bwooce's comments

Neat. I've often thought about setting up an installation with one pixel per person...in the world.

With HDTV's it's not too extravagant either - about 3345 panels. A lot (of drivers too) but doable.

Any support for it? I was thinking that a circular dome ring of panels would be an amazing visualization tool.

Ideas: 1. current age of every person, represented by color 2. Language 3. Religion 4. State (health, nourishment, etc)

But then I run out - but I think it would be an incredible tool for a variety of data sets.

You could start smaller too (country level)

Has anyone done this yet? I'm aware there are no new ideas on the Internet.

It is positively beautiful for public transport. It shows the next service leaving and how far (time) it is.

I'm still looking to see how the option to save Home and Work addresses helps me - it makes home and work function as search terms but there must be more to it?

I agree, and remove these sorts of games from my son's devices. We try and steer clear of them in the first place, but its not always obvious.

Hayday was the last one, and I carefully explained the extortionate business model before doing it. I enjoyed and appreciate Hayday but t'aint no way I'm going to get either of us into that open-ended financial sink.

I hear its almost twice as fast as Javascript, and runs the Internet.

Rackspace has opened in Australia too though right? They launched it a few months ago.

It's s necessary thing since you can't store any customer-identifying data offshore without explicit permission (see National Privacy Principles).

Nice, if you put an IR sensor on both sides then you can easily bias it (and not do anything if both are active - manual unlock is fine in that case)

Sunlight will be an issue though...maybe IR and ultrasonic?

I struggle with this. I acknowledge all your points, but it doesn't cover the usecases of: 1. Changing ISP and getting a new email address. This is really common. 2. Having multiple addresses (work/home, etc). Also see #1

This breaks password resets and creates a "I want to change my credentials" flow that doesn't exist with usernames. It is especially complicated as emails to the old address won't work/are not accessible.

Most companies want to keep track customers over their lifetime and not have them create a new account when they change ISP/job.

If you want to see an example of this not working at all well, see Apple IDs. The pain surrounding them, purchases, @me.com, @mac.com, changing countries and the attached purchases is inspirational in its depth and breadth.

Misleading title - these are pager intercepts (people still use pagers? Who knew?)

Text messages would commonly be referring to SMS for mobile phones.

There is, although via iTunes and it is a little subtle. It may also depend on your country (but Australia and Peru work).

1. In iTunes, go to your account (iTune Stores, then click on top right login name assuming you're logged in). 2. Edit your Payment information 3. Choose CC type of "None" 4. Save

It is a desirable thing to do if you expect children will be using your iDevices -- the password doesn't stop them buying more $$ stuff after you've just authorised them buying something for free. And I'm assuming you didn't type your password in front of them...

This is the same kind of person who discovers that people, and rooms, are "available" from 12-1pm, and 6pm-

After too many days of back-to-back meetings from 10am to 3pm I've taken to creating a repeating lunchtime meeting with myself. Then I discovered the people who don't care if you're available or not...they consider themselves important enough that you'll drop everything for their meeting.

Sequence diagrams existed before UML and for getting stuff done, and being able to maintain it, I prefer http://www.websequencediagrams.com/

I just paste the diagram description into my documents as "hidden text", and everyones happy.

There is no allegedly about it, I was spammed with an offer for a new Wakemate. I forget the wording. Plus the follow up apology.

You'll find, for example, the Australian National Privacy Principles forbid hosting Personal data offshore unless you get the permission of that person first. That's a bit unwieldy for most companies.

There are other conditions, but letting people's data be subject to the US Patriot act is one of the underlying concerns.

It is already there, lurking, in iOS 5(back to 2, friends say)

See http://t.co/EkqWISbS for an example, appears as a bug when you try and upgrade an app you've deleted -- but it shows the capability does exist.

I agree they won't enable it until they have a reason, the current situation is simple to manage from all angles.

My bank does it after 6! It even reminds you that it is 6 chars max on the login page.

Thanks. Such a great word, lost forever :)

So if I said "take a punt", would that be to take, or not take?

I should build a guide of "words not to use on presentations".

Gah, stop abusing the word punt. The headline is nonsensical.

Punt does not mean avoidance. It has much closer associations to "attempt" (punter, plus rugby usage).

I totally agree with the rest of the article, why shard or otherwise distribute your database before being required? Although I think I would build my DB as shard 1 of 1 to allow for the future case.

Sheesh, that's an emotive title.

The only end to this noise that I can see is that Apple will supply an update that removes the .epub capability, making the tool specific to iBooks.

Will we be any poorer for that? It's like having a machine that prints money - you could use it...but you're likely to get into trouble if you do.

Yes. They can also take your property away to search it, returning it months later.

The final decision of entry to a country(at that point) lies with the immigration officer. I imagine you can ask nicely for a review after you've been flown back to your point of origin.

I'll dig up some links, but seizure of non-citizen's computers at US borders is possible and scary. I treat the US border like a hackers conference - take a freshly imaged device, and refresh it on your return.

Surely MAC address filtering is well and truly proven to be pointless to any serious attempts to, erm, join your network?

Spoofing MAC addresses is trivial, even under Windows.