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Iris recognition finally seems ready to break into the mainstream. "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."
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Create engaging, interactive HTML5-based designs and motion graphics that can run on any device. Welcome back, Frontpage
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Technology can enable us reach out to people in ways that were never possible before, but at the same time, it is also extremely capable of bringing out the absolute worst of humanity as well. Smart phones, dumb people?
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The UK is to create a new cyber unit to help defend national security, the defence secretary has announced. They're trying to stop people cybering?
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Cyber-man, Cyber-man, does whatever a cyber can.
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Respected analyst firm Gartner is set to recommend that all BlackBerry enterprise customers find alternatives to the struggling vendor's smartphones and enterprise management software over the next six months. IT Shops to Gartner: 'No Duh'
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At the same time Gartner is selling fud by arguing that anyone still using Dingleberries needs to create a 6 month plan to migrate off them. Even assuming RIM's buyer begins immediately dismembering the zombie it bought revenue from BES is one of the few income streams it has left and will end up being sold to someone who'll suck every last drop of the dieing cash cow. The bigger threat's at least a year out when new Dingleberry phones would stop being available; but the simple failure to sell well means that the existing inventory of junk will be around for a long time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft received 37,196 global requests for user data from law enforcement agencies during the first six months of 2013. The company revealed the figure today in its second Law Enforcement Requests Report. (Its first came in March.) The requests, which factor in all Microsoft services including Skype, involved a total of 66,539 accounts. "As with the 2012 report this new data shows that across our services only a tiny fraction of accounts, less that 0.01 percent are ever affected by law enforcement requests for customer data," the company says. But like last year, a vast majority of those inquiries came from the United States. Isn't it nice to know you're loved?
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Java was the most targeted development platform for exploit attacks during the first half of the year, and attacks have increasingly shifted to zero-day vulnerabilities, according to F-Secure's new threat report. I'm shocked. SHOCKED!
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Quote: "Of the top five most targeted vulnerabilities, four are found in the Java development, either the Runtime Environment (JRE) or the browser plug-in,
Would it be too much to give a breakdown between PRF and plugin exploit levels? I, and AFAIK a lot of other people, were of the opinion that all that was really needed was to boot the plug in. THis is implying otherwise so I'd really like more information on it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So Java is one of the most common languages in corporate web solutions, especially when you add in the JVM based non-Java technologies, and it is one of the most targeted points for hackers. Shocking isn't it!
This, I fear, is the same story as Window targeted viruses, of course there's more as there are more targets to exploit. It is nothing to do with the technology, but everything to do with the ubiquity.
speramus in juniperus
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I don't think it's just as simple as ubiquitous== most hacked. Well, most targeted, yes (so I suppose I really agree with you).
However, as Weven showed, if they can't find the holes, they'll move on. If Java (and PHP) weren't vulnerable, they might not be as targeted. The other example would be browsers, which used to be heavily targeted, and with the better security seemed to be less so now.
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TTFN - Kent
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I agree there are vulnerabilities, but it does not make Java bad; just alternatively moralised.
speramus in juniperus
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Nobody thinks iOS software is worth more than a few dollars, if even that much. It’s “just” a little app on a phone. In a world of 99c apps, the free app is king
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The introduction of fake zooms, parallax, sliding and other changes in Apple's new iPhone and iPad software has a very real effect on people with vestibular disorders Beyond the usual reasons
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For .NET 4.5 we aren’t seeing the same kind attitude towards adoption. After an informal poll the overwhelming reason for staying on .NET 4.0 was Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Though these decade old products are effectively at end-of-life, many companies are reluctant to leave them. Mr. CEO. Tear down that XP, let my people upgrade
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The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer is just that, a myth. It's an unfortunate myth for a number of reasons. "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people..."
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I would be classed as a Rockstar programmer except I'm absolutely no good at Guitar Hero III!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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From what I remember, the term "rockstar programmer" originally meant someone who was really good at programming and also really good at understanding the business side of Silicon Valley startups, so that they ended up being extremely productive quickly when time really mattered.
It's normal for programmers who understand a business to be significantly more productive than programmers who don't understand the business they are working in. However, it's a temporary situation; other programmers improve their business knowledge (and technical skills) over time, so the productivity gap narrows.
I think the "rockstar programmer" concept is more of a crutch idea for business people who don't take the time or energy to understand real issues in software development. It's a useful concept in some situations, and it's a good counterbalance to other oversimplified concepts (that assume all engineers are equally productive), but it's not quite degraded so far that it's a "myth".
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It was 30 years ago today -- which is to say Sept. 27, 1983 -- that the seeds were planted for both Linux and the open source software movement, though neither is called that name by the man who help set both of them into motion, the irascible Richard Stallman. What's GNU with you?
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Apple's iOS 7 is plagued with HTML5 defects related to the Web SQL database, home-screen widgets, gestures, and animations. Maximiliano Firtman, an HTML5 developer and author of several popular Web programming books, revealed several of these bugs. And Michael Mullany, CEO of Web development environment vendor Sencha, both confirmed Firtman's findings and found more problems in Apple's HTML5 execution. But they're Apple bugs, bugs are cool now
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Apple has a lot of issues. It seems they copied Windows 8 for their new UI, but Windows 8 doesn't have as many bugs as iOS does. A  to Microsoft for actually not having as many bugs, and a  to Apple for not debugging iOS 7 or fixing reported bugs.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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I don't see that they copied Windows 8 - the only similarity might be in the use of a superlight sans serif font everywhere. They certainly missed out on creating some of the better features of Windows 8 if they were targeting it (live tiles being the main one IMO). I think they just tried to change the UI too much, too fast for the number of heads they had working on it. I heard rumours that they were pulling people off other projects just to remove the skeuomorphism from some of the apps.
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TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft is building another Office Windows 8-style application. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Office plans have revealed to The Verge that the app, codenamed Office Reader, is designed to be a cross format tool for consuming different types of content. During yesterday's employee-only company meeting, Microsoft's Kirk Koenigsbauer demonstrated the tool alongside a number of updates coming to Office in what he described as the "Gemini" wave. It allows opening Web pages and Office documents! I've been waiting for something like that!
The Lens app sounds pretty cool though. I know a lot of people that just photograph the whiteboard after a meeting, having it converted to text might be useful (assuming better hand writing recognition than I've ever seen).
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When groups of developers come together to talk about the state of OSS in .NET, the comparisons were traditionally drawn with Ruby; more recently Node.js has also become a focus for analogy. Both those ecosystems are almost entirely open-source, with lots of healthy competition and innovation, and a genuine sense that if somebody builds a better mousetrap, people will switch to it. “Why isn’t the .NET world more like that?” people ask, and they talk about whether it’s Microsoft’s fault and what they could do to help. What I rarely hear mentioned is the humungous elephant in the room: Visual Studio. Yet another opinion on the matter
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