This is one of those cases where I fervently hope the school (and the grad student) have backups of all the data. If not, WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING?
http://cbs4denver.com/local/local_story_327100741.html
Nov 23, 2006 8:04 am US/Mountain
CU Grad Students' Computer Server Stolen
Students Research Data Missing With Server
(AP) BOULDER, Colo. A computer server containing several years of graduate students' research data has been stolen from the University of Colorado.
The server was taken from the Engineering Center on the Boulder campus early Saturday, said CU Police Lt. John Kish.
Is this going to be a trend? Importing foreign workers to take American jobs? Don't our colleges provide enough... er... Never mind.
International prostitution ring busted in metro area
written by: Deborah Sherman I-Team Reporter posted by: Jeffrey Wolf Web Producer Created: 11/22/2006 5:21 PM MST - Updated: 11/23/2006 8:41 AM MST
HIGHLANDS RANCH - Federal and local police shut down an international prostitution ring operating in the Denver area this week.
Agents arrested Kah Poh Cheah, Wai Chong Kong and his wife Kit Chi Ho at their homes in Thornton and Highlands Ranch.
Agents say they flew in prostitutes from Korea and California to work in Denver.
The prostitutes sometimes paid $18,000 to get into the U.S., but they were able to quickly work off their debts, according to the search warrants.
The arrest warrants say they advertised their services on local Web sites such as Backpage.com.
They charged up to $180 for sex acts, according to the arrest warrants.
The Glendale Police Department, FBI, ICE agents, Denver Police Department and Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office worked the case after a tip arrived at the Glendale Police Department about the ring in March.
Officers caught several men leaving brothels that were located in several apartments in Denver, the Denver Tech Center and Glendale.
Most of the men admitted they paid for and had sex with the prostitutes, according to the search warrants.
Agents also found more than a thousand condoms in nearby trash cans.
The alleged ringleaders were charged in federal court on Wednesday on charges of transportation for illegal sexual activity.
They face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty.
Officers also arrested several of the alleged prostitutes over the last few months.
The failure to keep up with a changing environment is one of the key indicators of a poorly managed company. Either top management is ignoring input from subject managers (in this case their lawyer) or the subject managers are not even bothering to do their job (advising top management) and top management hasn't noticed...
Survey: Companies not prepared for new e-discovery rules
Sharon Fisher
November 21, 2006 (Computerworld) Few corporations are prepared for the new federal rules slated to take effect Dec. 1 for electronic discovery of documents in civil cases, according to a survey conducted by Computerworld.
About 42% of the 170 IT managers and staffers surveyed said they did not know the status of their company's preparation for the new rules, while 32% said their company was not at all prepared.
The new rules specify requirements for submitting electronic documents – including e-mail and perhaps even IM logs -- as evidence in civil cases.
The rules were recommended in September 2005 by the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Supreme Court's Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure. Some states have instituted similar rules (see "New e-discovery rules go into effect in December ").
... Courts have indicated in past actions that penalties for failure to comply could be harsh – and costly. Even before the rules were recommended, Morgan Stanley was fined $1.5 billion -- half of which was punitive -- in May 2005 when a judge ruled that it had failed to preserve information.
Of the Computerworld survey respondents, [My emphasis Bob]
15% said their company was halfway or somewhat prepared, while
5% said their company was completely prepared.
Twenty-two percent said they had prepared for the new rules by reading about them, and
a few said they had retained inside or outside counsel.
Several respondents also said this was the first time they had heard of the new rules.
... Corporations' general counsel should have acknowledged the new rules and had a conversation with the CIO about whether the organization was prepared, Bace said. As with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, IT has to be involved from the beginning to ensure it can produce the records the rules require, he said.
A similar survey performed in May and June by the Association for Information and Image Management in Silver Spring, Md., described its concern about electronic discovery as a key driver in implementing e-mail management, with 25% of those surveyed indicating they had had to respond at least once during the past year to an e-discovery request. And in organizations with more than 1,000 employees, more than 21% reported more than 10 instances during the past year in which e-mail was tapped during e-discovery or during an internal investigation.
The most important things organizations can do are to be prepared to tell a judge what discoverable information the organization can provide and to develop document retention policies and content management procedures to help protect the organization in case documents get lost, Bace said.
Wednesday I was asking how thieves would convert stolen chips to cash, no problem here! The Brits know how (and what) to steal!
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/11/23/thieves_pinch_xbox_360/
Thieves pinch £750,000 Xbox 360 shipment
Author: Ryan Garside Published: 23rd November 2006
A lorry, containing £750,000 worth of Xbox 360s, has been hijacked by thieves near a depot in Staffordshire.
The robbery, no doubt inspired by the oncoming Christmas rush, is the second in a week. A trailer containing £260,000 worth of 360s was stolen at a depot owned by the same firm - Hellman Worldwide Logistics around a week ago. At the moment police are treating the two incidents as separate.
