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- News Focus: HP's leak probe
- News Focus: HP's leak probeA very good reason to never buy HP products again!Forcing the only honest, ethical person on the HP board out - for doing her job - is an insult to everyone. In protest, my company will never again purchase another HP product and we have spent...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
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- Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare
- Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfareTaiwanI think an impetus for Red Flag Linux wqas the inability of Beijing to secure Windows against Taiwan, but my memory might be faulty.Cyberwar? You must be kiddind...I thought that word "war" is applicable for some serious events that have catastrophic consequences...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Would you give the Feds your computers?
- Would you give the Feds your computers?knee-jerkI completely agree. It's nice to see some sane responses, rather than knee-jerk reactions only.Why should a government entity require a warrant?Why should the library have any desire or need to protect it's users' privacy? I'd bet they have signs at the computer...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- VistA dieing of starvation and neglect
- The Veterans Administration VA is starving its world-class VistA medical records software to death. At a time when organizations around the world are switching from proprietary to open source models of support, an agency which created such a model from scratch is going the other way. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates
- Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Tempering+the+EC%27s+antitrust+enthusiasm
- Tempering+the+EC%27s+antitrust+enthusiasmCompetition vs. consumersYour second pre-condition for evaluating the appropriateness of anti-trust regulation was "Whether the regulations actually result in better systems that benefit consumers."Worth noting that "better" is a subjective decision, and an ambitious regulator would in effect be asked to judge whether his power grab made the world a...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Pakistan blocks YouTube over cartoons
- Pakistan blocks YouTube over cartoonsPeople will stop using the internet?Yeah. Sure. That's what'll happen.Probably best if he's right, though - the internet could do with a few less homicidal maniacs.They're not even particularly good cartoons, and neither are they all that clever...Self-control, people! Murdering random innocent people because someone drew...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-24
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Running a recycling drive? Be careful
- My Computer Club at the high school is planning to run an electronics recycling drive after the holidays. Ideally, we'd take in a fair number of decent PCs and peripherals replaced during the season of giving that we could refurbish and redistribute to our elementary schools. We would...
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- NY attorney general goes after Facebook
- NY attorney general goes after Facebooktechnologically naive?Can a State agency really be this technologically naive?I'm not a lawyer, and I don't support any other online predation but I can see great, huge, gaping holes in this argument.First off, who has defined "safe" (in all it's gradations)?How can Facebook (or any...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- How to make millions from hacking
- How to make millions from hackingThe even simpler way....... is to buy penny stocks - lots and lots of them, send out 30 million emails that stock XXXX is on the rise. A surprising number of plebs buy the stock. Get a 5-10% rise and sell your shares, then wait...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Senators voice alarm over terrorist Net presence
- Senators voice alarm over terrorist Net presenceit looks more like a pretext for me to curtail freedoms"The Internet...is more than just a tool of terrorist organizations,"True, but so are guns, explosives and a lot more deadlier than words.My main concern is that 'terrorism' is so open for interpretation athat before...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-03
- Spyware, data privacy bills reappear in House
- Spyware, data privacy bills reappear in HouseSelling My Social Security Number?I am outraged that ANY company is allowed access to my social security number. How do they get it to sell in the first place? I have long beeen an advocate of NOT using SSN's for identification purposes....
- Discussion threads 2007-02-10
- President signs pretexting bill into law
- President signs pretexting bill into lawWhy the law enforcement exemption?I agree with the law, but don't understand why we need to reserve the right for law enforcement to obtain our personal records by pretending to be us. Isn't this what warrants are for? And if they aren't able...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- Why do users put up with bad software?
- Why do users put up with bad software?CostThe majority of Americans will choose paying less over getting better quality much of the time.comment on the other voteit's much simpler than all the choices. The majority of users don't know what they are doing in the first place, so how can...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- Let the 2007 Microsoft prediction season officially begin
- Let the 2007 Microsoft prediction season officially beginSome predictionsMS will reduce the price of Vista in an effort to stimulate demand from the entrenched XP user base. Despite pressure placed on OEMs to only offer Vista, the consumer votes by purchasing lower end cheaper machines instead of the much...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-04
- Zune: welcome to the anti-social
- Zune: welcome to the anti-socialWhy do you expect...Microsoft to recreate another Napster? I mean here is a cool capability to share a song, to beam it over to a friend maybe during study hall, and your big complaint is that it's too bad that the Zune doesn't facilitate illegally...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
- Police blotter: Prosecutors want reporters' hard drives
- Police blotter: Prosecutors want reporters' hard drivesA very trusting and naive man......the dissenting judge:"The newspapers' objection instead related to information on the computers that is not being sought by the commonwealth. The newspapers professed a fear that the commonwealth would abuse the subpoena and seek to access other information that...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-13
- Open source pressure is free
- Intel is under pressure right now. Its high-priced PR machine is under assault.From a letter. Thats right, a letter.The letter, from OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt, demands documentation and greater distribution rights over a binary blob in Intels Pro/Wireless drivers (ipw3945) which enforces compliance with FCC regulations. Damian Bergiami has...
- Blog posts 2006-10-07
- Dunn gave phone numbers to PIs
- Dunn gave phone numbers to PIs...saiid he hadn't heard the word "pretext" until recently...They used to use words like: lie, steal, scam, identity thief?Dunn's fake Innocent ActDunn's selective memory/innocent act's just not holding up. The email trails are too vivid and clear pointing out her faults in aggressively pursing people...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
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