What suggests that Alienware had nothing to do with this, is that the site is barely loading. If this was a product placement on Slashdot, they have the worst... webhosting.... company.... ever.
Seriously. I would fear the guy doesn't even begin to fathom risk analysis. He just breeds paranoia. Guys like that break budgets wide open and spend lots of money they shouldn't on lots of stuff they don't need. He's like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy. Three firewalls? I hope they are open source cause Checkpoint licenses are expensive.
You start breaking down security prinicples and over doing it, and you just look stupid. Other security professionals are telling him he's paranoid, but that's just being nice. What they are THINKING, is that the guy is incompetent. And doesn't understand productivity versus security tradeoffs. Somebody needs to have him go read Schnier on a island somewhere. Unpucker.
Rob Glaser is part owner of the Professional Bowlers Association. They run that "extreme bowling" on ESPN 8 "The Ocho".
Nice way to invest your winnings from the dot com bubble, Robby. I guess you watch Apple's iTunes and think "that could have been us, if I wasn't a shit businessman worried about saving a sport only 50 year old men named Fred play which singlehandedly keeps polyester in fashion."
Please tell me Real is on FuckedCompany.com's all time asshat list. Maybe Rob could say "I invented spyware" like Al Gore on the Net, because in a sense, he did. Until that fucktard loaded Realplayer with phonehome code on your personal habits, hackers didn't realize the potential of trojan horses and tools like silk rope.
Way to go Robby!
We need a deck of cards with all the asshats who ran tech companies into the shitter on them. Like the army has for Iraqis. Marc Andressen could be the queen of hearts. Rob Glaser could be the joker. Lesser morons like that Pepsi exec who nearly destroyed Apple before Jobs came back should be in there.
My favorite part of your story is that you explain how you tried so veryhard not be patronizing, yet you use ebonics when quoting the members of the "ghetto" school.
In several interviews, although strangely not really mentioned by the Wired reporter, he says he has several ideas for small independant films. Not in the Woody Allen sense indy, but REALLY indy, like a guy with a camera and a couple actors go out and do stuff on budgets of under $1M.
These would unlikely be sci-fci (his words not mine) and likely be dramas and, again in his own words, have exactly zero mass appeal. So, really niche films that are very unpopular or have radical thoughts or ideas wrapped into the narrative.
I don't know why he's chosen to do this. Unlike Speilberg and Schindler's List, he has no political or epic historical story to tell. I would say Schnidler's List is not exactly a mass market movie either.
If small indy film is where he wants to go back to, I think he should do it. He should become a professor at USC's film school. That is really what I think would give him the most happiness. Imagine the wait list for that course.
From the linked article: When SCO first made its claims that IBM had misappropriated some of its code and handed it over to the Linux community, SCO showed samples to several analysts to prove its copyrights were being infringed. DiDio, a former journalist and not a programmer, was one of them. She reported that SCO's claims seemed justified. She told me: "It appeared to be a direct cut and paste right down to the developers' notes." A couple of months ago, the judge in the case wrote that he had seen "an astonishing lack of evidence" backing up SCO's claims. On the phone, I asked DiDio's reaction to the judge's statement. She said: "I can't reconcile it. I want to see what's presented in court."
So... what you have is a woman who is not a programmer, making conclusive statements after looking at.h files she doesn't even understand!
There's a point, like the boiling point... let us call this point the Enderle point... at which you have simply lost all professional credibility. You are seen as nothing more than a suck up, a Nathaniel Branden of IT (Little Ayn Rand hatred slipped out there, sorry).
Can we now write DiDio off as a shill? Like that woman who did fake newscasts for Bush, or Robert Novak?
I personally, welcome shills like DiDio. Every day respectable journalists let a woman like her survive, they put another nail in their coffin and the net and social-based expertise groups become authoritative sources for real news pulling from many sources to draw complete conclusions. So, I say, good on her. Make a few bucks at the Microsoft trough. Sell credibility you never had in the first place. Kill the industry rags. More opportunity for other people to emerge as experts when the people you used to listen to are revealed as phonies.
Flow observation conclusions... news u can use
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It's good to know the IP addresses of machines active searching dark IP space. If you can see those statistics in real time, you have useful information.
ISPs are already starting to work together on this type of information. If an ISP sees malicious worm spreading behavior, it can upload the offending IP into a global db that all ISPs can use to block at their borders.
Again, the authors conclusions are that nothing beats having a nice dark block to trigger alerts.
Cleese is the new Q and all, but those 5 minutes of film don't pay the bills.
