CNN: Dissenting voices not welcome in a flag-waving chorus [via Cameron Barrett]
ZDNet: Time to stand up to Microsoft [via Slashdot]
TransGenderCare: The Prototype of the Penile Inversion Technique [via... no, you don't really want to know]
Microsoft: “Thousands of people have tried and love Windows XP!” The Register: Well, actually, six. The rest are complaining about the usual stuff: installation problems, driver problems, and other compatibility problems. I can’t wait.
In fact, I won’t wait; I’ve converted all my personally owned computers to Linux and BSD. (RedHat 7.1 on the Compaq, Mandrake 8 on the iMac, LinuxPPC on the PowerMac 8500, NetBSD on the Mac IIci. And the Apple \//e, well, we just use that for games.)
Cringely: Electric Money. I agree as far as he goes, but I think he’s way off if he thinks that electronic money will completely replace cash and other tangible forms of physical money. He pays lip service to “those who do not have bank accounts and have no access to the world of electronic money”, but I don’t think he really understands how powerful the alternative banking systems of the world really are. Read this article about how many people in Pakistan (including, most likely, a small number of terrorists) move their money. For a small, small, small part of the world, electronic money may revolutionize the future; for the rest of the world, the future looks a lot like the past.
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