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MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is not

MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is notThis reasoning promotes the problem it describesIt occurs to me that at a time when Republicans seem to be questioning traditional Republican beliefs (supporting the Bush administration, not caring for the environment), the feedback of thousands...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Naivety, MoveOn.org, MoveOn, Pulver, petition, Net Neutrality, Internet, Barnes & Noble Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-21

Private domains not so private?

Private domains not so private?RE: Private domains not so private?in other words you and your information is a comodity they can sell or use against you anytime they wish. This is the legacy of modern corporations and the abuse of the power vested in these corps.And you people still blindly...

Tags: Backups, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Sheeple, domains not-so, not-so, Naivety, Poet

Discussion threads 2005-08-15

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Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist videos

Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist videosShocking??Why is it "Shocking" that Google seeks to protect free speech??Sorry, some Americans still believe in the constitution and the bill of rights.Sorry you are not one of us."Shocking"? Indeed!!RE: Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist...

Tags: Corporate communications, Lieberman Software Corp, Islamist video, video, Google Inc., Islamist

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

Will Windows 'XO' bear fruit for OLPC?

Just this morning, I read MSFT working on XP for XO and I wondered: Why? If the OLPC project has accomplished nothing else, it has made Microsoft and Intel stand up and take notice that third-world schoolchildren represent a huge potential market. But still ......

Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Marc Wagner

Blog posts 2007-12-06

At Microsoft, seeking the next billion computer users

At Microsoft, seeking the next billion computer usersYep, And US Customers Will Continue To Get What They Pay ForCRAPWARE.WHich means Bill Gates is not a philanthropist.But is he helping communists?US customers are a smaller percentage than you think.You are worth less to Microsoft than you think. It is too...

Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, computer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

OLPC revisited - a skeptics view

OLPC revisited - a skeptics viewSorry, broken recordWe could easily purchase and ship used XP laptops at a lower price than the OLPC - look at the price on eBay (~$200 and then imagine bulk purchasing).Condemning the poor to Linux is preventing them from using the global OS and reducing...

Tags: OLPC Project, cell phone platform, One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer, digital divide, Third World

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Taking SaaS both ways

Enterprise Irregulars blogger Anshu Sharma posted a short rant at the weekend alleging that SaaS lovers want it both ways. Like many rants, Anshu's post makes so many sweeping statements of dubious merit that I immediately promised him a searing riposte, and here it is. I should add by the...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Gartner Inc., Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Eliminate WEP!

Eliminate WEP!Try telling that to Nintendo DS diehardsI'll admit I'm not up on the most current news about the DS, but last I heard it still does not support WPA, only WEP. As such I know a lot of people who run their home networks with WEP. And they aren't...

Tags: Network security, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, SECURITY, WEP

Discussion threads 2007-03-26

Copyright infringement by your students is your problem

I was not the least bit surprised last week when I read RIAA cracks down on downloading at 25 colleges. After all, institutions are routinely notified whenever resources residing in their domain are associated with disruptive activity outside of that domain. For that reason, we take substantive measures...

Tags: Standards, Legal Issues, Social networking, Higher Ed, Policy, IT Management, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Reality pricks the Second Life property bubble

Did we learn nothing from the dot-com bust? Its just five years after everyone woke up to the absurdity of investing in loss-making petfood retailers promoted by sock-puppets and other wonders of the dot-com bubble. Yet the only advance we seem to have made is that our financial naivety has...

Tags: Second Life

Blog posts 2006-11-23

Homeland Security: Lock up your Windows

Homeland Security: Lock up your WindowsHomeland Security: Lock up your WindowsNo problem at all. Patches were released yesterday. The first thing I did when I got home was update my Windows box with the ever so easy Windows update. It lets me know when updates are available...

Tags: Patches, Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, patch, homeland security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Lock-up

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

It's a whole 'nother ball game

When Steve Ballmer was gearing up for Microsoft's launch of on-demand services last October, I don't think he really believed some of the claims he was hearing from the Microsoft Live team. Bi-monthly product release cycles? His choice of metaphor to describe these faster product updates was eloquent:...

Tags: software, on-demand, software-as-a-service

Blog posts 2006-03-16

AppExchange is so 1998

Now that the dust has settled and I've had a chance to take a closer look, it's evident that Marc Benioff's claims to have launched "the eBay of enterprise applications" this week fall far short of the mark. Salesforce.com's AppExchange is neither new nor revolutionary, while the debut of AppForce...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Salesforce.com AppExchange

Blog posts 2005-09-13

Microsoft seeks testers for antivirus service

Microsoft seeks testers for antivirus serviceI'd like to test it. Where do I download the version for Linux???Oh, wait, I have never had a virus or spyware problem with Linux. Guess I will have to pass for now.But I thought all windows users were AV testersEverytime a new virus shows...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, PC Protection, Microsoft Corp., security, virus, Microsoft Windows XP, PC, antivirus, software

Discussion threads 2005-06-20

Geldof condemns sale of Live 8 tickets on eBay

Geldof condemns sale of Live 8 tickets on eBayeBay's fault?Why is eBay to blame for this, rather than those selling the tickets? Couldn't those ticket holders just as easily have sold the tickets in newspaper ads or on street corners?Should eBay have rules restricting the sale of certain items? If...

Tags: Even Linux, Bob Geldof, Geldof, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-06-14

Limp Bizkit porn leak could lead to Hilton hacker

Limp Bizkit porn leak could lead to Hilton hackerBest Headline on ZDNET EverI can die now. Thank you ZDNET.Another Who Cares?ZDNet took some journalistic tips from Fox News.T Mobile easy to hack, apparentlyIf only Paris or Limpy had read Neil Gaiman's weblog:http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2005/02/more-useful-stuff-nothing-about-being.aspAs a minor note, I'd not realised before looking...

Tags: Federal government, Hacking, SECURITY, government, ShadeTree, terror, Hilton Hotels Corp., FBI, hacker

Discussion threads 2005-02-25

Spammers can be beaten in two years--regulators

Spammers can be beaten in two years--regulatorsThe majority of spam comes...from mail servers that have been setup by people who have NO business setting up mail servers. They don't have the expertise and don't want to obtain it. This has flooded the Net with open relay servers. ...

Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail servers, Door-to-door, spam, spammer, e-mail server, server

Discussion threads 2004-07-06

Linux ensnares another European city

Linux ensnares another European cityThe trickle is becoming a stream; the stream is becoming a tidal wave ...Microsoft is powerless to stop Linux now.Come on NoAx, ShadeTree, Seosamh. . . Can't wait to see how you spin this.The anticipation is killing me...Let'ssee how this is going to play out in...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp., anticipation, Tuftedal, composer, Linux, Red Hat Inc., SuSE

Discussion threads 2004-06-17