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Plastic floats forever? Maybe not

ToxinsNo wonder we find whales and dolphins beaching themselves. I'm no environmental hawk, but all these plastics in our oceans is a disgrace. What makes people think they can dump waste into our ocean?Sunlight is viciousAll that UV is good for something.Why are environmentalists such pessimists?Why are environmentalists...

Tags: pessimist

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

Lovelock: the final warning

Lovelock: the final warningoverpopulation?Seriously now...overpopulated? on what grounds? Manhattan, L.A., New Dehli, Mexico City, Hong Kong? yes. Take a drive through Wyoming and see how long it takes you to pass a house. Wyoming is one of the least populated states in the USA, and it has nothing to do...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Lovelock, pessimist, food, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Check Point's optimistic pessimist

Check Point's optimistic pessimistCheck Point's optimistic pessimistHow about making securemote client start when I want it to and not on every boot up?Someone got it right"Microsoft historically picked the VMS approach. It actually hired the same guy who was in charge of VMS development."Back in the day, it was...

Tags: VMS, optimistic pessimist, pessimist, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Discussion threads 2004-10-20

Additional Resources

Business intelligence comes to Kindle. Will companies care?

Business Intelligence provider MicroStrategy said today that it will make its business reports and dashboards accessible through Amazon's Kindle DX reader, bringing one of the first business tools to a device that's been mostly defined by its ability to display electronic books. The company already has an...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle, Pricing, Smart Phones, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Lovelock: the final warning

James Lovelock brought forth the biological concept of Gaia three decades ago. Now at age 90 he has published what we may take as his final warning. The average global temps may rise as much as six degrees Celsius. The earth is carrying...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Apple cripples GPS in Egyptian iPhones

Apple cripples GPS in Egyptian iPhonesThat you could...track a particular iPhone is probably the big concern. There is an app, I believe, that allows you to see where your iPhone contacts are in real time. If they are set up with the app too and allow it of course. It...

Tags: Handhelds, GPS, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Egyptian iPhones

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

Renaissance in Portfolio Management & GRC?

Why Oracle Bought Primavera Now ? (Note: I actually prepared this post 24 hours before the Oracle - Primavera announcement. Now, it seems a bit obvious.) A few months ago, businesses had access to vast amounts of inexpensive capital. With lots of exceptionally low cost...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Initiative, Project Portfolio Management, Primavera, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Tech giants may face dollar daze

Tech giants may face dollar dazeMerchants of chaos strike againand they can't resist putting a negative spin on ANY news, even items that are contradictory. So, when the dollar declines, it's bad. When the dollar stops declining, it's bad.Journalists must be some amazingly depressive people to be around.The most important...

Tags: Operational accounting, Tech Giants

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder

Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coderAll makes senseIf I was running a large open source project with thousands if not millions of people all over the world depending on me to get it right, I think I'd do things in much the same way.Certainly it makes sense to...

Tags: Strategy, Torvalds, Linux, vision, Linux coder, open source, chef, picnic

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Attack code published for DNS flaw

Attack code published for DNS flawIrresponsible and evil"In an IM exchange, Moore told me his exploit takes about a minute or two to poison a DNS cache but said he is working to improve it in version 2.0."As far as i am concerened he is just an evil person to...

Tags: Domain names, Halvar, exploit, DNS

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Hybrid cars and the power grid

Hybrid cars and the power gridHybrids AREN'T "plugable" carsThere aren't any "plugable" hybrids in the market. A few people may add some extra batteries that may require a plug, but that is not a standard vehicle. The only "plugable" cars in the market are 100% electric (with only a max...

Tags: kW, Hybrid-car, power grid, plug-in, grid, battery

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

Can social networking co-exist with the workplace?

Can social networking co-exist with the workplace?An attorney advising we seek legal councilHow shocking...We all know a company is well within its legal rights to control internet traffic on its own bandwidth. So the only real question remains whether social networking can be tapped for profitability. And I think that's...

Tags: social networking, network, workplace

Discussion threads 2007-12-19

Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computer

Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computerAnd, that is the problem for Microsoft. Google can scale faster and cheaperthan anybody else on the planet, and has a huge head start building data centers. One huge advantage that will be difficult for Microsoft to overcome. Really, with the cost of Windows Server, and the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data centers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Servers, computer, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Your thoughts on net neutrality

Your thoughts on net neutralityYeah. Hows that workin out for us so far?"The Department submits, however, that free market competition, unfettered by unnecessary governmental regulatory restraints, is the best way to foster innovation and development of the Internet."The US has internet services that are made a laughing stock by...

Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Internet, Net Neutrality, premium price

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

'Only' 37 percent see positive SOA results? Not too shabby, but not enough

'Only' 37 percent see positive SOA results? Not too shabby, but not enoughMedia expectationsIn my experience, what the media expects to see and what organizations expect differ dramatically. Those in the media often take the view that if something isn't 100% good, it must be bad. After all, their goal...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

More donation woes

More donation woesAre there other schools in the area?Maybe you could direct the person to another local school or maybe a church or even a some of the smaller "mom and pop" shops. Either way the donations take care of the hardware issues for whomever the recipients are, and your...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, hardware, donation, National Cristina Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-07-11

Windows Vista RC1 is complete

Windows Vista RC1 is complete......I can't let this thread dieI'm doing CPR here, ED..... :)I dunno, but it don't look goodEd, have you noticed how your last few threads about Vista have generated so much negative response?...And how this one generated none?The 1000 buck Vista PC, The hardware hog, The...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Very Little, Sensible people, Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista RC1, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista RC1

Discussion threads 2006-09-02

The new commons is right here

The other day I wrote about how libraries are being forced out of the commons by IP policies. If you read that, you might consider me a pessimist. In fact, the last decade has, in the words of former FCC chair Reed Hundt, seen the largest expansion of the commons...

Tags: commons

Blog posts 2006-05-11

Phishers try a phone hook

Phishers try a phone hookWith full headers in every e-mail message......it doesn't matter for me, no matter how hard you try to get me to enter my personal information via phone or via website.As for my security measure, my top priority, and my first step when getting e-mail, I always...

Tags: phishing, header, e-mail, Whois, IP address, phone, IP, bank

Discussion threads 2006-04-27

$100 laptop expected in late 2006

$100 laptop expected in late 2006Regardlessof this noble effort, I don't think most of these laptops are going to server children. Whether or not they will be diabled after a few days of not loggin inwhich must be a joke there will be a secondary market. These kids and their...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, food, $100 laptop, computer

Discussion threads 2005-11-16