Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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Corruption versus Corrosion
There is, in the United States, a vocal angry outrage over what is being called corruption, particularly in the context of government. As a place where corruption hasn’t been a problem for many many years, this might seem odd. What are we really angry about?
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Argument to the comforters
argumentum ad solatorem
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How do you versus how should you.
Asking the right questions matters. When you don’t, you cease to be party to the things that control your life and are reduced to flotsam and kipple in the lives of those who do.
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Internet mass surveillance shenanigans have one obvious outcome:
the widespread proliferation and use of IPSec AH headers and ESP in transport mode. First one with an easy-to-use solution for the masses wins the Kewpie doll.
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Some computer/technology things that annoy me
In no particular order: Browsers that don’t have rules based cookie managers Exchange/Outlook calendar being incompatible with everything else in the ‘verse The Voodoo ritual that is Linux + Keepass2-Firefox integration Ubuntu system logging defaults Virtual hosting services that hobble iptables in the guest javascript and the fact that it is everywhere When openssh tells…
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Context switching and the U.S. Constitution
In the world of information technology, there is a concept called context switching, and it means, generally, that you are changing the rules of behavior for the program. Edit mode is a good example. This is what came to mind when reading a legal analysis of a case where the government is trying to force…
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On digital piracy
I know it is pedantic, but “digital piracy” is a non-sensical phrase. Piracy means “crime on the high seas” and has been extended to mean crime in the air because of a long tradition of naval-aerial military jargon transfer. That crime is almost always theft or acts committed in the process of theft. The gist…
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Price premium for time sensitive video
Watching NFL games live on television incurs a 1912% price premium over the same game time-shifted from Sunday to Tuesday.
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Define: security
When someone claims that one system is “more” or “less” secure than another system, what does that mean?
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Features are for artists, organizations just have Burdens
All Products have two kinds of properties: features and burdens. I don’t want anything that asserts “managed” as a feature. Me having to manage something is a burden. Me not having to manage it is a feature. BUT, if I don’t have to manage it, it better not do something that I wouldn’t have it…