Author: deepquest

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The Myth of Income Equality, Courtesy of AEI

This, at least the first part of it, is false in a you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me kind of way, which is the whole point. That kind of headline draws you to read the post, which proceeds to give seemingly sound (but ultimately misleading) evidence for why inequality isn’t growing in order to plants seeds of doubt about whether that whole inequality thing is really a problem.
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RIM outage aftermath and going from outsourcing to insourcing

Apple and Android, the slow pall bearers to RIM's eventual demise : RIM lost much of its credibility last week with an outage lasting several days, but the company was already in trouble. Long a trusted name in the enterprise, RIM is being left in the dust by the consumerization of IT. Now hiring: companies move away from outsourcing to control their IT destiny : The tight IT jobs market and ...
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Security firm finds hacker forums offer n00b hackers training, lulz

IT security experts have long loved to troll through hacker forums to gather intelligence on emerging threats and even (as in the ill-fated case of HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr ) try to profile the hackers themselves. But as a report from IT security firm Imperva shows, many of the so-called hacker portals out there are more hangouts for newbie hackers (and possibly a few budding FBI informants ...