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I also agree that Apple has a right to curate their store. But I disagree that the only store I should be allowed to buy from is Apple's.

Not if you are doing your login correctly. You shouldn't need to send passwords to a server to login, just hashes of passwords. That's the point. If your server ever needs to see a real password after the account is created or the password is updated, you have introduced a new vector of attack.

Done correctly, login is an exchange of hashes, not encrypted passwords.

I would avoid Mozy. I was using them with their unlimited plan. Less than a year ago, they dropped their unlimited plan and the new plan would have quadrupled my costs.

I switched to CrashPlan and have been happy so far.

With my current usage (just over 125 GB), it would cost me $11.99 per month for Mozy. I payed CrashPlan $118.99 for 4 years of unlimited usage, or less than $2.50 per month.

Mozy essentially "fired" me as a customer. They stated that some customers were using too much data on their unlimited plan and introduced the new tiered price structure with the intention of pushing out the heavy users. Seems odd to me, since I only backup my music, photos, and important documents. I don't even backup my videos.

It just didn't make sense for me to stay with them. The idea of charging $2/month for each 20GB above 125 seems pretty steep. And since the amount I back up will grow over time, so will my month cost.

Is this memory that is needed for some other application you are running? Is your system running low on virtual memory? If not, what is the problem with FF using it? From what I've seen (at least with FF6), when system memory gets low FF will start to release memory back.

I'd rather have FF use the memory for cache to speed up performance than to have it sit unused.

Moral of the story: Don't be a dick.

I can't remember the last time I flipped someone off. Certainly not some truck driver passing another truck slower than I would like. I reserve the middle finger for the epically stupid, where someone has done something exceedingly dangerous.

I know of at least one company that tried this and failed. It was quite a long time ago and targeted large companies, but it did work. To give you an idea of how long ago, it was written for PocketPC 3.0.

The company is now defunct.

He used 6 dates:

Oct. 3, 2008 - Rachel Getting Married opens: BRK.A up .44% Jan. 5, 2009 - Bride Wars opens: BRK.A up 2.61% Feb. 8, 2010 - Valentine's Day opens: BRK.A up 1.01% March 5, 2010 - Alice in Wonderland opens: BRK.A up .74% Nov. 24, 2010 - Love and Other Drugs opens: BRK.A up 1.62% Nov. 29, 2010 - Anne announced as co-host of the Oscars: BRK.A up .25%

I'm not a statistician, but 6 dates could hardly be considered a correlation. I would also think that no Anne Hathaway news should result in no positive price changes for a correlation to exist.

Seems like the article confuses correlation with "funny coincidence".

And it certainly doesn't "drive" the stock, as the headline states. That implies a causation, which is even stronger than a correlation.

Pretty sure that is the best part.

Somewhat disappointing. The subject matter was not a difficult one. Not to say it wasn't well done, but it was not as challenging of a subject as a person or animal would be.

I think Sofronis Efstathiou sums it up nicely in the article. Nice job, but nothing groundbreaking.

This is genius.

The eye opener for me is the lack of end to end security. I generally avoid doing anything requiring https on my iPhone, but now I know to NEVER do anything that requires security on Opera Mini. Of course, this assumes that it actually gets approved...

For my last side gig I charged $100/hr. I didn't need the gig, nor did I really want it, since I had just changed real jobs. They didn't like the price, but went for it anyway.

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If the bank's software decides to munge some data, no one dies. If your $2K laptop crashes, no one dies.

The cost (both financial and human) of an aviation failure far exceeds the cost of your laptop crashing.

Large gains always means you are assuming a large risk. No one has yet to come up with a way of removing (or greatly reducing) risk without also greatly reducing the gains.

Ignore large gains at your own peril.

And my car's speed approaches that of an SR-71.

Sure, it is fast for a mobile device, but it is still damn slow compared to a "real" computer.

Some people love their work. Work is as interesting to them as any hobby they might have. I count myself among those who love their work. My boss has a hard time getting me to take my vacation time. Anything more than 4 days away from work and I start to get fidgety. Sure, I have my other hobbies, but work is my favorite.

Came here to say that...

Seriously, penalty shots?

There is some serious smack-down in that NASA article.

"In the early 20th century there were periods of quiet lasting almost twice as long as the current spell."

"In summary, "the current minimum is not abnormally low or long.""

"Hathaway anticipates more spotless days, maybe even hundreds, followed by a return to Solar Max conditions in the years around 2012."

Along with some interesting graphs, it looks like everything is business as usual for the sun.

A google search on the author, Rebecca Sato, shows that she typically writes lots of "what if" and other fluff pieces.

Sounds like fear mongering to me.

I'm with the whole DVD thing. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a box of discs in a postal van. The ping time on the other hand...

For those of you who swear in your code base, I ask you this: is it ok in your company to swear in a meeting? The code you write isn't just for you, it is for everyone on the team, including people you haven't met yet. Is that what you really want to communicate to others?

"Previously I was a "fast" hunt-and-pecker, except I didn't really hunt at all"

So, does that make you a pecker?

-- sorry, couldn't help myself.

That is a pretty good paper. I haven't gone through it in full detail, but the sections I read were excellent. Thanks!