Tuesday, July 30, 2002

i love it when a plan comes together. Stallman: "[Information on how to make a copy of a DVD] is being is being treated as even more dangerous than how to make an atomic bomb, and that is perfectly understandable, because an atomic bomb could only be used to kill people, whereas this might endanger the profits of the corporations which the US Government exists to serve." [Copyright vs. Community in the Era of Computer Networks] [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog] bravo! 7:08:56 PM    Comments []

Platform Collapse The pace of change in IT creates its own business victims, often to the consumer's benefit. One aspect of this rapid change is platform collapse, a process that brings unusual instability to IT. This kind of thing isn't seen in more established industries such as banking or supermarkets. The instability of platform collapse is such that a new product carried to popular recognition can wipe out the commercial prospects of other products. ... a fascinating read. 6:59:46 PM    Comments []

Amazon is selling Jaguar for $79, with a $50 mail-in rebate. Since I'm an amazon affiliate, clicking this link to buy it will help support MacMegasite. 3:49:30 PM    Comments []

Dwight D. Eisenhower. "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." [Quotes of the Day] 10:22:54 AM    Comments []

"It is not an overstatement to describe the arrests in Tulia as an atrocity". The entire operation was the work of a single police officer who claimed to have conducted an 18-month undercover operation. The arrests were made solely on the word of this officer, Tom Coleman, a white man with a wretched work history, who routinely referred to black people as "n*****s" and who frequently found himself in trouble with the law. [Daypop Top 40] Disgusting! I'm glad I finally joined the ACLU yesterday. 10:19:21 AM    Comments []