radioactive21

"What I want from the CISSP or any certification program is that it be hard to pass."

On exam difficulty, try CCIE certification. There are two parts, the written ($350 per an attempt) and then the lab part which cost $1500 per an attempt. The lab part has a 26% pass rate over the history of the exam. In comparison, the CA Bar exam has a 35% and 55% pass rate, which is the lowest in the US.

You also can't just take it anywhere, you have to travel to a designated lab testing center, and depending on where you are that means cost of travel and lodging.

Love him or hate him, I think it's great when someone makes a mistake, owns up to it publicly. Even allow others to contact them directly and list all levels of accountability even to the top.

I have heard of Scoble but never follow him.I have made the same mistake he has made, where a friend I highly trust, who I think is rarely wrong forwards me info which I use for an argument and it turns out to be completely false. Yes it was laziness, no doubt about it and I learn that the hard way, and so has Scoble.

Not a surprise at all. I have read many stories like this and the problem is that many of them come from poverty. They get money and they feel very guilty, so they give money to any friends or family that asks. This is why many have such huge entourages.

One player was paying rent for 15 of his friends. It wasn't some cheap place either, but at high rises in a big city.

He also paid for 20 cell phone bills, on top of buying house for his parents, brothers and sisters. Paying all the bills eating out with his close friends, paying for rides and flights.

Google can fail at Google+ because this is not their main product. Look at Buzz and Wave, they both failed spectacularly, and Google moved on to the next thing.

Like wise you can write a whole article about how Google standing by and doing nothing while Facebook dominates the social network scene is a mistake.

Pretty much HN reminds me of Reddit before Digg imploded.

Everyone is different. Take the advice just as things to think about.

I know people who have been through hardship and they actually tell people to hang around, to just talk, say anything. They prefer people say something to not saying anything at all.

Yea. You can't completely avoid it but I try to minimize it as much as I can.

I have separate emails for a ton of things. I create fake personas for anything I think that does not need to know my true identity.

I do not fill out profiles of anything. When I sign up it's just my name and everything else is as minimal as possible.

Here's more of it.

"But Google was riding so high that it essentially refused to negotiate, offering no concessions to Nokia despite its global presence. Elop later told the Salo employees that Google "acted like they'd already won. Apple and Android deserve some real competition."

Pretty much he's saying Google acted like Apple in how it views everyone below them.

"Review the security features offered by the Chrome browser. If you don’t already use Chrome, consider switching your browser to Chrome."

Nice subtle suggestion.

Was not able to find any sources worth reading but I am interested to know the comparison between American Universities, and free universities in Europe. It would be interesting to see how each system works for students during, and after college.

I still dont get how you concluded that Newegg stores password in plain text.

All you did was talk to a Newegg rep, you said he mis understood you and email you your Newegg password. What evidence do you have and in what logical reasoning does that lead to Newegg storing passwords in plain text?

He could have used your info and looked it up in the Newegg system, probably clicked a check box that says "email password" the system could have decrypted it and sent you the password.

I've seen many sites that actually send you your username and current passwords if you forgot. It doesn't mean that when it's stored on their system it was not encrypted.

Edit: to clarify, my whole point is in reference to how the password is stored in plain text.

A lot of schools including my alma mater has this free for students/staff. They also allow alumni if you bought the lifetime alumni pack when you graduated which was $300 and included a bunch of other university services.

I have use the safari books extensively, but their book viewer sucks. I wished it was a much better UI.

A better intelligent article would have address the total cost of ownership and efficiency of the product over its lifetime.

In that sense, buying better quality products which might be more expensive at first is a better deal. In this way I am willing to concede that you shouldn't sell yourself short. But this can honestly be all summoned up by saying, do your research before you buy.

Agree. I was using like as in "like totally," I realized it after I posted it but didnt have time to go back and correct it.

Exactly what I was going to say. US and many Western countries are idea machines, but they are all built in Asia.

As someone said, Japan takes something and makes it better, China takes something and makes it cheaper.