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Developer Week in Review: Would your passcode pass muster?Bad passcodes persist, more legal shenanigans, MySpace finds a homeA riddle for all of you Week in Review fans out there. How come I can buy an iPhone, the pinnacle of technological achievement (hush, you Android folks ...), with billions of transistors and marvels of engineering like solid state gyroscopes and accelerometers for under $500, but a freaking mattress made out of bent steel and fabric is going to cost me nearly two grand? Someone get Steve Jobs on the line, we need the iSleep. Dark Helmet would be pleased
How are we going to have any hope of educating the public about strong passwords, digital certificates and phishing, if we can't even get them to choose a non-trivially guessable passcode? This week's legal news, now in Madlib format!This week, (name of big company) (legal action) (name of other big company), claiming that they had (intellectual property violation) their (intellectual property). Into this template, you can place the following values: Oracle, had many of their claims dismissed by the USPTO against, Google, violated, Java Patents. Samsung, asked the International Trade Commission to ban imports into the US from, Apple, violated, patents. Apple, lost ground in their bid to prevent, Amazon, from using the term, App Store. Ok, now you give it a try. Maybe next week, we'll do an emerging language Madlib!  OSCON 2011 — Join today's open source innovators, builders, and pioneers July 25-29 as they gather at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Ore.Save 20% on registration with the code OS11RAD In MySpace, no one can hear you take a capital loss
Poor MySpace. While sister Facebook has claimed the glory and prestige, MySpace has faded from social networking giant to bargain basement status. News Corp may have spent upwards of half a billion dollars to acquire the company, but this week they let MySpace pass out of their hands for a paltry$ 35 million. For those keeping score, that's a 90% loss on the original investment.
Meanwhile, Google has finally sent a shot across Facebook's bow with the launch of Google+, which integrates social networking into the Google experience. There's an Android client for it out already, and an iOS version is promised any time now. Got news?Please send tips and leads here. Related:
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Once upon a time, there were two sisters. Both were popular and all the young boys and girls loved to play with them. One of them went on to fame, fortune, and have a movie made about her. The other found herself left at home cleaning up the fireplace, with not a fairy godmother to be seen.
