Sunsets, Stars, West, Wind
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/15/spies-plane-surveillance-us-marshals
I first saw this latest revelation of our own government’s continued disregard for our privacy late last week. I agree with this article’s closing question:
Why are my Senators and Congressmen silent on this issue?
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ISP interconnection has a substantial impact on consumer internet performance –sometimes a severely negative impact — and that business relationships between ISPs, and not major technical problems, are at the root of the problems we observed.
An interesting study with an intriguing conclusion.
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Windows 10 Technical Preview Gives Microsoft New Shocking Spying Privileges
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/10/06/windows-10-spying/
Wow! Yet another reason I prefer open source operating systems.
Be very wary of M$ OS 10 and read your EULAs and Privacy Agreements very carefully.
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But every time you write on a computer, play a music file or add up a number with your phone’s calculator, you are using tools that might not exist without the work of these women.
— Laura Sydell, The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech, NPR, October 6, 2014
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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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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