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Sunday, July 28, 2002Now You See Me, Now You Don't?
"How To Disappear, Protect Your Privacy, and Eliminate Spam. A handful of suggestions on how to live with less spam, with less fear of identity theft, and a little more anonymously. [MarkTAW.com] [jenett.radio]"
The One Thing You're Neglecting. What's the one thing most Americans fail to do that could lead to financial disaster? [The Motley Fool]
We're Still Buying. The Rule Maker's buying Costco, adding to J&J. And there's more to come. [The Motley Fool]
Stocks to Buy Now. Whitney Tilson shares some of the bargains on his radar and says it's time to get greedy. [The Motley Fool]
Broadcast or Broadband? You Be The Judge....
Whoa, Will:
[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]Casting Pearls Among Swine. Listen closely because this is very simple.
The problem now becomes>off the computer and on to your television, which sits in the same room as your couch. By which time you find it's easier just to buy a TiVo or ReplayTV with Ethernet support. Why is this all possible? Because you are not buying the content, you are buying the connection. The content is thrown out, on the air, on the network, in the vague hope that you will receive it. The exception which proves the rule is HBO. Is it legal? Good question. [The Peanut Gallery]
- Call your CATV provider. Ask for the Internet access without television package.
- Buy this
- Buy this or this
- Buy this
Isenberg on the Telco Meltdown and Revolution.
David Isenberg's new SMARTLetter has his must-read analysis of the "utter crisis" in telecommunications, as FCC Chair Michael "Son of" Powell calls it. Isenberg puts it in perspective. For example:
Let's not call the current overcapacity situation a "bandwidth glut." Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. The scarcity folks — the telephone companies (and others) whose business is based on the fact that communications capacity is scarce, therefore expensive — are controlling this "glut" dialog. Nobody talks about a glut of clean air or a glut of traffic-jam-free roads. No — to an end user it is great to have a lot of cheap >network capacity.
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Everybody believes that fiber to the home is the end game of the Communications Revolution. It is not expensive, about US$600 to $3000 per home with today's technology (and less in the future, and less with economies of massive scale). But just as Qwest's 1997 transcontinental fiber build-out fatally maimed domestic long-distance (including Qwest itself), fiber to the home would kill the Incumbent Local Exchange Companies.
Therefore, fiber to the home is not coming until the Incumbent Local Exchange Companies become considerably weaker.
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ATM and SONET are not the only technologies that are becoming obsolete even as they're being deployed. There's DSL and MMDS and 3G and WAP and a whole lot more. Technology marches on. And it is not as if Telecom executives made the wrong decisions — mostly they made the best decisions they could at the time.
The debt movie is playing at the Global Crossing theatre and the WorldCom playhouse — but soon it will be playing at a telephone company near you. Verizon and SBC and BellSouth will not be immune ...
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So if you hear that somebody is going to "enhance" the Internet — to make it more efficient, to Pay the Musicians, to Protect the Children, to thwart hackers, to enhance Homeland Security, to find Osama, or whatever — this is almost certainly propaganda from the powerful businesses that are threatened by the Internet. Remember that the Internet became the success it is today — and the threat that it is to existing telcos — because it is a Stupid Network, an end-to-end network.
This is the most coherent, understandable explanation I've read of what's goin' on technologically and economically. [JOHO the Blog]
Definitive Advice for a Bear Market. When will this nausea-inducing market plunge end? And in the meantime, what's an investor to do? [The Motley Fool]
U.S. Government Announces New 800 Number for Citizen Service Info. Telephone ResearchU.S. GovernmentSource: FCICNew U.S. Federal Government 1-800 Number For Citizen Service InformationA toll free phone telephone call to 1-800-FED-INFO (that's 1-800-333-4636) provides you with a staff member from the Office of Citizen Services and Communications to answer your questions. [The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk]