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Comment Re:What about the other half? (Score 1) 710

by evlmonkey on Thursday March 20, 2008 @02:27PM (#22809446) Attached to: Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks

I've talked to the CEO and even he has admitted to having a preference for firefox over IE for example, even though the CIO hasn't officially or formally approved it.

Our company is quite a bit smaller, but we approve of things like Firefox. We even endorse and train users on the additional features.

However, we do lock down the machines so users can't install software. As others have said, users run wild and start trusting every application they see, or they have laptops and let their children use the machines and install bittorrent clients and whatnot and before we know it there are vast amounts of problems.

Our policy is that we must test all software in a test environment before okaying it to be installed. The software must be productivity based and not contain spyware or cause issues with our other applications. Additionally, the software has to be deemed better and/or cheaper than any alternatives we are currently using. Things we have approved so far include OpenOffice, Firefox, and OpenProj.

Journal Journal: iPhone can be Hacked

Journal by sotirispaf on Sunday August 19, 2007 @02:20AM

Here's how you do it: Basically,you use the iPhone to visit a certain Web page that is created with full of nasty, invalid characters.Then you can change the page over and over until phone is crashed.After crashing the phone you can set up the side to replace the iphone's code and make the phone work for you. You can make the phone transferring files off of it to another pc or controlling it even to do physical thing like to vibrate or noises.

Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! 969

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday August 18, 2007 @06:37PM from the certainly-not-of-or-for-the-people dept.

rev_media writes to tell us that CNN has a few updates to the Real ID act currently facing legislators. The Real ID acts mandates all states to begin issuing federal IDs to all citizens by 2008. Costs could be as much at $14 billion, but only 40 million are currently allocated. Several states have passed legislation expressly forbidding participation in the program, while others seem to be all for it. The IDs will be required for access to all federal areas including flights, state parks and federal buildings. People in states refusing to comply will need to show passports even for domestic flights.

Journal Journal: Sprint Nextel to offer Hybrid phones

Journal by evlmonkey on Wednesday September 27, 2006 @02:27PM

Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Foresee annouced Thursday that Sprint will be releasing new hybrid phones later in the fourth quarter. "Sprint will deploy millions more of the hybrid devices in 2007", he said. The new hybrid devices will use Sprint's CDMA network for phone and data services, including EVDO, while offering walkie-talkie (PTT) services on Nextel's IDEN network. There has been no word yet whether Sprint will include any PDA

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