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Presidential candidates: Take a data integrity and transparency pledge

Presidential candidates: Take a data integrity and transparency pledgeI predict an Egyptian presidentFor eight years---Executive Privilege and National Security.Are just two reasons why such pledges are ridiculous. While you may think you need to know everything that transpires in the Whitehouse it is not an unalienable right.RE: Presidential candidates:...

Tags: E-mail, Vertical industries, transparency, Presidential Candidate, data integrity, government

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

In the context of their campaigns, Presidential candidates will need to come to grips with Web 2.0

In the context of their campaigns, Presidential candidates will need to come to grips with Web 2.0You missed option 4: Consider the SourceThis works better than the badminton flogging of back and forth conventional thinking that passes for insight in many blogs.Consume? Produce? Shaking head - someone's believing...

Tags: Channel management, Web 2.0, Presidential Candidate, Web

Discussion threads 2007-03-21

Additional Resources

Apple looking to hire iPhone hacker

Apple is in the market for someone capable of hacking into the iPhone. According to this job listing, the company is looking for an iPhone Security Engineer capable of, among other things, developing "proof of concept" attacks on the device's current security mechanisms. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Hacker, Security Mechanism, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja

Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...

Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-18

The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'

How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...

Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-18

From stunned outrage to stunned laughter in two seconds

From stunned outrage to stunned laughter in two secondsFaking Presidential Press Passes is Cool?I don't really get the whole context of this story, but it seems to me that you are actively engaged in developing fake press passes for presidential events. Isn't that a crime? Could it place...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Backups, stunned outrage, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-07-12

From stunned outrage to stunned laughter in two seconds

Or how a guy bragging about forging press passes for American Presidential events casually admits he was slowed .... by WIndows crashes and backup failures. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Template, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Backups, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-12

Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds

Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds.....Can we say DUH! It has been pointed out time and time again that the Bush administration has absolutely no respect for the Constitution nor do they care to adhere to the laws they create. The "we are above the law" mentality and the...

Tags: preservation standard, Email preservation standard, e-mail, General Accounting Office, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

OpenLaszlo 4.1 relased with DHTML support

OpenLaszlo 4.1 relased with DHTML supportRebolRyan, I have never seen you cover Rebol (http://www.rebol.com). With their Browser plugin, Rebol is also a great candidate as a RIA platform. Besides Rebol code will work unchanged inside the Browser and stand-alone -- a feat other RIA's cannot easily duplicate. OpenLaszlo is great,...

Tags: Scripting languages, Web browsers, REBOL, OpenLaszlo, DHTML

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper

VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source PiperOn the other hand ...... if all the hypervisors and their attendant management suites become free ... then will I choose to serve:1. Basic software via increasingly powerful cloud computing or open source freebies (e.g. Firefox, Open Office)2. MyCompanysSoftware via *IX (I have...

Tags: Operating systems, value-add, VMware Inc., open source, Hyper-V

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is miffed. Microsoft crossed a line by ganging up on Yahoo with Carl Icahn. Arrington outlines his case, but the last sentence is what intrigued me: "I'm all for a merger. But I won't stand by quietly while Microsoft destroys what's left of...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Help Desk, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, It Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Internet abuse and Cloud Computing

Internet abuse and Cloud ComputingAgreed - principle, not practiceI do think MacOS is better than Vista on almost all measures - and by that same standard that one side in the current U.S. elections has the right.As you say:---Oh and by the way I don't vote on ideological lines anymore...

Tags: hypocrisy, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet

Discussion threads 2008-07-05

July 4th, 2008: A trip down memory lane

A 1 question civics quiz Today American's celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the legal foundation of the USA and, after the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of the United States. I revere the Constitution as a magnificent piece of political engineering. But it...

Tags: U.S., President, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-04

2009 Acura TSX

Photo gallery:2009 Acura TSXBecause of its solid and comfortable everyday driver demeanor, buyers of the new 2009 Acura TSX will probably opt for the five-speed automatic transmission, for ease of driving in traffic and urban settings. And that's unfortunate, because to appreciate Honda's capability to build truly efficient engines that...

Tags: Acura, Acura TSX

Product reviews 2008-07-03

McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops

You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...

Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable

Solar power, no money down, could prove profitableNot so fast...I have the perfect roof for this: South facing, steep pitch, no trees, and in Florida. So you'd think I would be a perfect candidate, right? Even with Florida's rebates and net metering, I wouldn't see breakeven until around...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar energy

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autos

Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autosMaybe just maybeChrysler should start working on the quality of their cars and leave the installation of gizmos to car owners who like modding their cars. Back to the basics, a quality product that can hold a candle to the likes of Toyota. Disclaimer:...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Ford Motors, Chrysler LLC, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Shell edges closer to Arctic drilling, but still has to delay

Shell Oil has obtained one of its needed permits to begin exploratory drilling offshore in Alaska. It got the EPA's permissions to release a certain amount of nitrogen oxides at each of its proposed drilling sites. The EPA says that is the amount released annually by 1500 school...

Tags: Offshore, Permit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska, Outsourcing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-21

Mozilla confirms Firefox 3.0 flaw, says risk minimal

Mozilla confirms Firefox 3.0 flaw, says risk minimalMinimal?Last time I remember something public like this labeled "minimal", they changed it to "critical" pretty quickly.Careful!!! It's minor.....The FF fanboys will slit your throat for talking about a flaw in their pet browser. If it was IE7 that had the flaw there...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Mozilla Firefox, flaw, Firefox 3.0 flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0

Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0Same Situation. Different Day. ;)ntOr put your FF3 in a sandboxI show how to make your Firefox browser session safe and secure.Read [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/05/is-it-safe.html]Is It Safe?[/url]Thanks and Be Safe.Dietrich T. Schmitz[i]Linux IT Consultant[/i]RE: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0please read this post:http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/06/18/zero-day-vulnerability/Here's the...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability, Code execution vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Code Execution

Discussion threads 2008-06-18