I had just finished coding a module and came up for air with a Slashdot break. I saw the article and then tried to get news from other places on the web.
I turned on the radio and heard of the second tower hit. Then it was off to a television for the rest of the day.
Are always better than hand ringing and chicken littling. This article would be improved manyfold if the tone were more scientific and less OH MY GOD.
If you ask most fuds they will tell you that only another fud knows anything useful:
"We have a number of policy decisions that are being made by low level technical people"
I think that the whole point of this diatribe is to get more money for his research program. It would help if he cited his sources and gave examples.
Of course, it has already been pointed out that the doubling of internet traffic every 100 days was debunked just days ago. Errors like quoting bogus statistics just servers to further discredit this piece.
I read the article at the Observer and couldn't help thinking that it all sounded erily like the dire predictions of the Club of Rome back in 1972.
They predicted that the world would run out of gold by 1981, of mercury by 1985, tin by 1987, zinc by 1990, petroleum by 1992, and copper, lead and gas by 1993.
I did a Google to refresh my memory about the previous putative disaster-in-the-making and came up with a very relevant column written by Mark Steyn, get it from the
Google cache.
I run Spread Spectrum Scene, a site devoted to RF and wireless technology. It was listed as an Online Sales site. We will see how effective the request for removal is!
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The problem with satire is that sometimes (often) there will be dim people who think it is serious.
A friend of mine graduated from Cornell in engineering and went on to Tech for a masters in nuclear engineering. I visited him there a few times and got to know the flavor of the place.
The graduate student dorm had no private bedrooms and the one bathroom per floor had no toilet stalls. The shower was a large tiled room with no partitions or curtains.
My friend expained that the Tech adminstration wanted to be sure that none of the students had a chance to do that thing that might make them go blind!
Any analysis of the zeitgeist of the web that does not mention Matt Drudge is missing a large part of what the web is about.
Love him or hate him, he has been the leading force in showing how the web can bypass entrenched hierachies (the news media) and provide products that they don't want us to have.
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From the patent:
Primary Examiner: Lee, Benjamin C.
I think they need to demote examiners that allow such crap turn into patents!
I turned on the radio and heard of the second tower hit. Then it was off to a television for the rest of the day.
If you ask most fuds they will tell you that only another fud knows anything useful:
"We have a number of policy decisions that are being made by low level technical people"
I think that the whole point of this diatribe is to get more money for his research program. It would help if he cited his sources and gave examples.
Of course, it has already been pointed out that the doubling of internet traffic every 100 days was debunked just days ago. Errors like quoting bogus statistics just servers to further discredit this piece.
They predicted that the world would run out of gold by 1981, of mercury by 1985, tin by 1987, zinc by 1990, petroleum by 1992, and copper, lead and gas by 1993.
I did a Google to refresh my memory about the previous putative disaster-in-the-making and came up with a very relevant column written by Mark Steyn, get it from the Google cache.
I run Spread Spectrum Scene, a site devoted to RF and wireless technology. It was listed as an Online Sales site. We will see how effective the request for removal is!
The problem with satire is that sometimes (often) there will be dim people who think it is serious.
...to track my teenage son!
I especially like the remote kill switch.
in my experience.
An example from the 70's:
A friend of mine graduated from Cornell in engineering and went on to Tech for a masters in nuclear engineering. I visited him there a few times and got to know the flavor of the place.
The graduate student dorm had no private bedrooms and the one bathroom per floor had no toilet stalls. The shower was a large tiled room with no partitions or curtains.
My friend expained that the Tech adminstration wanted to be sure that none of the students had a chance to do that thing that might make them go blind!
Any analysis of the zeitgeist of the web that does not mention Matt Drudge is missing a large part of what the web is about.
Love him or hate him, he has been the leading force in showing how the web can bypass entrenched hierachies (the news media) and provide products that they don't want us to have.