Between Truth and Lies, An Unprintable Ubiquity
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A Princeton professor strikes a chord with a bluntly titled essay.
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In response to this recent article from the Hiveminds website, Marco Tabini has a few choice words about some of the topics they cover in the article, and cover incorrectly.   Over the last few years, I've made it a point of trying to respond to at least some of the "PHP is dead"-type articles that crop up on the Net from time to time. The latest one comes from Hiveminds and reveals a complete misunderstanding of almost every point it covers.   He notes that though the article seems to be a coherent whole for why PHP is dwindling, it's "based on nothing more than a string of misinformed concepts cobbled together to give the appearance that the author knows what he or she is talking about". Marco comes back against each of the points made in the article, setting things right and eliminating some of the FUD (fear, uncertainly, and doubt) that the Hiveminds article spreads.
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Even the most virtuous decisions have unforeseen, often damaging, consequences, and full disclosure may create as many problems as it solves.
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Unprecedented amounts of data will need to be secured in new, untested ways. What's the best course to pursue in such uncharted territory?
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Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.
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I must admit to being of two conflicting minds when it comes to the anti-Kerry activities of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. On the one hand, there is nothing that makes my blood boil more than a fraudulent Vietnam veteran.
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Comment is free: Nick Davies:  An industry whose task should be to filter out falsehood has become a conduit for propaganda and second hand news
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Richard Prince blurs the distinctions between life and art, truth and fiction, and even automaking and sculpture.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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Every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact -- even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast -- it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as well
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The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law
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Technology hasnât eliminated the desire for rules about who tells what, when and how.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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The corporate lie detector It gives a whole new meaning to the word "micromanager."â¦
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: A hospital in Coventry lays bare the deceit of neoliberal logic: staff cuts, ward closures and millions to the financiers.
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.