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- In CO, playing politics with sex offender laws
- There’s some things it’s just hard for a politician to support. Like sex offenders, for instance. A bill to require sexual offenders to register their emails, IM names and chat room identities died in Democratic-run Colorado legislature. That’s when Colorado Republican Attorney General John Suthers went bulldog, saying Democrats...
- Tags: offender, sex offender
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- HI passes on GPS measure for sex offenders
- Just about every state is advancing bills aimed at throwing the book at sex offenders. In Hawaii, three such bills were offered but only one passed the Houses Judiciary Committee yesterday, the Honolulu Advertiser reports. The one bill that passed would put sex offenders on lifetime parole. One...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- IN tests GPS tech for 24/7 monitoring
- Indiana officials are testing out a new GPS system in Allen County to monitor sex offenders and violent offenders on parole, The Indianapolis Star reports. The Allen County trial is a prelude to statewide use of the devices for all sexual and violent parolees. Last year, lawmakers...
- Tags: Courts, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- AZ wants sex offenders to reveal emails
- Joining a chorus of states around the country, the Arizona Legislature is considering a bill to require sex offenders to submit their online identities to county sheriffs departments. Rep. Bob Robsons proposal would require registered sex offenders to divulge their social networking site profiles, e-mail addresses and instant-messaging...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, offender, sex offender, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- After losing track of sex offenders, DE vows it will not happen again
- In Delaware, Secretary of Safety and Homeland Security David B. Mitchells staff lost track of some 800 sex offenders. And Mitchell said Thursday his top priority is to ensure that it never happens again, Delaware State News reports. Mitchell asked the legislative Joint Finance Committee for three additional employees...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Law enforcement, sex offender, SBI
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- OK bill would create email registry for sex offenders
- The Oklahoma State Legislature is cracking down on registered sex offenders by offering up a measure that would ban registered sex offenders from communicating with children over an Internet Web site, reports the Ardmoreite. The measure, which has been passed by the Criminal Justice and Corrections Subcommittee, authorizes...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Privacy, offender, sex offender
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Wide disparity in NJ sex offender registries
- In northern New Jersey, The Record reports, not all sex offenders registries - so-called Megans Law registries - are created equal. There are wide disparities between the North Jersey counties, the paper finds. Only one in nine sex offenders living in four of North Jerseys counties ever wind...
- Tags: Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, Government technology, Megans Law, sex offender, offender
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- VA proposal to add emails to sex offender registries
- Virginia attorney general Bob McDonnell wants to require sex offenders to provide email addresses and IM identities to the states online registry, The Roanoke Times reports. Offenders are already required to publicize name, age, height, weight, the color of their eyes and hair, and their home and work addresses. ...
- Tags: sex offender, offender, Bob McDonnell, e-mail address, e-mail
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
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- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations
- Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...
- Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy
- We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures
- The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions. There have been some commitments to the system for the following top-level domains:...
- Tags: Digital Signature, DNS, ICANN, Domain Names, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market
- The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world with a seemingly limitless appetite for snooping – Asia. Adzilla's home page says: ...
- Tags: Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Adzilla, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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