Monthly Archives: June 2006

You can’t photocopy money

Posted on June 23, 2006 by ben

Tim Berners-Lee has a brilliant summary of why Net Neutrality matters. Yes, it is regulation, but it’s the basic regulation necessary to maintain the fair play rules of the Internet, where any little guy can put up a web site … Continue reading →

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Viva la Defense

Posted on June 15, 2006 by ben

My thesis defense, aka “viva voce”, aka “soutenance” is next Thursday, 9am. It’s open to the public, so if you’re really interested in cryptographic voting systems, you can come on over to the Stata Center. Now back to my slides….

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So, I lied….

Posted on June 10, 2006 by ben

It turns out, I’m giving another presentation before my defense… well, sort of, I’m on a panel at the Harvard Berkman Center’s Identity Mashup Conference in 10 days. Lots of very interesting folks getting together to discuss online identity. It … Continue reading →

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My Letter to the Boston Globe

Posted on June 9, 2006 by ben

Dear Boston Globe Editors, Jeff Jacoby, in his column on June 7th, takes issue with Senator Kennedy for calling proponents of the FMA “bigots.” Sometimes, however, some opinions are indeed proof of bigotry. Some laws, like the FMA. are indeed … Continue reading →

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Return of the Cross Domain AJAX

Posted on June 8, 2006 by ben

So I’ve found that the cross-domain AJAX meme just won’t die, with folks writing articles that seem to miss the issue of firewalled content, at least at first (in that article, a reader comment eventually brings it up, though the … Continue reading →

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Shame

Posted on June 5, 2006 by ben

If this is true, then I am truly and deeply ashamed to be represented by this administration: The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Conventions that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading … Continue reading →

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Perspective and Pettiness

Posted on June 2, 2006 by ben

I was shocked today to learn that Alan Kotok passed away. I knew Alan a bit from my work with the W3C. I only knew his latest accomplishments, like running W3C operations, including all web sites, repositories, member administration interfaces, … Continue reading →

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