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“Technology is beginning to assail the underlying concepts of our educational system”

2008.03.21 – 6:35 pm PDT

This weeks Robert X. Cringley is a worthy read.  I won’t spoil too much.

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That’s 30 years to become an overnight sensation, 30 years to finally settle into the form most useful to society, 30 years to change the game.

The key word here is “empowerment.” Technologies allow us to overcome limitations of time, distance, and physical capability, but they only empower us when they can be gracefully used by large, productive segments of our society. The telephone was empowering when we all finally got it. Now it is the Internet and digital communications.
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Each new technology is difficult for the older generation and easy for the younger, which explains why I am a PC master but a texting idiot. I’m just too damned old.

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[tags]education, values, reasoning, empowerment, texting, society[/tags]

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Cringley writes about DNS

2007.02.23 – 1:23 pm PST

After reading this week’s Robert X. Cringley article, I decided to leave a comment, and also cross post my comment to my blog because DNS is something that I’ve always had a fondness for. Failing to read the nearly 100 comments already posted until after writing it, a few of the other individuals wrote similar comments to mine. Oh well, another voice to be heard.

I’ve been reading Cringely for a couple years also now. Most of it great to read, and insightful. But this one was blah at best.
I agree with the comments above. People have tried to create a “secondary” name system to work with the internet, some have worked OK, others have already failed. Just Google for “Alternative DNS” there is plenty to read up on.
Wikipedia Alternative DNS lists a few of such attempts.

I personally do not trust any one company like OpenDNS to “filter” my requests. Especially with the amount of gTLD’s we now have, it’s bound to be quite difficult to police things. DNS should be Open, Distributed, and Automated. Anyone with a copy of ISC Bind, and some knowledge can start their own System. Brining users to the table is the hard part.

I also agree with Bob Kahn, that the name system shouldn’t be generating as much money as it does. But if someone waved that much money in front of your nose, could you honestly say no?

[update] This post’s comments has kind of turned into friendly a dialog with OpenDNS’ VP of Product, John Roberts. –Thanks John.
[tags]cringley, DNS, internet, technology, alternative DNS, nameservers, domains[/tags]

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You Boob!

2006.08.02 – 3:18 am PDT

After reading Cringley’s article this week, I finally decided to remove my videos from YouTube. Sure I’ll watch videos on there, but no more content will be submitted by me.

“Here are the exact words of the new YouTube license:

“…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business…in any media formats and through any media channels.”

The internet is huge why do big companies need to horde our content that we create. If you have a connection to the internet you should be able to share with the internet, via bittorrent and or an HTTP server. Publishing a feed of your content to the internet is pretty easy for anyone to do. Once out there, with the aid of search engines we find things to entertain us. Just because it makes it “easy” and has a semi universal flash player to share a video with a friend, are you ready to have your image abused later?

update: I just read blip.tv’s tos. You keep your rights unless you mark a license for that upload. The language used in the “Grant of License” section, is pretty similiar to YouTube, as in losing some rights to content you made, but only for blip.tv and non commercial uses. Of course these terms can change at any time.

[tags]cringley, licensing, content, youtube, sharing, rights, internet, thoughts, rants, blip.tv[/tags]

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cringley

2006.06.30 – 3:33 pm PDT

“It’s honest funding,” says Frankston. “The current system is like buying drinks so you can watch the strippers. It is corrupt and opaque. We should pay for our wires in our communities just like we pay for the wires in our homes.”

via cringley

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local internet protocol video services

2006.06.14 – 1:59 pm PDT

“The dream we have of a global network has kept us from realizing that when it comes to taking Internet video to the next level, our real heroes ought to be local.”

Cringley thinks there should be not-for-profit companies to distribute the next generation of IPTV, and video offerings locally. I believe this would be great if it came about. I certainly would like to, create, develop, or work for such a company. An environment like that would foster a great amount of knowledge for all those who are connected. I just don’t know if PBS should be the one to do it, but if they try, I hope they succeed.

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2006.05.29 – 6:42 am PDT

more good stuff from cringley.

“But it isn’t just Microsoft that does this. It is ANY high tech company that hires young people, isolates them through long hours at work, feeds them at work, and effectively determines their friends, who are their co-workers. This trend even extends to the anti-Microsoft, to Google, where the light of day is sorely needed.”

(this sounds like the places i’ve worked at.)

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2006.05.14 – 7:30 pm PDT
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NerdTV is comming.

2005.08.06 – 11:07 pm PDT

Robert X. Cringley is going to have downloadable shows starting Sept 6th. This should be pretty sweet.

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Bad Behavior has blocked 1454 access attempts in the last 7 days.

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