http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html en-gb 30 Sun 20 Dec 2009 15:13:15 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html?page=16#comment5 What I've been hearing from rival mafia is that Eric Schmitdt owes his success largely to a global network of mobster friends. They also say that he was directly responsible for the 'obscene amounts of money' made by promoting child pornography produced by some of these people. [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator] Wed 07 Jan 2009 12:28:36 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html?page=13#comment4 Maggie:[Following the American election, a favourite parlour games in the living rooms of Silicon Valley has been asking: Just who will land the job of America's first ever chief technology officer? Well, the wait will soon be over because an announcement is expected on Wednesday.]That is excellent news about the announcement of a new CTO on [Wednesday?]~Dennis Junior~ Mon 05 Jan 2009 21:46:33 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html?page=10#comment3 We need a person who understands technology, definitely not a politician, they are quite clearly only in it for the money, not to advance technology for the benefit of the human race. Mon 05 Jan 2009 16:17:43 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html?page=6#comment2 The problem with a position like this, is that in the UK, the people in charge of similar things...like internet policy, seem to have no understanding of the systems works that they are meant to be "fixing". It’s one thing to come up with happy fluffy save-the-world ideas, it’s another thing to put them into action. Take internet piracy as an example. Record companies, Film Studios and Software Developers are crying out (wrongly or rightly) for a way of stopping their material being pirated. The idea of cutting off on a three strike rule was forwarded and would seem like a easy solution. But its not that easy when you factor in things like proxy servers, encrypted P2P, using someone else’s WiFi, multiple users on one PC or even people not reading their email.I think this appointment has taken so long because it is going to be a very very hard job. It needs someone who has a deep understanding of the technology, and like the saying goes...the knowledge to know what can’t be changed and the power to change what can. Mon 05 Jan 2009 14:08:28 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html?page=3#comment1 CTO position oly belongs to a scientist or inventor within the field of technology. If you put a businessman in charge then nothing would work, and if you put a politician in charge nothing will be started before the budget has already been spent.Yup, it has to be a scientist or inventor! No compromise! Mon 05 Jan 2009 13:53:01 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/obamas_cto.html?page=0#comment0 I don't think it will be someone from a really big-name tech firm like Google or Microsoft as there would be too much scope there for accusations of bias and favouritism. I know I wouldn't have any respect for or belief in someone from the MS camp, except maybe Ray Ozzie. So someone from a smaller company or academia would be a better bet, someone with enough gravitas in the industry in be taken seriously, but not enough baggage to immediately turn half the industry against them. Mon 05 Jan 2009 13:32:06 GMT+1