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Linked – Microsoft just wrote a blog post asking for more tech regulation
In a nutshell, and in my own paraphrasing.- “Oops, now that we’ve gone and developed all this technology, it turns out people might use if for nefarious purposes, government, step in and stop us” From the actual article: “Smith pointed to several areas where the government could potentially create standards so that companies themselves wouldn’t…
Does it sense a new version coming?
Over the weekend I updated my Macbook’s version of Firefox to RC2 (now RC3) because FF 2 had become completely unstable. Now, less than a week from the planned release of firefox 3.0, it seems that I’m running into instability on a couple of other machines as well, at work. It’s almost like when something…
Weird SpamBayes Problem
I noticed the other day, just before I was getting ready to leave town, that every time I opened Outlook at home, instead of having all my junk mail marked as junk, suddenly more of it was showing up in the inbox, and what didn’t show up there always wound up in Junk Suspects as…
Reading – Pocket has been down for hours and people are starting to panic
I haven’t yet panicked, but this occurred during a time when I was traveling, and spending time in airports and various other places where finding something on Twitter on the iPad and wanting to save it for later would be incredibly useful. That’s what Pocket is for, that’s why I use it. Unfortunately, those same…
Linked: 61% of IT pros have experienced a serious data breach
Law firms can probably replace the phrase “C-level Executive” with partner, right? “However, a rift exists in terms of cybersecurity accountability: 55% of IT professionals said they believed that C-level executives should lose their jobs if a breach is serious enough, yet 61% also said that C-level executives they work with expect more lenient security…
Can Someone Explain Foursquare to me?
OK, so I’ve seen all the “experts” talking about how Foursquare is going to be the next big thing, and I’ve seen other folks using it, and looked at what it is, and how they’re using it, and I’m just not seeing the point. Oh I see the point for commercial opportunities, isn’t having all…
