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Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack

Feet on the street?In a crime where tens of thousands of credit card numbers and identifying information is stolen remotely from poorly configured databases, then sold on-line to other criminals, who then, presumably, use that information either for identity theft or straight credit card fraud, just where do you need...

Tags: SECURITY, Viet Nam, Gonzales

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

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Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?

Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?Technical innovations?Is the iPod or the iPhone successful because its technology is far in advance of any available to other companies? Or because existing capabilities are being used to design devices appealing to the public?Wouldn't Steve Jobs be a more appropriate replacement for Mr....

Tags: Investment, labor cost, General Motors Corp., Steve Jobs, car

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

Army voices Twitter fears

Army voices Twitter fearsCaps LockCaps lock is cruise control for cool. They teach you this in the military.TWITTERNOTE HOW WELL YOU ARE QUALIFIED TO WRITE ON THESE TOPICSHOW MUCH MILITARY TIME NO YOU HAVE?AS WE ARE MORE AND MORE TECH DRIVEN USING IT TO BE FORCE MULTIPLIER IT HAS BEEN...

Tags: SECURITY, Caps Lock, Twitter, voice

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

An apology to the Vietnam vets out there

An apology to the Vietnam vets out thereWhat?*roflhao trying not to wet himself* oh jesus!... i mean... oh my goodness (no offense intended to all those right side of the fence, sandle wearing, western, monotheists out there!).i mean for the love of mary!! political correctness is far far far far...

Tags: Vietnam VET, Vietnam War

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Google's huge data centers: the IT failures question

Google's huge data centers: the IT failures questionPlanning for FailureThere are two entities that need to develop plans for failure in the SaaS model; the provider and the customer. I'd be willing to bet my data that in this scenario, Google the provider has a plan and mitigating steps...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, information technology, data center, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-17

Obama+a+Mac%2C+Clinton+a+PC%2C+but+what+is+McCain%3F

Obama+a+Mac%2C+Clinton+a+PC%2C+but+what+is+McCain%3FSpeaking as an ArizonanMcCain is a 4.77 Mhz IBM PC with 256K of RAM emulating an Apple ][ running VisiCalc.RE: Obama a Mac, Clinton a PC, but what is McCain?Hillary = trojan horseObama = virusA Trojan Horse is full of as much trickery as the mythological Trojan Horse it was...

Tags: Mainframes, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Default OS, computer virus, McCain, Obama, Obama+a+Mac%2C+Clinton+a+PC%2C+but+what+is+McCain%3F

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

(Photos: From airborne ops to laser gunship)

(Photos: From airborne ops to laser gunship)Puff the Magic Dragon"During the Vietnam War, troops often referred to the C-130 gunship as "Puff the Magic Dragon."Ummm, wasn't that a converted DC-3?C-130 HerculesI spent four years in the Marines as a jet engine mechanic and ground support crewman, working on and around...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, laser, Wikipedia, photograph, C-130 Hercules, Herc, aircraft, AC-47, gunship, DC-3

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

Will China manufacturing costs be a tech overhang?

Will China manufacturing costs be a tech overhang?China TCOThe Chinese currency is broadly pegged to the dollar so the exchange rate hasn't influenced the relative cost of Chinese manufacturing. Rather it is the shortage and therefore higher cost of skilled labor and, especially, mid-level management. Through in high fuel costs,...

Tags: skilled-labor, manufacturing cost, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2007-12-11

Police Blotter: Warrantless eavesdropping rejected

Police Blotter: Warrantless eavesdropping rejectedUpside down...Being the federal government's law enforcement arm, one would think that the Justice department would be concerned with enforcing and abiding the supreme law of the land.the ConstitutionAs it stands the Justice department is clearly an enemy of the Constitution.What would the Founders have expected...

Tags: Vertical industries, Franklin Quote, liberty, government, essential liberty, Police Blotter

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Vietnam Memorial site defaced with Turkish messages

Vietnam Memorial site defaced with Turkish messageshappened to my site about year agoThis "Turk Defacer" (that is what they/he/she calls themselves) did pretty much same thing to one of my sites. All red with the turish flag. They only said you have been hacked. They did it twice, I restored...

