Category: Technology

Really?  We are moving away from a client server model?  Isn’t it the same concept just a different approach?

Loads of users accessing data (on servers) from apps (clients)

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Cisco predicts an 11 times increase in mobile data traffic by 2018. 

In Richard Knowlton…. Security director at Vodaphone

How does vodaphone deal with it?  By capping mobile usage.  🙂

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Did you just advocate businesses doing man-in-the-middle monitoring of traffic on their network?  I’m all for businesses keeping tabs on their stuff…but doing it in a way where you look like a bad guy to your users?  Wow…

[Update 2014-04-02 17:02] he said something good in the final q and a.  Here’s the link.

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Mr. Knowlton — Good to finally mention Snowdon but I’m sad to see that you missed the NSA.

Everyone realises that you have to comply with the laws but your attacks aren’t just from people wanting to hack banks.

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Today I’m at the RSA Security Summit.  If there’s anything interesting I’ll post it here

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Violating the constitution hasn’t prevented anything.

Also…no one in government has to do with less year after year.  The budget and debt goes up every year.

[Update 2014-04-02 14:12] I also don’t feel bad that you guys have to follow the law.  The purpose of the constitution and other laws are to keep the government honest……

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Have a look at this graph of our flickr stats.  See that huge spike?  I wish there were a good way to figure out what it was.  When I look at the referrer list, it just says “flickr.”  Did someone scrape our images?  Was someone just looking?  Who knows.  

Here’s an idea that I think could compete with Facebook, Twitter, and Google +.  In some ways, it is based off the old <shoot, I can’t remember what it was called.  It was a blog search, social network thing.  When you posted a new article, this thing was told about it by your blog then people could search it>. Why not offer a service where: Everyone has their own blog.  They can host it wherever they want:  their own server, blogspot, etc…. This service gets a notification whenever a new entry is posted. This service let’s people “friend” or “follow” other people. Whenever a new entry is posted, it shows up in your “feed” or on your “wall” with a link to the original Comments are left on the blog itself What problem would this solve?  Quite simply:  ownership.  Who owns the information you post to Facebook, Twitter, or Google +?  Oh, you think it is yours?  Nope…they own it.  And, since someone else runs it, you don’t know if the government has ever issued a court order to get your data. Image from inju via flickr

Change your password.  Now.  They were hacked and some user account data was stolen.

Sure “English” has many variants, right?  I mean, there’s US English, UK English, Australian English, New Zealand English, and so on; however, we all use the same 26 letters, right?  And with a few exceptions (£ vs $, etc…) one would think keyboards could be the same, right?  One would think that there is a single English keyboard with some minor variants.  Oh no.  Take a look at the following image (note, the labels are mislabeled.  The top one is the UK keyboard)

 

 I can count five differences without thinking:  

• The @ is moved to where the ” lives on a US keyboard (and vice versa).
• The enter key is larger
• the \ and | key is moved next to the Z and left shift key.
• The left shift key is smaller
• There’s a goofy double intertwined S where the ~ key was

The differences aren’t just in adding the Euro symbol, etc…  There’s more to it.  Does anyone know why there is such a difference between US and UK keyboards?

[Update 2014-01-21 07:44:54] For more information (and differences) check out the Wikipedia entry for US and UK keyboards

Image from silvertd via flickr