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That's awesome! I'm actually working with a kind of CAH version, could be interested in buying it. What do you want for it?

A couple of good points but a rather popr presentation...

We had problems today. We had the bad luck that one of our web roles crashed during the time the admin interface was down. That meant we couldn't restart it and neither could microsoft. We will be adding instances to the role to avoid similar problems. Otherwise, we are very happy with Azure.

Without knowing much about Ron Paul, I was shocked to see you call Paul for females by repealing Roe vs Wade! Abortion should always be a womans own choice, not something the government should meddle with.

Vie?

I have tried all of them and now I use reeder and I'm very happy with it!

I got 19 800. As a Swedish non-native speaker I thought it was OK. The test needs to also show the averages for non-natives and natives separate.

That is a really bad way to set and remember passwords for most people. It's so complex, it must take a couple of minutes to calculate the password every time. Security that people actually USE, needs to be simple.

I usually use sentances with 4 or so words, that is odd enough to remember. I combine that with keepass safe for sites i only log into on my computers and synch it using dropbox. I also have access to it on my iphone and ipad. The combination of these techniques enable me to log into most sites without a password manager and all of them on the fly.

That is just great. Just what is needed to increase the chances the generation growing up now will be entrepreneurs. I will try to set us up as a host for something similar this fall here in Sweden. I am inspired by all actions to increase entrepreneurship and especially to children and teenagers.

I think the biggest problem is that the staff and sometimes the owners don't understand what is the biggest possible gain - to get people in the door and then blow them away with great service and great products. I guess Groupon and the other giants probably don't tell the companies this enough. If I buy a coupon and get great service (pretty much the opposite of the story above) I would come back and recommend it to my friends. What companies end up doing, is paying through their noses to spread bad reputation about themselves.

If the restaurant would have treated the customers like all the other guests and maybe let them order the more expensive bottle of wine while explaining that it's actually not included (with a smile!) those two guys would have walked out happy and would probably have returned.

Groupon and the other coupon sites is a marketing expense, so treat it like one. You don't put up ads in the magazine with a discount and then scare away the customers when they show up! I don't defend the coupon sites, they seem to take a whole lot of the money for a small benefit. However, if you go into the deal, you might as well make the best of it. They will use the groupon no matter if you're nice or not.

It's not without problems, sure we will be more vulnerable to somebody attacking the datastores keeping these locations. But honestly, so much data is stored about us already, this is not a bit enough leap to provoke a big outrage. It's just another piece of the monitoring puzzle, and a small piece at that. When I check my iPhone for apps using location service, I find ones that shouldn't need it, like "cut the rope", "dropbox" and "HuffPost". I also find services that really need my location to add value, like AirBnB and Tripit. When we start sharing our location, we get access to new services that can help our lives and we also expose our selves. If you don't think location services can add value to your life, buy another car and disable location sharing in your phone. If you do like the services that enhance your life with location services, enable it and learn to live with the fact that somebody might be able to figure out your movement habits. It's a tradeoff like everything in security.

It might work for a while but it would need to be more advanced to work. If not, the perps will just set up accounts that retweet each other. It would also have to meassure if the retweeting account has good karma as well, if not, don't count it. But hey, let the arms race begin!

When real news is not enough... Not surprising that the criminals stoop to such low tactics. Digg up real dirt on people deserving it instead! HBGary is a great example, they deserved it, Hypponen does not.

Another social media site that fails to get social media. Give value before requesting my information! Make it simple to go to the next step!

I think we all do it. And it's for good and bad. We constantly learn new things and gain a deeper understanding because of it. Our code becomes better. We can more easily try new technologies. But atthesame time, we commit fewer things to memory and rely on our search skills to find the code we used last time. On the whole, I am sure bot coders and companies benefit from this practice.

I agree on most of the tips, but believe they have missed a few. Find people (friends) that complement your own skills and personality. Teach your childre to try and fail quick, so they understand that faillure is a good thing.

I can't see anything identifying the car or driver? And it only sends it to RSS-feeds the driver is subscribing too? It should be in the manual, so that the owner knows it's happening, but I don't see much risk in it as long as the car isn't identified. It just says "there is a car here, going there". It can be used for so many great things, like diverting traffic to low volume areas, alert the driver to accidents and so forth. Be sure to only subscribe to feeds you trust. We are alreadytracked in so many ways eith our phones and cameras all over, this doesn't add any huge disadvantage as far a I can see.

