What is Privacy?
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000
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Interesting Tweets from Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:42:00 +0000
Speeches from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in SF are available on [E2 TV]. I posted some interesting tweets from the conference attendees earlier, here are some more: When people talk about ?breaking down? silos they add fuel to the fire that E20 is a crock. Silos collaborate they don't break down. (@mikojava) Change agents have always existed, 2.0 tech brings agents together (@ .. .. read more..
E2.0 Conference
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:50:00 +0000
Enterprise 2.0 conference is in progress this week in SF. Most of the speeches are available on [E2 TV]. Here are some tweets from the Conference attendees: trust, collaboration, network, engagement, task-driven, productivity-enhancement, defined-roles & responsibilities = 2.0 world (@ekolsky) Content is no longer enough, context of persona is key to E20. You can subscribe not only .. .. read more..
Its not enough having the right enterprise 2.0 app
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:49:00 +0000
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Dr. Chenxi Wang's comments on Amazon EC2 side-channel-attack
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:47:00 +0000
Researchers from MIT and UC San Diego recently demonstrated an attack against Amazon?s EC2 where an attack virtual machine can launch attacks against a victim virtual machine that is located on the same physical server. Does this mean that there is a security vulnerability within EC2? Yes. Should you be concerned? Not really. Read more .. .. .. .. read more..
Recovery.gov Augmented Reality Mashup
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:00 +0000
? is Now available This layer, developed by Sunlight Labs, allows people to visualize stimulus package contributions through an augmented reality application on any iPhone and Android. .. .. read more..
"legal obligation to delete" in the Cloud
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:00 +0000
David Navetta, Esq. CIPP, has published an interesting blog post on the topic of Legal Implications of Cloud Computing. Mr. Navetta emphasize the need to understand the increasingly complex and interlocking relationships in the Cloud: The party with whom a company is dealing will often not be the party actually processing data or providing computing services. This poses compliance .. .. read more..
Habeas Data and Foreign Entities
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:00 +0000
Background: A constitutional right granted in many Latin American countries is "Habeas Data" i.e. the right to own your data. Habeas Data can be brought up by any citizen against any manual or automated data register to find out what information is held about his or her person. That person can request the rectification, actualization or even the "destruction" of the personal data held. .. .. read more..
EU Data Protection Directive and Cloud Computing
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:45:00 +0000
Tanya L. Forsheit, Esq., CIPP writes about the EU Data Protection Directive and Cloud Computing: The most notable thing about the EU Directive and member state laws for purposes of cloud computing is this -- in the absence of specific compliance mechanisms, the EU prohibits (yes, you read correctly, prohibits) the transfer of personal information of EU residents out of the EU to the US and .. .. read more..
Paralegals Take a Walk on the Cloud
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:44:00 +0000
You must love your [SaaS] vendor. You must trust your [SaaS] vendor. You must have your [SaaS] vendor's cell, home and wife's cell phone number. Your [SaaS] vendor is your lifeline. Do your research, make sure your cloud computing vendor has been in business for a long time, and with reasonable certainty, will continue to be in business for a long time. If a bank can go under, so can a cloud .. .. read more..
The French get serious about Cloud Computing.....
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:43:00 +0000
? well at least about the proper translation of the term "Cloud Computing" to French: A group of French experts had spent 18 months coming up with "informatique en nuage," which literally means "computing in cloud." "What? This means nothing to me. I put a 'cloud' of milk in my tea!" exclaimed Jean Saint-Geours, a French writer and member of the Terminology Commission. "Send it back .. .. read more..
Liar?s Paradox
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:42:00 +0000
The following is NOT a Liar?s Paradox stmt1: Following statement is false; stmt2: Preceding statement is false; Explanation: It has the following possible solutions: .. .. read more..
Renaming a GAPE user account using cURL
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:42:00 +0000
This is a four step process: First obtain a Authentication Token: # curl https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin -d Email=user@domain.tld ?d Passwd=password ?d accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE -d source=cURL-Example -d service=wise This will return something that looks as follows: SID= .. .. read more..
e2dot0 culture
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:41:00 +0000
?Culture is an indirect variable, culture can?t be generated!? Change culture Influence culture. source .. .. read more..
Using cURL to download a Google Spreadsheet as .xls (Excel)
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:40:00 +0000
First obtain a Authentication Token: # curl https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin -d Email=user@quantumcrypto.de ?d Passwd=mysecretpassword ?d accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE -d source=cURL-Example -d service=wise This will return something that looks as follows: SID= .. .. read more..
Václav Havel
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:39:00 +0000
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better?. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions - Václav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, former .. .. read more..
That He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:39:00 +0000
John Gruber writes: It?s not that Steve Jobs is fearless, but rather that he?s afraid of not changing. Where other CEOs can?t bring themselves to do something different, Jobs can?t bring himself to keep doing the same thing. Read More .. .. .. .. read more..
The funniest comic ever. Ever! (clean)
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:38:00 +0000
Don?t write ?pursuant to the statute,? just write ?under the statute.? It?s much simpler!! Response: I need to change my pursuant to wear. Credits: David Mills Source: http://courtoons.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/pursuant-to/ .. .. read more..
Log everything?
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:37:00 +0000
Trent Henry of Burton group says that Logging everything may not be such a good idea. I whole heartedly agree with him, as long as periodic data destruction is part of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) at your organization. However, destroying data in the face of a e-discovery request is a BAD idea. e-discovery is serious business. Here are some guidelines: An unprepared organization can .. .. read more..
Mediocrity is always at its best
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:36:00 +0000
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. ? Max Beerbohm The Cult of Done Manifesto .. .. read more..
Fred Allen on Conference
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:36:00 +0000
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. ? Fred Allen. .. .. read more..
Law like Love
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:35:00 +0000
Like love we don't know where or why Like love we can't compel or fly Like love we often weep Like love we seldom keep. - W. H. Auden .. .. read more..
Fate guides the willing, but drags the unwilling
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:34:00 +0000
"Lead me, Zeus, and you too, Destiny, To wherever your decrees have assigned me. I follow readily, but if I choose not, Wretched though I am, I must follow still. Fate guides the willing, but drags the unwilling." - Cleanthes "The willing, Destiny guides them; the unwilling, Destiny drags them." - Seneca the Younger (translating Cleanthes) .. .. read more..
Duties of an individual in a democracy
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:34:00 +0000
You cannot have a democracy unless the man, the individual citizen, becomes more than himself in isolation and is forced through public opinion to active participation beyond that cultivated in any other form of organized society. Source: Frankfurter, F. (1965). Of Law and Life & Other Things That Matter. (P. B. Kurland, Ed.) Harvard University Press. .. .. read more..
Law as a mean to address chaos in life
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:33:00 +0000
Law is as a untidy as the life with which it deals, though it is the business of people to bring some kind of order out of the chaos of the world, if only as a working hypothesis, and thereby to make it less chaotic - Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter Source: Frankfurter, F., & Phillips, H. B. (1960). Felix Frankfurter Reminisces. REYNAL & COMPANY. .. .. read more..