Eric is doing broadway shows of Holy Grail, Michael made money on that PBS shit, Gilliam is a director... that leaves Jones, who I guess is the poor one then.
It has a lot of articles in the same vein. We can see Linus wrestling with this himself, having to stop and work on a new tool for code revision.
The U.S. should lead on this, instead, we are regulating away any competitive advantage our market provides. If I want to write an open source project, I can get blitzed by lawsuits from software patents I don't know exist and may have been filed in a trivial way. It kills innovation, stifles the creativity of the citizens to build, and only allows those with existing wealth to further aggregate and hold it. It's the same with the stock market. The commission model favors large institutional investors who can move 100,000 shares easily, and not the guy who can only afford to trade 100 or even 1000 shares.
I've nearly given up on Washington to do the righ thing. It now falls on the judiciary to become activist and overturn or find unconstitutional some of these patent laws. With Tom DeLay openly advocating violence against judges, it's obvious, this is a class war, and IP is just one of the weapons.
Wal-Mart censors. They only carry certain family friendly things. Certain games like Grand Theft aren't carried there.
Think an establishment like that will do well renting DVDs? Think that French film that refers to the U.S. as capitalist pigs gets on the list? I don't think so.
Outlets that even whip of censorship get hammered in the market. If Amazon refused to carry certain books because of religious or political slants, they would get creamed, by Wall Street if nothing else.
I'm sure the fundies would be all over the Wal-Mart to bundle Passion of the Christ into everyone's "must have" list - and that would backlash nationally where Wal-Mart can't control the market by fiat (i.e. driving all the mom and pop shops out of business with Chinese goods and making all the locals shop there) because there are no geographical restrictions to DVD rental.
Many papers are subsidized regionally, in the U.S. this is done through county and state taxes. For city papers, like the NY Times, they get some revenue from the State of NY for operations. I forget what omnibus act or something this falls under.
The point is... those dollars should be pulled and redirected into wireless infrastructures. Towns like Athens, GA - which tax funded the entire city for complete 802.11b coverage now have a public good - they don't need to fund extra garbage collectors for newspaper and recycling pickup - they can make the paper delivered on the web only.
The State of Michigan had the highest % of electronic tax returns in the nation. Nearly 80% of residents filed electronically. Factoring for those people who used H&R Block (which counts as an electronic file), shouldn't states like those be looking at massive wireless buildouts in the town?
I think small towns and municpalities which divert revenue from newspapers which serve the public good into wireless and internet access makes sense. They are more environmentally friendly and provide a type of infrastructure that encourages business to locate there.
If the blog you are reading says...
"Today, I went with Billy and Johnny, and we went to the farm and saw a cow. It was a big cow! Download this program and it will show you how big the cow was!"... you probably shouldn't download the code.
If the blog purports to be from some p0rnster, and the blog says "download this cool active X control, it will let you see all these hot pix I took at the club last night"... you probably shouldn't install the control.
I think the chief network architect at UW-Madison is Bill Jensen. Is that right? You guys are light years ahead. It's amazing what a really good network guy can do for a university.
This all existed once. It was called the MBONE, a consortium of Tier 1 providers who agreed to handle each other's multicast routing protocol requests. You could tune to 224.4.4.2 that day for a MIT lecture on particle physics from your home. You could attend tech conference proceedings.
But the MBONE broke down. Because there weren't enough multicast addresses to go around. Because multicast had scaling issues with the way feeds got pruned when the # and size of data sources grew large.
Now, even today, multicast is the forgotten cousin who sits alone under the tree. Corporate networks rarely run PIM or enable multicast. It doesn't even get enabled in small ponds, despite lots of books from guys like Beau Williamson on how to configure it. It gets ignored in the face of a plethora of multicast client and multicast capable encoders.
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, got rich selling broadcast.com. The idea was something akin to Rob Glaser and Real, bring streaming video to the masses. Except we have to use unicast and spend our time making tweaks to UDP at the application layer, because that's the only way it will work. Because we can't even create a central organization to manage DNS correctly, much less be issuing and retrieving a scare commodity of multicast IP addresses. People will hog them! The television networks will get the FCC! Boo hoo!
Shame really. The promise of watching community produced tv from any garage in the world now falls to projects like these, which fall back on bitTorrent to recreate the essential function of a multicast routing protocol: to overlap a node tree map on the internet.
