Remember the comercial?
Its
hard to believe its been a whole year!
Remember this? "Brace for
Impact"... 90 seconds 155 people will never forget.
Now THAT was a fast year!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583091,00.html
Google is more about
protecting the cloud than protecting freedom
Google made some hay the last couple of days by saying it
was stopping it's part in censoring search results in order
to placate Chinese authorities. That might be true,
but its stated reason of preserving the free flow of
information probably isn't its biggest reason.
Google was successfully attacked and exploited. Its
gMail security was compromised, and it monitored the
extraction of personal information by 'a source in China'
about Chinese dissidents. While that's not a secret,
its also not being hung out there with the rest of the
laundry.
Google is trying to get us to give up the hard drive.
It wants us to switch to the "ChromeOS", where your computer
is simply a device that runs a browser, and the computing
power is handled, along with the storage of whatever you're
interacting with - pictures, programs, tax information, bank
information... everything... is held in the "Cloud".
Google wants us to rent space, and rent the use of tools and
services... and we won't do that if we don't think our stuff
will be safe. The cloud won't succeed unless we think
its secure, and having China - or someone 'originating in
China' hacking into Google's servers isn't going to help
that cause.
So... its likely that Google will be cutting the virtual
ties with China. That means it won't help censor
anything anymore... but it also means it can close the doors
that the attackers used to get in, also. I think that
THAT is the real goal.
These guys said it much better than I just did -
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/gathering-clouds
It seems I'm not the only
one who noticed...
President Bush was bashed hard and heavy by the Media,
but he still held press conferences, and took the beatings
head on... something that President Obama, apparently, isn't
willing to do.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-barack-obama-helda-press-conference-months/story?id=9549859
Well what do you know...
he didn't blame Bush
So why is the government doing such a bad job???
Simple... its because they don't have snazzy computers to
run it on.
White House budget director
blames old computers for ineffective government
By Ian
Swanson - 01/14/10 02:56 PM ET
A big reason why the
government is inefficient and ineffective is because
Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers
having better computers at home than in the office.
This startling admission came Thursday from Peter Orszag,
who manages the federal bureaucracy for President Barack
Obama.
Sort of makes you wonder how it worked before computers
were invented at all, eh? Its also pretty telling that
they admit to being innefective.
MORE:
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/75965-white-house-blames-inefficient-government-on-outdated-technologies
Hope and change collides
with reality... Kids version
Kid on President Obama: "Its kind of like he's paying
people to be rude to people in his own country"
This video, from WSYR, shows a lesson learned by some
kids...
MORE:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/14/school_kids_angry_with_obama_for_writing_misdated_letter.html
Greetings!
