Archive for the ‘National insecurity’ Category
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Microsoft's cofounder says he'll do charitable work after he retires this month. But we have some other suggestions: driving instructor, expert witness, and circus clown for starters. And Bill has experience in all of them.
(A version of this post originally appeared on PCworld.com)
For more than 30 years he has roamed ...
Posted in Google, Microsoft, National insecurity, PC World | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Last week the House of Representatives passed a "compromise" amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, though it sounds like the only things that have been compromised are our Constitutional rights. Now the Senate is poised to do ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
A Mexican press attache walked off with "six or seven" Blackberries belonging to US officials at a summit between the presidents of Canada, Mexico, and some guy named Bush in New Orleans last week.
Press officer Rafael Quintero ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
My last post about Sequoia Voting Systems and its painfully stupid e-voting machines inspired both cheers and jeers from the Cringe faithful.
Cringester E. N. believes we should all just grow up and accept that mistakes happen (though ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
I don't know if you've noticed lately, but our elected officials are being determined by people who can't do simple math or write a comprehensible sentence in English. And no, I don't mean people who voted for ...
Posted in Cringley, Infoworld, National insecurity | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
(This entry originally appeared last week on my Infoworld blog, Notes From the Field. Sorry, I just can't keep up with myself these days.)
by Robert X. Cringely
It seems I can't get wikis off my mind these days. And it's not just because of that juicy story about Wikipedia founder Jimmy ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
If God had wanted me to be an attorney I'd have been born with a dorsal fin and razor sharp teeth. So the subtleties of the law sometimes elude me. But there have been a couple of ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
(This entry first appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog. What field, you might ask. Good question.)
by Robot X. Cringely
Ignorance is truth. If George Orwell were alive today and working as a marketing wonk, he'd probably have a job at Microsoft. Case in point: MS's Aussie division is offering ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
(Originally posted on Infoworld.com's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. (don't call me Bob) Cringely
Sergey Brin has weighed in on the whole MicroHoo fandango, and not surprisingly he's agin' it. At Google's Lunar X prize announcement last week, Brin told the Associated Press:
The Internet has evolved from open standards, ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
(This entry originally appeared in Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
This whole "shoot the spy satellite out of the sky and win a kewpie doll" story is more interesting than it first appeared.
It turns out Uncle Sam isn't particularly worried about the satellite landing in somebody's ...
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