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Robert X. Cringely on Palladium
Robert X. Cringely on Palladium
07/02/2002 01:44 AMThis week, Microsoft announced Palladium through an exclusive story
in Newsweek written by Steven Levy, who ought to have known better.
Palladium is the code name for a Microsoft project to make all
Internet communication safer by essentially pasting a digital
certificate on every application, message, byte, and machine on the
Net, then encrypting the data EVEN INSIDE YOUR COMPUTER PROCESSOR.
Palladium compatible hardware (presumably chipsets and motherboards)
will come from both AMD and Intel, and the software will, of course,
come from Microsoft. That software is what I had dubbed TCP/MS.
The point of all this is simple. It may actually make the Internet
somewhat safer. But the real purpose of this stuff, I fear, is to take
technology owned by nobody (TCP/IP) and replace it with technology
owned by Redmond. That's taking the Internet and turning it into MSN.
Oh, and we'll all have to buy new computers.
"zeldman.fredalan"
Robert X. Cringely On Microsoft: They're
Wankers & Cowards
Robert X. Cringely On Microsoft: They're
Wankers & Cowards
04/30/2004 09:48 PMMac Observer May 1 2004 1:41AM GMT
Blog for America: Comment on Governor
Dean to Comment Shortly
Blog for America: Comment on Governor
Dean to Comment Shortly
12/16/2003 05:30 AMAmerica's Palestinians .. Dean for President .. campaign blog ..
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B."
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Cringely: Wi-Fi in the Sky
Cringely: Wi-Fi in the Sky
07/16/2004 10:06 AMCringely on Diebold
Cringely on Diebold
12/08/2003 09:14 AM Robert Cringely writes: Diebold makes a lot of ATM machines. They
make machines that sell tickets for trains and subways. They make
store checkout scanners, including self-service scanners. They make
machines that allow access to buildings for people with magnetic
cards. They make machines that use magnetic cards for payment in
closed systems like university dining rooms. All of these are machines
that involve data input that results in a transaction, just like a
voting machine. But unlike a voting machine, every one of these other
kinds of Diebold machines — EVERY ONE — creates a paper
trail and...
I (can see into the future), Cringely
I (can see into the future), Cringely
01/02/2004 08:38 PM Robert
X. Cringely's Predictions for 2004 : first he updates readers on
his 2003 predictions (80% accuracy) and then dishings 15 new techie
prophecies.
Cringely : Phish or Cut Bait
Cringely : Phish or Cut Bait
06/05/2005 11:27 PM"Is the government now going to be telling me I'm sending too much
e-mail? How much mail is too much? And what are they doing monitoring
my e-mail, anyway? Will they next be clamping down on my unhealthy
propensity for forwarding Jenna Bush jokes?"
PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column
PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column
01/11/2004 03:51 AMBob Cringely says the problem with WiFi aggregators is there aren't
enough of them .. his idea for a killer WiFi aggregator business model
.. January 8, 2004 WiFi column by Robert X. Cringely .. Cringely's
WhyFi: .. real
industry
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"PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column"
"PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column"
12/02/2003 12:28 AMCringely on security and identify
Cringely on security and identify
11/06/2003 06:11 PM"At the very center of identity theft, for example, is the mistaken
concept that it is about identity when in fact it is really about
theft. While it doesn't feel good knowing someone has acquired the
means to attempt to impersonate you, what REALLY feels bad is when
they use that information to drain your bank account. It isn't the
impersonation, itself, that does the damage, either; it is the bank
teller giving all your money to the bad guy that really hurts. So
forget about protecting identity. How do we hang onto our loot?"
Cringely Builds Cloud Castles
Cringely Builds Cloud Castles
01/10/2004 03:53 AMThere's nothing wrong with this Robert X. Cringely column that a
little expertise and knowledge couldn't solve: A little background on
why I'm spending so many words to tear this essay apart. It's not that
I'm opposed to the premise or some thought experiments. It's that it's
so horribly uninformed. Cringely is a well-known fellow in the
industry who has written and produced videos about the business side
of the Internet. Cringely is a nom de plume, but it's how the fellow
appears to want to be known. He writes a regularly column on PBS's
site and whenever one appears, it's quoted and linked to all over the
Net. So it's my duty, unfortunately, to explain how bad this one is.
