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Lower costs or mandate coverage

More Politics on ZDNET?This is a tech site - please stick to TECH.Pitching this spin is not productive. It's also so one sided as to be laughable.America is a capitalist nation. Let the free market do its job and stop interfering.The marketThe market says policy is important. I...

Tags: Vertical industries, Palin, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Hackers program highway sign with Zombie warning

Hackers program highway sign with Zombie warningFunny, but dangerousI can see and appreciate the humor in it, but tampering with highway signs like that can be dangerous. If someone is not warned of upcoming construction or hazards, it could easily lead to accidents. It's a shame to see obviously intelligent...

Tags: Operating systems, Oopsie, Microsoft Windows, Carl Rapson, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Supporting the long tail of open source

Supporting the long tail of open sourcePerhaps a good start......would be for "good developers" to not consider people with questions as "stupid".Carl RapsonMixing modelsIt depends on what "model" or paradigm or whatever you want to call it produced the piece of OS software.Was it the IBM / Redhat "we'll professionally...

Tags: Development tools, open source, WAS IT, developer, software, Carl Rapson, long tail

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Beta Nazi: No Leopard for you

Beta Nazi: No Leopard for youLimited supply and value of it in marketingSteve Jobs is a brilliant marketing guru. By artificially limiting the supply or making it look like it he is increasing product awareness. Probably your story is a good example to that.GimmickI think the answer is two-fold. First,...

Tags: Nazi, Carl Rapson, Leopard, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-06-11

About us

About usYou missed out an important detail.And of all the people who visited your site majority of them dont have a high opinion of you.No one trusts you or anything that you have to say. Only 1 person had something positive to say about you One person was on the...

Tags: Blogging, OPEN SOURCE, Web browsers, Ubuntu, Carl Rapson, blog, SuSE, Murph

Discussion threads 2007-05-14

Standards to stimulate e-voting?

Standards to stimulate e-voting?Paperless, Hi Tech, Why????"but it still has not managed to organize a paperless voting system. What's the holdup?"Many voting citizens, ...have been asking that question since the 2000 election shed light on how inconsistent, and often low-tech, the voting systems are in the United States."Be clear about...

Tags: Litigation, fraud, Carl Rapson, ballot, e-voting

Discussion threads 2006-10-06

U.S. protests Net-summit crackdown

U.S. protests Net-summit crackdownMore links on that"-The U.S. government on Friday protested a crackdown by Tunisian secret police on the streets"Here's more links on that story:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTLhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4580991.stmI see......so you're saying, in effect, that "he who lives in a glass house should not throw stones". But if that's the case, if no...

Tags: Carl Rapson, crackdown

Discussion threads 2005-11-18

Network Computing: the Enterprise answer

Last week's talkback discussions on what Linux needs to do to gain significant market share produced a wide range of interesting ideas -including a few I hadn't thought about before. In response I plan to try to produce a synthesis - a longer article that pulls it all together and...

Tags: mainframe, Carl Rapson

Blog posts 2005-09-19

Open source content is theme of J.D. Lasica's Darknet

Open source content is theme of J.D. Lasica's DarknetI keep hearing it"The problem, he writes, is that copyright owners seek to ban these forms of expression, rather than profit from them."and"All we need are new business models and entertainment conglomerates can profit like IBM."I keep hearing people say that all...

Tags: RSS, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source Media, music, open source, Magnatune, business model, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2005-07-07

Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, dies

Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, diesI thoughtHe was a comic book artist...RIP, Mr. IC.You did good work!That's Kirby......assuming you were serious. :)Jack Kirby was possibly the greatest comic book artist ever (Silver Surfer, anyone?).Carl RapsonKirby was the God of comic books!he died about 6 years ago :-(YeahI know...

Tags: Kirby, integrated circuit, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2005-06-21

Court questions broadcast flag challengers

Court questions broadcast flag challengersLegal standingAny time regulations are imposed by the government, all citizens are affected. Therefore, all citizens should be able to challenge regulations. Not to say that these groups necessarily have a valid argument, but they still have the right to be heard.Carl RapsonThey are US citizens,...

Tags: Regulations, Vertical industries, regulation, government, free society, executive branch, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2005-03-15

Outsourcing to Oklahoma?

Outsourcing to Oklahoma?90 miles awayI live in Tulsa - 90+ miles away - from Oklahoma CIty and know the benefits of avoiding the coasts. A half million dollar house in Palo Alto if any are left would be about $90K here - with a bigger yard. People transferred...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, outsourcing, job, Tulsa, cost-of-living, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2005-01-14

EDS wins British Columbia contract

EDS wins British Columbia contractJust don't let them do any upgrades.;-)HeHe!80,000 desktop users can't be wrong, eh?Any official word on what occurred to create such havok?Another referenceCheck out:www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1732672,00.aspThis article makes it sound like it was a botched upgrade process, not the upgrade itself.Carl RapsonMore and more Microsoft excuses for any...

Tags: Public relations, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Carl Rapson, Computer & Communications Industry Association

Discussion threads 2004-11-29

Who won? Online bookies

Who won? Online bookiesInteresting assumption'On Wednesday, Tanenbaum acknowledged Ohio seemed to be Bush territory--but speculated about possible fraud. "One thing that is very strange is how much the exit polls differed from the final results, especially in Ohio," he wrote.'That's assuming that every person who was polled told the truth...

Tags: Litigation, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2004-11-03

China pulls plug on two blog sites

China pulls plug on two blog sitesBut at least......they will be running on Linux. Better China should have Linux servers to shut down than Windows servers.Carl RapsonIs this OUR future ?Take a look at what has been going on the last few months. Could we be far behind?Just makes...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Carl Rapson, operating system, blog

Discussion threads 2004-03-18

Additional Resources

House due for its health reform vote tomorrow

the American patriots will rise againand defeat the socialist bill.All real Americans are outraged about ObamaCare and the Congress should listen to them.Only the GOP healthcare bill is the one we can afford and will improve the healthcare.Not going to passPeople do not want this socialist fiasco.RE: House due for...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, WTF, health care, insurance, patriot

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

What would make you trust Microsoft?

Flame on!Let me save a couple people the time of posting"Microsoft is the most evil thing on earth and should be destroyed" - Linux Geek, Ole Man, D.T, No More Microsoft Software ...."I trust Microsoft with my life" - Mike Cox, Loverock, ... "They are a company. I trust them...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., extremist, open source, MHD

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

VirtualBox update fixes Windows 7 bugs

I love the title of this articleand how it implies that it is Windows 7 that has the bugs and leaves out the fact that the Virtual Box update bug fix also applies to Snow Leopard. Maybe the title should have read like "Virtual Box update fixes bugs so...

Tags: desktop virtualization, innotek VirtualBox, Microsoft Windows 7, PXE Boot, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Why is Microsoft opening up its Outlook file format now?

Customer says: nopen/tPartner: Can't hurtIf I had to list out things I'd like to see from Microsoft, this would not be on the top of the list, but it's a great move I think.People looking to move away from other mail systems could see more tools available that make the...

Tags: E-mail, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook

Discussion threads 2009-10-27