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Ad system has four stakeholders - Advertiser, Ad Platform, Content Publisher, and Content Consumer. I guess we need an advertisement model that not only provide benefits to all four but also engages all four stakeholders to determine the quality, ranking and relevance of ad. Automated Context Matching Algorithms are just a first step in this regard. They match the ad with content but they don't take into account the preferences, beliefs, opinion of visitor and content provider. We must allow content publisher and visitor to have an equal say in which ads get served and which not. Atleast they should be allowed to express whether they found ads relevant or not.

How about vote up/down system for ads? Will it help in determining the relevance of ads according to visitor? Will user even care to click on it?

Another thing that bothers me is how a particular user can be identified and his behavior/preference can be recorded without invading his privacy? How existing ad platforms handle this?
"The Humane Interface" is a fascinating book, but if you read it again and pay close attention to Jef's interaction design ideas, you'll realize they're all extremely "out there" and, in the end, pretty unusable. Case in point: the Canon Cat.

That is also "a nice experiment, but in no way useful for the day to day."

Additionally, Jef's involvement in the development of the Macintosh's user interface has been vastly overstated... mostly by himself. Evidence for this can be seen in reading his own essays which predate his 1981 "history of the Macintosh" (in the older essays, it's clear that his vision has little to do with the Macintosh at all), and online repositories of Apple stories like folklore.org where many people report that Jef had the habit of laying claim to everyone else's ideas.

Example: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=The_Father_of_The...

The end result is basically this: everything Raskin worked on except the Mac is weird and experimental, and not practical or enjoyable.

His reputation definitely has the Halo Effect going on, but sadly, if you pay close attention, it's clear that the emperor may not be naked but he is certainly not fully clothed.
of interest [edit, arrest link below]:

http://twitter.com/#!/channel4news/status/83129762142363649

19-year-old suspected of being mastermind behind computer hacking group LulzSec arrested in Wickford, Essex. #c4news
US companies can store data from EU countries if they comply with the "Safe Harbour" principles. Organisations can self-certify and as yet no company has been challenged as failing to meet the guidelines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Harbor_Principles
In related news, the "Mastermind" behind LulzSec has been arrested: http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/21/suspected-lulzsec-...
Just noticed that a moment ago. As of now no reports on the Channel 4 News website (http://www.channel4.com/news/) but I'm keeping my eye on it...
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Yeha there's gotta be some easy way to see multiple views (preferably within 2 easy taps). I can't have SMS notifications lost behind 200 tweets and check-ins and wall posts from 2nd cousins looking for magic potions so they can raise alpaca's.
I think that means there are no bogus certs. The Register is a bit more clear about it:

The hackers behind the attack on StartCom failed to obtain any certificates that would allow them to spoof websites in a similar fashion, and they were also unsuccessful in generating an intermediate certificate that would allow them to act as their own certificate authority, Nigg said in an email
Will the student realize that standing against the wall continually would wield the same limit?
It's on the Met Police site - http://content.met.police.uk/News/eCrime-unit-arrest-man/126...
Scotland Yard press release: They have confirmed his arrest.

http://content.met.police.uk/News/eCrime-unit-arrest-man/126...
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It includes information on income and health, those are the really nasty bits to have leaked as far as I can remember.

Apart from the obvious ID theft risk.
Suspected LulzSec “Mastermind” Arrested
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Personally, I wouldn't mind if it weren't for the fact that popups seem to mess up the browser positioning on url fragment ids. The popups seem to guarantee to pop up over the top line of the fragment that was in the link you've just followed, so you're forced to either close the popup or scroll the web page to read the content that you came to read.

