October 2011
5 posts
Texas officials edited climate change out of... →
Texas scientists wrote a report detailing the state of the environment in Galveston Bay. Rick Perry-appointed officials from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality went through the report and…
No I'm Not Going To Law School: Disrupting Law... →
Derek Slater is my former colleague at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now serving as a policy analyst at Google. He’s just published a barn-burning essay called “#noimnotgoingtolawschool:…
HOWTO write more secure free/open source software →
Having recently conducted a security audit of several free/open source software programs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chris Palmer and Dan Auerbach have published some guidelines for…
I still can’t believe Mark Zuckerberg did not win... →
Yesterday there was speculation that Zuck was going to get it. But then they gave it to three women who as far as I know don’t even have a startup or even an iPhone app. I tried…
OpenStack Leader: Open Source Needs to Rethink Its... →
Philosophically, the open source concept borrows some selected elements from socialism. It upholds a notion of the “common good,” it eschews the appearance of authority or hierarchy, and it…