So the court said Matthew Neumann and Nicholas Tides were properly fired in 2008 for violating company policy of disclosing company information to the media,
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“This latest incident and the previous Chuetsu-Oki earthquake indicate that the business risk of operating nuclear power plants in Japan is higher than previously contemplated,” Moody’s
Read moreIndustrial robots state of the art
During the BP Macondo leak I was struck by the enormous level of skill needed by the robot submarine operators and wondered at the apparently
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The lesson of this story is that even (particularly?) computer security companies cannot put up with the inconvenience of standard security precautions. Greg Hoglund’s nightmare
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This is one of my big beefs with the way we think about capitalism in this country: We fundamentally support what I call incumbency capitalism.
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Spoke to a friend who manages a big technology group and is working on end of year evaluations. HR has set him up with a
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Most of the diplomatic messages released by Wikileaks have been traced to a US defence department network, known as Siprnet, used for the exchange of
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Comcast demanded a “recurring fee” from Level 3 “to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast’scustomers who request such content,” Thomas Stortz, the
Read moreCopyright in a networked world
So I’d suggest that WIPO start examining how the copyright system might enable and support the development of robust, efficient copyright information systems that everyone
Read moreBranchless banking/micro-finance and wal-mart
Two Microsoft related sites discussing something similar from very different perspectives Only about one-quarter of households living in developing countries have any form of financial
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