Topics on my particular interests.
If you pay any attention to computer security news, you’ve almost certainly heard of the recently-discovered PDF hack that allows an attacker to embed arbitrary commands in a PDF file. Well, it’s worse than you thought — another researcher has a proof-of-concept hack that allows an infected PDF to infect every PDF file on the …
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Oh great, even more things that science finds are bad for you. 😉 But this list might be useful, since the thoughts and personality traits mentioned in it can be changed. (I know, most of them were my constant companions in my younger years.)
Poor Microsoft… they’ve lost yet another crown. 😉 (And yet another good reason to avoid the PDF format entirely.)
I’m not sure why, I think it’s perfectly fair, myself.
How do you find good software? Industry veteran John Dvorak (no relation to the keyboard layout of the same name 😉 ) says you can’t, barring personal recommendations from other users. There are too many scammers out there. I’m sorry to say that I have to agree. I haven’t gone looking for much software by …
Tongue-in-cheek, but all too true. Sure, you can learn the syntax of a programming language in twenty-one days, but not how to write readable, maintainable code that isn’t riddled with bugs. That takes experience. It took me the better part of fifteen years to get to a decent level, and it was only in the …
Looking for love is an honorable pursuit, even if it’s “in all the wrong places.” Looking for screen savers… that’s another matter.
It seems that we’ve finally achieved one of the icons of the 1950s vision of the future: the living room videophone. And it might even catch on. But come on, guys… you promised that sixty years ago. That’s a heck of a long time to deliver on a promise. And where’s that flying car you …
Wow… there’s been some debate over whether Google’s response to the whole Chinese hacking episode is just posturing, but more recent news seems to suggest that they’re seriously pissed at the Chinese government. And now comes the news that they’ve added code to show users when an account is accessed from an unexpected geographical area …
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So eat chips (that’s Brit-speak for “fries,” to us Yanks) and you’ll be okay with the bombing of Hiroshima? Hm, makes me wonder what they put on the fries over there — and whether I could get some too. 😉