April 6, 2007: 8:35 am: MatthewSoftware Development
How to improve software development
This year’s Turing Lecture - insights…
Archive for April, 2007
Choicepoint built by privacy advocates’ requests?
An interesting premise that the ascendance of ChoicePoint to the throne of data accumulation king is due to the actions of privacy activists…
Farecast sounds very interesting… predicting the motion of airfares and selling based on that prediction.
Politicians, Energy, and Hot Air
An interesting insight into the [lack of] governmental will to make a difference, highlighted by this wonderful data point:
Indeed, the standards are too lax to begin with: Ford’s Model A from the late 1920s would comply with today’s CAFE standards.
In summary, many plans, few actions.
Technorati Tags: energy, solar, exhaust, government
…but fully applicable today. Papers, please. A sign of the times, truly despicable to a thinking public. Thank someone’s higher power we don’t have a thinking public to argue with these imbecilic laws.
I’m feeling sick.
via Schneier.
Technorati Tags: democracy, identity, security
