Sophos intends to buy Utimaco. Until then, Sophos will resell SafeGuard Enterprise and they now have a mutual referral agreement for all products from both companies. Utimaco will become a new business unit focused on data security and the SafeGuard brand will be retained.
From the customer announcement email:
Our future direction integrates [...]
Tags: Encryption · Utimaco · sophos
This afternoon on my MacBook Pro, Mail and Safari were acting screwy. Safari would give me a beach ball when I tried to fill out a form on Amazon and Mail would give me a beach ball when it did an address look up when I typed someone’s name in the To: field. [...]
In 1981, Richard Feynman gave an interview to Horizon. Be sure to check out the excerpt about doubt and uncertainty.
Tags: Doubt · Feynman · Science
Weirder than science fiction, but it’s real. Check out this animation that visualizes magnetic fields based on actual measurements.
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Tags: Science
From Feynman’s The Value of Science:
When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. [...]
Tags: Critical Thinking · Science
Richard Feynman gave this talk on the value of science over 50 years ago. It’s full of wisdom from a brilliant man.
If we take everything into account — not only what the ancients knew, but all of what we know today that they didn’t know — then I think we must frankly [...]
Tags: Critical Thinking · Doubt · Science
Well worth the 40 minutes to watch this intro to critical thinking by Brian Dunning.
Here’s his recommended reading list from the end:
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Flim Flam by James Randi The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Skeptoid by Brian Dunning
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Apple just launched K-12 on iTunes U(opens iTunes) that allows schools to use iTunes as a platform to distribute educational content. Not quite sure why a school would find this easier than just posting the stuff on the web, but I do know Apple would love to get all those students spending even more [...]
Some interesting new research out of ETH Zürich showed that Firefox’s Auto-Update mechanism works the best at keeping users updated with the latest and safest version compared to all other major browsers. The report, Understanding the web browser threat, used Google’s browser data from the last 18 months to figure out a lower bound [...]
Tags: Firefox · Security · Web · Web Filtering