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Case study of resource use without thought of consequences

Much of the industrialized world is dotted with no-go zones. Toxic sites. Chernobyl. Old tannery sites and battery factories in London are fenced off. They sit empty amidst Europe's most densely crowded city. In my old home state of Missouri, Time's Beach is abandoned by humans--too many...

Tags: Battery, Consequence, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Level Platforms White Paper: Supporting Regulatory Compliance

Since the late 1990s, governments have been enacting legislation that requires companies to apply strict controls on the way they do business. The purpose of these controls is to ensure accurate disclosure of risk to investors, and to safeguard end customers from misuse of their personal information. In a global...

Tags: Information Technology, Consequence, LPI Level Platforms, Government, Regulatory Compliance, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Management, Finance

White papers 2009-01-01

Trashpad 0.1 (Windows)

Sometimes you want to write something down just to get it out of your head, but you don't want any record of it anywhere. The Trashpad deletes your text as it scrolls off the screen (or before, just hit escape). For psychotherapy and thinking without consequence. Version 0.1 may include...

Tags: Consequence, Confusionists, Trashpad, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-05-23

Additional Resources

East Anglia: the D.C. reaction

Fraud? We will know the truth in thirty years.Will there still be ice on Greenland? Humans living in Tuvalu? Time will tell, not computer models. Or political lobbying.--Harry Fullerhttp://www.climatechangefraud.com/http://www.climatechangefraud.com/Don't be retarded HarryEveryone wants to know the details of the hacking but it's not in the jurisdication...

Tags: SECURITY, disinformation, Tuvalu, hacking

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Can Chrome OS save us from racket ware?

Open Source / Repositories vs. Windows Closed SourceThe idea of having GPG-protected repositories which contain open source apps is central to the notion that these apps' source code is viewed by 'many eyes' and as such, vetted.Get your app outside of your designated O/S approved repos and you 'tempt fate'.In...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system, software, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-30

As others see us

Anti-American dribblehttp://www.climatechangefraud.com/Author please do without A/C, electricity, andyour standard of living.Then you get Al Gore to do without privatejets, mansions and it will never happenTech news pleasehttp://www.climatechangefraud.com/Can someone get a NEW editor that writes TECH articles and NOT Anti-American TRASH.Tech news pleaseSorry you're made uncomfortable by the complexity of the...

Tags: iPODS, IT Revolution, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-28

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

New ultra-thin laptops ready to catch on?

They still seem a bit over priced for what they do. I feel the same way about the netbooks too.They will NEVER take off like Netbooks becauseThey violate the netbook Trinity. These are the three contributing factors which are required for the extreme mass market appeal of a netbook....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, laptop computer, ultra-thin laptop, New ultra-thin laptop

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

IBM researchers speed up medical diagnostic testing via chip

A step in the right directionIf this can provide reliable quantitative values and isn't too expensive, it would be a great asset. Being able to get a full initial blood workup in minutes using this technology could reduce some of the cost of health care by allowing a physician to...

Tags: Semiconductors, speed-Up, chip, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Advanced Windows Unattended Installation 2.6 (Windows)

If you work as a system administrator in an organization and maintain a lot of computers, you are sure to have come across the situation when you had to buy a consignment of computers and install all kinds of software on each of them. The direct consequence of such a...

Tags: Computer, Unattended Installation Systems, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...

Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

ZDNet readers don't care about celebrity endorsements

I agree with the poll. I'm not buying a new camera because Ashton Kutcher is pimping one out, or because Justin Timberlake is doing it in his commercials. I'll buy one based on the features I need. I'd rather see the commercials prop up the features rather than the celebrity.Oh...

Tags: camera, celebrity endorsement, advertisement, ZDNet-reader

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

The key to understanding Google - CEO admits it is a media company

that's not the main pointThe main point is that FOSS enabled Google to make tons of money by leveraging the community and media companies failed to jump into this bandwagon.Thanks for the confirmationGlad you took the time to make it even more obvious.But - "they" still won't believe you ...RE:...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Web browsers, Google Inc., McDonald's Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

DRAM error rates: nightmare on DIMM street

Windows.Atleast From Vista has a Utility in Administrative tools in the control panel.Where in "About this Mac"?I'd just like to make sure I know the right place to look for errors. I look under "Hardware/Memory" and see a list of all 8 DIMM slots. There's a column for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Memory, error rate, stable system, true meaning, DRAM

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

NVidia has a chanceNot all that surprisingly the concept of supercomputing on a small basis has finally filtered down to audio/video recording facilities, with the bulk of basics going to the CPU and the actual processing going to the GPU. This is a clear advancement when those of us...

Tags: NVidia Corp., supercomputer, big supercomputer player, supercomputing, supercomputer player

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Linux as Wintel parasite

You have some questionable ideas.If Microsoft hadn't happened, there still would have been the PC, there still would have been GUIs perhaps a more expensive IBM monopoly one, and there still would have been the opportunity for anyone such as Linus to write a free alternative.I think to even use...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Wintel, Linux, interrupt, parasite, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., hardware, Red Hat Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-09-26

EU court: Google keywords don't violate trademark

The thing is, it has always been legal to try to switch you to anotherproduct. You walk in to a travel agent and tell them you want to go to Paris on American. The salesman has a deal with United and tries to sell you United instead. All perfect legal.So,...

Tags: advertisement, Google Inc., United, salesman

Discussion threads 2009-09-22