Comment NSA Security Recommendations for iOS (Score 1) 138
Here's the NSAs recommendations for securing iOS devices: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/applemac/Apple_iOS_5_Guide.pdf
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Submission + - Google NativeClient CPU Whitelist Maintained By Ex-Intel Director (google.com)
HuvahCraftah writes: Apparently, anti-competitive habits die hard. After leaving his Director position at Intel, Brad Chen became the gatekeeper at Google for which processors you are allowed to run NativeClient apps on. When confronted, he initially cites "incorrect x86 implementations" as the main concern and then bizarrely turns that upside-down and says that only processors with documented incorrect x86 implementations are allowed to run NativeClient applications.
Submission + - Google Maps adds support for 8-bit devices.
An anonymous reader writes: Today Google announced that they will be adding support for one of the most popular computer systems ever — the NES. Google Maps' youtube page has more details: http://www.youtube.com/googlemaps
A preview version is available at maps.google.com by clicking on the "Quest" layer. The preview also hints that there may be several hidden easter eggs around the globe such as this one: http://maps.google.com/?ll=57.331016,-4.4032&spn=0.026825,0.077162&t=8&z=14
I'm sure all of this has nothing to do with the upcoming (or already happening, depending on where you are) April Fool's Day. Happy Questing and look out for those monsters out there!
A preview version is available at maps.google.com by clicking on the "Quest" layer. The preview also hints that there may be several hidden easter eggs around the globe such as this one: http://maps.google.com/?ll=57.331016,-4.4032&spn=0.026825,0.077162&t=8&z=14
I'm sure all of this has nothing to do with the upcoming (or already happening, depending on where you are) April Fool's Day. Happy Questing and look out for those monsters out there!
Comment Useful Links (Score 5, Informative) 105
This submission looks like typical content farm / blogspam junk so here's some useful links instead:
- The BrowserID main page: https://www.browserid.org/
- Mozilla Identity Team's blog: http://identity.mozilla.com/
- Source Code: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid
Comment Re:Long awaited? (Score 5, Interesting) 65
Do you really want to be using a library from someone who thinks 'odd' means divisible by 3? Or that you'd need a library function for this? but hey at least he's got tests...
https://github.com/ollym/toolkit/commit/ede890a31eb1cad52d8f3bcd30e5c0afa8cc60e3
Comment Re:Washington "State" (Score 1, Offtopic) 181
The ironic part is that the originally proposed name for the state was Columbia but Congress thought that would be too easily confused with the District of Columbia.
