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- Search more securely with encrypted Google web search
- 16% of Facebook users have quit over privacy--60% say they might.
- The Sad Reality Behind Ronald McDonald
- Notícias do Dia
- Pacman no Google
- Yeah…about that downtime…
- This Week In Freedom
- Play Pac-Man on Google's Homepage
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Search more securely with encrypted Google web search Posted: 21 May 2010 12:30 PM PDT As people spend more time on the Internet, they want greater control over who has access to their online communications. Many Internet services use what are known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to encrypt information that travels between your computer and their service. Usually recognized by a web address starting with “https” or a browser lock icon, this technology is regularly used by online banking sites and e-commerce websites. Other sites may also implement SSL in a more limited fashion, for example, to help protect your passwords when you enter your login information.
Years ago Google added SSL encryption to products ranging from Gmail to Google Docs and others, and we continue to enable encryption on more services. Like banking and e-commerce sites, Google’s encryption extends beyond login passwords to the entire service. This session-wide encryption is a significant privacy advantage over systems that only encrypt login pages and credit card information. Early this year, we took an important step forward by making SSL the default setting for all Gmail users. And today we’re gradually rolling out a new choice to search more securely at https://www.google.com. When you search on https://www.google.com, an encrypted connection is created between your browser and Google. This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network. The service includes a modified logo to help indicate that you’re searching using SSL and that you may encounter a somewhat different Google search experience, but as always, remember to check the start of the address bar for “https” and your browser lock indicators:  Today’s release comes with a “beta” label for a few reasons. First, it currently covers only the core Google web search product. To help avoid misunderstanding, when you search using SSL, you won’t see links to offerings like Image Search and Maps that, for the most part, don’t support SSL at this time. Also, since SSL connections require additional time to set up the encryption between your browser and the remote web server, your experience with search over SSL might be slightly slower than your regular Google search experience. What won’t change is that you will still get the same great search results.A few notes to remember: Google will still maintain search data to improve your search quality and to provide better service. Searching over SSL doesn’t reduce the data sent to Google — it only hides that data from third parties who seek it. And clicking on any of the web results, including Google universal search results for unsupported services like Google Images, could take you out of SSL mode. Our hope is that more websites and services will add support for SSL to help create a better and more consistent experience for you. We think users will appreciate this new option for searching. It’s a helpful addition to users’ online privacy and security, and we’ll continue to add encryption support for more search offerings. To learn more about using the feature, refer to our help article on search over SSL. Posted by Evan Roseman, Software Engineer    
     
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16% of Facebook users have quit over privacy--60% say they might. Posted: 21 May 2010 11:46 AM PDT  
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The Sad Reality Behind Ronald McDonald Posted: 21 May 2010 11:03 PM PDT Collected by Scotty Trigg Ronald McDonald has long been an admired figure. Kids the world over brighten up when they see the affable clown, with his unmistakable red hair, yellow jumpsuit and striped shirt. They know upon spotting him that a chicken nuggie Happy Meal (replete with toy) is not too far in the future. But little does anyone know the true and sad story behind the clown. Don’t be fooled by that big bright red smile…there are tears underneath. Wipe away the makeup and you’ll find something not so pretty. It all started out so innocent. He was quite the gentleman…just lounging in the park.
He was respectful to the police.
He helped the elderly.
But then people started to treat him as an idol. They even knelt before him. This quickly got to his head.
Women began coming on to him…at first in was seemingly innocent. A kiss on the cheek here and there.
Shortly things got out of control. He began drinking.
His health deteriorated and for one stretch he even lost his hair.
He started harassing women.
He began soliciting masseuses that offered “happy endings.”
He quickly realized the power he had over women and how easily he could get what he wanted from them.
His appetite for sex escalated and he quickly became addicted.
He particularity enjoyed receiving “head”.
He was not one to turn down a regular romp…
…but also would venture to the more extreme.
Women were not enough and he was soon spotted with men.
Collected by Scotty Trigg …and eventually turned to pedophilia.
After all his sexcapades, his mental well-being and general health declined. He was seen homeless at times.
The long arm of the law had to pick him up on occasion. Usually drunk and in a stupor. Sometimes passed out in a park.
His last resort was to turn his internal pain and suffering to rage…but he ended up attacking the wrong person….
…a man with connections. He was held at gun point…his life flashed before his eyes…and for that last moment he realized the mistake in his ways. How far he’d veered from his good ol’ days…
…but it was too late. In a hail of gun fire he was taken out…by none other than Jack himself.
And that is the sad sad tale behind the once respected and loved clown of the Golden Arches. Let this be a lesson to you kids. Don’t take the route that Ronald did. Behave yourself, mind your manners and be a good citizen. In the long run you’ll be better off (even if you have a shitty job).      
 
