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Fatwah on Western Digital
Linkedin is somewhere on my corporate death penalty list along with WD and nvidia anyway.
iPhone syndrome
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Stereodude
Not really a
They're not completely useless. I came || <-- that close to getting a new job that was brought to my attention by someone who found me on LinkedIn.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I find LinkedIn far more useful than other social networking sites. I was recruited to my current job though LinkedIn.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
The problem with Linkedin is that they Will. Not. Stop. Spamming. Apparently the only way to make yourself unavailable to linkedin crap is to belong to linkedin and turn it off. I've had invitations@linkedin.com blocked as a sender for ages, but I still get invited to join. I can't just block it everything that says linkedin because lots of corporate communications seem to include a link to it. I don't want their shit in my mailbox though, and I hate the fact that there's no way to actually turn it off.
How many emails do you get from them on a regular basis? I see maybe one a day or every other day. Those emails are interesting to me, so I guess I don't mind. I get contacts from people with interesting positions and other updates with decent stuff in them. I agree with timwhit and Stereodude, it's more useful than any other social networking site. I did a search in my gmail and I don't see a lot of messages. I haven't looked into disabling them, so that could still be an issue.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I don't want to belong to a social networking site. At all. Ever. It's not about "more useful", it's about my disinclination to participate in the first place.
I get two or three messages that make it through my filters every week. That's two or three messages I do not want. There does not appear to be a way to communicate that with the company. It's not just that they send UCE, it's that they don't respond to any mechanism I have found for telling them to stop. How that is different from any other spam, I am not sure. I certainly can't draw a distinction.
I get two or three messages that make it through my filters every week. That's two or three messages I do not want. There does not appear to be a way to communicate that with the company. It's not just that they send UCE, it's that they don't respond to any mechanism I have found for telling them to stop. How that is different from any other spam, I am not sure. I certainly can't draw a distinction.
It isn't. I also don't get upset by spam. It's not worth putting any energy into it. If you really want to spend your hatred energy, get linkedin put into the major spamlist databases so that they get their act together.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Given that I only see maybe a half dozen unwanted messages in a typical week, it's a rather significant portion of the total.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
Not to mention a leaked password database - http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/LinkedIn-passwords-in-circulation-Update-1612022.html
App store policy at its worst.
http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2012/06/06/7073-users-can-be-wrong/
I have had about three of these apps now that did that and they have all been pulled, but this is the first that I have read didn't violate the letter and intent of the rules but got pulled anyway.
http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2012/06/06/7073-users-can-be-wrong/
I have had about three of these apps now that did that and they have all been pulled, but this is the first that I have read didn't violate the letter and intent of the rules but got pulled anyway.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
The SHA-1 values represent a completely valid compromise simply because Rainbow Tables for values of up to X arbitrary digits have already been calculated. Since SpammedIn isn't storing the original password anyway, all bad guys really need is a collision between the hash value and an entry in the Rainbow Table and they've got a compromised account. SpammedIn could at least have salted their SHA-1 calculation with some random value to make the bad guys' work harder. They did not even do that.
Open source iOS clone. Not sure what this would be used for?
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/10/3...s-clone?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
On twitter the people in the jailbreaking community seem mildly interested.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/10/3...s-clone?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
On twitter the people in the jailbreaking community seem mildly interested.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of systems that store passwords in plaintext (and possibly some arguments for it). If your not going to store passwords in plain though, you really should do it right. The problem is that every website (or software package) developes its own way to store and check/manage user credentials. Most of these applications don't do it right- either in the authentication phase, the authorization phases later on, or the basic storage/handling of credentials. If programming languages would do a better job of building in secure methods, and esp programming examples for this stuff, it wouldn't continue to be an issue (authorization/authentication issues have frequently been cited as being in the top-10 security breach methods by Verizon Security each year).
There's a really good discussion on NANOG about better methods to login to sites. The prevailing recommendation is to use SSH or x.509(used in HTTPS) key pairs and take the storage/management completely away from the application providers altogether. It'll be up to the user to maintain 1 or 2 private keys.
