The Jabber framework approaches a critical turning point in its evolution: How the API for connecting other Radio/Frontier stuff works. Actually, we've stepped a bit past it, with the release of .7, which has a first cut at such an API. And I've learned a few things. Right now, the whole API centers around the idea that you may possibly have multiple Jabber connections. Every call takes a "connection reference"

In case this is your primary way of getting info about the Jabber stuff I'm doing, I've released a .7 release of the Jabber verbs, which can be obtained by downloading or updating your current copy. Big news is the introduction of an event system, which makes responding to things easy, now. You can write a bot.

Almost forgot, it's Pi Day!

This is a sample post from Jabber to make sure that what I sent to radio-dev works correctly. The post was sent via Jabber, but the link, this paragraph, and the addition to the Jabber category was later done by hand.

[via dangerousmeta!] More articles like this and I could almost... almost!... call myself a member of the left... though they still wouldn't have me. :-) It's not that I disagree with most of the goals of the left. But once identifying problems with some success, the left engages in a full-fledged retreat from reality, proposing solutions based solely on ideologies already twice-removed from reality, with no input from facts or history.

Here's some food for thought: In our civics classes in the US, we are all taught that one of the key differences of our government is that all three major branches of the government have checks and balances on each other. While true, this obscures the true point, which is that all three branches of government are accountable to the other two. Accountability is the real key. The genius of 1776 was in the creation of a government where nobody occupied a position where they were not accountable to anyone else.

'The NDIC said five types of people should be targeted, including previous drug offenders, legalization advocates, anarchists and people promoting "an expanded freedom of expression" that pushes the boundaries of the First Amendment.' Assuming you read the article (so you have the context)... I wonder what exactly "an expanded freedom of expression" is supposed to mean? Not sarcastic. I also question the legitimacy of targeting legalization advocates. I am not one myself, but saying a currently illegal activity should be legal is the exact same act as claiming a currently legal activity should be illegal, which the NDIC does all the time, in their never-ending quest to eliminate second-order causes like "

Dave's resuming a serious pitch for what he calls the World Outline. While we don't know exactly where he's going with the idea, it's more interesting then you might think on the first cut. Or at least what I've thought of the idea is more interesting then you might think. He calls it "parallel to the HTML web, a new way of webbing." I don't know that I'd say parallel to the web.

I just flipped by Dateline:NBC, where they are smashing cars into barriers and rating the cars on how expensive the repair bills are. It seems that cars have gotten so safe today that the tabloid magazine news shows have to make up tests for cars to fail. That's about how meaningful those tests are. You can always generate failure by making up arbitrarily wierd and useless criteria. Disclaimer: My dad is a testing engineer for one of the Big Three car companies, so I have some familiarity with the other side of the story.

The market has created clear categories of software that range from the rather unreliable (Windows, piddly silly games, etc) to the extremely reliable (commerical Unices, VxWorks, QNX, etc). Interjecting liability laws into this arena will only throw that balance off and eliminate the lower-cost alernatives (including maybe boxed Linux distros!). This comment is more interesting then the Slashot story it's a part of, but that's interesting too. The Slashdot article discusses a Security Focus article about a recently proposed IETF draft regarding a formal statement of best practice regarding reporting new vulnerabilities.