Comment A welcome change (Score 1) 474
Well I guess it's time to get my head around something new :)
Comment Morons (Score 1) 241
Putting data online in ANY situation is the responsibility of THAT person, NOT of the people hosting the data. The host need only provide as much security as it can to circumvent inappropriate access to that data but if you're stupid enough to expose sensitive data in a public environment then I believe you deserve what you get!
Sensitive data CAN be transmitted through the public internet as needed, but stored there? Come on, only morons do that!
Being responsible for data is like being responsible for a child, you expose it to things that are APPROPRIATE for the data and shield it from the rest!
In the end, WHERE your data is hosted is irrelevant. Your data is probably being indexed by thousands of robots, cached in people's browsers, shit, your data could exist in thousands of places you've never even thought imagined! Get over it man!
Comment Re:College (Score 1) 444
After doing my fair share of interviewing and being interviewed, I have to agree with this comment. Most IT jobs aren't looking for someone who can recite information back to them, they are looking for people who have basic knowledge of the topics and are able to think on their feet, adapt, actually know how to SEARCH for the information that they don't know off the top of their head.
I tend to hire people who are passionate about their skillset rather than just competent!
Comment What? No Perl? :P (Score 1) 263
Would be an interesting look at some of the reg ex debugging I've had to do!
Comment Re:Horrible. (Score 1) 2254
Would you really expect anyone on
So true
Comment Re:Too late (Score 1) 266
My GOD yes. Still use Chrome but come on, if it's something we want as a feature, just bloody add it!
Comment RIP Stargate (Score 1) 762
Stargate has been a fantastic inspiration and source of relaxation for me and will continue to be so for a long time to come.
It sux that it's not going to be renewed, though certainly not surprising given the numbers.
Pity I live in Australia and couldn't have contributed to the viewership!
It's sad to say that we're living in a day where no more stargate is being produced!
RIP Stargate, you will be missed.
Comment Freakin' weird! (Score 1) 167
No joke, on the 28th Nov, I was reminded of something he did after watching something on TV. I started thinking, "Wait a minute, has he passed away?" and checked a few sites to see. Absolutely nothing reported. Then today, I find out that he died the very next day. Man I'm freaked out!
RIP Leslie, you shall be missed!
Submission + - Is the Number Up for the Residential Phone Book? (washingtonpost.com)
Hugh Pickens writes: "The first phone directory was issued in 1878, two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and for decades regulators across the US have required phone companies to distribute directories in paper form. But now the Washington Post reports that Verizon, the largest provider of landline phones in the Washington DC region, is asking state regulators for permission to stop delivering the residential white pages in Virginia and Maryland. About a dozen other states are also doing away with printed phone books as surveys show that the number of households relying on residential white pages dropped from 25 percent in 2005 to 11 percent in 2008. The directories will be available online, printed or on CD-ROM upon request but the inches-thick white pages, a fixture in American households for more than a century, will no longer land on porches with a thud each year. "I'm kind of amazed they lasted as long as they have," says Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. "But there are some people nostalgic about this. Some people like to go to the shelf and look up a number.""
Submission + - Steve's Email: No Apple iOS SDK on Windows, Linux (jakenovak.com)
An anonymous reader writes: There's another email from Steve Jobs going around today, in response to a question asking if the iOS SDK from Apple will ever be released on a platform other than OS X. Surprisingly, Steve responded to it. Unsurprisingly, he said "Nope"... from his iPhone.
Submission + - Are Droids lying about their security compliance? (infoworld.com) 1
GMGruman writes: When a colleague told me cheerfully that his new Droid X was able to access our corporate email, I knew something was wrong. Our corporate Exchange policies require that a device have on-device encryption, and Exchange blocks any device that doesn't acknowledge that it conforms with that policy. Because Android OS 2.2 doesn't have on-device encryption, it can't conform, and my colleague wasn't using a separate email client like TouchDown that supports encryption in its workspace (which Exchange is OK with). Motorola has no explanation of how its Droid X is connecting, and my colleague swears he hasn't installed a hacked version of the Android OS designed to lie to Exchange (yes, they exist). So what gives? What this all could mean is that businesses can't be sure whether to trust any Android device and so take drastic measures like banning them all.
Submission + - Webtrends Tracks Web Behavior for Salesforce CRM (ecrmguide.com)
storagedude writes: Webtrends is combining its web analytics data with Salesforce.com's customer relationship management software to track customers' browsing history with the goal of being able to sell them more stuff. Webtrends is taking pains to avoid privacy concerns — the company is only tracking customers who opt in by filling out a form, and only tracking them at the client website — but they're hardly the only two companies capable of doing this. The marriage of web analytics and CRM seems like a natural, and more deals like this will almost certainly follow — and in the process provide one more reason for tougher privacy rules.
Submission + - An illustrated version control timeline (blogspot.com)
rocket22 writes: Most software developers are supposed to be using the latest in tech and see themselves as living on the edge of software innovation. But, are they aware of how old some of the tools they use on a daily basis are? There are teams out there developing iPad software and checking in code inside arcane CVS repositories. Aren't we in the 21th century, the age of distributed version control? The blog post goes through some of the most important version control systems on the last three decades and while it doesn't try to come up with an extremely detailed thesis, it does a good job creating a catalog of some of the most widely spread or technologically relevant SCMs.
The timeline on the post highlights the kind of cellular phones used by the time the SCMs were released, giving a good picture of how old some of them are already...
From Visual Source Safe to Git, from Clearcase to Mercurial, the post covers the weaknesses and strengths of a good number of version control systems out there.
The timeline on the post highlights the kind of cellular phones used by the time the SCMs were released, giving a good picture of how old some of them are already...
From Visual Source Safe to Git, from Clearcase to Mercurial, the post covers the weaknesses and strengths of a good number of version control systems out there.
Submission + - Cook's Magazine Apologizes - Sort of. 3
taco8982 writes: Cooks Source has published a statement in response to the uproar over claiming the web is public domain a couple of weeks ago. While it does contain an apology, I'll leave it to individual readers to determine how apologetic it actually is.
Submission + - Problem-solving Bacteria Crack Sudoku (newscientist.com)
damn_registrars writes: "From the can-your-bugs-do-this dept:
A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a way to employ e coli bacteria towards solving a puzzle that many Americans struggle at — Sudoku. Current implementations can handle 4x4 grids, but a full 9x9 grid could be done with some additional modifications.
The TSA responded proactively by stating that no matter how much you may struggle with the Sudoku on the airline magazine, you are still not allowed to bring vials of bacteria on to the aircraft with you."
A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a way to employ e coli bacteria towards solving a puzzle that many Americans struggle at — Sudoku. Current implementations can handle 4x4 grids, but a full 9x9 grid could be done with some additional modifications.
The TSA responded proactively by stating that no matter how much you may struggle with the Sudoku on the airline magazine, you are still not allowed to bring vials of bacteria on to the aircraft with you."
