Making the Use of Access Cards less sucky
IMPACT: Non-privileged primitive users can cause the total destruction of your entire invasion fleet and gain unauthorized access to files. CERT Advisory CA-96.13 Some organizations use access cards to...
View ArticleThe Lure of the Screen in App Development
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. Hanna Rion Having seen a lot of software development projects (by students) for smartphones, I get the very strong suspicion that...
View ArticleLegal Side Effects of Logging User Behavior (esp. when driving)
«It’s not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see.» Anon, why she hides her life in an age of digital surveillance, in «Anon» Yesterday, a group of students presented their app...
View ArticleAffinity Publisher is available
«Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.» «The Mourning Bride» by William Congrave I really did love Adobe InDesign. It was one of the best apps I’ve ever...
View ArticleStupid Software: Excel
“I’m okay with intelligent software, I’m okay with non-intelligent software. I have serious reservations about stupid software.” Based on a quote by Dan Sheppard about buildings There’s a reason why I...
View ArticleGab seems to be running nicely now
To end the suspense, I have just created alt.sex. That meant that the alt network now carried alt.sex and alt.drugs. It was therefore artistically necessary to create alt.rock-n-roll, which I have also...
View ArticleGrading Paper Exams with an iPad
This isn’t right, this isn’t even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist’s paper Recently I had to correct exams of 55 students, 11 pages each. Normally, I’d do it on paper,...
View ArticleShould AI be explainable or should it just evaluate its predictions?
«Worlds governed by artificial intelligence often learned a hard lesson: Logic Doesn’t Care.» Yin-man Wei, «This Present Darkness: A History of the Interregnum», CY 11956 in Andromeda One topic last...
View ArticleIdealistic Youth and (Social) Power
Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man’s character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln I’m a fan of comics, graphic novels, computer games, hell, even trashy movies. Because in...
View ArticleLooking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship...
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have. Gerald R. Ford There’s an old role-playing game called Shadowrun. It plays in a future in...
View ArticleDEVONthink 3 — Where the heck is DEVONthink going?
Don’t try to tell the customer what he wants. If you want to be smart, be smart in the shower. Then get out, go to work and serve the customer! Gene Buckley, President, Sikorsky Aircraft DEVONthink is...
View ArticleWeight Hacking Part IV – The Long View
measure twice, cut once Unknown The last posting about weight hacking has been a while (about nine months), but the daily tracking continues (with a few missing values). Enough to see a few phases and...
View ArticleWhy not treat a learning AI like you would treat a dog?
«All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.» «Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don’t eat the tourists.» John Hammond...
View ArticleFirst Impression of Apple’s Watch Series 5
Max: «These cuffs are made of tensiled steel. It would take you ten minutes to hack through them.» [Hands Kid the hacksaw.] Max (cont’d): «If you’re quick, and if you’re lucky, you can hack through...
View ArticleDownloading Comic Strips
If you have eight hours to cut down a tree, it is best to spend six hours sharpening your axe and then two hours cutting down the tree. Anonymous, on the benefits of having good tools A long time ago,...
View ArticleYou show me yours, I’ll show you mine
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. Penn Jillett I’m not a fan of the lockdown and the home office rules (at...
View ArticleFinding a Bachelor, Master and perhaps even PhD thesis Topic in Media and...
Be always sure you’re right, then go ahead. Davy Crockett After advising a couple of bachelor and master theses in media and computer science, I’ve created a short document to help students with...
View ArticleWriting a Synopsis for a Bachelor, Master or PhD Thesis in Media and Computer...
The development of ‘Balance Of Power’ reminds me if the use of paratroops in WW2. After much trial and error, the strategists eventually learned that the real value of paratroops lay in their powers to...
View ArticleThesis Template – Media and Computer Science – Medieninformatik [German...
“… and that’s when I went to the fridge to get another beer.” German teacher recounting how he corrected our exams Ah, bachelor and master project reports, ah, bachelor and master’s theses, they could...
View ArticleRemote Usability Testing on Mobiles with WebEx Meetings
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. Penn [...]
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