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- Short clip: How American Airlines faced the challenges of 9/11 and the recession
- Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines discusses how the company was able to overcome the tragedy of 9/11 and weather the current economic downturn by staying focused, managing to a plan, and developing a set of processes to guide the airline into the future.
- Tags: American Airlines, Recession, 9/11 Commission
- Videos 2009-10-21
- 9/11 related keywords hijacked to serve scareware
- I don't use Google Trends. I type google.com without thinking about it.Other than that, it's kind of scary. :(
- Tags: 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- 9/11 related keywords hijacked to serve scareware
- Anticipating the logical peak of 9/11 related keywords on the 8th anniversary of the attacks, cybercriminals have hijacked the trending topic by occupying thousands of related keywords for the purpose of serving fake security software. None of the sites are currently marked as harmful by the SafeBrowsing...
- Tags: Campaign, Malware, 9/11 Commission, Keyword, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no NetWhy not just Crayolas & paper?nt12 hours of battery life?Man, I'd just about kill to get 12 hours of battery in my laptop.Oh wait... Looks like this guy already did just that.RE: 9/11 suspects get laptop, no NetHell, that's a lot more than I'd do...
- Tags: Engineering, 9/11 commission, laptop computer, Rimshot, battery, Gov
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net
- Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...
- Tags: Battery, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...
- Tags: Republic, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Are all engineers secretly terrorists?
- Two Oxford dons have published a paper which claims that engineering and terrorism share a common mindset. (The lead author is Diego Gambetta, right.) Personally I can see a closer relationship between being being an Oxford sociology professor and having your head...but I digress. (Someone needs a lesson...
- Tags: Hacking Tool, Terrorism, Engineer, 9/11 Commission, Hacking, Homeland Security, C/C++, Security, Government, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Craig of craigslist: Bush phone surveillance requests pre-date 9/11
- Craig of craigslist: Bush phone surveillance requests pre-date 9/11Thank God for CraigAs far as terrorists are concerned the worldwide opinion is that George Bush leads the list. No one, not even Bill Clinton, has done more to shred the Constitution than Georeg Bush. The only worse offender was...
- Tags: Craig, phone surveillance requests pre-date 9/11, 9/11 commission, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Craig of craigslist: Bush phone surveillance requests pre-date 9/11
- Â Craig Newmark, who of course is the craig in craigslist, comments in essence that while the Reagan administration obeyed the law to gather intelligence information on Communists, the current Administration in Washington has been attempting to persuade telephone companies to allow warrantless intercepts of possible terrorist phone calls even...
- Tags: Phone, Agency, 9/11 Commission, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- The governmental-communications complex: net neutrality now!
- The governmental-communications complex: net neutrality now!Finally!!Somebody makes a decent case that makes sense in the way the bulk of the population thinks of net neutrality. No wallowing in discussions of QOS or network architecture.Giuliani, is that you?[i]In the wake of 9/11 the government requested massive communications monitoring without legal...
- Tags: DSL, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Comcast Corp., cable, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?
- Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?Manipulating the massesThe 'war of the worlds is old ha't. The greatest scam of the modern age is "The War On Terror". Can I suggest "The Northwoods Project" as preliminary reading to watching "Zeitgeist", "Loose Change" and "9/11 Mysteries". Then ask yourself...
- Tags: scare, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Remembering 9/11
- Remembering 9/11One complaintIt wasn't a tragedy. A flood is a tragedy. Or an earthquake. This was an act of evil barbarism driven by religious zealotry.The first step in solving a problem is accurately defining it.
- Tags: 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Remembering 9/11
- Signing off here and I just realized the date. Good gosh has it really been six years since 9/11? How easy it is to slide into my daily routine and forget about such a tragedy. Take a look here for this incredible memorial....
- Tags: 9/11 Commission, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'
- NY police commissioner: 'Internet is the new Afghanistan'I agreeMan this guy is on top of things! Free expression and individual rights are defiantly problems. When people have the ability to share ideas and express them selfs they sometimes come up with ideas that go against the mainstream. What we really...
- Tags: Homeland security, censorship, terrorism, Internet, INTERNET IS, tower, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- Study: Internet censorship spreading
- Study: Internet censorship spreadingUS once again leading the way ...It surprises anyone that censorship is on the rise? Why?The US Attorney General favors broad censorship laws in the US. The usual suspects are quoted: porn, "terrorists", and online gambling. But combined with the prospect of secret investigations and unsupervised police...
- Tags: INTERNET, Monitors & displays, government, right-wing, censorship, MSN, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-07-28
- Six years after 9/11, state emergency systems still a hodgepodge
- In 2009, the nations broadcasters are required to switch over to digital signals. That frees up a huge swath of analog frequency, which the agency will auction off shortly. Under the current plan, thd FCC will set aside $1 billion of the take for states to fund communications systems for...
- Tags: Homeland security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Is privacy important?
- Is privacy important?Very Well PutThe subversion of civil liberties by our current President is disgusting.As part of a speech, I'd written:"As Americans, we the people need to decide which is more precious to us; do we fight for the ideals of our Democracy, of our Republic, and of our Constitution...or...
- Tags: Homeland security, SECURITY, American People, 9/11 commission, privacy, government
- Discussion threads 2007-01-08
- U.S. warns of possible Qaida financial cyber attack
- U.S. warns of possible Qaida financial cyber attackal qaida cyber attack . . .say what?Sorry folks. Just can't buy that one. They would if they could, but not likely they can. Meanwhile, we know our govt junkyard dogs have practice with this. The banks & all other tenants at...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Hacking, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, computer, cyberattack, 9/11 commission, al-Qaida, financial
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- 9/11 five years later: tech spending slowing down
- On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, government spending on technology has started to dry up for the first time since that fateful day. While contractors are not yet panicking, the slowdown is real and noticeable, say The Washington Post. The effects have so far been mild. Companies that in...
- Tags: government
- Blog posts 2006-09-11
- Today's Links on 9/11: Bush in NYC, video archives, my personal story
- Today's Links on 9/11: Bush in NYC, video archives, my personal storyWhy is the press so friggin fixated on 911Gawd, I'll be glad when this day is over and the press can go back to inventing headlines or fighting over baby pictures.
- Tags: Corporate communications, video archive, 9/11 commission, video
- Discussion threads 2006-09-11
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