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I think that is truly amazing and by the time you go there it will be even more. I donated my $100, did you? Even 10 dollars could help buy all these guys a cup of coffee, what's a couple bucks compared to the cause.

Yamamoto ? the architect of it all ? was forced to observe, "I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

Too bad that, in most cases, companies don't clean themselves up; they convince local government to establish c o r p o r a t e 'wealthfare' programs that force the public's tax money to foot the bill for whatever maintenance and equipment is needed to reach standards set by environmental regulations.

$16M in political contributions [Common Cause] by Microsoft in the last four years obviously didn't go to waste. Time Magazine and the BBC also have good (although a little dated) articles on the size and scope of Microsoft's intense lobbying effort since the antitrust trial started.

The difference of course would be that Firefox was from a movie, so that's "Russians" in quotation marks.

Before I checked your link I was thinking you meant something like the Soviet Tupelev-144 or "Concordski" as a few in the press called it.

The woman is damned smart. Personally, I would have to rank her as the most intelligent, dedicated, and insightful executive in Silicon Valley. A merger of this size will take many long nights, over many years, to fully become a reality. And I think Carly Fiorina has the dedication, knowledge, and experience to do it.

Think about it. She did wonders at Lucent.

I think what is most important, what differentiates her from the other executives in the industry, is what she knows about this industry.

"Virtually all meaningful advancements in business, society, and life are not achieved through the boldy acts of a few, but the everyday acts of many."

Cut through the marketing fluff of that quote she made last year. And you see that she really does have a clue of what runs a company. What runs the whole industry. Truly, what has, and always will run this world.

Her degree is, if I remember correctly, not in information technology or business... But actually in medieval studies. What do we learn by studying history? The mistakes people have made, and hopefully we learn to not make them again.

She's a smart business person. She sees the mistakes Compaq has made with Digital and Tandem. She knows to not make those same mistakes again. And she knows that her job depends on not making any mistakes. The hp Board is patient, but they're not going to sit around for a decade, while she's pushing her sixties still trying to get hp back on track. Carly has a year at the most to prove that she can head this megaconglomerate. She knows how to streamline (see latest quarterly report).

If she can pull this off, I would have to credit her as the most successful executive in history. If not, she can move on over to Nevada and take up stripping.

Which do you think she's planning on, and working towards?

jrbd

Time Magazine
Newsweek

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Actually not all that clear, at least according to "former U.S. Attorney John Gibbons", as quoted in a Time magazine article, which explains the charge this way:

The charge filed by the government against Sklyarov is confusing enough: it is for "trafficking" software prohibited by the DMCA. This does not mean he went around selling it himself, but rather that Adobe was able to buy it through a third party--and his name was listed on that software's copyright page. Yes, that is as tenuous as it sounds. "I hope the government knows something we don't," says former U.S. Attorney John Gibbons, "because it looks like they haven't done their homework."

Are embryonic stem cells the only feasible method of curing what ails us? How does that jive with this research? Are there other non-embryo based stem cells that can be used?

It would seem that the fervor over this debate would die if there was some way to avoid using embryos altogether. Is it simply impossible to do this without them?

Dancin Santa

I'm sorry, but there's nothing 'Insightful' about claiming that teachers are the true and evil problem with the American education system today. As stated before, there are so many factors that go into America's educational decline, no one candidate can be blamed.

Yes, I'll agree, there probably are teachers that do not perform to standard. There are policemen that also don't. And doctors. And lawyers. And anything else that you can think of. But to carte blanche claim that teachers are the root problem is not only stupid and immature, it's also irresponsible.

What about the decline of family and social structure in America in the last fifty years? What about the incredible amount of personal freedom and power children have today (read the cover story from the 6 Aug 2001 issue of Time). How about the comparitivly low salaries that high school and elementary teachers compared with other professionals with similar educations?

No, Rimbo, the problem is not teachers. The problems is people like you that refuse to accept responsibility for their own children, for failing to nurture and guide them, and then to quickly turn to the school teachers and blame them.

"Country refuses to pay a fair price for drugs to save its own people"

A Fair Price?? Brasil is capable of producing this drug at 40% of the cost. So, he is saving more people. We habe to remember people like Jonas Salk, whose only interest was the public wellfare.

Edward R. Murrow: Who owns the patent on this vaccine?
Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

Time Mag had a 2 page article - well written

In an example of blatant karma whoring, here it is.

