The Insider News

Säkerhetsbloggen[^]:

Recently, Ars Technica reported about a leak by “D33ds Company” of more than 450.000 plain-text accounts from a Yahoo service, which is suspected to be Yahoo Voice. Since all the accounts are in plain-text, anyone with an account present in the leak which also has the same password on other sites (e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc), should assume that someone has accessed their account. I gathered some quick statistics on the passwords.

Technology Review[^]:

Today's chips contain about 100 kilometers of copper wiring, so the potential for errors is huge. And if one of these wires doesn't work because of a mistake in one layer—something that's impossible to detect until the chip is completed and tested—the chip has to be tossed out. Tiny mistakes carry a big price tag: defects at a rate of one per billion lead to a 25 percent drop in yield.

Mark Maunder[^]:

I always thought the idea of physically smuggling data was absurd. Even physically transporting data seemed silly to me because if you have broadband you can simply upload or download it.... Two things changed my mind about why physically transporting data is interesting.

The Endeavour[^]:

The only way to completely wash your hands of a piece of software you’ve written is to change employers, and sometimes even that doesn’t work.

TechHive Beta Blog[^]:

With all the hubbub that's been made about Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), we're sure many of you have questions you're dying to have answered. Jelly Bean still looks and behaves a lot like Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). There have been a few visual tweaks here and there, but most of the changes are taking place beneath the surface and won't affect much that you are aware of.

Dr Dobb's[^]:

The inventor of object-orientation, co-designer of Smalltalk, and UI luminary opines on programming, browsers, objects, the illusion of patterns, and how Socrates could still make it to heaven.

NCZOnline[^]:

What makes the web beautiful is precisely that there are multiple browsers and, if you build things correctly, your sites and applications work in them all. They might not necessarily work exactly the same in them all, but they should still be able to work. There is absolutely nothing preventing you from using new features in your web applications, that’s what progressive enhancement is all about.

Arabesque[^]:

Master Wq was addressing some Vim novices. After his lecture on the many virtues of Vim, he asked if there were any questions. A young man raised his hand. “Master, by what means might one filter for the second column of a plaintext table for all rows that contain the string ‘tcp’?”

Wired[^]:

GUIs have even reinvented the world of software development, beginning with tools like Visual Basic, before extending coding tasks to the average joe with new-age tools such as Scratch and Google’s App Inventor. But among hardcore computer types the command line persists. If you’re a developer or a sysadmin, there are times when it makes more sense to use the command line interface, or “shell,” built into operating systems like Linux and UNIX.

Tim Bray[^]:

Does it make sense to carry around two, three, or more portable computing devices? I’m sure lots of people will carry more than one device. Me, I use the big laptop because I do multimedia grinding. I use the small tablet because it makes my hands and eyes happy. I carry a phone because it’s always online.