The first three of those aren't even viable alternatives. Plurk, Identi.ca, and Jaiku? All three hopefully will take the same path as Pownce did. Friendfeed and Tumblr work, though. - Tamar Weinberg
Do you ever have your browser remember the password? What happens when you ask both the site and the browser to remember the password? - Dan Hsiao
Hmm, so you're looking for a word that means "Software that perfectly mimics my own actions when logging into web sites". - Cyrus Lendvay
Yeah, this is when the browser offers to remember my password and I say 'yes!' and then the site says 'wrong password' so I try a different password on the next page and the browser again asks 'remember?' and I say 'YES!' thinking it'll erase my earlier mistake, but no. The new Firefox helps solve this problem by letting me wait to decide whether to save the password until after I know if it works, but I'm still looking for an in-context way to tell Firefox to *forget* what it thinks it knows. - Kevin Fox
Related: What do you call it when you start typing before the page finishes loading, then it finishes loading and shifts focus back to the username input just you start typing your password, and you end up typing it in clear text in the wrong input? It always happens to me when there are people around watching. - Guillermo Esteves
haha yes, liked just for the captions alone :) - Dennis Jackson
I'm really tired of Apple getting a bad wrap for having a higher quality product. As an apple enthusiasts it gets to me. - orionstarr
It's not that they have a higher quality, it's that most malware writers are on Windows machines. It's the same reason Linux viruses are rare, too. Read the article, the author nails it. - Mona N.
Wait, what Mona? That's only one reason: "But suppose this was some bizarro world where OS X was king. Would Microsoft run ads about how virus-plagued OS X was? Well, it would still be more prudent to run anti-virus software, since there'd be a lot more thrown crap thrown at the Mac OS, but if malware acted mostly like it does today, it likely wouldn't have the same impact as it did on Windows pre-Vista.
A lot of that is because of the way permissions work in OS X vs. Windows. Basically, Unix-based systems are architected so that they require administrator privileges to modify the OS and are traditionally more strict in enforcing them. - Roshan Vyas
Yes, the design and structures are completely different - but I wasn't going to flap my gums since I am definitely no expert on OS X and or Linux. ;) - Mona N.
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you'll find that the kernels of windows, linux and osx are pretty much water tight, almost 100% of exploits now adays are taking advantage of 3rd party software with the threats discovered valid across all 3 platforms. Long gone are the days where something like natchi or the one that attacked LSASS in windows would spread from windows box to windows box on a network. In fact there are a hell of a lot of them that rely upon the user to give them the OK - which shows up the one great threat endemic to all ;) - alphaxion
Mona, I don't buy the market share argument, though I hear a lot of people make it. Unix-based malware isn't proportional to market share; it's nearly non-existent. And Unix isn't all that great from a security architecture point of view. It's just that Windows is worse. - Bruce Lewis
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Well think about it this way. Larger market share = more users = higher probability of bored people creating viruses / malware. - Mona N.
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Viruses aren't really created out of boredom that often. Nowadays it's all about the botnets and monies. =) - Daniel Bruce
Well isn't the camry the most selling car in U.S.? Does that make it better than a BMW? Don't think so, just the cheap alternative. The world may own mostly windows, doesn't make it better - orionstarr
Doesn't make it worse, either. Just different. - Jordan Hofker
Don't open attachments that come in spam, and don't download strange stuff from the internet, and you don't have to worry about viruses. And AV software is such a resource hog that it practically qualifies as a virus itself. I scan my system now and then just to confirm I'm virus free (never found one), but I'll be damned if I leave that stuff installed and running. - Eric P
mona: actually you'll find the VX'ers who used to make viruses for (in)fame(y) or to prove a point have all but died out, now the malware scene is full of people making them for commercial gain hence why many of them are attempts at stealing financial details and/or cons to make you pay money for crapware. It's basic economics - windows has the greater number of gullible users ergo more money to be made. - alphaxion
I like when people complain about AV software being a resource hog (NOD32? a resource hog? nope) but then have no problem running a browser, Firefox, that often will happily eat up 300 megs of RAM with just a couple of tabs open. - Akiva Moskovitz
I think the problem is a browser can be the place where you actually get all your work done. AV is just something running just in case something happens. You aren't actually doing anything with it. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Can we stop this? People just want to fight about windows vs. pc. It gets to me. - orionstarr
@mona, those captions are actually RED. ;-) - .LAG
People who write malware to get a feeling of power would love to write something that affects Unix-based systems. People still remember the 1988 Morris worm, while the horde of Windows malware is mostly forgotten. Taking either the OSX community or the Linux community down a peg would be an enormous ego boost to a malware writer. - Bruce Lewis
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orionstarr: There's a Hide button right there ^ =) Personally I find that as long as you have a decent firewall (a NAT router works just as well) and common sense, you should be fine. I haven't had a virus on any of my computers (windows or not) and I never run AV. - Daniel Bruce
How are virus spread? By e-mail downloads? - orionstarr
E-mail attachments/links, infected files on P2P networks, drive-by downloads on infected sites, subversive software (registry cleaners are a prime suspect), and probably hundreds of other methods. - Daniel Bruce
I had a virus on my computer, but I was being careless and I downloaded stuff I had no business downloading. I used to want to write a virus because the very idea of a living program was freaking cool to me. Never actually did it though. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
you'll notice the majority of these infection points rely upon the user to do most of the leg work. The few that don't either use flaws in browsers (predominantly flaws in flash to be specific) or rootkit tech that "cloaks" itself. - alphaxion
