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This is a sad day for our country.

With the 9th and finalchapter of Star Wars arriving, here’s a memory from when I saw the premier of Star Wars: Episode I, the Phantom Menace.

Do you know about The Osborne Effect?

The human brain reacts differently to lists of different sizes.

One cool trick to get an audience to ask more questions: Silence inspires questions.

When the two-dozen GOP senators disrupted Laura Cooper’s deposition, they didn’t just create a publicity stunt… they created a security hole that every spy agency in the world could take advantage of.

Comcast’s #1 concern is that if they can’t fuck you hard enough.

These opinions have been developed from 3 decades of attending and organizing conferences.

(Are you a speaker?

Dave Cheney started a Twitter discussion about when a unit test is not a unit test.

When I was in 8th grade I got a job working for a small company that was a reseller of electronic drilling and measuring equipment.

Increasingly, vendors understand that the inability to rapidly deploy their products affects the customers’ ability to rapidly purchase their products.

Today’s CNN headline is “Trump economic advisers dismiss fears of a brewing recession” (link).

Question: What would be the impact on your organization if the CA/Browser Forum approves a ballot reducing the maximum validity period for SSL/TLS server certificates from the current 825 days (27 months) at present to 397 days (13 months), effective for…

My reply to: wrote: My answer was a 17-part megatweet.

When did the word “Ask” become a noun and how do we stop this butchering of language?

Did you know that DST was first proposed by socialists?

Reporters say that NY Gov Cuomo is calling Jeff Bezos begging him to reconsider.

Have you been asked to generate data for a demo system?

Creating a software demo is like creating a TV commercial.

When I worked at Bell Labs, there was a door that slammed really loudly when it closed.

Let’s put this “AT&T could have owned the entire internet” idea to rest.

As “software eats the world” executives need to “understand software”.

I just made it a LOT easier to write letters to my representatives.

I can’t believe my health insurance makes me fax certain forms.

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Q: How do cryptographic hashes like MD5 and SHA work?

A few years ago I saw a group of guys with jackets that all had a patch that said, “Safety Third”.

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Please don’t call me if you are selling a monitoring project that uses AI to do amazing things.

Here are the four most important reasons:

Ok, Europe.

I’m reviewing a LOT of talk proposals, draft papers, draft chapters, etc.

(This was originally written in response to someone pointing out all the unethical things the GOP did to gerrymander the US to the point where we are no longer a democracy.)

I have no more patience for the “lazy libertarians”.

If you don’t stop problems when they’re small, you f— it up in historically catastrophic ways.

(Originally posted on Facebook, Nov 9, 2016)

Dear docuSign, Let me explain to you how you wasted an hour of my time today.

So, I met with a major hardware vendor today to talk about firmware update processes.

The Sunlight Foundation spent years meeting with congresspeople trying to convince them to pass laws to get various government data (fundraising domains, government contracts and spending, etc.) published electronically.

In effort to shut down Telegram, Russia blocks Amazon, Google network addresses

The worst cut-and-paste error I ever made.