http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-27T16:05:49-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/the_legend_of_dennis_hayes.php Those of you under 30 may never have heard of Dennis Hayes. But once he was somebody. I knew him. His was one of the first tech stories I wrote in Atlanta, back in 1982. Dennis Hayes made modems. His... 49433@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2006-02-27T16:05:49-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/26/evolution_changes_its_mind_again.php One of the great absurdities of the “intelligent design” debate is when someone says “science says.” Scientists say a lot of things. Scientists agree (and sometimes disagree). The consensus among scientists is what science “teaches.” But that consensus can change,... 49336@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Science 2006-02-26T15:00:45-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/25/welcome_to_1966.php Another of those political-historical things. Move along, oh lovers of tech stuff. (That's the 1966 Buick Chevy Impala to the left.) It disturbs me when people ignore history, even the history they themselves have seen. Like Brit Hume today saying... 49310@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2006-02-25T13:39:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/21/fall_of_radio_shack.php News that David Edmondson, the CEO of Radio Shack, had to quit after a week because he phonied-up his resume was sad to read. The more I thought about the story, the sadder I got. That's because Radio Shack had... 49048@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2006-02-21T19:38:30-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/15/show_trial.php During Mao's Cultural Revolution, show trials were used to cover-up the evils of the regime. Innocent parties were brought in, tried without justice, then either killed or sent to "re-education" camps. The U.S. House held its own version of such... 48648@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/14/yahoo_gets_lost_in_translation_baddaboom_baddabing.php Yahoo tried to draw some favorable press coverage today. (That's actress Charlize Theron, but she's very small, hard to recognize. That's deliberate, as you'll see.) In the wake of a scandal over the fact its Chinese affiliate cooperated with... 48566@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-02-14T14:37:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/01/st_google_and_the_dragons.php Change is the one business constant. Those who embrace it succeed, those who resist it fail. But change also dislocates. Workers threatened by change organize unions and seek protection from government. The Luddite movement was a call by workers to... 47713@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-02-01T20:33:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/30/the_internet_necessity.php A few years ago some wags talked about people having a "right" to Internet service, and they got laughed at. Let's try it another way. America's economic future requires every citizen have access to Internet resources, and full freedom to... 47524@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-30T21:11:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/a_curious_theory_of_conservatism.php In his latest diatribe against a la carte cable pricing Capitalist Tool Adam Thierer of the "Progress and Freedom Foundation" claims that arguments by his opponents in this debate represent "a curious theory of conservatism." I couldn't let that go... 46992@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2006-01-24T14:29:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/23/sexual_monsters_inc.php Something occurred to me when reading of how the Justice Department wants a week of Google search records, ostensibly to enforce the failed law against Internet pornography, but with authority under the Patriot Act. This is getting someone’s rocks off.... 46978@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-01-23T15:33:59-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/21/railroaded.php NOTE: The following entry is being mirrored at the new Infrastructure Held Hostage blog. We live in an uneasy relationship with the past.Photograph courtesy RPI.) The whole past is available to us, there to teach us lessons, to give us... 46892@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-01-21T12:51:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/this_weeks_clue_circuit_breakers.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is another one of those policy cum history cum politics ruminations I know some of you don't like. But it's my newsletter. And some of the subscribers enjoyed this one. You're invited to join the... 46860@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-01-20T15:49:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/19/murder_the_beloved_country.php One reason I haven't been around much lately is I have been (finally) reading Salman Rushdie's latest 2005 1997classic Shalimar the Clown. Like all great writers Rushdie tends to be ahead of his time, sometimes far ahead. Just as his... 46726@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ fun stuff 2006-01-19T14:38:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/congress_passes_blatantly_unconstitutional_law_against_internet_speech.php If Congress thought Netizens were angry before, now we're furious. Declan McCullagh revealed today that buried inside some must-pass legislation from last year is a provision from Sen. Arlen Spector, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that bans all anonymous... 45801@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-09T14:33:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/05/the_google_bubble.php We haven't had that kind of spirit here since, 1999. And watch out. It lies like cocaine. How else do you explain Google supposedly heading to $600/share? How else do you explain a company with $500,000 in revenues over its... 45507@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2006-01-05T11:45:46-05:00