Communicating in a networked world
During my lifetime I have gone from viewing stars thorough binoculars, and once through a 40-inch refracting telescope (Yerkes Observatory was just miles from my home - I viewed once as a child) to the amazing deep-space digital views provided by the … [Continue reading]
Being a user of and a promoter of cloud computing, I am also aware of challenges to the security of cloud computing environments. Cloud computing suppliers come in several flavors. I’ll address two of them here: 1) those who provide virtual hosts; … [Continue reading]
When all data for Sidekicks got lost recently [read this article in the Wall Street Journal] was it a cloud failure or was it a single system failure?[1] [also New York Times article] In the sense that data was being stored somewhere and the … [Continue reading]
You can learn a lot about a place if you sit for a while and observe the types of vehicles passing by on the road. During one of my trips to India I sat at lunch and watched the traffic on the busy highway. Upon finishing, I stepped outside and … [Continue reading]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation [EFF.ORG] has a “patent busting” activity that watches for patents that “should never have been granted” (my language) and works to invalidate them, or at least invalidate as many of their claims as possible.[1] … [Continue reading]