Overseers Missed Big Picture as Failures Led to Blackout. While the two agencies charged with monitoring the grid were discussing the loss of two power lines, there were, in fact, eight lines down, and others headed for failure. By Eric Lipton, Richard Perez-pena and Matthew L. Wald. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Month: September 2003
The future and past of Apple
The future and past of Apple. Ex-Apple Employee Slams Company. In an online forum, a former Apple marketing director lashes out at co-workers for creating a 'diseased and dysfunctional' culture, which he says led to the company's downfall. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] It's great to see this sort of chutzpah and courage. Most of… Continue reading The future and past of Apple
interviewed by CNet
MCI going VOIP. Vint Cerf, interviewed by CNet: “We want to get 25 percent of our calls over an IP backbone by the end of the year. We're at 10 percent now. We want to move all of it over by 2005.” [Werblog]
testing a hosted VOIP service
There goes the neighborhood. AT&T is testing a hosted VOIP service (via Om Malik). After Vint Cerf's comments about VOIP the other day, maybe this is a trend. The long-distance companies know their traditional market niche is doomed as the local Bell companies gain approval to offer interstate service, so they are going virtual. It… Continue reading testing a hosted VOIP service
no incentive to deploy fiber to the home
The old Bell bait and switch. I'm shocked, shocked that the CEO of SBC suddenly sees no incentive to deploy fiber to the home, now that the FCC triennial review order is out. After all, the order supposedly granted the Bells huge regulatory relief so they would deploy fiber to the home. Now that the… Continue reading no incentive to deploy fiber to the home
New Gallup Poll On Patriot Act
New Gallup Poll On Patriot Act. From the Gallup Poll press release, September 9, 2003: “The poll, conducted Aug. 25-26, finds 67% of Americans saying the government should not take steps to prevent terrorism if those steps would violate their basic civil liberties, while 29% say the government should take “all steps necessary” to prevent… Continue reading New Gallup Poll On Patriot Act
Bills Introduced to Expand Patriot Act
Bills Introduced to Expand Patriot Act. Antiterrorism Tools Enhancement Act of 2003, H.R. 3037, To strengthen antiterrorism investigative tools, and for other purposes, introduced September 9, 2003. Pretrial Detention and Lifetime Supervision of Terrorists Act of 2003, H.R. 3040, introduced September 9, 2003. See also Bush Seeks to Toughen Anti-Terror Laws and Justice Bell questions… Continue reading Bills Introduced to Expand Patriot Act
Zeepe 7 was released today
Zeepe 7 was released today. They say it's no longer necessary to deploy “a browser on every desktop” for your Windows users to work with web applications if you use Zeepe. Gotta check it out and they'll be at the PDC. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
I can't take the whole Trustworthy Computing thing serious at this point
Christoph Schittko: “I can't take the whole Trustworthy Computing thing serious at this point.” Believe me, it ain't fun to work at Microsoft when we continually have bugs found in our products. It's the discussion at every lunch and every meeting I've been in lately. Are we working on answers? Yes (with more to come).… Continue reading I can't take the whole Trustworthy Computing thing serious at this point
Saving the Browser
Saving the Browser: Some months back I became aware of the patent US 5,838,906 and the Eolas lawsuit against Microsoft, and followed a bit of conversation on the Net related to it. As many, I believed the the issue would quickly go away because of ample prior art. Regrettably, this seems not to be the… Continue reading Saving the Browser