I assume you mean the Beardstown Ladies from Beardstown, Illinois. If not, the result was likely the same... It was a mistake. They screwed up the math. Those grannies actually lost out to the S&P 500.

On a side rant, what is the deal with investment clubs? Why would anyone pay a fee to get together to argue about what stocks to buy? If I want your advice, I'll ask and then buy them on my own. The same goes for people buying lottery tickets in a big group. "We'll have a better chance of winning that way!" D'oh! Both situations are asking for trouble.

The Time article, Do Kids Have Too Much Power? Is not about internet savvy kids upsetting the status quo. It's about how inept parents spoil their children rotten, and its portrayal of parents who can't say 'no' as victims of mass marketing towards their spawn will make you sick.

But it doesn't have a lot of relevance as it applies to your essay. Seriously... do you expect me to bother reading the rest of your little article when the second work cited has nothing to do with your topic?

I have to agree, this is a very insightful article, but i'm not sure about the end;
(Quoting )
'Apart from that, the whole red-alert reaction only demonstrated that there's seemingly infinite space on the Feds' faces for more egg.'

Do they Feds have egg on thier face?

I'm not so sure, real egg would be getting infected whilst giving the dire warnings of what would happen, but in this case I think they are only slightly blushing.

Really, it was a joke to begin with. It was never going to make money. It was cool while it lasted, but it's over. I hope everyone saved their copies of Time w/ Shawn Fanning on the cover.

Carl G. Jung
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Ah yes, remind me...

Which country has a higher percentage of its population in prison?

Which administration is more likely to launch a missile attack? Which may or may not hit its target?

Or crash their secret spy plane, for that matter?

Which country recently lost its seat on the U.N. human rights committee?

In other words, you probably have to buy one from Russia.

Yes, that could never happen. With Russia being so stable and all.

the US is pushing for increased Canadian border security and unified policies on security and entry into North America

No one ever gets anything past the Canadians.

suitcase nukes are low-yield.

Uhhhh... Yah.

After all, look how nice the world is being to China, what with giving them the Olympics and all (worked really well in Berlin in 1936, didn't it?).

This is Yes, you are absolutely right. Jesse Owens' televised humiliation of "Aryan superiority" having lead to WWII and all...

You have to understand that the Mutual Assured Destruction policies of the Cold War don't apply to unstable and fundamentalist regimes.

Hmm. Strange that the rest of the civilized world seems to disagree. Of course, I'm sure this is the only time that Bush would dare propose breaking an anti-nuke treaty. I mean, any guy who's cutting the EPA by 6.5% while giving an additional 13.6 billion to defense has his priorities totally straight. That, and his unbiased choices to head the EPA show that he isn't swayed by special interests. Which is why ultimately, other countries everywhere love and respect and cherish him and support his wise policies.

Don't let the facts stop you, though, Michael.

Yeah, whatever man.

W
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Seriously, how many tons of drugs/immigrants/etc get into this country illegally? How many bombs are already here, waiting, you think?

Is *anyone* besides Bush and defense contractors FOR this program? I've not heard a single sensible argument for why might be a good idea.

W
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Actually, they dont.

Point one:
A few other countries have NUKES. But probably only half of these have ICBMs that can actually reach the US. China has a few dozen, Russia has a lot. The other few are our european allies. India is close enough to space tech that they could probably build one. Maybe North Korea, adopted from China. Iraq if they work really hard for a decade. (Remember how proud they were of the SCUD, which had ~300km range? ) The Taliban doesn't even have electricity in 90% of their country.

Point Two: Why the hell would you launch it at the US even if you had one? A suicide bomber is one thing: you lose one guy and you blame it on a sect you can't control. But launching a missile? In 45 minutes, the US turns every city you have into a nuclear wasteland.

Point Three. If you want to nuke the US, you get or make a small bomb, like one of the infamous soviet suitcase nukes - dozens are unaccounted for. You send a single suicide bomber to carry it across the border from mexico or canada by hand. You lose one guy, there's nothing for the US to shoot down, and you don't have to develop any rocket technology. And a nuke leaves awfully little forensic evidence.

The rogue nation theory is FUD and W knows it. This is an excuse to get a start on something that could eventually be a full SDI shield and W, Russia, China, and everyone else knows that, too.

