UPI. The US has a backlog of more than 1/2 million security clearances!! This is total BS. Frankly, the whole system is wrong-headed. First, secrecy is a burden. Our current levels of secrecy makes it virtually impossible to hire the talent we need. It also prevents the levels of information sharing we need to be… Continue reading UPI
Author: Vince Kimball
Brudnoy, icon of airwaves, dies
Brudnoy, icon of airwaves, dies. David Brudnoy, the erudite, eclectic libertarian who for nearly three decades was a mainstay of Boston talk radio, died yesterday in Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 64. The cause was complications from Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare form of skin cancer. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
President Bush Announces Blatant Lie
President Bush Announces Blatant Lie. Reuters reports the following in an article entitled, Bush Says No Payroll Tax Hike for Social Security: President Bush ruled out raising payroll taxes to help pay for Social Security reform on Thursday, leaving him few options other than a sharp increase in government borrowing to bankroll transition costs estimated… Continue reading President Bush Announces Blatant Lie
Google Suggest does type-ahead for Google Index in near real-time
Google Suggest does type-ahead for Google Index in near real-time. Go try Google Suggest now, if you haven't. Google Suggest shows the feasibility of using type ahead with very large collections of terms, like tags in a folksonomy. Now, one of the drawbacks of using ad hoc tags in social classification is the lack of… Continue reading Google Suggest does type-ahead for Google Index in near real-time
Who says safe computing must remain a pipe dream?
News.Com: Who says safe computing must remain a pipe dream? Bruce Schneier. Two years ago, I published a list of PC security recommendations. The idea was to give home users concrete actions they could take to improve security. This is an update of that list: a dozen things you can do to improve your security.… Continue reading Who says safe computing must remain a pipe dream?
Canada and the USA PATRIOT Act
Canada and the USA PATRIOT Act. The Information & Privacy Commissioner for the Province of British Columbia, Canada, has just published an extensive report titled “Privacy and the USA Patriot Act – Implications for British Columbia Public Sector Outsourcing.” It's an interesting trend. It's one thing for countries to complain about U.S. counterterrorism policies, but… Continue reading Canada and the USA PATRIOT Act
Yahoo Licenses X1 Desktop Search Technology
Yahoo Licenses X1 Desktop Search Technology. Let the games begin! Desktop search tools have been the hot trend this year, and with the introduction of the free Google Desktop Search, the gauntlet has been thrown, tossed, dropped, whatever it is that's done with gauntlets. Yahoo has accepted the challenge and today announced that they are… Continue reading Yahoo Licenses X1 Desktop Search Technology
The Jerk School of Business
The Jerk School of Business. Who besides me is totallly outraged over last night's episode of “The Apprentice”? What's the primary lesson we've learned this season at the Trump School of Business? That while you can work hard, be well-educated, be enterprising and smart, if you enter the corporate business world, you risk putting your… Continue reading The Jerk School of Business
Book Review: The Art of The Start
Book Review: The Art of The Start. While sitting on Scoble's “Red Couch” on Sunday I noticed an interesting book under his coffee table called “The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything“. It is written by Guy Kawasaki (from garage.com fame) and should be essential reading to any entrepreneur… Continue reading Book Review: The Art of The Start
Nomad is on Island
Nomad is on Island. I’m composing this in an office in Bellevue, which is an odd experience… it's disconcerting to see someone you know in a languorous island context appear all perky and corporate, moving briskly among cubicles with sheafs of laser-printed arcana, interacting in a loosely suited hierarchy, and otherwise doing things that seem… Continue reading Nomad is on Island