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U.S. Olympic Committee Trying to Take Chicago2016.com Away from Grad Student

2008-09-19 19:03:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...Chicago2016.com. Now the U.S. Olympic committee and the Chicago group organizing an Olympic bid for that year want it from him. They have filed through arbitration processes to have the domain turned over. The committee is currently using chicago2016.org as its domain, but that's not good enough. "We certainly see Chicago2016.com as the...
 
Tags: chicago tribune article, chicago, committee, olympic committee, domain, logical default domain, chicago2016, bid, olympic bid
 
 
 
 
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Communicating Risk & Macs Can Do Anything

2008-03-17 13:29:33 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...Chicago Tribune beat writer who hates quantitative analysis, and Michael Schur, a writer and producer for the US version of The Office who goes by Ken Tremendous on the weblog. Turns out Michael is big on the Moneyball Quants and the new class of metrics they use Chicago Tribune: The cold, hard facts might back up Baseball Prospectus opinion...
 
Tags: information security agency, information security, security, security amrit covers, chicago tribune, junk charts weblog, weblog, long-time chicago tribune, risk
 
 
 
 
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Let's Play Two

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2008-08-12 12:47:51 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...Chicago to see the World Champion Boston Red Sox (saying that never gets old) play the White Sox. Of course, while you are in Chicago you have to see Wrigley Field, and we really lucked out. This weekend was Red Sox versus the White Sox (the battle of the Soxes they used to call it on Channel 38) on the southside and northside featured Cubs...
 
Tags: world series winners, world series, red sox versus, red sox, red sox series, series, white sox, white sox share, play
 
 
 
 
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UPDATES GALORE! or, THE PRONOUN WE MEANS YOU AND ME!

2008-08-13 15:24:17 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...Chicago a few weeks ago was great, but also slightly disturbing for me. I got pronoun-confusion syndrome. Im used to using the we pronoun to refer to RMI, or Jack and myself as we vet the models. So without even thinking I would said we have been looking at how loss occurs, and may want to change the model some and The Open Group Members...
 
Tags: risk, risk assessment methodologies, security forum, forum, magic-fairy risk, risk standards, fair, risk-world, fair similarly helps
 
 
 
 
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Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters

2008-01-18 07:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Chicago Fire of 1871 was that fire alarms were kept locked to prevent false alarms: Q: Prior to 1870, street corner fire alarm pull boxes were kept locked. Why were they kept locked and how did a person gain access to 'pull the box A: They were kept locked due to false alarms. Nearby shopkeepers or beat cops carried the keys Here's Robert...
 
Tags: boxes, false fire alarms, fire, fire alarms, false alarms, prevent false alarms, alarm boxes, alarm, chicago fire
 
 
 
 
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Starbucks Leadership Shake Up Signals In-Store Direction

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2008-04-24 15:01:48 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area got service, but Chicago and Los Angeles are still listed as "coming soon," and other metropolitan areas are now "by the end of 2008," which would tie in neatly with Starbucks' other plans With caching servers, content is pushed to the edge. Retrieving a 2 GB movie from iTunes thus becomes a matter of a...
 
Tags: starbucks, entertainment, starbucks entertainment senior, att, att deal, tie, starbucks att markets, starbucks tie-in, starbucks idea
 
 
 
 
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A Wi-Fi virus outbreak? Researchers say it's possible

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
If criminals were to target unsecured wireless routers, they could create an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas like Chicago or New York City, according to researchers at Indiana University
 
Tags: indiana university, york city, researchers, wireless routers, wi-fi networks, thousands, attack, chicago, criminals
 
 
 
 
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Data center robbery leads to new thinking on security

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x847151c in Network World on Security
 
Last October, a data center in Chicago owned by Web hosting and collocation vendor C I Host was robbed by two masked men, who pistol-whipped a lone IT staffer working the graveyard shift and then held him hostage for two hours while stealing computer equipment
 
Tags: data center, computer equipment, graveyard shift, chicago owned, collocation vendor, hours, lone, hostage, held
 
 
 
 
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Sports stars to practice self-protection?

2007-12-17 18:59:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Chicago police officer who worked for three years as a bodyguard to NBA star Denis Rodman said; "if you feel like you need to carry a gun....you need to hire security". A gun is not the ultimate solution to every security threat and guns in the hands of non-experts pose a serious risk factor and open the door to huge liability problems. It is...
 
Tags: security, security threat, security professional, professional security firm, sports stars, hire security, nfl, nfl league spokesman, los angeles angels