Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
ShouldIChangeMyPassword.com
It’s tough to use a different password on every site, but reusing passwords comes with a risk. If someone gets your password from site A, and you use the same one on site B, your account has just been compromised on *both* sites.
Oracle proposes OpenOffice.org to Apache Incubator
Oracle bypasses The Document Foundation for OpenOffice.org handoff
Nice that they’re finally handing it over after letting it stagnate, but it seems like a waste that they ignored the group behind LibreOffice. Not a surprise by any means, but a wasted opportunity. Maybe in the future they can merge the projects again.
Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls
“What is surprising is that though they are encrypted, the frames that make up a Skype call contain clues about what phonemes are being spoken.”
Apple rebuts Amazon’s stance that ‘app store’ is a generic term
“Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words ‘app store’ together denote a store for apps.” Um, good luck with that.
95% of spamvertised products handled by just 3 credit card processors
Lessons of Blippy: Just adding a social element isn’t enough to make people want to use something. via @techcrunch
Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
The CDC offers suggestions on how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse (or other disaster).
Delicious acquired by founders of YouTube. [dead link] Yahoo has been trying to unload its non-core services.
Asia’s out of IPv4 addresses & the rest of the world isn’t far behind. But the internet has barely started using IPv6.
I can’t say I’ll miss it. The few times I’ve used it, it felt like I was shouting into a vacuum. IIRC, they didn’t feel it was worth objecting when Google launched their own site called Buzz, so the writing’s been on the wall for quite a while. Hmm, I wonder how the two Buzz’s user bases compare….
Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo To Kill Buzz On April 21
We knew this was coming, but Yahoo has announced that it will not longer support Yahoo Buzz, its a Digg-like product where users can rank stories from publishers.
Controversial Post on Facebook by Chef
Many of us who have Celiac, or live with those that who do, know the importance of avoiding gluten at all costs. Many times, finding a restaurant or cafe that has a gluten free menu and takes the time to make sure it doesn’t get contaminated is a source of great excitement. And, sometimes, gluten gets in there anyways. This post by a chef on facebook makes me wonder how often it isn’t a mistake…
Not everyone eating gluten-free is following the latest health fad. Many of them REALLY DO have a medical reason. Food poisoning symptoms wouldn’t start in your restaurant either, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t just poison your own customers. I wonder if this guy feeds sugar to diabetics and alcohol to people who are on medication that interacts badly with it?
Why bad science reporting matters. http://archive.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/1257-churn-the-other-cheek.html
The extraordinary face of the Moon
The full-sized image is 24,000 x 24,000 pixels and half a gigabyte!
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2150
I always wondered how to answer that job interview question.
For the techies: TicketLeap dissects the bottleneck that led to Saturday’s Comic-Con ticket sales meltdown. (TLDR version: Hostname lookups were turned on in the database, and it was blocking on DNS.)
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Top Reasons Why Consumers Unsubscribe Via E-Mail, Facebook & Twitter
I've certainly dropped/blocked a few way-too-frequent posters.
