Operative B doesn’t have too many bad ideas, but this is a doozy. Don’t get Ghettoputer started on freedom of speech, and don’t get GorT going on the technical aspects of this. Actually, that’s probably why B wrote to the … Continue reading →
GorT came across a brief post by Seth Godin regarding autonomous cars and tends to agree with his broad assessment. His summary: Self-driving cars are going to be a huge transformational disruption, and they’re probably going to happen faster than … Continue reading →
A few years ago, the new fad in home televisions was the “3D” TV. Most manufacturers now treat that as routine and they probably cashed in on the early-adopter set but largely, mainstream viewers replied, “meh.” Well, the next stage … Continue reading →
No, GorT isn’t going to talk about the Democrats’ policies and view of the world. Rather, he noticed that he’s been remiss in posting on some technical subjects recently so let’s play some catch up. On March 25th, Mark Zuckerberg … Continue reading →
Nothing is random, you know. Not even randomness: computers are pretty good at generating random numbers, but in fact, the computer uses rules to generate random numbers. Once you understand how that works, you can get pretty good at detecting … Continue reading →
The Castle IT Department received this odd nutter last night: Your Imperial Majesty, Prince of DuPage, Emir of Eau Claire, Czar of Muscovy, Begging Your Cruelty’s pardon, but I’ve only recently noticed that Firefox displays the site’s contributor list as … Continue reading →
GorT spoke at his son’s school’s Career Day last week. After years of hiring (or trying) people in the computer science field and getting quite a broad set of experiences dealing with them, GorT had enough and decided that there … Continue reading →
GorT’s company is hiring. We’re a small company and the founders are ruing the day when they have to make the decision to hire employee #50 with all the federal mandates that come with that. As part of this hiring, … Continue reading →
After a few years of grousing about a portion—only a portion—of President Obama’s daily mistakes, we cannot overlook that President Bush had a doozy as well. You know what this is about: the incandescent lightbulb ban. The problem about the … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. was made hip to this a few weeks ago by one of his hip single urban dwelling (HSUD) classmates from Ivy U. Apparently Yelp*, a website and app used to find stores, restaurants, bars, and to … Continue reading →
The following video clip is making the rounds in a few circles, particularly the federal IT contracting world which overlaps heavily with the inside-the-beltway world. GorT is very familiar with both. Let’s put aside the issue that the General and … Continue reading →
So there is a news story going around celebrating today as the 20th anniversary of the first public website: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html I’m sure the link is getting slammed (slashdotted for those in the know), but I wouldn’t waste my time. It’s … Continue reading →
I’m a frequent TED Talks watcher so I thought I’d pass along one that is near and dear to me. I can’t tell you how many times I sit with someone and they don’t know some of these tips or … Continue reading →
Americans are supposed to be getting upset over considerations by the Federal government that all cars will be equipped with a black box sophisticated enough to determine your rate of travel, where you are, and trace your itinerary. Outrage! Of … Continue reading →
Dr. J. was over at Jonathan Last’s blog the other day. It is totally worth adding to your bookmarks. He discusses politics, science fiction, comics, and the decline in Western civilization that correlates with the decline in fecundity. Dr. J. … Continue reading →
Borepatch put us onto this one, and it sounds like a bunch of hooey. According to something called (really) HotHardware.com, Verizon has developed a technology that, when put into a cable television receiver, can eavesdrop on your conversations while you … Continue reading →
Back in 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 were launched – 16 days apart – on mission through the solar system. Voyager 1 is now in a newly ascribed region nicknamed the “magnetic highway” where particles from inside and outside the … Continue reading →
On August 6th, the Mars Science Laboratory will attempt a landing on Mars. While we’ve landed spacecraft on the surface of Mars before, this landing is a bit different. The spacecraft team has crafted a great video explaining the whole … Continue reading →
If it all possible, protect your data by putting a physical lock on it and a little bit of loose chain as pictured. That keeps just about everybody out, unless they simply lift up the lock and move it to … Continue reading →
One of GorT’s beliefs is that liberals are generally short-sighted in their attempts to remedy perceived problems. In other words, they look for immediate fixes without considering what the longer term consequences are…or what the unintended consequences could be. The … Continue reading →
Location is everything. At least that is what many companies are banking on – from various IT companies providing location-based services (LBS) to retailers hoping to woo customers through location aware advertisements to social networking platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Location … Continue reading →
#ILikeObamacare #DinnerwithBarack #ObamaCaresAboutMe #gen44 These are twitter hashtags created by various and sundry tendrils of those who wish to re-elect President Obama. These hashtags, and many before them were contrived attempts to drive the conversation on twitter. Fortunately, the conservative … Continue reading →
If you pay attention to the consumer privacy world or the smartphone world, you might have heard the recent swirl about something called “Carrier IQ”. I figured our readers might like a little info to be informed and understand what’s … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s biggest complaint regarding the electronic medical record is that it can ‘cut and paste.’ This time saving feature has the potential to cause and propagate errors if you are the sole provider (e.g. private practice physician) using that … Continue reading →
Dr. J. went to the New Atlantis Apple Store on Saturday with the lil med student to get an additional USB cable (an ancient one was fraying at the iPhone/iPod plug in end) and a couple of car chargers for … Continue reading →
From Slashdot earlier this week: “Massachusetts wants to establish a database with the information gathered by license plate scanners installed in police cars. The scanners will scan license plates of every car the police vehicle passes and transmit that information (along … Continue reading →
This list barely scratches the surface: The Internet Spread spectrum wireless communications Digital photography GPS Forward-looking infrared Zodiac boats Night-vision cameras Telemedicine Velcro RADAR Heads-up displays Data encryption Nuclear reactors SONAR Flat panel displays Robotic prosthetics Indeed, this list is … Continue reading →
This is just plain nuts. DT writes in with something that actually non-plusses the Czar. Oh Captain My Captain, I note with amusement that a journalism major from Berkeley thinks that computer programming is hard. I’ve been a professional developer … Continue reading →
I realize it’s been a while since I’ve chimed in on tech news, so I thought I’d drop a few nuggets here: Apple is going to be facing some serious challenges soon. iTunes is the defacto standard for music collections. … Continue reading →
Over at Big Hollywood, there is a curious essay about the failure of Blu-Ray technology to make a profit when working with Hollywood’s classic films. Not really a surprise, though. When you watch an action-packed, many-things-at-once modern Hollywood film in … Continue reading →
If you haven’t heard, current projections have the address space for internet addresses (version 4 – IPv4) being exhausted in the next year (current “X-day” as they’re calling it is January 20th, 2011). The IPv4 address format is 4 octets … Continue reading →
In the interest of full disclosure, ‘Puter does not now and has not ever owned a cell phone. ‘Puter above statement is not a joke. He does not own a cell phone. Wrap your heads around that one, dear readers. … Continue reading →
You know you want to read this: Segways used for sniper target practice Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →Extremely ineffectively. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →Here’s a photo of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport this morning, which shows a small portion of the United Airlines fleet grounded until further notice. The cause? A computer system that handles operations is completely rampant, and systems are only now … Continue reading →
The Mandarin says it’s like trying to nail jello to a tree. One assumes he may have done such a thing. The Czar has not, but agrees in theory: the more the Iranian government tries to suppress access to the … Continue reading →
Maybe I should check with Volgi before condemning this product to mockitude and see if its in the future for his clan. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the … Continue reading →
The “Skynet” project had a little trouble today. Luckily, GorT was able to use his time/space traveling subroutines and transferred the project into the 8th dimension for safe keeping. We’ve shelved the multi-rotor flying automaton concept for a bit later. … Continue reading →
