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2007 October 04

NASA Workers Indicted for Child Porn At Work

With a possible 10 year sentence if convicted, two NASA workers at the Ames Research Center have been charged with having child pornography on their computers at work.
Apparently the charges stem from observations when both men were working there in the mid-year 2005 time frame. No amount was given, and no data is available concerning [...]

IBM Symphony Downloads Hit 100K in Week 1

Showing that many people who use both OpenOffice and Microsoft’s offerings are looking for something new, the folks at IBM stated that in the very first week, the downloads of Lotus Symphony went over 100,000.
While based on OpenOffice, the Symphony Suite has the IBM touch and looks and feels different than OO. The look and [...]

Microsoft Offers Business Pirates Amnesty

Microsoft has not only renewed the death certificate on Windows XP, and promised a Service Pack 3, it is going all “Bush 41″ on us (kinder and gentler), allowing pirates of XP to replace their unlicensed copies with legitimate ones, without penalty, other than payment, a stern lecture, and a forced promise to be ” [...]

California Loses Domain Name on Tuesday

For most of business hours in the Pacific Time zone, Tuesday saw the ca.gov domain shut down by the federal government. The problem stemmed from a DNS hack, which was sending traffic bound for several offices in the state government to pornographic sites, instead.
Sometime in September, the Marin County Transportation Authority discovered that the servers handling [...]

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