Comment: Google for Business? (Score 4, Informative) 204
http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
At $5/user/month, it's decently priced.
Comment: Response from Gary Goodyear, P.C., M.P. (Score 4, Informative) 50
Dear Anonymous Coward,
Thank you for your recent correspondence regarding the Lawful Access tools in our proposed legislation. I am always happy to respond to the questions and concerns of my constituents.
Our Government is strongly committed to ensuring that Canadians’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are respected.
The new lawful access tools proposed in our legislation will not derogate from existing safeguards and privacy protections. The need to respect a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy, as protected under the Charter, always guides law reform. Such authority will continue to be exercised bearing in mind privacy rights under other legislation, such as the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
Police will still be required to obtain judicial authorizations in order to obtain information under our legislation and law enforcement agencies will not be able to intercept private communications or obtain transmission data without being authorized to do so by law. Let me be very clear: the police will not be able to read emails or view web activity unless they obtain a warrant issued by a judge.
While technology has advanced significantly over the past four decades, the legal frameworks and investigative tools available to the police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have not kept pace with this evolution. This proposed legislation would provide law enforcement and CSIS with the modern investigative tools they need to help fight crime and thwart national security threats.
The investigative tools created in this legislation preserve existing safeguards, such as requirements for warrants, court authorizations or other lawful authority to target specified communications. They are time-limited, and nothing put forward in the proposed legislation would reduce the existing safeguards.
Thank you again for taking the time to write regarding this issue. If you have any further questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact my office.
Yours sincerely,
Hon. Gary Goodyear, P.C., M.P.
Cambridge-North Dumfries
Comment: Wizard of Oz (Score 1) 429
When my (then) 4 year old daughter fell in love with all things Wizard of Oz last year, I decided to rename the devices on my network in honour of her interest. So far, I've got the main characters:
- lion: media server
- tinman - dev server
- scarecrow: my laptop
- dorothy: my daughter's laptop
- toto: the firewall
I'm looking forward to adding more in the months to come (glinda, munchkin, winkie, et al).
The names don't necessarily have to do with rhyme or reason (except perhaps dorothy and scarecrow, hers and my favorite WoO characters, respectively), but the convention is fun. Besides, my old naming scheme (elements from the Ultima game series) was getting stale.
Comment: Dated hardware? (Score 2) 182
Having used (and seen the demise of) PowerVR hardware in the desktop (remember Kyro/Kyro II?) I'm glad to see them in the news regarding their technology being affluent in the mobile market. But the SGX540 is dated to 2007 (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5). Did Intel get an amazing deal on GPU chips at the discount/liquidation bin, or is this a reliable strategy?
Comment: Ultima (Score 3, Insightful) 142
Ultima died years ago. If brought back with the panache found at its pinnacle (IV-VII), it would far surpass any current-day RPG.
Agree with the President or Leave->
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Sadye writes ""Presidential Advance Manual" obtained by the ACLU. White House policy is to keep people who are critical of the president away from him and from the news media. A lawsuit was filed against a White House staffer who arrested two people wearing anti-Bush shirts to a 4th of July Presidential appearance. Although other attendees were allowed to wear pro-Bush paraphernalia, the couple was charged with trespassing despite having tickets to the event.
http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/freespeech/presidential_a dvance_manual.pdf"
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Google Makes Case to Join Microsoft Antitrust Case 177
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from the friend-of-the-court-indeed dept.
from the friend-of-the-court-indeed dept.
Rob writes "Computer Business Review magazine is reporting that Google has filed papers with the US
district judge overseeing Microsoft's compliance with its 2002 antitrust settlement,
outlining why it believes it has a special interest in helping
to ensure Microsoft remains in compliance. The judge has declined Google's assistance. From the article: 'Google had complained that the search engine built into Vista constituted "middleware" under the terms of the antitrust settlement and that Microsoft was therefore extending its desktop monopoly into a new market. While Microsoft insisted Google's complaint is "without merit" it did agree in late June to make a number of changes to its Vista search engine with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to give rival desktop search software, including Google Desktop, a more level playing field.'"
Can IT Turn Around Teacher Turnover?->
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AzTechGuy writes "Teacher turnover (also known as teachers quitting their jobs) is becoming a critical concern for school and district administrators. Not only can it have a negative impact on student learning, especially in troubled districts, but it's emerging as a fairly major financial drain on districts in all regions, according to a recent study released by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF). So is there anything school and district technology leaders can do about it?"
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Princeton Comp. Sci. Homework is U.S. State Secret
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KSim writes "According to this blog post ( http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/blogs/prox/2007/0 5/treasonous_use_of_comp_sci_hom.html ), an intro level computer science assignment at Princeton is legally prohibited by U.S. law from being shared with certain other nations:
The assignment has students write a "Public Key Cryptosystem" described here:Legal notice. It is a violation of US law to export your solution for this assignment to foreign governments or embargoed destinations (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Serbia, Sudan, Syria, and Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan as of January 2000). It is also illegal to import your solution into several countries, including France, Iran, Iraq, and Russia.
""The RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem is widely used for secure communication in browsers, bank ATM machines, credit card machines, mobile phones, smart cards, and the Windows operating system. It works by manipulating integers. To thwart eavesdroppers, the RSA cryptosystem must manipulate huge integers (hundreds of digits). The built-in C type int is only capable of dealing with 16 or 32 bit integers, providing little or no security. You will design, implement, and analyze an extended precision arithmetic data type that is capable of manipulating much larger integers. You will use this data type to write a client program that encrypts and decrypts messages using RSA."
Vista sucks batteries.
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LWATCDR writes "It looks like more issues with Vista Vista drains notebook batteries. Using the Aero interface really eats into your notebooks battery life. Of course one of the new "features" of Vista is supposed to be better power management. Of course this provides a great opportunity for a showdown. How long until someone loads Vista on a MacBook and compares run time? It would provide a flat playing field now that Apple makes Intel powered notebooks.
For our next test how about Vista and Ubuntu on a Dell? What review site will step up to this challenge?"