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Apple Tablet
02 years ago
by zenith
in technology
Update: Truck is fixed. It was broken. List of things fixed was long. Crazy. I also read everyone’s responses re: migraines but I haven’t quite figured out what to do yet.
It must be recruiter season. The best I have received this week: “I have one of 35 jobs — want one?” and “I have a 50% travel position with some company somewhere you can interview with immediately.” Employers have suddenly discovered that — OMG — they are being attacked by BAD GUYS and perhaps they should do something about that and if they toss enough money at the problem it will go away.
But Anyway.
I heard this pernicious rumor about an Apple
But $1000? Dear God, what does it do? Does it cure me of all my ailments when I lay my hands upon it? Now, don’t get me wrong, I am mightily fond of handing paychecks over to Apple. My house has long been purged of the pernicious menace of Windows and basks in a MacOSX glow (‘cept my netbook, that runs Ubuntu 9.10 which, bizarrely, I adore). Except for the occasional spectacular battery death the MacBooks run without a hitch forever and ever.
I want to get excited about the iSlate. I do. I honestly do. But is it Apple’s answer to the netbook? Is it a great big iPod touch? How is it better than my netbook? How much battery does it have? Because, y’know, we have MSI Wind netbooks with 12 hours of battery life showing up on the market and a cheaper netbook that runs all day with Ubuntu vs. an Apple tablet that is sexy but runs for two hours — it’s a difficult call. TELL ME HOW AWESOME IT IS.
I know this guy? Right? Who works in a chemistry lab all day? Who could get serious use out of a tablet computer. But it has to run scientific applications and not just stuff from the AppStore. That’s the deciding factor.
I am waiting with baited breath.
The Kindle Store is a Killer App
02 years ago
by zenith
in technology
The Kindle Store is a Killer App. Not the Kindle, but the Kindle Store. A centrally located online repository that, through nothing other than a linked credit card, wirelessly and seamlessly delivers data to a device with no computer, wires, or other software required. Once the Kindle is hooked to its store it pulls books without any more fuss than simply hitting the download button, waiting, and watching the battery drain. It has reviews and ratings and book lists and sorting and it does very well precisely what Amazon does very well: it delivers books. It is the service by which the eBook becomes reality.
With CES around the corner, everyone is looking and waiting in anticipation for the new e-book readers. All of the e-book readers currently available have verious levels of suck with none of them cresting better than “good.” The slate waiting around the corner includes the Skiff, the Que, the Alex, the unfortunately named eDGe, the Copia Ocean, the COOL-ER, the iRiver Story, the Qi, and others to add to the current iLiads and e-Readers and Nooks in all different and varying sizes and shapes and capabilities. They’re expensive. Some work like enormous book-reading PDAs (feature creep) and some display newspapers. What is not clear is where any of them are going to get their content because those of us in the tech industry know that it doesn’t matter how awesome your gadget is — content is King.
Only the Kindle comes out of the box hooked to a store that has Amazon’s power behind it to deliver books to a device.
Sure, the Sony e-Reader has a store and somehow the content gets on the device through a serious of cables and foo. The Nook has theoretical 3G AT&T wireless but the store isn’t online yet (Q1 sometime about the time that they all ship!) But the Kindle has content. It’s not great as devices go but it has content. Real content. Live content. Content people want.
I have no doubt that these devices being presented at CES will all blow the current e-Readers away. But I would like to know where they are planning on getting books from. Without a Great Unified iTunes-like Store to Rule Them All, the devices are ultimately very pretty and extremely expensive PDAs who serve up great looking PDFs. Nice for carrying around business presentations but perhaps not so great for books. Book readers are no good without book stores from which to browse, sample, and purchase books. Right now there is one game in town: the Kindle Store and it will continue to sell Kindles over all the fancy devices.
This can all change with the Jesus Tablet*. WHO KNOWS WHAT THE JESUS TABLET WILL BRING. But we won’t know until the end of the month.
*According to the tech news, the new Apple Tablet is going to cure cancer, solve world hunger, and display ebooks. It is the savior of all Mankind. AMAZING.
Books Available on the Kindle
12 years ago
by zenith
in technology
After spending time flipping through the Kindle store, I have discovered the following authors are NOT on the Kindle:
* Vladimir Nabokov
* Thomas Pynchon
* Hunter S Thompson
* Umberto Eco
* P. D. James
* Sylvia Plath
A few Arturo Perez-Reverte books have appeared but no Club Dumas. How can you not have the Club Dumas? Arturo Perez-Reverte is a wash — lesser known books.
