I decided I wanted to ride the 2013 Iron Butt Rally. I had been selected to ride in the past but was unable to do so for a variety of what long distance riders would call excuses. Deciding to ride…
R1200 GS Adventure PDM 60 Install
I’m in the process of updating the electronics and equipment on my BMW R1200 GS Adventure. In that process, I’ve been looking for a neat tidy solution that will allow me to run various devices. The solution I chose was…
Ethics, job offers, and the university
Water cooler talk can be an interesting diversion if you do not apply too much critical thinking skills to the topic. Today, I am going to go ahead and work through a discussion that comes up every year at universities.…
Cybernetics: Intro to utility and scholarship
The cybernetics academic community is a rich and varied area of research, but in my opinion it is death to the academic career. The principles of cybernetics were developed and co-opted by what would later become computer scientists. In other…
Techmount fun
For regular readers just skip this. I’m working something out with a vendor on my bike.
So you want to play a game: Command and control warfare
There is a reason the first mass media movie on cyber warfare has the computer WOPR playing games than war. To the technical well-informed individuals who make up the information technology discipline war is a game. WOPR though existed in…
Cyber Forensics: Various Posters
Chemical restoration of damaged hard drives Petroleum Industry cyber attacks and conflict
Posters: Cloud Forensics
Click on images to make them bigger Not quite cloud forensics but it’ll do Legal implications of cloud computing. Investigation into imperfect virtualization SaaS incident response Cloud stack forensics Evidence acquisition in the cloud OSCAR framework to…
Posters: National Cyber Power
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Cyber as guerrilla or insurgency conflict (war)
These are some articles I’ve written on the topic. Liles, S., “ A unified generational warfare model”, The Handbook of 5th Generation Warfare, 2010 Liles, S., “The issues of non-state actors and the nation state”, Threats in the Age of Obama,…
The story on a PhD and should you could you
There are lots of doctoral programs in many different disciplines. The doctorate signifies your ability to engage in fundamental research and that you are preeminent expert on some topic. People often get into the game of getting a doctorate for…
Let’s talk about cyber warfare
Cyber is a short hand for something we don’t understand but we’ll lump it under the word cyber because it is sexy. Cyber can be networks, processing, storage of information, the information itself, cognition, social interaction, and so much more.…
A debacle: The myth of property rights
Just a debacle. Over the last two weeks I’ve watched quietly as a process played out here in my neighborhood. She drives a Cadillac, has blue hair, and wears expensive clothes. She doesn’t belong in the neighborhood though likely lives…
The Easter Dinner Menu
There have been requests for my menu for Easter Dinner. So, I am posting it here. (Warning: this is not vegetarian!) Our family loves a good feast. We have a feast on Thanksgiving (turkey and all the trimmings and way…