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Drowning in an information sea

Drowning in an information seaNASA studyRemember that the main issue NASA had with releasing that study was that its results are meaningless, as the study failed to eliminate double- or triple- or more reporting of incidents. What's most embarrassing is that so much money was spent on a study with...

Tags: Government, Food & Beverage, information sea, meat, dairy, food, bureaucrat, pyramid, grain

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Europe's 'insult' to the Internet

Europe's 'insult' to the InternetThey haven't figured it out.The Europeans haven't figured it out and it seems they never will.A nation cannot be prosperous without freedom. This includes freedom from taxation. With all of the examples of the results from differing government systems one would think it was obvious by...

Tags: Government, Regulations, regulation, Internet, Monti, bureaucrat, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-06-21

Additional Resources

'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXML

'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXMLOh Please!You know what, there are a million things more important than this format issue.At the end of the day, instead of asking or negotiating with MS to submit XLS and DOC to ISO, someone decided thata) Microsoft is evilb) Binary formats are badc) XML...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates

Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...

Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Red Hat takes the open source security challenge

Red Hat takes the open source security challengeSilly MeAnd here I always assume that if it's closed it's insecure.Open Source = the possibility for peer review.Security: Obscurity or Design?This has been discussed [i]ad nauseam[/i] with the "security through obscurity" versus the "security by design" model. This all goes back to...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Red Hat Inc., security, open source, OpenBSD

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and youThe question iswhy shouldn't the NSA have the same access to information Google has? The gathering of information is vital to National Defense. It must be controlled with checks and balances to prevent abuse.The United against a common enemy States of...

Tags: Databases, SECURITY, NSA, totalitarianism, personal data

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Life-saving program BANNED by the Feds!

Life-saving program BANNED by the Feds!ntThanks for helping to bring this to everyone's attention:)RE: Life-saving program BANNED by the Feds!Your tax dollars at work! I would not have expected anything less from the clueless, inept, brain-dead bozos in the Federal Government. I'm sure she paid her political dues to get...

Tags: IRB, Banned

Discussion threads 2007-12-30

Job Icon Set (zip)

Your products will look more modern and attractive with Job Icon Set. Color formats include Windows XP and 8-bit formats. Available sizes are 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48 and 256x256. This icon set includes direction icons: scientist, astronaut, soldier, officer, cleaner, engineer, bureaucrat, writer, student, prisoner, key keeper, band-master, singer, musician,...

Tags: Job, Icon, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-11-27

Professional Icon Set (zip)

Your products will look more modern and attractive with Professional Icon Set. Color formats include Windows XP and 8-bit formats. Available sizes are 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48 and 256x256. This icon set includes direction icons: scientist, astronaut, soldier, officer, cleaner, engineer, bureaucrat, writer, student, prisoner, key keeper, band-master, singer,...

Tags: Officer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Hacking, Productivity, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-11-16

Markets need good information

I could be described as a "fan" of free markets, though that isn't really the proper term to describe it. You can't be a fan when it is the only working option, and though political leaders frequently pop up that make noises about creating a state control system that works,...

Tags: Information, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Wisconsin's Apologist for IT Failure

Wisconsin's Apologist for IT FailureEDS is toast in Seattle150 EDS consultants are to be turned lose from the Seattle Office in August. Let me give a theory. In government, just as in business, there are core competencies. Where many will argue that IT is a core competency of every on...

Tags: Government, HEALTHCARE, Strategy, Outsourcing Deals, Government IT project, future possibility, Electronic Data Systems Corp., outsourcing, Medicaid, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-08-01

Privacy is for the ignorant

Privacy is for the ignorantSounds like someone has given up...And that's the worse thing that can happen.I used to think that way!I used to think this way also until I started studying cybercrime what it truly is. I will repeat what I learned and heard in the last lecture for...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Dawson, credit card

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

CA bill would require live operators at state agencies

CA bill would require live operators at state agenciesIt'll never workWhat's the difference between the robot putting you into Voicemail Hell and being sent there by a live bureaucrat?I know what the idea is -- to increase responsiveness by monolithic agencies -- but it just won't do the job.What WILL...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, agency, Computer Associates International Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

Google updates maps after Katrina 'airbrushing' incident

Google updates maps after Katrina 'airbrushing' incidentInteresting how Congress can get so hot and fast on the ballexcept for help care, cost of living, where tax dollars get wasted, etc etc. Guess this was an easy target, Google will want to maintain its earned imagine. Now back...

Tags: INTERNET, Google Inc., Katrina, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

NIST bans Vista in major blow to Microsoft

NIST bans Vista in major blow to MicrosoftBanned Isn't the Word You Should Use?Plenty of companies forbid the installation of OS's. Why would this be any different. Fact is a major piece of software that they use may not work with it. Probably a custom peice of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, NIST

Discussion threads 2007-03-13

Zune and the uplift wars

One of the leaders of the clan of the Gooksyu-Gubru, in David Brins The Uplift War, is the bureaucrat known as The Suzerain of Cost and Caution. His job is to contain expense during their invasion of a human controlled planet, something he typically expresses in the Gubrus own...

Tags: General, Infrastructure, Sun

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Datamining program violated privacy laws

Datamining program violated privacy lawsBIG DEALS"enate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) has introduced bipartisan legislation to require the White House to report more fully to Congress on datamining programs."BIG DEAL! Legislation requiring the White House to report to Congress on datamining is a total waste of time and...

Tags: Business intelligence, Regulations, U.S. Congress, data mining, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, USA PATRIOT Act

Discussion threads 2007-03-05

(Photos: Pluto probe returns photos of Jupiter)

(Photos: Pluto probe returns photos of Jupiter)THERE SURE ARE SOME SMART PEOPLE OUT THEREIf you were in the NASA project work up room for the Jupiter mission how many words could you add?Very cool ntntJob securityThis probe won't reach Pluto until 2015. That means the team in control of...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Pluto, camera, Jupiter, photograph, subsystem

Discussion threads 2007-02-28

You won't believe this:govt official proposes tax on SecondLife, World Of Warcraft, etc. winnings

When I first read my colleague Daniel Terdimans article "IRS taxation of online game virtual assets inevitable" early this morning, my first reaction was "what the..."Dans positioning of this as a very real public policy came from a Saturday panel called "Tax and Finance" at the New York Law...

Tags: tax, Daniel Terdimans, trends, Regulatory, General

Blog posts 2006-12-04

AMD cans low-cost PC project

AMD cans low-cost PC projectWrong PR move AMDit's not about your bottomline, it's about raising up others. You take a hit on profits to remain in mind and heartshare, or something like that. Now AMD might be thought of as Another Money DoubleTalker.AMD was intimidated by M$!M$ killed...

Tags: Operating systems, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows Embedded, PIC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., PC, Linux-version

Discussion threads 2006-11-13