by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2016 | Newsletter
Yeah, I know: “very carefully.” But seriously, what’s next for Vermont Yankee – especially now that the owner, Entergy, wants to sell it to a firm that specializes in such work? (No, I don’t know how that can be a business model, but...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2016 | Newsletter
If you’d like to watch relatively short discussions about the Dyn attack, the alternative-voting initiative in Maine and other geek-ish stuff, check out an upcoming episode of the talk show Capitol Connections from a local TV company called Yankee Communications...
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
There are folks in New Hampshire who have tried for decades, on and off, to institute some form of alternative voting, but our neighbors in Maine have gotten their first. Pine Tree State voters on Tuesday approved a statute to establish ranked-choice voting for...
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
In light of the DDOS attack on Dyn from scads of infected Internet of Things items, I talked to Dyn fellow Andrew Sullivan about what we, as IoT buyers, should do. You can read his response here.
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2016 | Newsletter
Years ago it seemed inevitable that Chronic Wasting Disease, a contagious, fatal neurological disorder that strikes deer and moose, would show up in New Hampshire as it spread across the country. CWD has been detected in 24 states, two Canadian provinces and in Korea...
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2016 | Newsletter
News about botnets – millions of tainted Internet of Things devices being used to tandem to swamp targets with DDoS attack, as happened to Dyn last month – just keeps getting wilder. An entire country, Liberia in west Africa, was targeted, reports Kevin...
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