The only Cormac McCarthy book available is the Road.
Yet authors available on the Kindle via the Kindle Store:
* Kurt Vonnegut
* David Foster Wallace
* Neal Stephenson
* Neil Gaiman
* All the Penguin Classics (yay Penguin you rule!)
There’s some very curious and strange gaps in their library. No Nabokov? What? While Amazon’s integrated Kindle Store is a killer app for their reader, it would be nice if it had, you know, books.
I almost sent Amazon one of those weird, stalker, insane emails in all caps about the lack of HST. No Great Shark Hunt? Why are you punishing me so?
Alas.
Meanwhile…
I went and updated my theme on my main blog yet again. This time I’ll leave it because it finally has the comments on the bottom of the posts. Who puts comments on the top? It’s terrible. This is, hopefully, better. I’m still fixing it up! It just needs the About section filled in and faboosh.
The Kindle vs. the Exercise Bike
02 years ago
by zenith
in technology
I sometimes joke that I am the world’s most in shape flabby fat person because when I’m not burdened by various illnesses I tend to go work out all the time. I lift weights for a few minutes every morning (7 days a week) and usually hit a big, long aerobic exercise bike 3 times a week. The issue I have had in the past is that I cannot stand to just listen to music and podcasts. While they do something for me when I drive, they are horrible for working out because I just end up watching the clock. I need to block the output display and do something productive with the time. So I read.
Reading on the exercise bike is great if I am in the middle of a very floppy book with a broken spine. Otherwise, it has a few operational challenges.
I gave up reading several books that interested me but couldn’t stay open and moved entirely to easy to hold paperbacks simply for their easy-to-holdness. Since I am a High Minded Literature Nerd ™ who prefers Non-Fiction and Smarmy Literature to paperbacks, this made my life a bit hard because I like my Smarmy Literature and Smarmy Literature tends to be long in 81/2-11 format with stiff spines. Even on an exercise bike.
But now I have a Kindle! I feel like a race-traitor to my certain brand of book-loving nerd-kind but I have a Kindle! It’s flat! It does not have the page-turn-floppiness-closed-on-me problem! I found I had to jack the font resolution up to “eyebleedingly high” but otherwise it is relatively simple to read a Kindle on the exercise bike and punch that “Next Page” button like a crazed weasel when I need to. I can even keep the exercise contraption happy by holding on to the heartbeat sensors.
So, there’s that problem solved by the High Lords of Technology, then. Technology! What problem can it not solve?
Last Comments on Terrorism
0This is it. I swear. A couple of round-up of points lurking in my head from reading essays from people smarter than me:
A. The point of terrorism is to create terror. Killing people generates terror… but so does the threat of killing people. When a threat can clear an airport and tie it up for two days, why bother with the real thing?
B. Because people massively overreact to the threat of terrorism, it is cost effective to set a terrorist up to fail. Actual terrorism, like the recent hit on the CIA post in Afghanistan, is expensive and incredibly risky. Getting caught means giving up vast time and resources.* Imagine the time spent getting a mole so close to CIA agents that the mole could bypass even basic security. Amazing.
However, slapping some explosives into some guy’s underwear is cheap. They don’t have to work. The guy just has to get caught to bait the US into an overreaction.
Besides, actually setting off the explosives is not a desired result because we tend to bomb people. But an overreaction to a failed and ludicrous attempt? Gold.
C. All these technological devices and security measures and pat-downs and random searches don’t work when the terrorist wants to get caught. That’s the entire point of terrorism! Drug mules have a different model of hack from terrorists since they want to get through undetected. Terrorists want to be detected! That’s the entire point of terrorism!
Terrorism doesn’t work when no one notices. Just something to think about next time you’re stuck in line at the airport.
D. America must return to being the Land of the Bold and the Home of the Free. I want to punch every person who screams about Government in their Medicare but is okay with strip searches of children in airports**. It’s time for the US to give the entire edifice the mocking it richly deserves. Reality happens. People are idiots. People do stupid and sometimes horrible things. We deal with it, grow up, and move on. I would rather be Proud than be dragged to their level.
And that’s it! I’m done. At least until something else stupid happens.
