Archive for July, 2002

Fraud Inc.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2002

CNN is running a page called “Fraud Inc.“, where they sensationalize all of the evil corporate cheats. Funny they mention nothing about the SEC investigation of their parent company (although they have a link to a pre-SEC revelation editorial which is an unabashedly partisan defensive piece claiming that AOL is getting a bad rap from […]

Really?

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2002

Real Networks is announcing it has a crush on “Open Source”. I wonder how many OSS developers will abandon Ogg and invest their time into supporting a proprietary and pro-RIAA set of codecs instead?
O’Reilly OSCON should have an interesting announcement about Apache and .NET tomorrow. There were plenty of people of Slashdot who guessed correctly.

Dow 1000

Monday, July 22nd, 2002

The Dow took 76 years to reach 1,000 (and didn’t stay above 1000 until 11 years after that). It took another 14 years to hit 2,000 for the first time. And 1995 was the first time that the Dow reached 4,000.
1995 was a good year.

Some Rationale for TIPS (Or, the Coolest Job in Defense Department)

Saturday, July 20th, 2002

Some while ago, it was reported that the FBI isusing data mining to assist in fighting terrorism. The idea is very appealing in theory. Every terrorist incident, in retrospect, has some characteristics that “could have prevented the attack if only someone had connected the dots.” The problem with terrorism, though, is that the “dots” are […]

URI Ethics

Friday, July 19th, 2002

The debate over the range of HTTP rages on. The core of the debate is whether or not it is OK for an http: identifier to identifysomething other than hypermedia, like acar. The only answer is “no”.
URIs are the words of the Internet. Sometimes words are ambiguous, but words are normally expected to mean […]