One would think that major computer technology companies would realize that their customers can discuss the companies’ policies and practices on the Internet, and thereby avoid speculation about their motives and intents by explaining their actions to their customers.
Apple ditched its stand-alone iSight camera in late 2006 without any explanation, even their store emloyees did [...]
Entries from February 2009
26 February 2009
Google, Apple, and the Failure to Communicate
19 February 2009
Obama, the Democratic Left, and Afghanistan
Spencer Ackerman has a good introduction to the divide among the progressive Left and centrist Democrats over the US-led war in Afghanistan. The far left opposed the initial bombing and semi-invasion of Afghanistan, largely on humanitarian grounds (see sentiments expressed in Oct. 2001 here). With the experience of the Iraq war, more people from the [...]
10 February 2009
It’s Not Totten That’s Rotten
President Obama reneged on his promises to reverse Bush administration secrecy policies when he allowed the US to proceed with a “state secrets” privilege in Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. As the ACLU brief points out, this claim is absurd when Jeppesen’s role in renditon flights is a matter of public record. There [...]
