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Comment Why protect against brute force attacks? (Score 1) 276

Excuse my ignorance, but why not have a system that locks you out after three attempts and sends an email to your previously verified email account?

Why all this focus on "unguessable" passwords when it looks like if you have a powerful enough computer you can guess most in minutes?

Ok perhaps banks & public utilities need all the crypto stuff, but Joe-sixpack? Surely there's a more elegant solution than getting people to remember unmemorable passwords (which leads to post-it note on the monitor syndrome anyway)

Comment Re:Corporate sales? (Score 2) 494

I worked at a managed services business last year - they were an MS partner / reseller. All their solutions were MS based. So what did their senior execs use? - Powerbooks running windows of course.

I hazard to guess for the same reason - they looked cool and matched their iphones....

Comment Simplicity (+backup) (Score 1) 366

I try to keep stuff simple and make it a natural part of my routine (that way its gets done). Plus I try and have a backup system, just in case.

- Gmail for notes to myself and digital emphemera
- delicious for bookmarks, internet links, recipes, articles (the feed of my links is backed up via email to my gmail)
- 2x hard drives for photos & music (don 't worry about movies, since I only watch them once). Flickr also for photos.
- Dropbox for all recent documents (the type of stuff you would find in PC's "my documents" folder) - this syncs across my pc, netbook, and allows access to my documents via my phone.
- a big drawer for all hard copy receipts & documents. once a year at tax time it gets sorted and the stuff I want to keep gets put into a folder for that year.

They key is that all electronic stuff is searchable, so need to worry about tags, folder structures or databases (with the exception of folders for mp3 albums).

Everything is backed up (with the exception of hard copy stuff - too lazy to scan it)

I like the idea of evernote - but what happens if evernote goes down? Everything will be lost. That said I am a little reliant on Gmail. But if google goes down, then the internet has imploded anyway.

Submission + - TechCrunch sold to AOL for $40m (latimes.com)

Phurge writes: AOL Inc. is buying TechCrunch for as much as $40 million in a high-profile partnership that weds the struggling Internet giant trying to reclaim its former glory with one of the more influential blogs in the technology industry.

AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong joined TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington onstage Tuesday to make the announcement at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.

Arrington, 40, an outspoken entrepreneur who built a hobby chronicling the rise and fall of young companies into a Silicon Valley powerhouse, said San Francisco-based TechCrunch would operate as a subsidiary and retain its distinctive editorial direction.
AOL's Armstrong, who is hiring hundreds of writers to create original news content and snapping up content companies to capture more users and advertisers, said the TechCrunch purchase would give AOL "a much larger tech presence." AOL already operates Engadget, a TechCrunch competitor, which it bought in 2005.

See also: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/why-we-sold-techcrunch-to-aol-and-where-we-go-from-here/

Hardware

Submission + - Sony Ericsson preps micro display for Android (goodgearguide.com.au)

angry tapir writes: "Sony Ericsson has unveiled a remote control with a 1.3-inch screen that will allow Android smartphone users to view Facebook and Twitter updates and control their phone's music player. The LiveView connects to the phone over Bluetooth, and can also be used to see missed calls and incoming text messages, and view RSS feeds."

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