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E-voting and the Open Source community

July 23, 2004

Today’s New York Times has an edi­to­r­ial that puts together a rough set of require­ments for E-voting machines: Phys­i­cal secu­rity for elec­tronic sys­tems Rig­or­ous test­ing of elec­tronic machines Prop­erly trained poll work­ers, and rapid-response teams on Elec­tion Day Pub­lic records at the precinct level The option to vote non-electronically Inde­pen­dent secu­rity experts Trans­parency in elec­tronic vot­ing Looking […]

Putting the Open Source Community to Work on MyDoom

February 4, 2004

Recently, the MyDoom virus affected the sites of two of the biggest oppo­nents to the Open Source com­mu­nity: SCO and Microsoft. While Vig­i­lante action is plain wrong (a mes­sage that few in the open source com­mu­nity seem to be send­ing out), there are oppor­tu­ni­ties for the open source com­mu­nity to shine. Here’s how. As many […]

A Modest Browser Proposal

January 15, 2004

Robert Scoble men­tions on his blog that he had a meet­ing with the IE team and that they are solic­i­tat­ing feed­back from the blog com­mu­nity about what to include in the next update of the browser. While par­tic­u­lar fea­tures are nice, I’d like to sug­gest some­thing much more rad­i­cal: Switch to Mozilla. It may sound like […]

2004 Predictions

January 2, 2004

With a new year start­ing, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few pre­dic­tions as to what’s com­ing next. I sus­pect 2004 is going to be a big year in tech­nol­ogy and here are some pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost ver­sion of the iPod. The idea here […]

SCO vs. the world

December 18, 2003

One of the nice things about orga­niz­ing events filled with geeks is the fact that I get to hang out with peo­ple that are smarter than me. The dis­cus­sion on Tues­day cov­ered a wide num­ber of sub­jects but most of the fas­ci­na­tion came from what to do with SCO. For those not famil­iar with the bat­tle, SCO […]

Route Around

July 25, 2003

Doc Searls wrote an inter­est­ing arti­cle enti­tled “Sav­ing the Net” in Linux Jour­nal. While he does present a dystopia in which the net is con­trolled by large cor­po­ra­tion that under­stand how to use reg­u­la­tions as a weapon, I beg to dif­fer on his vision of the future. My per­sonal sus­pi­cion is that the net com­mu­nity will route around […]

From David to Dave

July 15, 2003

The New York Times has an inter­est­ing arti­cle over a fight about how to best clean Michelangelo’s David. It’s an inter­est­ing study of how tech­nol­ogy some­times clashes with more tra­di­tion­al­ist approaches. In our rush to use tech­nol­ogy for every­thing, it is inter­est­ing to stop and pon­der whether it is the right tool for the job. Often, geeks […]

SuperSync

June 11, 2003

Every­day, we man­age large num­bers of con­tacts across a vari­ety of devices. For exam­ple, I have a PDA, a phone (which hap­pen to both be the same device so that syn­chro­niza­tion is instant), a work PC, a home desk­top, and a lap­top. In order to prop­erly keep all my data in sync, I need to hook up each of those devices on a one […]

The Net as Critical Infrastructure

June 9, 2003

There has been con­sid­er­able dis­cus­sion over the last few days about Wired Magazine’s deci­sion to pub­lish a story detail­ing the inner work­ings of the Slam­mer worm. As more and more traf­fic moves over the Inter­net, the net­work is increas­ingly becom­ing a key ele­ment of the over­all global telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion infra­struc­ture, espe­cially now that com­pa­nies are start­ing to move […]

Mozilla after AOL

June 4, 2003

Over the past few days, I’ve been spend­ing time cov­er­ing what hap­pens now that AOL and Microsoft have set­tled their dis­pute. How­ever, one area that I have not cov­ered is what could hap­pen to Mozilla mov­ing for­ward. With the new agree­ment, AOL has received a royalty-free license to use Inter­net Explorer for the next seven years. Since […]