According to Rebecca Abrahams (“White House Emails: The Missing Link?”, Huffington Post, 21 Oct ’08), Mike Connell,
the architect and cyber keymaster of George W. Bush election websites including GeorgeWBush.com and GWB43.com, the site Karl Rove used for 95-percent of his email communication…is also the CEO of Govtech Solutions, the company responsible for building and managing [...]
WSJ publishes a commonsensical defense of “piracy” by Lessig, who bridles:
Sorry to disappoint, but my new book, Remix, is not “A Defense of Piracy,” whatever the Wall Street Journal’s headline writers may think.
Note to Larry:
“Piracy” is defined by the Content Cartels, not by WSJ headline writers—and, according to the CCs, you’re defending piracy. If you [...]
“When Republicans say that Democrats ‘just don’t get it,’ this is the ‘it’ to which they refer.”
So what about when net-heads said it about bell-heads?
(the muted horn)
Google layoffs.
Contributing factors:
advertising clients looking for lower expenditures and greater efficiencies;
laid-off workers spending more time smurfing the net;
broadband services cut off for nonpayment.
“It might turn out that, without anyone really noticing, the global financial system has gradually turned into something that is mostly a MMORPG.”
—Daniel P. B. Smith, “Risks of financial systems too complex to understand,” RISKS 25.34
The NSA has declassified Technical Journal articles ’56–’73. Of the 29 articles they’ve listed, only 7 are working links—the other 22 are 404s.
Working: “About NSA,” “Antipodal Propagation,” “Did Aleksandr Popov Invent Radio?”, “Book Review: Lost Languages,” “Book Review: Lincos, Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1,” “Aristocrat—An Intelligence Test for Computers,” and “Extraterrestrial [...]
Slide 3 of ANSI’s “Standards and Conformity Assessment Bodies of the United States” (PPT, version 2006-07-21):
Explanation:
The primary purpose of the chart is to attempt to portray, in high-level, block diagram form, the entities of the standards and conformity assessment systems of the United States, their and primary inter-relationships and relationships to international and regional organizations—on [...]
Peter Van Dijck’s excellent 2003 “Themes and Metaphors in the Semantic Web Discussion.”
A gloss on it + an ASCII version (of some version) of it here.
This seems useful:
Obfuscated TCP is a backwards-compatible modification to the TCP protocol which adds opportunistic encryption. It’s designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet.
TLS [Transport Layer Security] is the solution to protecting sensitive information. However, there’s room for a low setup cost protocol to protect the bulk [...]
ICANN has a formidable track record of screwing up new new global top-level domains (gTLDs). The seven it approved in 2000 (.aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, and .pro) are a smorgasbord of ways to fail. The 2005 round (.cat, .jobs, .mobi, .tel, and .travel) isn’t looking much better—compared to, say, .biz, which is a [...]
was the name of a presentation at NANOG 43:
Part 1. How are submarine cables funded. Participants: a consortium member and a private owner
Part 2. The commercial aspects of the submarine cable. Participants: cable operators
Part 3. How do submarine cables work (to satify the inner geek). Participant: cable builder
Part 4: What connectivity services can you buy [...]
Google Operating System writes:
Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you click [...]