Category Archives: Security

Good password policy… not!

Following good security practice I recently went through the process of changing my passwords. I started off this exercise by changing my ISP account password. So I went through the process, entered my strong password, and logged out to try out the new password. Next, I tried to log on with my new password but …

November 2, 2008 – 11:14 am | By Minimalist Geek | Posted in Security, User Experience | Comments (0)

Real or Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins, the guy behind Palm Computing and mobiles such as PalmPilot and Treo, argues in his book, On Intelligence, that the current way of thinking about intelligence and how the brain works is flawed and therefore we cannot create intelligent machines based on this knowledge. He is so convinced of this that he founded …

April 18, 2008 – 4:41 pm | By Minimalist Geek | Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Security, Technology | Comments (0)