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- I Hate Politics -- I Love DemocracyThat's the interesting thing about the Dean campaign. It's a boot camp for getting back into excellent democratic fitness and American wellness. It's not about politics -- that's the stinky little practice of lying and cheating and lobbying and bullying they do in Washington. We're sick of that, but we can't get enough of that old time brand new reclaimed democracy. |
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- Still need to do some Christmas shopping? Torn over what to get that special someone in your life? Well don't fret, low culture's Guide to Giving" href="http://www. lowculture. |
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- Cisco Systems has unveiled its next-generation routing technology -- designed to boost the capacity of telecom operators' core networks and to support emerging broadband services at the networks' periphery without requiring major framework changes. |
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- A security firm has discovered new ways for hackers to exploit two known flaws in the Windows operating system to propagate worms similar to the SQL Slammer or the MSBlast attacks that infected computers across the globe earlier this year. |
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- James A. Harding is senior vice president and chief information officer of Henry Schein, the largest provider of healthcare products and supplies to office-based practitioners in the combined North American and European markets. Harding spoke exclusively with NewsFactor's CIO Today Magazine about the challenges I.T. leaders face today. |
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- Now that Pivotal's acquisition is finally settled, there is the not-so-small matter of reassuring the company's customers. In any acquisition of a key software vendor, the customers have to wonder whether the new owner will continue to follow the previously established product-development road map. |
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- The National Weather Service, harbinger of flash floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes, will be relying on 900 IBM eServer IntelliStations workstations and 160 IBM eServer xSeries servers running Linux to improve forecasting speed by 400 percent, according to IBM. |
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- To introduce this series on CRM best practices, it makes sense to remind those who know -- and enlighten those who just think they know -- what "customer relationship management" is. To indulge in an apropos cliché, "You need to know where you are going if you have any hope of getting there." |
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- A Lindows team, headed by CEO Michael Robertson, is in Europe this week meeting with resellers to discuss, among other things, Microsoft threats against the firms. Robertson said he sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying, 'Call off the dogs -- this is nothing but harassment.'" |
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- Saturday Night Live's "Tiny Elvis" may now have the perfect guitar, thanks to Cornell University researchers who have perfected the world's smallest version of this rock and roll essential. By playing the new, streamlined "nanoguitar," physicists demonstrate how such devices could make electronic circuits smaller, cheaper and more energy-efficient. |
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- With all the Sturm und Drang surrounding Oracle's unsolicited tender for PeopleSoft and, more lately, the Shakespearean intrigue over which suitor would win Pivotal's hand, it has been easy to overlook the more routine M&As in the CRM space -- such as PRM vendor ChannelWave's merger with Aqueduct, a B2C and B2B commerce service provider. |
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- Worldwide revenues for gambling on mobile phones will reach $16 billion by 2008, with mobile casino, lottery and sports gaming making up the bulk, according to a report by Alexander Resources. 2.5G and 3G wireless technologies and phones will play a "prominent" role in the growth of mobile gambling, the firm says. |
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- Dissolution work from Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison was expected to wrap up in six months, but almost a year after its closure, there’s still a lot of work to be done, says Stephen M. Snyder, who chairs the liquidation... |
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- Amazon.com runs a fine store. It's a great store for an online store and it's a great store when compared to brick and mortar stores. With that said, Amazon has recently caused me to raise an eyebrow at their very forgiving use of the term “usually ships within 24 hours” |
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- C'est qu'on s'habitue vite à ne plus perdre son temps à écrire des conneries. Et à ne plus penser aux conneries qu'on pourrait éventuellement écrire. - Absurdus. J'ai plein d'idees de conneries a ecrire. Par exemple, je pourrais ecrire des articles sur le dicojoueb. |
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- "J'ai perdu une bataille mais pas la guerre !" - Général Rangzen au soir du premier mois. |
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- Si vous vous demandez pourquoi vos statistiques sont si eleves en ce moment, c'est parce que je suis en train d'implementer des nouveaux statistiques bien plus complets. Retour a (beaucoup mieux que) la normale d'ici une semaine ou deux. |
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- IntelligenceEconomique Ce long article paru dans Web Active Magazine, un journal en ligne anglais donne la parole à Robert Steele, ancien de la CIA (semble t'il), CEO de la société OSS, inventeur et promoteur infatigable du concept de renseignement de sources ouvertes (OSINT). Quelques extraits: RSS: "The Rich Site Summary technology has enormous promise, and it is virtually unknown outside a relatively small group of experts such as my colleagues at the other OSS (Reston, Virginia)." OSINT: |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - ZDNet Dec 10 2003 6:30PM ET... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Slashdot Dec 10 2003 5:39PM ET... |
