Business, Culture, Writing, and Other Stuff
I've started the migration to MadCap Flare. I chose a simple project for my first one, a short story. See? I do use FrameMaker for everything. I wanted to submit a short story to a contest that ended last month. I had these templates for manuscript submission I've been using for years. MadCap claims Flare [...]
I received a phone call from Adobe today. It was coincidence and had nothing to do with my previous rant. The person who called me was a Level 2 technician. I went through my story with him. The difference was that he was an installation expert. In the end, he couldn't help me because I [...]
As I reported here, China is increasing its spy network and becoming more aggressive. Now the government is openly admitting there's a major problem: FBI calls Chinese espionage 'substantial'. Joel Brenner, the director of national counterintelligence, said in an interview in March that China's theft of technology from the United States is a serious problem [...]
I have a collection of articles I wanted to comment on, but I noticed they all have one thing in common: they point to the utter incompetence of the government when it comes to security, technology, and secrecy. It's sometimes hard for me to imagine how stupidity spreads this much, but then I remember that [...]
We are scratching the surface of a future problem that is only going to get worse. It's starting with toothpaste (see Contaminated Counterfeit Toothpaste Now Found in 6 States, Canada) and it could spread to food, toys, personal hygiene products, or any other outsourced, manufactured product. It's a little disturbing to think that nobody involved [...]
Reporting from Infosecurity 2006, Simon Moores asks a very good question: What's the point of security? In the intervening period, Infosec and the security industry have become larger and more successful, as have the organised crime groups which are busy milking people's bank accounts, defrauding businesses and stealing the identities of as many as 100,000 [...]
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