Thursday, December 4, 2003

Squandering Our Kids' Future Ronald Brownstein (LA Times): Snowballing Debt Awaits Tomorrow's Taxpayers. To call this behavior a breakdown of fiscal responsibility misses its true nature. This is a stunning abandonment of generational responsibility. Washington is behaving like a father who steals his kid's credit card and goes on a bender. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 11:44:59 AM

MS extends tentacles - calls it IP liberalisation Microsoft would like manufacturers of removable solid state storage to give it 25c a pop for the privilege of preformatting their devices with FAT, and while it's about it, the company intends to extend its IP tentacles into a wide variety of up-and-coming consumer electronics devices, with lawyers shuffling behind it. [The Register] 11:36:31 AM

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