(This is the same Cringely who stated two years ago that he was using
a passive repeater to obtain Wi-Fi service to his hill-top home in a
manner that community wireless folks said was impossible. He promised
to provide details and never did, although a personal tragedy was part
of that.) In the first part of the article, he completely botches
explaining the hotspot industry in comprehensible terms. He calls
several different categories of business aggregators, and completely
ignores a whole other set of trends. It's not important that one adopt
the cant of an industry, but when well-defined and well-used terms
exist, you could use them or invent equally good distinctions if you
must. He does neither. A hotspot operator or wireless ISP installs
hotspot infrastructure and manages the network, offering a revenue
split and other incentives to real-estate venues to allow the hotspot
to be set up; or a real-estate venue may contract with a WISP to have
hotspot service installed. Wayport is the categorical WISP at this
point, a practically pure play in this space. They contract with
venues, install hardware, handle billing, and work with end users.
T-Mobile HotSpot is also a WISP in its current model. Infrastructure
builders contract with real-estate venues to install hotspot service
that they resell to hotspot aggregators. Cometa and Concourse
Communications are infrastructure builders. They typically create
vendor-neutral installations in which many operators and aggregators
can pay for access for their downstream customers. Aggregators resell
access to other networks, typically handling the billing and
authentication negotiation. Boingo Wireless and iPass are aggregators.
Most of the cell companies are also aggregators, reselling access to a
number of WISP networks, but...
Cringely Wants To Save The Smart Network
Cringely Wants To Save The Smart Network
06/25/2004 03:42 AMRobert Cringely's latest column is all about
trashing
the telcos for actually recognizing the future and doing crazy
things like
building an
all IP fiber network. His argument is that the circuit-switched
networks are already built and paid for (which has been the argument
the telcos have made all along) and there's simply no reason to throw
that away. He brushes off the issue of competition (which is what's
forcing the telcos to finally get moving), as if that's a minor issue
to deal with. Instead, he comes up with a convoluted plan to give
people all the bandwidth
he thinks they need over a
circuit-switched network, assuming that the biggest bandwidth issue
anyone needs is the ability to see video over the network.
Apparently, he doesn't think that applications are going to advance to
the point where they need more bandwidth, which is incredibly
short-sighted. There are, in fact, some make a very convincing case
that even the RBOC's fiber plans will leave them far short of the
amount of bandwidth they're going to need in the future. Obviously,
if there are ways to make good use of the existing circuit-switched
network, the RBOCs should go for it -- but to ignore where the world
is heading is simply asking for disaster. It's like telling the horse
and buggy makers that instead of figuring out how to make automobiles,
they should keep their existing offering going, and work on ways to
make horses run faster to better compete with cars. Sure, if they can
pull it off, it may keep the old system relevant a little longer, but
it's tough to do, and they'll still eventually be left in the dust.
Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB
Enhancements
Cringely: MS To Hurt Linux Via USB
Enhancements
09/17/2004 02:33 PMCringely Proposes New WiFi Plan
Cringely Proposes New WiFi Plan
01/10/2004 02:14 PMDarkHelmet writes "This week, Cringely examines the current state of
WiFi aggregators, and challenges their business model. His notion? An
aggregator should ...
Cringely Argues Against Offshoring,
Offers No Solution
Cringely Argues Against Offshoring,
Offers No Solution
01/22/2004 06:21 PMRobert Cringely's latest column spends a bunch of time
criticiz
ing offshoring - but seems to be terribly short sighted (though,
he claims those supporting offshoring are the ones who are short
sighted). There are plenty of reasons to be against offshoring. As
I've said many times before, there's a lot of evidence that offshoring
is a lot more expensive than companies seem to believe it is - and
many are now regretting their decision to offshore. That said, there
are other cases where it makes sense. That's not what Cringely says,
though. He seems to buy into the argument that there simply aren't
any jobs after we offshore programmers. There's an awful lot of
evidence that that's
not
the case. There are many programming jobs that do require
programmers to be near customers or to have a good understanding of
the culture - and those are likely to increase. I'm also a bit
confused in his logic. He admits that Silicon Valley (and, he should
admit, the whole country) has reinvented itself time and time again -
each time we outsource jobs to cheaper locations. However, he says
that this time we won't be able to because "the labor is leaving".
