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Feds snub open source for 'smart' radios

Feds snub open source for 'smart' radiosGood intentions are most importantQuoting:"In its filing this week, the SDR Forum asked the FCC to allow radio makers to discuss their code in public, as long as they weren't intending to encourage rule-breaking. The group also urged a neutral stance on the security...

Tags: Good Intentions, router, open source, security, radio, software

Discussion threads 2007-07-06

Good intentions aside, lawmakers are stymied by kids who lie about their ages

Good intentions aside, lawmakers are stymied by kids who lie about their agesRaise the age?So they add another couple of years to the lie. whoopdiedo.How about charging the parents and/or the child with the lie, you know, the ones responsible?You gotta love this part of the article:"The new legislation may...

Tags: Good Intentions

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

Data leakage: Good intentions can go bad

Data leakage: Good intentions can go badTechnology DiaperWe need a technology diaper - Too much leakin' goin on out there!!

Tags: Good Intentions, Data Leakage

Discussion threads 2007-02-13

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Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...

Tags: security, Google Inc., licence, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Epicor's implementation cost drive: what does it really mean?

Epicor's announcement Monday that it has created a shared benefits program for implementations looks like a step in the right direction for those of us that want to see lowered implementation costs. On the face of it, the offer is compelling. According to the press release:...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Customer, Benefits, Roi/Tco, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-11

SAP and open source: it's about Oracle

Matt Asay has written a piece about SAP's 'sudden' love affair with open source: What is surprising is that it is SAP, the bastion of proprietary software, that delivers this message. Irony, thy name is SAP. SAP, after all, is hardly the most...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Matt Asay, Open Source, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Treece and truth

Treece, KSYes, Treece is pretty much a toxic wasteland. But instead of ranting about the blowing off of mountaintops, clear-cutting forests, plowing up the prairie, and providing a link to an informationless NYT blurb, why don't you actually *talk* about Treece?Why not tell some of the story of *why*...

Tags: Treece

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Copenhagen countdown

Will he or won't he? To go, or not to go? That is the question. Some MSM outlets say Obama will skip Copenhagen. Yet political leaders in the U.S. and abroad are urging him to attend. The international climate change...

Tags: Copenhagen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

"It ain't me you're lookin' for [to blame], babe." --Bob Dylan We Americans can be a self-righteous bunch. You and I didn't get those hefty Wall Street bonuses for peddling weightless paper to investors. I didn't even pressure my foreclosed former neighbor into taking...

Tags: Global Warming, Pew Survey, Independents, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Global cyberwar: Installed in your PC at home, the office and government

Personal Accountabilityas long as people can think and act as though their conduct on the internet is shrouded in anonomity.Until each of us takes full responsibility for what we do and operates with the knowledge that our 'unique' verifiable identities can be obtained readily, the carnage will continue and broaden.A...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, government, computer, PC-At Home, Internet, car

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?

What are you going to do about it?Please,reveal how many more extremists there are for the secrete service to watch.I'm as big an Obama fan as anyoneBut the fact is that he hasn't accomplished anything worthy of such a prize. He says the right things, certainly, but until plans are...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Nobel, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear site

Message has been deleted.Message has been deleted.RE: GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear siteI do not worry, Israel does not miss around and will take care of it if they feel it is a threat, they have done it before and i am sure they will do it again. With or...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Iranian nuclear site, GeoEye, nuclear site, Deleted

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Mother nature v. human nature

Nature is no mother.ntGood intention, bad implementation.Ah yes - the road to hell is paved with good intentions.While I admire the Europeans and their attempts to be proactive about the environment - you must absolutely account for human behavior. And you can't legislate human behavior.My advice?Subsidize recycling.agreed nt.Self interest is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Strategy, Self-Interest

Discussion threads 2009-09-27

Why Africa gets the IBM-Ubuntu bundle and you do not

So let me get this straightThey are shipping modern computers with a modern OS and then crippling them for the 3rd world by going backwards to Linux. Presumably this is just one more burden for the poor and disadvantaged, since they obviously don't deserve to use what the rest...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Spyware, adware & malware, Games, Cyberthreats, Ubuntu, Linux, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?

A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...

Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?

Long ago......people gave up any semblance of being able to separate the message from the messenger. We saw it with the anti-Bush tirades, we see it now with the anti-Obama (and the anti-anti-Obama) tirades, as we see it in the anti-Microsoft tirades. Microsoft could announce that the sun was going...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., publically-traded company, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Has the iPod idea train hit the buffers?

The "hype" Apple gave it?Apple sent out 2 notifications to the press. First there was an announcement of the event date and then later there was a "post card" invite that clearly marked it as a music event. Get something straight, Adrian, Apple didn't hype this event -...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, camera, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Adrian, buffer, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Does Google Book privacy policy go far enough?

"NO" is the Quick AnswerThe reason Google does not promise several things outright is because, clearly, they think they might want to do more in the future, which makes me very uncomfortable. I have switched to using InPrivate browing in IE8 when accessing many search engines due to the...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Should open source hate Apple?

Apple Doesn't Have Control?Apple created an entirely closed marketplace for music through iTunes and the iPod that no other product has successfully done! The point that one device was more than 60-70% of the market kills innovation, let alone that it was laced with DRM for years and still is...

Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Industry fight against Google hurts education

So it's NOT OK for Microsoft to control technology......but it IS OK for Google to try and take over the world of information?Sorry...not buying it.Google does no evil, just IS evil?Look at the account TOS. Anything that requires an active Google account -- gMail, gTalk, gApps, etc. -- is...

Tags: Google Inc., education

Discussion threads 2009-08-21