Protecting Troy
It is interesting to me how many different ways one
could spin Palladium. On the one hand it may be the
long overdue integration of decades old security
concepts into a popular operating system while on
the other it might be another way for consumers to
surrender privacy and control for what is merely
the illusion of security. However, until actual
technical specs are delivered or at least until I
can attend a presentation or two on Palladium I'll
consider it to be another grand strategy in the
vein of Hailstorm.
One of my co-workers questioned my likening of
Palladium to Hailstorm because it implied that
Palladium would deep-sixed before it saw the light
of day. I disagreed, when I think of Hailstorm I
think of a project that had some interesting
technology, answered some interesting questions but
required acceptance by a wide range of corporations
as well as end users while failing provide a value
proposition that satisfied these disparate
entities.
I assume that the people making the big bucks at
my place of employment have learned this lesson and
whenever the Palladium strategy is finalized it
won't fall into the Hailstorm trap. Corporations
and end users will adopt Palladium if it provides
substantial benefits which outweigh its [perceived]
costs. Of course, until actual technical specs and
Microsoft press releases are actually published
neither the costs nor the benefits can be measured
with any degree of accuracy.
Relationship
Problems
I think I broke up with my girlfriend on Monday
night but we're definitely back together now.
Capsule Summary: she asked me to stop being an
insensitive, self centered shit and I told her that
my character traits were too ingrained for me to
change quickly enough for her. Of course, being me
I said this in a way that implied that I wouldn't
try to change some of my more self centered
behavior and she'd just have to deal with it so she
made me take all my stuff with me on my way
home.
On getting home I realized that behavior such as
asking her for money for casino chips so I wouldn't
go over my arbitrarily chosen spending limit when I
a.) already had a fistful of chips and b.) knew
she'd just spent over $1,000 on her dog that got
hit by a car (as told in
my last diary) is probably behavior I should be
curbing and is actually rather insensitive and
extremely self centered. So wish me luck in
becoming less of the self centered prick.
Egoless
Programmers
A Chinese saying I saw in the Pacific Science
Center in downtown Seattle this weekend readHe who asks a question
is a fool for five minutes, he who does not is a
fool forever
One of the biggest problems in software
development is that of the few programmers that
actually have a clue many of them greatly
overestimate their abilities and would rather
trudge blindly through trying to solve a problem
for hours or days on end instead of asking an
experienced hand for help or clarification in about
five minutes. Such waste.
Armed and
Dangerous
Eric Raymond aka ESR, everyone's favorite Open
Source™ pundit, now has his very own
weblog.
I tried to read it but it hurt my head. It does
look like ESR would be very comfortable at K5 since
his blog so far seems to be all politics and
culture with nary a thing about technology.
Not Front
Page News
The first major Apache worm shows up and
Slashdot posts it to a section page since it
obviously isn't front page news like a
New Linux News PortalAmusing
Link of the Day
Semen Makes Women HappyDepressing Link of the
Day
Court Punishes Pakistani Adolescent For Dating
Upper Class Girl By Having His Sister Gang
RapedAnother
Amusing Link of the Day
U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that corporate
earnings statements should be protected as works of
art, as they "create something from nothing."