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08 Sep 2001 NEWS DISSECTOR : When Is A Journalist A Journalist? Why, when they're a blogalist of course.
[ 08-Sep-01 9:11am ] 07 Sep 2001 n/a
There's been way too much instant reporting of the non decision about MS. This one had me chuckling and seems much more apropos than the regurgitation of the press release which is all we seem to get from the mainstream agencies. It comes to you care of blackholebrain :
Dubya: "I didn't want to see Microsoft become a bigamist --well, isn't that what it is, you know, like that guy married to his own children out in Utah? [chuckle/smirk] -- so I've decided to use my Presidential powers to make sure nobody breaks them up. Out in Texas, where my ranch is, I spent a lot of time thinking about how a monopoly sometimes can be a good thing. Like, cows have a monopoly on beef, right? So how in the world could you make cows change into chickens and pigs, and still get beef?" [ 07-Sep-01 8:52am ] 06 Sep 2001 The Times : The economy's up even if computers are down Anatole Kaletsky is consistently aggressively optimistic. He's been saying "Recession, what recession" for a year now. His tenet is that there is no fundamental problem with western economies, in fact they are strong and growing stronger, but there is an irrational and emotional belief that the IT boom bust will drag everything else down. One interesting comment in all this. "Once the Microsoft monopoly is broken and PCs are sold for £100 or less, as they already are in China, families (and businesses) will be able to have all the computers they want, and still have plenty of extra money to spend on other goods." Which does raise the question exactly why computer equipment is so expensive.
Things are looking up. It looks like I'm going to the O'Reilly P2P conference. I've got a pass to the conference and the flight is booked using air miles. All I have to do now is find a really cheap hotel...
from David Brake, UK-based Internet journalist,consultant and virtual community builder : The FT argues that the Telecomms bubble is a bigger deal than the dotcom bubbleIt doesn't surprise me in the least and is pretty scary. There's a real possibility that the various government 3G auctions will have the effect of destroying the telecoms industry.
[ 06-Sep-01 8:42am ] PHP: Mirror Sites The PHP manual, notes and comments are now mirrored worldwide.
[ 06-Sep-01 8:25am ] "Censored by the DMCA" Replace your site's front page with a banner that points to an Anti-DMCA site. Uh-Huh. For how long?
[ 06-Sep-01 8:16am ] 05 Sep 2001 Today's CD - Back to mine - Danny Tenaglia
[ 05-Sep-01 8:46pm ] What is \ The Cyborg Manifesto \ ?
[ 05-Sep-01 8:45pm ] The End of Innovation? - The idea of the Internet is that innovation happens at the end points, an idea seen most clearly in P2P. It's an idea that is quickly being eroded by technology, the DMCA, and recent court decisions, says Lawrence Lessig.
Good level headed analysis of the effects of DMCA. Favourite quotes. "Well, certainly peer-to-peer systems will make it harder for there to be centralized control of all sorts of things -- centralized control of criminal law, centralized control of morality, centralized control of culture." ... "It essentially means that any software written around the world that happens to be inconsistent with American law is now subject to criminal prosecution in the United States" ... "they are essentially asserting that the right of people to tinker with and describe weaknesses in encryption systems depends upon who you work for". [ 05-Sep-01 8:19am ] 04 Sep 2001 Astro-mice to get orbiting love-pad Who cares what it's about. What a great headline! Presumably there's a tie in here with yesterday's story about pregnancy testing kits for female astronauts.
[ 04-Sep-01 3:53pm ] Beware That Company Box You Took Oh, good grief! Your company goes out of business. They give you the laptop instead of severance pay. And then... you use it... Gasp! Hook it up to your cable modem and suddenly Win2000 has caught Code Red! "But the sysadmin always used to fix my problems and configure everything for me, gibber, gibber".
The best quote in the article was from Marquis Grove of Security News Portal. "Most of them are totally unaware that computers can't just be turned on and left to their own devices," Well I certainly wouldn't recommend turning on a PC and walking away from it. Who knows what might happen. And then we get the usual helpful advice from the experts. "Run a personal firewall, anti-virus software and re-install everything from scratch". Could be tricky when the accountants have locked up the company assets and have all the original CDs. [ 04-Sep-01 3:47pm ] On Software "Piracy", Lies, BSA, Microsoft, Rocks, and Hard Penguins An excellent, level headed review of the economics of pirated software. I wonder how much of this is directly applicable to other forms of copyright theft. And what the implications are for the DMCA and copy protection schemes. It would seem that all these could be viewed as ways of shifting the price-volume and demand-volume curves in an attempt to maximise profit for the original creator and distributors. In this light, copy protection can be seen to be largely self defeating.
[ 04-Sep-01 8:40am ] 03 Sep 2001 What is XRepublic ?
Pick a blog, a random blog.
The Times : ASTRONAUTS on the International Space Station (ISS) have been supplied with DIY pregnancy tests in case the enforced intimacy of space travel prompts mixed crews to try for the 200-mile-high club. Shouldn't they supply them with condoms as well?
[ 03-Sep-01 6:42pm ] n/a
[ 03-Sep-01 4:33pm ] The Times : The US Government[1] has backed a global scheme to simplify communication by giving everyone a single contact number, I am nota number. Damn it! (Actually, I'm an IP address, heh-heh!) And they're talking about basing it on reversing the telephone number standard, with different schemes for different countries. Doh!
[1]Yanqui, Back Off. It's bad enough having the US export their laws, like the war on some drugs and the DMCA. Now this. [ 03-Sep-01 8:27am ] Today's CD - Car Boot Soul - Nightmares on Wax
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