Updates
Here’s the link to the winners of the 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes. The areas covered include banana peels, cats, baby crap, staying up late, and a sadistic way of determining if a painting is good.
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The Scots voted NO to independence:
Alex Salmond is to step down as Scottish first minister after voters rejected independence.
He will also resign as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), which he has led for a total of 20 years.
Scottish voters backed the country staying in the UK by 2,001,926 votes to 1,617,989 in Thursday’s referendum.
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So I added two apps that Apple recommended as ‘essential’ for the iPad and iOS8 yesterday … and had to update both today to fix bugs.
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Gotta love the Ig Nobels! LOL
Silly Scotland! They blew their big chance. Sure, independence would have been painful at first, But the Scot’s were once very fiercely independent! It’s not like they don’t know how! And I believe the benefits (especially the future benefits) outweigh the negatives, such as they are! Oh well…
Here’s a news item that cheered me up! 😀 Thought it might do the same for you m8! 😀
Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying
Thanks to the NSA for making this possible! 😉 Ahem! And thanks to the Aussie security journalist Patrick Gray for supporting this kid and getting the app to the World stage! 😀
It’s quite an interesting read actually. And hit’s several nails square on. 🙂 It’s primary strength is that it has NO metadata to collect! And the actually data stream is highly encrypted. Just Brilliant! 😀
LOL here… another somewhat amusing story! 😀 And it highlights why nobody with a working brain should EVER trust anything from Oracle (including MySQL!)
Tech Time Warp of the Week: A Look Back at Larry Ellison’s Most Outrageous Moments as a CEO
I get the impression from the included comments and highlights that WIRED aren’t inordinately fond of Ellison either! LOL
This one simply sums it all up:
Yes, it is! You know, I met him in the 80’s, and have despised him ever since. Same for Gates for that matter. For anyone honest and intelligent, to know them is to feel unclean and disgusted. I shook hands with him after a conference, and looked into those eye’s and felt cold! There was no light there at all, and no warmth… I see that image always, and I’ve been trying to wash my hands clean ever since! I met Jobs and Allen after the Apple II launch at a conference, and admired them. I always will. I am saddened that Jobs was forced to makeover Apple into something of an M$ business clone when he returned to the fold. But I understand it. Even if I don’t particularly like it. He had such big dreams! In the end, he had to make a deal with the devil to get them realised. I wonder if I will have to one day, and will I? I was offered an initial $25 million by a VC firm a year after I started my Security company in ’99 to ‘help’ make our dreams real. We said no. I do sometimes wish, when things get particularly bad now, that I had said yes. If I had any idea then where I would be now… I may well have. *shrug*
If the YES side deal with the real issues that came up in the campaign and have actual plans to implement the change, the result will change. It’s all well and good to assume that the problems can be resolved, but people what more assurance than “We’ll deal with those things if people vote for independence.”
The second bit they need to track is what the Cameron government does about giving more power to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. If they just ignore the issue, that will be important when the issue comes up again.
Jobs let his power be stolen, and then had to compromise to regain control. It is a real problem for all tech companies when they shift from control by techies to control by corporatists. The companies get captured by Wall Street and lose their soul.
Ellison is, was, and will always be a major league SOB, with my apologies to dogs. The real question is why his customers put up with Oracle? The major purpose of most of the updates is to sell training seminars to find out what you have to do to protect your data.
The Ricochet basics are obvious when you look at it, but this was the guy who saw the obvious and implemented it. The solution is elegant. I hope it can pass the security testing, because it is a product whose time has come. It should become a corporate standard, given the number of contractors now being used by NSA. The government is annoying, but having other corporations able to access your data is not a good place to be.