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Sharing your login is a criminal offence

Sharing your login is a criminal offenceMaybeI sort of agree. It's the difference between a device CAL and a USER cal.However, comments like that are what drive piracy. Most people "bend" the law a bit and really companies have to factor in some goodwill by not being idiots about it.The...

Tags: Workforce management, criminal offence, offence

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

WTF is Technorati up to?

WTF is Technorati up to?Clever title....caught my eye at least.Pagan jimSHAME ON YOU AND ZDNET!!!!Foul language even by abbreviation is unnecessary and insulting. ZDNET should remove your "story" and reprimand you.Where The Fire?According to Technorati, WTF = Where's The Fire. Not sure what you meant :)No offence meantIf the...

Tags: Technorati, Technorati WTF, offence, WTF

Discussion threads 2007-02-01

Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treaty

Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treatyJust pull the damned plug...It's the only thing left to doMessage has been deleted... because a clever lobbyist has pretended it was racist to silence a true comment for which they have no reply.Message has been deleted... because a lawyer has played a 'race card' and...

Tags: offence, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2006-08-04

Additional Resources

Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda

Universities around the world have been using plagiarism software for a good few years now, to crack down on the amount of copied work. This, after all, is defrauding a university for the purpose of gaining a qualification, which can and has been classed as a criminal offence at...

Tags: Software, Web, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-19

News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security

Notable headlines: Zack Whittaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...

Tags: Security, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Fuel Cells, Utility Computing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Students try to bring down Facebook

A little off topic I'll admit, but it still contains "students" and "technology", which to me justifies this post. I'm not one to make harsh and unsubstantiated comments about something or someone, but this calls for an exception. Facebook is a difficult one to judge in terms...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Information, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-01

Sharing your login is a criminal offence

It looks like security-as-a-service is going to be one of the themes I cover here next week, and meanwhile I'm mulling a new post about SaaS and software pricing. So it seemed like a good moment to relay a comment that I heard from one of the panelists speaking back...

Tags: Software, Commoditization, Pricing Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Changes to British law will affect computer security industry

Ivan Ristic pictured to the right posted a story today on his blog that highlights some changes that are to go into effect in England sometime this year.  The changes to the Computer Misuse Act CMA would appear to put security researchers and consultants in the UK at risk of being considered criminals. Ristic mentions the key...

Tags: Computer Security, Commission, Industry, Hacker, Tool, Computer, Ristic, Guidance, Productivity, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-04-01

EU court: File sharers don't have to be named

EU court: File sharers don't have to be namedWhat the ???So in the EU if you sue someone for a wrongful death in civil court no one has to give you information? Sounds like the EU alright...Rights of the individualI dont want to argue the specific point being discussed...

Tags: Real Estate Value, FILE SHARERS, copyright-holder, EU Court

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

'Server in the Sky': FBI international biometric db planned

Right around Christmas, I wrote about a new FBI program to build a massive, $1 billion database of biometric data. I quoted a WaPo story that said: Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the amount and kinds...

Tags: Database, FBI, Server, U.K., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Did Scoble break EU law on Facebook?

Did Scoble break EU law on Facebook?Scoble and Facebook IssueWhile it is always good to report the news for those of us to learn from, what bothers me about your post was the comment, you were "itching" to write something about this affair.And I have to think ( and I...

Tags: Scoble, terms of service, OTTER, Robert, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

NJ bans sex offenders from the Internet

NJ bans sex offenders from the InternetGoing way too far against sex offenders.With the way things are going one would be better off being a murderer than a sex offender (though sometimes they're one and the same). The constraints being placed on sex offenders after they've served their time have...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Internet, sex offender

Discussion threads 2007-12-28

Data loss CEOs should go to jail

Richard Thomas, head of the Information Commissioner's Office ICO in the UK, told Parliament that CEOs should be responsible for the protection of confidential data in their firm's possession, and should face criminal charges in the event of data loss. This recommendation comes...

Tags: Data Loss, CEO, Data Centers, Government, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-08

High tech shows low ice in Arctic

High tech shows low ice in ArcticI have four kids. I don't know what the future holds for themThis scares the hell out of me. Why won't GWB do something real???This level of global change makes the twin towers pale into insignificance no offence intended. Could this be the extinction...

Tags: High Tech, Arctic

Discussion threads 2007-10-01

Update: Boeing virtual fence "unusable"

Update: Boeing virtual fence "unusable"Don't need any stinking fence !What we need is a mine field a mile wide on the Mexico/U.S. border. No high tech gadgets to break or maintain. No agents required to chase anyone down just to waste more taxpayer money.Let the mines do their...

Tags: Construction, fence, virtual fence, Boeing Co.

Discussion threads 2007-09-25

Quick! We need a calculator! - Excel 2007 bug

Quick! We need a calculator! - Excel 2007 bugUpdateIf there is a decimal remainder, it displays the correct amount. I ran the numbers, and got the 100,000 on the first 13 lines, but every line below that I got 65,535.03.I don't know how you got the last 5...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel 2007, MsgBox, Microsoft Excel

Discussion threads 2007-09-25

RIAA law strategy may be undercut

RIAA law strategy may be undercutHm..Seems to me that the presence of a file in a publicly accessible directory would indicate intent to distribute.The RIAA can't be wrong all of the time.Using their logic would mean that anyone who doesn't secure their computerUsing their logic would mean that anyone who...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, RIAA

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Today's Debate: Entrepreneurs a threat or boon to health care?

Today's Debate: Entrepreneurs a threat or boon to health care?JJWild Correction"They announced today they’ve bought JJWild of Canton, Mississippi, makers of the Meditech system used in 2,000 hospitals, according to Perot."JJWild, Inc. is not the maker of the MEDITECH system. JJWild is the preferred system integrator for the MEDITECH system,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

Hamster plus Hotspot equals Web 2.0 meltdown!

Hamster plus Hotspot equals Web 2.0 meltdown!This is why Windows sucksYour account was hijacked because Windows is a single user system: everyone is an Administrator. With OSX's awesome *nix kernel, everyone logs in with restricted rights and this type of an attack is impossible. If you were to access GMail...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, E-mail providers, HotSpot, Web, Wi-Fi, Google Gmail, VPN, Windows Sucks, Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2007-08-02

With respect to iPhone, Microsoft rolls over and plays dead

With respect to iPhone, Microsoft rolls over and plays deadPut a lid on itThe Nokia engineers have done it again! The all new [url=http://www.nseries.com/products/n95/index.html#l=products,n95]N95 [/url]has a feature called:'The Lid'You can open it whenever you want to peer inside and, if you want, can replace the SIM or even the...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Handhelds, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-06-12