MS apps division architect to be fired into space, again.

By Robert X. Cringely Maybe you saw the story this week about a paper from Microsoft Research analyzing peer-to-peer file sharing networks with the conclusion that they can't be stopped -- not by the law, not by the movie studios and record companies, not even by mighty Microsoft and its Palladium initiative for trusted computing.

During the early and mid-1980s, a home computing practice of use and openness of software emerged in Greece. This computer culture both reflected and reinforced the local economic and technological.

Ron Onrust provided me with a link to this remarkable column by Robert X. Cringely on identity theft. What we do know is that there is somewhere between 250,000 and 750,000 identity theft victims every year. While many cases are small, the U.S. Secret Service reported in one year investigating more than 7,000 cases with an average cost to.

I was contacted by a fellow Canadian asking me to do an interview on the OTAS project.He is a freelance writer who is hoping to pitch our story to a Canadian magazine, plus he is considering writing about this project for his Master’s thesis in Philosophy and Public Policy.

Anthony J. Pennings, PhD recently joined the Digital Media Management program. at St. Edwards University in Austin TX, after ten years on the faculty of New York University. Category: democratic political economies.

Robert X. Cringely Writer, Broadcaster, and Computer Guy. Robert Cringely writes a weekly technology column for PBS. His work has also appeared inthe New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Upside, Success, Worth, and many other publications.

On the other hand, as my husband was leaving graduate school for his first job, his thesis advisor told him, “You may wonder how a professor gets any research done when one has to teach, advise students, serve on committees, referee papers, write letters of recommendation, interview prospective faculty. Well, I take long showers.”.

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Reading List, by Adam Rifkin. Not as selective as FoRK Recommended Reading or Megan Coughlin's book site (which are in partnership with Amazon), and not as eclectic as Cosma's book site or FoRK Recommended Music, but I am what I am. Books I'm Currently Reading. Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing, Burton G. Malkiel.

Thesis supervisor Vertr.-Prof. Dr. Horst Bischof Thesis reviewer Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rinner ii We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct.

Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History Of The Internet (1998) is a three-hour documentary film written and hosted by Mark Stephens under the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely and produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting for PBS. A sequel to Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1 documents the development of ARPANET, the Internet, the World Wide Web and the dot-com.

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