Google is taking a courageous stand against China. Good for them! We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that “we will carefully [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
28 Aug
Emergency Control Of The Internet
There is a bill now being written behind closed doors that would give the President the power to exert emergency control of the internet in times of emergency. If you are fortunate enough to be a company that is designated as a critical interest you could be subjected to forced removal from the internet when [...]
6 Aug
Cash For Software Clunkers
I received this e-mail today from Shavlik Technologies. This is a very interesting twist on the government automobile stimulus program. It’s a shame we already use this product… Shavlik Technologies is offering customers 1 million reasons to dump their resource-guzzling patch management, configuration management, and antivirus solutions with a rebate program that provides a cash [...]
25 Jul
Is Sugar The Laptop Or The Operating System?
Nicholas Negroponte is at it again, giving an interview in Singapore and discussing the major failings of the OLPC project. I was struck by one thing that he said: Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but the biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application “on a vanilla Linux [...]
13 Jul
Common Sense: The Cure For The Common FUD
Did you know that we were attacked by North Korea last week? To hear the media tell it, the United States suffered a major cyberattack last week. Stories were everywhere. “Cyber Blitz hits U.S., Korea” was the headline in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. North Korea was blamed. Where were you when North Korea attacked America? [...]
16 Jun
Where Is Their Vote?
I support the Iranian freedom movement. You can find out more about this important movement by following #IranElection on Twitter or on Andrew Sullivan’s blog. God go with the people of Iran during this difficult time. I am praying for the people of Iran. You should be too…
14 Jun
Digital Textbooks
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing for California to adopt digital textbooks in favor if printed ones. This is an effort to help reign in an out of control budget deficit. This makes perfect sense. We expect our children to cart around half their body weight using textbooks that are often out of date before they [...]
