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This year’s Black Hat was pretty much summed up in a prescient keynote by Richard Clarke, the nation’s former cyber security czar now novelist and chairman of Good Harbor Consulting. Clarke said “we’re building more and more of our economy on cyberspace 1.0, yet we have secured very little of cyberspace 1.0.” The apparent speed …

Bicara tentang sosok Iwan Fals, kita tidak akan bisa melupakan kaum marjinal di negeri ini. Sebab, berbagai judul lagu yang membesarkan nama Iwan Fals seolah tak lepas dari masalah kepedulian sosial, seperti kemiskinan, pengangguran, dan berbagai protes sosial. Semisal lagu Oemar Bakri, yang menggambarkan pahit getir nasib guru, hingga lagu Bento yang merupakan sindiran bagi pejabat negeri. Pria bernama asli Virgiawan Listanto ini memang dekat dengan kaum miskin kota, terutama pengamen jalanan. Sebab, meski terlahir dari keluarga berkecukupan, kepeduliannya justru membawa kelahiran Jakarta 3 September 1961 ini banyak bergaul dengan pemusik jalanan. Sejak kecil, ia memang terkenal sudah berjiwa sosial tinggi. Tak jarang, ia memberikan pakaian dan sepatu baru yang mahal kepada teman yang benar-benar membutuhkan. Kepedulian itu juga yang membuatnya tak jengah untuk ikut menjadi pengamen jalanan, bersama teman-temannya sewaktu SMP di Bandung. Kecintaannya pada gitar kemudian membuat ia bertekad untuk menekuni musik sebagai jalan hidupnya. Iwan pun kemudian …

For years Microsoft kept its “shared source” distinct from the broader open-source movement, but now the company is seeking official blessing for its work from the organization that bestows official open-source status. The company said last week at the O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference that it’s submitting its shared-source licenses to the Open Source Initiative, which judges whether new licenses meet its criteria for listing. Increasingly, the organization also is trying to cut down on the number of open-source licenses, too, which is a problem for programmers who don’t want legal obstacles in the way of source code sharing. Jon Rosenberg, Microsoft’s director of source programs, described the move on the company’s open-source blog, Port 25. “Today, we reached another milestone with the decision to submit our open licenses to the OSI approval process, which, if the licenses are approved, should give the community additional confidence that the code we’re sharing …

Admit it: For many of us, our work computer is a home away from home. It seems only fair, since our home computer is typically an office away from the office. So in between typing up reports and poring over spreadsheets, we use our office PCs to keep up with our lives. We do birthday shopping, check out funny clips on YouTube and catch up with friends by email or instant message. And often it’s just easier to accomplish certain tasks using consumer technology than using the sometimes clunky office technology our company gives us — compare Gmail with a corporate email account. There’s only one problem with what we’re doing: Our employers sometimes don’t like it. Partly, they want us to work while we’re at work. And partly, they’re afraid that what we’re doing compromises the company’s computer network — putting the company at risk in a host of …

Some call it the “Sugar Daddy Syndrome.” Others call it the “Father was never around” complex. A lot of people have no problem with it, while many find it sick and perverted. Regardless of your own personal views, young women dating older men is a worldwide phenomenon that is gaining popularity and acceptance at an alarming rate. Why do young women like older men? What attracts 20-something females to 40, 50, even 60-something males? You could spend several hundred hours with a series of shrinks in an attempt to sort through the plethora of possible answers. The only problem with that is that most psychiatrists are expensive and love the term “billable hours.” It would cost thousands of dollars to find out the truth. After talking with both sexes at great length, I have come to the conclusion that young women like older men because the relationship comes with benefits …

For those who are in the dating game, you would be surpised on how much information you can dig up on your date using the net these days. Internet search has totally changed the dating scene. In traditional dating you find out about the person that you are dating by spending time with him/her, and perhaps even through friends or families. Nowdays with our good friend google you can find out more than you want to know about who you are dating within a couple of minutes. This article takes a look at the current trend of googling for information about who you are dating. Pam Smith, who went out with a “Nice” man three times got a rude awakending when she typed her date’s name into Google and saw his name on the Most Wanted List. “…He was the nicest guy you could possibly want to meet…Now, I feel …

Dalam setiap bidang kehidupan, kita harus menjadi seorang problem solver yang profesional. Namun dalam kenyataan tidak banyak orang yang berhasil, malahan mereka menjadi frustrasi dan kemudian menyalahkan lingkungan atau faktor-faktor di luar pengendalian (uncontrollable causes), yang pada akhirnya berakibat pada Stress (lulus S1), lalu meningkat menjadi Stroke (lulus S2) dan pada akhirnya mengakibatkan Stop,kematian (lulus S3), dari Universitas Kehidupan! Penulis selalu menggunakan pendekatan yang terdiri dari tiga langkah untuk menyelesaikan masalah, dan dalam praktek terbukti ampuh! Dengan demikian konsep problem solving ini bukan teori belaka, tetapi telah terbukti keberhasilannya. Jika konsep ini diterapkan dan tidak berhasil, maka kesalahan bukan pada konsep ini tetapi karena ketidakprofesionalan semata dari orang yang menerapkan konsep ini. Ketiga langkah tersebut adalah: 1. mengidentifikasi masalah secara tepat, 2. menemukan sumber dan akar penyebab dari masalah itu, dan 3. mengajukan solusi masalah secara efektif dan efisien. Langkah Pertama: Mengidentifikasi Masalah Secara Tepat Secara konseptual suatu masalah (M) …

During the preholiday crush last December, a computer maker asked staffing company Adecco SA for 300 additional factory workers — immediately. Using an instant-messaging program, Senior Vice President Steve Baruch tapped managers in three states to line up the workers within hours. If he had relied on email and phone calls, Mr. Baruch says, the same process could have taken him as long as three days. Instant messaging is invading and changing the workplace. Employees started to sneak instant messaging into the office in the late 1990s, but now more companies are endorsing it. Faster and more casual than email, instant messaging can foster broader collaboration among employees even as it further blurs the boundaries between work and life. Instant-messaging programs allow users to organize contacts into “buddy lists” and see who is online and available to chat at any given moment, world-wide. With most IM programs, users can start …

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