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Amazing. Well done. Thank you.

I'm forgetting - which author wrote about 'Friends of Privacy' who would create false profiles and websites in order to protect the populace? Question for you - how much would you …

A very handy question to ask yourself: "How is that serving me?" Today was yet another day I didn't start something from my list of ideas. I didn't have to put in hard work, got to…

Great article, and a good moral. It does fail lesson #1 of journalism though: put the important bits at the beginning, not the end. It was tedious to read through a history I alrea…

Relevant link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania It popped all right. The largest players that survived were a sound investment. But then again, if you invested in Microso…

Tricky. I'm in a similar position (3.5 years of info sec background) and I'm willing to work anywhere in the entire world. The problem becomes interviewing; nobody wants to fly me …

As someone who struggles to come up with 'lifestyle business' ideas, his advice on just talking to people was like a punch in the gut. So obvious it hurts, yet I ignore it and spen…

Why not just post these questions on stack overflow, under the 'security' tag?

Interesting but incomplete. Furthermore, really bad science. This sounds like an undergrad research study (use LUKE, an automated text analyzer, to count 'meaningful' words), then …

Apple won this round because they already had access to people's pocketbooks through existing iTunes users. It will take years (5?) for any other company to build up a marketplace …

Check out CouchSurfing for an example of how to solve this problem. Craig is just talking about how to make it universal rather than site-specific. CouchSurfing provides enough tru…

There is already a "Great Halving" underway, where people find personal satisfaction and prestige by working less than 40 hours a week. As an ex-pat, I meet a lot of people running…

It's my fault and people like me. Reddit's quality has been dipping significantly lately (there's been 3-5 front page self posts on "are you smart but too lazy to do anything with …

This form of "Do one thing" implies minimal action to solve a complex problem. It's picking off the low-hanging fruit. There are times when it's appropriate and times when it isn't…