Hack the Planet in Exile
This is a temporary refuge until I can rebuild Hack the Planet with alien technology.
—Wes Felter
The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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2010-07-29
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2010-07-28
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2010-07-27
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Lucas Adamski: Contextual Identity
More excuses why Firefox doesn’t support OpenID yet.
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Ars Technica: Long-neglected Mac Pro, Cinema Display finally updated
The Mac Pro is still RAM-crippled and the new Cinema Display is worse than the old one (although remarkably cheaper than the Dell U2711). Sad.
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Apparently, an online dater’s imagination is the best performing mutual fund of the last 10 years.
— OkCupid
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2010-07-26
Peter F. Hamilton: Fallen Dragon
I’m not sure why this story required 800 pages, but it’s pretty satisfying if you’re willing to see it through.
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Steven M. Bellovin: Comments on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
“The fundamental premise of the proposed strategy is that our serious Internet security problems are due to lack of sufficient authentication. That is demonstrably false. The biggest problem was and is buggy code. All the authentication in the world won’t stop a bad guy who goes around the authentication system, etc. … I fear that people are looking under the lamppost for their keys. While there are certainly some challenges to doing authentication at such scale, it is a much simpler problem than buggy code.”
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I’ve learned that there are two types of people in the world: those that can extrapolate information from incomplete data,
— slmbrhrt
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2010-07-16
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2010-07-13
New Amazon EC2 Instance Type - The Cluster Compute Instance
EC2 is finally migrating away from paravirtualization.
