"the ideal way to teach children is by a tutor" Every child learns somewhat differently from others. Some learn best in a large group lecture/suck-in-the-information model, some learn best by experimentation, and yes, some learn best with one-on-one tutor-style interaction. There is no such thing as the ideal way to teach children, there is only an ideal way to teach this singular child and that will never be exactly the same between two different children.

The supercomputers in Jurassic Park were Thinking Machines systems, not Crays.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation

2% overhead PER SESSION. When you're talking about a server dealing with thousands upon thousands of simultaneous connections, that's a heckuva lot of overhead.

Oh good lord, does anyone actually check stories anymore before posting? This is twice is one day!

Read the New FAQ on the site. Here's a link. Look at the last question. They are not going closed source, they just haven't packaged it up yet and released it. They will.

Technically, the ICS SDK is out, which is more of a pre-release of the OS for developers so we can get apps ready for it. Until an actual device appears running ICS, I don't think I would say it is "out."

And yes ... Google will release it.

And yes ... this article is horribly misinformed.

If you're going to quote, get the quote right.

Mr Fusion powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor. But the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline, it always has.

You worry about your dad needing to change one BIOS setting, but expect him to set up a dual boot environment to try Linux out? Or blow away Windows to install Linux? Huh.

As to where does this leave your dad? He should probably run Linux within a virtual machine on his new Windows PC. No mess, no fuss. Seriously, I've stopped dual booting systems years ago...with modern VT-enabled chips, virtualization is sooooooooooo much of a superior approach.

This.

UEFI Secure Boot allows you (the user/owner of the machine) to choose to verify that what you are truly booting is what you think it is. If you boot Windows 8 using this approach, you gain a higher degree of assurance that you're booting legit Microsoft code and not something that someone has infected your computer with. This is a big win for the *vast* majority of desktop users as most of them run Windows and most of them have a legitimate desire to not get bit by malware.

If you to not use this, and want to run Linux, one of the BSDs, or anything else, go into your BIOS and turn it off. Plain and simple. You can boot anything darn thing you want, you just don't get the cryptographic verification that you're booting what you think you are. *Your Choice.*

Most common approach to password cracking = brute force, targeting the specific hash (with the specific salt) of the account you're trying to crack. Step one of such an attack = determining the hash and salt that you're targeting. Which is what he figured out. If he's now bruteforcing those hashes, then he absolutely is cracking the passwords (well, he's trying to anyway).

But your basic point is right...he's figured out a way to capture hash/salt data, which he still should not be able to do. Since Lion uses SHA-256 hashes for its shadow file, that cracking attempt is still going to be quite difficult.

The more important part of this article is that under some circumstances, you can change the password of the logged in user without entering the current password. Now, *that* is a big deal (the degree of which is subject to valid debate).

It's not stupid. It's NetFlix acknowledging that streaming is how people will watch content in the future. They are putting themselves 100% on the bleeding edge of all-streaming with no physical media. Now, there are a whole bunch of people that still want DVDs...and that's why they are still playing in that area at all. However, five years from now, when no one wants DVDs at all, they can just kill Quickster. Meanwhile, NetFlix becomes the dominant king of streaming content, as they can dedicate themselves 100% to that. It's not about innovating both business models anymore. It's about milking the DVD market as it dies while still allowing themselves to focus entirely on the streaming market, which is the future.

The Hawaii Ironman is broadcast on NBC Sports.

Writing Secure Code, from Howard and LeBlanc, is an *excellent* book on the topic. It's somewhat Windows-centric, and somewhat outdated right now, but all of the application security fundamentals are in there and they are all explained very well.

Gary McGraw is a very well-known and well-respected individual in the field of software/application security.

Kaminsky has a very clear writeup about why OSCP does not really address these problems as good as one might think it would. Check it out here, about 3/4 of the way down. http://dankaminsky.com/2011/08/31/notnotar/

So...they are pretty much building LCARS. Finally.