Scott Rosenberg

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  • The Shlemiel way of software

    Author Joel Spolsky talks about what Microsoft has in common with his grandparents and what Isaac Bashevis Singer has to do with code-generating schemes.
  • Code that kills, for real

    Future military combat systems will require ever more complicated code, but writing software that is bug free and ready for a firefight is a challenge that gets tougher every day.
  • Why software still stinks

    Programming must change -- but how? At a reunion of coding pioneers, answers abound.
  • Don't worry, be sexy

    The government tells the Supreme Court that Web publishers should relax -- a Web censorship law only applies to the "worst" porn peddlers. But why should we trust it?
  • Politics by other means

    The Internet may have made Howard Dean, but Dean didn't make the Net -- and his campaign's woes don't faze digital democracy's true believers.
  • Argue with us!

  • The long road to Longhorn

    Who knows what Microsoft's whiz-bang new Windows will look like by the time it's ready, in 2006 or beyond? In the meantime, the bloggers of Redmond will provide progress reports.
  • That 1994 feeling

    RSS delivers a long-promised Internet dream -- getting you the information you want from the people you want without hassle or bother.
  • Why the N.Y. Times ruins Bush's breakfast

    Columnist Paul Krugman is W's worst nightmare -- a brilliant economist who meticulously exposes the White House's rigged numbers and lies.
  • "On Liberty"

    John Stuart Mill's classic is all over the Web, because it reminded us that freedom requires reckoning with "heretical opinions" -- a message we need now more than ever.
  • Bugged out

    "The Bug" author Ellen Ullman talks about the Gothic terrors that lurk between the rational lines of computer code.
  • How may we Web service you?

    At the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, "Web services" were all the rage. But what will happen when companies get cold feet -- and the lawsuits start?
  • From the White House to the jailhouse

    If the government has long known that Sami Al-Arian was supporting terrorism, why did the controversial professor win an invitation from Karl Rove?
  • Bush's dividend payoff

    The president's tax plan offers $300 billion for a handful of plutocrats, but pennies for the rest of us.
  • Life on the edge

    The geek-driven world of new "decentralized" technologies like Wi-Fi, blogging and Web services is more about cutting out the middleman than finding a business model.
  • Money talks, Microsoft walks

    Bill Gates lets out a big "Whew!" as the court decides that what's good for Microsoft is good for America.
  • The fog of "war"

    We don't know who's winning, because President Bush -- for political reasons -- has never defined our aims or enemies.
  • The media titans still don't get it

    Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies.
  • When good options turn bad

    Sure, let's punish stock-option-scamming CEOs and tighten up options accounting. But when options benefit everyday employees, they're worth defending.
  • God stoppers

    The 9th Circuit judges who struck down the Pledge may be the most unpopular people in America right now. There's just one catch: They're right.
  • "Unmasking Deep Throat"

    John Dean, on a decades-long quest to identify history's most elusive news source, brings new evidence to the fore in his new book.
  • Much ado about blogging

    Is it the end of journalism as we know it? Or just 6 zillion writers in search of an editor? Neither.
  • Microsoft's mythical man-years

    The company boasts that it's making Herculean security efforts -- but throwing more people at software problems rarely solves them.
  • Where are the Mahirs of yesteryear?

    The Web thrill is gone, according to the New York Times, thanks to a critical shortage of flashes in the pan.
  • Bushed!

    The Republican plan to sell defense briefings to big donors makes me miss the days when all fat cats got was a night in Clinton's Lincoln Bedroom.
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