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Posted: 21 May 2010 04:47 AM PDT Notícias sobre o Android (incluindo instruções sobre como o instalar num iPhone 3G), o novo Google TV que pretende trazer o Google para as nossas salas, as questões de privacidade, ainda o Facebook, e uma rica prenda para todos os que queiram aumentar a capacidade dos seus backups via Time Machine.
Android no iPhone 3G  Lembram-se de vos ter falado da possibilidade de instalarem o Android num iPhone e iPhone 3G? Pois bem, aqui está um guia passo-a-passo para quem se quiser aventurar nesta "remodelação" do smartphone da Apple e instalar o Android num iPhone.Fica o aviso de que esta experiência não é recomendada para uso efectivo - as funções de poupança e gestão de energia não estão ainda implementadas, fazendo com que o Android descarregue a bateria do iPhone em apenas 1h. E por falar em Android... Novo Android "Gingerbread" chega no final do ano Enquanto muitos utilizadores Android sonham ainda em pôr as mãos no Android 2.2 "Froyo", o Google está já a trabalhar na próxima versão "Gingerbread", que irá trazer suporte nativo para o novo formato de vídeo WebM do Google (e muitas outras novidades, certamente.) No entanto, há que referir que o Google necessita de encontrar urgentemente forma de fazer com que estas actualiações constantes cheguem aos utilizadores. Muitos aparelhos continuam sem actualizações disponíveis para as versões 2.x; e o processo de actualização do firmware é - em alguns casos - bastante intrusivo e incómodo, obrigando ao backup manual de mensagens e fotos; e à posterior reinstalação de todas as Apps que se tinham no dispositivo. Um forma uniformizada e simples de fazer estes updates em tempo útil torna-se cada vez mais um elemento "crítico", especialmente numa plataforma que tem sofrido constantes e rápidas evoluções como o Android. Google TV Quanto ao Google TV, a Sony já se prepara para integrar este sistema nos seus televisores, e a Logitech irá ter uma "box" com as mesmas funcionalidades (e sim, as boxes irão correr Apps Android e ter o Chrome como browser.) Google equaciona Reconhecimento Facial  A tecnologia é muito bonita e permite coisas espectaculares... mas não deixa de ser necessário considerar as implicações que podem afectar a segurança e privacidade das pessoas. É esse dilema que o Google enfrenta: tem um serviço de reconhecimento facial pronto a arrancar mas as questões levantadas sobre a privacidade fazem com que isso tenha que ser analisado cuidadosamente.O Google já integra serviços de reconhecimento de pessoas no seu Picasa; e é apenas uma questão de tempo que tal seja implementado nos seus serviços de reconhecimento de imagens (como o Google Goggles). Afinal, quem não desejaria poder tirar uma foto a uma qualquer pessoa e poder identificá-la, ou imediatamente ter acesso ao seu perfil na net e email? No entanto, é mais que certo que, se não for o Google a fazê-lo, outra qualquer empresa o fará.... Facebook volta aos Tribunais Como se não bastassem as questões da privacidade dos seus utilizadores, o fundador do Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg vê-se agora -novamente- a braços com um processo judicial por parte dos seus colegas universitários que lhe tinham encomendado um serviço em tudo semelhante ao Facebook. Um projecto que Mark Zuckerberg foi "adiando" enquanto ia fazendo a sua própria versão do site... que se viria a chamar Facebook. O caso já tinha chegado aos tribunais, mas aparentemente não terá ficado definitivamente resolvido - e com situações curiosas como: o Facebook ter ficado com poder para despedir os advogados que os acusavam... (Ainda bem que eu não fui para Direito, que estas coisas são demasiado complicadas para mim... :) E mesmo assim, novas questões sobre a privacidade continuam a aparecer a cada dia que passa: uma das mais recentes, que dados sobre os utilizadores estariam a ser passados para quem tem anúncios nas páginas. Drobo FS compatível com Time Machine  Fãs do Time Machine da Apple e dos Drobo? Pois bem, agora podem ter o melhor dos dois mundos, já que o Drobo FS ganhou finalmente suporte nativo para o Time Machine. Agora é mesmo só ligar um à rede e... ganhar espaço quase ilimitado e à prova de falhas de discos.    
  
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Posted: 21 May 2010 08:06 AM PDT O 30º aniversário do Pacman está a ser festejado em grande pelo Google, com uma versão jogável do jogo no lugar do seu logotipo (com um "mapa" a condizer! :)
Excelente e imperdível!  E como seria de esperar...   
  