Perhaps this reinvention of the wheel one more time will get it working. But this problem comes up every so often, and I think it will take Internet 2 and IPv6 to solve it correctly. Until then, it's just sharing rips of tv shows off cable and sat, and not the net population ignoring the traditional mediums and making their own shows. It'll be another decade before that shift happens.
Similar to the ships designed in space postulated by Clarke, but with robots and solar/nuclear hybrid power - we launch an entire fleet of them towards all the stars in our galaxy likely to have Class M (sorry for the Trek ref) planets - and embryos frozen.
There is no reasonable cryogenic method to take a human form and shut it down for millions of years. But it's feasible with frozen embryos.
How we grow them from there, I don't know. We'd some way to create test tube babies without implanting them in a host.
The adam and eve of the new solar system are created. If it turns out there is habitable planet in that system - they win. If there isn't, the humans can nuke themselves or something.
I don't know - seems the only way. The distances are just so huge and the time scales so vast, that transporting organic material that far seems impractical.
In politics, the first rule is to define your opponent. It really doesn't matter what your are about, it matters how you get others to percieve the opponent.
This works as corporate marketing as well. Ads which are the most effective are ones that frame the competition as being idiots or ridiculous. The Coke vs. Pepsi truck driver commercials, etc.
This is strategy. Frame Linux advocates as fringe element types. Frame the open source movement as un-American, hippy idealism. Cast aspersions, and most importantly, PUT A WOMAN UP FRONT TO PLAY THE VICTIM ROLE.
Oh no, she's been flamed and horrible emails have been sent. Linux zealots are RUINING things. They are vociferously countering our FUD and constantly shedding light on our spin and half truths. We need to stop them!
This is a war. It's a war against a monolithic corporation which controls the operating system market with an iron grip, and is co-opting the mainstream press and buying favorable press. On the other side is the open source movement, now potentially aided by companies like IBM which will genuinely help it achieve legitimacy in the corporate and academic worlds. European and South American countries are realizing they get escape debt cycles by simply getting out from under the thumb of insane software license schemes.
In this war, you can expect every trick to be used. Linux users will be cast in the vein of the Simpson's comic book guy. Sarcastic nerds, nobodies, people who are wacko. People who hate capitalism and hate intellectual property law.
It's ordinary every day programmers contributing to something for the gerater good vs. Madison avenue types running bought and paid for marketing campaigns. You need to defy them by refusing to be defined by them. You need to recruit other people to the benefits of OpenOffice and OpenVPN and Linux and away from corporate juggernauts who will try and FUD this thing to kill it.
Good point. The early Beatles were all about being managed. They started in Germany with the leathers, and came back and Brian put them in suits and made them mod.
They were as managed and as packaged as anything that comes from American or World Idol. The difference, of course, between them and Kelly Clarkson, is that they were brilliant musicians and songwriters.
To follow up to myself, I just love this quote from Dave Winer. If a journalist is quoting Enderle, it means he's cutting corners on his research by DEFINITION.
http://daringfireball.net/2003/12/enderle
That should be the Slashdot ethos. Similar to how if Hitler is invoked, a Usenet thread automatically ends. If Rob Enderle is quoted, the article BY DEFINITION is not worth reading.
He's quoted at length in this article. He was just on NPR talking about computing. How has this cretin who has an absolutely abysmal record of pontificating about anything always the go to source for so many media outlets? He must be a master marketer of Enderle Group.
He's lousy copy, and I usually tune out of anything he says. Which is usually something bad about Linux or about open source is evil.
When the U.S. Feds wanted to take down organized crime, they hired Pizzone to pose as Donnie Brasco. He rose within the Bonanno crime family until he was able to finger the right people and present evidence to his handlers.
It's time for the Feds to do this to Microsoft. Tap a young smart O/S programmer in college, and get him into Microsoft. Have him show evidence that he was directly asked to sabotage the O/S or make competing formats not inter-operate. It could take years and years to place the right person in the right position, but that's what it will take to stop Microsoft and demonstrate that these issues are deliberately manufacturered. A sting operation.
Slashdot Mirror
What suggests that Alienware had nothing to do with this, is that the site is barely loading. If this was a product placement on Slashdot, they have the worst... webhosting.... company.... ever.
IF author = 'Enderle' THEN TRUST=ZILCH AND BONEHEAD = 1.
IF author = 'DiDio' THEN TRUST=NADA AND MICROSOFT_SHILL = 1
IF topic = 'SCO' THEN RELEVENCE TO ANYONE = RELEVANCE TO ANYONE - 1000
IF quoted_source = 'Marc Andressen' THEN WHO_FUCKING_CARES = 1
IF news_organization = 'FOX' then BULLSHIT_IS_AFOOT = 1.
