Kamis, 05 April 2012

Slashdot Newsletter 2012-04-05

 
 
Information Governance: Audit and Protection on the IBM System z Platform
Information governance has risen to the fore over the last few years because organizations have realized that their ability to manage their business, remain compliant and mitigate risk will be compromised if their data is not properly protected. This paper looks at what is required to take a more proactive approach to security, audit and compliance and how IBM InfoSphere Guardium for the System z Platform addresses these requirements. 
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Content Analytics and Advanced Case Management Virtual Forum for Public Sector
Listen in as a panel of content analytics and ACM experts discuss their experiences, answer questions and take a more in-depth look at the issues they are seeing in Government today. Hear how agencies are using technology to tackle challenges, such as fraud and cyber security, as well as to innovate, such as with crime intelligence. 
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From the Department of our-bad
Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that NBC has completed its investigation into the Today show's mishandling of the police dispatcher's conversation with George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case with a finding of error, plus an...
 
From the Department of blowing-in-the-wind
NIK282000 writes "Ontario farmers rallied in downtown Toronto to protest the subsidization of wind turbines. Several of the protesters stated that they fear for the the health of their families and that they refuse to live near wind turbines....
 
From the Department of entire-slashdot-readerbase-sent-to-gitmo
LordofEntropy writes "Though unlikely to pass any First Amendment test. Arizona's Gov. Jan Brewer has a bill on her desk that would in essence make 'trolling' illegal. The law states 'It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify,...
 
From the Department of back-to-work
surewouldoutlaw writes "On the heels of the news that the Chevy Volt had a record month, selling 2,289 units in March, the Detroit-Hamtramck plant where the car is made will be resuming production of the car one week early, reducing a five-week...
 
From the Department of depends-on-what-is-means
Fluffeh writes "In the ongoing Megaupload saga, Carpathia, the company that hosted Megaupload, is in a tough pickle. The EFF wants the data to remain on the servers so that users can get legitimate data back, the MPAA doesn't want the servers...
 
From the Department of power-up
An anonymous reader writes "A mechanical engineer working out of the University of Delaware has come up with a way to produce hydrogen without any undesirable emissions such as carbon dioxide. The solar reactor is capable of using sunlight to...
 
From the Department of play-board-games-instead
MojoKid writes "The rumor mill is still churning out quite a bit of information on new consoles this week, including new data on Nintendo's upcoming Wii U. According to unnamed developers, the Wii U actually isn't as powerful as the Xbox 360 or...
 
From the Department of eye-in-the-sky
dargaud writes "I live in an alpine setting and I'd like to be able to remotely view various remote valleys to check for ice formations for winter climbing. I wonder if there are cheap drones that could do that. Requirements would be: GPS guided...
 
From the Department of let-google-do-the-looking
Eponymous Hero writes "The Geordi La Forge in all of us rejoices as Google announces Google Glasses, the augmented reality glasses that will no doubt spy on everything you look at and target you with ads at that crucial moment. The only question...
 
From the Department of stay-awhile-and-listen
It's been almost four years since Diablo 3 was announced, and its development began years earlier. Its predecessors helped define the action RPG genre, so anticipation is high among fans of the franchise. The game has undergone closed beta testing...
 
From the Department of respect-my-federal-commerce-clause
suraj.sun writes, quoting the Denver Post: "A federal court has thrown out a 2010 Colorado law, which had already been temporarily blocked in federal court last year, meant to spur online retailers like Amazon to collect state sales tax. 'I...
 
From the Department of n950-was-way-cooler
MrSeb, zachareye, and others wrote in with several reviews of the Nokia Lumia 900. Starting things off, Extreme Tech asks if the Lumia redefines the smartphone; BGR chimes in declaring the phone "terrific". Ars Technica, on the other hand, isn't...
 
From the Department of was-that-the-wrong-thing-to-do?
zzzreyes writes "I got an email from my cloud server to reset the admin password, first dismissed it as phishing, but a few emails later I found one from an admin telling me that they had given a person full access to my server and revoked it, but...
 
From the Department of so-long-farewell-aufwiedersehn-goodbye
redletterdave writes "As expected, Yahoo began laying off more than 2,000 employees on Wednesday morning — roughly 14 percent of the company's total workforce — in its effort to slim down and pivot its focus in a new direction. The...
 
From the Department of scientists-declare-universe-contains-lots-of-stuff
The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers have used two big telescopes to create an infrared survey of the Milky Way that is the largest of its kind: the resulting image has an incredible 150,000 megapixels containing over a billion stars. Something...
 
 
 
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