The real problem, of course, is that it breaks treaties (as if the rest of the world didn't hate the US enough already) and could start a new arms race with China, whose nuclear deterrent of ~40 rockets *could* be threatened by an ABM shield. An arms race is good for no one.

Except for W's friends in the military. And his friends in the companies that make the weapons. And himself. The truth is, the arms race with China will help Bush because .he needs a big bad enemy.

Do the artists believe this or do the /record companies/ believe this? Personally I'd guess that the artists don't fully understand the technology or the potential of the technology. If you went and asked the artists, after explaining the main points about how try-before-you-buy works, how people buy cds based on napster downloads (yes, I have), and how this is a way to get their music out to billions of people, I think they might say different things.

Chances are they are informed by their lables that napster is evil, is stealing money from them (I'm sure that the label glosses over the bit where they get the lions share of the artists income) and then of course they come out with "I want my stuff off napster!"

This is expected from the boy bands, britney spears and the like who aren't really artists (IMHO) and who are just there to make money, but the real artists out there, who actually care about their music might sing a different tune (pardon the pun) when they see the potential for distribution.

A while back there was a story on pirating in china and how there they *want* their music to be pirated, as it leads to more sales, more fans, and more concert goers (where they make the bulk of their money.

Link is here: Plagarized Article

Or if you're lazy and want a quote from the article:

"But a series of remarkable discoveries announced in quick succession starting this spring has gone a long way toward settling the question once and for all. Scientists who were betting on a Big Crunch liked to quote the poet Robert Frost: "Some say the world will end in fire,/ some say in ice./ From what I've tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire." Those in the other camp preferred T.S. Eliot: "This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper." Now, using observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in New Mexico, the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, the mammoth Keck Telescope in Hawaii and sensitive radio detectors in Antarctica, the verdict is in: T.S. Eliot wins."

Plagarist.

halfway down the page - Some stuff about this 'GAC'

And something about the test itself.

And BTW, that environmental study has been done, evidently finding that the damages you propose are unlikely.

i would also suggest taking a look at how great a boon to wildlife, endangered and otherwise, that NASA's Cape Canaveral space facilities (USA, Florida) has turned out to be, to see how this has turned out before in the Real World.

And BTW, that environmental study has been done, evidently finding that the damages you propose are unlikely.

i would also suggest taking a look at how great a boon to wildlife, endangered and otherwise, that NASA's Cape Canaveral space facilities (USA, Florida) has turned out to be, to see how this has turned out before in the Real World.

Same person, mostly same words and phrases, just a brief mention that they lifted something heavier.

Lando

I got mine from Time Interactive, that page says "The offer closes June 5, 2001" but the form still works, it's worth a try.

Maybe 'Tandy' (RadioShack) stock them? Not sure.

Nyet. Based on all current theory & observations, the universe is open, and will continue to expand forever at an increasing rate. Time has an interesting article detailing all we currently know about this. Of course, in a few years, new discoveries may refute this.

No. Some people have never looked at the actual numbers, or they would know that the firebombings of Dresden and Tokyo were definitely more destructive than the damage done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More casualties, more area destroyed, more total explosive yield, etc. Here's one sample link.

It's the calculus of war: lots of "small" weapons delivered continuously will outgun a single big kaboom. Bringing this back on topic, it's similar to the way a bunch of ordinary cell phone towers can help shoot down a billion dollar bomber.

First of all, I don't know why the /. write up says CNN, the article is on Time.

Second, I don't think the article is offensive, or portraying Asians (or Koreans specifically) in a bad light. Replace Korea with Poland and I wouldn't mind a bit. There are dumbasses among the people of every nation, just deal with it.

What is bad about the article is that it makes it seem like all Lineage players are like that. Indeed, by extension it makes it seem like all online players are like that. There will always be a subset of players that take their games very seriously, and will take online world grievances offline. Many people in the US play Diablo and EverCrack, but geographical realities of the US mean you can't just call up your clan members and go to the cyber cafe across the street and pummel someone for killing your character.

We've all seen stories like this before about other games and people in other countries, in fact a quick search on Time's own site will reveal this article. Take with a big grain of salt and an agenda.

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For many of the South Pacific Islands there are very few natural resources. Increasingly there are attempts to find ways to protect symbols of identity, cultural practice or biological significance, possibly with a view to licensing them, as a way of supplementing meagre national incomes. Amongst some of the more tangible examples are the licensing of an Australian company to study Tongan DNA and potential licensing fees deriving from research of ethnobotany and traditional medicines.

The governments of the Pacific region are attempting to draft legislation to protect the traditional knowledge and expressions of culture unique to this region. We have in the past seen big business use the legal system to steal rights from the peoples of the Pacific. Perhaps this will go some way to redress the balance.

His [RMS's] persuasiveness should be judged not on how he gets his sycophants in a frenzy, but on how he persuades people outside his core. He simply has not done this at all. Gates on the other hand, as much as I dislike the man, has persuaded many people from different backgrounds in the course of his business.

Gates has had the opportunity to be a highly influential and important figure of real persuasion, but hasn't done anything interesting with it. He's written a couple books, but they weren't particularly insightful, and certainly not influential. Lots of people read the books, sure, but that only makes his lack of success more apparent -- people have read him, and they still don't care. Few people say that about RMS writings, whether they agree or not.

Gates has had a bully pulpit because he is the single most rich person in the world. He can get top billing in just about any medium he wants -- TV, radio, newspapers, even /. -- but that isn't due to his persuasiveness. Just his wealth and influence.

To his credit, Bill Gates has written a number of essays, even an article on genetically modified food.

what happened in my case is that the internet gave me a fifteen second attention span. i mean at least tv made me sit there now i cant even focus on tv for that long. because here im only a single click away from another interesting distracting bit of information, halfway through an article.

A few years ago, Ben Rosen (yes, that Ben Rosen) started Rosen Motors, which was once at www.rosenmotors.com but that now looks like that URL doesn't belong to him anymore.

He had nifty ideas for gas-turbine-generator/electric-motor hybrid automobiles with high-RPM flywheel regenerators in the trunk, but, you can guess, it didn't pan out as a feasible place for Ben to bet his future. So he downsized the dream and now makes his way selling some of the most efficient fossil-fuel-burning electrical generators the world has ever known, under the name Capstone Turbine.

Google spits out a few gobbets, too:
Speculation, speculation, speculation, and capitulation.

--Blair

Despite what information theorists tell them, the music industry presses ahead with schemes for encryption destined for failure. It's a classic case of "I know you told me it's impossible, but we'll show you by just going ahead and doing it!"

This is a great way to waste a huge amount of money. A couple good examples are the Atomic Airplane attempts of the late 60's, and currently, President Bush's dogged determination to produce an missle defense system.

America's love of the underdog and the axle grease and spit way of getting things done can really get in the way of common sense sometimes. If the music industry would just get the fact that these watermarking and other various types of protection during widespread distribution are doomed to failure, perhaps we could all get on with enjoying some music online for a reasonable price.

Ford is well aware that there is precious little evidence to date that being green brings in greenbacks. And sustainability will require profitability. "Can we do this and make money? We have to," says Ford. "Has it ever been done? No. But it hasn't been tried either."

Not that I think these people are cool or anything, but how about:

Master P: Believe it. A couple years ago, I read that he was in the top fifty list of richest men under 40 from his record label empire that he runs, No Limit. He made 365 million in one year-- that topped Michael Jordan. He turned thirty this year.

Michael Dell: Currently aged 34 years. Started and has run Dell computers through his 20s. Now has 21 billion dollars.

Seth Warshavsky: At the helm of the largest online porn entity-- IEG (Internet Entertainment Group) at age 24. He started and has run the company responsible for profitting off the online Dr. Laura nude pics and the Tommy Lee and P. Anderson video. In 1997 it grossed $20 million. Granted, unlike Dell, this guy has some morals and taste.

The only reason for including is the amusing difference in the way Time makes it seem *exciting* in a way the others didn't.

mick

...woooo, killer asteroid

The G is for Goddard.

"We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."

Even outside the Valley, he's gaining visibility: Time Digital's Digital 50: #4 Linus Torvalds.

Anyone paying attention to technology - tech investors, business leaders, etc., has at least heard of Linus Torvalds. The days of obscurity are gone. Just as people know who Jobs and Ellison are, they now know who Torvalds is.

OTOH, I had Flashcom for 2 years, and only had one unplanned outage for about 24 hrs (and that was because someone had unscrewed the outside connection). The connection was perfect, fast and very, very stable. I now have Speakeasy and it's roughly the same. I know at least 10 people who have or have had PacBell. Most of those have gone through something worse than hell dealing with their terrible customer service.

