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• Gee, it's nice to see Yahoo employees "sharing the pain". Here's another way they could save $40M:
  
  http://www.cnbc.com/id/28796750 In reply to: "Yahoo shutting down for the holidays"

  December 22, 2009

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• The Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers (detailed in the Microsoft announcement) is actually very good news for Linux, since it means Microsoft will no longer threaten to sue open source developers. Goodbye SCO. Gotta thank the Europeans for this one. In reply to: "EU resolves Microsoft IE antitrust case"

  December 16, 2009

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• Australia has embarked on a slippery slope. This is really too bad; almost everything else about the country is pretty nice.
  
  They seem to have lost their previously topless beaches, too, thanks to their conservative minority. In reply to: "Australia moves toward mandatory ISP filtering"

  December 15, 2009

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• @BigGuns Agree. Llast I checked, Wells Fargo's online banking website didn't even support case sensitivity, much less allow special characters. Totally brain dead. In reply to: "Character limitations in passwords considered harmful"

  December 3, 2009

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• @JoeF2 You're exactly right. This vulnerability affects services like the ones Adobe Live Cycle Rights Management offers that purport to authenticate users before decrypting cloud-based documents. So it's still a fairly serious issue, but mostly affects corporations rather than consumers doing online banking. In reply to: "Zero-day flaw found in Web encryption"

  November 15, 2009

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• The real issue here is that we need to keep the monopoly last-mile providers separate from the content providers (who aren't granted monopolies). Otherwise you're likely to have an internet that looks a lot like an old Cingular home page :-)
  
  Ideally, we wouldn't even have monopoly last mile providers, but that's probably not feasible given the current environment where telcos have the Justice Department, FTC, and politicians like McCain acting as their protectors.
  
  It's unseemly to see McCain so blatantly whoring for the telcos. He admittedly doesn't understand these issues and is being used as a puppet by the industry. I used to think he had more honor than that. In reply to: "Net neutrality still faces political, legal hurdles"

  October 24, 2009

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• Well at least the hypocrisy is gone now. No more fake "of course we support net neutrality" press releases as we saw throughout the Bush administration.
  
  You're a frickin' common carrier, man. Get over it! If you don't like it, how about we disband your monopoly on the last mile? I say go for it FCC. Finally we have some leadership there... In reply to: "Verizon CEO slams Net neutrality"

  October 23, 2009

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• @AkumaKuruma
  
  Great post! That IETF draft was very useful. So it's done with on-the-fly Javascript insertion which will alter an HTTP response from any desired website. Not sure how I feel about that, or how it plays with regard to copyrighted website content, but I understand Comcast's intent. In reply to: "Comcast pop-ups alert customers to PC infections"

  October 9, 2009

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• I'd suggest that Donovan and de la Vega get in a car and drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. I challenge them to even maintain a 2G connection on the ride; forget about 3G. Or even just drive around the bay area and watch their phones continually lose signal.
  
  ATT's advertising claims are truly fraudulent. In reply to: "AT&T's CTO defends wireless network"

  October 9, 2009

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• "It's the manifestation of how Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz sees the search market".
  
  I would counter that Bartz doesn't have a clue about the search market, or have the skills to run a web company. All she's done is lay off people and mortgage Yahoo's future.
  
  She sure got herself a nice sign-on bonus though! In reply to: "Yahoo ponders the meaning of search"

  October 9, 2009

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