Google Vs. Windows Revived
June 1, 2010 0 Comments
Google has finally said what it should a long time ago: Stop using Windows.
(NEWSER) – Google has had it with Windows. Ever since the company's Chinese operations were hacked in January, it's been trying to tighten up security, and the Microsoft OS is the first casualty, workers tell the Financial Times . “We're not doing any more Windows,” said one, “It's a security effort.” New recruits can choose to work on a Mac or a PC running Linux, and the CIO must give special permission before employees can get a new Windows machine. -Financial Times UK
Stamp Out Hyperlinks?
An author is suggesting 'delinkification': not putting any hyperlink in the body of your text and instead putting any or all at end of your article. That may sound practical but it wouldn't work for all writers.
'Tech writer Nicholas Carr is rethinking the usefulness (or at least the placement) of one of the Internet's classic tools: the hyperlink. They're too distracting, the author of the Shallows writes on his blog. You might start out reading about the Israeli ship mess but a few clicks later find yourself in the Lindsay Lohan vortex with no idea what happened. And even if you do resist the temptation to click on a hyperlink, that mental calculation in itself distracts you from the main point of whatever you're reading...'
Now imagine if you were writing a three-page or thirty-page piece. Can you see how all the hyperlinks would look like all bunched together? That would be torture to the eyes wouldn't it? Bottom line: Carr's suggestion is excellent only for a limited length of articles.
WikiLeaks' Assange Shares His Secret Past
At age 11, Julian was forced to live a life 'on the run'.
'Julian Assange is a paranoid man. The WikiLeaks founder believes he is constantly under surveillance, and that his site has enemies in governments around the world. Several members of his team are known by initials only, and the site's complex server system is “vastly more secure than any banking network,” he boasts. But his fears make a touch of sense when you hear about his bizarre childhood, which he related to Raffi Khatchadourian in a lengthy New Yorker profile.
'At age 11, Assange's mother told him they needed to “disappear,” because her relationship with her boyfriend, a musician, had gone sour. They spent the next five years on the run from the musician, whom Assange believes was part of a secretive cult/conspiracy called “the Family,” which had moles in government tracking their movements. When they stopped moving, Assange joined a squatter's union, became a hacker, and nearly wound up in jail. Later, he spent time motorcycling across Vietnam, studying physics, and finally, founding WikiLeaks as a means of waging “information warfare” against governments everywhere. To this day he has no home; he wanders, staying with WikiLeaks supporters.' -New Yorker
No comments for this post