The designers of technology explicitly made their devices/services/software addictive because that is a great business model, marketing expense is minimal once the user is hooked. In fact, addictive drugs and technology are practically the only domains where we call customers' users'.

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The new Surface bothers me because it [ goes ] after Microsoft’s partners' business, it's aimed directly at the sweet spot on the product spectrum, the place where OEMs [ PC makers ] can still make money. Meanwhile, Microsoft doesn't really take care of end customers and still needs the OEMs to get to market.

There was a fair amount of public grousing when the iPhone 7 failed to introduce any exciting new features.

This seems to be a case of Facebook's wanting to slow the momentum of a smaller rival by adopting its core functionality. But you could argue that Snapchat didn't really have much intellectual property in the first place. It was more of a design idea: create a means to send photos with a timer on them.

Chrome may be a power hog, but people like its features. by Roger Kay

Chrome may be a power hog, but people like its features.

The sum of your patterns … will yield a statistically unique signature: the way you walk, where you are, the way your finger moves, etc. Depending on how it's implemented, these are all things ‘you are,’.

One wonders [if it has] too large a footprint in memory [and is]... by Roger Kay

One wonders [if it has] too large a footprint in memory [and is] too slow.

Internet protocol was designed to be highly robust and decentralized, there are a few big ‘trunks,’ huge fiber-optic cables that run undersea and carry much of the traffic from, say, the U.S. to Japan, but there are multiples of most of those and other routes, like satellite, even if they all go out.

National Security Administration people that I've spoken to over the years have bemoaned the rising tide of difficult-to-decipher digital interchange, from voice, encrypted or not, at this point, the bad guys are outrunning the good because there are just too many channels to monitor.

Security at AOL and other networks is reasonable, but weak passwords can always be cracked, and password recovery schemes are typically based on information about people stored from questions like' What was the name of your first pet ?' the CIA director was just plain stupid to use a common service like AOL for sensitive communications.He really should have known better.

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Investors will probably be happy because the new structure gives management more flexibility to manage the assets, down the road, will certain businesses be shot down or spun off because they are not paying their way? That could happen.

They are aware that they've got this hodgepodge of companies, maybe it's better to sort them out a bit and make it clearer which ones are bringing in the bacon and which ones are science projects and which ones are long-term bets.

For example, if a unit is doing well or badly they can dial it up or down, they can form partnerships or different companies.

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Anonymous would certainly like to be seen as powerful – they want you to think that maybe it was them, [Tuesday’s tweet] could be just an idle message on the part of an Anonymous person, but the timing does raise an eyebrow.

The mood has changed and people now think it may be the boogeyman... by Roger Kay

The mood has changed and people now think it may be the boogeyman.

This is the reality of the world we live in, i think that there’s a balance between paranoia and reasonable prudence.

Endpoint Technologies ' Kay want to have just one or two individuals responsible for the account, they should be named individuals, so that if there’s a problem, Roger Kay can go to those people. Tim Junio, a cybersecurity fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, also highlighted the risks posed by weak passwords.