* One of the many reasons we see very, very, very little actual terrorism unlike in the rest of the world is that the US is protected by an enormous moat. It is expensive and difficult to get agents into the US instead of, say, 20 miles down the road. Of course it can be done and it /has/ been done, which is one of the reasons we are so crazy, but it’s very rare.
** You know who you are. You are on notice.
Intent and Forensics
02 years ago
by zenith
in technology
Because of the Crotch-Bomber, all the talk around terrorism, and the current freakout at Newark International Airport, I’m going to babble a little bit about security and crime here and there. Feel free to ignore me for a few days until I get back to talking about something more important like Muse albums.
Someone dumb commits an act.
The political establishment yells: “Something must be done! Something has to be done! Why hasn’t anything been done!” The techs and the geeks and the weirdos and the cops go: “We can only do so much!” Unless a suspect is already under suspicion for an attempted act it is coming asymptotically close to impossible to divine the intent to commit a crime out of the line noise of the universe. Human beings during the course of their daily lives generate noise. Computers collect noise, sift noise, and raise easily ignored false positives on noise. Other computers analyze the sifted noise. It’s still noise.
The legal system cannot prosecute for a crime someone is going to commit. No one computer system can sift enough data and no one can read enough tarot cards to divine the future and see the act that someone, somewhere, is going to do at some time. Even if a Certified Good Guy ™ knows someone, somewhere, has intent to commit a crime because of intelligence, the intent to commit the crime is not the crime. Reality is a random number generator.
Post facto, following the forensic trail blazes a big white line through the noise. Of course the weaknesses in the system are clear now! Why didn’t anyone see all the weaknesses in a hugely complex global system before it broke down once in 11 billion times! Why were these holes, which are quite clear now, not addressed by all the smart people involved in international terror and crime, immigration services, the US government, all foreign governments worldwide, and the airlines? Someone must do something! Why isn’t anyone doing something?
Real security is a tower defense game, not unlike Plants vs. Zombies. Zombies come at you in a big shambling horde and you have to layer your flowery defenses so that you eliminate the threat at the perimeter. Layer defenses so if a zombie happens to sneak past your perimeter defenses they’re schpocked appropriately. We do this in the computer world with IDS and firewalls and SEIM and log correlation and encryption and all sorts of other fun electronic toys, all which generate noise.
Rational people stand back and say: now that we have a forensic trail from a crime actually committed instead of trying to predict what will happen, what is the actual risk and how were the defensive systems penetrated? The actual odds of one passenger carrying one bomb one one plane — a bomb unlikely to go off or do any serious harm — shows how impressive the defenses truly are. The system, as Janet Napolitano unfortunately blurted out before being forced to recant, actually does work. The real risk is very low; it is unlikely adding more layers will actually lower risk. Beef up the perimeter defenses (immigration layer), treat the act as the crime it is (intent to murder), let the cops do their jobs and move on.
But we have this forensics trail and we have a hot political issue so something must be done. Near certainly after all the reviews of the system are conducted the rational response is to accept that neither computers nor humans can pick out intent out of the vast amounts of intelligence noise hovered up by the systems. Yet we will do draconian and expensive things anyway to make people “feel better.” This is the core of security theater: we have forensics on the crime and can reconstruct the trail, so now we are going to secure against that attack we know about at enormous cost. But we still cannot divine intent with our magic witching wands.
I am going to pimp David Brooks today who makes a very similar argument today in the New York Times.
An Interview
02 years ago
by zenith
in technology
Seth Godin on blogging – Seth Godin, Blogger: An Interview.
Also, the Press This! on WordPress has now made me a thousand times more annoying than ever before.
GoogleOS Will Save the World!
22 years ago
by zenith
in technology
I heard on the Interwebs through a series of tubes that GoogleOS based on Google Chrome is coming out in 2010! It will not only cause the collapse of Microsoft, but it will solve world hunger, put a man on Mars, get everyone to dress well, fix the economy, give us all universal health care AND look good! Also, it will be awesome.
I am a happy consumer of many a Google service, especially the fine search engine. I’ve been using it since it had a Stanford URL and remember, distinctly, evangelizing it when people went “Google what?” while heading off to Altavista. I have Gmail! I use Google Reader! I sometimes use Google Docs.
