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Submission + - Stalking the Bad CIO: A Spoof on Wild Kingdom (cio.com)

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onehitwonder
onehitwonder writes: "Bad CIOs are a blight on the IT profession, the organizations that employ them and the IT staff who toil under them (usually cleaning up their messes). Yet bad CIOs manage to migrate largely undetected—like the mythic Big Foot-—from company to company. In the process, these bad CIOs lay waste to businesses and information systems, destroy staff morale, pillage budgets and imperil shareholder value. To help rid the world of this scourge, CIO.com has compiled a list of behaviors common among bad CIOs that recruiters, hiring managers and IT staff can use to identify them during the recruiting process."
Perl

Submission + - You Used Perl to Write WHAT?!

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: "Developers spend a lot of time telling managers, "Let me use the tool that's appropriate for the job." (You can insert the "...everything looks like a nail" meme here, if you wish.) But rarely do we enumerate when a language is the right one for a particular job, or a very very wrong choice.

After all, every programming language has its strengths—and its weaknesses. James Turner, writing for CIO.com, identifies five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that... well, really, shouldn't you choose something else?

This is the first article in a series which examines what each language is good at, and for which tasks it's just plain dumb. Another article is coming RSN about JavaScript, and yet another for PHP... with more promised, should these first articles do well."
Christmas Cheer

Submission + - Which e-commerce system will fail THIS season?

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: "Jingle jingle. 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. Yet, "in the high-stakes season of holiday shopping, so much can—and has—gone wrong for retailers, airlines and others."

Online shopping is expected to top $33 billion this year, up 21 percent from $27 billion in 2006, according to a study from Forrester Research and Shop.org, a professional group for online retailers. Eleven percent of the 2,521 U.S. consumers surveyed said they would do at least 75 percent of their holiday shopping online.


CIO.com has a big package of articles examining "Black Friday" and its implications (complete with a red bow on top) full of seasonal IT joy, all rolled up in E-Commerce and Supply Chain Systems Gird for Black Friday. It includes several articles, including:

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?"
Christmas Cheer

Submission + - Paranormal Investigators' Technology Use

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes: "Sure, everyone uses technology on the job. But you may not have contemplated the tools used by paranormal investigators (at least, not until you began thinking about Halloween) who look for the truth in ghosts and other things that go Bump in the Night. In Paranormal Investigations and Technology: Where Ghosts and Gadgets Meet, CIO's Al Sacco writes about the most unusual of tool chests, with everything from thermometers to blimp cams."

Feed Techdirt: India Facing Call Center Crisis: Blame Bangalore Bar Closing Times (techdirt.com)

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Stephanie Overby writes "Could your company's sinking customer satisfaction numbers have something to do with the early closing time for bars in Bangalore? If your call center is based in India, they just might. Indian corporate recruiters are facing a harder sell with students when it comes to the help-desk jobs that used to symbolize India's rising fortunes. Bad hours, worse pay, and verbal abuse. Who needs it? It's also probably no coincidence that since Bangalore pushed up the closing times for its bars and "entertainment" establishments to 11:30 p.m. a few years ago, the appeal of shift work has dwindled. What 22-year old wants to graveyard shift when it means no social life, particularly when there are new, better alternatives? The net result is not pretty for Indian call center operators... or the U.S. companies that source their work there. "
User Journal

Journal Journal: Whoa!!!

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Since when have tropical depressions, storms, hurricanes been forming this far north?? Now that's a bit much. Don't you think? Well, here's one I don't have worry about for a change. Freaky. A word to you Icelanders. If it looks like it gains much strength and is heading your way, which it is, make sure you stock up on your beer at least 36 hours before it hits...in case they close down the liquo
Patents

eBay May Lose 'Buy it Now' Button in Patent Case 177

Posted by CowboyNeal from the ain't-it-obvious-yet dept.
Spamicles writes "A judge has delayed his ruling on the eBay patent infringement case. eBay has been involved in a legal dispute over the use of its popular "Buy it Now" button, which allows consumers to skip the bidding and purchase items on eBay directly. The patent suit was filed six years ago by MercExchange L.L.C. In May of 2003, a jury ruled in MercExchange's favor finding that eBay did in fact infringe on the patent, but in 2005 the US Supreme Court ruled that MercExchange was not automatically entitled to a court order blocking the offending service, essentially handing a victory down to patent reform advocates. However, the ruling by the Supreme Court does not affect the final judgment of the court."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Tech Lessons from the Mob and Red Light District (cio.com)

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Chris Lindquist
Chris Lindquist writes: "Organized crime, porn peddlers, gambling sites — they all use technology to make a killing. CIO.com has posted several stories that spell out how the seedy side uses IT for profit. From the online techniques of penny stock scammers to innovation lessons from a pair of "accidental pornographers," to what you can do to fend off cybercriminals, find out what they do right when they're doing wrong."
Privacy

Submission + - Forensics Meets Its Match: New Tools Thwart Police (cio.com)

Submitted by rabblerouzer
rabblerouzer writes: Antiforensic tools have slid down the technical food chain, from Unix to Windows, from something only elite users could master to something nontechnical users can operate. "Five years ago, you could count on one hand the number of people who could do a lot of these things," says one investigator. "Now it's hobby level." Take, for example, TimeStomp. Forensic investigators poring over compromised systems where Timestomp was used often find files that were created 10 years from now, accessed two years ago and never modified.

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