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About Nick Taylor

Nick is an owner of netlogx, which he founded in 1998 with his wife Audrey Taylor.

It’s only Twitter!

By |2022-09-02T18:57:50-04:00November 1st, 2012|

Last week I wasted a few hours trying to understand what Twitter was doing about a direct messages spam problem that they have.  Here’s an article in information week about the problem.  http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/twitter-direct-messages-disguise-trojan/240007914 The answer in case you are interested is...nothing!  Oh, there are instructions on how to go in and delete all the direct [...]

Sloppy Chips!

By |2022-09-02T18:35:58-04:00August 16th, 2012|

Now this is hilarious…there is a new innovation in Computing know as…wait for it….Sloppy Chips. Now these are not to be confused with the sloppy chips that you can get from the fish and chip shop in my brother’s hometown of Standish. They are in fact the type of chip that may one day soon [...]

Quantum computing . . . the end of passwords!

By |2022-09-02T18:33:03-04:00August 2nd, 2012|

Quantum Computers are not like “normal” computers. They don’t use the transistors or chips that the machine that you are reading this blog on uses. They are designed to exploit the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and in particular these two concepts: Quantum superposition: This holds that physical systems, like an electron, exist in all [...]

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