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
French National Assembly switches to Linux
Linux, OpenOffice and Firefox favoured
Peter Sayer
No doubt some will suggest that all classroom lectures be recorded (or live streaming video be available to parents) while others will ban recorders from classrooms.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/23/1853238&from=rss
U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion
Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 23, @03:16PM from the when-the-man-has-an-agenda- dept. Education Science
Dystopian Rebel writes "A New Jersey public-school history teacher was recorded telling his students that they 'belong in Hell' if they do not accept Jesus. The teacher, who is also a Baptist Pastor, lied later when he was asked by the school principle what he said to the students. Unfortunately for this dodge, a student recorded the teacher's 'lesson'."
From the article: "The student and his parents have requested that the teacher's anti-scientific remarks be corrected in open class, and that the school develop quality control procedures to ensure that future classes are not proselytized and misinformed. They have also referred the matter for disciplinary action. No apology has been forthcoming from the teacher or from the school."
[Best comment: They live in New Jersey so when they wind up in Hell it won't be much different. Bob]
Now this would be an interesting History assignment. Can high school history students even name 100 historical figures?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/013096.html
November 23, 2006
Atlantic's List of Most Influential Figures in American History
The Atlantic Monthly | December 2006, The Top 100 - The most influential figures in American history.
http://publications.europa.eu/press_releases/102bddf5-d435-0f6b-2e8132e14dbb50bf_en.html
23.11.2006 -
'Ignorance of the law is no excuse' Celebrating 25 years of European law online on 23 November in Luxembourg
The Office for Official Publications of the European Communities celebrates 25 years of electronic access to European law in the presence of His Royal Highness the Grand-Duke of Luxembourg. What started as an experimental project within the European institutions to cater for the needs of professional users in the 1970s was opened to the public as CELEX in 1981 and has now become EUR-Lex, a gateway to EU law for all.
Call the Guinness people!
http://news.com.com/2061-10786_3-6138122.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
Jailed blogger denied Thanksgiving furlough
November 23, 2006 11:22 AM PST
Josh Wolf, the video blogger behind bars for refusing to hand over unpublished source material, won't be enjoying a home-cooked meal today.
A federal judge on Tuesday denied Wolf's request for a Thanksgiving furlough, according to a court order issued by U.S. District Judge William Alsup.
At a hearing earlier that day, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Alsup suggested that allowing Wolf a few days of holiday freedom might undercut the reason he has been imprisoned--to coerce him into surrendering a video of a San Francisco political protest under investigation by a federal grand jury.
Wolf, 24, has been jailed for three months, in two stints. Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied his request for rehearing in his case. Barring any intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court, he is likely to remain in the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif., until the grand jury's term expires in July. That would give Wolf the distinction of being the journalist who has served the longest time in jail--in the history of the United States--for refusing to give up his sources or divulge unpublished material.
Video: Hear from the first jailed blogger Josh Wolf speaks at press conference
This is critical! Help me prove that I own “Bob-speak” -- the variation of English that I invented to communicate with everyone else... (If you don't understand, I'll be happy to provide lessons for a modest fee. Would you like a “Ich grok Bob-speak” T-shirt?)
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/23/2040248&from=rss
Do You Own Your Native Language?
Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 23, @04:41PM from the they-don't-like-power-point-presentations-either dept. Microsoft The Courts Politics
l2718 writes "In a new take on the reach of 'Intellectual Property,' the Mapuche Indians of Chile are accusing Microsoft of linguistic piracy. Their lawsuit alleges that Microsoft needed permission from the tribal elders before translating its software into Mapuzugun, a project which was co-ordinated with the Chilean Ministry of Education."
From the CNN Money article: "The Mapuche took their case to a court in the southern city of Temuco earlier this month but a judge ruled it should be considered in Santiago. A judge in the capital is due to decide in the next two weeks whether Microsoft has a case to answer. 'If they rule against us we will go to the Supreme Court and if they rule against us there we will take our case to a court of human rights,' said Lautaro Loncon, a Mapuche activist and coordinator of the Indigenous Network, an umbrella group for several ethnic groups in Chile."
Tools & Techniques (Do not rely on this!)
http://digg.com/security/How_To_Login_From_an_Internet_Cafe_Without_Worrying_About_Keyloggers
How To Login From an Internet Cafe Without Worrying About Keyloggers
sharjeelsayed submitted by sharjeelsayed 19 hours 9 minutes ago (via http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2006/posters/herley-poster_abstract.pdf )
"We tested five shareware or commercial keylogging programs: HomeKeylogger 1.70, GhostKeylogger, KG-BKeylogger, Spytector 1.2.8 and ProBot. None of them captured passwords entered using the trick we describe."
Hacking is good! Ignorance is bad!
http://digg.com/videos_comedy/Hacking_Internet_Cameras
Hacking Internet Cameras
Allsortshop submitted by Allsortshop 16 hours 8 minutes ago (via http://www.metacafe.com/watch/234602/hacking_internet_cameras/ )
Fox shows how to hack internet cameras.
If nothing else, an interesting cocktail party quote.
http://digg.com/politics/Pentagon_misplaces_2_3_trillion_in_transactions
Pentagon "misplaces" $2.3 trillion in transactions.
Eggzb submitted by Eggzb 14 hours 35 minutes ago (via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKJNxdmX6Y )
That's with a T. $8000 for every American.
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