Fallout?

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page94?oid=75078&sn=Detail

Citigroup names Crittenden of American Express as CFO

Citigroup named American Express CFO Gary L. Crittenden, a veteran finance executive with experience in restructuring, as its new chief financial officer.

Clint Riley and Robin Sidel, Wall Street Journal 25 February 2007

... In January, Mr. Crittenden resigned from the board of TJX Cos. shortly after the retailer announced that it had experienced a significant data-security breach that left millions of customers vulnerable to potential fraud. It wasn't clear if his resignation was connected to the incident.

For those of you with criminals... er... students in high school... Parallels in workplace surveillance. If you monitor some, must you monitor all? If your are looking for evidence of cheating or drug dealing, can you ignore everything (anything) else?

http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=65378

Sign of the times, school officials want to intercept high school text messaging

posted by: Dan Boniface , Web Producer created: 2/24/2007 2:54:17 PM Last updated: 2/24/2007 2:54:45 PM

DENVER (AP) - It wasn't too long ago, high school students could be caught in classing passing notes to each other.

In today's high-tech world, school officials in three suburban Denver districts say students now are using cell phone text messaging, and sometimes those messages aren't just harmless notes.

Officials say they believe the same right that lets them search a student's locker or backpack for contraband allows them to search a cell phone for text messaging. Messages could reveal drug transactions, prohibited pornography or even uncover cheating on tests.

The Colorado American Civil Liberties Union objects, saying searches of student cell phones violates their privacy.

Software is not hardware. If a hardware manufacturer licensed a tool that you could only use on one project, you might try to find another vendor...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/26/0240243&from=rss

VMware-Microsoft Battle Looming

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 26, @04:39AM from the he-who-controls-the-iron dept. Microsoft Businesses

An anonymous reader writes "On Monday VMWare will release a white paper detailing its concerns with license changes on Microsoft software that may limit the ability to move virtual-machine software around data centers to automate the management of computing work. Two choice quotes: '"Microsoft is looking for any way it can to gain the upper hand," said Diane Greene, the president of VMware.' And, '"This seems to be a far more subtle, informed and polished form of competitive aggression than we've seen from Microsoft in the past," said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. "And Microsoft has no obligation to facilitate a competitor."'"

North Korea has nuclear weapons/needs oil and missiles capable of reaching across the Pacific. Interesting exchange of expertise?

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/25/1429232&from=rss

Iran Launches Payload into Space

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 25, @10:18AM from the he-said-load dept. Space

An anonymous reader writes "BBC is reporting that Iran has launched its first space rocket carrying a payload. Britain's former ambassador to Iran, Sir Richard Dalton, told the BBC that, if confirmed, such a move could destabilise the Middle East: "It is a matter of concern. Iran's potential nuclear military programme, combined with an advanced missile capability, would destabilise the region, and of course if there were a bomb that could be placed on the end of this missile, it would in breach of Iran's obligations under the non-proliferation treaty."

From the article: Iranian TV broke the news of the reported test saying :"The first space rocket has been successfully launched into space. It quoted the head of Iran's aerospace research centre, Mohsen Bahrami, as saying that "the rocket was carrying material intended for research created by the ministries of science and defence". In 2005, Iran's Russian-made satellite was put into orbit by a Russian rocket. But shortly afterwards Iranian military officials said they were preparing a satellite launch vehicle of their own and last month, they announced they were ready to test it soon."

Good (if simple) summary of options.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/25/1458249&from=rss

A Developers Security Bugs Primer

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 25, @11:08AM from the important-stuff-here-people dept. Security

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue's current issue on Open Source Security includes a short article by Eric Allman of Sendmail on how to handle security bugs in your code. "Patch with full disclosure. Particularly popular in the open source world (where releasing a patch is tantamount to full disclosure anyway), this involves opening the kimono and exposing everything, including a detailed description of the problem and how the exploit works... Generally speaking, it is easier to find bugs in open source code, and hence the pressure to release quickly may be higher.""

We also want an ordinance requiring council members to have an IQ no more than 60 points below average...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070225/ap_on_fe_st/dog_barking_law;_ylt=Ai4GJpSta5IPZpiMh_2J56DMWM0F

N.J. town to set time limit on barking

Sun Feb 25, 6:48 AM ET

The city of Clifton is not going to the dogs. At least not if the City Council has anything to do about it. Later this month, the council is expected to introduce an ordinance setting a limit on how long dogs can bark.

Only six, but that will change...

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/25/1935215&from=rss

Reviewing the Presidential Campaign Websites

Journal written by ces (119879) and posted by kdawson on Sunday February 25, @05:17PM

from the net-chops dept. The Internet Politics

Behind the link are my first impressions of the Internet presences of the top US presidential candidates for each party. Any website design pros care to chime in?

Democrats:

Hillary Clinton John Edwards Barak Obama

Republicans:

Rudy Giuliani John McCain Mitt Romney

Why is “online” different?

http://ca.biz.yahoo.com/law/070222/77d6c035688c0019f5ef0b415721a768.html?.v=1

Fla. Bar OKs Client Testimonials on Law Firm Web Sites

Thursday February 22, 2:50 am ET Jordana Mishory, Daily Business Review

After nearly four years of debate, The Florida Bar board of governors has tentatively approved a proposed rule on law firm Web sites that would let lawyers publish client testimonials and claims about their past successes.

The proposed rule would largely free law firm Web sites from the state's restrictive rules governing lawyer advertising in such media as television, radio, direct mail and Yellow Pages. But lawyer Web sites still would have to comply with general Bar rules regarding truthfulness and lack of deception.

The proposal still must be passed by the board of governors in a second reading and approved by the Florida Supreme Court.

Under the proposed rule approved late last month, the inside pages of law firm Web sites -- but not the home page -- could include testimonials, references to past results and statements characterizing the quality of the services, as long as the statements are truthful, not misleading and come with disclaimers. The disclaimers must say that past results do not guarantee a future success.

Supreme Court rules do not allow law firms to provide such information to potential clients unless the potential clients explicitly request it. That restriction would remain in effect for lawyer advertising in other media.

Ancient history (in Internet years)

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72719-0.html?tw=rss.index

Feb. 26, 1991: Just Browsing

By Tony Long 02:00 AM Feb, 26, 2007

1991: Tim Berners-Lee, the acknowledged inventor of the World Wide Web, introduces WorldWideWeb, the first practical web browser.

The first version, which Berners-Lee completed on Christmas Day 1990 using a NeXT computer, was released first to a group of physicists, and its use spread outward from there.

WorldWideWeb, later renamed Nexus in order to avoid confusing it with the World Wide Web, was the first program to use both the file transfer protocol and hypertext transfer protocol, another Berners-Lee invention. HTTP simplified the linkup between client and server, making the transfer of text and images a more seamless process and facilitating the growth of the web.

WorldWideWeb entered the public domain in 1993.

Another copyright hassle avoidance project?

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014041.html

February 25, 2007

OpenStreetMap Provides Comprehensive Map of Baghdad

"OpenStreetMap is an free and open collaborative map of the entire world. We gather GPS tracks [From what devices? Bob] and draw maps over them, in an editable wiki style database. And recently we added aerial imagery to our toolbox, thanks to Yahoo!, so dense urban areas and remote locations can be mapped just by tracing streets in the web browser. This means that OpenStreetMap has the most comprehensive map of Baghdad among any of the web mapping services."

Related?

http://digg.com/design/Create_Wall_Posters_with_your_own_images_in_a_Snap

Create Wall Posters with your own images -in a Snap!

Block Posters Is a good tool that allows you to upload any image, choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be and then print it at your own home.

http://www.blockposters.com/