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Now For Something Completely Different: Cringely is leaving PBS and throws in his name for US CTO
- alecco 18y agoI liked some of his articles. But he is just a technology journalist and not even the best at it. And this issue wouldn't pass the screening the Obama administration already stated last week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cringely#Stanford http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cringely#Stanford (Unless I'm failing to see a joke.)
- dfranke 18y agoI don't think that would necessarily block him in the screening process. I've never been through either one, but I've always imagined that these things are a lot like screening for security clearance: they don't much care what skeletons are in your closet as long as you don't mind having them taken out of the closet and put on display.
- noonespecial 18y agoYeah. He thought he'd win the Lunar X-Prize too. They must smoke some damn fine green down there at "The Pulpit".
- timtrueman 18y agoPlease anyone but him...he'd put that $600B into things like hard drives made from metal foil that increase battery life on laptops by 70% (didn't realize HDs took that much power) and they "can spin up, read or write data, then shut down again, all in less time than it takes to perform the same task using flash while being just as resistant to shock damage and more resistant to heat"...riiiiight: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061026_001143.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061026_0011...
- blasdel 18y agoEven ignoring his serial idiocy, writing vitriol under a pseudonym is not conducive to being confirmed by the Senate
- crabapple 18y agowell his past false claim of a stanford ph.d is going to deep-six any plans for high profile positions. and he's also a supreme idiot who gets by on grand pronouncements that never amount to anything
- ojbyrne 18y agoI think you all missed the joke. He's leaving his job (probably laid off), and wanted to write a column about it. He doesn't seriously expect to be the "CTO."
- jmtame 18y agoWhat's with the Cringely hate on this thread?
- jhancock 18y agoI would be very surprised if a CTO position to Obama would be any more than an adviser with a different focus than the current raft of other advisory positions. Most start-ups have a hard time defining the CTO role. I doubt a new white house position could be so easily defined.