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OH senator moves to access to predator online names

An Ohio senator is pushing to revise a law to allow parents to view online aliases used by convicted sexual predators, reports the Register Herald. An Ohio law currently mandates that convicted sex offenders report their Internet screen names to State Police. Initially, that information was...

Tags: State Police, Evan Jenkins, offender

Blog posts 2007-03-20

Indiana wants OK to monitor cellphones

Indianas wiretap law is dreadfully in need of updating, the state police and prosecutors say, and theyre pushing a bill that would allow them to get wiretaps on cellphones and email, The Indianapolis Star reports. Groups supporting the measure testified at legislative hearings yesterday. The existing wiretap law...

Tags: monitor, telephone, State Police, cell phone

Blog posts 2007-03-19

MD State Police make improvements in DNA collection

Back in 2004, an audit revealed 28 serious problems with DNA analysis at the Maryland State Police. A follow-up audit released in February found that substantial improvements have been made but there is still serious work to do. The police still have a backlog of more than 25,100 inmate...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Law enforcement

Blog posts 2007-03-02

ME computer crime unit needs more funding

State lawmakers are pressing for $100,000 funding for the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit, which is tasked with stopping certain sex offenders from visiting social networking sites popular with kids. The computer unit apparently doesnt have enough funding to do the job, reports the Portland Press Herald. ...

Tags: Law enforcement, Government technology, State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2007-02-13

Additional Resources

Question about Gov. Sarah Palin

Is it just me or can anyone get into the official web site of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin? Have been trying for the past hour to get in. No word yet from the Governor's Office in Anchorage on the site's ability to handle a sudden surge...

Tags: Governor, E-mail, Web Site Development, Web Browsers, Online Communications, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-29

IBM claims 'Quicksilver' flash sets data-speed record

A project under development from IBM is setting new records for data-transfer speeds using solid-state technology with one million input/outputs per second. IBM has said its 'Project Quicksilver' is setting new records for data-transfer speeds on solid-state technology, with its tests showing a disk-storage solution hitting one million input/outputs...

Tags: IBM Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Performance Management, Ip storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, IBM, Project Quicksilver, SSD, solid-state drive

News items 2008-08-29

News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies

Blog posts 2008-08-29

FBI warns 'electronic Pearl Harbor' possible

FBI warns 'electronic Pearl Harbor' possibleWake Up!Just when are the public and the goverment ever going to realize that there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO SECURITY when it comes to computers? It makes no sense for banks and any goverment agency to have their networks connected to the internet. How many more...

Tags: Federal government, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, Financial services, Pearl Harbor, FBI

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

The depressing future of the Internet

A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...

Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Community managers akin to 'Internet police'

More fodder for the "marketing should stop trying to control the message" file. Don't control. Don't manipulate. Join the conversation. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Twitter, Community Manager, Internet, RSS, Blogging, Team Management, Benefits, Management, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-28

The importance of the Veoh decision

The importance of the Veoh decisionThe problem is "appropriate steps".The question is, how thoroughly does a store-and-serve operation have to police what it's storing?In this case, removing something shown to be violating copyright on notification is sufficient. And that's reasonable.The problem is the situation when there are millions of...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Tools & Techniques, Veoh

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting

I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...

Tags: Accounting, Small And Medium Enterprise, Advisor, GoBootstrap, GoBootstrap.com, Tax Estimate, General Usability, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Resurrecting E-voting

Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...

Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Codename of the day: Nitrogen

Codename of the day: NitrogenCodeword - "Infection"Can't think why ZDnet aren't trumpeting Microsoft's latest embarassing achievement -Wonder if the US army's robots will be running 'Hasta La Vista'?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7583805.stmNasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a Windows virus known as Gammima.AG.The worm was...

Tags: Games, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Nitrogen

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Election Games (dmg)

Election Games is a political simulation software specifically for the upcoming 2008 presidential campaign. It allows the entry of state groups, scenarios and simulations to determine the election outcome. It also includes related US political content, such as past presidential election results. This version is the first release on CNET...

Tags: Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-08-28

"Why do you hate Vista so much?"

"Why do you hate Vista so much?"Reasons that Vista bothers me...1) I have now spent over 4 hours trying to get SP1 installed on a new box.... the BSOD's are blurry (kind of funny huh?) The same box, XP installed with less heart ache and fewer issues... while I am...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, SP1, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised

Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan's current and former presidents : "The suspects are believed...

Tags: Taiwan, Hacking, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Worst news for McCain is not from Denver

Worst news for McCain is not from DenverYou're right about one thingHe's got little to fear fron Denver. H Clinton's speech on Tuesday didn't look as though it was really all that convincing.I'm sure his biggest risk is from cancer, not the DNC!RE: Worst news for McCain is not from...

Tags: FUD

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Hydrogen Road Tour hits the road

CNET's Martin LaMonica catches up with the Hydrogen Road Tour in Billerica, Mass., where the first hydrogen fueling station in the state was opened. A caravan of vehicles is currently participating in the two-week cross-country trek of hydrogen-powered vehicles that will end in Los Angeles.

Tags: News, martin lamonica, hydrogen, hybrids, green, environment, global warming, eco

Videos 2008-08-27

Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs

Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costsMicrosoft puts out a free tool that does essentially the same thingSteadystate... google it. We currently use it on kiosk computers, but you could use it for what they are pushing it for. You could also deploy group policies that prevent...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, dumb terminal, Virtualization Software, virtualization, IT cost, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-27