Miss America calls for mandatory internet safety classes | The Register
The current Miss America has asked Congress to take further steps in protecting children from internet predators.
Vista aligned with good IT practice | The Register
A recent management-level survey on IT service delivery threw up the question, “when do you think you are likely to roll out Windows Vista in your organisation?”
Institutional idiocy in IT | Reg Developer
Every now and then, I think it’s healthy to sit back and recap on industry best practice. However, I’m not going to do that here. It’s much more fun to tear into worst practice.
Digital data can bite you in the ass, researcher warns | The Register
When security consultant Dan Klein was culling decades-old snapshots for his digital scrap book, he specifically omitted photos taken during his college years, when some of his behaviors weren’t exactly role-model material for his offspring. Left unscanned, for instance, was the picture of him wearing a tee-shirt bearing a marijuana leaf or another one showing him brandishing a six-inch switchblade while sitting in front of the pelt of an endangered animal.
eBay Guides - DON’T RIDE NAKED
The sun is shining it is 80 degrees and you are going to hit the highway screaming on that big gleaming motor scooter that is sitting in your garage. Well, before you climb on that chromed out beast, take at look in the mirror. Are you dressed for a day of riding or are you dressed for a day at the beach?
The Strange Case of the Bavarian Vegetarian - AutoblogGreen
You Can’t Get There From Here. Words I hate to hear. Especially in a sentence like, “You can’t get a sporty diesel car here in the U.S.” OK, you can throw a set of lowering springs on a VW Jetta TDI, but that would be too easy. I decided to do it the hard way: take a mid-’80s BMW 3 series, yank out its gas engine and change its diet from petroleum to an alternative fuel. How? I transplanted a diesel engine with an appetite for vegetable oil. So here’s the story of a Bavarian vegetarian - a BMW that can run on plant oil. There were four lessons I learned from this project.