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If the USA government was serious about political correctness

and removing everything of a single religious basis they should pass laws that make it unlawful to have any religious based holidays - if you want it off it comes out of your annual leave or is leave without pay. So all those religious based public hol

Tags: Deadly Ernest

Discussion threads 2006-11-20

Skills Inventory Hit list

We are getting ready to create an internal skills inventory hit list that is going to be sent out to all employees so we can move people from one project to the other. What are some of the skill sets that we should be looking for with interpersonal, management...

Tags: Political Correctness, security, The Admiral

Discussion threads 2004-12-08

Additional Resources

That's cute!... "Acronyms Authority"

My point on this...What is this world comming to? An Acronyms Authority? For Pete's-Sake, (and I mean that!, Pete... if your really out there?) I mean, Come on... lets get real! "Acronyms" are/should be, and were meant to be used only within the same body of information... whether it's a...

Tags: Acronyms Authority

Discussion threads 2005-04-01

Politics - The Essential Collection 1.0 (Mobile)

This collection of classic political treatises and essays form the foundation of modern political discourse. They are essential to anyone who is interested in gaining a critical insight into the political debates of our time.

Tags: Mobile, Collection, BeamItDown Software, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-11-03

political spam on the way

Just a reminder to everyone that both parties appear to be gearing up for a two-day blitz of political spam starting today.Some will be fake, some will be sincere if misleading, but some will also carry malware.This could be to discredit a candidate (would you vote for someone who just...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, political spam, spam

Discussion threads 2004-11-01

Correctness Properties for Internet Routing

This paper motivates and presents a correctness specification for Internet routing. This specification is based on three properties - route validity, path visibility, and safety. This specification may be of use to people developing tools to check routing configurations, to people designing solutions to specific problems in the current system,...

Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Specification, Internet

White papers 2008-01-01

World's Smallest Political Quiz 2.0 (Mobile)

The World's Smallest Political Quiz is for everyone. It tries not to be biased to any single political tendency. Of the 1000+ quizzes I've given to people, only two people were extremely shocked by the results; a lot of people are amazed, and most people agree with their results. The...

Tags: Result, Mobile, Catamount Software, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-07-06

The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli 1.0 (Mobile)

The 1532 political treatise widely and enduringly influential for detailing the manipulative craft of gaining and protecting political power.

Tags: Mobile, Craft, AppEngines, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-22

The Election 2008 Political Ticker 2.2.1 (Windows)

Imagine a desktop stock ticker...now imagine that same stock ticker on steroids tracking your favorite political candidate. Not only will it stream your favorite stocks, it will also stream your favorite political Blogs, News, Images, Podcasts, and Videos directly to your desktop while alerting you with new updates. How does...

Tags: Stock Ticker, Stock, Microsoft Windows, eMarket Software

Software downloads 2007-07-11

NATO-Russia Military & Political Dictionary 998492176X (Windows)

This NATO-Russia Military and Political Dictionary provides a comprehensive guide to military and political terminology, and is ideal for all military personnel, those learning English and Russian for military purposes or anyone in related industries dealing with the military and politics. It is especially useful for newcomers to the field,...

Tags: Database Administrator, Microsoft Windows, Military

Software downloads 2007-01-02

Formal Correctness of Conflict Detection for Firewalls

This paper describes the formalization of a correctness proof for a conflict detection algorithm for firewalls in the Coq Proof Assistant. First, it gives formal definitions in Coq of a firewall access rule and of an access request to a firewall. Formally, two rules are in conflict if there exists...

Tags: Algorithm, Association For Computing Machinery, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2007-11-02

NATO-Russia Military & Political Dictionary 1.0 (Windows)

This NATO-Russia Military and Political Dictionary provides a comprehensive guide to military and political terminology, and is ideal for all military personnel, those learning English and Russian for military purposes or anyone in related industries dealing with the military and politics. It is especially useful for newcomers to the field,...

Tags: Database Administrator, Microsoft Windows, Military

Software downloads 2004-12-06

CNET and CBS team up for online and tech coverage from U.S. political conventions

Do tech issues affect how you vote?How closely do you look at issues involving technology when you are evaluating political candidates?

Tags: Team management, CBS Corp., team

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

TicTacToe: Political Edition 1.0 (Mobile)

Want a twist to your regular TicTacToe game? Well, now you can have it with the TicTacToe: Political Edition! Play against an opponent or the computer to fight for the candidacy in the White House just in time for the election!

Tags: Mobile, Taylor Helsper, Quality, Games, Productivity, Business Operations, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-11-13

The Political Economy of Growth Without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan

Pakistan has had respectable per capita growth over 1950-99, intensive involvement by donors and international agencies ($58 billion in foreign aid), and has a well-educated and high-achieving elite and Diaspora. Yet Pakistan systematically underperforms on most social and political indicators - education, health, sanitation, fertility, gender equality, corruption, political instability...

Tags: Harvard University, Pakistan

Case studies

Do you talk politics at the office? Take the poll.

Some people seem to revel in taking part in political discourse. Others, however, avoid it like the plague. Do you ever initiate political discussion at the office? Do you avoid it? Do you have an office policy about it, either official or unofficial? by Joe Rosberg

Tags: Confrontation, Workplace, Discussion, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe Rosberg

Blog posts 2008-10-08

IPSec/VPN Security Policy Correctness and Assurance

With IPSec/VPN policies being widely deployed, how to correctly specify and configure them is critical in enforcing security requirements. Under current practice, IPSec/VPN policies are usually specified manually by system administrators and thus prone to errors. However, dynamic aspects in the network may interfere with the existing policy set up...

Tags: Security Requirement, IPSec, VPNs, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2006-05-23

DAG Synchronization Constraint Language for Business Processes

Correct synchronization among activities is critical in a business process. Current workflow languages such as BPEL specify the control flow of processes explicitly. However, their procedural style may cause inflexibility and tangled code. This paper proposes DSCL (Dag-acyclic-graph Synchronization Constraint Language) to achieve three desirable properties for a synchronization modeling...

Tags: Business Process, Hewlett-Packard Co., BPEL, Modeling, Business Process Automation, Research & Development, Operational Planning, Web Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-04-14

Freedom of speech, Mike DeWine, John Roberts

Who else is bothered that nominee to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, when questioned by "SENATOR MIKE DeWINE R-Ohio" (C-SPAN 2), answered that the First Amendment protects political speech, but not necessarily speech in general?For context, the Senator raised the topic of pornography on the Internet, mentioned children, the...

Tags: Absolutely

Discussion threads 2005-09-14

Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies

Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. As the quality of protection provided by a firewall directly depends on the quality of its policy (i.e., configuration), ensuring the correctness of firewall policies is important and yet difficult. To help ensure...

Tags: Firewall Policy, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2008-07-29