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- Game designers aim for Nobel Peace Prize
- Game designers aim for Nobel Peace PrizeGames and peace and lifeYes! '"Not so much design innovation," he said, "but social innovation—how to reach people" with game designs that are outside the usual commercial fare.' Exactly.All these smart, creative designers can actually accomplish CHANGE.Peace = $$$n/tPeace Nobel Prize to IdSoftware.......
- Tags: Games, game, Zimmerman, Game Designer, Nobel Peace Prize, Quake
- Discussion threads 2006-03-24
- George Ou criticizes PGP inventor Zimmerman's PKI diss
- George Ou criticizes PGP inventor Zimmerman's PKI dissPGP has already proven it's uncrackablePGP is very powerful crypto that the CIA tried to stop Zimmerman from releasing it. I remember when they really tried very hard to stop him because even they could not crack it. I trust PGP more...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, PKI, PGP Corp., Zimmerman
- Discussion threads 2005-08-04
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- Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October
- Today Canonical announces the upcoming release of Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution. Ubuntu 9.10 will be available for free download on Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose - to...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Blue dye and cold can save your neck
- Blue dye and cold can save your neckGood stuff.Another wonderful application of knowledge to save a human from being co-dependant on anyone.RE: Blue dye and cold can save your neckIt's spelled "oxidized". Sorry to be a jerk, but I'm a chemist, and one of my biggest pet peeves is...
- Tags: neck
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
- MySpace suicide conviction tentatively overturned
- It looks like Lori Drew - the too-involved-in-her-daughter's-social-problems mom whose MySpace fraud led 13-year-old Megan Meier to kill herself - will go free after all. A federal jury convicted Drew last year on three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud. But on Thursday, the judge in the case tentatively threw out...
- Tags: Computer Fraud, Computer, MySpace, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Yes, the cloud is still OK, even after Google's "glitch"
- The big news Thursday, of course, was Google's outage for many of its services. Listening in on Twitter, one would have thought that we were all going to die painful fiery deaths or that several folks at Google should sacrifice themselves to similarly painful and fiery deaths. By...
- Tags: Google Inc., Student, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Amanda Chapel, aka "Strumpette," needs some tough love
- I had a strange Twitter back-and-forth with "Amanda Chapel," the pseudonymous authors of a PR blog called "Strumpette," about the nature of the hacker ethic. I personally don't think the hacker ethic is very effective as a counterpoint to the system of intellectual property it decries, because hackers seem intent...
- Tags: Hacker, Twitter, Amanda Chapel, Hacking, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Another mobile phone recycling resource
- Heard from someone this morning with another place where you might donate your old mobile phone, when you're looking to upgrade. The 911 Cell Phone Bank out of Ocala, Fla., is another non-profit who distributes phones for emergency purposes to crime victims, people in witness protection programs and senior citizens...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Facebook's Orwellian customer service
- It's well known that corporate culture and tone are set by top management. Many of my colleagues enjoy riffing on Oracle as being the embodiment of CEO Larry Ellison's variation of the Art of War. But I think even Larry would be appalled at the way Facebook behaves. ...
- Tags: Facebook, Customer Service, Jon Swift, Scoble, Techmeme, E-mail, Public Relations, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Biotechnology, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Ubuntu on your cellphone? What a fantastic idea!
- Would you like to see Ubuntu on your cellphone? Given the state of current embedded platforms, I know that I would.The BBC are carrying a story about the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project which aims to create the open source platform for initial release around October 2007. The...
- Tags: Linux, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Is Islamist cryptography evil?
- The Global Islamic Media Front announced in an advertisement on January 1 that it will release "the first Islamic computer program for secure exchange on the Internet." There will certainly be a cry for more limits on encryption technology, which has been spreading despite having been treated as a weapon...
- Tags: Islamist cryptography, cryptography, encryption, Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- SearchViews fires back with blanks
- Last week, I criticized Search Views blog for writing something incredibly stupid involving an axe, Eric Schmidt and rumors. Kate Zimmerman, the author, responded with a dose of vitriol that only confirms the lack of intellect behind the original posting. When I attempted to post a comment on their blog,...
- Tags: Business &, Technology, Ratcliffe, SearchView
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- When Art meets Maths
- I recently read the latest issue of Santa Fe Trend, an artsy magazine about architecture, interior design, art and more. If you find the paper version of this Summer issue, you'll read an article named "Creative Trinity," which explores the boundaries between art, science -- including mathematics -- and spirit....
- Tags: artist.Jean Constant, Nancy Zimmerman
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- Voice encryption software Zfone may attract govt. interest
- Philip Zimmerman, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy, encryption software that met with trouble under encryption export laws in the 1990s, is back in the news with new voice encryption software called Zfone. Released on Wednesday, the new software may draw the attention of a government that fiercely defends its...
- Tags: Zfone, software, encryption software
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- Microsoft's most misunderstood application
- Microsoft's most misunderstood applicationWhat's new about OneNote?This has been around since the days of Lotus Monarch. Please don't try to sell us more Microsoft warez. We gave at the office.OneNote is interesting but. Only useful for/on MS systemsI have a Tablet which I removed MS. Replaced with Linux....
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Diebold forced to withdraw from N. Carolina voting procurement process
- After a series of lawsuits brought by EFF, Diebold, the electronic voting machine manufacturer, has been forced to withdraw from North Carolina's voting procurement process. Originally, Diebold brought suit against North Carolina to avoid a state requirement that vendors place into escrow all source code "that is relevant to functionality,...
- Tags: Diebold Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-12-30
- More secure signatures
- According to the San Francisco Chronicle, IBM is working on a system using dynamic signature verification as a biometric authentication of the purchaser and to reduce fraud at point of sales counters. The system, dubbed Sign and Go, checks your signature by comparing it to several previously recorded samples and...
- Tags: IBM Corp., researcher.Dubbed Sign
- Blog posts 2005-10-25
- Skype-to-Skype calls a terror risk?
- Skype-to-Skype calls a terror risk?assumesthe terrorists are clever enough to use it. May take them a few years to figure it out but surely they would.So the reality is that in the interest of protecting citizens which is a legitimate responsibility of the Government that all of us will...
- Tags: Regulations, USA PATRIOT Act, security, Skype-to-Skype
- Discussion threads 2005-08-07
- Phil Zimmermann defends his VoIP crypto
- Phil Zimmermann defends his VoIP cryptoSkype's Achilles heelAny proprietary communications system that is totally controlled by a single entity like Skype will eventually be forced to include a backdoor for the Feds - if it isn't already built in.Like the National Security Agency has said on many occasions, if you...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, Closed-Source, VoIP, Phil Zimmermann, PKI, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-05
- George Ou criticizes PGP inventor Zimmerman's PKI diss
- My colleague George Ou, a well-known and often-cited networking and service architecture expert, has some provocative things to say today about cryptography expert and PGP inventor Phil Zimmerman's ideas for secure VoIP. Zimmerman presented his thoughts at the Black Hat Conference last week- specifically downgrading the importance of PKI-based secure...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., VoIP, PKI
- Blog posts 2005-08-04
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