DRM, vinyl, and the future
Editor · Security
You can still play your old music today. Will you be able to play today's music in the future?
Filed at 3:12am
November 23, 2006
10 entries filed this day
Ancient Storage Technology: the Human Mind
Editor · Storage
StorageMojo.com will be relaxing until Monday, November 27. In the meantime I point serious storageheads at a wonderful article in the November 20 issue of the New Yorker.As a warmup, memorize the BibleTitled Homer in India, the oral epics of Rajasthan (not available online, AFAIK) the article discusses an ancient oral literary tradition of India.
Filed at 4:00am
Anonymizing RFI Attacks Through Google
Editor · Disaster Recovery / Intrusion Prevention / Security
Google can be utilized to hack into websites - actively exploiting them (not information gathering by the use of “Google hacking”, although that is how most of the sites vulnerable to RFI attacks are found).By placing a URL on any web page, Google will find it, visit it and then index it. With this mechanism...
Filed at 8:03am
Forget Your Wallet, RFID Mobile Phones Are Coming Soon
Editor · RFID
If this is true then I would have to quit my wallet pretty soon. Expect your cell phone to become a digital wallet in the near future. Cell phone operators have recently come to an agreement for expanding NFC...
Filed at 8:30am
Map Africa and Open Source Geospatial
Geoff Zeiss · Director of Technology, Autodesk · Enterprise Applications
I've just spent a few days at Map Africa and this has been a very interesting conference. First of all it has not been a traditional GIS conference. There has been a strong focus on capacity building, specifically in Africa...
Filed at 9:00am
A Day To Be Thankful
Editor · VoIP
Not just for all of our gadgets -- be they many and multiply! -- but for all of the many things that make our lives special and complete -- I'll leave the Thanksgiving list up to you.
Filed at 10:39am
Poynter's Amy Gahran writes about the legalities of comments
Dave Carter · CTO & VP Strategy, iUpload
I really enjoy reading Poynter to get the publishing industries perspective on citizen journalism and issues around that. Amy Gahran writes a great article titled: Online Publishers Off the Hook for Libelous Comments, Court Says . It sounds like allowing comments won't be as risky for publishers and some might have thought.
Filed at 11:11am
The emphasis on total quality becomes absolutely critical as SOA reshapes how IT works
Editor · IT Management
As an observer of enterprise application and deployment strategies for more than 10 years, one thing remains common: It's very difficult to get people to change the way they think and work. The notion of herding cats comes to mind. For example, there's the challenge of relating the concerns of far-flung operations teams to those defining services requirements and writing code. Another high hurdle: managing quality assurance across dispersed development teams that are often working for different contractors.
Filed at 1:30pm
Happy Thanksgiving!
Editor · Wireless
Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving from jkOnThePhone! May your turkey be good and none of your calls be dropped. :)...
Filed at 4:40pm
Money as a Social Barrier
Editor
Check out this study by Prof. Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota (Go Gophers!). She tested the hypothesis that thinking about money can create social barriers. Here is a description of what she did: To examine this idea in...
Filed at 10:10pm