Posts Tagged ‘research’

Profiling in controlled environments

Saturday, October 16th, 2010

By chance (conferences, public announces from authorities) and by design (I have been workign or studying on the subjects for some time), over the last two weeks I published articles on two main issues: managing of resources, and security.

Conveniently, this week-end comes half-way through the month, and today and tomorrow I would like to share few forward-looking thoughts based on experience and observation.

As it is my tradition for week-end articles, I will try to keep both short, and to inject some “pointers” from my experience, should somebody be curious about the pre-conditions that seeded both the experience and the observation.

Preemptive lawmaking & expert systems

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Today, I was replying to a friend on Facebook about his remark on widespread corruption in his country.

From that, while writing my reply, I started re-thinking about something else: why do we have corruption?

Because we have rules that somebody is willing to circumvent- and somebody else able to let them do it.

And why? Because too many laws and rules are built to regulate something that is already available.

I am now ignoring the “details” of the difference between common law and countries following the Napoleonic approach, because, in our globalized world, also “laissez faire” countries are increasingly regulating tiny details. Either directly or via reporting/control rules.

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