But the world is littered with Microsoft Killers. Linux has been THE Microsoft Killer any day now since 1994. I am still waiting. MacOS, which I love unto death, has a tiny market share compare to Windows. Solaris is not a desktop consumer OS despite several incarnations of Solaris on the Desktop.
And lo, yesterday, the Interwebs was rife with the coming of the great Google Messiah. A little digging turns up that it’s not a new operating system at all, it’s just yet another Linux variant that uses Chrome as a window manager designed to run on netbooks because we don’t have enough Linux variants with different window managers yet. Theoretically it will have better security (it will) and privacy (yes) but this is from riding on top of Linux which is naturally more secure and private than Windows. I am positive it will be great for netbooks. (Full disclosure: I have an HP Mini that runs Ubuntu.) It will be a pretty well-designed window manager. Lots of people will love it. It may even push Windows XP out of the default install netbook space, or lower its market share. But this is not going to get “Google to beat Microsoft” and I am not convinced Microsoft even cares about the netbook space.
Reality is a harsh mistress. Android isn’t beating the iPhone or Blackberry, and GoogleOS won’t destroy Microsoft in some David vs. Goliath — or, to the point, Goliath vs. Goliath — technical showdown.
So huzzah for another Linux distro! May it be like all the rest.
There was a nice rant at Naked Capitalism that is very much worth a read.
The Revolution Will Be Twittered
22 years ago
It’s funny, watching a stodgy old regime lose power. The more power they lose, the more hard-line the regime in power becomes. The further they are willing to go. The more atrocities they are willing to commit. But, like Gordon Brown said this morning in response to the Supreme Leader’s sermon blaming the Iranian problems on Britain, there won’t be another Rwanda, there won’t be another massacre hidden in the dark. You can bring out the guns. You can bring out the tanks. But the Revolution will be Twittered and everyone will know. Instantly.
Like everyone else, I have been staring at the net trying to follow the little drips and drabs of information coming out of Iran. No one knows where this is going to go, or how it is going to end up. An election was stolen in the most hamfisted, 19th century manner and who knows how many elections until now have, themselves, been rigged. No national election can ever go forward there now, not ever again, not without people knowing absolutely that the system is rigged (unlike here where everyone just thinks it.) One thinks, at least they could have looked up on Wikipedia ways to steal an election before staging one so brazenly but this is a regime who is anti-technology, anti-modernity, and is sticking its heels in the ground and refusing to move forward into the 21st century. It was a poor attempt at a coup to change a nominal republic into a military junta with the veneer of a theocracy to make the pill go down easier.
In normal times, before The Internets, the regime could make a polite fiction of the electoral system and murder anyone who disagreed. But in a society full of cellphones with cameras, no atrocity goes without showing up on YouTube. Everyone who is subscribed to the right channels knows instantly. Polite fictions become ugly truths fast.
What has entertained me, as I insert myself into the story, is the cat and mouse game between the attempts to cut off communication to the global community and the clear and obvious leaks of information getting out. The world is full of groups quietly getting around their government’s oppressive filters to get to the outside. There was an entertaining op-ed piece from Nick Kristof in the NYTimes yesterday about how the Iranians are flooding servers set up exclusively for the Falun Gong. The Chinese are trying to keep the servers up, but there is a huge difference between 12 Chinese dissidents sending a few emails and 400,000 Iranians twittering. The servers don’t have capacity.
How do we, as a Free Society who wants to encourage Democracy, set up the equivalent of a Free Internet for those who need to get out? How do we ensure that people who need encrypted email and encrypted connections can get out to news and services on the outside? Information needs to get out, so how to make it happen? What to do? (If I had a server, I would have put up a proxy box by now…)
As of this morning, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s speech, which boiled down to “we hate foreigners who are doing this to us and my candidate won and if you don’t like it, my goons will beat you up,” was what was predicted he would say. In the face of cities full of protesters and rioters, and having to cling to a poor decision to save face or else admit his complacency in the coup, he could do no other. And now the protesters will be back in the streets. More twitter proxy servers than ever are out there up and humming and it will escalate. My fear is that this will all end in Tiananmen Square Redeux, that the hard-liners will have no choice but to make it clear this was a military coup and the republic part of “Islamic Republic” will be forever over, but that will be twittered and on Youtube, too, in all its glory. Where it will then be run on cable news…
And where that goes, no one knows. Welcome to the 21st century. We have beanies with propellers.
