Scoop’s Views

When it enacted the Privacy Act in 1974, Congress sought to restrict the amount of personal information that federal agencies could collect and, significantly, required agencies to be transparent in their information practices. The Privacy Act is intended “to promote accountability, responsibility, legislative oversight, and open government with respect to the use of computer technology in the personal information systems and data banks of the Federal Government[.]” Adherence to these requirements is critical for a system like Secure Flight.

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Nike, it seems is doing something sort of unique: it’s doing target marketing to a specific segment of society.

Before you jump up and down, wanting to hit that comment button and tell me how stupid I am, telling me many companies already do that, listen to me. Okay?

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Have you ever been in one of those situations where you needed some key information about your computer quickly? Perhaps you called Microsoft’s Tech Support about an issue and needed the serial number for your operating system, or maybe you need your Windows Vista or Windows XP product key to do a quick re-install. You can find the CD, but that long product key is misplaced. If you don’t have the case with the sticker, chances are, Microsoft won’t tell you the product key, as you could be pirating the software.

Tags: Code Plex, codeplex.com, MS Windows utilities, software development, Vista Ultimate, Windows, Windows Product Key Finder, Windows utilities, Windows Vista

Five years ago, even less in many cases, a lot of businesses didn’t have Web sites, let alone email, so customers could shoot off an email or check the site to see if the store carries a certain product.

After three days of email exchanges, Oliver sent me an alpha version of cForms 5.4. Alpha versions of development — pre-beta releases. Betas are basically “stable” products that are being considered for release. I’ve been alpha- and beta-testing for almost 20 years, so I backed up my database, installed and activated cForms 5.4 alpha, and went to work.

I stumbled across a video a few minutes ago that I thought was an ad by Respironics. It’s a hilarious look at sleep, sleep deprivation in the American society, along with a variety of other sleep-related issues, including, for some, sexual dysfunction, and others.

It’s been six years since that fateful day that literally rocked America. In fact, it was a day that, for most Americans, made them realize what others in many nations deal with on a regular basis: something called living life with bunch of radical terrorists who are little more than loons.

As I’ve written in the past, I was in New York City on September 11, 2001. In fact, I was there, with my daughter, who is now almost 21. If you take it out forty seconds more, she and I would have been dead, victims in the first assault on the Twin Towers.

Today, the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, though, I decided to write about what happened to my daughter and I that day in New York City and how we were almost killed that day.

There’s an easy solution for controlling poppy farming in Afghanistan, yet it seems the U.S., with all its DEA and other alphabet soup agencies in that country. It seems the agents all want to be known for thinking and coming up with a new solution.

Microsoft’s crack development team has released beta 3 of its Windows Live Writer blog editor.

CNN is reporting that Ohio Congressman Paul Gillmor (R-5), age 68, representing the Bowling Green area of the Buckeye state, was found dead in his apartment earlier today by a staff member.