Sunday, August 23, 2009

The translation clearly isn't top notch, but it touches on hacking, privacy, and porn? (sexting?) Is this a new class of evil-doer? The Hacker/Peeper?

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=6833

Two arrested in Alicante for hacking women’s files and stealing hundreds of sexual videos

August 22, 2009 by admin Filed under Breach Incidents, Hack, Non-U.S.

Agents of the National Police in Alicante have arrested an alleged ‘hacker’ and an accomplice who have on their computers more than 200 email accounts of women and more than 300 file folders with photographs and videos of a sexual nature and intimate pictures of other young people.

The two accused have allegedly invaded their privacy without the victims being aware and taken their images and personal data.

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The officers conducted a house search in which they seized two laptops and a 4Gb USB stick, containing more than 200 email accounts of women and more than 300 file folders with photographs and videos of a sexual nature and intimate pictures of many other women. The detainees, who have no criminal record, are accused of crimes against honour, privacy and crimes of usurpation of civil status.

Read more in the Barcelona Reporter



Remember that axiom of science and geekdom: If you can't think of a way to misuse the technology, someone else certainly will. Consider: The technology already exists – they are merely giving YOU the ability to turn it on. Want to bet that NSA never knew you could do this?

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/22/1541208/Twitter-Developing-Location-Based-API?from=rss

Twitter Developing Location-Based API

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 22, @01:32PM from the for-up-to-the-minute-online-stalking dept.

adeelarshad82 writes

"Twitter developers are now working on a location-based API that will provide accurate information on your whereabouts. Developers will be able to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. The option will definitely be opt-in. Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice, and the exact location data won't be stored for an extended period of time."



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Very interesting graphic. Surprised to see how little time is spend using the computer.

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/022136.html

August 22, 2009

American Time Use Survey

New York Times "Sunday Business analyzed new data from the American Time Use Survey to compare the 2008 weekday activities of the employed and unemployed. The comparison may seem obvious, but differences in time spent by these two groups can be striking."



Something for my website students

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/build-a-free-website-that-makes-money-without-any-programming-nb/

Build a Free Website That Makes Money Without Any Programming

Aug. 22nd, 2009 By Guy McDowell

http://www.devhub.com/



Global Warming! Global Warming! I admit I don't understand this at all. Apparently the more sunspots (cooler areas on the sun) the more heat the sun delivers. If these guys are correct, we're in for a major cool down.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/22/2340202/Sunspots-May-Be-Different-During-This-Solar-Minimum?from=rss

Sunspots May Be Different During This Solar Minimum

Posted by kdawson on Sunday August 23, @04:43AM from the too-much-clearasil dept.

PhreakOfTime writes

"According to Bill Livingston and Matt Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, sunspot magnetic fields are waning. The two respected solar astronomers have been measuring solar magnetism since 1992. Their technique is based on Zeeman splitting of infrared spectral lines in radiation emitted by iron atoms in the vicinity of sunspots. Extrapolating their data (PDF) into the future suggests that sunspots could completely disappear within decades."

To motivate their interest the researchers mention the Maunder Minimum, which occurred beginning in 1645 and coincided with the coldest part of the so-called "Little Ice Age." Sunspot counts during this period were as low as 1/1,000 of the numbers seen in modern times.

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