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Clearly you should upgrade your hardware and just use a brute force method.

I loathe policies about expiring passwords because it breeds insecurity in the manner you mention. However, my company has this same policy, not because its been evaluated as being…

I have no inside knowledge, but I have generally found that things are usually not as good as people say they are, nor as bad as people say they are. Nevertheless, Yahoo clearly ha…

I wonder what they would do to ensure a network would be available in remote or combat situations. Perhaps the investment in technology and research would benefit the private secto…

This is what I have been thinking. If enough people refuse, its so inconvenient for them that they don't bother to hassle you.

If enough would choose opt out (despite the obvious intimidation tactics), then the entire process would become so inefficient that an easy, efficient alternate would be provided (…

I suppose while designing the OS, they felt by 1995 they would have released many new versions past the Lisa. And they were correct.

My signature is company mandated, was done by our marketing department (along with all email signatures in our company) and includes 6 lines of contact information, an image of the…

99% of bottled water drinkers agree that other people should drink less bottled water

Perhaps the new web meme should be "Animated Gifs are cruise control for cool"

They got some bad press for the pricing move. I don't blame them for trying to generate some good press out of it.

I hadn't heard about this incident until I read this link, and had to google Gray Powell. This, at least in my case, caused some more attention to Gizmodo, rather than less.

He has to spend 5 to 15 minutes everyday hiding followers? Does he follow that many new people in buzz everyday (automatically or implicitly) or are they not staying hidden? That e…

one of the early stated goals of Stack Overflow was to be a better version of Experts Exchange. It looks like they are accomplishing that goal, in terms of users switching (which o…

Another example of branding. I quite like them though, as it is much easier to visually identify my bookmarks quickly

I believe this is simply to protect them from unauthorized radio broadcasts of their games.

Every job I have ever had I have gotten either through personal contacts or by sending my resume to a company that I was interested in. It wasn't that people were doing me favors, …

I read this tutorial a long time ago for a basic app I was working on and found it quite helpful. It was my first brush with css positioning

Valuations usually are calculated in a way to benefit whomever is doing the calculating. That said, a company is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. If Twitter (or any…

I remember when this used to be a blog about programming (you can debate the value), but the last several posts have been mostly about blogging and marketing.

There have been script kiddies for a long time. This sounds like more of the same.

Wow. Predicting a Great Depression 2 leading to a second American revolution. Overreact much? They have a point about easy credit and debt creating a bubbles, but I think they migh…

I think it typically boils down to the following: "We spent quite a bit of money on the website/newsletter redesign that we need to justify. The big bosses want to make sure we pro…