Ars Technica had an article discussing a memo sent out the the President requiring Federal agencies to offer “high-value data sets” for publication on Data.gov. Also there was a requirement that this data be “…data sets not previously available online or in a downloadable format”. I applaud this move but do have some [...]

Techcrunch had an article about how some Nobel award winning scientists are supporting a proposed federal law that would make Federally funded research freely available to the public. Apparently this research is only available in expensive research publications. While I’m not a fan of some Federally funded research I do support the idea [...]

So I was reading Sam Diaz’s blog post ‘Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon‘. The article makes many references to how Washington has rejected tech companies until the One came on the scene. Now all of a sudden Silicon Valley will be saved thanks to the massive spending of [...]

CNET has a story on a bill that would allow the President of the United States to takeover private networks in response to a “cybersecurity emergency”. However the bill is vague on what constitutes such an emergency. As is so often the case this legislation is drafted by a bunch of politicians and [...]

Today I have to say I am actually scared of the Democrats and Obama. I don’t say this lightly as I’ve not been scared before. Now we have Obama seeking to gain the power to take over private companies at his discretion.
Then you have Obama and the Dems seeking to over [...]