Dianne Feinstein should resign
Here’s a nice opinion piece. By the Christian Science Monitor, no less. I concur. Dianne Feinstein has a history of getting policy around cryptography and security utterly and disastrously wrong. She...
View ArticleToo many zeros
Srly, Microsoft? LinkedIn for $26B? These things never end well. Remember Dynamics? And Nokia? This is worse. Somebody needs to take the checkbook away from the team at Microsoft that comes up with...
View ArticleRIP Henry SF Cooper
I should keep track of my favorite authors better. Henry SF Cooper, author of Apollo on the Moon, Thirteen: The Flight that Failed and the majestic The Evening Star (which is about how the Magellan...
View ArticleRIP George Michael
WTF, 2016. I mean, what the . . . God damnit. FYYFF. Okay, just fuck off now. Go away 2016, we don’t want you any more.
View ArticleWhen the little hand is on the two, and the big hand…
Two thirty in the morning is the witching hour of technology. If you are a firmware engineer working on a product that has some kind of online periodic update system, at some point you will have a...
View ArticleRIP Jerry Pournelle
We’ve lost another big name in SF. I liked Jerry Pournelle’s collaborations with Larry Niven a great deal. The Mote in God’s Eye is (in my opinion) the best piece of hard SF to come out of the 70s....
View ArticleJury Duty
Annnd . . . I’m off to do jury duty again. I don’t know exactly what I’m going to be doing over the next few weeks, since that totally depends on how many jaywalkers need to be sent to the labor camps,...
View ArticleThe Flatliner
The re-org happened while our Big Manager was away on a long vacation, and though he’d prepared for his absence (we didn’t lose anyone important, and we kept our desks and chairs and cubicals and we...
View ArticleUSB Hell
Let’s just say that the Windows “Setup API” and the APIs to get stuff out of USB devices are terrible, disgusting things. I have no idea how this junk got shipped. It’s absolute garbage. /endRant
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