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- The BBC is reporting the EU's predictable complaints about the primary contracts in the reconstruction of Iraq being restricted to coalition members. The BBC news item on this issue states:Companies from the countries which opposed the US-led war stand to... |
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- By William Wallis in Nairobi Farmers in Ethiopia, where the drinking of coffee originated 3,000 years ago, have begun cutting down coffee bushes and replacing them with the drug khat, according to research by Oxfam, the British aid group, which says |
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- Finally, a snowglobe I like.[via Toasty] |
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- Last night I had the most bizarre telephone related experience ever. There is a feature available on the phone that... |
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- Critically Thinking Global Democracy: February 15 and The Global Antiwar Movement - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Gang members attacked illegal immigrants from Central America on a train in southern Mexico, killing three people and wounding four in the latest in a series of violent incidents in the region, an official said Wednesday. |
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- Considerations in the Pharmacologic Management of Severe Depression An October 10 Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health article posted recently in the free area of Medscape - " Unlike the rose that would smell as sweet by any other name, "severe major depression" is a name that subsumes many qualities. For the term "severe" to be of clinical value, it should imply that there is a greater-than-usual degree of impairment and/or that a greater intensity of treatment is required to achieve recovery. The DSM-IV "severe" specifier for a major depressive episode focuses primarily on the impairment aspect, requiring the presence of both "symptoms in excess of what is required to make the diagnosis" and "marked" functional impairment. However, marked impairment may not necessarily warrant a greater intensity of treatment, as patients with greater and lesser degrees of impairment may respond equally well to the same treatment. |
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- Considerations in the Pharmacologic Management of Severe Depression An October 10 Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health article posted recently in the free area of Medscape - " Unlike the rose that would smell as sweet by any other name, "severe major depression" is a name that subsumes many qualities. For the term "severe" to be of clinical value, it should imply that there is a greater-than-usual degree of impairment and/or that a greater intensity of treatment is required to achieve recovery. The DSM-IV "severe" specifier for a major depressive episode focuses primarily on the impairment aspect, requiring the presence of both "symptoms in excess of what is required to make the diagnosis" and "marked" functional impairment. However, marked impairment may not necessarily warrant a greater intensity of treatment, as patients with greater and lesser degrees of impairment may respond equally well to the same treatment. |
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- Considerations in the Pharmacologic Management of Severe Depression An October 10 Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health article posted recently in the free area of Medscape - " Unlike the rose that would smell as sweet by any other name, "severe major depression" is a name that subsumes many qualities. For the term "severe" to be of clinical value, it should imply that there is a greater-than-usual degree of impairment and/or that a greater intensity of treatment is required to achieve recovery. The DSM-IV "severe" specifier for a major depressive episode focuses primarily on the impairment aspect, requiring the presence of both "symptoms in excess of what is required to make the diagnosis" and "marked" functional impairment. However, marked impairment may not necessarily warrant a greater intensity of treatment, as patients with greater and lesser degrees of impairment may respond equally well to the same treatment. |
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- Because you demanded it...literally. The green-striped Clone Trooper Sergeant in on its way, courtesy of Gentle Giant. Like the Clone Trooper, Captain and Commander busts, this will come with interchangeable limbs for a variety of poses. For all the details, click on the thumbnail above. |
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- The Wonderful World Of Words |
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- Company confirms another attack on its corporate Web site, where many of its documents about its Linux-related lawsuit are posted. |
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- Big Blue's new on demand lab is smack dab in Silicon Valley. |
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- ISP lays off software engineers in its California offices, reducing costs in the face of an eroding dial-up base. |
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- Tests showed the Web was a cheaper and better direct response vehicle than the telephone for a TV direct response campaign. |
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- Laurence Simon over at Amish Tech Support is taking picks for the 2004 Dead Pool. My picks are as follows: 1. Yassir Arafat 2. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi (Hamas leader) 3. |
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- All the Christmas music tinkling around these days reminds me of my days in grammar school glee club. I remember the year the club started. I was in the inaugural group, and we gave a Christmas concert. The glee club... |
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- He really doesn't. Today at WSIS, he called for websites to become more of an "international" type of medium, not a local one. "Nearly 70% of sites are in English, at times crowding out local voices and needs." Duh! Of course. |
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Hush Money (Dec 10 2003 23:52 GMT) - New at Reason: Even with the soft money ban, people are still acting like the First Amendment gives them the right to speak out on political issues. How can we put a stop to that? Julian Sanchez proposes a solution. |
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