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The verdict: Lori Drew is guilty.

The verdict: Lori Drew is guilty.Yes, she is guilty.... BUTNot of the most serious things that they were trying to convict her of. Really, once ALL the facts came out, you realized that these comments were NOT the cause of Megan's suicide.What was? Her parents lack of support to her...

Tags: Litigation, ECONOMIC HARM, Lori Drew, verdict

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

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Adopting Server Virtualization for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

In today's competitive business environment, your IT infrastructure must accommodate rapidly changing business needs and unforeseen problems with minimal impact on day-to-day operations. But this level of flexibility, scalability, and high availability can be expensive and difficult to deploy and maintain, especially for small and midsize businesses. No matter what...

Tags: CA XOSoft, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization

White papers 2009-11-17

Consensus! Tenenbaum defense is a trainwreck

TechDirt says that the Tenenbaum defense is a "trainwreck in motion." Picking up on copyright industry lawyer Ben Sheffner's opinion that the biggest error - of the many Team Tenenbaum made - was the failure to obtain an expert witness on economic damages, TechDirt's Mike Masnick writes: ...

Tags: Damage, Industry, File-sharing, Charles Nesson, Masnick, Strategy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Management, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Life or death struggle in the Senate

Life or death struggle in the SenateAnother example of one size not fitting allWhile there are numerous issues with the Waxman-Markey bill, something Harry wrote highlights the ignorance many people approach policy in the United States. I have been to Eurpoe and love their public transportation systems and which...

Tags: Taxes, U.S. Senate, population density, Rural American

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey billEvidence for your assertions, pleaseWhile there is at least weak scientific evidence that man contributes to global warming (I do not trust it, but at least some studies try to make the point), there is none for climate change causing weather events like hurricanes. ...

Tags: Messiah, hurricane, global warming, Waxman-Markey, life saving, sea level, game, Katrina

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Repubs say the Waxman-Markey bill is DOA in Senate

Repubs say the Waxman-Markey bill is DOA in SenateWah, wah, wahThat's all I read out of your "verbiage."You only look at one side of the equationWhat about the thousands of companies that run server farms? Their energy bills are going to skyrocket.You discuss the benefits to the green companies...

Tags: Benefits, green company, Waxman-Markey, Repubs, DOA, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2009-06-28

Carbon Wars in the U.S. Senate

Carbon Wars in the U.S. SenateWhy is this on ZDNet?I mean, don't you guys have your own websites to post this BS?RE: Carbon Wars in the U.S. SenateThe Cap and SCAM system is the biggest load of horse manure I have ever witnessed. I can't even believe people were...

Tags: Construction, Personal finance, window, U.S. Senate, tax credit, tax

Discussion threads 2009-06-27

News to know: Apple, iPhone 3GS; Google Voice; Blu-ray; Bartz

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. Jason Hiner: Apple thumbs nose at Palm, reports 1 million iPhone 3G S units sold in 3 days CNBC:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Voice, Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Blu-ray, Carrier Strength, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Windows 7 E - Will it harm IE's user share? I don't think so!

So, Microsoft is to offer an IE-free version of Windows 7, called Windows 7 E, in all member nations of the European Economic Area and Croatia and Switzerland to satisfy the European Union. Will this harm IE's user share, or will people go with what they know and pick IE...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?Green Y2KDennis, needed questions...I asked a similar question couple of weeks ago - are we headed towards a green Y2K?http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2009/05/the-green-y2k.htmlI was at Gartner then and we were warning the world about Y2K. The bigger the total remediation cost we projected the more...

Tags: Y2K, global warming, Climate Change, IT SPEND, information technology, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

EMC World: Companies that adopt new tools still need to manage the data

How or why is your information important? Information in a business setting might include e-mails that need to be retained and archived for regulatory purposes. Or it might be the collaborative documents that employees have been working on for a product launch. At EMC World in Orlando...

Tags: Mark Lewis, EMC Corp., Tool, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Mac malware not a big deal - yet

Mac malware not a big deal - yetNot your daddys hackersThese attacks were clumsy and unsophisticated. Merely a fake keygen program which installed an easily detectable service. This is what attacks looked like in 1995.Which leads me to suspect that this is not one of the highly sophisticated groups attacking...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, ONLY WIndows, Apple Macintosh, operating system, attack, Apple Mac OS X, security, Apple Inc., Snow Leopard, malware

Discussion threads 2009-04-24

Grid spyware: Deregulation bites us again

Grid spyware: Deregulation bites us againHow long did it take...For stop signs to be posted at intersections after the automobile came into use? Red lights? Speed limits? Look both ways before you cross?I am mystified at the apparent lack of any common sense about the digital reality...

Tags: Regulations, SECURITY, deregulation, spyware

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Interview with 'Us Now' collaboration film director

I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the film 'Us Now', a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet last week at the Barbican Arts...

Tags: Film, Ivo Gormley, Government, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Legislator wants to smudge online maps

Legislator wants to smudge online mapsBlurry bitsIf they did blur some of the map bits. I wonder how long it would be before somebody noticed that all the blurry bits looked a lot like little targets that were already identified and then of course the images would have to be...

Tags: online map, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

Can the media harm the economy?

Can the media harm the economy?Consider this/KPKClearly, reporting in the media tends to amplify consumer and business psychology. Much of media, especially in my opinion cable news, has devolved into drama commentary rather than factual, impassioned reporting. Those who develop and deliver the "news" are chosen less for journalistic brilliance...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

Google flags entire Web as

Google flags entire Web as Google Giggles!!!http://evilfingers.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-is-malicious.htmlRE: Google flags entire Web as I was wondering what the hell was going on?It is ok now.RE: Google flags entire Web as i'm trying to recall anything of this order of of magnitude affecting millions of users worldwide that Microsoft did. uhm, aside...

Tags: Channel management, Viruses and worms, SEARCH, SECURITY, Google Inc., entire web, beta, Microsoft Corp., Web

Discussion threads 2009-01-31

Sony to layoff 16,000 employees, loses charm among consumers

Sony to layoff 16,000 employees, loses charm among consumers"... loses charm among consumers"Although I have loved every Sony product I ever bought and had an extremely good experience with Sony depot repair recently when, after fifteen years of trouble-free service, a stereo I have needed work, I quit buying Sony...

Tags: Workforce management, Sony Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Obama: good news for Sun

Obama: good news for SunThey'll switch to laptopsMy feeling is, given the mentality in most IT environments, customers will merely swap out desktop PCs for low-power-consumption laptops rather than use Sun Rays. I know from a security perspective this doesn't make sense, but when have "security measures" made sense in...

Tags: RSS, Desktops, Sun Microsystems Inc., Obama

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

The future of copyright: an 'undiscovered country'

In a speech at Sandra Day O'Connor's Conference on the State of the Judiciary, Alan Greenspan held forth on the importance of capitalism and property rights in the context of the financial meltdown. While many have argued that Greenspan himself bears substantial blame for the meltdown because of his support...

Tags: Property, Alan Greenspan, Marxism, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-18