Category: Technology
-
Going Bright: Wiretapping without Weakening Communications Infrastructure
Going Bright: Wiretapping without Weakening Communications Infrastructure: Mobile IP-based communications and changes in technologies have been a subject of concern for law enforcement, which seeks to extend current wiretap design requirements for digital voice networks. Such an extension would create considerable security risks as well as seriously harm innovation. Exploitation of naturally occurring bugs in…
By
·
-
Combining guessing and planning in product development
Combining guessing and planning in product development: At the extremes of product development methodology, characterized by waterfall and agile approaches, are different views about planning. Many today would say that planning a product “up front” is nothing more than guessing that locks you into a guess that will be wrong. At the other end, the…
By
·
-
Trust in Automation
Trust in Automation: This essay focuses on trust in the automation within macrocognitive work systems. The authors emphasize the dynamics of trust. They consider numerous different meanings or kinds of trust, and different modes of operation in which trust dynamics play a role. Their goal is to contribute to the development of a methodology for…
By
·
-
What is DSSD building?
What is DSSD building?: The brains behind the ZFS filesystem – including Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – have been hard at work for several years at start up DSSD. What are they doing with Andy Bechtolsheim’s money? Interesting speculation based on patents that they filed…
By
·
-
Don’t blame security breaches on open source technology – the problem is lack of oversight
Don’t blame security breaches on open source technology – the problem is lack of oversight: A hacker attack recently shut down the ad service OnRamp completely. In an official statement posted on its forums a few weeks ago, OpenX, the parent company of OnRamp, questioned the security of open source technology. Another one about how to deal with…
By
·
-
Prismatic’s Bradford Cross: First we understand media, then the world
Prismatic’s Bradford Cross: First we understand media, then the world: Prismatic co-founder and CEO Bradford Cross doesn’t have big dreams — he just wants to revolutionize the way that we consume media, and then after that he wants to bring his brand of data-powered artificial intelligence to every other form of consumer behavior. I’m still…
By
·
-
Hadoop and Splunk Use cases
Hadoop and Splunk Use cases: The Splunk and Hadoop communities can benefit from each other’s strengths. Below are several examples of customers that use both environments. Splunk is a primary tool used by this company for making use of big data and gaining real-time operational intelligence from their infrastructure. Every vendor should have such a…
By
·
-
If the developers can’t self-service everything they need programmatically through an API, it’s not a private cloud.
If the developers can’t self-service everything they need programmatically through an API, it’s not a private cloud.
By
·
-
Immersive 3D Holoscopic Video System
Immersive 3D Holoscopic Video System: Although researchers have proposed several autostereoscopic displays, the resolution and viewing position is still limited. Furthermore, stereo and multiview technologies rely on the brain to fuse the two disparate images to create the 3D effect. As a result, such systems tend to cause eye strain, fatigue, and headaches after prolonged…
By
·
-
DBSeer: Making Database Cloud Computing more Efficient
Making cloud computing more efficient: For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while actually improving performance. DBSeer – an open source machine learning algorithm to improve DB performance in VMs, being developed at the MIT.
By
·