Does he mean the people? I don't think so, because earlier in the
article he says all those programmers are "working down at Home Depot"
because they can't find a job. So, it's just the
jobs that are
leaving. Of course, that's the definition of outsourcing - and it's
the same thing that's always happened historically. This is no
different. In fact, we're now in a situation where we have a lot of
these programmers who are looking for work - so there's a huge
resource there to help people reinvent our economy. Cringely claims
he's not advocating protectionism, but if you read the article, he
doesn't offer any other solution. How about this? The solution,
which he ignores, seems obvious: we have an untapped resource in all
of these smart un- or underemployed tech workers. That's an
opportunity to get them involved in reinventing our economy and
creating the next great thing.
Robert Quine
Robert Quine
06/08/2004 03:02 AMAnother member of the Blank Generation lost .. Quine's official site
.. RIP, Robert Quine
home.earthlink.net/~stayclean/quine.html
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"Robert Kaplan"
"Robert Kaplan"
06/01/2004 10:19 AMRobert Ingersoll
Robert Ingersoll
05/16/2004 01:43 PM
Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic."
Mike and Robert
Mike and Robert
05/20/2004 05:34 PM
I met some folks yesterday whom I haven't seen for a long time:
Peter Yared, whom
I worked with at NetDynamics, and Mike Boich, whom I worked for at
Radius. Peter
Yared was CTO of Sun's Liberty division and Mike, founded and
headed Radius, Rendition,
and Eazel. He is now a VC at Alta Partners where Robert
Simon, a long time
friend, also works.
I forgot to take Peter's picture but here is Mike and Robert.
Kimchee~
"Robert Quine"
"Robert Quine"
06/11/2004 05:58 PMRobert Kennedy, Jr.
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
11/25/2003 08:39 PM
I remember where I was when THEY killed his uncle.I was a freshman
at the University, playing chss in the student union, and I distanced
myself from the horror by declaring "That's politics." I dropped
out of school and went to San Francisco a few months later.
I read Ayn Rand, drank chianti, ate bread and cheese, hung out in
North Beach, and later in the year I hung around the edges of the
Republican convention, celebrity spotting. I was appalled by
Goldwater's nomination.Even then, before the CO and CO2 had risen to
levels that threaten human survival, I was pretty well convinced that
nuking the DMZ would be a bad thing for the enbvironment and every
living thing on the planet. I wasn't yet 21 so I wasn't faced
with the choice of voting for Johnson (who many of us suspected
had a hand in the dirty deed on 11/22/63) and voting for Goldwater
(who many of us believed was crazy as a loon).
I don't remember where I was on April 4, 1968 when THEY
killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.I was in school, I know.
Two months later when THEY killed Robert Kennedy the whole thing was
at such a bizarre level that reality was suspect. And I watched
and I protested and I made loud ineffective noises. There were
optimists among us who went "clean for Gene" McCarthy. It was a lost
cause.
From the day after King's death through the end of 1969,
the Black Panther
Party was decimated by the FBI. There was no effective news
coverage of the events. It wasn't until the National Guard
killed white students at Kent State in the spring of 1970 that our
national consciousness began to shift. And even then, people
were reluctant to call Richard Nixon a liar.
We were saturated in the truth and nobody would print
it. Today, conditions are a lot worse. Robert Kennedy, Jr.
is doing what he can on the environmental front. Here's some of
what he has to day in the Salon.com interview:
Why isn't the media being more of a watchdog...
The consolidation of American media over the past decade or so
has dramatically diminished the inquisitiveness of our national press.
There are now only 11 companies that control virtually every radio
outlet, every TV outlet and every newspaper in our country. And
because of that media consolidation, the news bureaus are no longer
run by newspeople. They are now corporate profit centers. Most of
these companies have liquidated their foreign bureaus, because they're
expensive to run. That's why you can't get foreign news in this
country; you have to go to the BBC. And they've liquidated their
investigative journalism units, because that kind of reporting is also
expensive. So news has become the lowest common denominator, which is
why you see sensational crime coverage, you see Laci Peterson and Kobe
Bryant all the time, you see celebrity gossip, which is really just a
form of pornography. And you see murders, which is really just another
form of pornography. You just see notorious crimes, and you don't
really see much substantive news anymore.
The Tyndall
Report, which is the service that analyzes what's on TV,
recently surveyed the environmental content on TV news and of the
15,000 minutes of network news that aired last year only 4 percent of
them were devoted to the environment. And this is at a time when we
have a president who is dismantling 30 years of environmental law, and
when we are going through a global environmental crisis, including
mass extinctions comparable to the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
Global fisheries have dropped to 10 percent of their 1950s levels, the
ice caps and glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, and one out
of every four black children in New York has asthma.
Today, while hundreds of thousands of britons protested the
presence of George W. Bush, American media
focused all its bandwidth on Michael Jackson.
"Robert Strong"
"Robert Strong"
09/14/2004 08:58 AMRobert Scoble says
Robert Scoble says
03/23/2005 02:36 AMScoble
radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/03/20.html#a9692
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Entrevista a Robert M. Love
Entrevista a Robert M. Love
01/23/2004 10:57 PMreimagining robert moses
reimagining robert moses
01/27/2004 07:06 AMthough he did so much wrong, there's some part of me that can't help
but admire great ambition
Robert Peake's Blog: Why PHP?
Robert Peake's Blog: Why PHP?
04/15/2005 04:25 PMRobert Peake's blog has a new
posting today with a look at
why
PHP?
.NET Rocks! - Robert Scoble
.NET Rocks! - Robert Scoble
11/04/2003 11:37 PMCarl and Mark talk to Robert Scoble about Blogging, Longhorn, and PDC
2003, including lots of great stories, blogging for dummies, and a
sneak peak at what happened at the PDC. They also talk about security,
and Merrill Lynch's open letter to Sun, among other things.
Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler
06/14/2004 07:45 PMAtlantic Online-2 hours ago ... without it. I should dedicate the book
to Google. Let me give you an example from an earlier book because
it's fresh in my mind. In ...
Robert Half Technology
Robert Half Technology
07/03/2004 02:12 AMTreatment of Employees [PRWEB Jul 3, 2004]
Robert Crumb -- The Master
Robert Crumb -- The Master
03/31/2005 12:10 PM
The Guardian has created an
entire section on
their web site dedicated to Robert Crumb, everyone's most loved/hated
cartoonist and the star of Terry Zwigoff's amazing 1994 documentary
"
Crumb." Its well worth
a look.
Interviewer: What are the purposes of satire? Crumb: To give us all
relief from these taboos and these nervous tensions where things can't
be talked about. So humor and satire are a safety valve for releasing
these nervous tensions. But there's such a thing as cruel humor. A lot
of old time humor is based on making fun of some ethnic group - it's
not so funny for us any more.
And in case you're in the dark on who R. Crumb is, try
this.
For Us, The Living, by Robert A.
Heinlein
For Us, The Living, by Robert A.
Heinlein
12/12/2003 12:44 PMScobleizer aka Robert Scoble
Scobleizer aka Robert Scoble
09/21/2004 05:12 AMScobleizer is the Man! I have to admit this guy is a posting
technical savvy machine. He puts out a steady stream of terrific links
and today is no exception. If you are not reading his site on a daily
basis you need to do so. [Scobleizer]
bakersfield.com Robert Price
bakersfield.com Robert Price
09/06/2004 08:12 PMLovely:
bakersfield.com/columnist/local/price/story/4918722p-4975095
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TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 3. Just the Beginning.
Robert Dreyfuss.
TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 3. Just the Beginning.
Robert Dreyfuss.
03/16/2003 09:54 AM"In the Middle East, impending "regime change" in Iraq is just the
first step in a wholesale reordering of the entire region, according
to neoconservatives -- .. by the design of itsbackers .. neocon grand
scheme
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.NET Rocks! - Robert Green
.NET Rocks! - Robert Green
12/17/2003 12:19 AMCarl and Mark talk with Robert Green about Visual Studio Tools for the
Microsoft Office System, XML, VBA, and future versions of Visual
Studio Tools for Office.
Traitor Robert Novak Thinks So
Traitor Robert Novak Thinks So
12/23/2003 07:18 AMNOVAK: The Dean
dilemma
townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/printrn20031222.shtml
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Robert Samuelson, in the Washington
Post,
Robert Samuelson, in the Washington
Post,
12/31/2003 05:00 AMto criticise Bush is a hate-crime .. The Bush
Haters
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Ars Technica Interviews Robert Love
Ars Technica Interviews Robert Love
01/23/2004 02:20 PMArs Technica interviews Robert Love
Ars Technica interviews Robert Love
01/22/2004 02:13 AMThe Linux.Ars crew interviews Robert Love, who is involved with both
kernel and desktop development, about changes in Kernel 2.6 and
Project Utopia
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