Tuesday, July 2, 2002

Coursey: Why we can't trust [Microsoft's] 'trustworthy' OS. "Why should we trust Microsoft anyway? If PCs need a universal security architecture to protect critical business information, should Microsoft be its sole creator? Is there a public interest that makes this too big for any one company or even country to dominate?" 7:27:42 PM

A New Questioning of the War (washingtonpost.com) [Daypop Top 40] Is this a ray of sunshine I see...? Nah, we'll just hear more about "dirty bombs" and immanent "attacks on the Internet" and other scare tactics to distract us from the fact that the only way we can stop the terrorists is to give them economic prosperity. Guns and bombs are only making people more angry, not more pacified... 7:06:27 PM

"Switch Gates" [Daypop Top 40] 7:03:11 PM

Meltdowns at Enron and WorldCom. Yesterday a board revolt at Vivendi, a media company, and the CEO is toast. What happens when one of the owners of one of the major TV networks becomes the target of a business scandal. Viacom, Disney, GE, AOL. Who will be first to go down? But will the reporters go there? Heh. Why is everyone so surprised. Didn't they know that BigCo's have no integrity or ethics. Where were they for the last ten years? We all didn't care too much as long as the stock prices were going up. Sure they're lying everyone knew they were. So what's new. Just as blogs are the cure for integrity outages at the BigPubs, LittleCo's will be our haven from the excesses of the idiots who run the BigCo's. Microbusinesses and microcontent. Hey it's cool that people seem to require integrity of their business leaders. How are the current crop going to compete. They didn't teach integrity at b-school. [Scripting News] 7:01:25 PM

It's time for ICANN to go. John Gilmore, original "cypherpunk" and all-around Internet supergeek, explains why the organization that runs the Internet is broken. [Salon.com] It's important to realize that ICANN is not a little bit broken, it is seriously, savagely broken. Reading this article you start to realize why. The Internet needs ICANN to die; almost any other management organization would be better than ICANN. 6:58:55 PM

Russell Baker: "This is journalism's age of melancholy. Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. They have discovered that their prime duty is no longer to maintain the republic in well-informed condition[~]or to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, as the old gospel has it[~]but to serve the stock market with a good earnings report every three months or, in plainer English, to comfort the comfortable." [Scripting News] 6:50:08 PM

A Sound Bite So Good, the President Wishes He Had Said It (washingtonpost.com) [Daypop Top 40] Another example of plagerism by Dumbya. How do you think he made it through college? This guy is an intellectual flyweight, at best... 6:48:22 PM

Official Cautions Microsoft on Plan. Microsoft should be careful that its new software security plan doesn't shut out competitors, the European Union's new antitrust enforcer said Monday. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] 6:24:34 AM

New IE spy progie exploits DCOM. And MS says it's secure.... [The Register] 6:23:08 AM

Staggering AIDS Report From U.N.. The AIDS epidemic is worse than was ever considered possible and isn't close to being controlled, a report from the United Nations says. Jordan Lite reports from New York. [Wired News] 6:21:26 AM

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