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Progressively disclosing required fields is silly. Doing it two fields at a time is asinine.

1. Remember that you will probably not graduate with a 4.0. Your first C is going to hurt, especially if you were an A student in high school. Just keep going. 2. Don't worry about…

>A versatile low-volume manufacturing facility might have greater value than a specialized high volume one in places with mediocre industrial and commercial infrastructure. I would…

I think that's focusing in the wrong direction. The costs involved set a high-enough barrier for the first world, let alone impoverished countries. The focus should be on simplifyi…

If Facebook exposes your account information to everyone when your friends tag you in their photos, and you have tagged photos set private, that's a definite leak of data. However,…

The collision problem is a huge deal. You can no longer trust a MD5 signed object. http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/ has some great, and very scary examples.

>It's good to understand this - High School and continued education matter, because nobody is getting a good union job at the factory any more. I think that's a very important dist…

Timely article, after I (a mechanically disinclined person) just replaced the thermostat on my '93 Camry -- a simple job for most, but hard for me. And a very interesting read. >Th…

That seems like a decent security precaution. However, since astalavista was the site in question, you will probably be safer to visit after the hack.

>Apple did not invent the phone, mp3 player, video player, application store, etc. They just perfected and skillfully crafted hypes around them. Microsoft did not invent the Office…

Thanks, Thomas. I just finished implementing my own crypto in a webapp I am working on. (AES, with Diffie Hellman for a shared secret we needed) You've made me so nervous about eve…

You're absolutely right: simulating a human brain is the shortest path to solving problems that relate... to the human brain. No other guarantees exist. It's going to be difficult …

If the site allows the user to chose their own security question, the user will find a way to render it useless. They will either input something far more trivial, or they will inp…

>From my reading, he appears to have avoided many traps of assumption, traps that the interviewer blundered into without even noticing. In my experience, if the interviewer seems t…

I'd take your statement one step further: if you are citing anything that isn't a primary source, you're very likely "doing it wrong". Sources like Wikipedia or other encyclopedias…

He didn't. The attacker helped out with a site that didn't use OpenID and doesn't salt their passwords. And Jeff used an insecure password on both the "evil site" and his Open ID p…

I'm guessing that, by posting here, you are probably interested in a programming/tech career. While it's true that you can get hired without any formal education, the unfortunate t…

One option is LiteStep ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep ), which can make the Windows UI like AfterStep. A friend of mine uses it and claims it works very well. Some other s…

But when a large site like Facebook stops supporting IE6, lots of people will upgrade. Facebook is an "important" site, in that people want to use it, no matter what. I'd say the m…