Comment Performance Metrics (Score 4, Insightful) 100
All you need is a method to accurately measure productivity.
Comment Re:Accept for session (Score 1) 369
I like the cookie jar idea. I tried blocking third party cookies and it makes too many sites less then functional. Not all third party cookies are advertising. Newspaper sites that uses Disqus to host comments is one example. Gmail uses other google sites for cookies. There needs to be a way to whitelist some sites so they can set cookies regardless.
Comment Re:So by forced, they mean chose (Score 4, Funny) 174
Forced by a meatspace DDOS attack on their phone number.
Comment Dark Roasted Blend (Score 1) 279
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/ - Limit yourself to one or two links.
Comment Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? (Score 4, Informative) 597
200 miles is the economic exclusion zone. Territorial waters extend twelve nautical miles from the mean low tide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zonmar-en.svg
Comment Dysfunctional (Score 1) 384
Posting with my Galaxy Tab using Chrome. Links to stories have no context menu for press and hold so it is not easy to open in new tab. Once in a story the back button does not return me to the list, pressing the back button twice sends me back to the login screen. Login failed without a message.
Submission + - Trojan Takes Extended 'Naps' To Avoid Detection (securityledger.com)
chicksdaddy writes: "Even the bleakest circumstances look a bit brighter after a good nap — a fact that isn’t lost on malware authors, according to researchers at the firm FireEye, which have identified a new Trojan Horse program that uses extended sleep cycles to fool behavior based malware detection technology.
In a blog post Tuesday, researchers Abhishek Singh and Ali Islam said the new malware, dubbed Trojan Nap, has a function, dubbed SleepEx() that can be used to configure long “naps” that the malware takes after it is installed on a compromised system. The default value, 600,000 milliseconds – or 10 minutes – seems designed to fool automated analysis systems that are programmed to capture a sample of behavior for a set time frame. “By executing a sleep call with a long timeout, Nap can prevent an automated analysis system from capturing its malicious behavior,” FireEye said."
In a blog post Tuesday, researchers Abhishek Singh and Ali Islam said the new malware, dubbed Trojan Nap, has a function, dubbed SleepEx() that can be used to configure long “naps” that the malware takes after it is installed on a compromised system. The default value, 600,000 milliseconds – or 10 minutes – seems designed to fool automated analysis systems that are programmed to capture a sample of behavior for a set time frame. “By executing a sleep call with a long timeout, Nap can prevent an automated analysis system from capturing its malicious behavior,” FireEye said."
Submission + - HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History (nbcnews.com)
chiguy writes: From NBC News:
"The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country, has assembled...[a database]...containing 190 million employment and salary records covering more than one-third of U.S. adults...[Equifax] says [it] is adding 12 million records annually."
This salary information is for sale: "Its database is so detailed that it contains week-by-week paystub information dating back years for many individuals, as well as ... health care provider, whether someone has dental insurance and if they’ve ever filed an unemployment claim."
"The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country, has assembled...[a database]...containing 190 million employment and salary records covering more than one-third of U.S. adults...[Equifax] says [it] is adding 12 million records annually."
This salary information is for sale: "Its database is so detailed that it contains week-by-week paystub information dating back years for many individuals, as well as
Submission + - Hello Kitty in Space (youtube.com)
djl4570 writes: The four minute video documents a seventh grade science project that uses a helium balloon to lift several Go Pro cameras, a high altitude data recorder and a GPS tracker to an altitude of over 90,000 feet. This science project is an excellent example of integrating technology to measure, document and recover the experiment.
Submission + - Confirmed: MHD is source of sun's corona superheating (northumbria.ac.uk)
storkus writes: Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) has been suspected for a while as reason why the sun's corona is millions of degrees while the surface is only thousands. Northumbria University has now apparently confirmed this using a custom telescope.
Submission + - GNOME 3 to switch to Java Script as primary language for GNOME Apps (golem.de)
An anonymous reader writes: Golem.de has released a story that the GNOME core developers have agreed at Fosdem 2013 to switch to Java Script as the primary language for upcoming GNOME Applications. The article clearly states that the old languages should still be supported.
Journal Journal: An important Schneier essay 8
"Power and the Internet"
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/power_and_the_i.html
Submission + - XKCD Gets Noticed By a Physics Professor (wired.com)
djl4570 writes: A physics professor nitpicks the paths followed by a hypothetical Cessna in this XKCD http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/
Submission + - Oracle Responds to Java Security Critics with Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update (esecurityplanet.com)
darthcamaro writes: Oracle has been slammed a lot in recent months about it's lackluster handling of Java security. Now Oracle is responding as strongly as it can with one of the largest Java security updates in history. 50 flaws in total with the vast majority carrying the highest-possible CVSS score of 10.
Will this finally be the patch that makes Java secure?
Will this finally be the patch that makes Java secure?
Submission + - Making the Mobile Web Faster (acm.org)
CowboyRobot writes: "Kate Matsudaira, writing for the ACM, explains why accessing the Web on mobile devices is often so slow, and what can be done on the back-end to speed it up.
The mobile Web is about as slow as the desktop Web was ten years ago. Part of the reason why is that many sites are bloated with dozens or even hundreds of HTTP requests per page. We may not notice the consequences of that on a desktop, which is what has allowed designers to get away with it for so long. Another of the several problems is that many mobile sites require one or more redirects since the content is at 'mobile.domain.com' instead of 'www.domain,com'. The suggested solutions include: Use CSS instead of images where possible to minimize HTTP requests; avoid redirects and minimize DNS lookups; use HTTP pipelining and SPDY; and avoid or minimize cookies."
The mobile Web is about as slow as the desktop Web was ten years ago. Part of the reason why is that many sites are bloated with dozens or even hundreds of HTTP requests per page. We may not notice the consequences of that on a desktop, which is what has allowed designers to get away with it for so long. Another of the several problems is that many mobile sites require one or more redirects since the content is at 'mobile.domain.com' instead of 'www.domain,com'. The suggested solutions include: Use CSS instead of images where possible to minimize HTTP requests; avoid redirects and minimize DNS lookups; use HTTP pipelining and SPDY; and avoid or minimize cookies."
