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Blame The User
Talkback Its always easy to blame the vendor but in this instance, I don't see why it's Microsoft's fault that some users won't update their browsers.the updates are there, users know where to find them and in some cases are notified of them, what more can...
[July 8, 2008, 9:13]
Vendors, Not Developers, To Blame For Poor Code
News Computer security expert Bruce Schneier has waded into a debate raging in cyberspace over who is actually to blame for the security flaws that result from poorly coded software. Many ZDNet UK readers seem to agree with Schneier, and put the blame...
[October 20, 2005, 17:05]
Friaco Not To Blame For Broadband Fiasco, Says AOL
News Both he and his colleague Bruce Stanford, BT Wholesale's director of broadband, had implied that the Friaco (Flat-rate Internet access call origination) flat-rate access service was partly to blame for the low penetration of broadband into Britain.
[December 5, 2001, 9:43]
Losing The Laptop Blame Game
Leader Loss of a valuable laptop, and the potentially valuable data held on it, usually results in a blame game. The downside of mobile devices is that sometimes they go mobile in ways the owner does not expect.
[February 15, 2007, 16:46]
Everyone's A Loser In Security Blame Game
News On Tuesday, seven network security specialists tossed around a question that, increasingly, could become critical as network attacks and cyber-vandalism occur more often: who is to blame for the poor state of security?
[June 14, 2000, 13:15]
Gartner: Don't Blame IT For Dirty Data
News The blame for poor-quality data is too often laid at IT's door, when it should be the business taking responsibility, analysts have said. When data is not complete, correct and consistent, the business often puts the blame on IT, Friedman said.
[March 20, 2008, 9:28]
Internet Industry Rejects Child-porn Blame
News A report released on Monday by children's charity NCH has put the blame for the dramatic rise in child-porn offences down to the Internet. Since the late 1980s, the number of child-porn offenders has risen by 1,500 percent -- from just 35 arrested...
[January 13, 2004, 9:30]
Sainsbury's Can't Just Blame Technology
Leader It is the company's basic strategy, and its inability to execute on its project management goals, that are the real culprits, and the blame for both lies with senior management. They say a bad craftsman always blames his tools.
[October 20, 2004, 12:15]
Accountability: It's More Than Knowing Who To Blame
News I've discovered that most of the time, when executives tell me that "what we need around here is more accountability," what they really mean is, "I need to know who I should blame when things go wrong.
[March 24, 2005, 11:50]
Train Crash Could Be To Blame For Internet Derailment
News The Code Red virus was not to blame for the Internet slowdown experienced in America last month - it was caused by a train crash in the eastern-US city of Baltimore. According to Internet performance company Keynote, at the time at which Code Red...
[August 3, 2001, 10:14]
Studies Blame WAP For Mobile Phone Woes
News Some cell phones are so hard to use that most people are abandoning the fancy features such as e-mail, according to two studies that put the blame on WAP. The WAP Forum representative said the study from the Meta Group also may be flawed because it...
[May 25, 2001, 9:31]
A Year Ago: Tory MP Says Don't Blame Hackers
News This spokeswoman also indicated that Scotland Yard is not rushing to blame hackers for the alleged crime adding, "We are aware what is being reported but it is very early days in any investigation. Scotland Yard investigates unauthorised access
[November 24, 2000, 5:01]
Oftel Takes Blame For Local Loop Unbundling Delay
News The head of Oftel, David Edmonds, acknowledged Tuesday that the telecommunications watchdog is partly to blame for the sluggish unbundling of BT's (quote: BT) "local loop". Oftel (Office of Telecommunications) began the process of unbundling...
[September 20, 2000, 10:00]
Tory MP Says Don't Blame Hackers
News This spokeswoman also indicated that Scotland Yard is not rushing to blame hackers for the alleged crime adding, "We are aware what is being reported but it is very early days in any investigation. A senior Conservative MP believes hackers may not...
[November 24, 1999, 13:19]
Mixed Messages From HMRC Over Data Loss Blame
Blog As the full implications of the loss of two discs containing 25 million people's personal details by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs begin to sink in, it's interesting to notice how the blame for the fiasco seems to be shifting from a "junior...
[November 22, 2007, 16:43]
Archaic PCs To Blame For Government E-commerce Mess
News An archaic computer system is to blame for the government's failure to meet its first e-government target of buying 90 percent of routine goods and services online by March 2001, HM Treasury has admitted.
[August 17, 2001, 8:30]
NHS And EDS Separate 'without Blame'
News The NHS and EDS separation has taken place "without any attribution of blame to either party", according to the National Programme for IT. The NHS National Programme for IT and EDS have agreed to part ways on the NHS email and directory service...
[July 13, 2004, 17:25]
Security Exploits: Who's To Blame?
Talkback There's plenty of blame to go around. Those that don't are the blame for making an insecure product; no more, no less. Those that don't are the blame for reenforcing the problem by preventing appropriate communication.
[September 9, 2005, 18:37]
BT Takes Blame For Wireless Broadband Debacle
Talkback perhaps they want to start fining BT a few million £££s each time they renage that mite make some difference
[December 28, 2003, 18:11]
MSBlast 'not To Blame' For Power Cuts
Talkback « Paller said it is "highly unlikely" that the process control computers behind critical infrastructure like power in the United States would run on the Windows operating system. That is a sane assumption.
[August 18, 2003, 1:48]
