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Comment MS silverlight (Score 1) 119

by askksa on Monday July 27, 2009 @12:15PM (#28839897) Attached to: Microsoft Uses Human Computing Game To Tune Bing

needs MS silverlight to run

Comment Re:How can this be anything but lame? (Score 1) 194

by askksa on Thursday July 02, 2009 @01:56PM (#28562003) Attached to: Universal Lands Rights To <em>Asteroids</em> Movie

you mean Pac Man the movie? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWL6j0SvqV0&feature=fvst

Comment Reminds me of timing attacks. (Score 1) 174

by askksa on Thursday July 02, 2009 @10:28AM (#28558225) Attached to: Your Browser History Is Showing

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/pub/webtiming.pdf

Comment Get rid of passwords.. (Score 1) 849

by askksa on Thursday June 25, 2009 @03:02PM (#28471091) Attached to: Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords

Why not get rid of the concept of passwords? Isn't public key-cryptography perfectly designed to do so?

Comment Re:Optimistic guy (Score 3, Interesting) 127

by askksa on Thursday June 25, 2009 @10:28AM (#28466865) Attached to: Kaminsky On DNS Bugs a Year Later and DNSSEC

There are numerous issues with implementing DNSSEC. The idea has been around for like 14 years now. Also, there are alternatives like DNSCurve which provide more security with considerable ease of deployment.

Comment distintion between OS and browser (Score 1) 294

by askksa on Thursday February 26, 2009 @12:24PM (#27000141) Attached to: The Future of Google Chrome

I guess the distinction between OS and browser does not matter much in the sense that eventually most browser will implement each browser tab/window as a different process. Which is actually a good thing. It can be used to enforce a stronger Same Origin Policy.

My Job Went To India 396

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @11:11AM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Josh Skillings writes "The author, Chad Fowler, draws upon his experiences as a software engineer, a team leader over a group of Indian developers, and as a jazz musician, to describe 52 ways or tips that will help you to become a more valuable employee. These tips are described in two or three pages each, and are usually illustrated by a practical example or story. The tips are well thought-out, well-explained and make sense. Chad draws upon the open source movement as well, highlighting ways that contributing to and learning from open source can improve your career. These tips gave me greater respect and appreciation for the open source movement in general." Read on for the rest of Josh's review.

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