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Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
What could you do if you controlled a network of thousands of computers -- or, at least, could use the spare processor cycles on those machines? You could perform massively parallel computations: model nuclear explosions or global weather patterns, factor large numbers or find Mersenne primes, or break cryptographic problems.
Filed at 8:35am
Bill Roth · Vice President of BEA Workshop Business Unit, BEA Systems · product: weblogic workshop / Software Development
I work in Building 2 on the 4th floor of BEA's Corporate offices. I had moved into a new office, when I noticed a box of CDs on the filing cabinet near my office. They were CDs of Ubuntu, a...
Filed at 10:36am
Linda Musthaler · Vice President, Currid & Company · contentwatch / IT Management / musthaler / parental control
There’s a story in the Houston Chronicle today that really troubles me. The article talks about two teenaged girls who vanished from their homes just outside Houston nearly a week ago. The girls are thought to have left home on their own accord, possibly to travel to
Filed at 12:05pm
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
In Beyond Fear, I wrote about profiling (reprinted here ). I talked a lot about how smart behavioral-based profiling is much more effective than dumb characteristic-based profiling, and how well-trained people are much better than computers.
Filed at 2:46pm
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · insights / Knowledge Management / new content / new media / producers / urban culture
I spent some of yesterday speaking with Gary Murray at Mixcast, Royce Dixon of Streetz iz Talking and Josh Berman at Soul Gorilla.Royce and Josh run channels on Mixcast. Royce Dixon makes trhe kinds of documentaries that used to appear on mainstream TV - telling the stories of the marginalised. Josh is part of...
Filed at 3:37pm
Dick Hardt · Founder & CEO, Sxip Networks · Security / web 2.0
Today my buddy Greg Stein announced that Google is providing a code hosting service at Google Code. The key features are:Simplicity, scalability, reliabilitySubversion on BigtableComplete re-think of issue tracking In a nutshell, if you are familiar with Google apps, it is easy to ramp on, is pretty simple, and focuses on the core aspects of...
Filed at 5:08pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
We have been meeting with the SCA folks for a while and staying in close touch with its progression. We have finally made it official however and joined in the SCA effort. The list of companies collab
Filed at 5:17pm
Eric Newcomer · Chief Technology Officer, IONA · books and publications / Software Development
By sheer chance my visit to China last week coincided with the release of Chinese edition of our SOA book. The publisher was kind enough to invite me to a book signing ceremony, which involved a 30-minute lecture, an hour or so interview, and a Q&A session with the audience before any actual signing occurred.
Filed at 6:48pm