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Submission + - Project Management for IT Departments

Submitted by spectre_240sx
spectre_240sx writes: I'm looking for success stories regarding project management in IT. There's a lot of talk about project management, but it all seems to be geared towards developers. I'm looking for methods and potentially software that would help in rolling out upgrades to our environment as well as implementation of new applications and expansion of infrastructure. What's the IT world's answer to Agile, Scrum and all of these other buzzwords I keep hearing about?
Censorship

Submission + - Texas Requires Investigator License to Repair PC's (ij.org) 2

Submitted by JeremyGa
JeremyGa writes: The state of Texas now wants computer techs to obtain a private investigator license before they access data on the computers they work on, or else risk a year in jail, a fine, and civil penalties of up to $10,000 every time they fix a computer. Since 2007, anyone who accesses non-public files to gather information about the "causes of events" and the "actions of persons" is deemed by the government to have conducted an "investigation" and must therefore have a private investigator- license. Repairing a computer almost always involves looking at the data to determine the "causes of events" what went wrong with the computer. The cause of those events will frequently be tied back to the"actions of persons". Whether a careless child downloaded a virus or an unscrupulous employee visited prohibited websites that installed malware, the essence of computer repair is figuring out what happened to a computer and reporting the cause of the problem to the computer owner. The new law makes potential criminals out of thousands of PC technicians in Texas.
  Each licensed investigations company- including sole proprietorship's -must be managed by an individual who has completed either a criminal justice degree or a three-year apprenticeship under a licensed investigator. Each licensed investigator must submit his or her fingerprints to the FBI, pay a $441 licensing fee, complete a 200-question written examination, and obtain $200,000 in liability insurance.
Microsoft

Submission + - Gartner recommends deploying Win 7 now (cio.com)

Submitted by lordguha
lordguha writes: Contrary to popular practice of waiting for the first service pack prior to deploying Microsoft software, Gartner has recommended that customers start testing and deploying Windows 7 now. Part of the reason is based on expected lack of ISV support for Win XP and if customers wait until Windows 7 SP1 to start testing, they will run out of time.

Submission + - Trio scams Cisco out of $23 million (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Julie188
Julie188 writes: From the "do-you-know-who-I-really-am?" department: Federal authorities arrested a husband and wife team for allegedly stealing $23 million from Cisco in a scheme that had the network giant shipping replacement parts to fake businesses in eight states. A third man is also being charged, 33-year-old Jason Allan Conway, but he is still at large. Before her arrest, Jennifer Easevoli was bragging about her success on social networking site Classmates.com. Wonder what her classmates think now?
Privacy

Submission + - 3D Fingerprinting - Accurate, Faster, Touchless (singularityhub.com) 1

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: For all the glory it gets, the fingerprint has evolved very little in the last 60 years. They’re still two dimensional. The US department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Justice are hoping to change that. They’ve given grants to dozens of companies to perfect touchless 3D fingerprinting. Two universities (University of Kentucky and Carnegie Mellon) and their two respective start up companies (Flashscan 3D and TBS Holdings) have succeeded. Fingerprints have reached the third dimension and they are faster, more accurate, and touchless.

Comment Re:Shhh! (Score 1) 232

by hitnrunrambler (#29669687) Attached to: Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty

IMO there are 3 significant facts:

1) We cannot prove/disprove Global Warming in a satisfactory way, if we wait for proof then the time to react in either direction will have passed.

2) CO2 either DOES or DOES NOT affect the environment as a whole, ultimately it has become a political football.

3) We ARE treating the earth like a whore.

There is nothing we can do about the first 2 facts.

Submission + - RFID Tags + MEMS Sensors Track Food for Safety (smartertechnology.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Tracking food shipments and even its condition is now possible with RFID tags with embedded MEMS sensors. Whenever there is a recall on a food product, it can take precious hours or sometimes days to track down where the item was manufactured and other places it might have been distributed. Now the RFID tag and its embedded MEMS sensors can be interrogated to provide that information instantly.

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