probation

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books

Amazon uses 1984 to free e-booksDangerous gambleThey'll get harmonization. But likely to the US level through ACTARE: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books"In this case the monopoly is copyright, which extends practically to infinity in the U.S., thanks to the Walt Disney Co., but is held to a reasonable length...

Tags: Corporate communications, E-books, probation, e-book, video, Amazon.com Inc., monitor, software

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

Dutch botnet hackers sentenced to time served

Dutch botnet hackers sentenced to time servedSlap! Oooo, that stings.They hijacked Millions of computers, and got a slap on the wrist.Wow, I sure am glad they weren't identified. Might have ruined their lives for nothing.Holland isn't exactly known for its gulagsThey're pretty liberal in the Netherlands. ...

Tags: Desktops, Hacking, probation, PC, hacker, wrist

Discussion threads 2007-02-01

Additional Resources

Planet Android and the terrible twos

Re: Planet AndroidAs a programmer, I am more interested in what is going on with the actual OS than ads for it. For example, I would like to know how to place android on a phone that does not have it, or get the actual Android os on a...

Tags: Blogging, RSS, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

U.K.'s Ministry of Justice Boosts Performance and Strengthens Security of National Offender Database

The Ministry of Justice is one of the largest government departments in the United Kingdom. Within the Ministry of Justice, the National Offender Management Service NOMS is an executive agency that brings together the headquarters of the Probation Service and HM Prison Service. Responsible for protecting the public and reducing...

Tags: Security, Oracle Corp., Performance, U.K., Analysis, Ministry Of Justice, Storage, Performance Management, Databases, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Where are the French code warriors when it's "Le Weekend?"

Where are the French code warriors when it's "Le Weekend?"Welcome to the Republic!In france, there is a strict 37 hour working week, and limitations on overtime.Even reality TV contestants are subject to such employement law: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8085015.stmOn the one hand I admire them for putting work in to perspective, on the...

Tags: Le Weekend

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

UK Companies House: an end user nightmare

In the UK, limited liability companies have to file a ream of documents with Companies House. In very much the same way the SEC works. Only Companies House electronic filing system - just like many UK public sector  IT projects - is an unholy mess. So common is the problem...

Tags: Companies House, Jake, Card Detail, Document Management, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-16

HP TRIM Software Has Major Impact on Record Management at Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice MoJ is responsible for the courts, prisons, probation, criminal law and sentencing in England and Wales. Due to changes in legislation the MoJ decided that it needed an Electronic Document and Records Management EDRM system that would improve its storage of information. The MoJ deployed HP...

Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Ministry Of Justice, Records Management, Managerial Accounting, Disaster Recovery, Finance, Data Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!

Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!Thanks for the history...Thanks for the history, but I don't think I'll be drinking in celebration this Nov. 2nd... I'll be drinking that day to ease the pain of removing all that junk off my computer... lol...Ah, the start of the rot began where?[i]"On November 2nd,...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, worm, Internet, Internet worm

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Happy 20th birthday, internet worm!

This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the Internet Worm, the first major worm that propagated on the Internet. Even though many years have passed and underlying media has changed, worms are still able to wreak havoc and keep system administrators up at night. Today the damage done...

Tags: Internet Worm, Worm, Cyberthreats, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...

Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Hunt for Palin 'hacker': Journalism or mob mentality?

Hunt for Palin 'hacker': Journalism or mob mentality?So what are you advocating, anarchy?So, are you advocating anarchy where there are absolutely no constraints on moral, ethical, fair and legal behaviour?I am so sick of people who say that it's OK for a person to do something illegal, let alone it...

Tags: Blogging, SECURITY, Koman, blogger, mentality, Palin

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

When all the technology in the world won't help

A masters thesis fell into my lap earlier this year when I switched second semester classes and taught another section of informal geometry. I decided to look at the section I taught in the first semester with an inclusion teacher versus the section I was teaching second semester. ...

Tags: Geometry, Teacher, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-10

An (Imaginary?) Hannaford Conspiracy

The regularity with which geezers like me see history repeating itself suggests some combination of memory influencing perception with an amazing continuity in the forces driving human behavior. Worse, our perceptions of what happened then may be wrong but influence our interpretations of what's happening during the perceived re-run anyway,...

Tags: Point-of-sale, Debit Card, Computer, IBM Corp., Hannaford, Data Breach, Linux, Financial Services, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-08

South Carolina Government Agency Keeps Network Under Lock and Key

South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services needed to provide reliable and secure network services for a highly mobile 750-person workforce supervising more than 35,000 offenders. At the network's edge, Information Technology Systems and Services ITSS team deployed Juniper Networks J4300 service routers, which are a modular platform...

Tags: Network, Agency, Juniper Networks Inc., Government, WANs, Networking

Case studies 2008-04-01

Discussing talkback formats

Discussing talkback formatsI visit much less often.Just an estimate, I am getting my news from other sites, and typically only find things here due to RSS feeds. We keep getting told that the old "Blog" page will return that lists all blogs with the top 10 or so headlines....

Tags: Blogging, RSS, blog, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

FBI has more plans for criminal datasharing

Are you ready for the "one-stop shop" of nationwide local, state and federal criminal records? Cops around the country are salivating for the Justice Department's National Data Exchange or N-DEx, says the Washington Post. Federal authorities have high hopes for the N-DEx system, which is to begin...

Tags: Agency, Suspect, FBI, Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Databases, Government, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-06

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herdersI like that !!!Yes indeed...GOOD!!!!Let the Convicted CHOOSE CANING INSTEAD OF JAIL TIME.BUT NO PROBATION.quid pro quoonly if they cane the bastards at enron and other companies that cooked books and ruined lives as wellTrue, at least then they would be productive...Unlike the Linux script...

Tags: Federal government, FBI, herder, crackdown, punishment, Web

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders

The FBI today announced the arrest of eight U.S. men accused to hijacking PCs for use in a million-strong botnet that accounted for $20 million in economic loss. In its "Bot Roast II" crackdown, the FBI said it also served 13 search warrants in the U.S. and...

Tags: U.S. District Court, FBI, Bot, Distributed Denial Of Service, Computer, Florida, AKILL, Michael Downey, Federal Government, Phishing, Security, Government, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Malware found on new hard drives

Malware found on new hard drivesThe moral isDon't outsource components that run business and other important things to countries such as China that do this type of thing. Once it is found out their contract should be pulled and no business should deal with these companies. There should...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, malware, new Hard Drive, hard drive, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2007-11-13