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> A fair usage policy applies. Excludes special, premium and non-geographic numbers.

As so often, unlimited actually means some unspecified "fair usage" policy that can be interpreted by them at will.
Nothing in the GPL prevents such uses.
All the awesome ninja coder "build things that matter" ninja awesome makes it sound like a bad joke.

But we're all awesome rock star ninja web coders anyways, right? Or maybe I'm the only one tired of developers talking like as if they were teenage mutant ninja turtles.
How to force Android 4.2 update OTA on your Nexus devices
If you don't already know, follow the steps below:

1. Switch to airplane mode;
2. Goto Settings>Apps>All>Google Services Framework, then Force stop and Clear data;
3. Open airplane mode
There are two solutions:

- Carry one OTP device and authenticate to a federated identity service

- Carry an OTP device which can embedded several OTP seeds such as a smart card
"his summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour. My Apple, Twitter, and Gmail passwords were all robust—seven, 10, and 19 characters, respectively, all alphanumeric, * some with symbols thrown in as well—but the three accounts were linked, *"

Emphasis mine. Enough said. Passwords are still pretty secure; two-factor authentication makes it even more so.
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You should consider bringing your talents to a mission based non-profit. In many non-profits, half time employees are more common, and the pay will absolutely be less. You might also just find the work that much more meaningful.
Because everyone else in the business is still paying a special additional tax? If you disagree with that, you have to fight to change it for everyone. You don't just start competing without paying the same taxes as everyone else.
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It will never be a good analogy because there's nothing equivalent to the effect corporate buyers had in locking in the windows monopoly for decades.

If Apple wants to start selling $100/$200 phones (they dont) there's no "compatibility" barrier stopping people from buying them.

If a new free licensed OS comes out based on some radically innovative tech (mind control? whatever...) those factories won't blink at switching over.

If the Chinese government decides to outlaw Android because the nephew of the Premier runs a competing company/whatever... well some people will complain but most will just buy whatever the next best option is.

Now there's no scenario for Android tanking that seems very likely to happen to me so ... yes I'd expect Android to dominate market share going forward. But that's a huge difference from Windows, a monopoly that didn't care what anyone expected to happen. Resistance was futile.
I really liked Opera, and the ads were easily replaced by a white bar using some ipfw rules.

But until I can get a proper noscript implementation I won't use a browser. Right now, as far as I know, Firefox is the only browser that offers a proper noscript implementation alongside a good adblock plus.

Last I checked, the Chrome alternatives only filtered out JS after it was initially loaded. And in Opera I've never heard of any such offering.
Something like http://www.glitch.com/hire-a-genius/ ?
OMG, someone pinch me, nexus 10 was born for this :)
Skype is peer to peer. That this THE clever invention that put them ahead of all competing services when they launched. They can scale without any significant additional bandwidth or server costs.
Yeah, definitely. You install it between the toilet seat and the bowl and connect it to water with a tee between the supply hose and the toilet tank. No permanent changes. It should take about ten minutes to remove it and put everything back to normal.
Passwords are fine. The way we handle them cause the major leaks we're seeing.

For the record, I've had viruses and have been hacked in the past, but it never did any significant damage. Accounts are separated (unlike the writer of this article's), different services on my server are isolated as much as possible, I use a number of password levels, etc. The hacks were due to carelessness, something that can always happen accidentally. What should not occur is that you're completely fried when one account or one technology fails, like the writer of this article was (his twitter got hacked, all Apple devices were wiped).

What I think should happen is an improvement in terms of how we store password (for starters, don't write them down and put them next to your pc), how we enter passwords (keylogger vs. password manager hacked problem), how passwords are transferred, how passwords are handled on the server, and how we can do password-equivalent actions. By password-equivalent actions I mean anything that bypasses the need for the password, such as password resets.

When these things are improved, passwords are still perfectly fine in 2012. For high-risk systems such as banks you surely might want to use two-factor authentication, but generally a password should be fine - or at least an option for those who think they can keep it safe.
Persona and BrowserID still rely on passwords at some point. I believe the currently most realistic alternative to passwords is a time based authentication with a personal device (ie. a device you always keep with you, like your smartphone).
my online banking provider does this as well and has abandoned passwords altogether.
Dare you to make a circle with 2 dots.
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> On a reading of how it was done, I guess if anyone had contributed stuff under the GPL and particularly objected to LGPL relicensing the could probably still make arguments about derivative works...
Read part 1 and 3

> Interestingly there's no mention of dissenting opinions from anywhere. Not that I'm implying that this move is a bad thing, I would just expect if you ask a large enough group of developers any question about licensing you would get a variety of arguments cropping up.

