WSJ (well, until the link rots, anyway): Senate Rejects Wiretapping Probe. *sigh* May we reap what we sow. And we will. And just to clarify, I’m not trying to suggest anything ominous and terrorism-related with that comment at all. Far from it. What I mean is that, probably sooner than later, this whole it’s ok, […]
IT Conversations hit a couple of home runs in the past week: Adam Bosworth: Database Requirements in the Age of Scalable Services Jamais Cascio: Participatory Panopticon These both seriously kick butt. And I get the double bonus…Adam Bosworth I was already a fan of, but Jamais Cascio is a new read. I love finding new […]
CNN: Senators compromise on filibusters I applaud the spirit of compromise here. That is after all, like it or not, what it’s all about. Neither side tends to get 100% of what they want all of the time. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats…and certainly not my Libertarians! (we have a couple of dogcatcher posts, […]
OK…my mind is boggling over this: How To Save The Internet: Computing on the Net is heading for a fall because security is a joke. So we summoned the best minds to see if we could put Humpty back together again. Hmm. Does the best mind list include Blake Ross (Firefox’s co-creator, who has saved […]
(a private zinger, but I like it nonetheless *grin*). boingboing posts link to AP article describing a shameful (and dangerous) lack of comprehension of the importance of the rights enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights: When told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students […]
Java 1.5 Is Dead…long live Java 5.0.: “Why can’t people who market software count? … It appears that the defining attribute of open source software is a predictable versioning scheme.” Also on:
The Debian X Strike Force guys rock. They take a lot of crap, and they take it in stride. (I should learn from them…) First they did the famous “How about…” banner for their webpage (since sanitized to remove the quote for those easi..well, offendable, anyway) …now an hilarious post WRT a screwup in the […]
Digital Media Project(Berkman Center): “The goal of this multi-year study is not to advance a single agenda but instead to help educate stakeholders — government officials, the media, artists, businesspeople, and the public at large — about the choices and values that can guide law and technology to maximize the potential of digital media for […]
Unfortunately for the three people (me at work, me at home, and some random other person *wink*) and 200 robots who hit my site, my Speakeasy router wigged out while we were out of town for the holidays, so the site has been down for several days. Feel free to rejoice; all is well again. […]
O’Reilly has invited a big group of geekfolk to FooCamp; an opportunity for “people who’re doing interesting work in fields such as wireless, web services, open source programming, GPS, and all manner of emerging technologies to share their work-in-progess, show off the latest tech toys and hardware hacks, and tackle challenging problems together”. Looks very […]
