You may have read some long explainers about how Heartbleed works
Heartbleed may be one of the biggest internet security flaws
Next time you’re sat mashing keys, wildly frustrated because something is proving so difficult to get done, remember that the majority of computing tasks are only straightforward because someone already made them easy.
Before the internet? Don’t kid yourself. It wasn’t more fulfilling or engaging; you didn’t have more time to read and think and play. You just sat around in your underwear watching daytime TV instead.
Not all technologies are created equal: some are easy to use, some are tough to get to grips with, and others are downright impossible to get working.
What you see is possibly perhaps maybe slightly tangentially almost related to what you may or may not get. Or, WYSIPPMSTARTWYMOMNG as I like to call it. [XKCD]
Today’s XKCD really is wonderful: called Now, it’s a simple clock which shows you what time it is in the world right… now, and changes each time you check back on it.
You computer may be at risk. Your privacy may be at risk. Hell, you may be at risk. But if you’ve got a lot of apps running and that update will require a restart? Forget about it. [XKCD]
Facebook Is the New Walmart
Posted in: Today's ChiliBecause when everyone hangs out somewhere, those awkward conversations—just like the ones you end up having in the middle of Walmart when you bump into someone you barely know—are inevitable.
Whether it’s a comment thread on a blog or a conversation in a bar, we’re all guilty of interjecting with our own, more precise, more accurate—hell, plain better—take on pretty much any topic. But maybe we should all quit that habit, every now and then.