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Submission + - Is China Wiring Africa for Surveillance? (vice.com)

Daniel_Stuckey writes: Huawei has invested billions of dollars in Africa over the last two decades, providing affordable cell phones, internet access, and telecommunications networks to the continent. Over the last few months Huawei has closed major deals in Africa to get more areas on the grid. The company says it's bridging the digital divide, but others suspect it's wiring the continent for surveillance.

Submission + - Stop standardizing HTML (oreilly.com)

pfignaux writes: When HTML first appeared, it offered a coherent if limited vocabulary for sharing content on the newly created World Wide Web. Today, after HTML has handed off most of its actual work to other specifications, it’s time to stop worrying about this central core and let developers choose their own markup vocabularies and processing.

Comment Seriously... (Score 1) 164

would anyone ever have guessed Snoop would sell out so hard? Everyone mellows with age but I thought he'd sold out completely when he appeared on a Katy Perry tune. Now he's pimpin Norton software? "Hack is wack?" Really?

Next thing he's gonna be doing infomercials for the Snooptisserie Oven.

Comment 90% is probably low (Score 1) 65

I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number is much, much higher. This has always been a problem with software development, I'm not sure why anyone thought it got better when apps became web-based. When your business depends on apps being up and running (or running the newest, coolest features) security is usually not the highest priority.

As a vendor I sit in meetings all the time with app architects and even security people (up to and including CISOs) at some of the biggest corporations in the world who freely admit to the horrid security holes in their apps. Worse, a lot of them think their packet inspection firewall will protect them. Layer 7 attacks are still not very well understood or appreciated by a lot of IT people.

Comment Re:IT's ALL LOCAL TV !!! -- WHO CARES! (Score 1) 291

Wow, this would actually be a worthwhile post if the author actually stopped to consider the fact that not everyone can get HD locals by antenna.

I live in Southern NH. I'm over 40 miles from Boston and I live in a hilly area. Further, I own a condo and the bylaws don't allow me to put up an outside antenna.

All this being said, I am considered to be in the Boston market when it comes to TV (there's only one Southern NH based network affiliate). So, my choices for HD locals are Comcast or DirecTV. I'm a DirecTV customer, so I'm glad they launched the sat.

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