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Blackouts highlight network vulnerabilities

Blackouts highlight network vulnerabilitiesBzzt, Wrong Summary"There is also no evidence, nor is there any information suggesting, that viruses and worms prevalent across the Internet at the time of the outage had any significant impact on power generation and delivery systems."While "power generation and delivery" wasn't affected, if you read the...

Tags: SECURITY, NETWORKING, Viruses and worms, blackout, Air Canada, network

Discussion threads 2003-11-25

An Innovative Application Services Model and Logistics Management System for Air Canada From Unisys

Montreal-based Air Canada is among the world's largest commercial airlines, providing transportation for passengers and cargo to more than 150 destinations worldwide. The company wanted to increase focus on core business and improve competitive position in the highly competitive air cargo industry. As a solution the company chose Unisys who...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Air Canada, Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation, Web Browsers, Business Operations, Internet

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Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman

the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Microsoft drops 'Family Guy' special

Viewers watch Family Guy because they want tonot because it's forced in to their cubicles at work.That doesn't fit with the Windows brand, indeed.MSFT tried to alter the content of the show"Microsoft sent MacFarlane and Fox several notes expressing their concern over the show's content but ultimately decided just to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Family Guy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

The cloud: no place for amateurs

Interesting but...Phil... it may be a contentious argument but neither of these two examples (IBM/Air New Zealand and Sidekick/Danger) are really cloud computing.My definition of cloud computing is in keeping with the utility model. Using the analogy of electricity supply, one power station going down does not greatly affect my...

Tags: Storage, Managed hosting, cloud computing, Hitachi Ltd., electricity supply, Hitachi HDD, hard drive, amateur

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"

6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, regulation, Videotron, network, Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

Democrats lack votes for health care reform

It's amazingWhen Republicans are in power, Democrats can't get anything done. When Democrats are in power, Democrats can't get anything done. Who's running that show anyway?Carl RapsonRepublicansRepublicans will continue to run Washington until the assumptions underlying their rule change. This is good news.We dont need to overhaul a system that...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Nope, Obama, insurance, healthcare reform

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Global warming, bring it on

more moronic poll choicesAt what point could the people who create these polls pick 5 choices that are meaningful instead of parodies of any rational opinion?Targeted to it's marketRational opinion no longer required.RE: Global warming, bring it onI think that a severe ocean-raising global warming has the potential to adversely...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions

United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.   You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...

Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Remodelled house generates more energy than it uses

It is AMAZING how much CFLs save ....Not just in raw wattage consumption, but on reducing the heat load on air conditioning.It adds up to BIG BUCKS every month!LEDs the next big thingCFLs require about 1/3rd of the energy to produce a given light output, when compared to incandescents.LED bulbs,...

Tags: Engineering, CFL, light-emitting diode, mercury

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Global warming and personal opinion

Global warming and personal opinionCome on, Fuller,having lost time and again on the facts, now you are going to dismiss people who disagree with your alarmist nonsense as people with - here it comes - feelings?Stick to the facts man, that's enough.Oh, and why do you now call it 'global...

Tags: global warming, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

RantWatch: Shoddy AppleCare - arrogant Apple

RantWatch: Shoddy AppleCare - arrogant AppleThanks for the tip[i]My advice is that it?s better to save the several hundred dollars on AppleCare and insure it yourself.[/i]I declined the applecare extended warranty and put it on my Visa card that doubled the manufacturer warranty to 2 years. Looks like I made...

Tags: Apple Store, Apple Inc., AppleCare, RantWatch

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Is $400 billion a lot of money?

One U.S. Senator says we spend that much every year importing petroleum from our friends in Saudi, Nigeria, Canada, Mexico, Russia and Venezuela. I use the term "friend" advisedly. They are in fact pushers for the American addiction former President George W. Bush called out so pointedly. ...

Tags: Car, Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-24

US Airways to launch Gogo in-flight Internet next year

US Airways has announced that it will install Gogo in-flight Internet on select planes in early 2010. The Gogo service, powered by Aircell, will be added to the company's fleet of 50 Airbus A321 aircraft, or about 14 percent of its entire fleet....

Tags: Flight, US Airways Group Inc., Gogo, Internet, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Aerospace & Defense, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Manufacturing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Modern threats to American liberty

Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, government, socialist society, tax

Discussion threads 2009-07-04

(Photos: At Air Force Academy, a B-52 tells the story)

(Photos: At Air Force Academy, a B-52 tells the story)B-52 tells a storyI enjoyed the photos of the B-52 at the academy. Your descriptive information gives the impression that the B-52 served for 27 years. The B-52B Entered service in June of 1955. The B-52 is...

Tags: photograph, Air Force, B-52, B52

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Some are fer it, some agin it. The White House seems pleased. Waxman and Markey still have their names on it. Greenpeace evironmentalists despise it, so does Dr. James Hansen we hear. Right wing groups like Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform are using words like...

Tags: Bill, NRDC, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfall

'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfallI used to really dislike the RIAA......But now. They are my enemy FOREVER. They are a criminal organization no different than the mafia that use something they didnt create, something that scientists and DARPA created and is currently maintained by techology geeks...

Tags: INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, RIAA, downfall

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

Scientists envision inflatable alternative to tethered space elevator

An inflatable free standing tower could one day carry equipment and tourists 20 kilometers above Earth, and it could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, say researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada. They envision a giant tower assembled with a series of modules made up...

Tags: Elevator, Kilometer, Team Management, Cable, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Management, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-17

iPhone 3G S specs revealed: 600 MHz and 256 MB of RAM

iPhone 3G S specs revealed: 600 MHz and 256 MB of RAMHuh?"256 GM of RAM"RE: iPhone 3G S specs revealed: 600 MHz and 256 MB of RAMDoes it really have 256GB of RAM? 1000 times more than it nearest competitor, surely you mean 256 MBMine's bigger than yoursI know why...

Tags: Memory, 3G, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G S, Apple iPhone 3G, RAM, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-11