Interesting article about Architecture of the Certificate Authority Trust Model
Check out The Flawed Legal Architecture of the Certificate Authority Trust Model(from Freedom to Tinker: ** "The bottom line is that the CA Trust Model’...
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December 2010
[GEEKY] Resfulie GEM for Rails and RESˇ
This is really nice: Restfulie – Rest from Scratch. It’s a package of code for creating REST clients and servers with built in content type negotiation and other goodies. Watch the fun tour-do-force video too: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11294789&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 “Rest from scratch” with Rails and Restfulie – part 1 from Caelum on Vimeo.
Wikileaks, continued
I continue to be fascinated by this. Is WikiLeaks a good guy or a bad guy? I don’t know how I feel yet, so I continue to read. Here are more articles that have impressed me: From Jeremy Wagstaff’s Loose Wire Blog: > “Asked why he chose to work with three major news o...
Read more →Wikileaks
Like many, I don’t know yet whether I support or condemn the Wikileaks action that has been discussed and debated at length on all fora. You have to agree that it has yielded some interesting insights about the way the world works. First of all: as far as a diplomat making *snide comments...
Read more →Space Geeks: Fantastic slow motion video of Shuttle Launch
I’ve always been a major space travel fan and geek. This video linked from Engadget incredibly had me glued to my seat for almost 40 minutes. Some fantastic super slow motion footage of the launch. Note especially how the two narrators just love the shuttle and love their jobs. They can’t get enough of it, even after having seen this stuff a million times over.
Do you need to keep your cell phone in a protective case?
Check out this really interesting Pogue article in the New York Times: “Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone’s Unsung Hero”. Here’s a tidbit: > “It’s the screen of every touchscreen phone, like th...
Read more →Followup: Upgraded my iPhone from 3GS to 4 for MINUS $40.00
Following up from yesterday’s post, in fact, I was able to get $300 for my mint condition iPhone 3GS on Craig’s list, and was able to buy a new iPhone 4 from Radioshack for $260 after tax! So, if you have an iPhone 3GS in good condition, and your AT&T contract is up, then you should upgrade to an iPhone 4 and make $40 in the process. Cool!
Free iPhone 3GS upgrade to iPhone 4?
So Radioshack is offering $50 off the price of an iPhone 4 for the next several days. As far as I can tell, the difference between the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS is not that great, so I’ve not really been that interested. But it got...
Read more →Finance Funny
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Wikileaks: Truth or Truthy or something entirely different?
David Weinberger has, as usual, an interesting take, and some interesting links relevant to our perception and the defense or offense of Wikileaks. From his post: > “I here just want to comment on a particular theory of truth that many are using to justify Wikilea...
Read more →Photo sharing thoughts
I just returned from my mother’s birthday party with about 300 photos – I would say 70% of them are no good, so I selected about 40 of the best ones and then had to decide how to share them with everyone who cared. A little bit of research produced the following options which I am sharing with YOU ...
Read more →Bubble Bubble Sign Of Trouble
The thing about a bubble is that while people worry about it, no one is actually sure whether they are in one, and especially when it will be over. The other thing about bubbles is that they keep happening because they are the result of human nature (greed and self-deception): > “Less than a decad...
Read more →Why we need new election technology
I work at the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, where we are creating new, modern, open source, and publicly owned technology for operating all aspects of voting in the US. By the way, do not assume this means ‘internet voting’ — it does not. There is a lot of old techn...
Read more →Amazing Stuxnet story
With apologies for quoting a Foxnews story, and with thanks to Scott Adams for the link, here’s a fascinating behind the scenes story of Stuxnet: > “The mission: Infiltrate the highly advanced, securely guarded enemy headquarters where scientists...
Read more →November 2010
[GEEKY] Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice
I went to RubyConf and heard a detailed presentation on a new possible feature of possible Ruby 2.0 called ‘Refinements’. I have to admit that I didn’t fully grasp how the feature really would be used. Here’s a nice and quite techical article about it: Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice from Katz Got Your Tongue?: > "The first thing you need to understand is that the purpose of refinements in Ruby 2.0 is to make monkey-patching safer. Specifically, the goal is to make it possible to extend core classes, but to limit the effect of those extensions to a particular area of code."
Facebook security
I was experimenting with a lit...
‘Like a Full-Body Massage’: Thinking About the TSA
Check out ‘Like a Full-Body Massage’: Thinking About the TSA(from James Fallows :: The Atlantic: > “3) The ‘zero-risk’ mentality vs ‘acceptable’ risk. Every society acc...
Read more →Woz speaks (on iPhone)
I happen to be reading iWoz, which is Steve Wozniak’s memoir/biography/whatever. It’s a very breezy easy read and fun if you follow this kind of thing. So naturally this caught my eye: > “Woz then moved on to the topic of Android saying that Android smartphones, not the iPhone, would become dominant...
Read more →Easily the best Microsoft advertisement EVER
And, maybe, better than any ad that Apple has ever done…. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAhJTxC1C8w&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0]
[Geeky] RubyConf Summary (updated 2)
RubyConf 2010 was excellent. It was my first and probably not my last. Some general thoughts and then a master list of links (the real meat.) - Unlike most all ‘business’ type conferences and talks I have gone to, the RubyConf style of presentation (and perhaps the Rails or Ruby community — I don’...
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