Sunsets, Stars, West, Wind
Now I wish I still had Stargate Universe on my DVR. Guess I’ll see if Netflix has it.
I should have stuck to my math guns. Cryptography is so cool!
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Big solar storm heading toward Earth
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/11/tech/innovation/solar-storm/
Should be here Saturday. Keep a flashlight handy.
How to protect yourself against hackers (or at least make it difficult for them)
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/09/03/protect-hackers-least-make-difficult/
My good deed for the day: providing the link above to you and asking you to take note.
Better safe than sorry.
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For once, I live in just about the best spot to observe a total solar eclipse. The center line for the eclipse coming in August 2017 is just a few miles north of where I live. That being said, the path of the eclipse cuts diagonally across the United States from Oregon to South Carolina.
Update Monday 9/1/2014: I forgot to include a link to the Astronomy magazine article that will take you to the interactive map shown above: Make Plans for the 2017 Eclipse with This Great Map. Continue reading “Less Than Three Years to Prepare”
So what happened? Why has the federal courts’ IT system stagnated despite more money? The answer, unsurprisingly, is that the money has gone elsewhere.
Bureaucracies and budgets … if there is money unspent in one at the end of the year …
The bottom line is that fixing PACER is not a technological challenge, but a political one, and technology has yet to solve the problem of getting the politically powerful to focus on the right things at the same time.
I admin a lot of weird one-off applications where I work. Last week, PACER dropped into my lap as a direct result of the upgrade mentioned in the article above. I can attest to the very dated interface. In fact I probably hadn’t seen PACER in over a decade and it looked and acted just as it did back then. I have never understood how this system is allowed to charge anyone fees because all the information it contains is public information. Compare to NASA which makes an incredible amount of information available for everyone – researchers and citizens – easily accessible and free.
Internet down for 12m Americans as Time Warner Cable suffers outage
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/27/internet-down-time-warner-cable-outage
Per my earlier Tweet, we (the Mosses) are victims of this outage.
What do you want to bet that my bill will not reflect a credit for the inconvenience?
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Women In Tech: It’s Not Just A Pipeline Problem
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/23/just-another-white-dude-writing-about-diversity/
Maybe, just maybe, a perception of the tech industry as a toxic environment for women has had something to do with that decline. Maybe the pipeline problem is not independent of the trapdoor problem.
Just what I needed to read before I subject myself back into my own work environment after a four day weekend.
My trapdoor is just a trap. The door part appears to be jammed.
And on that cheery note … Happy Monday morning!
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USB devices can secretly infect computers, researchers say
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28701124?ocid=socialflow_twitter
Friday morning wake up call.
Don’t trust anything … especially USB sticks from strangers.
My 17th year as a member of Information Technology for the law firm that currently employs me went out with somewhat of a bang last night. I won’t share the details here to protect the innocent (take that with a grain of salt!), but I will share this apropos video and leave you wondering about my true feelings.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgeaya7Yg4A?rel=0]
I’ll crack open a new bottle of wine tonight to inaugurate my 18th year and pray that my smartphone doesn’t beep off my end table in the middle of the night and remains quiet until Monday morning.
Here’s to just 17 more years until I’m allowed to retire (according to Social Security). Let’s hope I don’t go insane before then.
Happy Friday!
Democrat Warns Data Caps Could Undermine Net Neutrality
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/democrat-warns-data-caps-could-undermine-net-neutrality-20140729
The Flip Side Of Net Neutrality. So far Time Warner hasn’t instituted data caps for my home Internet but Comcast could change that in the future.
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