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Alasdair Mac Cormick - Random Musings
Saturday, July 31, 2004
Posted @: 1:30:20 AM by Ally
Email Privacy
Last October, Bruce Schneier reported a new technique used by car thieves: precision stripping. Here's how it plays: steal a car. Strip the car down to the chassis. Dump the chassis on the street. Soon enough, the cops tow the chassis away. When the chassis is offered up at a police auction, buy the chassis. Reattach the parts to the chassis. Bingo! You now own - legally - a car that you stole. As Schneier puts it, the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) has been "laundered".Clever man! But the article makes the more serious point about how marketers and advertisers and spammers are using ever more increasingly sneaky methods to obtain consumer information. While on point of email, I have a beta gmail account :-) Cheers Iain for the invite
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Monday, July 26, 2004
Posted @: 7:46:09 AM by Ally
Im back, and hopefully with a new design soon - good luck to anyone viewing this page in anything other than IE and a screen <17 inches!! Anyways, more logging of reading..."Why I Love EJBs, an Introduction to Modern Java Middleware" by Marc Fleury
And if you were ever confused about how to deploy caches and pools then check out InformIT latest article on it (you need to register, hence no link)
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Posted @: 8:04:44 PM by Ally
Jini Network Technology Fulfilling its Promise: A Conversation with Jim Waldo
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Saturday, March 20, 2004
Posted @: 9:45:44 PM by Ally
Easter Eggs
What is an "Easter Egg"? - The term "Easter Egg", as we use it here, means any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. There are thousands of them, and they can be quite entertaining,...
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Sunday, March 07, 2004
Posted @: 8:52:27 PM by Ally
Language Once Was KeyNow It's Design
Grady Booch, Rational Software's chief scientist and a pioneer in software modeling, tells you when you doand don'tneed to get into serious design, how to deal with the impedance mismatch between SQL and OOP, and more.
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