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  • Department of Justice Announces New Assistant United States Attorneys and FBI Agents to Combat Intellectual Property Crimes

    “As part of the Department of Justice’s ongoing initiative to confront intellectual property (IP) crimes, Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler announced today the appointment of 15 new Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) positions and 20 FBI Special Agents to… Continue reading

  • OAuth

    Possible new standard in website logins, esp. or at least initially in social networking applications. One unified login shared across multiple sites.: The 1.0 spec: http://oauth.net/core/1.0a/ Official draft spec. pending IESG approval before publication as an RFC. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-10 Wiki Article:… Continue reading

  • Apple’s IPad Gets Rejected From Some Colleges, For Now

    “…The tablet, lauded by many as the next wave in education technology, has already been rejected by two top universities, George Washington University and Princeton University because of security issues. Cornell University also says it is seeing connectivity problems with… Continue reading

  • VeriSign warns of major social networking threat

    “Firm uncovers black market trading in millions of compromised accounts… …Prices for the accounts depend on how many contacts or friends the user has on the site, and range from $25 (£16.25) per 1,000 accounts with 10 contacts or fewer… Continue reading

  • Researchers crack Palm webOS with a text message

    “Researchers have managed to crack Palm’s webOS with a simple text message. The team at Intrepidus Group worked on a Palm Pre running the 1.3.5. version of the webOS operating system, and found it open to many common vulnerabilities due… Continue reading

  • Clone Objects in .Net using Reflections

    Clone or Duplicate Objects using .Net Reflections library: .Net, as well as many other object oriented languages, have strong distinctions between value types and reference types. Objects in .Net, which all inherit the same base object class are reference types.… Continue reading

  • CSV to DataTable

    Converting Microsoft Excel CSV to .Net DataTable: After casually browsing the net for some good examples, everything I came across was too bulky or over-kill for what I needed this code for, so I decided to write my own. The… Continue reading

  • Uniform distribution

    Impossible? Puzzle: This one is (supposedly) from a job interview for Google: You’re being streamed an array of numbers. Every second you receive the next cell in the array. The array is finite but you don’t know when it ends… Continue reading

  • Welcome

    I first created this blog around Summer of 2008. Almost two years later, I have decided to populate some activity. My goal is to share my thoughts and ideas with the hope that something original or at least insightful will… Continue reading