We also had PacBell at one of my previous employers. It wasn't unusual to have 3000ms ping time (!!!!). I immediately order another line through a Covad Business SDSL provider and cancelled PacBell.

Anyway, I hope your line never goes down. You might have to spend the rest of your week on the phone trying to locate someone who can actually help you. It's no coincidence that Dilbert was written by a former PacBell employee...

Chris.

For a development so recent, there is considerable controvery over some basic details. For instance, consider GUI. Popular folklore attributes it to Parc, followed by Apple. But there is another viewpoint, the almost forgotten Engelbart. It's amazing that with all the people involved in these inventions still alive today, nobody quite agrees on who invented what. It's another matter trying to figure out who invented the first computer. I can't imagine what it will be like in a hundred years, when people look up contradictory records postulating various different accounts. Good luck trying to piece it together.

As for older theoretical subjects, one book you'll find invaluable is Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming, in which he painstakingly traces back the history of various mathematical and computational developments.

Who invented the zero?

w/m

TIMEasia.com | What Really Happened? | 1/15/2001


Well, here's your evidence. The authenticity of the documents has not been verified, but the people who decide such things seem to be leaning toward their veracity. It's pretty clear that the leadership was in favor of mowing down the crowds, as long as it didn't happen in the square itself. That's significantly different from Kent State, or for that matter, most such incidents in the US. We ain't perfect and there are abuses, but don't underestimate the power of free speech (while it lasts). Leaders here, even if inclined to make such decisions, are not thrilled at the almost certain prospects of them being discovered and published.

I actually would not even grace it that much. Reality check (with statistics from Time/Newsweek etc):

Myth: The poor pay most of the taxes in America
Reality: The lower classes in america do not pay any taxes. As you go up, the tax burden goes up.

Just look at the tax cut. The bottom run of the tax scheme goes from 15%->10%, a 33% cut. The top rung goes from 36%->33% about a 9% cut. Further realize that only about ~120 million american's even pay taxes in the first place. The others actually get money back, even though they never paid anything.

Myth: But they just deduct everything.
Reality: Ever heard of the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax?)The AMT is an amount that you can not deduct under, and as usual, it is a very high number in the higher brackets.

Here is a good argument about the mostly liberal billionairs that spoke up. The wealthy are conservitive, but right now, no changes is a liberal position.

BTW, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are about to loose the JSF. GE did make a bonaza on the air market a few years back, but that's clinton's territory, the defense industry is getting ready for another round of base cuts, and budget cuts (Bush's new money goes to get our millitary people off of food stamps... yes you read that right).

BTW, the Economist has a pretty good write up.

BTW, one of the things that Bush is trying to do is get rid of the hump in the tax code between 20k and 27k where there is strangly a 31% tax, surrounding two 16-16% ranges. Oh... yes.. now I remember why that is there, so the poor stay poor.

As for the rest and the entire argument about "payroll taxes" thoose taxes are social security and medicare, programs that are completly seperate. If you don't like that tax, repeal Social Security ;-) (C'mon... I dare ya).

Why should there be a tax cut? The percent of the GDP that is being eaten is the highest it has ever been.

The time article is here

The article begins: "Ever since Mosaic, the computer industry has been obsessed with cryptography.".

Uh-huh. That long. Wow.

Does someone want to tell these guys about World War II?

Ah, heck.

--Blair
"Next week: How to Patent Chisambop."

...but I'll still point out for the masses that human cloning made the cover of Time this week. linkage

...but I'll still point out for the masses that human cloning made the cover of Time this week. linkage

Time had an interview with him a while back. Found it here . He skirts questions about his culpability. A lot of it is still scary.

Either way, it is true that the US govt frequently claims that Bin Laden is the source of all evil with little to no evidence.

Now with a company claiming to have mapped the genome of rice, will they try to restrict use of genetic modification to those who pay royalties for use of "their" genome? Before you pass judement on this line of thought, you may want to consider the fact Potrykus wants to provide his rice at cost or lower to ensure the people who need it are able to afford it. In today's cutthroat legal world, I doubt a company (or more specifically their lawyers) would idly stand by and watch someone give away something they could sell for profit.

For more information, see this article in Time.