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Human Rights: An Inconvenient Truth

Human Rights: An Inconvenient TruthUS should standardize human rightsand then have everyone sign the document.You can't allow input from too many parties since this might end up with socialist rights like healtcare, education, or even worse 'habeas corpus' that would undermine our economy or the war on terror.I think we...

Tags: Inconvenient Truth, Human Rights

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Human rights search engine launches

A new search engine, built from contributions from 3,000 human rights organizations, makes information about dissidents, the abuse they have suffered, and campaigns that highlight when freedoms are restricted, BBC reports. Work on the search system is being co-ordinated by Huridocs - a non-profit group set up to help...

Tags: Government technology, International, Human Rights

Blog posts 2006-12-01

Aid agencies seeking help for Asia

Aid agencies seeking help for AsiaoverblownBig deal. America has already killed at least 100,000 Iraqis. And this wasn't some natural disaster, it was young kids shooting and bombing an innocent people. Well, at least America is "freeing" them..even if there'll be no one left alive to enjoy the new "democracy"..Why?Why...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, agency, fanatic, Saddam, Kurds, Human Rights, civilian death

Discussion threads 2004-12-28

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The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-28

SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years

Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software as a service, SaaS, software, Lawson, Asia, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia

News items 2008-08-28

Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seat

Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seatgood for him - stop patent pirates! and "patent" deformdoes this not seem like an appropriate action for an inventor to take? if i copy your article without your permission, do I get a pass? probably not because you...

Tags: Litigation, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., patent, inventor

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails

MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud failsMore to blameShame on the customers who selected this vendor. When evaluating vendors in the cloud, your RFP should identify exactly how these companies secure, backup, and process your data. I fear that poorly run IT shops like this one will...

Tags: cloud computing, MediaMax, Linkup

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

The role of media in the Internet age

The role of media in the Internet ageThe problem is simple and will never be correctedPrint media is dying because they are not much more than democrat-party house organs and people are tired of listening to "America sucks" stories that constitute their constant non-stop drivel.They'll never fix the problem because...

Tags: Investment, Advertising & Promotion, stock price, stock, problem-I, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?

Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?Bad guys don't need applauseJust money. So they'll modestly attempt to avoid receiving their due when they compromise systems. I wouldn't assume that not hearing about a success means the success has not occurred.Also, this statement is confusing:Now, we have the...

Tags: SECURITY, flaw, exploit code, Bad Guys, exploit

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Acritum Promo Wizard (exe)

Acritum Promo Wizard is a tool for Web masters who want to increase the number of visitors coming to their Web sites from various search engines. The software is the next generation of classic doorway page generators with several special technologies that make a kind of human-made text automatically and...

Tags: Web, Search Engine, Visitor, Acritum Software, Acritum Promo Wizard, Channel Management, Search, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-27

How the world watched the Olympics online

How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...

Tags: Taxes, Web site development, Free trade, Web technology, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, CBC

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

How the world watched the Olympics online

Much has been made of NBC's Olympic numbers, which had the rights for online video in the US, and what that means for Silverlight. I thought the app was solid, the video quality was good, and all in all it was a win for Microsoft and RIAs. In that vein,...

Tags: China, Olympic Games, British Broadcasting Corp., Video, Flash, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit

Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLinux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkitLOL! And the hits to linux just keep coming! So thats 4 different incidents within a week's time of how badly linux sucks. Poor linus must be hiding under his bed trying...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Rootkits, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, SSH, attack, Compromised SSH, Compromised, Microsoft Windows, rootkit, security

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XP

Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XPDo it right......kill WGA altogether!! Time to start listening to your customers, M$!!WGA, friend or foe?Somebody at my work brought to me his laptop that had XP pro. A friend of his had sold it to him and when he tried to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Microsoft, eat your own dog food

Microsoft, eat your own dog foodReally?"Using hidden aspects of Windows to advantage Microsoft's own applications has been disallowed and behavioral remedies including disclosure demanded."I can't find these in the DOJ settlement, please help: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9495.htmWe can of course look to the EU which did demand documentation of a small subset of...

Tags: .NET, Middleware, food, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing

Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testingBest overview of LHC ever.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtMRE: Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testingAhhh, this is just awesome news. I'm so glad the Europeans are picking up the ball on High Energy Particle Physics, as Bush seems hell-bent on catastrophizing particle physics research here in the US, just...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, stem-cell, theory, LHC

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?

Does TraceMonkey kick Firefox into turbo mode?Wow, we are breaking down the barriers to web application adoption for allof our every day applications. The speed here will be so close to natively compiled code that it will not matter any more. But, we still need some kind of a sandboxed...

Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., security, Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.

Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.Yep, going green allrightIt's called moss growing over all the abandoned homes and industry as Colorado slips into economic depression.The question now becomes how much misery will Americans allow greens to foist upon us until we've finally had...

Tags: serious greening, Microsoft Excel

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up

HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Text Speaker (exe)

Text Speaker will convert any text document to MP3 audio. Create your own audio books. To hear text, just open a Microsoft Word, Rich Text RTF, HTML, or text TXT file. Click Speak to hear a clear, understandable human-sounding voice read the document, or click Convert to Audio to create...

Tags: DeskShare, Voice, Speaker, Telecommunications

Software downloads 2008-08-26