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- Congress eyes LimeWire over inadvertant P2P breaches
- LimeWire is in the hotseat as the flagship P2P application. This time the issue is not music filesharing but security breaches through inadvertant file sharing. A House committee has sent letters to Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton, the FTC and the Justice Department, announcing that it would reopen a previous...
- Tags: LimeWire, P2P, U.S. Congress, Social Security Number, House Committee, Peer To Peer (P2P), Social Security, Operational Accounting, Internet, Government, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Forget red or blue, is Washington turning green?
- More tax breaks for alternative energy could be in the offing. And one of the largest wind farms in planning stage awaits a Presidential yay or nay. A House committee has just approved a $20 billion dollar alternative energy package. Much of that money would go for...
- Tags: Turbine, Tax Credit, House Committee, Taxes, Personal Finance, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act
- House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP ActMega CapitalismThe snake eating its own tail. Or put another way, living off of itself.The reality though, is more like it survives from eating off the minions within reach. It's like a dragon in a cave full of jewels ....Do our brave adventurers (capitalist...
- Tags: Pro IP Act, gluttonou, House Committee
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- House committee seeks more HP testimony
- House committee seeks more HP testimonyPretexting Ha! HP Wanted Email RecordsHP-Gate didn't just stop with the seedy practice of pre-texting to obtain internal HP Board members phone records http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=100. Patricia Dunn's bungled investigation, also led to email from board members like Tom Perkins and Hewlett-Packard's outside council, Larry Sonsini going...
- Tags: Outsourcing, E-mail, House Committee, SEC, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn, CIA
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
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- Do we need a 'beautiful mess' in operating systems? Yup
- To make a good soup, you've got to stir the pot...Ok, sure - it turns cloudy, short-term. Just be sure to filter it or let it settle, before serving.Whereas the classic 'design-by-committee' model so often fails, its always useful to have multiple, talented teams working on similar projects, independently. With...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, operating system, John Gruber, Linux, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- The role of data governance in the enterprise
- According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News
- News items 2009-11-12
- Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona
- Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites
- a U.S. House of Representatives bill is taking the unusual step of requiring Internet providers to block access to certain online financial scams - or face fines and federal court injunctions. For the last decade or so, Internet service providers have been dealing with requests to block access to...
- Tags: Internet Provider, Financial, U.S. House Of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Internet Service Provider, Investor, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Financial Accounting, Finance, ISP, scam, Declan McCullagh
- News items 2009-11-04
- 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
- U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document
- Perhaps file sharing should be banned. An employee of the U.S. House Ethics Committee put a sensitive report detailing 30+ current investigations on to a public accessible computer. by Doug Hanchard
- Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Productivity, Internet, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?
- There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of Congressional action, it is highly unlikely President...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, U.S. Congress, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Massachusetts becomes Canada as reform debate nears climax
- Obamacare ship is sinkingPeople saw the light with the failed socialist experiment in mASSachusetts, so liberal politicians like Barnie Frank can stuck their health care reform where the sun doesn't shine.Yeah, the ship is sinking, but it is Obama who's rearanging the chairs to give Pelosi and Reid front row...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- 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
- P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education
- One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed. I can't tell you many of my own friends and extended family members -...
- Tags: Education, P2P, File-sharing, Music, P2P Legislation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- The Senate Dems' energy and climate bill debuts
- The official name is "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act." I though the American power act had to do with invading weak countries like Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Afghainistan. This must be some other kind of power? This has to do with fossil fuel, electricity and...
- Tags: Bill, U.S. Senate, Senate Dems, Transportation, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- 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
- Medical reform battle may presage energy legislation
- There is one single reason those interested in greentech should pay attention to the current political donnybrook over America's medical industry and its customers: Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana). His key committee in the U.S. Senate will likely shape whatever medical legislation is voted on by the upper house...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Max Baucus opens his kimono
- PelosiObamaReidCare PORC is a Fascist Pig In a constitutional republic like ours, the government's powers are limited by a constitution that protects our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. PelosiObamaReidCare PORC would violate the unalienable rights of patients, doctors, and business owners by forcing 1)...
- Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Insurance, health care, Max Baucus, office visit, health insurance, kimono
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Google supports bill to ensure orphan works available to competitors
- oogle welcomes legislation that would expand the rights it would obtain under the Google Books Settlement to all players, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers announced at the start of committee hearings on the settlement. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- House Judiciary considers Google Books deal Thursday
- The House Judiciary Committee hears testimony from Google, Amazon, the Copyright Office and academics. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., House Judiciary Committee, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
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