I read yet another anti-CISPA piece today. I’m not comfortable trying to read it and decide whether it’s a good or bad piece of legislation, but I do understand the problem it’s trying to solve. Those who have tried to paint CISPA as the new SOPA or PIPA are misunderstanding the problem CISPA is trying [...]
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CISPA is trying to solve a legitimate problem
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 20, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/cispa-is-trying-to-solve-a-legitimate-problem/
Dvorak is wrong about the cyber war
So John C Dvorak (I’ll call him John Dvorak because he hates it–John Dvorak John Dvorak John Dvorak) says that cyber warfare, like Y2K, is a bunch of hooey. I lived through Y2K, and I’m fighting the cyber war. He’s wrong on both counts.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 14, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/10/dvorak-is-wrong-about-the-cyber-war/
Don’t call the war on hackers unwinnable
John C Dvorak asks what war we’re waging on hackers. While war may not be the best choice of words, because it’s not exactly a conventional war, there’s no question there’s something going on, and we’re not winning it right now. The latest salvo is that someone in China is building a botnet using Macintoshes.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 31, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/dont-call-the-war-on-hackers-unwinnable/
End of the innocence for Mac security
Antivirus vendor Kapersky has identified a new trojan horse targetting Macintoshes. It spreads a botnet based somewhere in China via an infected Microsoft Word document, typically sent as an e-mail attachment. The spin is that if you don’t use Word on your Mac, you’re safe. That’s true–this week. But going forward, it’s going to take [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 30, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/end-of-the-innocence-for-mac-security/
Apple and China, or Why the U.S. Middle Class is Shrinking
“Companies once felt an obligation to support American workers, even when it wasn’t the best financial choice,” said Betsey Stevenson, the chief economist at the Labor Department until last September. “That’s disappeared. Profits and efficiency have trumped generosity.” Apple Computer, currently the highest-valued company in the country, at its peak employs 1/10 the number of [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 22, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/01/apple-and-china-or-why-the-u-s-middle-class-is-shrinking/
Google drops a bombshell, buys Motorola
I was shocked to read today that Google went out and plunked down $12.5 billion for Motorola. I’m sure that other Android phone makers aren’t exactly happy about it–it means Google is going to be competing with them, unless Google just bought Motorola for patents–but I don’t really see how Google had much choice. Google [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on August 15, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/08/google-drops-a-bombshell-buys-motorola/
Lionel’s going to start producing in the States again! Well, a little.
Lionel is starting up production in the United States again. It’s a limited basis–just a plastic-bodied box car–but it’s something. Interestingly, to me, the plastic bodies are going to be produced in Warminster, Pennsylvania. My dad grew up in the same county, a couple of towns north of Warminster, roughly 12 miles away. The tooling [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 6, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/12/lionels-going-to-start-producing-in-the-states-again-well-a-little/
Using child safety outlets to save energy
I got a new book recently about saving energy. I’ve read several of those, but this one had two tips I’ve never seen anywhere else: caulking baseboards and putting child safety covers on electrical outlets. (I’ll post a link after I find it again; with my boys sleeping, I dare not go upstairs and turn [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 15, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/10/using-child-safety-outlets-to-save-energy/
I got an LED bulb, and it is fabulous.
I half-heartedly checked Home Depot’s web site today, and saw they had 429-lumen, 8.6-watt (40W equivalent) LED bulbs at my local store. Finally!
So when I had a chance, I drove over, plunked down my 19 bucks, and brought one home.
It’s not perfect. But I like it an awful lot.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 26, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/09/i-got-an-led-bulb-and-it-is-fabulous/
How to pay off the national debt in less than 30 years
A couple of coworkers were talking about taxes, deficits and the national debt this week.
One of them looked my direction and said, “I’ll bet Dave can figure out how to pay off the
national debt.”
It’s actually not as hard as it sounds.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 8, 2008
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2008/10/how-to-pay-off-the-national-debt-in-less-than-30-years/