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- FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual
- Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...
- Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- 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
- Will GOP winning the battle force Democrats to war?
- MAJORITY DONT WANT GOVT HEALTHCAREPeriod, end of story. Just about every survey shows most don't want the government anywhere near healthcare.Period, end of story. Time for govt to start respecting the will of the people.But Dana "the socialist" does..so he will keep going on - ad nauseam -...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, GOP, health care, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...
- Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- 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
- Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?
- On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?
- On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...
- Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- In Washington green politics still nasty
- In Washington green politics still nastyDon't think anonymous holds should be allowedIf a Senator wants to put a hold on a nomination, he can and should either do it openly, or object to consideration when the nomination comes to the floor. Senate Majority Leaders should never have allowed the...
- Tags: nomination, Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Collision course for American-owned car makers
- America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...
- Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation
- Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigationPoints two and three are dubiousMind you, I tend to take the US Constitution a lot more literally than the US Supreme Court has during my lifetime, but..."Congress has violated the Constitution by putting the prosecution of a criminal statute in the...
- Tags: Charlie Neeson, Constitution, Harvard, RIAA, RIAA litigation, U.S. Congress, litigation
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- DHS still doesn't quite get this cybersecurity thing
- The Department of Homeland Security is still lacking in the cybersecurity department, according to a bevy of critics. What's galling is that the DHS' inadequacies are barely news anymore. Here's what would be a real news flash: "DHS locks down cybersecurity. Hackers locked out!" Perhaps I'm cynical...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Community, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Mandatory email
- Mandatory emailWe need better emailFrankly, email is currently broken - spam and scams and phishing make it a mess to wade through, even with the best spam blocking stuff.Problem is, we decided to use "adaptive filtering" statistical junk rather than solid encryption and digital signatures. What do the spammers do?...
- Tags: e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them
- We urbanites are sitting in the bleachers for what portends to be a helluva gladiatorial battle. Corn. Cows. And it's all being fought over energy and centers, as all fine money matters in "cleantech," around the EPA. Here's what's up: Texas is a...
- Tags: Biofuel, Texas, Corn, Iowa, Generation Biofuel Folk, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- FTC: Google-DoubleClick deal a go; One dissenter; Privacy principles floated
- The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it won't block Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick. The vote was 4 to 1 to close the 8 month investigation. According to the FTC's statement: “After carefully reviewing the evidence, we have concluded that Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick is unlikely...
- Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, DoubleClick Inc., FTC, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Defragging identity, disclosures and vendor relationship management
- In the afternoon session at the Defrag conference, some old friends took the stage to defrag some things. Dick Hardt is well known for his Identity 2.0 presentation on the state of digital identity. He is the CEO and founder of Sxip Identity, which focuses on Internet-scale identity and...
- Tags: Data, Identity, Tool, Productivity, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Today's Debate: HIPAA, end it or mend it?
- Today's Debate: HIPAA, end it or mend it?Moot PointWhat happened to my rights?I don't think Hillary is the difference hereI think any President is going to mandate standards of care, including standards of record-keeping, which are interoperable and electronic.There are two sides in every business transaction, and one is the...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, E-health, HIPAA, eHR
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- When a lobbyist is like a shark
- Lobbyists are exerting serious energy over energy. Money to lobbyists like blood to sharks. And the proposed changes in American energy laws could bring billions of federal money into play.Everybody from oil companies to vengture capitalists are watching this one. This evening AP is reporting there's been...
- Tags: renewable energy, green tech, fossil fuel, federal government, energy, cars &, traffic, Blogroll
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- TJX's failure to secure Wi-Fi causes $1B damage
- TJX's failure to secure Wi-Fi causes $1B damage$1 billion?You cite "many" estimates that this will cost hundreds of millions or even a billion dollars worth of losses. Could you provide an actual citation?Security is important, but it fails when sold through hyperbole, too.ShockingIn my own survey of neighborhoods, my N800...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, TJX, wireless, card, security
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- Skype on cellphones? Skype, Verizon lobbyists square off
- Late yesterday at the Von Show, key lobbyists for Skype and Verizon aired their differences with about a matter that you would probably care quite a bit about if you knew more about it.Its my hope that after you read this post, you will.The issue at hand here is Skypes...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Fax, Skype Technologies S.A., Wikipedia:The Carterfone, Carterphone, cell phone, radio system, telephone, radio, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
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