It has been a great run posting articles for this audience and we have had a lot of surprises with the added bonus of more than a few headaches. In the end, we are laying our cards on the table and as of Saturday, August 1, 2009, theReformed will shut it’s “doors” for good after three solid years of publishing thought-provoking content, analysis and theory. Continue reading ‘Time to Say Goodbye…’
22
Jun
Time to Say Goodbye…
High tech toys are used in a variety of places you wouldn’t expect. As a deputy sheriff on the Search and Rescue Unit, I go places that Firemen, Paramedics and Police Officers will not go.
For the purposes of this introductory article, I’m only going to give a brief overview of the gadgets and gizmos we use to make our job easier. Let’s examine the technology being used behind the scenes during a rescue:
Continue reading ‘Using Technology in the Wilderness to Save Lives’
Earlier this week I was trolling the LinkedIn Group Answer boards and came across the question, “Will OSX be running legally on ‘third party’s hardware’ in the near future?“, referencing the impending legal battle between Apple and the ballsy, if-not-suidcidal PsyStar (reference) who last summer decided to offer OSX on PC-hardware in defiance of Apple’s controversial EULA from a Miami base of operations. My answer to this was, doubtful. Continue reading ‘OSX + 3rd Party = Winner?’
05
Feb
Will Everyone Play Fair?
I recently read that the current Office of Faith-based Initiatives under President Obama is considering regulating the religious organizations in the United States from lawfully discriminating against potential employees whose lifestyle or religious practices are in a direct conflict-of-interest with the organization’s foundational doctrine. This is of course a focal point for the liberal agenda in the United States today ranging from arguments of civil liberties violations to a violation of the separation of Church and State. I think it pertainent, especially in these arduous economic times that those in support of the elimination of this practice re-think their position. Continue reading ‘Will Everyone Play Fair?’
The study of Artificial Intelligence is about different representations of information/knowledge, such that computers with or without the help of human counterparts may reason with it. Reasoning may mean “deriving new knowledge from a bit of old plus something new”, some other people call it wisdom. The borders between the concepts of data, information, knowledge and wisdom can be rather vague and is an easy point of dispute. Continue reading ‘A Rant on Computers and Intelligence’
Do Internet canonical/categorical naming conventions and TLD suffixes hold any merit on the Internet anymore? In the majority of cases, the answer is really no, but one of the few entities that kept the practice (that which invoked the Internet’s birth itself) have typically followed a strict set of standards and rules to which names being hosted as a dot gov (”.gov”) domain had to abide by.
That is until recently, approximately November 5, 2008, wherein a waiver for change.gov was surprisingly granted to the incoming President, Barack Obama - more specifically his transition team, by the GSA. Continue reading ‘Change Means Bending the Rules?’
09
Jan
Really? Panetta? Really?
Not much else to say about someone that, by his own omission in fact, has an insignificant amount of operational Intelligence experience on the back-end to be nominated for the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)… Continue reading ‘Really? Panetta? Really?’
A CNN quote from Campbell Brown has given me a good chuckle today regarding her opinions on the accuracy and context of journalists in their industry and their ‘need’ to get into Gaza to report. Campbell Brown is a member of the CNN news organization, producing content for her program, ‘Campbell Brown: No bias, no bull’. Laughable considering the parent source?
Who are you trying to fool Brown? A moderate’s opinion - this very denial probably has to do with circumstances such as the powerful US-based left-leaning (reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_liberalism_in_the_United_States ) media’s inability to accurately report the facts without coloring it all shades of grey and red as much as it has to do with protection of foreign parties who would be visiting the region, one wrought with turmoil, danger and where a terrorist is willing to cowardly embed with the local population as their human shield. A year-long tirade of this disgusting behaviour by the media can be seen by reviewing footage and articles from the 2008 US Presidential campaign. Continue reading ‘“Boo-hoo, They Won’t Let Us Play”’
01
Dec
BBL, Vacation
Thanks for reading this year, we’ve had a great year with you and we look forward to the next. Right now though, we’re going to rest for the month of December for the holidays, vacation and spending time with those we love. We’ll get back on the track in January.
See you next year!
What do you think? Which candidate do you believe, if they gain office, based on their record, council and understanding of the “cyber-threats” facing our aging infrastructure, invasive privacy practices and stagnant electronic security evolution will have the most profound effect on the development of technology in both the United States and the global industry as a whole during their term in office. We ask that you look at this in a non-partisan, objective light. A by-the-issues, unbiased review of each candidate can be found at Vote Smart .
Of US Presidential candidates, who will advance more the development of technology during term?
- Barack H. Obama, Jr. (43%, 3 Votes)
- John S. McCain, III (29%, 2 Votes)
- Ralph Nader (14%, 1 Votes)
- Charles O. Baldwin (14%, 1 Votes)
- Robert L. Barr, Jr. (0%, 0 Votes)
- Cynthia Ann McKinney (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 7
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