Category: Internet

URLs are Already Dead

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

URLs are already dead Posted at May 6, 2014 07:00 am by Nicholas C. Zakas Tags:

Browsers, Internet, URLs Last week, there was a fair bit of furor when Jake Archibald wrote an article1 describing an experimental feature in Chrome that hides all but the domain name of the URL you’re on. The idea is very similar to what already happens in the iOS 7 version of Safari: once navigation is underway, the URL is hidden and only the domain name is visible in the location bar. If you want to get to the full URL, then you either click or set focus back to the location bar (in Chrome, you click the domain name). Iâ€™ll admit, the first time I encountered this behavior in iOS 7, I was…

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URLs are already dead

Ghost-Hunting With Anti-Virus

May 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In October 2012, data security firm Imperva released a controversial report on the efficacy of anti-virus (AV), which concluded that AV solutions only stopped 5 percent of all malware identified. Few reports in the security industry had been as polarizing as this one, many reacting with white-knuckle rage. It was a classic case of Chris Christensen’s “Innovator’s Dilemma,” where old school technologies cling to life, in the face of a new paradigm. Just yesterday, one of the original anti-virus vendors joined the fray in “declaring anti-virus dead” in the Wall Street Journal. At FireEye, we look at hundreds of malware samples daily, and, in a recent talk at RSA Conference, Zheng Bu, vice president of research at FireEye presented some …

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Ghost-Hunting With Anti-Virus

Google’s Matt Cutts: Over Time Backlinks Will Become Less Important

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said in a video that backlinks, over time, will become a little less important. Matt did say that backlinks in the Google ranking algorithm still have many years left in them. Matt explained that Google is focusing a lot now on working on ways to determine if a web page is meets the expectations of an expert user. They do this currently by looking at the links to the page, the reputation of the site and pages and the quality of the content on that particular page. When Google is better at understanding actual language, natural language, which you see with their conversational search efforts. Google will be better to understand expert user’s queries and match them better…

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Google’s Matt Cutts: Over Time Backlinks Will Become Less Important

Chrome’s experiment of hiding the URL is awful

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

04 May 2014 As was pointed out last week, Google Chrome has been experimenting with hiding the URL from the browser. Recently, Jake Archibald, a member of the Chrome team, wrote a piece talking about how this change is great for security. I don’t think it is great for anything. This is what the current implementation looks like: As you see it is hiding the complete URLs here in favor of showing just the domain name. URLs are the building blocks of the web. Every website contains hundreds or thousands of URLs. Every page has a unique URL so that you can identify it and share it with other people. There is a reason they have always been front and center in all web browsers. Call me cynical, but…

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Chrome’s experiment of hiding the URL is awful

Docker ported into Hadoop as benchmarks show SCREAMING FAST performance

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Code committers hope unholy union of open source tech will spawn speedy gonzalez virtualization The Hadoop community is working on patches that will bring the popular app-containerization technology Docker into the data management system, and independent benchmarks are showing the tech has a huge speedup over traditional virtualization approaches. Docker is an open source Linux containerization technology that uses underlying kernel elements like namespaces, lxc, and cgroups to let an admin run multiple apps with all their dependencies in secure sandboxes on the same underlying Linux OS, making it an attractive alternative to typical virtualization, which bundles a copy of the OS with each app. In a set of benchmarks an IBM employee released on Thursday, the company showed that Docker containerization has some huge advantages …

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