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US government sanctions hit Windows Live Messenger in embargoed countries

US government sanctions hit Windows Live Messenger in embargoed countriesgreat opportunity for Google and YahooNow is the time for an agressive campaign by Google and Yahoo to convert all those users blocked by M$ to their IM.By the time we invade them or bomb them into the rock age, M$...

Tags: Zack, American Values, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, U.S. Government, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Convicted data thief gets eight years

Convicted data thief gets eight yearsShould be 28 years not 8 years!Oh, and take everything he has and make him pay restitution plus all costs of conviction and incarceration.Whatever happened to lifetime bans on using computers?What the idea of banning convicted hackers from ever touching a computer just a Hollywood...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, American Values, data thief, computer

Discussion threads 2006-02-22

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Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

GOP will present a health care bill

Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

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

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

For coal and cows we ignore the polluted water

Our American system often reflects the basic values of the nation, and it's clear that money trumps public health. I'm not talking about the medical industry. Not in the purview of this blog. Today there's an expose of how much dangerous crud is in drinking water around...

Tags: Industry, Food & Beverage, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-13

EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech

Better that it is entirely unavailablethan to make it available to anyone who cares to search for it. I have seen nowhere that the Google project will prevent any other source from digitizing books, or from keeping them in print. This is quite possibly THE stupidest argument I have heard...

Tags: Google Inc., American Civil Liberties Union, privacy, Google Book, Vegas, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Reconsidering Obama's ed speech? Sort of

but Obama's going to pay all my bills!RE: Reconsidering Obama's ed speech? Sort ofDo you remember being a student? The is par for the course. It is about being pro-American, pro-'democractic' system, and respecting the office of the president."How does the President inspire you? What resonated with you from Obama?s...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, Obama, job, tax

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Tech startup creates State Dept.-approved educational games for Middle East

The U.S. State Department has contracted a small Virginia-based startup to create mobile phone games to help citizens of nations the U.S. has poor relations with -- mostly in the Middle East -- learn about America and its values. ...

Tags: Game, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Tech Startup, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?

Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?Won't workThe only way News will get their revenue offset is if 'the pipe' is charged; in other words ISPs get charged and pass along the cost to you in the form of an increase surcharge on your broadband account.When a...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Operational accounting, grand subscription plan, minimal revenue, News Corp., Much Ado, subscription plan, Rupert Murdoch, revenue

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide

Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying GuideAmerican Values?In which modern democracy, Israel included, would you find an ad-campaign like this inoffensive to women?You're way off-base there...1) You [i]do[/i] understand the difference between human beings and animals, don't you?2) It was an [i]Internet[/i] ad, launched on Facebook, and in...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Bacardi Ltd., Rum

Discussion threads 2009-06-21

Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?

Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?King ObomaGood luck, Obama and his printing presses....RE: Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?It's not like he just put together a corporate unbrella/holding company with many largely independent but coexisting brand names underneath with redundant...

Tags: Branding, Document management, General Motors Corp., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

China demands new PCs carry spyware

China demands new PCs carry spywareI don't think that anyone thinks that China's government has changed its position on freedom of speech.RE: China demands new PCs carry spywareWait for something like this to come our way in the US. Except under the guise of protection against software piracy.RE: China demands...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, COMPANIES, spyware, government

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value45 billion slideA moral American corporation is an oxymoron.I don't buy itIf moral values did a 45 billion hole in yahoo in 3 years, the same moral values would have wiped out evil M$ a long time ago.It...

Tags: Morality, Yahoo! Inc., moral value, Yahoo China

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Peak oil and the end of economic growth?

"American Scientist" has a provocative article on peak oil and what that means for the chimera of unending economic growth. The authors remind us that population growth and increased food production have both literally been fuelled by ever more energy use, much of it wood or fossil fuel. ...

Tags: Growth, Petroleum, Roi/Tco, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-04

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap Representative

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap RepresentativeGlad the wiretaps took placeWith the express purpose of preventing future terrorist activities, I'm glad the feds aggressively looked. With the current regime, I fear the future is going to be very different; an "enemy of the state" is now going...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Federal government, Big Government, domestic call, NSA

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?

Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?IBM made the same claim 25 years ago with MRPMRP Material Resource Planning and MRP II were going to solve all the problems with inventory in manufacturing. Not only would it track and order materials for a manufacture, it would do so for...

Tags: Engineering, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, IBM Corp., algorithm

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Google sidesteps Korean identity law

Google sidesteps Korean identity lawSocial Harmony = Social slavery and lack of dissentIn most of the countries that 'value that'. The fact is that social harmony comes second to my right to do what I want to do as long as I am not: physically harming someone else without their...

Tags: Government, Social Harmony, Korean identity law, identity law, pedosexuality, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

How to make technology conferences suck less

How to make technology conferences suck lessNice postJoe,Thanks for sharing this information. I attended ClueCon last year and it was great- for some of the very reasons you mention. I enjoyed it so much that I'm volunteering this year to help out. I think community-organized is important. I also think...

Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, ClueCon, network, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-02