3rd March 2007 Archive

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Homeland Security plays real reasonable on Real ID

Chertoff: technology will make privacy better

The Department of Homeland Security fronted up as a reasonable gent yesterday when it granted state civil servants extra time to implement the Real ID Act. In what amounted to a standard "we're listening" tip of the hat to civil liberties campaigners, the DHS issued guidelines for implementing the Real ID Act, which play down …

Government 3 Mar 2007, 00:59
Supreme Court refuses to review 200-year sentence for child porn

Sign of the times

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a man who was sentenced to 200 years in prison for the possession of child pornography. It was one of several recent actions indicating that America's courts are getting tough on kiddie-porn suspects in an age where the trafficking of such images are easier than ever. Lawyers …

Law 3 Mar 2007, 01:03
HP and Oracle hit IBM with four penny TPC-C stomp

2x the cores for a few more transactions

HP and Oracle have fought back to unseat IBM as the TPC-C benchmark title holder. An Itanium-based Superdome system from HP running Oracle 10g has pushed aside IBM's previous DB2-running, Power5-based benchmark champ. The HP system notched a TPC-C score of 4,092,799, squeaking past IBM's score of 4,033,378. And HP achieved the …

Servers 3 Mar 2007, 01:11
HP closes curtain on sales chief Booth

Exclusive Americas overhaul underway

David Booth, one of HP's top sales executives, has left the company, The Register has learned. Booth, head of enterprise (TSG) sales for the Americas, and HP parted ways today – part of a management shakeup instigated by none other than CEO Mark Hurd, according to our sources. HP's top dog would like to see better performance …

Financial News 3 Mar 2007, 01:29
Blog: Capturing and testing Business Policy.

Perhaps the biggest issue with legacy is separating out the business policies it embodies

I've just had an interesting email from Bill Nicholls in Washington State prompted by my piece on legacy systems here. He wants me to put more emphasis on the “testing” phase, although he doesn’t like calling it “testing” because (I think) “testing” no longer implies (if it ever did) any particular attention to test design, …

Developer 3 Mar 2007, 22:48
Of ICANN and the Registerfly meltdown

Comment What needs to be done

The scorn heaped upon ICANN recently for its laissez faire attitude toward customer allegations of fraud by its accredited registrar Registerfly - a scandal in which ICANN spent the better part of a year repeatedly referring customers back to Registerfly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of misconduct - has forced ICANN …

Small Biz 3 Mar 2007, 23:00