You bake the malware right into the hardware, then release the hardware into the wild. With keystroke loggers, spamware and trojans built right into the chip itself, you’re home-free against software-based detection.
Month: April 2008
Hold a meeting
meetings are cancer
Tax Transparency
Italians were surprised, and in some cases outraged, to discover their income levels were available for public viewing on an Internet site. As part of a crack-down on tax evasion, the outgoing center-left government made public every citizen’s declared taxable income on the state’s tax website
Now this is one area of privacy that is way overrated. good for them.
Basic Instructions
snarky. me like
rm -rf
Architecture astronauts
I believe the future is one in which eventually all or most of our data will be stored in the cloud. Desktops and cell phones will, for most tasks, be terminals to the cloud, and so the concept of synchronization will be meaningless for most users. To be sure, there are solid use cases for synchronization but I don’t think sync is the best model for most people in most scenarios. And yes, Mesh does allow you to store data in the cloud as another data point in the mesh. But adding the desktop sync layer is, for most people, just not necessary, and I suspect will be generally perceived by mainstream users as an irrelevant added layer of complexity.
exactly. you only need to “sync” if you think in terms of offline applications. no wonder ozzie would push for that
The hallmark of an architecture astronaut is that they don’t solve an actual problem… they solve something that appears to be the template of a lot of problems. Or at least, they try. Since 1988 many prominent architecture astronauts have been convinced that the biggest problem to solve is synchronization. And what is this Windows Live Mesh? It’s a way to synchronize files. Jeez, we’ve had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for ice cream. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I’m sorry. It seems like it should be. But it’s not. But Windows Live Mesh is not just a way to synchronize files. That’s just the sample app. It’s a whole goddamned architecture, with an API and developer tools and in insane diagram showing all the nifty layers of acronyms, and it seems like the chief astronauts at Microsoft literally expect this to be their gigantic platform in the sky which will take over when Windows becomes irrelevant on the desktop. And synchronizing files is supposed to be, like, the equivalent of Microsoft Write on Windows 1.0. It’s Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time. Ray Ozzie just can’t stop rewriting this damn app, again and again and again, and taking 5-7 years each time.
provides the takedown on “live mesh” that the lightweights at techcrunch were not able to do
Paedophiles get younger every day
The next thing you know, kids will be downloading pictures of bald old rock stars from the Internet, rather than the other way round. This filth must be stamped out to protect innocent dirty old men
All streets
No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. The pace of progress is seen in the midwest where suburban areas are punctuated by square blocks of area that are still farm land.
Prayer at the Pump
“God is the only one we can turn to at this point. Our leaders don’t seem to be able to do anything about it. The prices keep soaring and soaring.” To solve the problem, Twyman isn’t begging the Lord for any specific act of intervention. He is not asking God to make OPEC pump more oil. Nor is he praying for all the speculative investors to be purged from the New York Mercantile Exchange, where crude oil is traded. Instead, he says anyone who wants to follow his example should keep it simple. “God, deliver us from these high gas prices. That’s all they have to say.”
between that and “its a conspiracy!!!” acceptance comes hard. but it will come.
Glycerol nucleic acid
“Making GNA is not tricky, it’s just 3 steps, and with 3 carbon atoms, only 1 stereo center. It allows us to make these right and left-handed biomolecules. People have actually made left-handed DNA, but it is a synthetic nightmare. To use it for DNA nanotechnology could never work. It’s too high of a cost to make, so one could never get enough material.” The ability to make mirror image structures opens up new possibilities for making nanostructures. The research team also found a number of physical and chemical properties that were unique to GNA, including having a higher tolerance to heat than DNA nanostructures.
interesting. GNA is simpler and more robust
Gregor J. Rothfuss 