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Feb 28, 2013
On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court rejected the ACLU’s challenge to warrantless wiretapping. That leaves the EFF’s lawsuit as the last one still standing. The argument made by the majority of justices for dismissing the ACLU challenge was that the [...]
Feb 27, 2013
The IPv6 standard was first published in 1998 which is now 15 years ago. For a while it looked like adoption would drag on forever resulting in some anguished discussions. But by about 2011 IPv6 started to develop real momentum [...]
Feb 26, 2013
Last week on Tech Tuesday I ran the third reader survey to determine what to write about next. I offered up three possible topic areas that I had mentioned previously: lower level programming, theory of computer science and neural networks/machine [...]
Feb 25, 2013
I started writing this review last night with the Oscars still going on, having seen Zero Dark Thirty the night before (I will have some separate comments on other Oscar choices). I went to see it despite having some trepidation [...]
Feb 22, 2013
I am finally getting around to writing about the third paper in my MIT PhD thesis. The first paper was an empirical analysis of the impact of information technology on firm size. The second paper provided a model for how [...]
Feb 21, 2013
Despite my sarcastic tweet from last night, I am actually intrigued by Google Glass (and I even believe that Google Plus will matter as Google is all in). First, as Fred pointed out yesterday, Google’s machine learning capabilities are a [...]
Feb 20, 2013
It has been interesting to follow the recent spate of attacks on the systems of large companies including Apple and Facebook. The latest theory is that employees of the companies visited a site that used a zero-day Java exploit to [...]
Feb 19, 2013
So far Tech Tuesday has covered basic computing technology (9 installments), an overview of web technology (11 installments) and an introduction to programming (a whopping 29 installments). So once again it’s time to survey readers to see what folks would [...]
Feb 15, 2013
Very short post today as I ran out of time in the morning. There was a meteor strike in Russia that apparently injured over 1,000 people. This is a powerful reminder that we should be spending way more on scanning [...]