There's a really good discussion on NANOG about better methods to login to sites. The prevailing recommendation is to use SSH or x.509(used in HTTPS) key pairs and take the storage/management completely away from the application providers altogether. It'll be up to the user to maintain 1 or 2 private keys.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
and just to bring this further off topic... http://www.h-online.com/open/news/i...n-bypass-for-MySQL-root-revealed-1614990.html
On a more topical note, Apple released an IOS security architecture brief this month. Reading through it, it all sounds good in concept until you remember that Apple must have left some little bits out - otherwise jailbreaking wouldn't be possible. There's also a few other browser bugs that make you wonder if they gave their own apps special permission to be able to bypass a few of these security restrictions.
On a more topical note, Apple released an IOS security architecture brief this month. Reading through it, it all sounds good in concept until you remember that Apple must have left some little bits out - otherwise jailbreaking wouldn't be possible. There's also a few other browser bugs that make you wonder if they gave their own apps special permission to be able to bypass a few of these security restrictions.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
Perhaps I should also put that last statement in perspective. I still view using an iOS device as one of the most secure ways the average consumer can use a personal computer. In theory (according to Apple's brief), an iOS based device should be highly secure and (nearly) incapable of security breaches; in practice, it is the most secure consumer oriented PC device around and strikes a great balance between usability and security. http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_May12.pdf
Everything I've seen indicates that Android devices follow the Linux security model, meaning the bulk of their security exists due to being a smaller target. That has and will continue to change. Android has gotten better, but security does not seem to be among the top priorities for the Android team.
Everything I've seen indicates that Android devices follow the Linux security model, meaning the bulk of their security exists due to being a smaller target. That has and will continue to change. Android has gotten better, but security does not seem to be among the top priorities for the Android team.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Unfortunately, that comes at such a huge cost to basic functionality that the tradeoff is really not worth the hassle of dealing with the hardware. "General data storage" should be a fundamental function of a general purpose computing device and icraps fail at that.
iOS 6 info/announcement. Looks to have some nice features. I like the new phone features.
Nope. There is no huge cost to functionality. Your use-case is atypical.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Obviously not, given the additional complexity of supporting iOS devices for general-purpose remote file access as we recently discussed.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
For most purposes of general consumption - e.g. you are using or looking at stuff other people made and not making your own [spreadsheets, movies, documents, etc] the iDevices do a really good job.
Now, content creation is a whole other matter. A full computer (PC/MacOS/Linux) is still required for this - no Windows metro, iPhone, etc interface is going to fill this purpose.
If your customer wants to create content on an iPad/iPhone, then they either have a niche market or they've chosen the wrong tool for the job. End of story.
Now, content creation is a whole other matter. A full computer (PC/MacOS/Linux) is still required for this - no Windows metro, iPhone, etc interface is going to fill this purpose.
If your customer wants to create content on an iPad/iPhone, then they either have a niche market or they've chosen the wrong tool for the job. End of story.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
It's not just content creation. It's "viewing content that doesn't come from or is not well supported by Apple" that's problematic.
How to fragment your products but not screw over developers and thus users.
Fragmentation and segmentation
http://www.ben-evans.com/post/25018870345/fragmentation-and-segmentation?4d039930
Fragmentation and segmentation
http://www.ben-evans.com/post/25018870345/fragmentation-and-segmentation?4d039930
Why do you not want to ignore your developers? This was a surprise to me, I thought gears of war was pretty popular.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/infinity-blade-is-epic-s-most-profitable-ever-game/098592
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/infinity-blade-is-epic-s-most-profitable-ever-game/098592
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Real mobile platforms don't require all web browsers to be reskins of Webkit.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
HTC beats Apple in court
This is a major setback for Apple's faux infringement campaign; most non-US courts are likely to treat this as precedent.
Apple or Rambus, it's the same disease: 'patent trolls'.
This is a major setback for Apple's faux infringement campaign; most non-US courts are likely to treat this as precedent.
Apple or Rambus, it's the same disease: 'patent trolls'.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Jimmy Kimmel First look iPhone 5 (except it's the 4S)... :-D
[video=youtube;rdIWKytq_q4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4[/video]
[video=youtube;rdIWKytq_q4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4[/video]
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Since when can we embed youtubes?
Since the forums were updated to this newer version.
Do these designers care what the users want or continue to force feed the consumers?
ddrueding
Fixture
Nope, neither cares about the consumers. They care about their customers, which are the not the consumers.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Most designers are very idealistic, and would care more about the design aesthetic than anything else. That particular article is actually a discussion of using a form with an outmoded function.