WSJ: Huawei, What Is Washington Afraid Of?

2/27/2011 5:27:33 PM

Why has Washington repeatedly said no to Huawei as the China telecom giant tries to tap into the lucrative U.S. market?

The Journal's John Bussey and Simon Constable discuss.

Rightrdia suspects NSA has a lot to do with the decision of the US  to stiff arm Huawei.

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The Daily Beast: Palin Paranoia Decoded

by Tunku Varadarajan

Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU's Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Barbara Bush hopes she stays in Alaska, Frank Rich is preaching on her perils . . . Tunku Varadarajan on why she terrifies us . . .

Barbara Bush was Barbara Bush.. . .offered this put-down of Palin on Larry King’s TV show: “I sat next to her once. She was beautiful. And I think she’s very happy in Alaska… and I hope she’ll stay there.”

Frank Rich was Frank Rich: preaching to the nation (with the relentless omniscience that is his hallmark) on the Perils of Palin. The two pillars of Establishment—the Republican and the liberal Democrat—put on display an amazing phenomenon of American political life: Palin Paranoia.

There is no politician in America as adept at disconcerting the elites as Sarah Palin.


As progressive Democrats, Rightardia is hardly terrified by Palin. We hopes she get the GOP nomination and runs. We would love to crush her in a presidential race. It would be shadenfreude of the first order. We consider her to be another anti-intellectual like Bush.

Why Sarah Palin so disturbs people.

Sarah Palin’s political success has come in such a way as to seem like a rebuke to those who have worked hard to get where they are.

Typically, politicians strut like peacocks on the national stage value experience for years going knowledge, doing dues-paying.

Palin seems to be quickly profiting from qualities—spontaneity, you-betcha folksiness, an anti-sophistication about issues, and, let’s face it, striking good looks—that the elite don’t have, and don’t easily endorse.

In many respects her aura has extended to her daughter, Bristol. Bristol dropped out of high school and got preggers. When Dancing with the Stars did vignettes on the contestants, all of them except Bristol had distinguished careers. Bristol was there because of her charismatic, but fatally flawed mother.

To the matter of her appearance: There is no question that her seasoned beauty and vivacity are ingredients in the Palin cocktail.

Yes, Palin is attractive and so is Michelle Bachmann. Both are also dumber than posts. Palin has that rare quality of charisma that is lacking in many politicians. However, she has so many other flaws, her charisma won't carry her to the presidency. She has the potential to be another misguided demagogue like GWB.


This must, surely, bother the likes of Frank Rich and Barbara Bush. To the former, it likely evokes Eva Peron, another beautiful populist, and the evocation can only be distasteful, what with the faintly Third World whiff of it all.

Politics Daily explained it differently Barbara Bush and Frank Rich represent the establishment country club Republicans.


Palin represents a GOP outsider who the McCain camp was unable to control. Party insiders are hardly thrilled of the prospects of someone they will be unable to control as president. Palin is not the standard GOP "team player" drone.

source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-23/palin-paranoia-decoding-barbara-bush-frank-rich-attacks/?om_rid=Dchc-q&om_mid=_BM68IUB8V0TWOa

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WSJ: Walt Mossberg Likes MyFord Touch digital screens

10/6/2010 9:00:01 PM

WSJ's Walt Mossberg says the MyFord Touch is the best voice-activated in-car entertaintment system he has tested. There's a steep learning curve required to master its complicated interface to control music and temperature.

All of the Ford's dash options are now on a touch screen Liquid crystal Display (LCD). 

Se the shape of things to come in this video. 

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WSJ: The End of the Fix-It-Yourself Car 2/9/2010

Even as computers have revolutionized car safety, efficiency, and performance, they've made those same cars increasingly hard to fix, and robbed arm-chair mechanics of the thrills of tinkering in the garage.

The new era of the no fix vehicle started with autos with fuel injectors and the Ford Taurus that covered up the engine with plastic covers.  

The WSJ may have overstated the case. Most of the auto parts companies like Auto Zone have the same diagnostic equipment the auto repair people have and can tell you what the diagnostic codes say.  

You will need to buy an auto manual to repair your vehicle. Most of these auto parts stores have these manuals for less than $10.

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WSJ's Mossberg: Toshiba Portege R705 is Thin, Powerful

7/7/2010 9:00:00 PM

WSJ's Personal Technology columnist Walt Mossberg tests Toshiba's Portege R705, a standard-sized laptop that's lighter and thinner than the traditional clamshell computer.

He says the pared-down laptop is surprisingly powerful for its price tag. Toshiba has been getting great reviews from technology journalists while some other companies like Dell have seen their laptop ratings fall.

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WSJ: First look at Blackberry 6

In an effort to gain share in the North American smartphone market, RIM is punching up its mobile line with new BlackBerries.

