Cute. So now few of us can be president! We'd have to give up
blackberry's and presumably any smartphone etc. due to the
Presidential Records Act:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html?_r=1
-- Owen
Owen Densmore wrote:
We'd have to give up blackberry's and presumably any smartphone etc.
due to the Presidential Records Act:
Why can't the National Archives provide the IMAP/SMTP/VOIP servers to
record it? Must be government/military officials that already have
super-secure VPNs based on
I presume Obama is working on this as we speak. He certainly wants to
be as free as possible. His chat on 60 minutes addressed what he
misses in being so secure. Walking is his high order bit there, but I
bet the blackberry comes a close second!
-- Owen
On Nov 17, 2008, at 12:14
Greetings, all --
It was nice to be in Santa Fe again, albeit briefly. Eric Falkenstein is not a
lover of Taleb, and so I'll pass this along with that proviso and note that
it's helpful to think through some of both Taleb's statements and Falkenstein's
reactions:
Theres a general principle that productivity enhancing sustainable design
eventually consumes more resources not less. Heres a good example from
todays Science section of the NY Times.It forces you to think about
the whole system effects when you solve symptoms not problems
