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Jail time for UK hackers

Jail time for UK hackersYeah Yeah Yeah They shoulda been hungshot, bludgeoned, thrown off a cliff, roll under a steam roller, cut into small pieces and fed to the cat, poisoned, forced to marry my ex-wife and had their birthdays taken away. Did I miss anything?What a dis-incentive to...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, virus, hacker, punishment, dis-incentive

Discussion threads 2005-10-07

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What the fight against cancer really needs

What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...

Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the games on NBCSports.com right now. It looks like they used Flex to build the player and I assume they're using...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NBC, NFL, Video, Live Streaming, Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Google Chrome is complementary to Firefox

Google Chrome is complementary to FirefoxAt lasta blogger who understands open source. Every idiot on the internet tries to paint Chrome as competition to Mozilla. They do not have the vaguest clue......RE: Google Chrome is complementary to FirefoxI am excited. I like firefox but with Googles track record,...

Tags: Web browsers, NOW IT, Google Browser, Remember IE, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, Google Inc., Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months

VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...

Tags: Stock Option, Security, Amount, R&D, Stock, Employment, Agreement, VMware Inc., Company, RSU, Control, Change, Cause, Person, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...

Tags: Government, Attention Craig Newmark

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Dancing on E-voting's grave

Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...

Tags: Fair Use, e-voting, client-server, Fairness Doctrine

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Mozilla shows off Ubiquity: Mashups for the rest of us

Mozilla shows off Ubiquity: Mashups for the rest of usPromisingThis looks very promising. Been trying it out recently and very pleased. My fav. command is for making TinyURL's. Which really comes in handy for Twitter.Really a great idea. Of course it will not be very useful until a lot ofwebsites...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Web site, Mozilla Corp., Ubiquity, mashup

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?

Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?Wow, we are breaking down the barriers to web application adoption for allof our every day applications. The speed here will be so close to natively compiled code that it will not matter any more. But, we still need some kind of a sandboxed...

Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., security, Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight

Olympics set the stage for Web tech fightIt's going to be a short fightFlash is so technically inferior to Silverlight in virtually every capacity that it is already dead. Real developers have avoided web development effectively ceding it to the html weenies as the web has always been a truly...

Tags: Channel management, Web browsers, Microsoft Silverlight, developer, Web

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Web archiving enterprises: keep trying

Web archiving enterprises: keep tryingMSN VistaDrive is Coming!VistaDrive and the MS Cloud will radically change all computing! Steve talks about it:http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comNot nice to dis your mom in public...[i]Normally when saving a page like this, it’ll come out as an array of absolute mess and formatting turns out looking like my...

Tags: Business intelligence, Web archiving enterprise, archiving enterprise, archiving, Web

Discussion threads 2008-08-24

Zoho's future in Google's hands?

  Earlier today, Zoho sent over an intriguing email with a whole bunch of numbers and spreadsheet demonstrating why Google in particular is not likely to be a threat to the company. It makes interesting reading. The argument goes something like this: Google's revenue and profit per...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Google Inc., Zoho, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-18

It's official: OOXML is a standard

Surprised? Here's the full release from ISO: The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard after appeals by four national standards bodies against the...

Tags: ISO, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-15

Dell shakes up its Latitude laptops

Dell shakes up its Latitude laptopsDELL POOR SERVICEI purchased a Dell system a few months ago. The laptop had a hard drive problem that the GEEK squad found Dell refused to hoorthe dell in house service contract that I have for three years they finally replaced the laptop, but the...

Tags: Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., laptop computer, Dell Latitude

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

State AGs ignore phishing, spyware

Phishing, spyware and viruses cost consumers $7.1 billion in 2007, $5 billion in 2006. The Federal Trade Commission received 226,000 complaints of Internet-related fraud. But who cares? Not state attorney generals, apparently. As part of a survey of Internet-related crime, the Center for American Progress reports...

Tags: Fraud, Internet Crime, Internet, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Litigation, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Microsoft to stop selling boxed copies of Money Plus

Microsoft to stop selling boxed copies of Money PlusNew ModelsWith Microsoft working on cloud software and subscription-based models... this may help with transition to the new. Further, this would be a great product to link up with Mesh.It's about recurring revenue and maintenanceThe software market has shifted from selling software...

Tags: Big Bang, Microsoft Corp., software

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktop

IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktopIbm should spend 1% of its revenueeach years to help , expend and monitor/sponsored open sourceUp to a certain point IBM OS/3 "pay back" linux or bsd flavor since we are into the "if/why not"...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Corp., Symphony, server

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.

LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.It hasn't been that long ago...my company got rid of its last Green screen based network in favor of a fancy Windows based network at several of our branch offices. Guess what. We didn't pick up one iota of productivity gain. We...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Loverock Davidson, NOW IS, LinuxWorld, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Another gas problem for the NEXT U.S. President

Another gas problem for the NEXT U.S. PresidentMaybe the EPA doesn't act becauseCO2 is NOT a pollutant? Or maybe because somebody realizes that manmade global warming is the biggest hoax in history? I'm surprised that Mars has not threatened to sue the EPA. After all, there's...

Tags: Man-made global warming, carbon dioxide, gas problem, NEXT U.S., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, global warming

Discussion threads 2008-08-01