Landis Vinchattle

Thoughts on changing passwords daily (possibly multiple times daily) on any non-personally owned systems. There are a couple of potential pluses for this thought: if your password is ever compromised, or if it is subpoena’ed for any purpose, it has likely already changed by the time an attempt is made on the account. Cons: incredibly […]

http://opensource.com/become-regular-contributor?sc_cid=70160000000TCQCA A4 Interesting to think about. http://opensource.com/education/11/1/critical-thinking-why-our-students- need-it-and-resources-teaching-it?sc_cid=70160000000TCQCAA4 Read this in more detail and check out some of the links. Give it some “critical thought” 🙂 http://www.billerickson.net/increase-wordpress-upload-limit-on-bluehost/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous-vide http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ Good tool, wish more places used this. Unfortunately, most places seem to want to create highly visible obscurity on the web… generally because they are not […]

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” — Isaac Newton http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Cb6PdHF16c0/story01.htm http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html#comment-98834842 Alternative to the 200 line kernel patch http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2010/11/15/why-credit-money-fails/ Podcasts of seminars, might be interesting. Steve Keen http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Created.htm Related to http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jDQ_bhAIjng/story01.htm and possibly http://www.itworld.com/internet/128312/senator-threatens-block-online-copyright-bill (Oregon senator stops Internet censorship bill) http://www.hacer.org/pdf/Hazlitt00.pdf Economics in One Lesson http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20023341-245.html Moxie Marlinspike detained […]

http://west.thomson.com/productdetail/127644/40160894/productdetail.aspx Schechter and Thomas, Principles of Patent Law (book) http://craphound.com/?p=573 Cory Doctorow, Printcrime “Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” — Anthony Robbins Cisco view-based administrative access control notes http://blog.ine.com/2009/01/07/understanding-ios-local-aaa/ http://www.ciscologist.com/?p=443 http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LiLanEQegsw/story01.htm Canada mandates ISP deep packet inspection

http://technologizer.com/2010/05/31/ibm-muppets/ Muppet sketches for IBM commercials “Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant,” Ron Paul told the London Independent in December (’09?) http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1992201-2,00.html#ixzz0pnpBw8x7 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ron-paul-every-man-for-himself-1832241.html http://spintongues.msk.ru/auden9eng.htm AccelOps, Ziptie – network management tools that look interesting.

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy – Lawrence Lessig

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/24/1214239/Full-ACTA-Leak-Online Full text of ACTA. http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yhoE4n4Idxs/Drunk-Histoy-Presents-Nikola-Tesla-NSFW Looks interesting. Worth checking out sometime. “Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest. Scoff at none although they give Occasion.” — The Papers of George Washington, Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour Something to work on. http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1596654&cid=31626326 Superb. http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/61.html How Fibre Lasers Work, includes a layman’s explanation […]