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Under new government CIO, M$’s days are really numbered now

BillyG — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:01:12 +0000

You couldn’t help but wonder what was gonna come out of Eric Schmidt smoozing up to the D.C. folks during Pres. Obama’s final campaign days, but it’s pretty apparent now Google has a strong foothold on America’s technology going forward.

With 34 year old Vivek Kundra in place now as Pres. Obama’s CIO, isn’t life grand? – for him and us!

* UPDATE 3/17/09: White House CIO On Leave Amid Scandal At D.C. Technology Office – Acting CSO, technology consultant for D.C. technology office also are arrested on charges of theft and corruption.

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Under new government CIO, M$’s days are really numbered now

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It takes 50 gallons of water to make 1 latte

BillyG — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:07:59 +0000

I tried switching to green tea awhile back, but I was getting some strange allergic reaction – tiny bumps on my skin all over – so my dreams of Asian enlightenment were obliterated and I just reverted to my longtime favorite: white chocolate mocha.

A video from the WWF is teaching us that industry needs to do more by using less water in the process:

btw: If you pick up the same flavored syrup from Whole Foods or Starbucks, you can make flavored coffee at home for a whole lot cheaper. A little peppermint and cocoa powder, and I’m set!

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It takes 50 gallons of water to make 1 latte

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Voices in your head

BillyG — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:51:51 +0000

Just go with it…

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Voices in your head

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Why Circuit City always sucked

BillyG — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:35:59 +0000

The last time I walked in a Circuit City store was back in ’96 when I was looking for a 2nd job to pay off some bills faster. I kid you not, the manager in Columbia actually told me that, “we often bring people in with the coupons, but only have 1 or 2 in stock, just make sure you sell them something”.

He actually said that in an interview! Anyway, just off YouTube from their recent ‘sales’ no doubt:

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Why Circuit City always sucked

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I need to change the name of my blog…

BillyG — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:54:01 +0000

… cause anything I do, is nothing in comparison to all the work Tony & Paul put into this awesome video: .

Nice work guys!

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I need to change the name of my blog…

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Steve Loquist Makes Primetime

BillyG — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:02:27 +0000

Nat’s dad was raking the yard over at his mother-in-law’s the morning after a tragic house fire killed the elderly woman that lived next door. Columbia’s ABC News aired their coverage that evening.

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Steve Loquist Makes Primetime

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Diebold Voting Machines Still Fail Security

BillyG — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:53:54 +0000

When you walk into your voting booth, be very concerned if you see the voting machine pictured here. It is the AccuVote-TS model from Diebold.

Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy has published a non-partisan report disclosing security vulnerabilities researchers have detected in this voting machine.

Main findings from Princeton University’s Voting Machine Security Analysis include:

Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with little if any risk of detection. The malicious software can modify all of the records, audit logs, and counters kept by the voting machine, so that even careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss. We have constructed demonstration software that carries out this vote-stealing attack.
Anyone who has physical access to a voting machine, or to a memory card that will later be inserted into a machine, can install said malicious software using a simple method that takes as little as one minute. In practice, poll workers and others often have unsupervised access to the machines.
AccuVote-TS machines are susceptible to voting-machine viruses — computer viruses that can spread malicious software automatically and invisibly from machine to machine during normal pre- and post-election activity. We have constructed a demonstration virus that spreads in this way, installing our demonstration vote-stealing program on every machine it infects.
While some of these problems can be eliminated by improving Diebold’s software, others cannot be remedied without replacing the machines’ hardware. Changes to election procedures would also be required to ensure security.

Here is a short video illustrating Diebold’s shortcomings:

Once again, this problem has reared it’s ugly head. The fear is that it may be too late for this election season in many areas. Hopefully, yours isn’t one of them.

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Diebold Voting Machines Still Fail Security

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SEC Ref Tackles USC QB

BillyG — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:42:08 +0000

Looking at this video, I’d say the ref didn’t like Garcia’s stellar arm that day…

…and when USC lost by a touchdown, I’m sure it was just ‘icing on the cake’ for Clemson and their fans.

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SEC Ref Tackles USC QB

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