've met.
Watson correctly knew 84% of the answers (26 of 31). It actually answered 74% (23 of 31).

It didn’t know the correct response or was not confident enough to answer 16% of the time (5 of 31). Nobody at all could give an answer to 6% of all questions (2 of 31).

If the two questions we know nobody could answer are excluded, Watson knew the right answer 90% of the time (26 of 29).

Do individual Jeopardy contestants correctly know more than 84% of the answers? Two questions were left unanswered correctly by everyone, 93% (29 of 31) is already the upper bound for the human performance in this round, that’s not very far from 84%.

Looking at the six rounds of Jeopardy the J! Archive has of games with Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter [0] we see that the average upper bound in those six rounds was 87% or 26 questions (of 30). The minimum was 23 and the maximum 28 (of 30). That’s, again, very much an upper bound.

Looking at all this, I’m pretty confident that Watson would be doing well even if it had human reaction times. (This is how I would change the game: Within 200ms or so – whatever the human reaction time on a Jeopardy buzzer is — after the buzzers are open, the player to answer is randomly selected from all who managed to buzz in. After those 200ms everything stays the same. Players are also not punished for buzzing in too early. This is a minimal change to the game, not a completely different game which I think is important.)

[0] http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=7206
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I get a heck of a lot more bugs (almost 2x) with Firebug on FF4 than with Chrome's inspector, though that still means I have to restart both almost a dozen times (no, really, that many) per day while building a web page.

A recent one: an input field would be spontaneously filled with a "1" if (and only if) Firebug was active. Persisted across application re-starts, but not through a reboot.
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Oh yeah I agree that Three20 is a cluttered, monolithic mess. What I should have said was that Three20 was the first major attempt (that I know of) to break away from the strict nested-controller way of making data-driven apps by implementing a pretty nice URL-based application model.

Matt Gallagher has also done a good job of deconstructing the Apple Way and try new approaches: http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/03/recreating-uitableviewcontr...
Exactly... you, and every other serious developer. That IE is garbage is obvious to anybody who's done web development for more than a month. So why is Mozilla even bothering with these technical articles? IE lost to developers years ago, and IE9 won't change that.

I guess I'm just confused as to why this article, and the other similar ones from this past week, are even news.
The iPad also displays and sync ePubs with no DRM with iTunes, same as the kindle.
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I find it hard to believe if the author does not back it up with a lot of research and statistics. If the author would have just said 'it has great documentation' I would have said nothing about it, but when the compares it with others, he should have something to back it up.
You can make a token better offer with pricing that is near %30 more, since "better" is fairly subjective. Mobile carriers do this all of the time with things like unlimited texting, or caller id in canada. Since apple is a premium product, you have have premium service pricing.
But its hard to argue obscure Russian novel that completely changes the entire setting would in any way decrease the money made by the Tolkien estate.
MIT doesn't take the common app, and I don't suspect YC will either. When you're at the top, you can afford to do that sort of thing... TechStars would do itself a world of good if it simply accepted a verbatim copy of the YC application; and so would every other seed funder. Creating a different standard would only cement them all as in the hunt for position number 2.
I really don't get why Mozilla posted this, other then to say to the 'tech' crowd "we're better then IE" but they already know that.

If, Mozilla really want to impress the 'tech' crowd they should show how they compare to Chrome because, mainstream users ONLY care about being able to view the websites they want to visit which is why most of them stick to Internet Explorer which came installed on their PC's (despite new legislation saying Microsoft had to suggest other browsers too) as they 'trust' that it will display the websites they want to see.