Why Drools doesn't work.

Read: http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/10/13/1236253/Drools-JBoss-Rules-50

If you want to create a specific system, do it in a proper way. Do the standard program because that would give you the native power of the system and you could do more error handling and exception handling with it.

If you ask a Business Analyst with basic knowledge of programming to implement an IT system (including writing the syntax), that's as good as suicide.

Leave the IT side to the IT and business side to the business guys. Trying to cut corners only gives you more headache then just sticking to the normal proven ways.

HTML 5 Woes

Read: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/business/media/11privacy.html?_r=1

Yet another article on the woes HTML 5 brings. Browsers should give users much more gradient control of the security amd storage of data in the browsers. Browsers should also include options to wipe or allow users to read their html 5 sqlite databases for more control over the data stored and users should also have the ability to block certain sites from storing things into their html 5 sqlite databases.

Flashless Flash

We have all heard about Smokescreen which is a JavaScript/HTML 5 library that runs Flash videos without having a Flash player.

we have long known of the bad performance of Adobe Flash in Linux and Mac platforms and the troubles are never ending with Adobe doing a bad job with Flash. Just a note, whenever I have Youtube running Flash, my browsers (I am using Ubuntu 10.04) just crash. Regardless is it Firefox, Opera or Chrome... it took a dive and died.

It would be an interesting idea to implement a kind of method or plugin that would intercept demands to run Flash and swap it with Smokescreen (maybe by using the browser to internally edit it's downloaded HTML codes abit) and run Flash on Smokescreen. 

Although Smokescreen is still not really ready yet, it would be an interesting test implementation to behold.

Maybe Mozilla could donate a couple of developers to focus on helping those guys developing Smokescreen and greatly boost it's development process and quality ?

Prevent updating your jail broken iOS devices

Read: http://lifehacker.com/5659226/prevent-itunes-from-updating-jailbroken-devices-with-a-bash-script

Although I don't use Apple devices or anything Apple (because I don't like Apple), this is a good article to prevent one of the big nasties from controlling your FREEDOM.

Absurdness from the US Govt.

This entry has nothing to do with technology. This is my personal opinion.

Read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/08/fbi-seizes-john-lennon-card

Who owns the US government ? Who pay taxes so they (US Govt) can mind others' business and impose absurd rules and give NSA, CIA...etc.. so much power to intercept communications ? Who really owns the government ?

Its' the PEOPLE !!! 

WITHOUT THE PEOPLE'S SUPPORT A GOVERNMENT CANNOT FUNCTION !!!

That is the basic of the Art of Governance.

Turning back to the question, who owns the US Government's documents ? 

THE PEOPLE !!! 

It's their tax, their sweat and blood which gives the government what it is today.

Freedom of Speech and Rights !!!

XKCD - Online Communities 2

Interesting depiction by XKCD. This is a reflection of our online communities in this period of time.

Online Communities 2:

Online Communities:

 

How true and ingenious XKCD is to come out with a map in an attempt to reflect the reality of the online landscape. Goo job there, XKCD.

Is it going to be another wolf under sheep skin ?

Read: http://www.osnews.com/story/23861/EFF_and_Microsoft_Want_to_Invalidate_Software_Patents

If is a great news to hear that Microsoft has filed an amicus brief in an attempt to make invalidating U.S. patents that threatens open source developments on a very frequent and scary rate.

Read: http://www.osnews.com/story/23860/Microsoft_Slaps_Motorola_with_Patent_Lawsuit_over_Android

But apparently, Microsoft decides to slap Android, an open source mobile OS originally developed by Google, with patent lawsuits which is contradicting it's amicus brief as stated above.

What is this all about ? Wolf in sheep skin ? Can we trust Microsoft's open source friendly stance ? The amicus brief was a great benefit if it managed to get through but can we really trust Microsoft that they are really true hearted being open source friendly ?