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- Attacks escalate on critical U.S. Government networks: Will a Manhattan Project work?
- Attacks escalate on critical U.S. government networks: Will a Manhattan Project work?I'm just wondering about the presentation.I know this is off-topic, but is it possible to minimize "clearing throat" during the presentation? I found it to be a bit distracting when I was listening word-for-word.
- Tags: Manhattan Project, U.S. Government, network
- Discussion threads 2008-04-13
- Attacks escalate on critical U.S. Government networks: Will a Manhattan Project work?
- Last week Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff outlined plans for a federal Manhattan Project to bolster cyber security. The big question is whether this project will bolster cyber security defenses as attacks on U.S. infrastructure escalate. In a nutshell, Chertoff says federal agencies will cut the...
- Tags: China, BusinessWeek, Network, Agency, U.S. Government, Cybersecurity, Attack, Security, Aerospace & Defense, Networking, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- One year till death of analog TV in USA
- Analog TV will no longer be broadcast one year from today on February 19th 2009, are you ready for the conversion to digital TV? This may or may not affect you so here's what you need to know to avoid losing TV reception! The first question to...
- Tags: Coupon, U.S. Government, Antenna, AntennaWeb.org, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- US Government seeks to invest $6 Billion in security by obscurity
- US Government seeks to invest $6 Billion in security by obscurityI am sure almost $500M will go to securityYou stress too much. Almost 8.5% will end up going into actual security products and processes. This after the 10% goes to a bunch of "admin" companies, and then 60%...
- Tags: U.S. Government, Security Products, security
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- US Government seeks to invest $6 Billion in security by obscurity
- According to the Wall Street Journal this morning the Bush administration is pushing to spend $6 billion on cyber security in one year! They claim that US telecom systems are not adequately protected and that they need to spend this money to protect it. Just one problem, the government is...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Government, Transparency, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Bears AND oil in troubled waters
- The U.S. government has decided to being leasing some more undersea land to petroleum companies. This will be beneath the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska. No drilling will be allowed within fifty miles of the actual coastline. Out of sight, if not out of...
- Tags: Lease, Petroleum, U.S. Government, Telecom & Utilities, Capital Structures, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- U.S. Government may decide fate of iconic species
- U.S. government may decide fate of iconic speciesGlobal Warming a scamMars, Jupiter and Pluto are also experiencing record warm temperatures. I guess the Martians have too high a carbon footprint too.
- Tags: U.S. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- GOOG-411 isn't what you think
- GOOG-411 isn't what you thinkImage LabelerThe following statement is made at the bottom of the Image Labeler page under the title [b]What do you need to participate?[/b]:"Just an interest in helping Google improve the relevance of image search for users like yourself."At least they are honest about their goal here....
- Tags: Strategy, capitalism, Evil, Google Inc., GOOG-411, U.S. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- U.S. Government may decide fate of iconic species
- This photo courtesy and copyright: IFAW. This is about polar bears and their survival. For the folks who may ask, what's this got to do with ZDnet and green tech, let me repeat an answer I gave recently to an emailer when I blogged...
- Tags: Green Technology, Bear, U.S. Government, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- US Government leadership in cyber security lacking
- US Government leadership in cyber security lackingWar on TechnologyI can see a great headline coming someday; WAR ON TECHNOLOGY: US Seeks to Fight War on Technology.Peace and Cheers,mpNote that the official quoted......holds a patronage appointment, which gives us a good idea of who to blame for this state of...
- Tags: US Government leadership, cyber security, cybercrime, U.S. Government, leadership, government, security
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- US Government leadership in cyber security lacking
- I see that the US assistant secretary of the national cyber-security division of the Homeland Security Department addressed the New York City Metro InfraGard. His remarks are disturbing to me because the reflect a growing (continuing?) cluelessness within the US government on cyber security matters. ...
- Tags: Crime, Leadership, Cyber Security, U.S. Government, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Surveillance cuts both ways
- Massive storage has given governments worldwide the ability to record citizen activities and abuse human rights. And, as yesterday's post on Deep Packet Inspection noted, technology marches on. But the recording and storage revolution cuts both ways. Citizens can capture government misconduct and bring pressure to...
- Tags: Citizen, Surveillance, Storage, Camera Phone, U.S. Government, Camera Phones, Government, Vertical Industries, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- White House ordered to back up e-mail
- White House ordered to back up e-mailACLU learns of third 'secret' torture memo from GonzalesThis will help some secrets come out. This article goes into a specific example.[b]http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/071107_b_Gonzales.htm[/b]Deleted emailsIf CREW really wants the deleted emails, I can send them the 1.7 million spams sent to me during 'his term' and...
- Tags: King George Bush, government, American Civil Liberties Union, e-mail, White House, U.S. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China
- Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in ChinaIt's lonely on the moral high groundI suspect that the human tendency to ignore that which is distasteful, or find a comforting justification, will ensure that Yahoo will continue to enjoy the services of top engineering talent. Very good people...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, hiring crisis, Yahoo! Inc., hiring
- Discussion threads 2007-11-10
- EarthLink's woes put free muni Wi-Fi in peril
- EarthLink's woes put free muni Wi-Fi in perilunlicensed Wi-Fi signals; no No NOContinuing with the message. In the USA every resident has a RIGHT to FREE UNIVERSAL WIRELESS BROADBAND ACCESS to Web 2.0. The air waives that will be used are the < 1Ghz band that is currently under utilized...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, EarthLink Inc., U.S. Government, Wi-Fi, municipal Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- Crows smarter than U.S. Government, betcha already knew that
- Crows or Congress? White House or Ravens? Recent research indicates you might be better off working with Crows. Seems they can solve two-step problems, finding a tool to get a tool that gets them the reward.Those D.C. types don't seem to see that if they want to...
- Tags: U.S. Government, Money, Tool, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-18
- U.S. general laments Google Earth capability
- U.S. general laments Google Earth capabilityOn the other hand...I'm sure that US intelligence takes full advantage of the same data to figure out the military capabilities of potential enemies.Disney more secure than US military?I don't get it. When I was preparing for a conference in Orlando, last year, I looked...
- Tags: U.S. Government, Google Inc., Google Earth, satellite
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- U.S. Government to YouTube: WOW! But 'Take that stuff down'
- WOW! WOW! WOW!Is how Congressman Ed Markey acclaimed the "historic debut" before the United States Congress of Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder and Google stockholder:You are an historic figure, that is why so many members of Congress came today, an unprecedented high number of members, they came to see you.Yes, "King"...
- Tags: U.S. Government, YouTube Inc., Chad Hurley, Markey Thursday, U.S. Congress
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attack
- Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attackRID and CheckoutMy grocery clerk told me that eventually I would be able to pass my basket over the counter and everything in the basket would be itemize and tabulated. It was a reason she was retiring. But I can not wait. I want...
- Tags: U.S. Government, RFID, card
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- Is the US government a good model for SOA governance?
- Ive been meaning to surface one of Dana Gardners latest SOA BriefingsDirect podcasts, in which we were joined by Miko Matsumura, VP of marketing for webMethods (now Software AG/webMethods of course). Miko has a gift for translating complex SOA topics into mentally tangible metaphors, and the chat turned to an...
- Tags: Web Services, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
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