Needless to say, this doesn't enhance the user experience.
Metropolitan Police confirm arrest of LulzSec "Mastermind"
This whole escalating security situation has me thinking that IT security is heading down the same path as the War On Drugs.
I wonder if ten or twenty years from now we'll see petitions to legalize hacking tools after we see a resurgence in security breaches following the criminalization of "hacking tools"...
Neither was I. But I was intrigued. And interested. Which I suppose is the point of pre-launch marketing.
"The PCeU was assisted by officers from Essex Police and have been working in co-operation with the FBI."
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Admin of irc.lulzsec.org Arrested in UK
I've wondered how many individuals and groups out there post things in the name of other security groups to distract attention from (or direct it toward) themselves. Maybe everyone should start signing their releases with a private key.
Integrating a context-sensitive ad network with a widely-used payment platform that keeps users signed-in-by-default could be very powerful...
To teach effectively, you have to get inside other people's heads. That is a skill most people don't ever spend any real time trying to develop. So it's no wonder that they are bad at it. It's not about the state of an individual's understanding, but whether they've bothered to cultivate an entirely different, unrelated skill.
What else would I do? Move around the region. Transport here is cheap and you'll meet many other people of a similar age doing the same thing. South East Asia is reasonably compact despite the limitations of the transport system, and the subtle differences between countries (and regions within countries) are interesting.

Take a netbook with you and you'll find free wifi in cafes and hotels everywhere (except maybe rural Laos/Cambodia) but the rest of the time you'll be distracting yourself with more varied things than Hacker News.

Rule out Singapore on the budget you've mentioned, unless you plan to live in a dorm and avoid alcohol. Otherwise, it should be reasonably straightforward to live on ~$1000 per month if you're not partying or moving around all the time. You'll find more interesting and much cheaper food served from market stalls and informal roadside eateries than restaurants.

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I disagree. In my opinion, if you can't explain something to someone else, you don't really understand it.

But that doesn't make the article wrong. While you don't understand something until it seems obvious to you, it does not imply that you understand everything that seems obvious to you.
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What pissed me off was that it is a legal requirement to complete the census (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2011#Oper...), so everyones personal details are in the database, which if stollen is a identify thief's dream load.
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From the article:

"[The GPU process] validates that the shaders submitted to the GPU use only the minimal features allowed by the spec. That means no dynamic indexing of sampler arrays. It means no infinite loops."

Halting problem solved. News at 11 :-)
I asked qgil and he's responded [1]. Basically, it's pretty open and hacker-friendly.

[1] http://forum.meego.com/showpost.php?p=22819&postcount=12
This is a somewhat different category, vaccines that are supposed to direct antibodies against cancer tumors. The HPV/HBV ones are more traditional anti-viral vaccines that confer immunity to certain viruses, rather than specifically anti-cancer ones. They also have the effect of reducing cancer rates, since those viruses increase cancer rates, but only as a side-effect of preventing the viral infection.

Although, as another comment points out, even in the directly anti-cancer category this isn't actually the first; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipuleucel-T is already approved.
"... the security-illiterate UK government ..."

They have a point there.

More than once have those people at the UKgov simply "lost" notebooks or HDDs.

Do they really store the complete census data on an unencrypted HDD? Even my cheap netbook is better secured (Ubuntu has encrypted ~ as default and additionally I use encFS for any data that goes to a backup external USB-HDD, its not like it was diffcult to set up in 2011).

I just hope lulzsec publishes parts (anonymized hopefully) of it and some high politician gets finished by the media and is forced to resign over it. Looks like that is the only way to make the people responsible start to actually secure things. As I said, currently even my netbook is better secured.
Comodo do a free one, but it only lasts 90 days.

Not that they haven't had their own problems: http://pastebin.com/74KXCaEZ
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The nuclear industry can't just drop their current equipment and move on to new stuff like the computer industry can. Getting rid of an old reactor is horribly expensive.
Every time someone brings up the order in which subjects are taught I wish there was a directed cyclic graph printed on huge posters in every math classroom, representing the dependencies between different branches of math, starting with counting at the bottom, through arithmetic, algebra, etc. and branching up into a beautiful tree shape. If you want to know why you should learn a particular subject, you just point to its node on the graph and follow the arrows. If you want to know the prerequisites for a subject, follow the arrows in reverse until you get to a node you know.

