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- Attacking phishing at the source
- Attacking phishing at the sourceDomainKeys--it's a startNow if mandated changes were in effect 'with teeth' that enforced usage of PGP or GnuPG or S/MIME for signed encrypted email, that would take down the spam to 0%!RE: Attacking phishing at the sourceSince phishing has cost countless pains to so many people,...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, inactivism, Attacking phishing, restraint
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Wikileaks case emphasizes rule against prior restraint
- Paul Alan Levy of Public Citizen has a Google Comment up on the whole Wikileaks fiasco. Now that Julius Baer has moved for dismissal, We are confident that judges in such future cases will have learned the lesson taught by the proceedings in federal...
- Tags: Bank, Restraint, Alan Levy, Financial Services, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- The First Amendment and Wikileaks
- To clarify some things I misunderstood about this story this morning. Dynadot is Wikileaks' domain registrar, and it was Dynadots not Wikileaks who stipulated to blocking the domain. Which explains why there was a stipulation at all. And why Wikileaks was so outraged by the court's action. ...
- Tags: Restraint, First Amendment, Information, Dynadot, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Shorter hours in software
- Shorter hours in softwareNO WONDERM$ is missing their LongShot deadline . . . ;)Even a jackass needs a breakwhen plowing the fields. It is my expirience that when deadlines are not met it is not my workers fault it is mine. I own the business BTW. I...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., restraint, Noone, software, job
- Discussion threads 2005-02-22
- Senate panel hears VoIP arguments
- Senate panel hears VoIP argumentsUnjustified taxesThe root problem is that state and federal governments have taxed services they weren't entitled to tax. And they have done so usually without receiving direct voter permission. Whenever you institute a tax it must be on something whose use will increase government cost. If...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, U.S. Senate, VoIP, restraint, tax, government cost
- Discussion threads 2004-02-25
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- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...
- Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Apple wants Psystar to snatch back Mac clones from customers ... and other thoughts
- Apple wants Psystar to snatch back Mac clones from customers ... and other thoughtsWho else has a dog in the hunt?If the court says that part of Apple's EULA is unenforceable, when it's a part that's so essential to Apple's business model, then who else has questionable terms in their...
- Tags: Milton Bradley, EULA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Pystar
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist videos
- Sen. Joe Lieberman wants Google to take down terrorist videos from YouTube. In a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lieberman wrote: Many of the videos produced by one of the production arms of al-Qaeda show attacks on U.S. forces in which American soldiers are injured and, in some...
- Tags: Google Inc., Lieberman Software Corp, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Buying from the enemy
- Buying from the enemygoing where no nation ever couldYou've said it. The PRC (People's Republic of China) has unlimited resources to do its damage.Unlike Nazi Germany or the old Soviet Union, however, China has several things going for it. One, lots of people, many of them very smart,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Chinese Government, Buying, ruler, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- So the net routes around censorship? Tell it to China
- China has succeeded in blocking the flow of news about its crackdown on Tibetan protesters – at least in China. While Western news outlets are getting information out to the rest of the world, many Chinese remain in the dark. (This photo is of Tsezin Totsang (a 32-year old male...
- Tags: China, Censorship, Tibet, Internet, Blogging, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring
- Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...
- Tags: Bank, Information System, Transaction, Financial, FBI, Data, Institution, Internal Revenue Service, Technology, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, FinCEN, CTR, Federal Government, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the net
- Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the netforgetting the 1st Amendment?Clsoing down a whole site due to one item that may or may not be actionable seems a bit Stalinish to me. Perhaps our esteemed jurist would like to look at a little document called THE CONSTITUTION! Or perhaps he...
- Tags: Wikileaks, Miranda, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Wikileaks is free
- Coming to his constitutional senses, Judge Jeffrey White reversed his previous injunctions against the Wikileaks whistleblowing site. Wikileaks had been offline at wikileaks.org, although it had been available at other servers around the world, including wikileaks.be. From Reuters: "There are serious questions of prior...
- Tags: Court, Obligation, Wikileaks, Banking, Social Security, Financial Services, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Judge reconsiders injunction in Wikileaks case
- If you're a lawyer, you gotta love this. At the end of the day Thursday, Federal Judge Jeffrey White -- the judge who issued the shut-down notice against Wikileaks -- released his questions for argument PDF for Friday morning's hearing regarding that order. White also...
- Tags: Plaintiff, Wikileaks, Web Site Development, Productivity, Government, Web Technology, Domain Names, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- The First Amendment and Wikileaks
- The First Amendment and WikileaksNot Prior Restraint? Horse-feathers!It is clear that this is unconstitutional, and only a lawyer would hedge his bets by giving the bank and the court any benefit of doubt. This is the most egregious use of pernicious censorship that I have seen in ages:...
- Tags: Wikileaks, First Amendment
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Jane Fonda just used the unbleeped "C" word on Today Show: what's next?
- Jane Fonda just used the unbleeped "C" word on Today Show: what's next?Is it that slippery, though?I'm about to get long-winded, so be prepared:I'm a woman, and am offended by the word. But that doesn't give me the right to tell people not to be, or to forbid others...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, Mel Gibson, C
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 3
- First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 3PlansPersonally I keep a few VMs around for testing. That way I always have a baseline solid system to use and rolling back any test software is just a file deletion.Now, pardon me while I start emerging a new browser ...RE: First Look...
- Tags: Web browsers, error message, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3.0 Beta 3, First Look
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Vista SP1 - Day 1
- On Monday the 4th of February Microsoft announced that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 had been released to manufacturing. Although the code has been finalized, Windows Vista users won't start to get their hands for a few weeks. I've been fortunate to be sent the SP1 installer files,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Google's antitrust throwdown
- Google's antitrust throwdownWell...I too am unconvinced that this takeover thing is good in any sense. Personally, I think where anti-trust is going to come in is not over search, but over the portal, IM and webmail dominance it'd give Microsoft. Mind you that presumes that the userbase for these services...
- Tags: Web browsers, Corporate law, INTERNET, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Interesting JC, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Microsoft wants to help you speed up Vista
- Microsoft has published an article aimed at helping Vista users speed up their system - but the article takes a somewhat hit-and-miss approach to speeding up a PC. Oh, and the best performance tip of all has been left out! Since several of you sent me...
- Tags: Performance, PC, Article, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
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