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- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prisonNow he'll be doing a longer stintWhen they find him. Double-dumbass on him.RE: 'Spam King' escapes from federal prisonWhat the f**k kind of prison are the Feds running these days?? He just drove away?? I hope he spams the shit out of the warden...
- Tags: cyberthreats, spam king, federal prison
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: law, minor, games, personal technology, video games, video game violence, nintendo ds, new york, brendan sinclair, gamespot
- News items 2008-07-23
- The running scandal of long-term care insurance
- The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...
- Tags: vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- The running scandal of long-term care insurance
- The best I can come up with is a federal pool paying for federalized care into which everyone above a certain age must pay, with the taxpayers making up the losses. That doesn't sound good to me, either. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: cost, insurance, long-term care, martin, real estate, business operations, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...
- Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, gore, dependence, fossil fuel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- In America money is life
- In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...
- Tags: warm-weather, woody allen
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- They don't all really need laptops, do they?
- I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't...
- Tags: teacher, laptop computer, notebooks, productivity, benefits, hardware, notebooks & tablets, human resources, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past
- To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...
- Tags: oil, coal, energy, fossil fuel, chris nelder, nelder, iea, u235, corporate communications, telecom & utilities, marketing, harry fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- 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
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership
- Many large-scale government technology initiatives are failing due to an exodus of qualified systems engineers away from the public sector to private industry. An in-depth analysis of the problem conducted by the National Research Council reveals the considerable impact of this problem. The...
- Tags: leadership, systems engineering, computer, cad, productivity, software, michael krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook
- Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...
- Tags: security, notebook, collaboration, environment, enterprise 2.0, conference, wireless lans, ethernet, wi-fi, wireless, networking, oliver marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Lessons from American university education
- I sometimes "relax" by logging on to PalTalk, a system designed for real-time voice chat, finding rooms where I can debate important issues related to politics or economics. I'm not always successful, as it's surprising how often those forums descend into free-for-alls where individuals take turns at the mic throwing...
- Tags: education, university, europe, american university, university of south dakota, john carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- 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
- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...
- Tags: fcc, auction, journal, m2z, federal government, government, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
- Britain's national plan to bring order and interoperability to the patient records and operations of the national health service was going to cost about ÂŁ1.2bn and be an enormous business and political success by early 1998. Ten years later it's widely expected to be a continuing ÂŁ13bn pound...
- Tags: agency, health care, bureaucracy, staroffice, open source, advertising & promotion, office suites, software, marketing, paul murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Put some IT pros in jail
- Is IT a "profession?" Certifications and professional organizations are window dressing. IT won't be a profession until IT people start going to jail. People who shred paper can go to jail. Why not negligent people whose info system design and operation have the same effect? ...
- Tags: robin harris
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Ballmer egged in Hungary
- Ballmer egged in HungaryM$ thugs got exposed in HungaryHere we see a concern citizen that fights against M$ plundering his country using a non violent protest.Of course Ballmer had nothing to say about acusations because they are real and he can't accept any meaningfull debabe about M$ dirty deeds.RE: Ballmer...
- Tags: unix, operating systems, open source, steve ballmer, linux, microsoft corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reformOur health insurance dollars at workIn this case, patents allow medical equipment companies to charge premium prices to medical offices and hospitals, who pass the costs on to insurers, who pass the costs on to employers and taxpayers. Eventually, it's the patients who...
- Tags: healthcare, insurance, benefits, patent, jefferson
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- EDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projects
- EDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projectsEDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projectsThis is a pretty good reason why outsourcing your IT doesn't work. Way too many complications and its just not as efficient. Don't get me wrong, outsourcing works to some degree, like hiring cable monkeys to...
- Tags: strategy, outsourcing, electronic data systems corp., navy/eds nmci, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
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