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Original source Ars Technica reports on an interesting and sensible-sounding approach to password policy that I’d like to see adopted just about everywhere I have a password (which, these days, is quite a few). An excerpt: “For instance, a user who picks “test123@#” might be required to change the password in three days under the system proposed by Lance James, the head of the cyber intelligence group at Deloitte & Touche. The three-day limit is based on calculations showing it would take about 4.5 days to find the password using offline cracking techniques. Had the same user chosen “t3st123@##$x” (all passwords in this post don’t include the beginning and ending quotation marks), the system wouldn’t require a change for three months.”

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Original source New submitter postglock (917809) writes “Swype is a popular third-party keyboard for Android phones (and also available for Windows phones and other platforms). It’s currently the second-most-popular paid keyboard in Google Play (behind SwiftKey), and the 17th highest of all paid apps. Recently, users have discovered that it’s been accessing location data extremely frequently, making almost 4000 requests per day, or 2.5 requests per minute. The developers claim that this is to facilitate implementation of ‘regional dialects,’ but cannot explain why such frequent polling is required, or why this still occurs if the regional function is disabled. Some custom ROMs such as Cyanogenmod can block this tracking, but most users would be unaware that such tracking is even occurring.” Readers in the linked thread don’t all seem to see the same thing; if you are a Swype user, do you see thousands of location requests, none, or something in between?

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Original source ananyo writes: “Robert Grosseteste, an English scholar who lived from about 1175 to 1253, was the first thinker in northern Europe to try to develop unified physical laws to explain the origin and form of the geocentric medieval universe of heavens and Earth. Tom McLeish, professor of physics and pro-vice-chancellor for research at Britain’s Durham University, and a multinational team of researchers found that Grosseteste’s physical laws were so rigorously defined that they could be re-expressed using modern mathematical and computing techniques — as the medieval scholar might have done if he had been able to use such methods. The thinking went that the translated equations could then be solved and the solutions explored. The ‘Ordered Universe Project’ started six years ago and has now reported some of its findings. Only a small set of Grosseteste’s parameters resulted in the “ordered” medieval universe he sought to explain, the researchers found; most resulted either in no spheres being created or a ‘disordered’ cosmos of numerous spheres. Grosseteste, then, had created a medieval ‘multiverse.’ De Luce suggests that the scholar realized his theories could result in universes with all manner of spheres, although he did not appear to realize the significance of this. A century later, philosophers Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme both considered the idea of multiple worlds and how they might exist simultaneously or in sequence.”

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Team Sky issues statement in wake of comment made by former rider Michael Barry that the team used powerful painkiller Tramadol

Original source DroidJason1 writes: “Revealed from a 10-Q filed by Microsoft with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft has been losing $300 million and counting for the Surface in the last nine months. Data from Strategy Analytics has also revealed that Microsoft’s Windows-powered tablets now own a 6% global tablet share, in Q1 of 2014. Android, on the other hand, remains at the top with a 66% global share. Apple’s iOS fell to 28%.”

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BONJOUR :)

Alors aussi une petite information : je serai demain à partir de 13h en direct dans les locaux de Canalchat.com afin de participer à une petite session de chat (pas l’animal, l’autre. Quoique) video en direct live lors de laquelle vous pourrez, ô horde frémissante, me poser tout un tas de questions magnifiques
AUXQUELLES JE RÉPONDRAI SI ÇA SE TROUVE
(et vous pourrez même voir bouger mes jolies petites lèvres dont les mouvements seront, si tout va bien, coordonnés avec le son, et voir mes petits bonshommes s’échafauder sous vos yeux émerveillés)

C’est ICI que ça se passe :)
Alors à demain peut-être.

Et n’oubliez pas de manger, c’est important.

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Jeannie with HABU SR 71

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