Seriously. I would fear the guy doesn't even begin to fathom risk analysis. He just breeds paranoia. Guys like that break budgets wide open and spend lots of money they shouldn't on lots of stuff they don't need. He's like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy. Three firewalls? I hope they are open source cause Checkpoint licenses are expensive.
You start breaking down security prinicples and over doing it, and you just look stupid. Other security professionals are telling him he's paranoid, but that's just being nice. What they are THINKING, is that the guy is incompetent. And doesn't understand productivity versus security tradeoffs. Somebody needs to have him go read Schnier on a island somewhere. Unpucker.
Rob Glaser is part owner of the Professional Bowlers Association. They run that "extreme bowling" on ESPN 8 "The Ocho".
Nice way to invest your winnings from the dot com bubble, Robby. I guess you watch Apple's iTunes and think "that could have been us, if I wasn't a shit businessman worried about saving a sport only 50 year old men named Fred play which singlehandedly keeps polyester in fashion."
Please tell me Real is on FuckedCompany.com's all time asshat list. Maybe Rob could say "I invented spyware" like Al Gore on the Net, because in a sense, he did. Until that fucktard loaded Realplayer with phonehome code on your personal habits, hackers didn't realize the potential of trojan horses and tools like silk rope.
Way to go Robby!
We need a deck of cards with all the asshats who ran tech companies into the shitter on them. Like the army has for Iraqis. Marc Andressen could be the queen of hearts. Rob Glaser could be the joker. Lesser morons like that Pepsi exec who nearly destroyed Apple before Jobs came back should be in there.
My favorite part of your story is that you explain how you tried so veryhard not be patronizing, yet you use ebonics when quoting the members of the "ghetto" school.
'Cause that's not patronizing at all.
In several interviews, although strangely not really mentioned by the Wired reporter, he says he has several ideas for small independant films. Not in the Woody Allen sense indy, but REALLY indy, like a guy with a camera and a couple actors go out and do stuff on budgets of under $1M.
These would unlikely be sci-fci (his words not mine) and likely be dramas and, again in his own words, have exactly zero mass appeal. So, really niche films that are very unpopular or have radical thoughts or ideas wrapped into the narrative.
I don't know why he's chosen to do this. Unlike Speilberg and Schindler's List, he has no political or epic historical story to tell. I would say Schnidler's List is not exactly a mass market movie either.
If small indy film is where he wants to go back to, I think he should do it. He should become a professor at USC's film school. That is really what I think would give him the most happiness. Imagine the wait list for that course.
Back in our day, we played Zork by carrier pigeon. And we liked it that way!!
Opens envelope.... "I turn 20 deg to the left and fire..."
2 days later... message reads... "Augggghghh!!"
Here's some insult to your injury...
.h files she doesn't even understand!
From the linked article:
When SCO first made its claims that IBM had misappropriated some of its code and handed it over to the Linux community, SCO showed samples to several analysts to prove its copyrights were being infringed. DiDio, a former journalist and not a programmer, was one of them. She reported that SCO's claims seemed justified. She told me: "It appeared to be a direct cut and paste right down to the developers' notes." A couple of months ago, the judge in the case wrote that he had seen "an astonishing lack of evidence" backing up SCO's claims. On the phone, I asked DiDio's reaction to the judge's statement. She said: "I can't reconcile it. I want to see what's presented in court."
So... what you have is a woman who is not a programmer, making conclusive statements after looking at
There's a point, like the boiling point... let us call this point the Enderle point... at which you have simply lost all professional credibility. You are seen as nothing more than a suck up, a Nathaniel Branden of IT (Little Ayn Rand hatred slipped out there, sorry).
Can we now write DiDio off as a shill? Like that woman who did fake newscasts for Bush, or Robert Novak?
I personally, welcome shills like DiDio. Every day respectable journalists let a woman like her survive, they put another nail in their coffin and the net and social-based expertise groups become authoritative sources for real news pulling from many sources to draw complete conclusions. So, I say, good on her. Make a few bucks at the Microsoft trough. Sell credibility you never had in the first place. Kill the industry rags. More opportunity for other people to emerge as experts when the people you used to listen to are revealed as phonies.
It's good to know the IP addresses of machines active searching dark IP space. If you can see those statistics in real time, you have useful information.
ISPs are already starting to work together on this type of information. If an ISP sees malicious worm spreading behavior, it can upload the offending IP into a global db that all ISPs can use to block at their borders.
Again, the authors conclusions are that nothing beats having a nice dark block to trigger alerts.
Cleese is the new Q and all, but those 5 minutes of film don't pay the bills.
Eric is doing broadway shows of Holy Grail, Michael made money on that PBS shit, Gilliam is a director... that leaves Jones, who I guess is the poor one then.
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/
It has a lot of articles in the same vein. We can see Linus wrestling with this himself, having to stop and work on a new tool for code revision.
The U.S. should lead on this, instead, we are regulating away any competitive advantage our market provides. If I want to write an open source project, I can get blitzed by lawsuits from software patents I don't know exist and may have been filed in a trivial way. It kills innovation, stifles the creativity of the citizens to build, and only allows those with existing wealth to further aggregate and hold it. It's the same with the stock market. The commission model favors large institutional investors who can move 100,000 shares easily, and not the guy who can only afford to trade 100 or even 1000 shares.
I've nearly given up on Washington to do the righ thing. It now falls on the judiciary to become activist and overturn or find unconstitutional some of these patent laws. With Tom DeLay openly advocating violence against judges, it's obvious, this is a class war, and IP is just one of the weapons.
The best part is they hired Hugo Weaving to head it up...
I stand corrected. I guess they weren't going to let morals stand in the way of the bling-bling with GTA.
Wal-Mart censors. They only carry certain family friendly things. Certain games like Grand Theft aren't carried there.
Think an establishment like that will do well renting DVDs? Think that French film that refers to the U.S. as capitalist pigs gets on the list? I don't think so.
Outlets that even whip of censorship get hammered in the market. If Amazon refused to carry certain books because of religious or political slants, they would get creamed, by Wall Street if nothing else.
I'm sure the fundies would be all over the Wal-Mart to bundle Passion of the Christ into everyone's "must have" list - and that would backlash nationally where Wal-Mart can't control the market by fiat (i.e. driving all the mom and pop shops out of business with Chinese goods and making all the locals shop there) because there are no geographical restrictions to DVD rental.
No, Wal-Mart would get creamed.
Many papers are subsidized regionally, in the U.S. this is done through county and state taxes. For city papers, like the NY Times, they get some revenue from the State of NY for operations. I forget what omnibus act or something this falls under.
The point is... those dollars should be pulled and redirected into wireless infrastructures. Towns like Athens, GA - which tax funded the entire city for complete 802.11b coverage now have a public good - they don't need to fund extra garbage collectors for newspaper and recycling pickup - they can make the paper delivered on the web only.
The State of Michigan had the highest % of electronic tax returns in the nation. Nearly 80% of residents filed electronically. Factoring for those people who used H&R Block (which counts as an electronic file), shouldn't states like those be looking at massive wireless buildouts in the town?
I think small towns and municpalities which divert revenue from newspapers which serve the public good into wireless and internet access makes sense. They are more environmentally friendly and provide a type of infrastructure that encourages business to locate there.
If the blog you are reading says... ... you probably shouldn't download the code.
"Today, I went with Billy and Johnny, and we went to the farm and saw a cow. It was a big cow! Download this program and it will show you how big the cow was!"
If the blog purports to be from some p0rnster, and the blog says "download this cool active X control, it will let you see all these hot pix I took at the club last night"... you probably shouldn't install the control.
Ok, I think I got it.
I think the chief network architect at UW-Madison is Bill Jensen. Is that right? You guys are light years ahead. It's amazing what a really good network guy can do for a university.
This all existed once. It was called the MBONE, a consortium of Tier 1 providers who agreed to handle each other's multicast routing protocol requests. You could tune to 224.4.4.2 that day for a MIT lecture on particle physics from your home. You could attend tech conference proceedings.
But the MBONE broke down. Because there weren't enough multicast addresses to go around. Because multicast had scaling issues with the way feeds got pruned when the # and size of data sources grew large.
Now, even today, multicast is the forgotten cousin who sits alone under the tree. Corporate networks rarely run PIM or enable multicast. It doesn't even get enabled in small ponds, despite lots of books from guys like Beau Williamson on how to configure it. It gets ignored in the face of a plethora of multicast client and multicast capable encoders.
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, got rich selling broadcast.com. The idea was something akin to Rob Glaser and Real, bring streaming video to the masses. Except we have to use unicast and spend our time making tweaks to UDP at the application layer, because that's the only way it will work. Because we can't even create a central organization to manage DNS correctly, much less be issuing and retrieving a scare commodity of multicast IP addresses. People will hog them! The television networks will get the FCC! Boo hoo!
