Because IT management doesn't seem to learn from the mistakes of others-- Hackers on the other hand...
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/17/218240&from=rss
Which E-Commerce System Will Fail This Season?
Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 17, @05:21PM from the big-of-a-dire-prediction dept. Christmas Cheer The Almighty Buck Businesses The Internet IT
Esther Schindler writes "Every year, there's some retailer whose e-commerce or supply chain fails. And it's a big deal, since the holiday shopping season can make or break their year. The IT challenge encompasses everything from server scalability to supply chain management to search engine optimization to database cajoling to business integration to... well, come to think of it, just about everything. To explore this, CIO.com has a big package of articles examining "Black Friday" and its implications, entitled E-Commerce and Supply Chain Systems Gird for Black Friday. Topics covered include online shopping and holiday IT failures. Despite all this—and at least ten years of industry experience in e-commerce sales—we all just know that someone will make yet another big mistake. I wonder who it'll be this year?"
“We don't need no stinking warrant!” (Must be a liberal thing...)
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071117165347118
Police to search for guns in homes
Saturday, November 17 2007 @ 04:53 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: State/Local Govt.
Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children's bedrooms.
[...]
The officers will travel in groups of three, dress in plainclothes to avoid attracting negative attention, and ask the teenager's parent or legal guardian for permission to search. If the parents say no, police said, the officers will leave.
If officers find a gun, police said, they will not charge the teenager with unlawful gun possession, unless the firearm is linked to a shooting or homicide.
Source - Boston.com
(Props, LewRockwell.com)
Colleges will ask for any data they know high schools collect and never delete. If some schools supply the information and others don't can colleges make decisions based on what they know?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071117163246585
Schools balk at disclosing offenses
Saturday, November 17 2007 @ 04:32 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Minors & Students
High schools across the country are resisting demands from hundreds of colleges to disclose students' criminal and disciplinary records on applications, worried that minor offenses could stigmatize applicants as troublemakers and keep them from being accepted.
Source - Boston Globe
Are these people overreacting?
Employees gone wild (online) II: Special Teacher Edition
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: November 16, 2007 - 02:05PM CT
... "the fact that a student can attempt to contact an OEA member who has a profile on these sites lends itself to the possible interpretation of an improper relationship."
The best thing we can say about Colorado is, “We're not Bosnia” Perhaps we teach the legislature how to Google?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/016557.html
November 17, 2007
Institute of Museum and Library Services Publishes FY 06 State Library Report
"The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) issued its first library statistics report on state library agencies, on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year (FY) 2006. The State Library Agency Report for FY 2006 [released November 2007] includes a wide array of information on topics such as libraries’ Internet access, services, collections, staff, and revenue, and is used by state and federal policymakers, researchers, and others."
"This report marks the first release of library statistics data from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It contains data on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year (FY) 2006. The data were collected through the State Library Agencies (StLA) Survey, the product of a cooperative effort between the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and the U.S. Census Bureau. This cooperative effort makes possible the 100 percent response rate achieved for this survey. The frame or source of the list of respondents for this survey is based on the list that COSLA maintains of state library agencies. The FY 2006 survey is the 13th in the StLA series. The data upon which this report is based are final."
Download, view, and print the report (159 pages, PDF)
If they truly believe it is impossible to make a profit, they should be willing to sell their existing networks for $1. Anyone want in? (My take was they were doing this to block free access.)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/17/1220228&from=rss
EarthLink Says No Future for Municipal Wi-Fi
Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 17, @09:38AM from the well-not-with-that-attitude dept. Wireless Networking The Internet
Glenn Fleishman writes "EarthLink dropped its final bombshell on city-wide Wi-Fi, saying that it wouldn't put more money in and was talking to their current deployed cities about the future. The company had won bids in dozens of cities, and then backed out of the majority of them before building or finalizing contracts a few months ago. The remaining towns they were building out, like New Orleans, Anaheim, and Philadelphia, will ostensibly be turned off unless local officials come up with scratch or a plan of their own. EarthLink pioneered the model of free-for-fee networks, where there would be no cost or upfront commitment from cities, and EarthLink would charge for network access. Apparently, you can't make money that way."
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