An interesting update from the halls of Choicepoint – after regulators slapped them with a big fine, it sounds like they’re moving in the right direction. Now if only it wouldn’t take a catastrophic embarassment to make companies do the right thing… or if consumers could get excluded from the database upon request.
Nanosolar is now planning to open its first factory to produce solar cells via a printing process. They’ve chosen to do it locally in the SF Bay Area which is good news for folks who don’t like offshore manufacturing. To me, I think it matters more because they’re priming the local pump with the tech edge, much like Intel did, and power is the next frontier to tackle. Good luck to them!
Ah yes, more to the specific point, which God is more powerful:
A)
The god that creates everything in [one fell] swoop 6000, filles with
incosistancies (sic) and plotholes and has to step in every so often to
adjust settings here and there.B) The one who can plan out
events billions of years in advance, making everything fit so perfectly
together, using simple rules that are capable of fractal growth into
marvelously complex systems that continue to run flawlessly for
millions of years without intervention?In a head to head battle, I have a feeling that God B will have figured out how to win before the fight even begins.
by Clambake
Unconstitutional international laws?
So if an international body generates a bad treaty whose laws would be unconstitutional in the United States can a US court decide the agreement does not hold sway over US citizens? And what would be the repercussions?
I’m ashamed by the sell-out-the-citizen behavior of the feds. Don’t the government employees working towards these horrible ideas realize that they will be affected also?
Technorati Tags: international+law, WIPO
Local leverage vs. national reach
A set of observations on how PBS could rule video distribution due to a unique confluence of content, relationships, and capability. I actually buy this possibility since PBS is well-enough trusted that folks would join their network without feeling threatened…
Quick, let’s kill the golden goose. Trust SBC? Not on your life…
It’s time to start calling the Senate.
A fascinating security exposure where an investigator spread USB drives with cracking code around a credit union and then got great results from the employee – textbook social engineering.
It’s tough – finding a freebie USB drive myself, I’d probably try to find a way to wipe it and keep it… but I don’t know how to keep it isolated long enough to torch it. No firewall available on USB…
Update: Bruce Schneier doesn’t like this ‘feature’ either…
Technorati Tags: security, usb, social+engineering
An interesting WSJ article on Google’s management advantages. The one that I think is the largest advantage is that no one thinks they’re “infallible seers”… priests of high technology that get ideas handed down from some divine providence. I’ve seen too many technological answers mandated by upper management that doesn’t understand what they are doing. And I’ve seen the results…
Technorati Tags: google, management
I never did understand the motivation behind the signs of “Your purchase free if you don’t get a receipt” but now I do… it’s a security measure to make sure employees actually ring up all items. I kind of thought it was an assurance you could return items, but it never made sense to me. Bruce Schneier explains it very well…
Technorati Tags: security
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