Because the vast majority of VLC developers want their code to be used, not fight over licenses.
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Just another way to collect credit card numbers
My Visio TV has GPLd and other more open code in it (libmpeg2, among others like libpng and libtiff). The manual states something like "As required by law, you can log on to our website and request a CD of the code running on this machine for a manufacturing fee, blah blah".

Naturally, their site has no such thing, and customer service gives you strange looks when you ask for the code that runs on the TV. Its a pretty common red-tape circus. Everyone does that. I have no stake in the matter personally, so I haven't pursued it very far, but you're absolutely correct that GPL code is consistently used inappropriately. The only time the license restricts someone from using it is when they try to follow the rules. "When guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns".

That said, it's still nice to see projects realize this and try to give people that follow the rules more personal freedom to incorporate the code into something that might need to be more closed than a sourceforge project.
I think Aardwolf point is: if you have 2 different service providers (let's say DropBox and Google) authenticate you with an OTP generated from a single OTP seed, they would need to share that seed on the server side and they won't. Today, I have one OTP generator for Google and one for DropBox.
I do wonder if they would have been a major browser (20%+) if they had abandoned that approach a little earlier. They have historically been ahead of the curve on.. almost every feature, whilst consistently having some of fastest loads and lowest memory use.
I'm sure Carmack has been dismissive about Quake Live, saying it is unprofitable.

My source is recollected keynotes I've listened to.
Sounds great, but it's not completely worldwide. The offer covers mobiles in 7 countries and landlines in 40 countries.
Oh sure, I was impressed and surprised too. I was also impressed that it was WebGL rather than flash. That said - if you're going to spend a hell of a lot of money sending people into the streets of both major and minor cities - you might as well give them good cameras.
Can we stop the trend of calling everything "porn"?
Passwords in my eyes are all but useless.

The password requirements of my current company have got so insane now an average human cant remember them and therefore have to write them down

Defeating the point of having a secure password in the first place.
Every time a GPL related post comes up, it always reminds me of the sqlite project, and how the world could be simpler without those weird licenses.

http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
Yes, but that's not what Authy (and RFC 4226 in general) are expecting. They are allowing multiple seeds in the same app. So, you use one app and get different OTP for different sites.
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It won't be a perfect circle. You could only create a perfect circle with infinitely many dots, no less.
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Interesting question. According to this site: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Sales between 1993-1999 Doom and Doom II sold a combined 4 million units (gross over $120 million worldwide). Not sure what they made from licensing.
Also, some context on Google's stance regarding this "hole":
http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/does-google-understand-csrf/

If implemented correctly, it shouldn't be an issue, for example with Rail's authenticity_token:
http://mysteps4learning.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/how-authent...
Where would you suggest one might look for people/businesses with problems? Thanks!
Google could also be said to be "commoditizing the complement."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

IBM did this with Java development and Sun. (Eclipse - note what the name does to the Sun.)
This was long due!!!
It depends on whether he's bad and doesn't think he's bad or he's bad and he doesn't know he's bad.

If it's the former, he could literally kill the startup.

If it's the latter, I can honestly say I have only met a few programmers who were incapable of learning good coding practices.
Is this within the Skype or the Paypal interface?
See also this post on Mozilla relicensing:

http://blog.gerv.net/2006/03/relicensing_complete/
Not that much. Most people don't install an OS on their phone other than the one the carrier puts on it. The big differentiator for Windows was that it was an open ecosystem. Anyone could make an app. Anyone could install any app they wanted. Anyone could make a PC, even individuals. And Windows was just the glue holding the ecosystem together. Android seems to be slotting into a similar role for smartphones today.
I wonder if you could use this to run lots and lots of small virtualized nodes? I know that's not the intended use case but I wonder if it's possible and would perform well?
Any news on Pinterest's api?
Interestingly, that's why Microsoft created SQL Server Service Broker. They had te infrastructure for reliable message queuing and transactional support, so they created SQL Server Service Broker!

Not sure I ever took off though...
Honan ran into a couple of problems, an correctly noted them:

His accounts were all linked together - gaining access to one made it easy to gain access to others.
Social hacking was used to either gain access to accounts and/or change the passwords.

Do we as an industry need to improve how we store passwords and manage interactions that could allow unauthorized people to take over or otherwise gain access to accounts? Yes. Does that mean doing away with passwords? No.
> Imagine if those 2 million kids that get saved by the Gates Foundation instead of being forced to remain in conflict-prone Northern Nigeria or Kenya or Uganda were given the chance to come and work , legally, in Europe.

