Which Party Gets the Blame? They Agree: It's the Other One. The blackout promised to heat up a political issue, energy policy, that until now had seemed remote to many Americans. By David M. Halbfinger and Katharine Q. Seelye. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
ISPs On Frontline of Power Outage
ISPs On Frontline of Power Outage. ISPs Among First to Detect, React to Outage: “Throughout the United States, ISPs and network operators were among the first to detect an infrastructure problem thanks to sophisticated monitoring systems. In addition to a New York drop, carriers saw traffic elsewhere surge as users logged onto news sites. [beSpacific]
GAO Report Documents IT Vulnerabilities of US Attorneys' Network
GAO Report Documents IT Vulnerabilities of US Attorneys' Network. A GAO report released August 12 determined that the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys has serious security issues associated with the administration of IT systems, with specific concerns detailing the operation of a virtual private network (VPN) linking the 93 U.S. Attorney offices located throughout the… Continue reading GAO Report Documents IT Vulnerabilities of US Attorneys' Network
New World Factbook Availabile Online
New World Factbook Availabile Online. From the CIA press release, the announcement about the availability of The World Factbook 2003: “This reference work provides a snapshot, as of 1 January 2003, of wide-ranging, hard-to-locate information about the background, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The… Continue reading New World Factbook Availabile Online
Brian Desmond fits the bill
OK, how many 16-year-olds do you know who are server experts and who are helping run a big-city school system's IT department? Brian Desmond fits the bill. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
Loren
Loren, yeah, the new OrderPad app for Tablet PCs sure looks like it's exactly what many vertical markets need. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
PleasingTheCustomer
PleasingTheCustomer. All agile methods stress the importance of direct interaction between the developers of a system and customers who are its eventual beneficiaries. The agile manifesto said “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project”, which is there to stress the high frequency of interaction. Extreme Programming stresses this through its practice… Continue reading PleasingTheCustomer
Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House
Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House. by Greg Palast I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters — the Niagara Mohawk Power Company — some years back. You see, before I was a journalist,… [Third Party WatchBlog]
The Privacy Law in Canada
The Privacy Law in Canada, Canada –The Globe and Mail. A customer calls your company and a call-centre representative uses caller ID to pop up her electronic file and greet her by name. Bingo! The customer summons you to a closed-door review with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. She charges you with violating her privacy. She didn't… Continue reading The Privacy Law in Canada
The Power Outage of 2003
The Power Outage of 2003. The graph of the day, courtesy of Berkeley By the way, George W. Bush, President of the United States, just applauded the way that people are handling “this rolling blackout.” Is he really unaware of the difference between blackouts and rolling blackouts, such as the fact that rolling blackouts are… Continue reading The Power Outage of 2003