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NoSQL “movement” roadblocks HTML5 WebDB
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Today’s rant is coming between me and a day of skiing so I’ll keep it brief. While trying to get to the bottom of why I can’t enjoy offline
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Press Release: Cloud computing consultancy condemns controversial censorship conspiracy
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.SYDNEY, 24 December 2009: Sydney-based Australian Online Solutions today condemned the government’s plans to introduce draconian Internet censorship laws in Australia. Senator Stephen Conroy (Minister for Broadband, Communications and
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A word on the Australian Internet censorship scandal
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’ve had a quick scan over Senator Stephen Conroy‘s infamous, long-awaited report on the efficacy of current Internet filtering technology and find it to be nothing short of scandalous. Without getting
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HOWTO: Fix OS X by uninstalling Adobe Flash
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Adobe Flash just ruined my day for the last time… I’ve just arrived in Paris and needed to do some work before a meeting this afternoon. As it’s noisy
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An open letter to the NoSQL community
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Following some discussion on Twitter today I posted this thread to the nosql-discussion group. You can see the outcome for yourself (essentially, and unsurprisingly I might add, “please feel
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Twitter’s down for the count. What are we going to do about it?
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.What’s wrong with this picture? There’s not a single provider for telephony (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.) There’s not a single provider for text messaging (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.) There’s not a
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How lobbyists are denying you a voice and destroying democracy
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I came across an unsurprising but nonetheless disconcerting revelation today that is gives a very good example of what most of us knew all along: that “public comment” process
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Cloud or Not?
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.As it seems people still just don’t get what is, and what is not (coughSidekickcough) cloud computing, I’ve put together a (tongue-in-cheek) flowchart to help you decide:
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If it’s dangerous it’s NOT cloud computing
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Having written something similar over the weekend myself (How Open Cloud could have saved Sidekick users’ skins) I was getting ready to complement this post, but fear-mongering title aside
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How Open Cloud could have saved Sidekick users’ skins
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The cloud computing scandal of the week is looking like being the catastrophic loss of millions of Sidekick users’ data. This is an unfortunate and completely avoidable event that
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“Bare Metal” cloud infrastructure “compute” services arrive
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Earlier in the year during the formation of the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group I described three types of cloud infrastructure “compute” services: Physical Machines (“Bare Metal”)
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Cloud Computing Crypto: GSM is dead. Long live GSM!
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.GSM, at least in its current form, is dead and the GSMA‘s attempts to downplay serious vulnerabilities in claiming otherwise reminds me of this rather famous Monty Python sketch about