And I suppose the EU taxpayer will be footing the bill for all this imported poverty, and at the same he will be forced to endure a marked increase in social friction (ultimately ending in complete social chaos a la the no-go areas in the banlieues of France, Britain and Sweden).
Seems too good to be true. Has anyone heard of Prometric? Why would they be offering a £99 exam for free?
This is why more vendors should use Coreboot[1]. It's open source, so this sort of rubbish can be fixed. And it's also much more flexible.

I think the new Chromebooks use it. This is how they achieved their “instant-on” feature. I can't wait for others to follow suit.

[1] http://www.coreboot.org/
Draw a circle that intersects both dots. Done.

Before you say that it should be just a line, let me say that it doesn't break the rules that say you can "draw" a circle with 100 or 12 or 7 dots. The dots don't form a circle but rather fall on the line of a circle your mind draws. Since there is nothing truly between the dots, the "true" shape could jut out and form a corner or any other shape, just like it could be a line between the two dots. The circle isn't really there in any circle of n points, so n=2 (and n=1 for that matter) work just fine.
This comment reflects a lack of understanding of how non-IT folks deal with passwords. As the number of services we consume on the web have exponentially increased, the difficulty in remembering all those passwords have led the majority of us in keeping 2 or 3 passwords for the whole lot- leading to what the author of the Wired article was guilty for.

That's not stupid, that's just how folks who have other stuff to worry about in their lives, do with a technology they hardly understand. Security frameworks even for banking systems primarily depend on passwords and little else. It's similar to "getting past the gatekeeper to the fort, and then having access to the Armory, Queens Chamber and the Royal Safe". Access should not be granted because you could recite 10 characters in the right order. It should be granted after having fully understood the context of your attempt, the history of the account and the account holder, and doing KBA (knowledge based auth) commensurate with the damage that could happen if the wrong person accessed that account.

Passwords should die a horrible death. They are a mere fallacy. An illusion of security.
None of the map tiles are retina-optimized, it looks terribly blurry on my iPhone. Also it doesn't try to autocomplete addresses as I type them in, I find that super helpful on all other map apps. Absolutely nothing makes me want to use this again.
You're in the minority opinion here. I've been making music on computers for over ten years and actually code my own VST plugins so I'm pretty familiar with this market and Ableton, Cubase, ProTools, StudioOne etc have all left Logic in the dust with the possible exception of midi editing which was a core strength of Logic since the Emagic days. The engineering team in Germany seems to have mostly been assigned to GarageBand.

I know far, far more people that have dumped Logic for something else since the acquisition than the other way around. None of them can be dismissed as dilettantes. And I don't know anybody that uses it for serious audio work. ProTools continues to utterly dominate that market.
I partially agree,

I don't see how one would not find this obvious after reading the mongo docs which explicitly say

> Indexes enhance query performance, often dramatically ...
nope!!! but hoping that they'll one very soon. I read a recent article saying that "the wait will be over soon"
Saying that online viruses can be solved if everyone practices better password management is like saying that offline viruses can be solved if everyone practices better hygiene management.

It's a great idea in theory, but the execution is the trick.
In opera, you can globally turn off JS, then enable it on a per-site basis (right click on page, edit site preferences, scripting).
"If you want to cancel during your first month, that’s easy to do. Simply sign into your account and disable the subscription by clicking Subscription settings on the Call phones tab."
Totally hypnotic! Perfect :)
Seems pretty good if you compare it to a GPU.
It is on your Skype website account page, you will see on the left it says "Subscriptions"
I've personally enjoyed some of the new image/touch based passwords I've been seeing lately. The best example I can give is the Windows 8 ad where they show people drawing on top of a picture as their password.

Something to make it more visual would be cool. If I could go to a site and draw a little picture in a box (obviously this is better suited for touch devices), I think that would be pretty hard to crack. Right (I'm the furthest thing from a security expert)?
SBUX actually costs more than Blue Bottle in NY. And, sorry to say, most wealthy consumers in New York and LA and, for that matter, Blue Bottle's home turf in SF are plenty receptive to SBUX.

La Boulange is a bakery, not a coffee chain, just like Clover is a product, not a retail chain.

The issue isn't that Blue Bottle can't scale at all, it's that SBUX would need them to be operating at an untenable scale almost immediately. $20MM? SBUX blows through almost $2bn per quarter.
Neat! How do I get in on that? It would be super convenient if my business could opt out of regulations I find inconvenient.
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Applied Mathematical Programming by Bradley, Hax, and Magnanti (Addison-Wesley, 1977)

Fantastic, timeless operations research text used at MIT. Some fantastic algorithm descriptions for theoretical purposes.
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I second this one. I bet its a way to avoid the situation where people break the rules but the court only gives Amazon a bit of money. Amazon doesn't want that, they want you to stop breaking the rules. So if you agree ahead of time that money alone won't cut it when you mess up, Amazon can move right on to remedies that don't involve money, like shutting you off from the API or getting an injunction.
> What I think should happen is an improvement in terms of how we store password (for starters, don't write them down and put them next to your pc),

Actually, given today's attack vectors, this would be an improvement. Remote attackers have greater and greater ability to compromise an account, but if the "key" is physically hidden away then it becomes an unreachable needle in a the massive haystack that is our physical world.

