Happy Valentine's Day

Posted 14 Feb 2010 at 11:52 UTC (updated 14 Feb 2010 at 14:01 UTC) by badvogato

My thoughts put burden on my mind. From reporting of the prosecution of Rutger's Chinese Ph.D for 'trespassing' at Newark airport that produced a HUGE security breach scare, to my disliking of James Lewis argument that Internet can not remain entirely as a self-organizing entity'

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Green Arrays, Inc - Chuck Moore's company

Posted 30 Jan 2010 at 20:27 UTC by badvogato

"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

Chuck Moore now has a weblog and his own company Green Arrays Inc near Lake Tahoe from incline village.

cheers!

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Proposal to extend DNS with Peer to Peer server-independence

Posted 28 Jan 2010 at 20:12 UTC by lkcl

Google and others have just proposed that DNS be extended. If DNS is going to be changed in such a minor way, why not do something much more useful and interesting, which has a fully-functioning implementation already in prevalent use for over fifteen years on millions of free software systems? Why not make the DNS protocol a true server-independent peer-to-peer Naming Service? In combination with the modern DNSSEC extensions, many of the complaints associated with the current peer-to-peer free software implementation would vanish.

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Proprietary File Formats conflict with Equal Opportunities

Posted 28 Jan 2010 at 17:30 UTC (updated 28 Jan 2010 at 18:52 UTC) by lkcl

In applying for jobs and contract opportunities, the first hurdle is the request for a CV in a proprietary document format. ASCII text, the utmost basic of file formats, defeats many stupid employers and recruitment agencies. Whilst this is useful to help weed out working for companies with stupid people in them, it doesn't help in actually getting work.

The approach which has actually had far greater success, however, in getting companies to change their policy of using proprietary document formats is to explain clearly that the "online application form" contravenes "Equal Opportunities" legislation. This article describes the approaches taken and the success stories, one at a time, by which the proprietary document format practices have been successfully changed.

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Individual Rights and the Political Process

Posted 23 Jan 2010 at 15:50 UTC (updated 25 Jan 2010 at 13:37 UTC) by badvogato

"Individual Rights and the Political Process: A Proposed Framework for Democracy Defining Cases" by Walter M. Frank

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Google's China affair

Posted 17 Jan 2010 at 11:34 UTC (updated 19 Jan 2010 at 17:05 UTC) by sye

Google China closes its door after talks with Chinese government officials failed. - News report from Boxun.

Employees are given 6 months pay and are encouraged to apply for opening positions in other branches of Google operations in Asian & in US.

Those cyber-hackers in China, are they wearing black, white or yellow hat ?

That's what I want to know.

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Winter Top

Posted 31 Dec 2009 at 18:51 UTC by badvogato

Happy new decade of this new millennium to galaxy hikers everywhere!

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Feedback from goffice charts

Posted 23 Dec 2009 at 15:01 UTC by jbrefort

It is now possible to get some feedback about data just by moving the mouse over the chart to an appropriate point.

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The Case of Inslaw & PROMIS

Posted 20 Dec 2009 at 23:41 UTC (updated 20 Dec 2009 at 23:59 UTC) by badvogato

So louie, I'm sure you know the case of INSLAW .

What become of PROMIS (prosecutor management information system) after IBM rescued it from the bankruptcy court?

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Why Eiffel is my favorite language

Posted 11 Dec 2009 at 18:27 UTC by audriusa

This year I needed to do a project in a language that is both old and notable but still understood as unusual and exotic: Eiffel. I did not know Eiffel in the past and needed to learn it very quickly to do my task. Hence this article is not about Eiffel itself, it ist about a newcomers impression about Eiffel. I will be writing about the "classic" Eiffel with EiffelStudio, not about SmartEiffel and other interesting clones that surely also deserve a lot of attention.

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