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How IT could have prevented the financial meltdown In the coming weeks, the feds and the surviving financial services institutions will have the daunting task of unraveling all the securitized loans and other instruments that are hiding the toxic investments. But does the technology exist to do that? And if so, could Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft explains how it missed critical IE bug Microsoft Corp.'s developers missed a critical bug in Internet Explorer because they weren't properly trained and didn't have the right testing tools, a noted proponent of the company's secure code development process acknowledged last week. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open source: How e-voting should be done "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph StalinIn the past eight years, elections in th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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How to spot -- and stop -- a corporate spy Corporations are woefully unprepared to counter attempts at corporate espionage, say experts who perform vulnerability assessments designed to uncover security weaknesses. U.S. corporations lose as much as $300 billion a year to hacking, cracking, physical security br Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Spam your printer from the Web? Researcher shows how Aaron Weaver has made a discovery the world could probably do without: He's found a way to spam your printer from the Web.By using a little-known capability found in most Web browsers, Weaver can make a Web page Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life George Church is dyslexic, narcoleptic, and a vegan. He is married with one daughter, weighs about 210 pounds, and has worn a pioneer-style bushy beard for decades. He has elevated levels of creatine kinase in his blood, the consequence of a heart attack. He enjoys waterskiing, photography, r Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life George Church is dyslexic, narcoleptic, and a vegan. He is married with one daughter, weighs about 210 pounds, and has worn a pioneer-style bushy beard for decades. He has elevated levels of creatine kinase in his blood, the consequence of a heart attack. He enjoys waterskiing, photography, r Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Forrester: How to squeeze your vendors IT vendors may be growing increasingly desperate amid the global economic downturn, but customers must employ a range of tactics -- not just bullying -- to extract cost savings from them, a group of Forrester Research analysts said during a client teleconference Wedne Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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How Lehman's fall created a global panic The world changed forever on Sept. 15, 2008, the Monday Meltdown, a day that will live in the annals of finance alongside Black Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929. We are still odds-on to avoid a depression like the one that followed Oct. 29, but the Monday Meltdown made one more likely, and has claimed trillio Home > Rss Directory > Business > CNN |
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Security Matters: How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity Let me start off by saying that I'm making this whole thing up. Imagine you're in charge of infiltrating sleeper agents into the United States. The year is 1983, and the proliferation of identity databases is making it increasingly difficult to create fake credentials. Ten years ago Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Security Matters: How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity Let me start off by saying that I'm making this whole thing up. Imagine you're in charge of infiltrating sleeper agents into the United States. The year is 1983, and the proliferation of identity databases is making it increasingly difficult to create fake credentials. Ten years ago Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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How the wireless spectrum auction could change your life Depending on who's talking, the wireless spectrum auction that starts on Jan. 24 will significantly change the mobile and wireless landscape in the United States, or it won't have much impact at all.Some believe Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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2009 IT career survival guide: How to change tech tracks It's not easy for IT professionals to make a wholesale switch to a different technical discipline to reap the benefits of a hot skills market -- say, moving from a job as a systems administrator to a Java developer. "It's very difficult, because those two things just Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Mogul Kills Self Over Financial Meltdown German billionaire commits suicide after businesses crumble in global meltdown. Home > Rss Directory > Business > ABC News |
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How to benchmark datacenter energy costs In the spring of 2007, UPS's Ben Swanson and Joe Parrino attended a conference on the growing problem of datacenter power consumption. One suggested remedy was to benchmark and analyze the power flowing through the datacenter. So after the conference, Swanson, the fac Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Can't decide how to vote? Publicwhip.org will tell you Machines show you how to vote - you know how this ends As New Labour prepares itself for electoral meltdown in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, here's a site that might, as Peter Snow would have put it, be "just a bit of fun".… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Mr. Freeze: How Julian Bayley Turns Ice Cubes Into Ice Castles The walls of the Minus 5 Ice Lounge are blocks of ice, inlaid with signs that read "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" and "What Happens in Vegas...", both carved from ice. There's a Mandalay Bay sign (made of ice), the face of a woman winking seductively (made of ice), a 12-foot-long bar (made o Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Mr. Freeze: How Julian Bayley Turns Ice Cubes Into Ice Castles The walls of the Minus 5 Ice Lounge are blocks of ice, inlaid with signs that read "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" and "What Happens in Vegas...", both carved from ice. There's a Mandalay Bay sign (made of ice), the face of a woman winking seductively (made of ice), a 12-foot-long bar (made o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Three companies Microsoft could buy instead of Yahoo Assuming that Saturday's public walkaway by Microsoft doesn't prove just to be a high-risk negotiation tactic against Yahoo -- after all, the companies are rumored to have been talking about some sort of merger or acquisition for almost three years -- then what we hav Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Security Matters: Memo to Next President -- How to Get Cybersecurity Right Obama has a cybersecurity plan. It's basically what you would expect: Appoint a national cybersecurity adviser, invest in math and science education, establish standards for critical infrastructure, spend money on enforcement, establish national standards for securing personal data an Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |