The latest edition of Scripting.Com is a good illustration of the problems with American foreign policy — very few Americans consistently follow foreign affairs. On the one hand, for example, Dave Winer notes that many people are surprised to learn about the situation on the ground in Afghanistan. Many of the people I’ve talked to…
September, 2001
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Slashdot linked to this review of the upcoming Phantom Menace DVD. Unfortunately it’s such a fanboy review, I got the feeling that if George Lucas had released Phantom Menace on Betamax that this would have been offered as a reason to go out and find a working Beta player. But I do have a point…
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Somebody at the university I work at moved pretty quickly to shut down what was a pretty surreal contrast of images during last week’s terrorist attack. The building I work in is about 20 yards from the student union and I venture over there five or six times on an average day. About a year…
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CNET reports that Palm unleashed its lawyers on Palm-related fan web sites. A letter sent to the operator of one such site, for example, said, Palm Inc. is proud to have a positive and productive relationship with Web sites promoting the Palm OS. We do not in any way want this relationship to deteriorate. However,…
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CNN and other sites are reporting that the upcoming war on terrorism has been named Operation Infinite Justice. Are they serious? This sounds like some (bad) comic book title. Was Operation Avengers Assemble! already taken? Is George W. Bush about to ditch the “Dead or Alive” talk in favor of “It’s Clobberin’ Time”?
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A lot of the comments from the usual suspects on the 9/11 attacks run along the lines that no one ever imagined terrorists would be capable of, much less want to, simultaneously hijacks several jets and crash them into American targets. In fact, CNN reports that the FBI was warned several years ago that terrorist…
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Is anybody else as mystified as I am about the moves (or lack thereof) being made by Palm and Handspring? I am a very heavy user of my Palm IIIxe and it is one of the few high-tech gadgets I’ve ever purchased that I actually used on a daily basis. I don’t leave home without…
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After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Malcolm X created a controversy when he characterized the assassination as “chickens coming home to roost.” Malcolm X believed that the United States was a fundamentally violent society, and his point was that in the context of that violence it is hardly surprising that someone…
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The horror of it all is still difficult to comprehend. Thousands of civilians murdered in cold blood as part of a campaign of terror. These people were killed simply to make a point and to attempt to weaken the resolve of a nation. No, I’m not talking about the terrorist attack on the World Trade…
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ZDNet reports that some members of Congress want a worldwide ban on “uncrackable” computer encryption in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States. First, no existing system of computer encryption is uncrackable. Very difficult to crack if implemented correctly, but not uncrackable. Even systems using what should be an uncrackable scheme —…