Perhaps the disclosure process is not yet perfected?

http://breachblog.com/2009/01/10/nh24.aspx?ref=rss

Better late than never, 24 breaches from the New Hampshire Attorney General

The following breaches were added (in batch) to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s web site on or about December 30th, 2008. The breaches were all reported to the New Hampshire Attorney General, in accordance with the New Hampshire Chapter 359-C:20(b), between the dates of November 3rd, 2008 and December 29th, 2008. All told, there are twenty-four (24) breach notifications added to the New Hampshire Attorney General site. Nine (9) of the breach notifications have previously been added to The Breach Blog and fifteen (15) are new.

This is a (not so) subtle way of saying: “Many CIOs don't think.” (Comments are insightful)

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F12%2F0354249&from=rss

Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester

Posted by timothy on Monday January 12, @08:08AM from the mostly-mythical-training-costs dept. Software Microsoft IT

An anonymous reader writes

"A Forrester Research report has found that companies use Microsoft Word for word processing out of habit rather than necessity and are beginning to consider other alternatives as the Web has changed the way people create and share documents. The report, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft Word Love Story," by analyst Sheri McLeish, suggests that businesses may still be using Word because it is familiar to users or because they have a legacy investment in the application, not because it is the best option."

Microsoft surely knows that some other options are creeping slowly into the view of even the most Word-centric users, though. User I dream about smoking writes

"Microsoft is testing new capabilities for Office Live Workspace, its online adjunct to Microsoft Office, that will make it a closer rival to online application suites such as Google Docs. Microsoft will start beta testing an updated version of Live Workspace later this year that allows users to create and edit new documents online."

At what point does the judge stop SCO and appoint a caretaker for the obviously insane?

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F11%2F1727230&from=rss

SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday January 11, @01:18PM from the know-when-to-fold-'em dept. The Courts Novell The Almighty Buck Unix Linux

gzipped_tar sends in this excerpt from the Salt Lake Tribune:

"The embattled SCO Group Inc. is proposing to auction off its core products and use proceeds to continue its controversial lawsuits over the alleged violations of its copyrights in Linux open-source software. The Lindon company has filed a new reorganization plan with the federal court in Delaware where it sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after an adverse ruling in the Linux litigation. If approved by a bankruptcy judge, the plan could mean SCO's server software and mobile products lines are owned by other parties while SCO itself remained largely to pursue the lawsuits under the leadership of CEO Darl McBride. 'One goal of this approach is to separate the legal defence of its intellectual property from its core product business,' McBride said in a letter to customers, partners and shareholders. Jeff Hunsaker, president and COO of The SCO Group, said the litigation had been distracting to the company's efforts to market its products. 'We believe there's value in these assets and in order for the business to move forward it's imperative we separate it from our legal claims and we allow our products business to move forward,' he said Friday."

Global Warming Seems the blogs are finding lots of article indicating that we're headed for an Ice Age. So much for the Gorecle.

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=287

Greenhouse gases shrouded Snowball Earth

12 January 2009

The Snowball Earth theory - that ice sheets covered almost the entire planet during certain periods in Earth's history - has had one of its predictions confirmed.

New evidence from ancient Arctic rocks suggests that high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - normally associated with a warm climate - coexisted with the vast ice sheets.