Upgrade your dog
This came courtesy of a link in Slashdot, but follows directly on my item on cellphones for dogs. I especially like the photos taken by the gadgetised mutt. My favourite is this:
Just one problem — looks like the owner is an Apple user. Hmmm…
Generating dynamic timelines
Anyone who teaches the history of anything needs a timeline. How nice then to find a clever web-based tool for creating timelines.
Another useful T-shirt
After the HTML one, how about this?
Lots more in the same vein from lowercasetee.
Why the US cannot win in Iraq — by a soldier serving there now
Extraordinary, frank article by Al Lorenz, a former state chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas and a reservist currently serving with the US Army in Iraq.
Ed Felten on the importance of open disclosure
Ed commented on the bike-lock story. Now he’s been reflecting on the CBS ‘fake memos’ episode. His conclusions are the same as mine in the bike-lock saga. This is what he says:
“What’s true with CBS is true elsewhere in the security world. Disclosure teaches the public the truth about the situation at hand (in this case the memos), a benefit that shouldn’t be minimized. Even more important, disclosure deters future sloppiness — you can bet that CBS and others will be much more careful in the future. (You might think that the industry should police itself so that such deterrents aren’t necessary; but experience teaches otherwise.)
My sense is that it’s only the remote and mysterious nature, for most people, of cybersecurity that allows the anti-disclosure arguments to get traction. If people thought about most cybersecurity problems in the same way they think about the CBS memos, the cybersecurity disclosure argument would be much healthier.”
Canon’s new digital camera
First, the good news:
16.7 megapixels EOS-1Ds Mark II. It has a 36 x 24 mm CMOS sensor (full 35 mm frame size), ISO sensitivity through to ISO 3200, faster continuous shooting (4 fps) with a large and improved buffer (32 JPEG, 11 RAW). Optional extras include a Wireless Transmitter which supports 802.11b/g as well as tethered LAN for transmission of images directly back to a server.
Now the bad news: It will cost �5,999 in the UK.
More details here.