Anyone here planning to convert an existing XP machine to Linux after Microsoft pulls the plug on it?

Yesterday's update to Sandboxie 4.02 introduces a much requested feature: full 64-bit protection. Sandboxie previously offered protection on 64-bit systems through its Experimental Protection feature which used semi-official kernel interfaces for that. Since those interfaces were not fully documented the feature was tagged as experimental.

The release of Sandboxie 4.02 changes that as the program is now offered full protection for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Windows operating system. The developer has removed the Experimental Protection features as a consequence in the latest version of Sandboxie

In other words, it's a thumb of a nose to government eavesdroppers at the National Security Agency. Twitter didn't explicitly mention that bit in its Friday blog announcement, but it did link to an article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that called out the NSA by name for its "upstream," long-term data storage capabilities.

"Every Web server that uses HTTPS has its own secret key that it uses to encrypt data that it sends to users," wrote EFF activist Parker Higgins. "Specifically, it uses that secret key to generate a new 'session key' that only the server and the browser know. Without that secret key, the traffic traveling back and forth between the user and the server is incomprehensible, to the NSA and to any other eavesdroppers."

"But imagine that some of that incomprehensible data is being recorded anyway—as leaked NSA documents confirm the agency is doing," he continued. "An eavesdropper who gets the secret key at any time in the future—even years later—can use it to decrypt all of the stored data! That means that the encrypted data, once stored, is only as secure as the secret key, which may be vulnerable to compromised server security or disclosure by the service provider."

The fun of perfect forward secrecy is that the aforementioned session keys are generated individually for each Web session. Were someone to acquire said key, it would only really be useful to decrypt a single session of Twitter access. One could still decrypt a ton of past communications, but it would require access to the corresponding ton of keys, not just one SSL key.

I think I would have phrased the Amazon Delivery by Drone question in the FAQ as "is this for f***ing real?" versus just asking if it was science fiction...

http://www.amazon.com/b?ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_amzn_mx3eqp&node=8037720011

I think I would have phrased the Amazon Delivery by Drone question in the FAQ as "is this for f***ing real?" versus just asking if it was science fiction...

http://www.amazon.com/b?ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_amzn_mx3eqp&node=8037720011

Analysis Google no longer understands how its "deep learning" decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos.

This means the internet giant may need fewer experts in future as it can instead rely on its semi-autonomous, semi-smart machines to solve problems all on their own.

Exclusive One of Google's most advanced data center systems behaves more like a living thing than a tightly controlled provisioning system. This has huge implications for how large clusters of IT resources are going to be managed in the future.

"Emergent" behaviors have been appearing in prototypes of Google's Omega cluster management and application scheduling technology since its inception, and similar behaviors are regularly glimpsed in its "Borg" predecessor, sources familiar with the

Considering you need around 3+ amps at 12V to drive them, exactly how much energy would you save by having everyone wear these instead of just having more efficient AC?