DinkyScope
12 years ago
One of Katie’s very first words was “Moon.” She’s been fascinated with the moon, and now Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars, since she could point up at the sky and point out that there were holes up there through which light passes. We figured she was old enough to understand basic instructions, so we were bad and bought her a present.
We bought Katie her very first piece of serious scientific equipment, the Orion SkyQuest XT4.5 Dobsonian telescope. It’s an interesting scope because Orion advertises it as their starter/kids pack to get kids started. It costs just as much as a crappy refractor from the Mall but it’s a real scope that can do real scope-like things. And sure, she’s only 4, but one cannot be too little to have a telescope!
Here’s what we have learned in the whole 6 hours from owning this scope:
- It is an awesome scope for the price. The scope is only $200. Because a Dob is just a light bucket, Dobs are cheap. They have high mirrors – cost ratios. The one doesn’t have any electronics, but it is exceptionally well built, sturdy, and all the gears work like they have been greased with butter.
- It was easy to lift, easy to set up, and took about 5 minutes to get going and shooting things.
- Even without the mirrors properly aligned, I took it out, put it on the driveway, got it pointed at the Moon (in daylight!) and let Katie see the Moon through the eyepiece. This was a moment of extreme excitement. It wasn’t even a full Moon, or in the dark, or with one of our high-quality eyepieces.
- If I had this Dob, even without electronics, when I was a kid I would still be in the backyard.
- This is seriously making me consider one of the big Dobs with all the electronics and gears. We have a Mak-Cass and it is awesome but it is mostly for planetary viewing. The big Dobs will get you the best Hercules Globular Cluster you’ve ever seen where you can make out about 10,000 stars.
If you have a little kid and you want to get out and look at the planets and the Moon and some real easy to find deep field objects, this is a hell of a piece of starter equipment. It’s a ton of telescope for the price, and it’s good for Mom and Dad, too.
Review: Blackberry Storm
22 years ago
by zenith
in technology
I am not a gadget nerd. In fact, I am oddly gadget adverse — unless it works out of the box and works easily, I will put the gadget down and never pick it back up again. This is odd considering what I do for a living but there it is: I generally don’t do gadgets because they have terrible UI design and they annoy me. I love my iPod, I put up with my Palm Tungsten because I need a checkbook, and everything else gets on my nerves.
I have, up until now, avoided the Blackberry addiction. What I wanted originally out of a phone was a phone that made phone calls. Then I wanted a phone that made phone calls and got me football scores when I could not be watching football. But as my parents, and my entire family, moved off into gadgetland and away from actual phone calls, simply having a phone that made phone calls became more and more challenging. Over Christmas, I had weird arguments with my Mom because I couldn’t get to my regular email until 8pm at night and there was Mass Panic.
Something generally needed to be done, so I gave in and got a Blackberry. And, because I will carry it for the next two years, I got the Latest and Greatest, the Storm. Keep in mind that I don’t have an iPhone, so I am not comparing it to any Apple devices. It has also been updated to the newest service packs.
Good:
- It does what I want it to do! It gets my mail! It runs twitterberry! It will get me into Facebook if I am feeling masocist. It generally gets on the net and grabs news and my feedreader! Google mobile apps are a real lifesaver and I became very happy after I discovered the LJ mobile interface.
- I have been very happy with the Gmail support. It deals with my email flawlessly. It is not difficult to send or respond to mail, and it has really nice Gmail — Contact book integration. It doesn’t crash and support for reading email is very smooth and very clear. Considering that Gmail with push mail integration was my #1 feature request, this makes me quite happy.
- Google Talk is very good. It will run multiple conversations at once and thread them. It will alert when someone has responded so you don’t need to stare at the Blackberry.
- The web browser works well in landscape mode with zoom. I found I could read Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, etc. without any real problems.
- I can type about 30 words/minute when the keyboard is in QWERTY landscape mode. This is actually very good — and I like that it lights up the letter it thinks I want under my fingers before I push it. Granted I type normally at around 90 words/minute, but this is really so much better than the terrible SMS I was stuck with before.
- The contact book and calendaring systems are very powerful, which is expected from a Blackberry.
- I actually like the size. It is smaller than I expected and very thin. It fits in my hand comfortably.
- Post a full day of use, it was down 1/2 a battery. This is, of course, after the service packs were applied. Before that, it drained 1/4th the battery in an hour of use. Apply the patches!
