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Here comes some R and D: nanotech in carville

Some brave Angelenos will be working on nano-tech for combatting global warming. Yes, right there amid freeways and palpable smog and all the gas-burning cars in Los Angeles, some engineers will be using federal money to find nano-ways to more efficiently capture solar energy. Also, they're looking for...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Car, California, Nanotechnology, DOE, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-05

DOE slams Los Alamos on lax cybersecurity

DOE slams Los Alamos on lax cybersecurityGovernment wasting tax dollars nothing new Anytime big GOVERNMENT is involved you can be assured of disaster My first question would be:[i]Three computers stolen from an employee?s home in Santa Fe on Jan. 16.[/i]Why does ONE employee have THREE govt issued computers in his...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Los Alamos, Pogo, cybersecurity, lax cybersecurity, DOE, computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-15

Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]

Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]Pardon?Why are you not pressing the interviewee to give a straight answer to the questions raised instead of the PR fluff they're coming out with?

Tags: Podcasts, Government IT, podcast

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Web profile no defense to statutory rape

Web profile no defense to statutory rapeMisleading - should be no *offense* against websitesFrom the article, this apparently just shows the site isn't liable. It does *not* show that it doesn't work as a defense for Doe. I would rather have seen what happened/happens to Doe in the...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, Doe, Web

Discussion threads 2007-08-30

Web profile no defense to statutory rape

Honest belief that a female is over 18 is generally a defense to a statutory rap charge, but apparently relying on someone's web profile is not enough. Ars Technica reports that a federal judge threw out a suit by a man who sued SexSearch.com, an X-rated personals service. "John...

Tags: Web, Minor, Communications Decency Act, SexSearch.com, John Doe, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-30

Yucca Mt. simulation too complex for NRC to check

Nevadas anti-nuclear activists inadvertently received good news from the Department of Energy recently. The requirements to run DOEs simulation - on whether the proposed nuclear waste dump at Nevadas Yucca Mountain will work - is so complicated, no one can run it, reports the Nevada Appeal. The proposed...

Tags: Science, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-11

DOE nuke agency hacked in Sept.

While the VA data breach is still on high boil, Energy Dept. officials revealed Friday that the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people. While the breach actually happened in September, top officials just learned about the breach last week, the AP reports.The data theft occurred in a computer...

Tags: NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks, DOE

Blog posts 2006-06-12

Canadian 'iPod tax' repeal in limbo

Canadian 'iPod tax' repeal in limboCanada O' Canada!Doe's anyone know what the effective tax rate in Canada is? Take a guess.They tax the living daylights out of everything that moves! Folks in the US think we have high taxes, just thank God who by the way is restricted in Canada...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Doe, Apple iPod, tax

Discussion threads 2005-04-01

Hardware security sneaks into PCs

Hardware security sneaks into PCsIsn't it IronicGates takes them down the DRM path and fails to sell online music or video because of it, even with Walmarts backing the customers don't want it.Meanwhile Apple turns down the DRM and takes the online music market from them and AllofMP3.com drops it...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Rob Lemos, M$FT, Doe, PC, International Data Corp., Trusted Computing, hardware, software, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-03-16

New microscope could focus nanotech dream

New microscope could focus nanotech dreamUS Department of Energy needs this why?A hundred million dollars to do what? Why does the Department of Energy need something like this? Do they not have enough on their plate dealing with the here and now and our countries energy needs? ...

Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, DOE, Department of Energy, nanotechnology

Discussion threads 2004-12-01

Additional Resources

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Let's get 64-bit sorted out before we think about 128-bit!

Yes, it is time for 128 bitWhile 32 bit is not quite history yet it should be considered for history in the next release of windows which leaves us with 64 bit apps. However, apps continue to evolve requiring more memory and to do more for us. It is better...

Tags: Network technology, 128-bit, 64-bit, 32-bit

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Green Grid releases green data center resources

Looks like The Green Grid is getting deeper into the Green IT tools business. The organization has launched a free online site with maps that data center managers in Japan and 33 European countries can use to figure out the extent to which they can use free cooling (the process...

Tags: Data Center, Grid, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-05

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

U.S. DOE, EPA, IT pros: $1.1 billion could be saved with green, efficient data centers

Tired of hearing about green.Green this, green that. Everything green, green, green. Green is not going to be the savior to the worlds problems like everyone is making it out to be.While it's nice to be green, and I do my part, I am under no delusion that it's going...

Tags: Data centers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, data center

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

U.S. DOE, EPA, IT pros: $1.1 billion could be saved with green, efficient data centers

A global consortium of IT professionals announced on Friday new tools and reports to assist data center managers and executives to improve the efficiency of their operations. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-10-02

Scientists replicate the physics of a stellar jet in laboratory

Astronomers will tell you that among the most beautiful structures observed in the Universe are the intricate jets of matter speeding away from accreting stars, such as young proto-stars and stellar mass black holes. But they have a hard time explaining it. A pair of professors the University of Rochester...

Tags: Jet, Magnetic Field, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-09-30

When HIPAA and Twitter collide: Can you blab away your privacy rights?

Absolutely notThe most the hospital should do is cite HIPAA and promise a private resolution. That is all they need to do in public. If they do resolve the problem to satisfaction, most people who are willing to complain about a health problem in public would acknowledge that in public....

Tags: Regulatory compliance, HEALTHCARE, Regulations, Twitter Inc., hospital, HIPAA, patient

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Innovate...then wait...and wait

I spoke with the CEO of an American company making state-of-engineering heat pumps. But his company can't get past the federal gatekeepers at the Department of Energy DOE. The Acadia system built and sold by Hallowell International just doesn't fit the old model for HVAC. I blogged...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Lobbyist, Rebate, Department Of Energy, Acadia, Hallowell International, Quality, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-27

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20