I saw this video via Doc Searl’s blog from the Have Mac Will Blog blog. A sign of the times perhaps?
Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
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Monday, December 29th, 2008What is reCAPTCHA?
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Digitizing words, one at a time. This is a great way to mix crowdsourcing and security. Captcha (for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is used to ensure (with varying degrees of success) that only real humans are logging onto websites. reCaptcha uses words that have failed optical character recognition in various projects that are digitizing books not otherwise available.
Check out the site, and if you have a compatible web site, consider using it for validating your users.
How to Adjust your Facebook Privacy Settings
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Putting Privacy Settings in the Context of Use (in Facebook and elsewhere)
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Danah Boyd has a great post about privacy and Facebook including the following question:
apophenia: Putting Privacy Settings in the Context of Use (in Facebook and elsewhere)
Why are privacy settings still an abstract process removed from the context of the content itself? Privacy settings shouldn’t just be about control; they should be about the combination of awareness, context, and control. You should understand the visibility of an act during the moment of the act itself and whenever you are accessing the tracings of the act.
Science News / Snapshot Of A Planet Beyond The Solar System
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Distant Image
Science News / Snapshot Of A Planet Beyond The Solar System
After years of searching, astronomers may finally have recorded the first image of a planet orbiting a sunlike star beyond the solar system.
How long before Richard Branson starts booking flights?
What are the benchmarks?
Monday, September 8th, 2008From the Centre for Internet Security.
What are the benchmarks?
For the first time ever, a large group of user organizations, information security professionals, auditors and software vendors have defined consensus technical control specifications that represent a prudent level of due care and best-practice security configurations for computers connected to the Internet.
<Now for someone to figure out how to do the same for privacy!>
(Parallels or VMWare) and/or Bootcamp
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008I’m considering a new MacBook, but I likely going to have to keep a foot in the Windows camp. I’m hoping to elicit feedback on whether I should go with just Bootcamp, just a virtual machine (and if so should I go with Parallels or VMWare), of finally both Bootcamp and one of the two virtual machines.
Feedback and pointers are encouraged!
Live Blog Tracking Application
Monday, March 31st, 2008I just found out about Woopra. It is, according to the web site “… a robust web-tracking & analytics tool that works perfectly on any website.” Tech – cool — Privacy – scary. It includes the capability for the web site operator to watch your tracks and hits on their site in real time, and even open up a chat window with you while you are browsing the site.
You can see the demo and interview on GeekBrief TV. I wonder if you can hit a Woopra site with scripts and cookies turned off and still use the site?
PWN to OWN: Final Day (and another winner!)
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Between a MacBook, Vista laptop, and an Ubuntu laptop the Ubuntu laptop was the only one so survive the hacking onslaught.
TippingPoint | DVLabs | PWN to OWN: Final Day (and another winner!)
- Hannaford Data Breach: The Security Vendor Conundrum – Ryan Naraine’s Security Watch
Monday, March 24th, 2008- Hannaford Data Breach: The Security Vendor Conundrum – Ryan Naraine’s Security Watch
What’s an agressive security vendor to do when people actually start buying their products? Why, they find out that the silver bullet they promised can shoot themselves in the nether regions!