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Re: Is This What Market Failure Looks Like?

waynecrews — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:18:51 -0000

This is a great post, except I doubt that metrics-of-success are usually the best defense against regulation. It’s too often precisely success in markets that attracts demands for regulation by those who didn't achieve that success, or by those who are given power to lord over things.
Still trying to decide about heading out to CES myself. Loved it the last 3 years.

Re: FCC Enters Parallel Universe on First Amendment & Net Neutrality Issues

waynecrews — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:32:43 -0000

Not a parallel universe, but a tangent one, the kind Donnie Darko would not bother to save this time around. This is more tiresome than i can even express. FCC, devoid of legitimacy in today's world, really has to be put on the hot seat somehow, instead of one communications industry sector after another coaxed into rent-seeking by FCC's very existence, submitting to policy childishness and immaturity perpetuated by those with--truly---nothing else to do but tear down what free enterprise has achieved and could achieve.

Re: Jerry Brito - I would not mess with this kid.

waynecrews — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:55:12 -0000

haha hope that's my cat.

Re: Can Humans Cope with Information Overload? Tyler Cowen & John Freeman Join the Debate

waynecrews — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:46:43 -0000

This was a great twitter post Adam. haha. Seriously enjoyed it. The blog over at Telegraph also agrees that---how else can we say it? The Technology Is Innocent. http://blogs.telegraph.co.u...

These are manufactured problems; it is truly a luxury and self-indulgence to pretend to "worry" over such things as how technology and digitization put all the world's knowledge within arm's reach--and even save one's life in an emergency. Just say it, it's a sign of progress and freedom! Life 500 years ago was vastly more complex in the proper sense of the term "life"; We got it easy. But meanwhile, they'll continue to tell us stories of the Laptop With No Off Button.

Re: Peter Griffin v. FCC

waynecrews — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:35:55 -0000

tha' freakin' fcc !! love this, gotta catch up on family guy.

Re: Sunstein’s “libertarian paternalism” is really just paternalism

waynecrews — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:09:58 -0000

Adam, thanks for this, clicked it while reading your Zittrig post, and you know how i feel about *that* worldview. In any event, the Senate hold on Sunstein's appointment to head OMB's OIRA has been lifted, so he's likely to be confirmed. Republicans think his favorable attitude toward cost-benefit analysis for regulation is a good thing; But as "nudging" implies, there's little regulators can cook up that they won't regard as net-beneficial, and worthy of imposing on others. The world is there for them to lord over; we are all people things are done to.

Re: Internet Security Concerns, Online Anonymity, and Splinternets

waynecrews — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:20:22 -0000

Adam thanks for this; when i first saw your email to me yesterday on the New York Times article I didn't realize you'd done this extensive post (cursed blackberry screen, plus nosepicker kids in the background).

Guess you've caused me to jump back into the "Splinternets and Cyberspaces" debate. Basically my point has always been that the "capital-I" Internet of today is not the same as not-yet-created multimedia networks that will exist in the future; those will have numerous dedicated purposes and will need to keep certain people off and would be crazy to blindly adopt an overly open architecture that is an artifact of the Internet's public origins. All property moves toward private, proprietary control; that will include future network technology. Networks may use "internet" technology, but need not all use the same physical network. This is especially feasible as societies generations hence become wealthier and network industries' various ventures create an assortment of dedicated networks. Metcalfe's Law is true, but so is my corollary; that if people are on your network deliberately devoted to destroying it or otherwise creating pandemonium or preventing you from making security and privacy guarantees to anyone, then the value of your network rises as you flick them off. Note that, in utter contrast to the net neutrality unicorn, this is a future of vastly greater and diverse network-and-infrastructure (and content) wealth than imaginable today.

Also, related privacy work i do makes a case that, even as we strive to protect political anonymity online, we may need/desire less commercial anonymity, which will drive the creation of such networks. More on that to come i suppose, since you drew me out on this, but there's a link to a policy study somewhere.

-wayne crews

Re: Jerry Brito - Holy crap! Marie is right! There is a resemblance.

waynecrews — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:44:11 -0000

I was just talking to Nick about his Capital-H Hair at the Reaon Happy Hour. I didn't get to keep any of mine; punishment for having a mullet as a kid.
--wayne crews, CEI

Re: Overprotective Parents and Lawsuits Cause Obesity and Death

waynecrews — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:26:51 -0000

I just put a Digg on both this piece and Adam's.