In risk management, any unanticipated or unpredictable event that may interfere with normal functions or cause logical or physical damage to data.
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- The chief value of open source
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Immelt seeks to unite healthcare with Silicon Valley mainstream
- A lot was written about GE chairman Jeff Immelt's appearance yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, but one key point can't be emphasized enough. Jeff Immelt was at the Web 2.0 Summit. He wasn't at a health care show. He was pitching tech people. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- The anti-capitalist GOOG founders . . .
- Well duhhh....[i]They don?t trust the government, they don?t trust the press and they don?t trust Wall Street.[/i]So people wonder why they're so successful? Duh! They don't trust the three groups of people who constantly think they are oh so smart, but aren't....Sounds like a great life philosophy even...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Fare City: First Shift for iPhone 1.0.1 (Mobile)
- Fare City: First Shift for iPhone is a fun and addictive game that brings a whole new twist to the popular line drawing game genre. Successfully guide an ever increasing number of taxis around the streets of Fare City, collecting and delivering fares along the way. Do it fast enough...
- Software downloads 2009-10-08
- Now the fun starts on health reform
- Tyranny wrapped up in compassionand you're a willing advocate. News flash for you. You won't get to be one of the rulers. Your life will wind up sucking just as badly as everyone else under the new system.A move to Canada is looking better and better every day. nt:-(Health Care...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- X-Driven DRS-1100 Drive Recorder
- Short of a simple rear-end collision, liability in car accidents can be difficult to prove. However, a new breed of products eliminates some of the confusion by recording video and GPS data to show what actually happened. The X-Driven DRS-1100 Drive Recorder is such a product. it constantly records driving...
- Product reviews 2009-09-29
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- So Sweet.Thats all I got, that thing is frigg'in cool!I just can't see paying that much...For so little. I would honestly rather buy a mac, and that's saying a lot, as they're horribly overpriced.I travel 75% of the year, and everything that implies: planes, rental cars, subways, metro bus/rail, the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers
- Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Intuit service shows how little patients count
- OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage
- Gmail is down again? And you are giving them a free pass because they are Google? That is crazy talk. What you should be asking is "Why am I using this service that is constantly going down?" With an in-house solution you can have total control of your Microsoft...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Seagate debuts first consumer NAS with FreeAgent DockStar
- Doesn't that seem expensive?$99 for a fancy drive adapter? Who would want to trust their data to a device that looks like it is just waiting to get knocked on the floor? The SATA connectors are not that robust, I would much rather have a solid enclosure to...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- MyCar-Monitor 4.2.0.4 (Windows)
- As today's car are very reliable, you may think that it is not necessary to take care of them too much. You are not right. Proper maintenance is the key to the long life, reliability and optimal vehicle related cost. In normal circumstances it is not an easy task, as...
- Software downloads 2009-09-11
- Apple plugs 33 Mac OS X security holes, updates Flash on Leopard
- Wasn't there just a mega patch 2 weeks ago?Wow, OS X sure needs a lot of patches. But I'm pretty sure these are the last of the vulnerabilities, there probably won't be any patches after this one, right?One bright spotTo be sure this is a mega patch. How do they...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Max Baucus opens his kimono
- PelosiObamaReidCare PORC is a Fascist Pig In a constitutional republic like ours, the government's powers are limited by a constitution that protects our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. PelosiObamaReidCare PORC would violate the unalienable rights of patients, doctors, and business owners by forcing 1)...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- (Palm Pixi photos)
- Palm PixiI currently have the Pre. I sometimes hit the wrong key by accident because the keys are so close together. The Pre feels like it's going to someday snap when pulling the keyboard part out. I would actually consider getting the Pixi if it had video...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Review: Snow Leopard ramps up performance and business-readiness of Mac OS X
- Graphic Artists on MacDo Graphic Artists really have a compelling reason to use Macs anymore? Adobe CS3 isn't supported on Snow Leopard. If you want to use 64bit versions of Adobe CS4, you have to use Windows. And even on the same hardware, programs like After Effects and Photoshop...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Now I Know Why I Can't Stand the Washington Redskins
- U.S. businesses seem to abuse their customers moreThis may seem unrelated, but reading this post made several parallels pop up in my mind. The RedSkins are suing fans who were obviously previously supporting them financially but ran into hardships. The RIAA sues grandmothers who spent a LIFETIME buying recordings for...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Snow Leopard install fails? Find a flashlight!
- How would I react if this affected Windows?Come on all you Mac guys who can be found posting endless jabs on every Windows related story. Ask yourself how you would post if you needed a flashlight to install Windows and post that here!RE: Snow Leopard install fails? Find a flashlight!I...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- NTSB News Reader 1.6.2 (Mobile)
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- Software downloads 2009-09-02
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