Yeah, self-spreading worms aren't that common anymore, the most prevalent virus these days are trojans which, really, are platform-agnostic to some degree. - Daniel Bruce
The original Google datacenter in '99 :) - Paul Buchheit
One of the consequences of factoring in component failure in your every move: you can save the cases, stuff's going to break anyway ;) - Mustafa K. Isik
This design turned out to be somewhat nightmarish. It was eventually cleaned up (we had a "cabling fest") and by now the designs are quite slick, though still very unconventional. I wish Google would publish more about their hardware, because it's very interesting. - Paul Buchheit
i have! it was even color coded, cables of different colors - Joelle Nebbe
WHEN CABLES GO BAD! I used to have a similar problem and the only way to trace cables was to put a small binder clip over the wire and push it along. - Stephen Pierzchala
Cables Gone Wild! woo hoo! gees that is bad. Paul YES I too wish Google published their IT Infrastructure / hardware info - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
pretty sure their current IT infrastructure involves genetically-modified human brains soaking in some kind of nutrient bath. - Karim
yap i seen so much worser than this pic .... :D - zos
BTW, I believe this is the same generation of hardware found in the Computer History Museum (they have the jj rack, as I recall). - Paul Buchheit
Paul: I've been inside a Google datacenter. They are a thing of beauty now. I've always wanted to interview the team that is responsible for doing those and get some video. - Robert Scoble
That's how it would look if it was set up at my house. - Gabe
I worked in a server room that look like that too - all those spagetti cabling craziness. - imabonehead
Robert - YES do video interview with Google DC Infrastructure brains! :) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
How long would it take to fix if you pulled out just one cable?Or plugged it into the wrong socket? - Alistair
Here are some pics of a datacenter I put together for a client back in 2003 with some pretty insane cabling. With this much cabling, it was too hard to manage without automation. So I built some tools that allowed me to plan for rapid growth (i.e 20 server SAN jumped to 120+ while we were building out) http://bit.ly/9Q7O - Jauder Ho
Grunt: OK boss, I've got a new cable crimped. Where do you want it? Boss: Server 99,9999 port 1. See it? I'll see you in a week. Grunt: &^* - Shane
"Employees dismantling sections of Google's original data center discovered the decaying corpse of an engineer tangled in a web of network patch cables, police reported today. The mostly-skeletal remains have not been conclusively identified, though the victim appeared to have been wearing a 'Banyan Vines' t-shirt. While forensic tests have yet to be completed, the County Medical Examiner has estimated the date of death to be 'sometime around the 1999, 2000 timeframe.'" - Karim
"A police spokeperson said foul play was not suspected, adding, 'Unfortunately, this is not the first time we've seen this. The Internet was growing so rapidly back then, these things just happened. Someone goes in to work on a patch panel, and they get tangled up. It's sad. And I don't blame Google for not noticing -- their headcount was growing rapidly too. One or two engineers go missing, nobody notices. I bet the poor bastard is still getting direct deposit on his paychecks.'" - Karim
A spokesperson for Google referred to the grisly discovery as "a regrettable loss, but not a single point of failure," and added that engineers are currently required to use "the buddy system" to work in pairs when cabling servers. - Karim
Most datacenters I've ever been in don't allow photography. The exception was the Stanford Linear Accelerator data center that Scoble got me into: http://www.flickr.com/photos/t... - Thomas Hawk
If it's been a recession since 2007, why are companies laying people off now? My guess is that people are worrying. Logic doesn't supersede worry ever, I guess.
Companies can prove to be ever so profitable now, but instead they follow everyone else because it seems to be the right thing to do. - Tamar Weinberg
"Harry, I’m bummed out that you didn’t link to people who are actually on scene here in Barcelona at Nokia World. Gizmodo didn’t come and invest the time. Why aren’t you linking to people with better reports and better videos? Is there some sour grapes here that I am not aware of?" - Robert Scoble
Sounds more like general laziness. Just check Giz and use what they have grabbed from somewhere else instead of going to those on the scene. - Robert Miller
300 hours talktime for iPhone 3G? In your dreams...mine needs a recharge every day and so do the 3G iPhones of at least 5 colleagues here. - Ronald
I'm sure he meant 300 minutes talk time :) (5 hours) - Bwana
there were lots of mistakes in the comparison table. at least on the N97 side. I guess Harry McCracken has never used a symbian/S60 phone. - Davide D'Incau
the table is useless. Too many unknowns. Like with most new phones, I'll wait until they're out before I start declaring verdicts - Bwana
This does not obviate Krugman's point, which is that dropping interest rates down to zero will still do nothing for the economy, and Fiscal policy is pretty much the way to go now.
Besides, if banks aren't lending any more, that's the definition of a liquidity trap! - Piaw Na
"McLagan [author of Fat] argues that fat is healthy, unrivaled for cooking, and satisfying, so you eat less of it. A week of testing left me convinced this was true, except for the "eating less of it" part...The book's four sections are dedicated to butter, lard or pork fat, poultry fat, and beef and lamb fat." - Jess Lee
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Small portions, moderation, and eating well ftw! - Mona N.
Ok...I'll be honest here. I agree with the author of this book for this has applied to my life. I am very ill. Gave birth to a baby girl almost 2 years ago. At the time of her birth I contracted an extremely rare heart disorders that only mommies get. Now only 27 percent of my heart functions. The rest is blah. 50 percent of women die from this condition and my heart was bad enough where I was told I may only have 5 more years to live. Maybe 10 with a heart transplant and that is...if it took. They had to take extreme measures. What were they? Put me on a diet simial to the Atkins! I ate fat, meat, avocados, eggs and anything we are told we can't eat. It made my health better. My heart stronger and I may be around longer to watch my daughter grow! My grandfather a few months later was dying and also was told he had a few months to live. What did they do? You got it. Same diet. It made his cholest. go down and everything better. He lived a year which they didn't expect and thank the diet - Adriana
