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Olympics Insider, Password Security

Jonathan Hensley — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:19:45 +0000

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

Behind NBC’s Olympics Website
Four years ago there was just a few dozen hours of video up on the site. Thousands of machines are needed to encode and serve the video and the site. Interesting conversation, hope you enjoy a little look behind one of the people who worked behind the scenes for months on this site.
6 Reasons Today’s Olympic Swimmers are Breaking so many World Records
For some reason every swim event in this Olympics is a record smasher. And it isn’t just Michael Phelps who’s seconds ahead of that daunting green world record line. Curious what’s making this year’s athletes so much faster? Here are 6 possible answers.
Moving Beyond Passwords For Security
The solution urged by the experts is to abandon passwords — and to move to a fundamentally different model, one in which humans play little or no part in logging on. Instead, machines have a cryptographically encoded conversation to establish both partie

iPhone App Maker Gets Hit With Cease and Desist

Jonathan Hensley — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:22:54 +0000

I’m a big baseball fan but this is the type of thing Major League Baseball does that drives me crazy.

On Monday Michigan’s Mark Knopper, owner and sole employee of Bulbous Ventures, received an email from MLB Advanced Media demanding that he remove baseball team logos from his program along with a nearly imperceptible MLB logo used on the application program shortcut. MLB Advanced Media also expressed concern people might wrongfully assume his program was an official MLB iPhone App. MLB also made available its own iPhone app on last week, MLB.com At Bat ($5).

iPhone App Maker Gets Hit With Major League Cease and Desist

Don’t double dip that chip

Jonathan Hensley — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:02:51 +0000

Last year the food microbiologist’s undergraduate students [at Clemson University] examined the effects of double dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater’s mouth to the remaining dip sample.”I like to say it’s like kissing everybody at the party — if you’re double dipping, you’re putting some of your bacteria in that dip,” Dawson said.

Nothing really surprising there… but it does remind most of us of a hilarious Seinfeld clip. Classic!

Make sure you watch the dip at your SuperBowl party… actually, might be best to just stick with the chili.

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