David S. Isenberg's musings about loci of intelligence and stupidity.
The BBC was all over the CIA Torture Tape Cover-Up that the New York Times broke last night. I'm imagining former FCC chairman Mike Powell, a friend of mine despite many disagreements, saying, "But without the Internet, you might not have heard even the BBC story.
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An article today in the Chicago Tribune says that AT&T is shutting down the last remnants of its pay phone business, making our rich web of communications options thinner. When telecom was a monopoly under the Bell System, the network worked because it was gold plated.
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The CIA now claims it no longer videotapes its torture sessions. Suppose the torture victim says something useful, but mumbles, or uses disjointed syntax, or uses a language that the torturers don't know. Or maybe the victim utters the valuable information and dies.
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We had to put Miso down a week ago last Friday. She had cancer, and we'd had her on palliative care (prednisone) since last June. She was eating less and less, vomiting after every meal and losing weight. Finally she just about stopped eating. Miso was the least intelligent of our three cats.
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?We are not building a GPhone; we are enabling 1,000 people to build a GPhone."Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, quoted in the NY Times today.Technorati Tags: Cellco, Google, MobileApps, MobileDevices, OpenSource, QuoteOfNote, WealthofNetworks
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There are no reports that Comcast?s Falmouth customers are affected yet, but Comcast has not renounced the practice, so it?s only a matter of time. We could have a Falmouth Internet that was many times faster and much freer than what the telephone and cable companies are offering us.
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"You can't be President and head of the military at the same time."George W. Bush, press conference yesterday (11/7/07), watch it yourself here.Technorati Tags: irony
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Google News search for "Bush Gore Pakistan Supreme-Court" -- 18 hits. [ top hit ] The spur for the Burma crackdown was, supposedly, oil, reputedly Chevron and the French oil giant Total have major Burmese operations.
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Source: CrunchGearTechnorati Tags: DRM, WalledGardens
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