Comment Re:Oil Sands (Score 3, Funny) 165
Careful now... last time you declared war on Canada, your White House was burned to the ground.
Comment Re:If you don't like it (Score 1) 127
I had teksavvy for a couple weeks, but ended up having to cancel because Telus has old rickety phone lines in my area and so I could only get a high latency interleaved DSL connection. The ten savvy help desk is/was staffed by high quality personnel. It's really too bad the Telus has such shit lines...
Submission + - How Broken Is The Internet?
rueger writes: The NSA ( or your local variant) can capture or watch everything that you do on-line. Hacker/hacktivist/script kiddie groups shut down or deface large websites on a regular basis. Large companies attain market dominance then arbitrarily change terms and conditions, eliminate features and tools that millions of people use, and then sell your private information to the highest bidder. Companies as big as Adobe and as small as the town that I live next to get hacked, with customer data disappearing into places unknown. And we, the end users, are forced into computational gymnastics trying to satisfy password, user ID, captcha, and multi level authentication requirements that offer more of an obstacle than a protection.
There are now web sites that I don't use because of pop-ups; because I can never manage to actually remember the obscure password that I had to create, because they're paywalled, or because they've totally ruined their interface in the name of progress. Or that haven't bothered to update their code so that it functions on a mobile device. Or that bury real content under a deluge of advertising.
And of course there's The Cloud, a non-existent place where data floats around under the control of some other corporation, and where there's always a more than minimal chance that one morning the company, or just your data, will disappear. As in, what happens when the imps that hacked Adobe, or a government web site, manage to get into Amazon or Microsoft's cloud operations?
So, I ask. just how broken is the Internet today? And what can be done to fix it?
There are now web sites that I don't use because of pop-ups; because I can never manage to actually remember the obscure password that I had to create, because they're paywalled, or because they've totally ruined their interface in the name of progress. Or that haven't bothered to update their code so that it functions on a mobile device. Or that bury real content under a deluge of advertising.
And of course there's The Cloud, a non-existent place where data floats around under the control of some other corporation, and where there's always a more than minimal chance that one morning the company, or just your data, will disappear. As in, what happens when the imps that hacked Adobe, or a government web site, manage to get into Amazon or Microsoft's cloud operations?
So, I ask. just how broken is the Internet today? And what can be done to fix it?
Comment Re:Speed vs. Strategy (Score 1) 109
I really like that question!
My question would be: WC3 introduced heros and creep camps that encouraged roaming around outside the base. SC2 remained pure units (no heros). Do you think that blizzard may resurrect the hero/creep style in the future?
My question would be: WC3 introduced heros and creep camps that encouraged roaming around outside the base. SC2 remained pure units (no heros). Do you think that blizzard may resurrect the hero/creep style in the future?
Comment Re:You can charge with fire today (Score 1) 126
Next time, you should just buy a ups or power inverter for your car...
Comment Re:Lunar clocks? (Score 1) 91
Warewolfs
Comment Re:old, really old, news (Score 5, Insightful) 586
The point is that of 4 safeguards in place, 3 failed to properly work. That's not concerning?
Comment First sentance should read : (Score 1) 216
Stephen Harper and the Harper government...
He demanded it, and it should be used in all articles, not just positive ones.
He demanded it, and it should be used in all articles, not just positive ones.
Tumblr Follows Instagram - Reveals Plan For More Ads 75
cagraham writes "Following close on the heels of Instagram's advertising announcement last week, Tumblr has signed an agreement with analytics firm DataSift to provide info to advertisers on user behavior. According to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who oversaw the recent $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr, advertising on the site will become increasingly prevalent throughout 2014. DataSift will provide advertisers with info on the 5.5 billion interactions that occur on the site each day. This makes Tumblr the latest in a slew of recent tech companies to turn towards targeted ads in an attempt to generate revenue."
Twitter is another customer of DataSift.
Comment Re:Let us endeavour to create better encription (Score 4, Funny) 607
You actually have to do it three times to be secure - like 3DES
Comment Re:Stack Overflow (Score 3, Insightful) 211
Sometimes when you are out of ideas, even a wrong idea can be a help.
Comment Re:Source code (Score 0) 211
Hate to reply to myself, but I forgot /?
Comment Re:Source code (Score 3, Informative) 211
-h? Next time, use all three of these: -?, -help, --help. I'm probably not going to try throwing -h at a program without having a clue what it might do.
Comment Re:Documentation vs Tutorial (Score 2) 211
One problem I encounter all the time is what level of competence should be assumed? If I write "try ping host xyz" should I assume they can successfully pingtest something and interpret the results? For ping, yes maybe I should assume that, but what about grep? Grep isn't officially supported by the organization so...
I feel like I'm wasting my time writing instructions for simple tasks, but I also feel that I have to write as I though a monkey is the intended audience. I hate to say it, but it's the godawful truth, that there are too many people in IT that can only read-and-do.
I feel like I'm wasting my time writing instructions for simple tasks, but I also feel that I have to write as I though a monkey is the intended audience. I hate to say it, but it's the godawful truth, that there are too many people in IT that can only read-and-do.
Comment Regular Expressions. (Score 1) 121
Get some computers with Notepad++ installed on them and a file that has some various lines of text. Teach them about pattern matching and regular expressions. It doesn't really require any previous knowledge, and it makes you kind of think like a programmer. It's very useful even if you only have a basic knowledge of it, especially when tearing through log files with grep. Some of the students might not find it interesting at all, but I think you'll find that regardless of what you do.