Quirky:
- The tilt sensor is a little bit quirky. Sometimes it doesn’t respond, and sometimes it tilts when you don’t want it to. I get that it’s like that for all these sorts of devices.
- It gets confused where you want to click sometimes. You have to click away and click back where you want before it will respond to the click.
- When typing on the QWERTY keyboard, sometimes it pops up and suggests some strange characters. I’m not sure how to turn that off, but I really don’t need anything outside the main ANSI set.
- I couldn’t… figure out… how to make a phone call. And it’s a phone! Nominally! I did figure it out, but then I had to navigate a voice mail system, and I got lost trying to get the button pad up. Not the most intuitive interface in the universe.
- When using the browser, it likes to zoom in/zoom out when what you really want to do is scroll. I’m sure that’s easily controllable, but I’m not sure how.
- Twitterberry has a deeply goofy interface.
- You do have to really press on the screen to get it to do anything, and I worry about two years of wear and tear on the device. I can see that breaking.
Bad:
- The interace for setting an alarm is terrible. Just terrible.
- The screen gets gunky fast. As in, a half an hour of use fast. I found micro-fiber cloths clean it pretty well, but it desperately needs a cover. It has to have a cover.
- The lock button is in an awful place and it is not obvious in the least.
- The “say a command” button gets pushed every time I try to put it back in its little case. Gah.
Overall, I can see how people get hooked on these devices. Just being able to get my email without being plunked in front of a computer is a fantastic thing indeed. In general, using it is a real positive experience. It does occasionally do some inexplicably strange things on me, but in general I have walked through everything I want it to do (read RSS feeds, leave a comment on LJ, get twitter, read my mail, launch google talk, send an SMS, organize contacts) and it does all of this pretty well.
If you have an iPhone, don’t bother. But if you have Verizon and you’re eyeing one yeah, go ahead and get it.
Whitehouse.gov and other stories
03 years ago
whitehouse.gov went off the air at around 11:45am this morning and came back up at noon. Other than now it has blogs, twitter feeds, RSS feeds, hosting for videos, and eventually the forums from change.gov. (I have already requested my username for the forums so I can complain about technology issues.)
But the big thing is this: the site is now indexable by regular search engines.
Under Bush, no web sites attached to the White House could be indexed by anything. There were 2400 exclusion rules to keep all index engines out which have now been lifted. I’m not sure why I feel this is such a momentous event, since it is just a web site. Clearly the tech team came in, unplugged the ancient Windows 2000 server running the old website, slapped in the new machine, turned it on, got all the systems booted, and were good to go. But it feels like, the first major event of the brand new Inauguration was to welcome the Administrative Branch to the 21st Century by sticking it online.
Obama vs. George Bush’s Computers
03 years ago
I read this morning on Politico (sorry, I misplaced the link) that the Obama staffers have been informed that they are no longer allowed to use IM. Obama himself won his fight of Treasury Department vs. Blackberry (although they are making him move to one of the Blackberries approved by the NSA and armored for in theater combat which, as a security nerd, I find totally cool but everyone else finds abhorrent) but now they cannot use IM. For reasons that absolutely are beyond me, they apparently don’t have Microsoft Communicator IM server hooked up internally to their Outlook server, likely because no one knew they could do that.
But it’s worse than that. Apparently, leaking out of the White House through disgusted Obama staffers, is that the machines themselves have not been upgraded since Bill Clinton left office. The machines are largely running Windows 2000 and pre-2000 OSes that Microsoft no longer supports.
This actually explains an awful lot about the Bush Administration. At their core, they were anti-science, anti-engineering, anti-technology, anti-21st century. A complete Faith-based Administration. They hated smart people, and smart people use computers, so they hated computers, too. Thus the entire system is running on a creaky edifice.
I am looking forward to reports over the next month of the Obama people vs. the White House tech staffers and the new mandates for upgrades. I can understand why, perhaps, they don’t let people get on external AIM but really, this is a new world and for god’s sake, let these people have their internal IM. And yes I know there are issues with the Presidential Records Act but that is why the White House has lawyers. It collects logs! Automatically! Sheesh.
Frankly, when I read this factoid this morning I laughed and laughed. I look forward to battles over hardware acquisition and upgrades to *gasp* Windows XP. The next few months are going to be delightful from a pure technology perspective.
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