Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-28 Thread Sunder
Sounds like more of the same kinds of words inserted into Phil Zimmermann mouth by Ariana Cha to me. Hmmm, smells like bullshit, looks like bullshit, there's a bull looking a bit relieved a few feet away, I wonder what it could be?

NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread John Young
Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002 I've been wondering how the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley were looking at the 9/11 tragedy; whether it was giving them any pause about the wired world

Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sun, 26 May 2002, John Young wrote: Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002 [...] Silicon Valley staunchly opposed the Clipper Chip, which would have given the government a back-door key

Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread John Young
Officials, and journalists, accustomed to handling civil unrest through police means, have to stretch to get their hands on national security threats, in particular what to do with military capabilities which are scaled for much greater threats than the police can handle. The military doesn't

RE: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread Lucky Green
Tim wrote: On Sunday, May 26, 2002, at 10:07 AM, John Young wrote: Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002 pose these questions to techies. I found at least some of their

Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

2002-05-26 Thread AARG! Anonymous
What really changed in the Valley is that the best are gone. There is always a very small number of real contributors, I'd say one in several hundreds, that shape the whole environment and dictate the overall mood. This was best seen in Xerox PARC, where sleazy Gilman Louie was selling