The Website is Down: Sales Demolition
I cannot emphasize this strongly enough:
USE HEADPHONES!
Recall where it all began, the classic:
The Website is Down
More can be found at thewebsiteisdown.com.
Securing the system
“Malicious cyberactivity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication.”
That’s a quote from Dennis Blair, the U.S. Directory of National Intelligence, at a Senate hearing today.
Unfortunately, nearly all efforts to defend our networks focus on the networks rather than the software that runs on them, the software that we all interact with directly.
Layer 7 [...]
White House goes open source
Looks like its “mission accomplished” for open source advocates who helped elect the new administration in Washington. Tim O’Reilly has the details in a blog post, Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal.
Of course both the popular, and much of the “technical” press got some of the details wrong, but the bottom line is that [...]
Watershed moment
Red Hat announced the filing of its amicus brief in Bilski v. Kappos today.
While the court rules of professional responsibility in the several states where I’m still a retired member of the bar in good standing don’t absolutely prohibit me from writing about the case, I’m going to defer to others who know a lot [...]
New favorite quote
My friend and colleague, Carl, sent this to me today. Says it’s now his favorite quote. I’m thinking I’m going to have to find a way to put a link on my sidebar to the Daily Dilbert.
El Reg headline: You all look bloody shifty to me (or, why is IE still our standard browser?)
Big title there, but given this:
as reported in the UK’s own The Register under the headline MS phishing filter blacklists everything: You all look bloody shifty to me, the question needs to be asked:
“After nearly a decade in which the Mozilla project’s free (as in beer) successor to Netscape Navigator has consistently lead the way [...]
MICROSOFT XML IS NOT FREE, FOR MICROSOFT
Groklaw has the news: Microsoft has been permanently enjoined from further sales of Word after losing at trial to the holder of a 1998 software patent on “Custom XML”.
It is karmic that this happened to Microsoft, who bullies Linux with patent threats and just got an XML patent of its own on August 4th that [...]