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Dirty laundry aired in Intel/EU anti-trust fight

More European blackmail....In bad economic times, the EU simply levies a "fine" against some US company. Note that the companies who were allegedly affected are US companies. Too bad there isn't some EU company that actually makes some money in the US. We could just fine them as...

Tags: Dirty Laundry, Intel/EU anti-trust, Blue Man Group, Dirty

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Dirty little secrets of the keyboard revealed

Dirty little secrets of the keyboard revealed Service Tech's tricks for avoiding germsThe first thing I do when I accept a laptop into my shop for repair is clean the entire keyboard and case with an antibacterial cleanser previously tested for safe use on the case plastic. Severely contaminated keyboards...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, DIRTY LITTLE SECRET, Dirty

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

Dirty dozen: Firefox ships patch for 12 security flaws

Dirty dozen: Firefox ships patch for 12 security flawsAdobe Flash Beta 10 on Linux Stopped CrashingEvery since build version 3 of Firefox 3.0.2 Adobe 10 beta stopped crashing on Linux 32/64 bit systems. Flash now runs great on this release, except for some minor issues with accelerated graphics and nVidia...

Tags: Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, keylogger, Dirty, Fox, security flaw, security

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Tap Water: Solution to Dirty Hands, High Drug Prices and Political Correctness

Tap Water: Solution to Dirty Hands, High Drug Prices and Political Correctnessjust get a decent water filter!I use water bottles because they're convenient... but I refill them a lot of times before they go into the recycling.RE: Tap Water: Solution to Dirty Hands, High Drug Prices and Political Correctnesswhat's this?Of...

Tags: Tap Water, bottle, Political Correctness, High Drug Prices, Dirty Hands, plastic bottle, Dirty

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

Google-DoubleClick deal seen winning approval

Google-DoubleClick deal seen winning approvalDirty socialists think everyone needs their approval [nt].

Tags: DoubleClick Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

Additional Resources

Quick'n'Dirty episode 23: TripIt and Twitter lists top talk

Great write up!Jennifer - it is hard to believe that we're already 23 episodes into the Quick-n-Dirty podcast show. Seems like just yesterday we were formulating our plan and fumbling around with Blog Talk Radio dashboards. Obviously there is always room for improvement but I feel like we're starting to...

Tags: Blogging, Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Chinese wallboard gets a dirty bill of health

Yes, but the problem isThat these things were MADE TO STANDARDS... American standards, no less.So if these things are leeching this very bad shit..... how many American-made brands of wallboard are also doing this?More toxic garbage from China...From the country that gave us adulterated killer dog food ingredients, and long...

Tags: Quality, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chinese wallboard gets a dirty bill of health

Chinese wallboard gets dirty bill of health from the feds. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Bill, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Apple to smokers: butt out or void your warranty

Well here it is...http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0446.htmlI have seen tar filled electronicsIt gets nasty. You open them up, and they can be full of tar and all this brown/black gunk. You can get a nicotine high just by touching the parts.As for second hand smoke risk, thats kind of unfounded. Is that gunk...

Tags: Apple Inc., cigarette, joint, Cannabis, tar, smoker, computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Quick'n'Dirty episode 23: TripIt and Twitter lists top talk

Are Twitter lists valuable or a big ego stroke? Jennifer and Aaron sound off. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Twitter Inc., Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-11-23

A Microsoft and News Corp. search pact? It adds up

Goodbye RupertI am not going to use Bing.Google will find stuff I am interested in.Too lazy to use Bing.Bing is dead.Something will dethrone Google, but it ain't Bing.Goodbye Google...You can't earn money without paying for content made byothers...Google has milked the industry for years without giving anything back...There's no such...

Tags: SEARCH, Digital music, Digital media, News Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Office 2010 Beta 2: More than just a bunch of pretty icons

Of course its better, they stole ideas fromOf course 2010 is better, they stole (oops, innovated) most of the new ideas from Office MVPs that built add ins to previous versions. (There is a very silent revolt going on in the MVP ranks over it and many long term...

Tags: Numbering, Microsoft Office, Office MVP, ribbon, Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier

Vive Le Resistance!Michael - Resistance to Change, Immunity to Change - there is a lot of activity on the "real work" beyond tech and into enacting and leveraging change agents of Enterprise 2.0 lately... great that we're all surfacing these issues in increasingly large forums.For a bit more flavor on...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, transparency, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

A flip of the on switch: Utah wind project goes online

Seems wasteful to send the energy 2 states away...Very cool to see a big wind farm come online, but most of that energy is going to be wasted on transmission line leakage by the time it gets to California. We really need to get to the point of highly-localized power...

Tags: power generation

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google traffic...

Dangerous generalisationsNEWCASTLE UK - While I might agree with your argument in the special case of WSJ your logic breaks down for newspapers in general. The WSJ is a broadsheet for a very small sector,the Financial World, as opposed to The Times or The SUN where the aim is the...

Tags: Rupert, Rupert Murdoch, Washington Post Co., Google Inc., music

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google traffic...

Google relies on new content and in return for indexing newspapers it offers lots of traffic. But can it continue that trade? by Tom Foremski

Tags: Google Inc., Traffic, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-11-11

The Truth About Wasteful Spending on Software: How to Stop Giving Your Software Vendors Money for Applications You Don't Use

The dirty little secret of software licensing is one is buying more software than one need from the major software vendors. Why? Because neither they nor one has practices in place to ensure one only buy what user's need to do their jobs. A fair software license agreement would allow...

Tags: Software, Software Company, Scalable Software, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-11-11

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

CIO top priorities: Productivity and cost reduction, according to SIM survey

CIO's waste of timeThe office of CIO should be abolished from IT. Its a useless office of someone who really has no clue of building a computer, setting up a network, how to solve IT problems in a real manner not in the "I needed it yesterday" style. CIO's love...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, cost reduction, SIM card, survey

Discussion threads 2009-11-09