I think it is disingenuous of this article to have “Apple” in the title. It was an AT&T server with a stupid application that used AJAX calls to obtain email addresses by ICC ID. And …

FYI, SurveyMonkey is a great site, but they have really crappy security. They actually store your password in the clear, or in reversibly-encrypted format. If you request your forgotten login and/or …

Sorting through the myriad information and misinformation on these topics is difficult. And remembering what the actual conclusion is can be even more difficult “Was coffee safe or not?” …

This one loaded drive-by-malware, a popular tactic. Malicious iFrame on US Treasury and other sites? …

Ridiculous but glad they changed their policy. A retraction from the American Academy of Pediatrics : Pharyngula “We retracted the policy because it is important that the world health community …

Then, if you’re a baby in Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, or related states you get reprogrammed to fear and doubt science and believe horsepucky. Glad me and my baby live in Seattle. I may have to …

There is something to be said about using terms that have the most precise meaning possible. However, in scientific circles, you may have a better understanding of the nuance in different terms than …

I’m always forgetting how to do this but here’s how to delete matching lines: :g/.*foo.*/d And the more difficult thing to do that vim makes easy is deleting non-matching lines. All you do …

We were given a big “FU” by SPU (Seattle Public Utilities) last week and told that alley trash service would stop tomorrow and we would have to somehow haul our cans up to the street level …

I find myself reticent to use the word ‘skeptic’ to describe myself because it is often incorrectly equated to ‘cynic’ or some other malcontent or negative connotation. …