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- NSA will monitor private-sector networks
- The Bushization of Obama continues with a plan to involve the NSA in screening private-sector networks, The Washington Post reports. The plan not only uses the NSA to monitor private networks but it does so in a way that makes it unclear who exactly is in charge...
- Tags: Monitor, Network, AT&T Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, NSA, Post Story, Privacy Advocate, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks
- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod A. Beckstrom has been tapped to join the Bush Administration to help secure federal networks against attack, the Post reported today. Beckstrom most recently founded Twiki.net, an enterprise Wiki support company, and previously created CATS Software and Mergent Systems. He's also coauthor of a...
- Tags: White House, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cyberattack, Post Story, Hacking, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
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- California could side with Apple on smoker's warranties
- I'll go ahead and chime in brieflyJason,I personally never denied working on a smoker's Mac because of the health issues surrounding smoke exposure. I have worked on several computers where tar residue stained the skin of my fingers so badly that it took several washings and more than a...
- Tags: Apple Inc., smoker
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- Psystar pulls Mac-clone line from online store
- Very importantApple gives me the freedom to decide on a (actually, the only) complete computer with matched, very well designed and integrated hardware and software, that I know will work productively and reliably and virus free for years. And Apple, being the sole vendor of this package, offers a good...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, linux user, online store, Apple Inc., Linux, Psystar, security
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- What the "Black screen of death" story says about tech journalism
- Well done and well said EdUnfortunately I have no hope that this will even slightly temper the sloppyness of the next one to come down the pike. As you said it's all about the page hits for these turds...Gutmann effectIt would appear that this is just another example of the...
- Tags: Blogging, black screen, Reporting, Ed Bott, Gutmann
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- East Anglia aftermath stretches to the far horizon
- Harry Fuller is a intellectually dishonest hackI couldn't help but get your slobber on me as I tried to pass through all of your apologetic blubbering -- then I smashed into your pathetic straw-man argument. What a weak, weak, post. You sir are a bad joke, who has...
- Tags: Harry Fuller, global warming, carbon dioxide, pathetic
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- East Anglia hacking: one down, how many to go?
- Is that the charge"The planet?s not cooking, they charge, but the data was cooked by dishonest scientists."How would we know whether we're cooking or not with such dishonest science, agendas and manipulation?Many of us believe it's not a very strong foundation to demand massive economically crippling taxes and government intervention."Crooked...
- Tags: global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Intel vs. AMD still isn't a fair fight
- There are more hindrances to AMD’s ability to penetrate the market with its Opteron CPUs; and Intel’s not a fault this time. In an earlier blog post on the AMD-Intel settlement I brought up an example of a type of incompatibility that exists between the two CPU makers that isn’t...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Server, VMware Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- "Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scattered cases
- As is typical with most Windows "issues".[i]It seems we can all stop panicking now. In fact, there was little to panic about in the first place.[/i]They're completely blown out of proportion.RE: Black Screen of Death" problems seem to be little more than scatteredThe only reason it was blown out of...
- Tags: black screen, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Analyst: The iPhone's next carrier is likely T-Mobile, not Verizon
- T-Mobile USA is GSM / T-Mobile needs...Both AT&T and T-Mobile USA are GSM, so no iPhone redesign would be necessary.T-Mobile USA needs iPhone more than Verizon, so Apple could negotiate a more favorable deal with the former.RE: Analyst: The iPhone's next carrier is likely T-Mobile, not VerizonI'm not a patent...
- Tags: Smart phones, TMobile, Kinda, T-Mobile, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Open source is not about Wall Street
- only M$ ia about wall street greedand yet it failed to deliver because of its flawed business model.The answer to the Golden Rule"My way or the highway," may work for proprietary, closed code, but with Open Source there is always a FORK in the road.MySQL can easily become OurSQL. Larry...
- Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- East Anglia hacking leads to data publication? Or destruction?
- Wrong PublicationAs a loyal reader of ZDNET, I'd like to see this blog dropped from this site. It belongs on the Huffington Post, not on ZDNET.Its as if I subscribed to an RSS feed from Popular Mechanics and every so often I'd get this link to a blog that...
- Tags: Blogging, RSS, data publication, East Anglia hacking, IT Tech, blog
- Discussion threads 2009-11-29
- Apple Store fails the Nordstrom test
- Yet another Apple horror storyOnce again, an Apple horror story, trouble straight out of the box (forget "it just works").Most of the Apple afficionados I know have such horror stories. There's a massive one right now with the new iMacs. On the other hand, I know very little such stories...
- Tags: Desktops, UNIX, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Nordstrom Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- East Anglia: some new angles, but no arrests for hacking
- Investigation..."If the Republicans regain control of the Senate any time soon, you can expect a full-blown Inhofe-fuelled investigation."Horrors! Imagine that, someone actually wants to INVESTIGATE to see if the "science" of global warming holds water pardon the pun? You mean people actually want to KNOW if these drastic changes to...
- Tags: Blogging, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Junkscience, East Anglia, e-mail, hacking
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- For The First Time in Ages, I Agree With Apple
- Spiders and dust on a slippery slopeWorst inside of a computer I've ever seen was a spider infestation. Must have been a million of them. But what I wonder is where does voiding the warranty stop?A generic abuse statement may not be sufficient in the world of EULA's....
- Tags: Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., manufacturer, smoker, First-time, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- The medical home is reform without objections, so far
- Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?
- If by precious you mean fascistthen yes they are...great...Get ready for the Jobs cultist starting another holywar because you "tarnished" their cyber-religion.Precious.The marketplace is what it is because of ownership. Apple owns the store they built and has the identical right that Disney or The Atlantic or Toyota does to...
- Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Windows NT, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for good
- RE: Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for goodIf you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. -Bruce SchneierCommon sense & best practicesFirst off social networking sites are a DISASTER waiting to happen, private data into a...
- Tags: password, security
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Firefox faces browser clone war in China
- Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Apple contemplating free, ad-supported iPhone?
- Apple has no tasteOh, wait, no, that was Microsoft that had no taste because there are Windows 7 desktop themes available that have images of Coke cans in them. Isn't that right tigertank? For some reason that I can't wait to hear, this move by Apple, however, is very tasteful.Cue...
- Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
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