I lack the resources to make or find such a graph myself, so please let me know if something like this exists, or if you intend to create one. My parents are both teachers, and I'm sure they'd benefit from it.
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The security breaches are attacking the old well known holes that everyone has ignored for years.

I quite liked this post: http://1raindrop.typepad.com/1_raindrop/2011/06/unfrozen-cav... people are just not investing in security. Most of the attacks are not very sophisticated, it is just no one is spending money on solving the basic security weaknesses.
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> Halting problem solved. News at 11 :-)

Not necessarily, WebGL could simply restrict the shaders language to not be turing-complete. No need for solving the halting problem if you start from a total language.
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I am embarrassed about this version but I thought I would develop it based on feedback.

The idea was to be able to create something that any one could start using very fast. Not necessarily programmers.
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When you create an extension you have to put a maxVersion in the install.rdf file. The right practice, of course, is to set this only as high as you've actually tested.

But the truth is, the DOM and XPCom APIs are pretty stable and most upgrades don't truly break an extension. And FF makes it quite easy to do a "version compatbility update" that doesn't require a new version and new deployment but a lot of app developers just don't do this as quickly as we'd like.

Long story short, you can open up that install.rdf in each extension and set it to 5.x and give it a try. Worst case scenario, you disable that extension from safemode if it crashes your browser. But that's unlikey IME.
LulzSec Mastermind Suspect Arrested in Essex, England
http://twitter.com/#!/c4marcus/status/83135821351370752
The LulzSec site is down too: http://lulzsec.com/ (though http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/ is still there).

http://lulzsec.org/ seems to have an FBI take-down notice with the LulzSec logo on it.

Edit: as DarkShikari mentioned, lulzsec.org has been like this for a while.

Link to the Met Police post: http://content.met.police.uk/News/eCrime-unit-arrest-man/126...
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Name and DoB of everyone in a household alone can make it much easier for someone to pose as you to say a credit card company.
As an aside, it seems their tests are very uneven. My Japanese is below 1-kyu level on the JLPT but I still managed to pass the Japanese to English test. However, I failed the English to Portuguese test twice, even though my native language is Portuguese and EN->PT is way easier for me than JP->EN.
http://lulzsecurity.com/ is still up
http://lulzsec.org/ seems to have an FBI takedown notice with the LulzSec logo on it.

This dates back a number of days; it was a joke (by Lulzsec?) in response to a (false) rumor about an FBI takedown notice.
I was once on a business trip to Manchester, showing off our project on the Eurographics conference. A quick Googling gives that this must have been in 2001 (the project was Verse, a networking protocol for 3D graphics applications).

My colleague and friend who was presenting at the conference and I had some slack time, and being huge geeks we visited the Museum of Science and Industry. Idly walking around, we came across the "computing history" department, which prominently featured a replica of this machine, in (as as I recall) 3 or 4 full-height racks.

As we stood there contemplating the enormity and general coolness of it (it uses a freaking CRT as a kind of RAM! You can see the bits!), we were approached by a gentleman who started describing it.

As we understood it, he was one of the original developers, who had also participated in building the Museum's replica. Once he got that we were in fact working programmers, he was visibly excited and we spent quite some time there.

It was awesome, clearly one of my best tech museum experiences.
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Full statement:

We are aware of the suggestion that census data has been accessed. We are working with our security advisers and contractors to establish whether there is any substance to this. The 2011 Census places the highest priority on maintaining the security of personal data. At this stage we have noevidence to suggest that any such compromise has occurred.
It's not exactly special insight, but presumably all the people involved have experienced a number of encounters with Ted whereas for flying saucers, it is generally the case that all parties to the conversation have not had a number of encounters with flying saucers

On top of that, there have also been many cases of believing incorrectly that somebody else is out of town.
I'd recommend: https://www.owasp.org if you're working on the Web.
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Positive (for Apple) reasons for success:

* They put the hard stuff in iTunes, and made the iPod a mostly dumb receptacle. Competitors either didn't have a software hub, and so put everything into the device (giving bad UI) or just skipped that part (like the metadata normalisation).

