logic involved

Apparently comparing apples and oranges makes sense after all:
Apples and Oranges — A Comparison by Scott A. Sandford, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California

It’s forgotten all too often:

Search is a way to harvest demand, not to create it.

(Drew Houston, co-founder & CEO of Dropbox, about Google AdWords in his “Startup Lessons Learned” presentation).

via Jeff Barr.

When dealing with foreign names, it is a matter of both correctness and courtesy to use the right spelling. But quite often it is also a problem of “how do I enter this darn character”.

Luckily, there is abcTajpu, a Firefox extension that allows you to select foreign characters, umlauts, … quite easily.

Free, no ads – really worth a try

The Security Intel Analysis Team gives a pretty good summary of how the IE8 on Windows 7 got busted at the Pwn2Own during CanSecWest 2010. They show us a pretty interesting dive into the ideas behind data execution prevention in definitive must-read article.

Update:
zdnet provides (less verbose) background information on how the iPhone got hacked at the same event.

Apple just released Mac OS X 10.6.3. Pretty good. As usual, the list of bug fixes and patches is quite long. Thanks for that
Oh, and they added a diagnostic and usage data collection … erm, feature? Hey, it is even enabled by default:

If there was a possibility for opting out I must have missed it somehow. Actually, I am pretty sure they did not ask me.
Speaking as a software engineer, I understand that crash logs and usage data can be invaluable for creating timely and to-the-point patches and updates. On the other side, this is my system. And the data stored on it is mine. Once again, speaking as a software engineer: in the way of creating new applications, a lot of crashes will occur. Bugs need to be squashed, and features to be added. Why should Apple know what I am working on? Or simply what video I was looking at before Youtube crashed? Or what mail caused Mail.app to go down in flames?
And why is it so hard to ask your customers if they want to take part in the user data collection before such a gimmick is activated?

Read more about the Diagnostic and usage data collection (and how to disable it) here.