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by sabat 16y ago
Agreed. You know, if Jobs would lighten up just a tad, I'd respect him a lot more. He's done great things, but his perception of how far he should impose his views on the world has become distorted.
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by sabat 16y ago
That IS the sole purpose of business. That's the cynical view of this age. If you study history, you'll find that business was considered something that was supposed to benefit society and business owners. Society, the social good, came f
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by sabat 16y ago
We live in an era where the sole purpose of business is to maximize revenue streams.
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by sabat 16y ago
This reminds me of the initial opinion of the telephone 100+ years ago: nice toy, but it has no practical business purpose.
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by sabat 16y ago
Then I picked a bad analogy. It was already bad: reading is not a sport. The idea here: if you spend your time on the internet reading short-form, you'll become practically incapable of dealing with long-form prose. To which I say: bullsh
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by sabat 16y ago
enthusiasm for Perl 5 is as strong as ever That's probably something of an overstatement, but I've written Perl in the past months for gigs, even though I have long abandoned it for Ruby. I don't know that I'd call the general interest in
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by sabat 16y ago
Nicholas Carr is excellent at being reductive -- that is, intentionally leaving out important facts in order to make a successful argument. He's pretty good at red herrings, too. For instance: he wrote a whole book about why the day when yo
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Get Your Tron On -- Space Paranoids in Flash(spaceparanoidsonline.com)
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by sabat 16y ago
Where's Byte? :-o
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by sabat 16y ago
Because that's what Bruce's background and experience is in. He has never worked in most of the other areas -- he's never held a position doing physical security work. I've got reservations about "security" being all the same thing, and abo
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by sabat 16y ago
I've heard it has its problems, but I cannot express to you how much worse AT&T is.
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by sabat 16y ago
I just started a new contract, and I'm on CalTrain the other day, minding my own business, when this guy next to me has two calls drop on him in a row. He has an iPhone. He mutters, "Gawd, AT&T sucks," and everyone around laughs. It's n
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by sabat 16y ago
Many iPhone customers would like to see iPhones on Verizon sooner than later. Including this one.
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by sabat 17y ago
If you define "terrorist" as someone who is actually going to attempt to take others' lives (and possibly his own), then sure. I'm not that sure this is what Bruce meant.
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by sabat 17y ago
Actually I have 10+ years in the field, am a CISSP, and was a CISO in the financial services industry for 6 years. Saying someone is "only" an "accomplished cryptographer" really diminishes what is required to have the mindset that makes y
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by sabat 17y ago
I appreciate Bruce's attempts, but as usual, I'm skeptical about his presumed knowledge about every area of security merely because he's an accomplished cryptographer. Security is a mish-mash of scattered fields related only by the concern
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by sabat 17y ago
I'm sure that's the way they see it. A company with more foresight would realize that its users are its lifeblood.
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by sabat 17y ago
I wouldn't blame him. He's got a right to take profits.
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by sabat 17y ago
I'm sure they'll do really well by appealing to 18-34 jocks. Because no other channels are already trying to do that.
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by sabat 17y ago
Entertaining video of the android in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ930zzYxl8
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by sabat 17y ago
Another simple but effective hack: have a standard untrue answer for your mother's maiden name, first school, etc. Only you will know them. Your mother's maiden name is McLuvin.
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by sabat 17y ago
Me too. I can think better now than ever.
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by sabat 17y ago
They do, and then they forget it later and start ranting about how kids today are so screwed up.
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by sabat 17y ago
He's a pithy writer, and he's probably right about Jobs' intentions. I do wish he'd drop that annoying British habit of referring to a company in the plural ("HP are ..."). It's distracting and flat-out bad grammar.
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by sabat 17y ago
In SV, who isn't hiring? The general job market is hot, and startups are springing up and hiring.
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by sabat 17y ago
I've often wondered if there wasn't some way to make it illegal to create riders on bills. I realize we're talking about lawyers, but not even a lawyer could realistically claim that this 1099 crap has anything to do with health care. It sh
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by sabat 17y ago
The phone was sold. The finder made a profit from the phone he found, instead of turning it in to the police or bringing it to the owner. Does California state law, or federal law, mandate that you have to attempt to return found items? T
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by sabat 17y ago
By whose definition? I have doubts about yours.
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by sabat 17y ago
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apple-engineer-gray-powell-... Gray admits he left the phone at the bar, and then came back later (presumably sober, the next day) and was upset when it wasn't there. He may as well have given it away. The
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by sabat 17y ago
But it was not stolen: the Apple employee who had been in possession of the prototype, Gray Powell, admits that he got drunk and accidentally left the phone at the bar. It was not stolen. It was lost.

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