Shame really. The promise of watching community produced tv from any garage in the world now falls to projects like these, which fall back on bitTorrent to recreate the essential function of a multicast routing protocol: to overlap a node tree map on the internet.
Perhaps this reinvention of the wheel one more time will get it working. But this problem comes up every so often, and I think it will take Internet 2 and IPv6 to solve it correctly. Until then, it's just sharing rips of tv shows off cable and sat, and not the net population ignoring the traditional mediums and making their own shows. It'll be another decade before that shift happens.
Similar to the ships designed in space postulated by Clarke, but with robots and solar/nuclear hybrid power - we launch an entire fleet of them towards all the stars in our galaxy likely to have Class M (sorry for the Trek ref) planets - and embryos frozen.
There is no reasonable cryogenic method to take a human form and shut it down for millions of years. But it's feasible with frozen embryos.
How we grow them from there, I don't know. We'd some way to create test tube babies without implanting them in a host.
The adam and eve of the new solar system are created. If it turns out there is habitable planet in that system - they win. If there isn't, the humans can nuke themselves or something.
I don't know - seems the only way. The distances are just so huge and the time scales so vast, that transporting organic material that far seems impractical.
In politics, the first rule is to define your opponent. It really doesn't matter what your are about, it matters how you get others to percieve the opponent.
This works as corporate marketing as well. Ads which are the most effective are ones that frame the competition as being idiots or ridiculous. The Coke vs. Pepsi truck driver commercials, etc.
This is strategy. Frame Linux advocates as fringe element types. Frame the open source movement as un-American, hippy idealism. Cast aspersions, and most importantly, PUT A WOMAN UP FRONT TO PLAY THE VICTIM ROLE.
Oh no, she's been flamed and horrible emails have been sent. Linux zealots are RUINING things. They are vociferously countering our FUD and constantly shedding light on our spin and half truths. We need to stop them!
This is a war. It's a war against a monolithic corporation which controls the operating system market with an iron grip, and is co-opting the mainstream press and buying favorable press. On the other side is the open source movement, now potentially aided by companies like IBM which will genuinely help it achieve legitimacy in the corporate and academic worlds. European and South American countries are realizing they get escape debt cycles by simply getting out from under the thumb of insane software license schemes.
In this war, you can expect every trick to be used. Linux users will be cast in the vein of the Simpson's comic book guy. Sarcastic nerds, nobodies, people who are wacko. People who hate capitalism and hate intellectual property law.
It's ordinary every day programmers contributing to something for the gerater good vs. Madison avenue types running bought and paid for marketing campaigns. You need to defy them by refusing to be defined by them. You need to recruit other people to the benefits of OpenOffice and OpenVPN and Linux and away from corporate juggernauts who will try and FUD this thing to kill it.
Good point. The early Beatles were all about being managed. They started in Germany with the leathers, and came back and Brian put them in suits and made them mod.
They were as managed and as packaged as anything that comes from American or World Idol. The difference, of course, between them and Kelly Clarkson, is that they were brilliant musicians and songwriters.
At this point, it's like having a Star Wars crossover. Frakes and Sirtis are as big as Hutts. They can roll in and demand they be paid back.
To follow up to myself, I just love this quote from Dave Winer. If a journalist is quoting Enderle, it means he's cutting corners on his research by DEFINITION. http://daringfireball.net/2003/12/enderle That should be the Slashdot ethos. Similar to how if Hitler is invoked, a Usenet thread automatically ends. If Rob Enderle is quoted, the article BY DEFINITION is not worth reading.
He's quoted at length in this article. He was just on NPR talking about computing. How has this cretin who has an absolutely abysmal record of pontificating about anything always the go to source for so many media outlets? He must be a master marketer of Enderle Group.
He's lousy copy, and I usually tune out of anything he says. Which is usually something bad about Linux or about open source is evil.
When the U.S. Feds wanted to take down organized crime, they hired Pizzone to pose as Donnie Brasco. He rose within the Bonanno crime family until he was able to finger the right people and present evidence to his handlers.
It's time for the Feds to do this to Microsoft. Tap a young smart O/S programmer in college, and get him into Microsoft. Have him show evidence that he was directly asked to sabotage the O/S or make competing formats not inter-operate. It could take years and years to place the right person in the right position, but that's what it will take to stop Microsoft and demonstrate that these issues are deliberately manufacturered. A sting operation.