(I'm speaking theoretically, of course, this does nothing to protect the user from the kind of attacks that are most common: phishing and social engineering)

When the password is a stickie next to your computer, then the most imminent risk is that the janitor or a coworker will filch from you. Then have your password be something you put on a sticky save for a memorable number that you prepend to it (but not something too guessable, like your birthday). The chances that this acquaintance who goes snooping around your physical cubicle is going to also run a brute force crack is pretty slim...because such a person will likely have an easier way to violate your privacy/thieve from you.
Crucial Gizmo Jr. I keep one in my wallet with all of my most important documents (encrypted of course). It's also made it through a few times in the wash.

http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=CT8GBUFD...
> I mean it's not like many bad things have come at the hands of belief or conviction - not at all.

Similarly logic and rationalism can be condemned for excesses such as the French revolution. Of course you can retort "but those people were nuts," but overzealous rationalism is clearly just as dangerous as overzealous theology.
Yeah, right. However, the world in which we live is a bit more complicated than that.

Passwords are here to stay. They provide reasonable security.
Exactly,the article doesn't really have anything much to say. Overhyped,headlines all over again.
Let's have some perspective here. Google earns about $40 bil a year, mostly from ads. Microsoft's Windows division still earns $18 billion a year. That part of their business may be in extreme danger at the moment but the only place where $18 billion is a rounding error is the government.
What evidence do you have that nutrition science is corrupt and not based on the scientific method?
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It's all pretty bad but I have to say "reality TV" is the most intolerable for me.
Actually, I can make any circle with 2 dots (points):

From Wikipedia:

A circle can be defined as the curve traced out by a point that moves so that its distance from a given point is constant.
How one law student is making Facebook get serious about privacy
You know about this country in witch death penalty is still applied.

My(western) girlfriend traveled all China ALONE, and she really felt secure. China is probably the safest country on earth.

This probably will change the moment they embrace democracy and focus on the right of the criminals like they do in the west.
I for one am glad that it's not human-kind being blamed for this extinction ... and unless we somehow caused the volcano to erupt (drilling for oil?), I think you'd have a hard time proving causation.

The bigger issue I have with most extinction stories is that they totally ignore the fact that extinctions happened (and happen) regularly. As an ecologist, I would hate to be the cause of another species demise, but should I intervene in natural processes to save a species that is dying out naturally?
This sounds like a disastrous mechanism. The problem is not the passwords themselves, but how we manage them. Given how people are already too lazy to think of a barely secure password, I'm not optimistic that they'll put up with non-trivial drawings.
I believe here.net works also in offline mode with HTML5 local storage, at least the old Nokia maps version did. Maybe the 'collections' feature stores the actual data on your phone.
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Funny, but I have one app for both Google and Dropbox. (Google Authenticator)
So, in the future, what alternatives that would replace password?
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When using hand dryer, spread the moist all over your hands as if you were washing them. It isn't instant, but they sure work well.
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And many of those scientific facts are facts for only limited group of people, based on combination of various genetic, age/lifestyle related and environmental factors.
Thanks! I guess what applies to the situation in the movie is point 2, about the children.
This cannot be understated. They smell really bad. Have a friend who lived in Prague and his bathroom wasn't ventilated and he had a german shelf-toilet. Day after a big drinking session, it was unusable since the room smelt so bad.
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Yes, the contractor will make many decisions for you - unless your architect made the decisions first.
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Incredible compression scheme for a class of drawings :)
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Have you ever been to Japan? In my travels there I have not noticed any unusual halitosis, and I've spent plenty of time packed into the metro at rush hour.
Why would you hate the Gates foundation for the state of affairs concerning intellectual property? There's a democratic process to change those laws, that change doesn't have to come from their foundation. I don't believe that dumping a load of textbooks and lifting some patents would do much in itself, that's just one of the barriers that's keeping the poor poor.
Just yesterday I learned about a flaw that, knowing the previous one, allowed you to change password recovery email address on any Skype account.
Big thumbs up here for ievms. I use it all the time and I not so humbly was the first person to donate money to the project.

I can't believe that it's only raised $400 so far. It's completely excellent and I know lots of people out there depend on it.
Seconded. I would love to have this as a screensaver.