Category: General

on the greer firing

scary quotes from the @stake CTO firing As an example of the kind of behind-the-scenes influence that large vendors have, Geer cited his efforts to find an academic security expert or two to sign on to the paper on software diversity. After contacting nine people and striking out each time, he gave up. “All of […]

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Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:06:22 GMT

OSAF receives $2.75 million in grants to fund Higher Education version of Chandler. It's curious to me that OSAF would want to do this, considering that the education requirements are almost opposite from the vision for Chandler 1.0. I also wonder why universities would back Chandler when it looks like Glow could meet their requirements […]

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racist rush limbaugh says skin color has nothing to do with it

apparently, rush limbaugh via espn has said something to the regard that particular quarterbacks are overrated and that while these quarterbacks are not white, their skin color has nothing to do with it…. and worse, provides no other justification of his judgement. if he wasn't thinking, 'perhaps race has something to do with his judgement', […]

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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:38:11 GMT

Guardian's Borger Names Rove. Via Atrios: The Guardian's Julian Borger says that journalists are privately naming Karl Rove as the source of the CIA-Valerie… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —— well in case you weren't pretty sure, people are starting to speak about it.

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old streams

this is the link to my quicktime video stream, sometimes it's on, sometimes it's not

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newsgaming is interesting

Ideological Games: September 12th. Gonzalo Frascaâs Newsgaming outfit has posted the September 12th game. It is quite interesting, but I think it has the problem that I wrote about earlier, that its ideology has a cartoonish clearness (the war on terror is evil, end of story). I like to see doubt in things like these. […]

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eeek, alex is having his students read blogs

including this one and others, well maybe…. I've not seen anyone read it linking from there yet, so we'll see, but a nice blogback is always nifty.

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Women Without Borders

because i maintain the servers that the Feminist Theory Website exists on, and defacto i support that project(and if anyone wants to help do updates let me know, it's an open project), i occasionally get interesting things sent to me, like I'm subscribed to women without borders or frauen ohne grenzen, which sent me an […]

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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:07:31 GMT

OSI layers. For reference purposes: links to explanations of the OSI network layer model. • howstuffworks.com (easy to read, different aspects in different chapters) • freesoft.org (bare… [Fragments] somewhere i saw a paper on why the osi model failed to capture the hearts and minds of designers, hmmm…. where was that…

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Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:03:52 GMT

ICANN: regional mutiny brewing?. A posting on ICANN Watch by Milton Meuller draws attention to a move by regional DNS registries to develop a framework for cooperation that could become an alternative to ICANN. The registries involved are the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre,… [InternetPolicy.net]

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