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Whitehouse.gov's YouTube cookies: The wrong privacy fight

I'm the last person who would ever want the government snooping around my computer. But this controversial thing over YouTube cookies on whitehouse.gov has really become bigger than it should be and I think privacy advocates - no matter how much I agree with them on the larger scale issues...

Tags: White House, Privacy, YouTube Inc., Video, Waiver, Cookie, Whitehouse.gov, Privacy Advocate, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Blocking the Microsoft / Novell deal

That, apparently, is the reason the release of GPLv3 has been delayed. The Free Software Foundation wants to ensure that verbiage in GPLv3 explicitly prevents arrangements wherein Microsoft signs a patent waiver with customers of a particular company (in this case, Novell). That, apparently, is not disallowed by the terms...

Tags: Novell Inc., GPLv3, Microsoft Corp., waiver, patent, IP, software, Alcatel

Blog posts 2007-03-21

Family sues radio station in Wii contest death

Family sues radio station in Wii contest deathEven waivers are questionableThe question isn't really if they signed a waiver, but if waivers are really that effective - AFAIK, there's nothing in our laws saying that our laws cease to exist simply because somebody signs a a waiver. In fact, I...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Games, waiver, radio

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

Google will face Congressional hearings over China

Google will face Congressional hearings over ChinaBullhockyGoing after google changes nothing. They did what they did because things were going to come out the same regardless. Now they can somewhat control the censorship on their end and can provide real service.It changes nothing until you change chinese government... all this...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Google Inc., NTR Global, waiver, censorship

Discussion threads 2006-01-26

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Innovate...then wait...and wait

I spoke with the CEO of an American company making state-of-engineering heat pumps. But his company can't get past the federal gatekeepers at the Department of Energy DOE. The Acadia system built and sold by Hallowell International just doesn't fit the old model for HVAC. I blogged...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Lobbyist, Rebate, Department Of Energy, Acadia, Hallowell International, Quality, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Federal forms themed blackhat SEO campaign serving scareware

An ongoing blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign is actively hijacking a variety of U.S Federal Forms keywords in an attempt to serve the Personal Antivirus (Trojan.Win32.FakeXPA) scareware. Due to the automated and sophisticated PageRank boosting tools cybercriminals use in these campaigns, the hijacked keywords are always...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., HTTP, Malware, Cybercriminal, Keyword, Http Referrer, Search, Marketing Research, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Marketing, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Palm's Pre can't offset Sprint's subscriber losses

Palm's Pre can't offset Sprint's subscriber losses2% Churn? That's me!I'm one of the 2% "churn", as I left Sprint for good when the 3GS came out in June. And, yes, I tried the Pre but, no, I was not impressed.RE: Palm's Pre can't offset Sprint's subscriber lossesC'mon! The...

Tags: Smart phones, Sprint Communications, subscriber loss, Palm Pre, Palm Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

California not politically bankrupt

With more electoral votes and more voters than any other state in the U.S. California has won a big political victory in Washington. Along with more than a dozen other states like New York tagging along, California has just gotten permission to enforce its own, stricter fuel efficiency regs...

Tags: California, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-30

RIM records all employee calls

RIM records all employee callsCreepyWhile RIM certainly has the right to do all the things they are talking about, the terms and phrasing used give a creepy spin on how they go about protecting their IP. And she looks so friendly...shit what a freak there should be laws again...

Tags: E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Big Brother, Research In Motion Ltd., employee call, phone

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Nostalgia Sim Baseball 5.2 (Windows)

This baseball sim is all about reading the numbers and working the stats - lots of them. Can you make them work for you and build a championship Nostalgia Sim Baseball team? It won't be easy, but we offer you a free membership so that you can check us out...

Tags: Baseball, Microsoft Windows, Nostalgia Baseball, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-03-04

EPA: that was then, this is now

The shift from the past federal administration to this one is becoming evident for states, greentech companies and VCs looking for future investment ideas. There'll be more pressure to clean up air, water and soil pollution. THEN: in the final week of the former admin the EPA once...

Tags: Car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Standards, Coal Ash, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-07

SAP teams up with InnoCentive; Software IP questions abound

Updated: SAP is partnering with InnoCentive, an "open innovation market place," to link so called "seekers," or companies looking to solve a business problem, with "solvers," developers that can save the day. For instance, SAP is looking for someone to create novel uses of social networking in enterprise applications. ...

Tags: Team, IP, SAP AG, InnoCentive, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Social Networking, Cloud Computing, Networking, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Russia, Georgia and NASA

So now that relations with Russia are taking a decided turn south, NASA's plan to depend on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to get to the space station isn't looking too sharp, warns one congressman, according to Daily Tech. "The new challenge we have is...

Tags: NASA, Russia, Transportation, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-18

A security company wants you to DDoS its servers

A security company wants you to DDoS its serversWhat a JokeI totally agree - Anyone with the capacity to perform DDoS is not gonna give a crap about a $50 gift certificate to think geek.Legal ImplicationsFrom the perspective of US law, it sounds as though they might be solicting others...

Tags: security, server, distributed denial of service

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Physical security - laptops or desktops

Physical security - laptops or desktopsLojack & Asset TagsHow about LoJack (or similar, http://www.lojackforlaptops.com/learn-more-lojack-for-laptops.asp) and some Secure-IT STOP anti-theft asset tags (http://www.secure-it.com/shop/product_info.php/products_id/34)???Make the parents sign a laptop permission form....You should have both the student and the student's parents sign a permission/waiver form that acknowledges the school's ownership of the laptop,...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, laptop computer, desktop, physical security

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft ... but not Oracle?

Sun completes MySQL buy, guns for Microsoft ... but not Oracle?Nah, they do it for the pay checkWhat recognition does an open source programmer get? None! They are just one of large number of contributers. If you want recognition you write proprietary software that you sell as your own business....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Like Linux, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft SQL, My-SQL, MySQL, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Fuming over fumes: E.P.A. is 0 for 3 with a loss in the blogosphere

The Environmental Protection Agency Orwellian doublespeak in its current incarnation seems to be having its own lame duck problems during the final months of the current American regime. The latest two attacks come from the non-executive parts of the federal government itself. A federal appeals court...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Blogosphere, Blogging, Federal Government, Internet, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-10

California to sue U.S. for denying emissions waiver

California to sue U.S. for denying emissions waiverWell, hopefully courts will work it out to benefit of allnot just the one, depending again on the better of the two options. The states are already a mismatch of other types of laws from border to border, . . . do...

Tags: Benefits, emissions waiver

Discussion threads 2007-12-26

Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle

Larry Dignan loans me his Kindlemeanwhile....While you are waiting for the textbook capable Kindle you could try this for free: http://www.booksinmyphone.comThe provide public domain and creative commons works (doctorow? stross?) that you can download into your java enabled cell phone. The phone screen is small but within a few minutes...

Tags: phone screen, textbook, Larry Dignan

Discussion threads 2007-12-07

First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six months

First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six monthsTime to make .Net truely crossplatform.This is a good move forwards - but I wish Microsoft would accept that .Net has to be more widely available. True, it's on 92%+ of all computers (well, not really - it can run...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2007-12-06