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From the iSec Partners:

“Conclusion: OS X networks are signiﬁcantly more vulnerable to network privilege escalation. Almost every OS X Server service oﬀers weak or broken authentication methods.”

“Bottom Line: Run your Macs as little islands on a hostile network.”

We’d like to thank our friends at .CO Internet SAS who operate .co domain names for facilitating the acquisition of g.co, and keep your eyes open as we start rolling out g.co as our official URL shortcut for Google websites.

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Gary Briggs, VP Consumer Marketing, Google

I see all these companies switching to ccTLDs… does anyone research who profits from specific TLDs before registering? There was a huge fiasco with Libya and it’s censorship on bit.ly previously (as well that the money people paid for .ly domains directly supported the regime in Libya); has anyone bothered to check the other ccTLDs?

Simple Harry Potter Review

If you liked the first 7 movies, I’m sure you’ll like the 8th movie.

Take that as sarcastic or serious, because it’s both.

Complicating the rollout are troubles facing the Montreal-based supplier that Alta plans to use to provide bikes and racks. Canadian officials won’t let the supplier, Public Bike System Co., export its systems.

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—	NYC bike-share idea loses momentum \| Crain’s New York Business Wha??? (via felixsalmon) Shouldn’t be hard to setup, MPLS has a great system: https://www.niceridemn.org/ I’d think that if Minneapolis/Saint Paul can get this setup, there shouldn’t be a reason NYC can’t…

How to keep Twitter following manageable…

felixsalmon:

I desperately need to start unfollowing people on Twitter — I’m following far too many people. And there are friends of mine, on Twitter, whose tweets tend to the banal and ignorable. They’re obvious unfollows. But, they’re also friends! I need a Twitter mute button: some way of taking their tweets out of my timeline while still allowing them to DM me and see that I’m following them. #KTHXBAI

I’d say you should use Gina Trappani’s advice and use a private VIP list for the accounts you determine crucial to your twitter use…

http://smarterware.org/6852/on-privately-following-dunbars-number-on-twitter

do everyone a favor and call your elected officials in Washington” it is a common refrain, and one repeated this morning by top VC blogger Fred Wilson, but I disagree.
Don’t call it does nothing. Zero, zip, nada, nothing
We think it does, because every advocacy group out there pounds it into our head: “call, call, call” But they are doing this not because they think the call itself will create change, they are telling everyone to call because but if a supporter participates in an action, even a small insignificant one, they are more likely to be hardend in their support. Someone who picks up a phone and calls an elected official is more likely to donate next time they get a email, a supporter who calls is more likely to show up and actually vote on election day, a supporter who calls is more likely to talk to friends.
The elected official in question is NOT more likely to vote in line with the caller.

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—	: Please Don’t Call Your Elected Official - Seriously Don’t (via felixsalmon)

How I spend most of my time.

Tumblr!

I finally got off my butt and setup a tumblelog with my custom DNS. I guess this means I need to set one up for Amanda (and probably Lydia) also.

Trying this thing out

Setting up Tumblr… hoping I can move forward with integrating my lame domain names into the cloud instead of crap I normally do.