* Posts by Josh 16

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Facebook goes all a twitter with Beluga buy

Josh 16
Coat

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Judging from the company name, they now have their own fail whale up their sleeves...

Intel pushes password-pumping mojo

Josh 16
WTF?

Awesome! All my accounts tied to one CPU!

So if the PC dies, I lose access to it or whatever else happens... I also lose access to all my accounts for the time being?

Maybe I'm missing the point here but isn't authentication all about confirming your identity to a service? So why would we technically create another identity (the PC we are using) when we already have our own?

With everyone going "cloud" and using mobile devices more each and every day, forcing people to authenticate via an arbitrary desktop PC seems kind of like a money-making afterthought, not a real effort at innovation. Point of the OTP dongles was to allow me to authenticate from anywhere. With this tech, I can authenticate from... wherever my PC is located. Definitely a step backwards.

Microsoft: 'Prepare for 15 billion more clients'

Josh 16
FAIL

Close to the right move, but...

...upon checking out Windows Embedded I discovered that it supports multiple processor architectures:

- x86

- x64

Embedded devices are usually either one of these architectures:

- ARM

- AVR

So how exactly do they plan on plugging in existing infrastructure and "drive down TCO" when you can't even run it on your existing infrastructure?

Or can we expect Microsoft to be pushing us all into buying expensive and inefficient x86 embedded devices because they just can't be bothered porting their own OS to a different plaftform? Wonder how *that* will impact their precious TCO calculations.