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FCC to vote on wireless industry competition inquiry; Watch out Verizon and AT&T

How does the current setup stiffle innovation?Is the fcc indicating that they feel phones are not as advanced as they should be, or that wireless networks are not as innovative as they chould be?The current setup prevents consumers from ....1. Choosing the device they want2. Using it with...

Tags: 3G, Federal government, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, Asian Governments, bureaucrat, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., FCC, phone

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panic

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panicWhere to start?[i]Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose study, trumpeted on 1,000 Web sites, claimed the preservative in MMR (Mumps, Measles and Rubella) vaccines given to infants contains mercury which causes autism.[/i]Wakefield never claimed that preservatives in MMR caused autism; this may be due...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, mercury, MMR, autism

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

Drowning in an information sea

Drowning in an information seaNASA studyRemember that the main issue NASA had with releasing that study was that its results are meaningless, as the study failed to eliminate double- or triple- or more reporting of incidents. What's most embarrassing is that so much money was spent on a study with...

Tags: Government, Food & Beverage, information sea, meat, dairy, food, bureaucrat, pyramid, grain

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Europe's 'insult' to the Internet

Europe's 'insult' to the InternetThey haven't figured it out.The Europeans haven't figured it out and it seems they never will.A nation cannot be prosperous without freedom. This includes freedom from taxation. With all of the examples of the results from differing government systems one would think it was obvious by...

Tags: Government, Regulations, regulation, Internet, Monti, bureaucrat, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-06-21

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Virginia backs off demands for Facebook data

Minor nitpick..but VA is a Commonwealth...NTNTI am not a fan of people who claim to be injured that are not.I am not saying she is lieing or they are being overly burdensome with proof requirements. I think if they just spent the dough to watch her at her house,...

Tags: Facebook, privacy

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Jobsworths and Box-Wallahs...

We've all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Wiki, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Could One Laptop Per Child be a bad thing?

Or roadsOr how about roads so farmers can get there goods to the markets cheaper? The one laptop per kid is such a scam. Why should kids get cheap laptops overs small business owners. Who would be more productive. Um track sales, write, write e-mail, do books. I am so...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

EU likes Google's book registry idea

The European Commission has looked at the Google Books deal and likes what it sees. The EC recently proposes rules for online books that generally mirror Google's plans for online book registry, The New York Times reports. But if the online registry is a continent-wide service, rather...

Tags: Registry, Google Inc., European Commission, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Are we being smart about the smart grid?

Are we being smart about the smart grid?Details PleaseI have read much about the "smart grid", but have not seen any details:1. How will the consumer interact with the smart grid2. What options will be available?3. Where is energy being wasted today?4. How will the smart grid...

Tags: Compulsion, grid, smart grid

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust official

MSFT passed on chance to speak to EU's top antitrust officialNellie Kroes is a biased personNo point talking to her. Its like pouring water on a duck's back.Nellie has no sense of logic, doesn't know the competition in market place (she's a incompetent bureaucrat), has no idea of software development...

Tags: Corporate law, Nellie Kroes, antitrust official, MSFT, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-05-22

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

The Unix culture is that of the graduate student in a research function, not that of the bureaucrat in a data processing role. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Open Source, IT Staff, UNIX, Mainframes, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-02-27

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panic

There is a big distance between funding science and creating policy or law. We all need to respect that distance. Even after we've been burned by it. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Vaccine, Kids, Administration, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-02-26

My choice for President Obama's CTO . . .

My choice for President Obama's CTO . . .The obvious choice is clear, I think.I think the obvious choice would be someone who probably would no longer be able to due to health concerns. Steve Jobs fits everything you are looking for in your description. As much as...

Tags: Federal government, Barack Obama, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Placing bets on proposed cyberczar position

President-elect Obama should appoint a Center for Cybersecurity Operations and appoint a cyberczar to oversee its operations, according to a report by the U.S. Commission on Cybersecurity. According to Business Week: Active policing of government and corporate networks would include new rules and a "red...

Tags: Cybersecurity, CRN, Powell, Government, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-10

End the open source obsession with Microsoft

End the open source obsession with MicrosoftM$ must GPL its codeand that will open communication with OSS.So Microsoft doesn't engage in this?[i]That scene did not happen. More likely some mid-level bureaucrat dealing with this particular show decided to show off his or her power.[/i]Most likely it did happen at the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source obsession, open source, Dana

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Kicking Internet pirates off the web

Kicking Internet pirates off the webPiracy'They'still haven't figured it out!! Make the product a fair price and people will happily pay for it. With a blank CD at 50 cents, who will pay $20 from a shop for an 'Imported'music CD? PERCEIVED VALUE is the key. At $5 nobody would...

Tags: Perceived Value, Web, piracy, Kicking Internet, Kicking Internet pirate

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Killing project vampires

Many failing IT projects are quiet, hanging around almost indefinitely like a form of annoying background noise. These purposeless ghosts consume time and resources, perhaps fulfilling a checklist on some bureaucrat's chart, while ultimately producing little return. Such project vampires should be stabbed through the heart...

Tags: Project, Information Technology, Failure, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-06

'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXML

'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXMLOh Please!You know what, there are a million things more important than this format issue.At the end of the day, instead of asking or negotiating with MS to submit XLS and DOC to ISO, someone decided thata) Microsoft is evilb) Binary formats are badc) XML...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates

Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...

Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Red Hat takes the open source security challenge

Red Hat takes the open source security challengeSilly MeAnd here I always assume that if it's closed it's insecure.Open Source = the possibility for peer review.Security: Obscurity or Design?This has been discussed [i]ad nauseam[/i] with the "security through obscurity" versus the "security by design" model. This all goes back to...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Red Hat Inc., security, open source, OpenBSD

Discussion threads 2008-03-21