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New Tool Reveals Internet Passwords 140

Posted by CmdrTaco from the change-early-change-often dept.
wiredmikey writes "A new password cracking tool released today instantly reveals cached passwords to websites in Microsoft Internet Explorer, and mailbox and identity passwords in all versions of Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook, Windows Mail, and Windows Live Mail."
Cellphones

Microsoft Kills the Kin 351

Posted by samzenpus from the we-hardly-knew-you dept.
adeelarshad82 writes "The Microsoft Kin is dead, or at least it doesn't have a future as a standalone product. Microsoft released a statement suggesting that it's cutting bait on the Windows Phone 7 spinoff and folding the project's staff and technologies into the main body of Windows Phone 7. For now, it seems like Verizon Wireless will continue to sell Kin phones. But with the Kin team essentially disbanded, it's hard to see future updates and support for the line being a priority within Microsoft."
It's funny. Laugh.

Fark Creator Slams 'the Wisdom of Crowds' 507

Posted by timothy from the respond-below-with-wit-and-vigor dept.
GovTechGuy writes with some harsh words from Fark.com founder Drew Curtis, speaking at a conference Tuesday in Washington, DC: "'The "wisdom of the crowds" is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb,' Curtis said. 'It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.' Curtis pointed to his own experience moderating comments on Fark, which allows users to give their often humorous take on the news of the day. He said only one percent of Web comments have any value and called the rest 'garbage.' Another example Curtis pointed to is the America Speaking Out website recently launched by House Republicans to allow the public to weigh in on the issues and vote for policy positions they support. Curtis called the site an 'absolute train wreck.' 'It's an absolute disaster. It's impossible to tell who was kidding and who wasn't,' Curtis said."
Math

The Tuesday Birthday Problem 981

Posted by kdawson from the if-it's-tuesday-it-must-be-a-girl dept.
An anonymous reader sends in a mathematical puzzle introduced at the recent Gathering 4 Gardner, a convention of mathematicians, magicians, and puzzle enthusiasts held biannually in Atlanta. The Tuesday Birthday Problem is simply stated, but tends to mislead both intuitive and mathematically informed guesses. "I have two children, one of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?" The submitter adds, "Believe it or not, the Tuesday thing is relevant. Well, sort of. It's ambiguous."
United States

One Year Later, USPS Looks Into Gamefly Complaint 183

Posted by Soulskill from the good-luck-answering-in-less-than-a-year dept.
Last April, we discussed news that video game rental service GameFly had complained to the USPS that a large quantity of their game discs were broken in transit, accusing the postal service of giving preferential treatment to more traditional DVD rental companies like Netflix. Now, just over a year later, an anonymous reader sends word that the USPS has responded with a detailed inquiry into GameFly's situation (PDF). The inquiry's 46 questions (many of which are multi-part) cover just about everything you could imagine concerning GameFly's distribution methods. Most of them are simple, yet painstaking, in a way only government agencies can manage. Here are a few of them: "What threshold does GameFly consider to be an acceptable loss/theft rate? Please provide the research that determined this rate. ... What is the transportation cost incurred by GameFly to transport its mail from each GameFly distribution center to the postal facility used by that distribution center? ... Please describe the total cost that GameFly would incur if it expanded its distribution network to sixty or one hundred twenty locations. In your answer, please itemize costs separately. ... Does the age of a gaming DVD or the number of times played have more effect on the average life cycle of a gaming DVD?"

Comment Test them before the interview (Score 1) 1057

by skyggen (#25008919) Attached to: Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews?
When I post a job I first write the entire post with requirements. First I start by saying what type of person I'm looking for. Our culture in our IT dept is of the basement dwelling D&D crowd. I don't want anyone fucking up our Chi. Second I state WTF I'm looking for in a very blatant manner. i.e. Looking for developer who uses vi or emacs. If your going to put down Dreamweaver move along. Lastly I encode the whole thing in hex, base64 or something like that. For my network admin I set-up a dummy box with IP tables using port knocking in order to get the email address to apply to the job. This pretty much insures quality in the interviews. As for the interviews I don't have tests some random HR jackass can ask. I interview everyone. I show them a project or code and say "How do you do this?" Good examples: The DVD CD catalog question "Build a Database that stores cd/dvds and the genres they belong to. Whats the best way to see if a file system has changed? For extra squirm points interview them in a room with a big white board and draw-up the flow of a major project. I find this lets them know just how good our dept is. This works for me. All my guys own.

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