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An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?

I think I'll skip......governments collecting and paying royalties. Its called tolling and every business in the world would like to access governments' ability to use force to collect money for them.What would be the outcome of such a scheme? Whenever "artists" (and I use the word loosely given...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Free trade, Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, government, file sharing problem, tax, open letter, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Open letter to all HR software vendors

Open letter to all HR software vendorsWhat about the HR Staff?What you seem to be asking for is a reliable and defensible a-hole detector. People are WAY better at that than any computer algorithm could ever be, although it would be fun one to work on!My point is, what...

Tags: HR Application, Human Resources, HR software company, HR Staff, Open Letter, software company

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows

Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of WindowsOne Windows to rule them all........Jason, your suggestion is, in my opinion, an excellent and eminently sensible idea. It won't happen because of three things: profit, greed and Microsoft's concentration on what suits it best rather than the...

Tags: Operating systems, Tablets, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, single version, Microsoft Corp., Open Letter

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Open letter to Microsoft - Can we have a Windows 7 beta 2 please?

Open letter to Microsoft - Can we have a Windows 7 beta 2 please?RE: Open letter to Microsoft - Can we have a Windows 7 beta 2 please?/signedJust curious...You call this an "open letter", but have you sent it to anyone at Microsoft? I'm sure you, Ed, and MaryJo...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 beta 2, Windows 7 beta 2 please, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Beta, Open Letter, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

Open letter failed; Microsoft screws over students again

Open letter failed; Microsoft screws over students againAm I missing something?[i]The Enterprise edition has [b]the same features as Ultimate[/b], except Enterprise only comes with a volume licence. That, in essence, means [b]you won?t[/b] be able to buy it and [b]allows universities to buy it in bulk for a cheaper price[/b][/i].So...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., Open Letter, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

Open letter to a school committee member

Open letter to a school committee memberResigned?Chris, maybe you mentioned this in a previous posting and I missed it -- you've resigned? Will you still be writing this column? It's a daily favorite of mine...RE: Open letter to a school committee memberCris, As usual, you "hit the nail...

Tags: school committee member, Open Letter

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Open letter to Steve Jobs: Apple should have a first adopter network program and give discounts to loyal customers

Open letter to Steve Jobs: Apple should have a first adopter network program and give discounts to loyal customersWhat a crock of S$#&Do you want some cheese with that whine? If you have owned apple products for so long and still cant figure out there will eventually be...

Tags: Leading Edge, first adopter network, Open Letter, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work. Time for a complete redo?

Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work. Time for a complete redo?Gmail is greatThe Gmail spam filter works very well even for those who don't use a Gmail address as their main email, with legit mail wrongly put in the spam box once in a blue...

Tags: E-mail providers, Cyberthreats, e-mail, spam fix, e-mail vendor, Open Letter, spam, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

An open letter to the incoming cyberczar

An open letter to the incoming cyberczarWell, this letter done nothing....but coated this big boy's plush office and desk. The writer has the odasity to pick on Clark... someone who exposed alot of CRAP going on in the white house, but I didn't read anywhere how that Dept spent...

Tags: SECURITY, CLaRK, open letter

Discussion threads 2005-06-01

Additional Resources

Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites

It`s About Time!they should block and prosecute those sites that send and try to install virus/spyware throught peoples computers.they should loose their internet connection right way,and have their name/info somewhere in a database, that a ISP can check before they can sign up for a internet service.DOING that i`m sure...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, Internet Service Provider, fraud site, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Web addresses to exend to non-English languages

Domain spoofing opportunity?I always wanted to know what they will be doing against this: http://www.z?net.com/ is actually a false domain because '?' is a Cyrillyc Small Letter Komi De insted of a Latin 'd'.Entering it in a browser causes an error today, but what will happen if they legalize non-latin...

Tags: Channel management, Keyboards, English Language, non-English-language, Web

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

Black Duck finds its business makes sense

managing dual-use encryptionThe important lesson from the Jonathan Erickson (Dr. Dobbs) piece is that a simple application filing averted the panic that ensued when he received a "charging letter" from U.S. export enforcement officials. 88% of all export applications qualify for exceptions given to ?mass market? or ?unrestricted? retail...

Tags: SECURITY, encryption

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

CryptoExpert Lite 7.9.13 (Windows)

CryptoExpert creates encrypted virtual disks and these disks are visible as usual disks with drive letters (for example, G:, H:, Z:, i.e. with any drive letter that is not used by other system devices). The data stored on a CryptoExpert disk is stored in the container file. A container is...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, InterCrypto, CryptoExpert

Software downloads 2009-10-25

Web powerhouses to FCC: We support open Internet

The Internet's big guns have signed their names to a letter of support for a continued open Internet, sending it to the FCC this morning, just days before the agency is slated to vote on network neutrality rules. The letter is actually from the Open Internet Coalition,...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Web, Net Neutrality, Internet, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-19

AT&T: Google has it in for nuns, mom, and apple pie

Ummm what?Ok let's start:Blocking ambulance services: Errrm would a call to this service always be without error? no.Blocking other numbers: ok they might have a case.Does the blocking of the other numbers prevent the User from contacting those numbers by not using Google Voice?... I think not.Does AT&T has...

Tags: Federal government, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Sister Mary, pope, Google Inc., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

IAB to FTC: Rescind blogger rules

The Interactive Advertising Bureau's President and CEO has called on the Federal Trade Commission to rescind its new "blogger rules" because they create an unfair distinction between traditional media and online media. More specifically, they revoke from online media a First Amendment protection that's afforded traditional media for generations. ...

Tags: Online Media, Interactive Advertising Bureau, FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-15

AT&T to FCC: Close loopholes and write rules that apply to Google, too

AT&T has taken off the boxing gloves in its fight with Google over the Google Voice service and proposed Net Neutrality rules. In a letter to the FCC PDF this week, AT&T went on the attack to portray Google as a big powerful company that's trying to fool the FCC...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Federal Government, Telephony, Telecommunications, Government, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?

I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-11

DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business

M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., mainframe, U.S. Department of Justice, M/F

Discussion threads 2009-10-08