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- Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forward
- Bid to stop Large Hadron Collider fails but EU, US suits move forwardHere's what's going to happen:Here's what's going to happen:Someone will turn on a switch and we'll learn something new. What's going to happen in the LHC happens [i]trillions[/i] upon [i]trillions[/i] of times every day. If the...
- Tags: Large Hadron Collider, move forward
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Resurrecting E-voting
- Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
- Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...
- Tags: District Courts, open source copyright, open source, Federal Circuit
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?
- Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?Medical device development in MassachusettsSpeaking as a member of the orthopedic medical device industry, it is our hope that the regulatory process will allow input from industry to develop reasonable disclosure guidelines without stifling activities that are beneficial to Massachusetts healthcare consumers. Below is an abbreviated...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, medical device, S. 2863, medical device industry, health care, manufacturer, industry
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Banking On The Internet Breaking
- So, on the day the Olympics open, the head of Tellabs – which helps telecommunications carriers deliver high-quality voice, video and data services around the world -- is talking about a looming bandwidth crisis for the Internet, in today's Chicago Sun-Times. The main cause for the concern:...
- Tags: olympic games, tellabs, banking, video, internet, corporate communications, telecommunications, marketing, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace
- My colleagues at Kaspersky Lab see disclosure have intercepted two new worms squirming through MySpace and Facebook, using social engineering lures to plant malware on Windows systems. The worms propagate via the comments features on the two popular social networks, using video lures and fake Flash Player...
- Tags: Web, Facebook, Kaspersky Lab, Network, Macromedia Flash Player, Social Engineering, Worm, MySpace, Victim Machine, Cyberthreats, Social Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Google goes investing
- The news that Google is close to launching its own venture capital fund may raise a lot of hopes, but the history of corporate investment isn't fantastic and comes with a heavy price for portfolio companies that win a corporate sweepstakes. It also tells a lot about Google's own sense...
- Tags: Google Inc., Investor, Investment, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- I need help: a website strategy and design issue
- I need help: a website strategy and design issueResolutions, when achieved, feed marketing1. Do you seriously think that you're going to run out of issues needing resolution through consensus building and action? I didn't realize that Canada was so close to perfect. Given both U.S. presidential candidates, I may have...
- Tags: Web site development, Microsoft Windows, Channel management, Web technology, website strategy, need help, Web, Web 2.0, Web site
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...
- Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- VMware and common performance myths
- Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something about the findings of that research in the post, Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth. I've just...
- Tags: Virtualization, Performance, VMware Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- US spam levels up, state of Illinois is the worst offender
- From MessageLabs: Spam levels for the US in June have reached 86% compared to spam levels at 81.5% in the rest of the world. Breaking this information down further, MessageLabs reports that some US states are more affected than others. Varying socioeconomic factors are thought to affect the spam...
- Tags: MessageLabs Ltd., State, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare
- Apple may win the battle, but they'll lose the war, eventually. Well, that was predictable, really. A small startup in Florida decides to go make Mac clones, and surprise, surprise, Apple starts legal proceedings and unleashes the might of...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Open source lending tinged with racism
- Open source lending tinged with racismProfit opportunityIf some non-financial factor is restricting the ability of some people to obtain the loans, then anyone who ignores that factor will be able to charge a higher rate than would otherwise be obtained.If someone's financial profile would justify a 5% rate (just to...
- Tags: Financial services, open source, borrower, racism, auction
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade danceCorporate Communism!This is an example of what I call Corportate Communism. Microsoft is showing it's anti-capitalist leanings. When companies like Microsoft can't compete in the market, they buy the competitor. Some argue that's capitalism. I...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Google ships open-source Web security assessment tool
- The Google security team has released a free, open-source Web app security assessment tool capable of flagging vulnerabilities and potential security threats in Internet-facing applications. The tool, called Ratproxy, is described as a passive Web application security audit tool designed to analyze legitimate, browser-driven interactions with tested Web...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Application, Web Security, Tool, Google Security Team, Productivity, Open Source, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Undetected Disk Errors in RAID Arrays
- Though remarkably reliable, disk drives do fail occasionally. Most failures can be detected immediately; moreover, such failures can be modeled and addressed using technologies such as RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks. Unfortunately, disk drives can experience errors that are undetected by the drive - which the paper refers to...
- Tags: Disk, RAID Array, RAID, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops
- Do you ever worry about losing your laptop computer while rushing to catch a flight at a busy airport? Everyday business travelers are putting the sensitive and confidential data of their organizations at risk when they travel through airports. Ponemon Institute conducted a study, sponsored by Dell,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Laptop Computer, Business Traveler, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- White papers 2008-06-30
- Why I still prefer Internet Explorer
- I wrote a blog post last week where I discussed some of the good lessons from the success of Firefox. I truly believe Firefox is a great browser, and I am glad that competition has forced Microsoft to pull its IE developers out of suspended animation to update its ability...
- Tags: Opera Software, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, DIV, CSS, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
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