* Having done the above Apple could make the core elements of finding and playing music very smooth. The scroll wheel was killer here.

Not so positive, but still key reasons:

* Both Microsoft and Sony committed suicide by being in bed with big media. It was Sony's market to lose, but they'd already stuffed up Minidisc (which was great tech for it's time, I kept mine until the 3rd gen of iPod hade enough storage to justify its use) for the same reasons. At roughly the same time frame Microsoft was putting DRM on CDs you ripped yourself and got seduced by their own hype about DRM for music. They promised a Spotify-like experience, probably ahead of its time, but couldn't deliver it smoothly enough.

How does this translate to the new market? Google is putting the hard stuff on the web/cloud (maps, navigation, youtube, gmail, voice recognition, answer-phone transcription) which means the phone/tablet can do more while doing less and it seems Apple's trying to follow with iOS5, but I don't see them having the competency to do so. I guess we'll see.

Personally, I think Apple will win as long as tablets are status signals. Once everyone has one, they'll have Android ones.
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"AES decryption in Javascript"

How would you display that data as a file or save it locally?

I guess you could do it in Flash/Java using something like Downloadify

https://github.com/dcneiner/Downloadify
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But he specifically said that e-mails would be sent to accounts accessed during the bug period.

Seems reasonable to me.
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You can store currency or gold in various non-interest-bearing ways in the current free market. It isn't a very attractive option compared with banks, however as stored money (metal-backed or otherwise) that isn't lent or invested necessarily loses value on average, in the long term against currency that is.
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Is it really worth carrying a metaphor out to its absurd conclusion? A web browser does not exactly equate to a plumbing fixture, yet they both have maturation cycles that prompt people to upgrade over time. Browser technology moves faster than plumbing, I don't think anyone would be terribly surprised by that revelation, yet when plumbing technology advances I will upgrade. I will upgrade sooner rather than later because the savings in time and energy pay off over time, just like with browser technology. The further behind the cycle I remain, the more it costs me to modernize in the future and the more it costs me to stick with the old. The literal time period is completely irrelevant.
You missed the whole point. He explained that productivity was the force that pushed him into Rails, and more focused community on only one framework (actually there are more frameworks like Sinatra for example) is advantage in bigger picture (more mature code, more ppl working on the project, more knowledge resources on the net, less diversification of job market etc).

Having a choice is not bad thing, but having too many choices can be.
My startup is built on PHP. I chose to use CakePHP for MVC goodness.

My choice of PHP was due to easy deploy (no heroku when we started). And I was scared off from more glitzy languages/frameworks like Ruby/Rails due to talk about performance issues.

So far no complaints. PHP is one ugly language, but it gets the job done ;)
It's actually Wickford, Essex. Early reports suggest it is a former Anonymous member, although this cannot be confirmed.

https://twitter.com/#!/y0ug/statuses/83138188570394624
Isn't that info relatively easy to obtain from most people anyway? Not on such a large scale of course.
They've been known to fetch water and provide chocolates.
Another obvious weak point is not controlling access to copies of production databases. Developers getting access to copies of production databases full of personal info is terrifying, and yet not uncommon.
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I disagree, as a web developer big or small it is your job to set the standards for what the web should be.

Small freelancers make up a greater percentage than bigger firms as developers. At very least you should make it known that supporting old browsers is not a standard service and will incur extra costs to the client. There is plenty of literature to point your clients to in order to back up your point. If we all do this one by one it will have a greater impact than this move by Google.
A/B testing is such an awesome tool to use. We're spoiled for information as web developers. Any other industry would kill to have such immediate, quantitative data on-hand.

We're just about to launch a new product. Anyone with first hand experience with visual website optimizer that would care to give some feedback?
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