CheapID demo now online. You can go, you know, generate yourself a dodgy ID card, and get a real solid idea of what on earth all this Identity Services Architecture stuff is about. Note well, the code is flakey, your IDs will break every time I tweak the code, and this is a junky alpha. [...]
Read more →“{foo airbase} we are landing.” “{Russian airplane} you don’t have authorization to land.” “{foo airbase}, sorry, my English is not precise. We are informing you that we are landing. we have no fuel. In five minutes, we will be on ground, with your permission or not. We think it would be easier for everyone if [...]
Read more →Part of what makes my job tolerable is using images of 14 century Hindu saints as my test data.
Read more →Graph of US govt. spending on energy vs. spending on Iraq. You know it’s bad. But you don’t really know how bad. It’s like fifteen pages of War and half an inch of power. Gaaaahhhhh. Obscenities, obscenities.
Read more →[On the National Response Plan] “Where’s the beef?” asked Baughman, who is Alabama’s emergency management chief. “I don’t have any problems with a framework . . . but it’s not a plan . . . and it’s not national. Who are we fooling here?” … “Coordination between state and local governments and the feds . [...]
Read more →The ever-helpful Lugon of the Flu Wiki, a site focussing on pandemic flu preparedness, pointed me at Redefining Readiness, which is a study about disaster response that actually, you know, asked members of the public what they would actually do in a disaster, and why. Needless to say, the results pose some interesting questions for [...]
Read more →Project STAR-TIDES is the new form of EITP, which is the .gov, .mil, big .org etc. autonomous building / distributed infrastructure / disaster response effort. They’re also up on Appropedia. I’m currently kind of the jack of all trades / focus manager for this project – keep the thing pointed at the problems, organize the [...]
Read more →Remember those “hobbit” skeletons? Yup, it was a human subspecies Here’s my question. If birds who’ve never seen an eagle’s shadow still know to panic, that suggests that some kinds of threat identification stuff can be genetically hardwired. What if that extends to things other than threats? Like, say, food sources… Or, you know, just [...]
Read more →I checked out Viridari’s Blog in response to a comment here, and found this gem: Now, on so many levels, you can see how close we are to a total collapse of the current value system. Hippies marching under the pledge of allegiance buffaloing confused small town cops with by the sound of the tape, [...]
Read more →I Want A New Platform – at Union Square Adventures – can’t handle a new platform! The core of this issue is that we’re in a **PARALLEL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT** That’s really the issue. You’re planning on using multiple CPUs to do the work, and the architecture bottlenecks at your ability to get the centralized components [...]
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