How surprising; another conspiracy theory regarding Microsoft. Cringley is completely ripping off “The Register“, without giving them credit, and mashing a whole bunch of things together to the point where he is confusing himself. The Reg has been reporting on Microsoft’s DRM strategy for a few years now, and in many cases with far more [...]
A few weeks ago, I commented on the way that homeless people could become a good source of information about wireless hotspots.Not long after that post,some wi-fi afficionadossat for a meal, and Matt Jones was struck with the idea of warchalking. It’s a clever term, since randomly searching for listening modem ports by dialing around [...]
It looks like Sun is on-board with WS-Security now, which just went to Oasis. IBM has an implementation. Simon Fell comments on why WS-Security is better (but slower)than SSL. Security is great FUD material for the “rough” competitors, so it is great to see that Sun is willing to pass up the opportunity to frustrate [...]
CNN is running two apocalyptic articles about the current Worldcom situation; “The Death of Confidence” and “The Last Straw“. When scandal after scandal hits the papers, and we realize that most of the earnings statements we looked at over the past five years were pure fabrications, we start looking for stable ground. Enron, Tyco, Rite-Aid, [...]
Cool! Dane Carlson maintains an RSS feed of Eric Raymond’s blog.
Arnold Kling at Tech Central Station apparently reads Eric’s blog, since he responded to one of the posts with an article titled “The Programming Soviet“. It’s surprising to see a tech journalist writing something so common-sense. Less surprising are the comments by the religious zealots [...]