Tags: Web site development, Turkish message, Vietnam Memorial site, Vietnam Memorial, Turkish

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

D5: Senator John McCain's league of extraordinary gentlemen

D5: Senator John McCain's league of extraordinary gentlemenIndian IYou cannot discriminate in the hiring by race, creed, or NATIONALITY.Making nationality the sole consideration when deciding who can be hired into U.S. job is a case of rampant discrimination and prejudice.When Indian companies only consider h-1b candidates (and then only from...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, main question, H-1B, job, prejudice, discrimination, Indian IT company, hiring, John McCain

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

RSA 2007: Colin Powell--soldier, diplomat, VC and stand-up comic

The closing keynote at RSA 2007 featured Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and first-term George W. Bush administration Secretary of State. Following his public service career, Powell has been on the lecture circuit, ranking in the big bucks and also playing venture capitalist as...

Tags: Colin Powell, General, Security

Blog posts 2007-02-09

Hillary TV: Will 'User Generated Politics' get Clinton to the White House?

Hillary TV: Will 'User Generated Politics' get Clinton to the White House?misused wordThat's too, not to.Oh, pleaseThe naivete here is mind boggling. If anyone actually thinks this is going to be a conversation instead of a propaganda exercise, I have some land to sell you in Arkansas.Cringe factorI'm not likely...

Tags: Government, User-Generated Politics, Hillary TV, White House

Discussion threads 2007-01-29

Asia Elevation Maps: Russia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, Thailand, Korea, Iran, Kazakhstan, ... 2.0 (Mobile)

Asia Elevation Maps for PrettyMapThis free pack contains high resolution elevation map for Asia, divided into 6 smaller pieces. Each tile covers the projected area of 40x50, and contains almost 29 million of samples one sample per square kilometer. Areas covered by 6 maps in this packTerritories of 44 countries...

Tags: Mobile, Korea, Maciej Komosinski, Elevation Map, PrettyMap, GIS, Software

Software downloads 2006-12-17

Bill Gates' second life

During his interview with Charlie Rose as the TechNet Innovation Summit, Bill Gates really showed how he has found a new passion that isnt about software bits and bytes. Its quite amazing that Gates and his friend Warren Buffett, whose money is flowing in the $32 billion Bill & Melinda...

Tags: General, Bill Gates

Blog posts 2006-11-16

IBM to release quad-core Intel servers

IBM to release quad-core Intel serversCountry of OriginAre Intel chips marked with country of origin? I would sure like to see this as I do not want to purchase any CPU made in Viet Nam.Country of OriginIntel will not be making processors in Viet Nahm, the operations will be...

Tags: Processors, Manufacturing, Intel Processor, processor, Intel Corp., Country-of-Origin, Intel server, quad-core, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-11-10

Indian Talent Shortage,yes. But, can they pass the test?

CMMI and Six Sigma is so offshore 1.0... Powerhouse NASSCOM, the Indian IT software and service trade organization, announced last week the national rollout of a nationwide assessment and certification program: the NASSCOM Assessment of Competence NAC. NASSCOM has teamed with with the state government of Rajasthan, which...

Tags: NAC, NASSCOM, offshore, Susan Scrupski, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Chinese firms get hold of Microsoft tech

Chinese firms get hold of Microsoft techUse Linux if you are patrioticMicrosoft is slowly moving both its technology (e.g. give Windows source code) and investment to China to help the communism out there. I recommend every patriotic fellow American to boycott Microsoft, as did by European Union.China is the super...

Tags: Linux, Government, Operating systems, Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., CHINA IS, Chinese firm

Discussion threads 2006-10-31

Veterans' data theft may cost $500 million

Veterans' data theft may cost $500 millionOKSo this guy has a staff member that screws up big time, basically giving out critical information on 26.5 million vets and he uses it as a reason to spend another half a billion dollars. Needless to say they will need to increase...

Tags: identity theft, vet

Discussion threads 2006-05-25

Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping

Congress may consider mandatory ISP snoopingPower hungry maggots ...[b][i]In 2001[/i][/b] ... [i]Duh'bya flipped on that issue faster than I can flip the bird at him.[/i]It takes you 5 years to flip the bird?!?Would those supporting or opposing Bush's stance change their opinion if it was Clinton instead? If so,...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, U.S. Congress, Internet Service Provider, maggot, privacy

Discussion threads 2006-04-28