A vast improvement in security can't result from a half-vast regulation. Wasn't this settled in a Supreme Court case... Walker something or other? (Unless flying is probable cause?)
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080609135536219
Your Papers Please: TSA outlaws ID-less flight
Monday, June 09 2008 @ 01:55 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Fed. Govt.
In a major change of policy, the Transportation Security Administration has announced that passengers refusing to show ID will no longer be able to fly. The policy change, announced on Thursday afternoon, will go into force on June 21, and will only impact passengers who refuse to produce ID. Passengers who lie and claim to have lost or forgotten their proof of identity will still be able to fly. {Typical Bob]
Source - C|net
Continuing illustration of the Management Does Not Know syndrome.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/09/IT-execs-report-lack-of-license-compliance_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/09/IT-execs-report-lack-of-license-com Study: IT execs report lack of license compliance
Unlicensed software is in use in 44 percent of environments, according to a King Research study
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service June 09, 2008
Sixty-nine percent of the respondents to a King Research study said they are unsure whether they are in full compliance with the terms of their software licenses, and 44 percent reported that unlicensed software is in use in their environments.
I've mentioned that portable devices are entering the workplace – here's an article on how to secure them.
How to make the new iPhone work at work
Apple's new SDK,3G handheld and iPhone 2.0 software should make it even easier to bring next-gen mobile to your enterprise. Here's what you need to know
By Galen Gruman June 10, 2008
So, where to begin gearing up the iPhone for use at work? How can you satisfy executive demands to make the iPhone fit for corporate essentials while maintaining security and manageability? For those looking to get a jump on business-enabling the iPhone, here's a handy guide on what's currently possible and how to get it done, as well as what is promised to be supported in the 2.0 software and 3G iPhone due in July. (Note that everything here applies to the iPhone's voiceless cousin, the iPod Touch with the January 2008 software update for the 1.x versions and the July 2008 2.0 update, which will cost $10 for current iPod Touch users.)
Related. Soon, all textbooks will be on these devices.
http://blog.oup.com/2008/06/ebooks-2/
Looks Like a Million To Me: How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceeding