Fake news. So what? Doesn’t everyone realize that all news is fake to some degree or another? Yet, we are supposed to get excited about it, because it is the reigning popular explanation for the spectacular failure of the American political system.
These are the photographs of the great Lewis Hine, who resorted to a number of subterfuges to be able to get cameras into the factories.
Computer security is a new(ish) field, so we get to make up names for things. That’s an advantage and a disadvantage – it means that marketing people can come up with new-sounding names for old stuff, and sometimes customers get all excited and buy it because it sounds so new!
When I was done interviewing Tom Van Vleck, he suggested I might want to read Mechanizing Proof, by Donald MacKenzie. [wc] Which, I did.
This needs a cool name. There’s “The Singularity” – how about “The Feedback Loop” or perhaps “The Oroboros Loop”?
System administration is one of those skills you sometimes wish you didn’t have.
Tearing my shop down (my project for late last week) was depressing. After going to all the trouble to assemble the massive benches and bolt everything down to it, I had to unbolt everything and begin disassembly. It amounts to a repudiation of my own work.
I’m not happy to hear that he’s died, but I’m getting a bit grossed-out by the way everyone is expected to fawn over what a great man he was.
At this point, you should assume your smart phone is a tracking device – albeit one you pay for, which you can buy a nice case for.
This is a true story. Some minor details are changed deliberately.