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Posted: 21 May 2010 01:32 PM PDT You may or may not have noticed that yesterday, www.dreamhost.com was offline and unreachable for the better part of 6 hours. We can’t let something like that go without an explanation. I should note that during this time no customer sites were affected (other than one – which I’ll get to) and the main “www.dreamhost.com” domain. Customer sites were up, our web panel was up, everything was up…including the ire of some tech-savvy Muslims! We’ve got a fairly liberal free-speech policy here which we’re quite proud of. Speech that is protected by the United States Constitution’s First Amendment is protected by DreamHost. While we don’t always agree with the content of the sites we host, we do support their right to host it in America! Yesterday was Draw Mohammad Day. This did not sit well with roughly 21% of the world’s population. We happened to be hosting drawmuhammadday.com, a site that encouraged people to draw images of Mohammed. That’s kind of a no-no in the Muslim world. Incidentally, did you know there’s like a million different ways to spell Mohammed? In the spirit of yesterday’s event, but without the offensive parts, I’ve drawn some pictures to show you what you might have missed!
Some people weren’t too keen on the idea of the Draw Mohammad Day website and suddenly we were the target of the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) we’ve ever seen. drawmuhammadday.com was the first to fall. It was the main target and it didn’t take long…based on our stats it looked like almost the entire country of Pakistan was attacking us! Well not really. But nobody in Pakistan could reach YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter yesterday, so what else were they gonna do? These weren’t just random attacks from here and there. We saw several Pakistani groups targeting us on their blogs, often providing step-by-step directions and automated tools for launching e-assaults on dreamhost.com and drawmuhammadday.com.
They did not let up once the site was down. At one point dreamhost.com (the site itself) was handling around 20,000 requests per second. To put that number in perspective, when our customers’ sites have traffic surges a busy day might see that number get up to ten or even twenty.
Our load balancers, as great as they are, typically handle about 4,000 connections at any given moment. During the attack they made it up to 400,000 before they seized up and crapped out. We believe that even the most top-shelf battle-hardened load balancing options would not have been able to withstand an attack of this scale – a quick jump in traffic about 100x larger than normal traffic patterns we see on any given day. Our fault-tolerant setup relied on those load balancers and they proved to be our undoing. Luckily only some services were affected by this for a very short time (webmail being one of them) before we got them going again a few minutes later.
To restore services we had to take the site down altogether while we moved it to newer, stronger hardware, beyond the reach of our load balancers. We tuned the Linux kernel on this new machine aggressively to use less memory for TCP connections. We also abandoned Apache, favoring a specialized nginx installation. When we flipped the switch to get dreamhost.com up and running again at around 2PM PDT, the attack load had dropped to 130,000 simultaneous connections with over 20,000 requests per second. The new setup took it like a champ and continues to perform well today – even while we’re still seeing elevated traffic as a result of lingering attacks. We’re proud to say (and repeat!) that customer sites were not affected and our control panel was still reachable during this entire debacle. And of course if you ever suspect server problems with your DreamHost account be sure to check dreamhoststatus.com! We learned some lessons yesterday and, moving forward, we’re going to put them into practice. Thanks for hangin’ in there.
 
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Play Pac-Man on Google's Homepage Posted: 21 May 2010 09:47 AM PDT Google's doodles start to become more interactive. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, Google created a doodle that lets you play the game. Go to Google's homepage and the game starts automatically after 10 seconds.
"Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the U.S. by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular in the United States from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is universally considered as one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of the 1980s popular culture." I wonder how many people will forget why they visited Google's homepage and will start playing Pac-Man. The worst part is that the sound can't be turned off and it will surprise or annoy a lot of Google users. "If you're not a Pac Man fan or want to skip the music and lights, just enter you search query as usual and you'll be directed to our normal search results page. Other options include: closing your browser, turning the volume down or off on your computer, playing Pac Man all day long," suggests a Google employee. You can also disable Flash for google.com or use FlashMute, a software for silencing Flash sites. Google should have turned off the sound by default or at least should have provided an option to disable the music. The good news is that the game doesn't start if you type a query in the search box.   Update: The CoolPreviews extension for Firefox preloads Google's homepages, so you'll hear the Pac-Man sound even if you don't visit Google's homepage. The latest version, which can be downloaded from coolpreviews.com, fixes the problem. Update 2: The sound is now disabled by default and you can only hear it when you start playing the game. The Pac-Man doodle replaces Google's logo for 48 hours.      
  
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