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Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008

Lame hands-free law goes into effect in WA State on 1 July 2008Stats prove itFrom http://www.jmu.edu/safetyplan/vehicle/generaldriver/safetybelt.shtml* Approximately 35,000 people die in motor vehicle crashes each year. About 50 percent (17,000) of these people could be saved if they wore their safety belts.* For every one percent increase in safety belt...

Tags: Cellular phones, belt, seat belt, phone, CD

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Confirming the flat-earther's myths doesn't serve anyone

My colleague David Berlind just can't seem to stop barking up the wrong tree when it comes to email security.  In his latest blog, Berlind accuses me of a "reality distortion field" which really isn't productive.  While he has some legitimate complaints - which I've complained about too - Berlind...

Tags: Technology policy, Servers, Security, Networking, Mobile/Wireless, Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-07-26

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Paying for what does not work remains popular

We are already there, DanaYou said "But at some point your neighbors, who are paying for your excess, whether in the form of insurance or in the form of taxes, are going to start asking these hard questions"We are already there. I agree with you that many of us...

Tags: Insurance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, prostate cancer, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

The Android-Cyanogen kerfluffle

The Day that Android Died.The applications that he was distributing sort of were applications that were already on the users phone.But in order to install the new rom you need to erase all and start from fresh, there is no easy way to leave them untouched on the phone, so...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

They're soup: Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 released to manufacturing

They're soup: Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 released to manufacturingWell, I for one would like to congratulate Microsoft and the Win7 teamThey've pulled off quite the coup - Win7 and Server 2008 R2 are fantastic products that are going to make quite a difference in the market.Well done MS on...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, soup, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 Server

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malwareMore details about severity of attack[i]On Windows machines, a user falling for the bait gets to a series of Web pages featuring pornographic content and, at the end, a prompt to update a video codec. That fake codec is...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS X, malware, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Guy Kawasaki, attack, user interaction, disk image, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Ban Mobile Devices and Driving

Ban Mobile Devices and Drivinggood ideea but hard to enforceThere is a good reason why you have to pass a visual test to get a driving license and you can't drive while intoxicated.It is because you have to prove that you are not a danger to yourself or others.Conducting activities...

Tags: Cellular phones, Ban Mobile Devices, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

iFighter 1.2 (Mobile)

As the ace pilot of the air force in WWII, your mission is to destroy the secret weapon prototypes of the Nazis. Fasten your seat belt and get ready for some non-stop action. there are three difficulty settings, three control modes, four huge levels, original sound tracks for all levels,...

Tags: Mobile, Level, EpicForce

Software downloads 2009-05-08

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaning

Conficker: a good excuse for an early spring cleaningLOL!That's a good April Fools joke right there!A wise choice!You can't go wrong with it! If Loverock recommends it then it must be good.I'll stick with my Antivirus XP 2009, thanks.I'm KIDDING! :pVery Poor RecommendationsCommercial Anti-virus: You recommend ESET NOD32 and...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, clamAV, Conficker, antivirus, Clam AV, early Spring, Norton 360, good excuse, actualy, virus

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

Smart Grid vulnerable to cyberattack

OK, next multibillion dollar opportunity for security consultants coming right up! The Smart Grid, a sort of energy-carrying Internet that will feature automated meters, two-way communication and advanced sensors according to CNN, is ripe for the same kind of cyberattacks that Net users have become so...

Tags: U.S., Blackout, Grid, Cyberattack, Power Grid, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-22

Spam: You just can't win

For anyone even slightly optimistic about thwarting the never-ending crush of spam I have two words: Don't bother. At the Information Security Best Practices conference at Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania I've learned the following from the first panel. Comcast's Gerard Lewis, senior...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-30

What's it take to build a new hyrbid car? Try 119 new patents.

Here's the Fusion instructional screen. Provided by Ford Motor. Ford's America's only carmaker NOT to need a federal bailout. And today the company's proudly releasing some patent info on the 2010 Ford Fusion hybrid. Like it has 119 patents inside. And Ford just...

Tags: Car, Patent, Ford Motor Co., Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Obama's push for alternative energy

Obama's push for alternative energyYou read it here firstAfter four years of Obama as president, we will have spent billions and billions on alternative energy with the end result that we will be more reliant on foreign oil than we are now.Obama is building US an express lane to ZimbabweFasten...

Tags: Obama, oil, foreign oil, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

Zune problems? All should be fine by Midnight

Zune problems? All should be fine by MidnightSo, by letting your kids and yourself... have an ear-splitting volume of music free day (and hopefully prolonging your hearing, which does NOT recover), Microsoft should be sued?Better I think to thank them for their ineptitude which lead, hopefully, to a day of...

Tags: Y2K, Microsoft Zune, Zune problem, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-12-31

The Pride of Fargo

Today I spoke with an executive at GEM, the maker of NEVsneighbrohood electric vehicles. The firm is in its eleventh year and has put about 40,000 little electric vehicles onto the streets and low-speed roads of the U.S. and Canada. They're made in Fargo though most sales have...

Tags: Vehicle, GEM, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-08

Blackberry Storm set for Nov. 17 lift-off?

Blackberry Storm set for Nov. 17 lift-off?Grown ups don't pre-announceIf a device is ready then it's fine to announce it. If the device isn't ready, management needs to keep their yaps shut. "Ready" includes not just performance of the device but sufficient quantity of the device and sufficient availability of...

Tags: Decision-Makers, Verizon Communications Inc., BlackBerry Storm, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

The candidates on tech

The candidates on techOBAMA FTW!ntRE: The candidates on techI hate it when the popular press reports on a candidate's voting history. Quite often, the vote went the way it went because there was more to the proposed bill than the simple soundbite that is being thrashed around. Did...

Tags: Hate Speech

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Drivers caught red-handed holding phone

Drivers caught red-handed holding phoneHasn't the police got better things to do?People are being robbed, murdered, tortured, but never mind that, first we must punish these "really" dangerous and evil criminals, the scary mobile phone users! Where has common sense gone? I think I remember seeing it just a few...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, holding phone, red-handed holding phone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly

TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thuslyHand Sanitizer Bombinterestingly enough, it's probably completely possible to build a bomb out of a can of hand sanitizer and a lighter. well... maybe not a bomb persee... but enough of a distraction i'm sure.i know i'm not giving away...

Tags: Transportation Security Administration, F'ing

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Airport security part 2: TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly

I want to start out by saying that I take great personal risk of getting black listed before my flight to K.C. tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd talk about an article by Rafal Los on how the TSA is failing us again.  This actually reminds me of an older article that...

Tags: Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, Rafal Los, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-09