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Q & A with Charlie Miller who won $5000 by compromising a fully updated MacBook through a Safari vulnerability. Ouch. To say he's unimpressed with OS X would be putting it mildly.
More campaigning to stop the madness that is Internet Explorer 6. Of course it won't work. But I did learn that Windows 2000 doesn't have IE 7 or 8, so a lot of businesses (that's mostly who would still be using Windows 2000) have no choice but to use 6 if they're going to use IE.
In case I get the new client I'm talking to this is the first thing I'm going to send him: The 300 million dollar button.
Pretty important Clay Shirky article: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Print media does much of society’s heavy journalistic lifting, from flooding the zone — covering every angle of a huge story — to the daily grind of attending the City Council meeting, just in case. This coverage creates benefits even for people who aren’t newspaper readers, because the work of print journalists is used by everyone from politicians to district attorneys to talk radio hosts to bloggers. The newspaper people often note that newspapers benefit society as a whole. This is true, but irrelevant to the problem at hand; “You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone!” has never been much of a business model. So who covers all that news if some significant fraction of the currently employed newspaper people lose their jobs?
Accept credit cards anytime, anywhere, using the iPhone. Wow, that looks amazing.