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Saturday, December 01, 2007 1:44 AM

Wireless network in Canberra's Paliament House

Recently I have visited Australia's Parliament House in Canberra. As parliaments of many other democratic countries, it is open for public access . Notably, there was no wireless LAN available. Not for long - implementation of wireless network is...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:03 PM

The yardstick of a democracy

Received via Arvin Meyer , a fellow MVP: The yardstick of a democracy is the degree of unorthodoxy permitted - SOURCE UNKNOWN I couldn't agree more. Full consensus is a bad starting point for decision making in any system - that being political, judiciary...
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Saturday, May 05, 2007 11:32 PM

Tracing phone communications: mission expensive and impossible

Herald Sun, a local tabloid, reports : VICTORIANS will be surprised to learn that the major telecommunications companies, including Telstra, charge the police when they check on calls by criminals. This year Victoria Police's total bill will be about...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007 9:13 PM

Alliances of incapable

Anyone remembers United Linux ? An attempt of few Linux distro makers to take on Red Hat , the market leader, by creating a common product core, it has become a spectacular failure. Apparently many didn't learn the lesson. There are two other industry...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:22 PM

Decision making too hard

Amazing news from the US : The Federal Communications Commission has officially grounded the idea of allowing airline passengers to use cellular telephones while in flight. Existing rules require cellular phones to be turned off once an aircraft leaves...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:44 PM

This is real security

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a prominent political scientist, recently wrote an interesting article in Washington Post - Terrorized by 'War on Terror' (How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America) . It's an analysis of the recent change in American mentality...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:30 AM

Kashrut, Sarbanes and Oxley

This is about interpretations, and how they transform law into something unrecognisable. The first example is karshrut, the orthodox jewish diet. Its origins can be traced mostly to the eleventh chapter of the third book of Bible (or Torah, if you like...
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