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- TJX whistle blower sacked?
- TJX whistle blower sacked?...Correct me if I am wrong but I thought that whistle blowers had legal protection against this type of behavior. ]:)Why not whistle blower use a proxy?That way, his ISP's IP address can be shielded and may remain anonymous?It will make it harder for someone to track...
- Tags: SECURITY, blower, TJX, Whistle Blower
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
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- Do you know where your computers are being recycled?
- Do you know where your computers are being recycled?Good storyIf this were a story about Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux there'd be a hundred posters yelling at each other by now. It isn't, it's just a really significant issue that affects people here rather directly... we're all using computers, that...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, One-Man, computer, Basel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.
- Update: TSA has commented on the CNN story on their website. From our good friend Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix Security Digest, and memorable quotes from Samuel L. Jackson, apparently we can draw the conclusion that we have snakes on planes, but not Federal...
- Tags: Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, Dave Lewis, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Must diabetes drugs prove heart benefits?
- Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, who blew the whistle on Avandia last year, recently told an FDA panel they must "rule out some level of harm" to the heart before approving any new diabetes drug. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Heart, Benefit, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- A boon to the Webtop: Adobe makes indexing Flash in search easier
- A boon to the Webtop: Adobe makes indexing Flash in search easierWow!This is a really big deal for Flash developers. We've been waiting a long time for this. No more alternate content solutions and having SEO dweebs trying scab your clients over this issue.Now, all we need is Flash on...
- Tags: SEARCH, WebTop, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- NASA employee punished for political blogging
- NASA employee punished for political bloggingThose are the rulesCivil service people aren't allowed to participate in partisan political activity. Looks like he's guilty, so no sympathy.Now if he had been blogging on the issues of the day from the privacy of his own home, without endorsing or disparaging particular...
- Tags: Civil Service, blogging, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- News to know: Windows 7; Google's Safe browsing; Perlow's spine
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today? Dancho Danchev: Google introducing Safe Browsing diagnostic to help owners of compromised sites Nate McFeters: More Snake Oil: LifeLock spokesperson's stolen id leads to law suits Jason...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Twitter, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Emerging Technologies, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- TJX whistle blower sacked?
- TJX, the retailer that was hit with a major security breach, has sacked a whistle blower who was exposing the company's security issues. According to the ha.ckers.org site: I had some very disturbing news today from one of the forum users - he had just been...
- Tags: TJX, CrYpTiC_MauleR, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- nVIDIA launches high-spec nForce 790i series chipset and GeForce 9800 GX2
- Today sees nVIDIA launch a new chipset series and a new high end graphics card. nVIDIA begins a new era of high-performance computing. On the chipset front here's what nVIDIA has to tempt enthusiasts: nVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI Socket 775...
- Tags: Card, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Chipsets, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Big storage is watching you
- Big storage is watching youCapitalism becomes communismWhilst Penelope and Rupert make off with your spoils.What is wrong with this message?"Big Brother doesn't get it."Big Brother has always gotten it. He just honestly believes he is smarter and wiser than the masses. He does all of this 'for our...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Big Brother, Big Storage, erosion, industry
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Countering the Microsoft cynics
- Countering the Microsoft cynicsBenefit of the doubt[i]That’s why I am willing to give Ballmer more benefit of the doubt than Foley.[/i]It's much easier to trust the guy with the gun when you're standing next to him instead of in his sights.Can take years to build trustI certainly hope you're right,...
- Tags: open-source developer, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, open source, snake
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Judge orders WikiLeaks offline, then backs off
- The WikiLeaks.org site is offline today, following a series of orders from a US District Court in San Francisco. WikiLeaks had posted numerous documents "allegedly reveal secret Julius Baer trust structures used for asset hiding, money laundering and tax evasion." (WikiLeaks press release, Feb. 18, 2008.)) JB...
- Tags: Order, WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks.org Site, Taxes, Free Trade, Domain Names, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- California court order effectively erases Wikileaks
- In the rapidly escalating story of Wikileaks.org, here a California court has ordered the domain registrar, Dynadot, to erase all DNS entries for the domain, effectively erasing a website that hosts millions of documents purportedly "leaked" to the wiki-style site in the name of whistle-blowing on malfeasance. If...
- Tags: DNS, California, Web Site, Domain Names, Web Site Development, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?
- Rather than join in the high dudgeon over SCO getting a lifeline of up to $100 million to go private let's talk a little about the man who put the deal together. His name is Stephen L. Norris. (Picture from The Epoch Times.) Norris'...
- Tags: SCO Group Inc., SCO Litigation, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Poll: Is Twitter good or bad for corporations?
- In a post provocatively titled 'Is Twitter dangerous?", fellow ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman says that the micro-blogging platform Twitter is becoming a serious threat to corporate information protection. Krigsman writes: "The program's great strength — many-to-many messaging — becomes its great weakness in this context." He gives...
- Tags: Twitter, Krigsman, Miller, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Instant Messaging, Blogging, Productivity, Groupware, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure
- Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failureUp The ChainI'm not sure identifying projects that are doomed to fail, either because they are too hard or have a delusional value proposition, are usually pretty easy to identify.But you do you convince the guy a few layers up that not only is...
- Tags: Development tools, Agile Development, programmer, early warning, Darwin
- Discussion threads 2007-11-25
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chat
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chatWell that will get me to write a letter to Whole FoodsThe policy is illegal on its face. But Whole Foods is a US company started in Texas, where Bush was Governor, so I will cut them a bit...
- Tags: Blogging, Whole Foods, blog, company policy, big business, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- 'Storm worm' exploits YouTube
- 'Storm worm' exploits YouTubeHeadline needs fixingStorm worm exploits Windows. YouTube just happens to be the delivery mechanism of the day. Tomorrow it will be something else. Facebook, or WoW, MySpace...take your pick.RE: 'Storm worm' exploits YouTubeI give them credit. I can't read the Captcha stuff half...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Storm Worm, YouTube Inc., Torrent
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- The Great Software Testing Swindle
- The vast majority of tools available use scripting language which is fundamentally limiting, requiring specialist technical skills which can be difficult to find and expensive to hire. For someone who had bought a house that had only a coal fire in the lounge, he or she would immediately install central...
- Tags: Software, Software Testing, Original Software
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Engineering a new curriculum
- Engineering a new curriculumSome smaller schools are way ahead hereI teach engineering at two schools in CT. One University of New Haven has a core required course for non-technology students to give them an appreciation and understanding as well as the necessary vocabulary of the role that engineering and...
- Tags: Sastry, Cornell University, Cornell, curriculum, new curriculum, social science, democracy, Siemens AG
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
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