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Police Blotter: Armed robbers nabbed through text messages

Police Blotter: Armed robbers nabbed through text messagesMore Stupid Criminals...ntWhile criminals, they do have a point.I find that both U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Martone and the 9th Circuit's decision in the McCreary trial to be in gross violation of the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To wit, "The...

Tags: Vertical industries, text messaging, robber, Police Blotter, government, warrant

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

What's a Vista zero-day exploit worth? Try $50K

What's a Vista zero-day exploit worth? Try $50KState the obvious! What is the real problem?MS just has to offer more money for pirates to hack OS X and Linux! $1,000,000 a day on offer, just rip into them. Bonuses for each day that it is not patched! What's $365M a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hacking, Operating systems, MS JUST, robber, hacker, Microsoft Windows Vista, zero-day bug, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-16

Additional Resources

Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?

Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?You should be asking why not? Both companies will gain a lot from this buy out. Yahoo has the services, Microsoft has the brand recognition. They can take the best of both worlds and have a dominant...

Tags: Team management, SEARCH, Branding, Microsoft want Yahoo, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft WANT, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry FordDeservedly so. He is a modern day Henry FordLike HF, Bill Gates has truly made a historic impact on the high tech industry and his philanthropy work is already making an incredible difference.Good for him.Having said that, Microsoft has missed the internet boat...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Strategy, Bill G, personal computer revolution, Bill Gates, Billg, Henry Ford, modern day, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Wired: The Mac Guru of Damascus

There's a neat little story in the current issue (16.05) of Wired magazine about MacBooks being stolen and recovered while traveling abroad. From The Mac Guru of Damascus in the Case of the Missing Laptops: Before my fiancée and I headed to Syria to study Arabic, we often heard...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wired Inc., Apple MacBook, Insurance, Financial Planning, Notebooks, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods

Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methodsYour correct.If you lock up your system and store in a safe when not in use then no one can get to it. As long you are using and in possession of the computer they can't do this. Also for those who are...

Tags: Memory, RAM, disk encryption method, Cryogenically, disk encryption

Discussion threads 2008-02-22

Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?

Gates: secret admirer of Linux, open source?Charity Begins at HomeSo I'm curious. How does the price of Microsoft's main reasonably-full-functioned software (I'm guessing that's MSWinVistaHomePremium or some such and the Business version of MSOffice) compare between the wealthiest and poorer countries?Just to pull five at random out of the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, secret admirer, Linux open source, admirer, Linux, open source, software

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

Gates' Microsoft future of intense interest

Gates' Microsoft future of intense interestThey need SOMEBODY to be the public face of Microsoft. Balmer is viewed asa chair throwing idiot, they are keeping Ozzie sequestered, who else is there????But, this is an important role, as Microsoft is now forced to NOT give customers what they want in terms...

Tags: Leadership, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., deity, public face

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

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

Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy

Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policyconfidentiality agreementEvery deal has a side deal in countries like England where the population still thinks its government not corruptible and more like parental units that would never harm the citizenry. The colonists in America split off from England for that exact reason. We...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

Report: Lucrative future for mobile TV

Report: Lucrative future for mobile TVWiMax - It is Japan - It is USA - It is not EUA colleague returned from Japan with news that mobile TV, interactive TV, wireless broadband Web 2.0, digital democracy, YouTube, what every you want to call it, is already being rolled out in...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, TV, airwave, mobile TV, WiMAX, mobile

Discussion threads 2007-09-20

EU ruling deals setback to Microsoft

EU ruling deals setback to MicrosoftQueue the WinZealots...]:)Queue the PatriotsThis article is incorrect on the ruling having nothing to do with the USA - which has "settled". The USA is very much trying to reform Microsoft which is viewed now as a transnational big business rather than an American company...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., EU ruling deals setback, deals setback, EU Ruling, American company, big business

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

EU emboldened; Who's next on the hit list?

EU emboldened; Who's next on the hit list?Great news for consumers in general, though the penalties are just a slapon the wrist. It is all about PR for Microsoft here and to convince all of the people in Europe that they are not so bad after all and there is...

Tags: Public relations, Linux, Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., market dominance

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Beating bullies

Beating bulliesWell-trained dogs...... proving they can ignore a cat playing the part of a creature most dogs would chase happily.Is the point how difficult it is to change human nature?HR represents management; get your own representativeHuman Resources is a department that is legally bound to represent management. The more ethical...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Microsoft Corp., health care, Human Resources

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

How Microsoft puts your data at risk

How Microsoft puts your data at riskYawnTalk about troll FUD.As a computer user since the 60s, all that has happened is that both hardware and software have become more reliable. You manage to mention NTFS disparagingly even when it outperforms the other file system and with FAT32 is the...

Tags: ZFS, file system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-08

Web 2.0 in the enterprise: language matters

Web 2.0 in the enterprise: language mattersOracle has long been Web 2.0Excellent article but a miss regarding Oracle. Oracle has been a pioneer in web video and podcast broadcasting intermedia and firms such as InternetBroadcasting and AOL likely use the company's technology if You Tube does not - which it...

Tags: Channel management, Financial accounting, Web 2.0, Web, Oracle Corp., Cold Cold Heart, shareholder

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Monkcast #11: Green APIs, open sourcing discontinued software, and more

The boys from Redmonk James Governor and Michael Cote and I recorded our 11th MonkCast today and as usual, we were all over the technology map. Being the hot topic that it is just about everywhere, we covered a wide range of "green" subject matter. As a part...

Tags: Software, Sourcing, API, Governor, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Republicans' YouTube debate date in limbo

Republicans' YouTube debate date in limboGood!Then make them MISS an important event... It would be their loss, not CNN's.Oh! besides, no one is watching these GOP clowns except for Ron Paul... the rest are neo-conservative and the only one watching them is the neo-conservative base...Digital Democracy and Traitors; universal...

Tags: Web 2.0, Government, Vertical industries, Universal Access, democracy, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-31

Gates plans his leave amid great change

Gates plans his leave amid great changeGates forced out as US Antitrust RemedyWe do not tolerate barons and kings in the USA. What has happened to Bill Gates is not of his choice. Robber barons like him do not belong in our polite society. The USA was founded on this...

Tags: Strategy, Servers, Billg, Bill Gates, Abramoff, great change, leave

Discussion threads 2007-07-30

Whole Foods CEO sorry for anonymous Web posts

Whole Foods CEO sorry for anonymous Web postsBig Fish vs little autorny Minow'sMinow is just so wrong. A CEO who is also a US citizen has the right and sometimes duty to publish anonymously when that posting does not involve harassment. That is how the founders of the USA did...

Tags: Public relations, Business ethics, Web, Whole Foods, Enron Corp., Minow, Big Fish, Minnow

Discussion threads 2007-07-18