We the Malaysian ICT professionals have been alarmed by the sudden announcement of the Board of Computing Professionals Draft Bill 2011 which caught most of us off-guard resulting in mixed reactions and unnecessary arguments.

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Another example was that entire breakdown of the computing systems (and thus bill payments, direct debits and even ATM machines) at the same banking group a month or two back.

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The bill seeks to protect cloud computing services, but what are those?

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"It's the ability to interactively move through very high-definition, very large urban environments on the computer and in an interactive fashion, " said Bill Jepson, an architectural computing professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Sheldon Whitehouse has introduced Senate Bill 3345, which simply provides that in computing punitive damages in maritime cases, the amount of compensatory damages is not to be considered.

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Zenoss Founder and CEO Bill Karpovitch is a pioneer in the realm of cloud computing.

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If they were then connected with a Nexus switch, the online banking application in New York could pull computing power from virtual servers in Boston during the day and the bill processing application could tap into virtual servers in New York at night.

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Jini, the work of Bill Joy, a Sun co-founder and one of the fathers of Java, promises to allow computing appliances to connect instantly into a universal network.

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