"Microsoft supports its technologies like high school students support their relationships."

Excellent, I'm going to borrow that!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mobile-OTP (http://motp.sourceforge.net/). Perhaps it's a bit older, but it's absolutely free assuming your users have a mobile phone. (It doesn't even necessarily have to be a smart phone). We use this to secure our SSH gateways and it's not bad to set up -- it uses PAM.

Here's an interesting article that looks at the legal aspects of this case:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

tl;dr version: The charges are bullshit.

Considering that if it is a real threat (i.e. there's a real device planted) then yes, a real bomb threat is smart, in that it gives time for people to be evacuated.

Now actually *planting* a device in the first place is stupid.

Many apartments are like this. Here in the Boston area there are quite a few apartment buildings with central heat that individual units have no control over. It's especially bad with those damn steam radiators. Depending on what kind of insulation you have, part of a room will be boiling hot and the other part will be freezing. If you stand in between the two extremes and rotate, you can kind of keep yourself at a comfortable temperature, but that's a bit... awkward to do.

Ok, now it makes sense. I'd originally read that as 1000 BUCKS an hour in the summary and was trying to figure out what the hell they meant!

(Grrr, thought I was logged in.)

I've decided that my next phone (soon, I hope) is going to be the S3. I'd been holding out with my iPhone 4 for a while, waiting (like many others, I suspect) to see what Apple would wow us with for the iPhone 5. Needless to say, I wasn't that impressed, though to be honest, part of me really didn't expect to be, given that there are only so many innovations they could have come up with. What could they have done? An even bigger screen? NFC? A phone you could roll up? The first two would hardly have been groundbreaking and the latter is tech that doesn't really exist yet.

Still, at the end of the day, I'm sure I could be happy with the 5, but I'm ready to play with a new toy. I've never had an Android device before, but got a chance to play with a tablet and some phones over my vacation, and I liked what I saw.

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I use Mobile OTP (http://motp.sourceforge.net/) for two-factor auth at work. Once I figured out the PAM side of things, it was quite straight-forward. I installed it on my server at home as well, but I'm a little more relaxed about it -- I allow ssh from a few "trusted" boxes via ssh-keys, otherwise it requires password+OTP token authentication. Now, I just have to worry about keeping those "trusted" boxes safe. (I do have a password on the ssh keys, but wonder if I have a long-running login session with the keys installed into ssh-agent, I might be boned anyway if someone were to break in.)

Please! I wasn't on FB before it was cool to not be on FB. Instead, I'm on a different social networking site. You probably haven't heard of it.

Oh, I'm sure they knew what they were doing with the big banana reference. The best cartoons are the ones with "adult" jokes that the kids would miss completely. That way, it's fun for the whole family.

Yup, that's an excellent description of what it's like -- I think I actually described it that way ("feeling" it rather than hearing it) once actually. I only found it mildly annoying though. I always thought it was a cool (if somewhat useless) "superpower."

Nice to see I'm not the only one. I worked in a computer lab in college for a bit and would always be the one to walk around and turn off the CRT monitors that had been left on at the end of the day (though with a room full of them, it still takes a bit of time -- the sound isn't particularly directional). Never found anyone else around who knew what the hell I was talking about until now.

I have the opposite problem. I try to use Ctrl+F (well, grep actually) in the real world. Don't tell me you haven't. I can't recall the number of times I've been reading a book, deciding I want to search for something, and caught myself thinking "I'll just grep for.... oh shit."

It happens less and less now, since I've started using the iPad as a book reader. Now the only really annoying thing is getting a non-searchable PDF, which is fortunately pretty rare.

From 2005:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/05/02/14/1519212/The-Cure-for-Cancer-Might-be-HIV

I thought the subject of this story sounded familiar. Seems like they've made progress! Let's hope it stands up to further studies. Many, many promising treatments turn out to be fools' gold.

With such a hefty price tag, Apple clearly must have serious plans for the cloud in the pipeline..."

Considering the size of Apple, 4.5 mil is chump change. I don't really think that indicates anything about "serious plans."