Now, a sneak peak of the BlackBerry 6 is available. Simon Constable reports. Subscribe to the Rightardia feed: feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/IGiu

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WSJ: Is Oil Destined for East Coast?

6/3/2010 5:34:57 PM

New supercomputer studies suggest it is "very likely" that ocean currents will carry oil from the Deep Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico around Florida and up along thousands of miles of the U.S. Eastern seaboard this summer, researchers announced.

WSJ's Lee Hotz joins the News Hub with more.

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WSJ: The End of the Fix-It-Yourself Car?

As computers have revolutionized car safety, efficiency, and performance, they've also made those same cars increasingly hard to fix. This has robbed arm-chair mechanics of the thrills of tinkering in the garage.

WSJ's Andy Jordan reports.

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WSJ: A High Tech DIY Renaissance 11/11/2009

From hacker spaces to profitable businesses, tech tinkering is experiencing a renaissance. WSJ's Andy Jordan explores some of the "stuff" people are making with new devices that encourage hacking and creativity.

It's good to see Americans making thing again instead of moving paper around and counting beans. 



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XP Pro Upgrade: Laplink's PcMover Help for Installing Windows 7

  
10/13/2009

Tech heads are looking forward to the release of Windows 7 next week, but WSJ's Katherine Boehret says installing the new operating system might be difficult. She reviews Laplink's Pcmover, an upgrade assistant.

Upgrading your PC to Windows 7? Only 14 of the 66 upgrade scenarios detailed by Microsoft are supported by Windows 7 – and upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is not supported.

That’s why Laplink created the Upgrade Assistant edition of PCmover. It helps you upgrade quickly and easily from any version of Windows (version 2000 or later) to Windows 7.

If you want to upgrade your computer from XP to Windows 7 and not lose all your files and programs, PCmover can do the upgrade that Microsoft does not support.

There is no need to copy files to external media; no need to reinstall all your applications. PCmover does it all for you without any external storage, without copying files, and without having to find your old CDs and serial numbers!

See http://www.laplink.com/pcmover/pcmoverupgradeassistant.html

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Windows 7: WSJ's Walt Mossberg call it a success.

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WSJ: Fallout Over Missile Defense Scrapage 9/18/2009

Again, the Republicans see the glass half empty. The Russians are allowing US overflight to Afghanistan.  The Russians have also cut their tank order of battle from 20,000 to 2,000. The Russians also cut their reserve forces from 480,000 100,000. The Russian announcement was made before Obama stated that the AMDs would not be deployed to Poland or the Czech Republic.

Clearly the GOP has become the party of serial exaggeration. The Republicans hate to see a great enemy like Russia become an ally. What could be worse for the conservative defense business? It hard to justify a half a $ trillion annual defense budget when you don't have any enemies.

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Larry the cable guy: Forget Bipartisanship, get'er done!

Rightardia comment:  Is all the noise that the Astroturfers, Birthers, Deathers, and Tea Baggers really important? Not at all. The Democrats won the election.


Do we need Republicans to pass a health care bill. Not at all. The Democrats have a huge majority in the House and the Senate. If the right wing doesn't like public health care, let them eat cake. 

Obama's political organization, 'Organizing for America,' is now active and it has a clear strategy. The Democrats need to get the party started. Intrade indicates the liklihood of getting the America's Affordable health care Act of 2009 bill passed is low. Since the congressional break, the probability of success has dropped at least 10 points.

 
Where are the Affordable Health Care bumper stickers? It's now or never. We need to get 'er done!

As lawmakers return from their summer break, it may be time for Democrats to scrap grand, bipartisan plans and nail down a new, focused message to isolate Republicans and get a health-care reform bill passed, WSJ's Jonathan Weisman reports.



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Tim Geithner explains the government position on the Wall Street bailout

One of our readers suggested  Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail because it was conducting activities similar to the UBS bank tax evasion schemes. 



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Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for Fox News Online

Aug 6 2009, 10:09 am
by Derek Thompson

Rightardia comment: What a brilliant idea. Perhaps Rush Limbaugh will follow suit. 

Rupert Murdoch announced plans to charge for all online content of his newspaper and TV empire. The move was made due to declining profits of the Murdoch empire.

This is a bold move to boost revenue from online news, but it may be doomed to fail. Murdoch's News Corp empire spans the globe, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Fox News and Australian media.

Gawker says the move has "fail written all over it." Andrew Sullivan (who gets a check from Murdoch's News Corp for a Sunday column) gives it more of a chance.

Asking readers to pay for FoxNews.com is like charging $10 for an after-dinner mint. That's not just my liberal commie instincts talking up: It would be true for CNN.com or any site subsisting on the lifeblood of AP wire stories.

If the bulk of your site is expendable, borrowed, or fungible with Google News, there's no reason to pay a dime for it.

See the rest of the story at  http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/08/is_murdochs_plan_to_charge_for_online_news_doomed.php


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