“Hey,
it's not like we're a bunch of second class citizens like the people
who elected us!”
U.S.
House Panel Says It Can Ignore SEC Subpoenas in Insider-Trading Probe
The
U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and a top staff member say the
panel and its employees are “absolutely immune” from having to
comply with subpoenas from a federal regulator in an insider-trading
probe.
The
committee yesterday responded to U.S. District Court Judge Paul
Gardephe’s order to explain why it hadn’t complied with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission’s requests for documents, phone
records and testimony of aide Brian Sutter for more than a year.
Gardephe gave the House until yesterday to answer.
Kerry
W. Kircher, the top lawyer for the House, said the SEC’s request
should be dismissed because the information it seeks concerns
legislative activities protected by the Constitution, which can’t
be reviewed by federal judges. If Gardephe won’t dismiss the SEC’s
case, it should be transferred to federal court in Washington,
Kircher said.
Sounds
impressive, until you look at the parking lot surrounding NSA
headquarters...
North
Korea Doubles Cyber War Personnel: Report
North
Korea has doubled the number of its elite cyber warriors over the
past two years and established overseas bases for hacking attacks, a
report said Sunday.
The
North's cyber war unit now has 5,900 personnel, compared with 3,000
two years ago, the South's Yonhap news agency said.
"The
communist country operates a hacking unit under its General Bureau of
Reconnaissance, which is home to some 1,200 professional hackers,"
a military source was quoted as saying.
Perhaps
I could skim a bit? All I need is a very small percentage of a very
large number...
How
a Bitcoin Rival Could Create a Global Supermoney – American Banker
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 5, 2014
American
Banker, Richard Samson – [Editor's note: This
article is based in part on SUPERMONEY:
The New Wealth Beyond Banks and Bitcoin, which
appears on Samson’s Futurist blog published by the World Future
Society.] While Bitcoin grabs headlines, a little-noted rival
promises to supercharge all currencies old and new, fiat and cyber.
An open-source programming
system called the Ripple protocol could transform commerce
and banking by making dollars, yen, euros, bitcoins, and even loyalty
points virtually interchangeable. The Ripple protocol, based in part
on the system behind Bitcoin, is a payment and currency exchange
system that erases the barriers between fiat currencies while also
embracing digital currencies and other representations of value,
ranging from gold to frequent flyer miles. It goes beyond Bitcoin by
providing a code system that leaves no currency—including
bitcoins—out.”
[See
also: https://ripple.com/protocol/
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_%28payment_protocol%29
Not
just for my Ethical Hackers. Everybody can use these... (and
remember, you didn't hear it from me!)
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/loathsome-life-lessons-13-unethical-hacks-try-ever-weird-wonderful-web/
Loathsome
Life Lessons: 13 Unethical Hacks Not To Try. Ever. [Weird &
Wonderful Web]
There
are now a host of websites offering life hacks. These are simple
ways of making your life easier; from a faster way of folding your
shirt to methods for kickstarting
your writing career. Some call these life hacks, other call
these productivity tips. We here at MakeUseOf call them Self
Improvement. But they all essentially suggest a better way of
doing something.
Not
all life hacks are created equal. Alongside the fantastic and
fascinating life hacks are some that are so unethical (and borderline
illegal) that no one in their right mind should even try to pull them
off. With the generous help of Unethical
Hacks we have compiled a list of 13 life hacks that only
sociopathic misanthropes would ever take seriously.
For
my students.
The
10 Most Important Work Skills In 2020
…
According to this infograph, the future is driven by 6 factors:
human longevity, workplace automation, computational data, new
communication tools, social technologies and global diversity.
Through these six factors, this infograph predicts 10 essential
skills employees of the future should have in order to succeed.
In
business, no strategy survives contact with the employees.
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