Won't we have the same problem once it's implemented in browsers? They implement different things, in different ways. And XML does induce a lot of overhead compared to other ways to share data. I'm not against changing the way we code, but it has to be well thought out.

That is fail indeed... I saw a similar thing in a presentation from the owner of fanbooster the other day. Lot's of "broken glass" fan pages. Useless! Complete misunderstanding of what social media is. You need to provide a value to your connections before they give you likes.

Projections based on pure guesses are useless as information, but useful as a clue to the insights of the entrepreneur. However, projections based on real hard data, beta test growth, virality, those things can be valuable. It all depends on how the entrepreneur arrived at the conclusions.

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Until twitter sorts out this themselves, there is a need for something like a browser add-on that hides the following from hashtag searches: new accounts, Retweets, Accounts with less than 10 followers, Accounts that often tweet trending topics, Tweets with more than one trending hashtag

There is actually only one thing to do: Code! Get a couple of books in an easy language, maybe Ruby on Rails, or take online classes. Dedicate yourself to spend at least 200 hours (the more the better!) to learn and practice the language. If you enjoy it, CS might be for you. If you find it tedious and horrible, it's probably not for you.

I'm sure it's interesting, but no way I will fill in all that info just to take a look at it. Sorry. Put up a blog post at least to tease people and try again.

Yes, tungle is pretty great, i use it for most of my meeting bookings. The ability to give free times and that if i book another time in one of my linked calendars, is exactly what the calendar world needs. The view options i'm not sure about.

At first I saw the source (torrentfreak) and thought it would be a survey of their users... But it actually seems like it is a viably study with a good spread of the subjects. I am actually not that surprised. First of all, it's a Danish study. As I am myself living in the south of Sweden, I know that we and the danish have similar views, and that piracy is pretty well accepted here.

Even more interesting, would be a survey within a bigger geographical spread. Is there differences within Europe? What about the rest of the world? Are the opinions similar world wide? I would also appreciate a more detailed view into the selection of the group that answered.

The most interesting thing about the article is that it is spun very heavily in the direction of piracy... The actual answers about piracy for private use, is that less than 20% accept piracy, slightly over 30% not accepting it. The rest have answered that they are sceptical to piracy for personal use.

Accept is 7-10 on a scale from 1-10, sceptical is 2-6 and don't accept is 1 on the same scale. All from the linked report in Danish.

<rant>As others have said, the most serious thing is that it is a security company, and they seem to have ignored EVERY security best practice ever! Did they do anything right?

As a security specialist myself, I always do my very best to follow best practices, not only to protect myself, but to show others that I am willing to follow my own advice. I have met security people doing presentations that need to elevate to admin, and they are logged in as admin already. Sometimes even with UAC turned off. This completelly shatters my confidence in them. I am always logged in as normal user and have long (20+) passwords, and make sure people see that I have long passwords. I don't hold others to the same standard, but I know people. If they see that I use 20+ characters, they will not think that the 10 that I want them to use is that bad.

This is the way the security landscape should work. We should all set ourselves to much higher standards than the advice we give others. We should always follow up on it. We KNOW lazyness will cause breaches, so therefore we should never be lazy when it comes to security. For a security company - and especially the president - to have such low security lowers the confidence for the whole industry.

Yes, security is asymmetric. That is why companies must always follow at least the recommended best practices. If they are followed, the target might be too hard to break into and a hacker might go someplace else where it's easier to break in. Targeted attackers might still get it, but we should all make sure they have to work DAMN hard to succeed! If we start thinking that the attackars will succeed anyway, we might as well drop all defences. Display the admin passwords at the bottom of the "About us"-pages.

Bottom line, HBgary fucked up good. They showed the world that they give advice that they don't follow. They deserve the burn and anybody thinking about hiring them should think again. Even if they change the problems that allowed this breach, the basic problem is that they obviously don't understand security. If they did, none of this would have happened.

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Well, in light of this, we should all check the news for Elop's name in about a year from now...

That is just f*cked up but hardly surprising. How can anybody be elected CEO when it's pretty clear he will see to his own interests rather than the companys interests?

The original is interesting, the Pull is funny. Funny beats interesting most days of the week. I laughed at least, and I think most people did.

All the examples work for me. Something local? Solved?