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H&R Block blunder exposes consumer data

H&R Block blunder exposes consumer dataHuman error. Good thing these folks speak intelligible English.Had this been in India, they'd probably keep their servers unprotected too. Too costly, don'cha know.Wake me when corporate america grows the frig up and takes responsibility. Rather than making us waste our time...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Operational accounting, Human Error, H&R Block Inc., Hypnotoad, tax, Social Security, software, identity theft

Discussion threads 2006-01-03

Microsoft delivers Windows Live Mail beta

Microsoft delivers Windows Live Mail betaIf it's "web-based", why does even one byte need to be sent out?Anything more than a password and it isn't web-based.Isn't the goal to rid the world of PCs and those horribly overpaid and overall liability "service support staff" in the process, make everything web-based,...

Tags: Channel management, Network technology, Calgary, Microsoft Corp., Web, Hypnotoad, Microsoft Delivers

Discussion threads 2005-11-30

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Someone get me rewrite: Apple delivers monster security update for OS X

Someone get me rewrite: Apple delivers monster security update for OS X" *gasp* I thought Macs were secure and superior and invulnerable!"--any Mac user, blind fool, or someone who needs to get laid more than I.Gasp!I thought Macs were invulnerable! Haha!!!!!Actually, they're not. Anyone with any knowledge of security...

Tags: Security administration, Patches, Operating systems, monster security update, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, security update, security

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

RIA trend watch: rich Internet applications in the enterprise

RIA trend watch: rich Internet applications in the enterpriseHow did distributed computing take off in the first place?Corporations have always wanted control; what urged them to go away from the mainframe/dumb-tube standard -- only to want to go back to something very much like it, some 25 years later?RIA? You...

Tags: rich Internet application, RIAA

Discussion threads 2007-10-24

No Macs meet stricter Energy Star specs

No Macs meet stricter Energy Star specsSince I have a little timeLet's look at the laptop on which I'm working now:http://images.apple.com/environment/resources/pdf/APES_MacBook_7-20-07.pdfAverage efficiency 86% [85%]Idle 16.6 W [22 W]Sleep 1.43 W [1 W]Off 0.76 W [1 W]Wow, another one passes. No_Ax jumped in a little early I guess.Maybe they should have...

Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Energy Star, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2007-07-29

Vista RC2 x64 'Ultimate' progress report

Vista RC2 x64 'Ultimate' progress reportNot Ready for Prime TimeThere's been much speculation regarding when Vista Gold Master will release, particularly to remove the 'rough' edges it might be best to delay until early Spring 2007, at least.This reinforces the idea that in the business sector, 'smart' IT isn't going...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PatchGuard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-10-09

Post-October Windows PC purchases likely to include coupon for Vista

Post-October Windows PC purchases likely to include coupon for Vista6 Years Ago6 years ago, Apple shipped a OS with protected memory and the stability that comes with it, restricted administrative access and the security that comes with it, and a vector imaging engine that leveraged the GPU, with it came...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, CPU, Software Assurance, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-11

Panel: E-voting vulnerable

Panel: E-voting vulnerableIn a word:DUH.Shouldn't technology be improving things, instead of making them worse?Wait, they've been saying that for 30 years now. And yet things haven't gotten better... Heck, I'll go get my Atari 400 out of mothballs. Never had a virus on it and I practiced...

Tags: INTERNET, ballot, e-voting

Discussion threads 2005-10-07

Queen to tap Gates for knighthood

Queen to tap Gates for knighthoodMakes me ashamed to be BritishIt is small wonder that Britain no longer has any world class software companies when the government does things like this. Might it not be better to posthumously honour British people who have made genuine and innovative contributions to computer...

Tags: Government, knighthood, Queen, British People

Discussion threads 2005-03-01