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We have all begun to assume that the business function of restoring a lost password is almost a right. This is a service; and as such a different level of account service should be…

That's not teaching them about business; that's teaching them how to appease corrupt and autocratic government.

Not to pry -- but did you get any offers of teaching/research posts at a university teaching social media? Did you consider taking any possible offers?

VMware has lost focus on where the expense savings monetize for virtualization. VMware captured virtualization of all the small/medium application servers; and built a company. The…

Steve, if you plan to do more public speaking, and promote your videos, please spend more effort on your public speaking skills....ya know? 'K? I was bored. Right?

Flash? Really? I thought this was a trust service; not an entertainment service.

quote from the article: ...the music industry, when it began to feel the effects of the technological change coming, doubled down on stupid.... And the video industry is providing …

Scott Adams has made a fortune for decades documenting this development. I've never seen an MBA who comprehended or laughed or groaned with Dilbert. The skills necessary to enginee…

A completely reworked security framework; among other major changes. We've had a RHEL 6 installation for a few months and are still working thru the changes. Basic Linode users mig…

Investment company buyouts of entrenched education infrastructure are all about cash. The investment firm will cut any product development budget, raise prices, cut customer servic…

Current computer security for companies is analogous to medieval castles: large crude systems with large support requirements and little concern for the security of small individua…

Richardson, TX College of Engineering Computing Services Manager http://www.utdallas.edu/hrm/work/ http://ecs.utdallas.edu Work with faculty and staff in Electrical, Mechanical, Ma…

makezombie.c is a fake. No processes called "zombie" are running on the system after I invoke this. Also, a real zombie program should randomly chew on other processes until the ot…

If the flickr image is the actual size, then no wonder it was not noticed. No matter how much I customize all my interfaces -- and with the increasing pixel count of displays -- in…

Get FIOS Business service; not the residential. The technical help is more capable; but you pay for it.

So those who do not attend college don't have access to do substantive work? I agree. Too many job postings minimum requirements include a college degree even if the actual work --…

Many of us won't disagree with the need for building skills thru standard exercises. But, when the maximum efficiency/minimum-personal-commitment bureaucrats have too much input, r…

Working with project based learning is not all joy and bubbles. 1) learning is the product of the work Just wait until you get industrial sponsorship of the project. Learning gets …

If one were alive today, I am sure a buggy whip manufacturing apprentice could provide the same type of nostalgic reminiscence: the smell of the leather, the suppleness of the whip…

Start by killing all the lawyers. Grade quality, cheating, and instructional quality have all been degraded by litigious students and parents. Caught cheating? Bad grade? Don’t lik…

Although great points were made in the article, I find this to be a failure on the part of the CEO and COO. Their individual profiles on justin.tv are both vague and lacking in foc…

Standardization per se is not the problem. Standardization creates a base pool of knowledge and skills which are necessary to formulate, innovate, collaborate, and build projects. …

Because the alternative is to become just like HP -- where technology and engineering is just an advertising slogan. And one HP is enough.

With cream cheese frosting in a cake, they are irresistible.

Single, dual, multi-blade or electric? Seriously, do you go for the clean contoured shave or multifaceted polygonal surfacing? Is a shave effectively different from peeling?