You Are Not Naked →
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness.- Isaiah 61:10
Squirrel Battles Pigeon.
Life is for the living. It's there for the taking. Leave yourself no regrets.
— Flawless
This is me. Most recent game purchase is actually not too bad; Crysis is only 3 years old. And I have definitely played Portal. Over and over. But I have logged less than 20 hours in Team Fortress 2.
Full Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities →
Thoughts from a security researcher on the value of full disclosure, and the balance between secrecy and security.
The F-22 and F-35 Killer Finally Captured In Action →
The 5th generation Soviet jet, the Sukhoi PAK-FA.
I.B.M.'s Supercomputer Challenges 'Jeopardy!' Champions →
Watson can answer only questions asking for an objectively knowable fact. It cannot produce an answer that requires judgment. It cannot offer a new, unique answer to questions. All it will do is look for source material in its database that appears to have addressed those issues and then collate and compose a string of text that seems to be a statistically likely answer. Neither Watson nor Wolfram Alpha, in other words, comes close to replicating human wisdom.But it's a machine that makes one hell of a Jeopardy player. That's some crazy-fast natural language parsing and database lookup.
Android and the 22 Immutable Laws →
Marketing is a problem Apple's never had a problem with. The fragmentation of Android is causing it to be a problem for Google/Motorola/HTC/...
Starbucks to Offer Free Wi-Fi Service →
Starbucks says that laptop users average an hour of Wi-Fi use in its stores and that it does not expect that to increase significantly.For those who already pay the fees to browse, I would expect usage to go up somewhat. However, these are already Starbucks cardholders and like their coffee, so I expect Starbucks to benefit from this in general. For those stores near college campuses, however, I expect this to be an issue.
ESPN Bypasses Corporate Red Tape with iPad and Xbox 360 →
Each of the Virtual Playbook segments that you see on ESPN relies on just a couple of things: a developer Xbox 360 and a copy of an EA Sports title.
Their ability to use commodity products I'm sure results in faster innovation time and lower costs, and thus higher profit. It's also very clever when done well. Then, to bring that technology to the consumer, also in innovative ways, is what business is all about.