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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on $5 million bail. News reports have depicted a rogue admin taking Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Developers explain why they're avoiding Vista Windows developers are confirming the results of a survey released yesterday that found fewer than 1 in 12 programmers currently writing applications targeting Windows Vista."None of our customers are saying, 'G Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax? Aren't fax signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them. Yet peop Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax? Aren't fax signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them. Yet peop Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Why Obama may back an H-1B increase even in a recession Does Obama support the H-1B visa program? Obama supports the temporary visa program but also wants it reformed. It needs reform. A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service report released in October said as many as one-in-five visa applications are either fraudulent o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Why techies love games -- and why it's good they do Everyone knows that techies love "Dungeons & Dragons," where they can prowl the bowels of a castle and cast spells on clueless managers, er, mages. After all, it's just a game.Or is it? Many tech staffers are al Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Steven Levy: Why the iPhone Is Almost Perfect My first full day with the iPhone 3G turned out to be too full. At least as far as the iPhone was concerned. It was just two in the afternoon when the screen displayed the most unwelcome dialog box in mobile computing: low battery: 20% of battery remaining. In my experience, that message's real mean Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Steven Levy: Why the iPhone Is Almost Perfect My first full day with the iPhone 3G turned out to be too full. At least as far as the iPhone was concerned. It was just two in the afternoon when the screen displayed the most unwelcome dialog box in mobile computing: low battery: 20% of battery remaining. In my experience, that message's real mean Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Psystar office exists, but not yet open to the public Psystar, the controversial seller of Mac clones  that has drawn a lot of press scrutiny over the past week, seems to be in the process of getting its new office up and running.Psystar is apparently operating o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Clive Thompson: Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World Don't trust anyone over 30. That's the prevailing wisdom in Silicon Valley, a land once again bestrode by millionaire CEOs who just learned to shave. Many people believe that the breakthrough ideas come only from the young. And why not? Media stories constantly recite the ages of a few famo Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Wireless as primary net? Not till management matures Wireless LAN technologies promise many positives, including flexible network availability and enhanced client mobility. But never do wireless proponents claim the unwired environment will be easy to manage."A ne Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Running Out of Fuel, but Not Out of Ideas - New York Times The Money TimesRunning Out of Fuel, but Not Out of IdeasNew York Times - 12 hours agoBy BEN STEIN AS I watch the drama about gasoline and oil prices play out on the streets and in the news media, some images and memories come to mind.US Must Look Within Its Own Bord Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Five reasons why skipping Windows Vista could backfire Is Windows Vista really skippable? As organizations weigh what to do with Windows XP OS upgrades, the thought of leapfrogging the much-maligned Vista often comes to mind. But be warned, says a recent report from research firm Gartner: Bypassing Vista and migrating dir Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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SSL VPNs might not be as secure as you think SSL VPNs can be compromised in a way that enables them to take over remote users' machines and potentially cause mischief inside the networks they attach to, according to research presented at the Black Hat conference. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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SSDs are hot, but not without security risks Solid-state drives are fast becoming popular replacements for hard drives, especially in laptops, but experts caution that SSDs aren't as secure as commonly thought.SSDs may offer better data security than tradi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |