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Northeast Asia-Cultural Influences on the U.S. National Security Strategy
White Paper The U.S.core interests and National Security Strategy are founded on Western cultural operatives that assume all nation-states will respond to its influences in a predictable manner. When states do not respond appropriately, we assume they are... [28 Dec 2004]
A Probabilistic Analysis for the Range Assignment Problem in Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper This paper considers the following problem for ad hoc networks: assume that n nodes are distributed in a d-dimensional region, with 1? and assume that all the nodes have the same transmitting range r; how large must r be to ensure that the... [31 Aug 2007]
Pseudonym-Based Cryptography for Anonymous Communications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper Many current anonymous mobile ad hoc routing protocols assume that mobile users share pairwise secrets before they start an anonymous communication session. However, these approaches assume that a centralised Trust Authority (TA) is in charge of... [23 Aug 2007]
HP to protect customers from SCO fallout
News An HP representative confirmed late Tuesday that the company will announce plans to assume liability for its customers' use of Linux. We really thought about it and we decided we were just going to move forward and assume all risk ourselves. [24 Sep 2003]
Measuring Bandwidth Signatures of Network Paths
White Paper Forecaster is practical since it does not assume any a priori knowledge about the measured path, does not make any simplifying assumptions about the nature of cross-traffic, does not assume the ability to capture accurate packet dispersions or... [11 Jul 2008]
Accessing Message Queues
White Paper As mentioned earlier, MSMQ is available for both Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP Professional, but for our examples we will assume that you have a Windows 2000 server running with MSMQ installed. [25 Feb 2004]
'Negligent' IT departments cost companies dear
News It shows a vast gulf between what business managers assume is going on in the IT department and the reality. Ninety two per cent of UK business managers questioned by Sim Group assume their business critical systems are fully tested. [19 Mar 2002]
Blair urges IT people to work in schools
News We assume that he means working as classroom teachers, as schools already employ IT professionals to maintain their IT systems. It's also reasonable to assume that specialist technology schools will remain in favour at the highest levels of... [02 Oct 2001]
Why the Pentium 4 fanfare is out of tune with reality
Comment But to assume that, as with the last 20 years, success will be spread across the board is to assume a lot. This week Intel finally delivered its Pentium 4 processor - long-known by the code name Willamette - to something of a fanfare and a bevy of... [20 Nov 2000]
Sage shareholders act over 'unusual' accounting practices
News Most businesses assume a reduction in goodwill of acquired businesses over time - a process known as amortisation. However, Sage has decided to buck the trend and assume that the businesses it has bought will keep their value. [08 Feb 2002]
Flash flaw could let hackers in
News In a message to the security community, he said: "Furthermore, this issue was found in the wild, and it is not safe to assume it could not be found by others with malicious intent. Nor do we believe it is safe to assume this has not been found by... [03 May 2002]
Leader: Crossed lines on call centre debate
Leader But let's not assume the two issues are inextricably linked. Of course it is similarly naïve to assume that businesses are moving their call centre operations simply because the service they have been offering in the UK has been poor. [21 Jun 2004]
Mountain of lost laptops builds at UK airports
News Most likely travellers may be boarding flights out of the UK or they may mistakenly assume their laptop has been stolen rather than lost, given the airport also plays host to "people who make their living stealing bags off trolleys", according to... [01 Sep 2006]
Gates gives up Microsoft day job
News In addition, Craig Mundie, CTO for advanced strategies and policy, will immediately take the new title of chief research and strategy officer and will assume Gates' responsibilities for the company's research and incubation efforts. [16 Jun 2006]
Devil's Advocate: The failure of IT training
Comment We tend to assume things that seem to us true must be universally true, yet the study of history suggests that people have held all kinds of beliefs that were particular to a time and place. Are we, therefore, to assume that just as we need a... [05 Oct 2004]
