Maszman Speaks!

It looks like the ‘vir­tual fence’ that DHS wanted along the Mex­i­can bor­der is seri­ously flawed and delayed. Boe­ing, the main con­trac­tor, seems to have bowed to pres­sure from Dubya & Co. to deliver early and cut a few too many cor­ners. At this point, no one is sure what the final cost will be.

There’s no ques­tion that the Palm OS devel­op­ment mar­ket is in tran­si­tion, and the recent shut­down of PDAPer­for­mance, a Palm OS devel­oper isn’t really all that shock­ing. Palm itself has already announced that they’re mov­ing to a Linux-based replace­ment, so any­one devel­op­ing tools for the old Palm OS are going to be fac­ing a shrink­ing mar­ket (once Palm actu­ally ships).

Just as long as Palm keeps the sim­plic­ity and the ‘it just works’ part of Palm OS while adding more mod­ern fea­tures (multi-tasking), I’ll be happy.

Sen­ate OKs “enhanced” 911 VoIP requirements

For­mer FBI agent Patrick Dempsey says we’re unpre­pared to fight world­wide cyber crime and the only answer is a sec­ond ‘safer’ Inter­net with strong national bor­ders. After being roasted on Slash­dot, he added an update claim­ing his real intent was to get peo­ple focused on net crime. Sure. Okay. What­ever. Just another ‘we have to destroy the Inter­net to save it’ scheme that will go nowhere.

When even For­tune mag­a­zine is call­ing for the end of soft­ware patents you know it’s become obvi­ous to non-techies that some­thing is wrong.

Meg​Fowler​.com » how not to be an ass­hole or encour­age assholism on the inter­net: a handy guide.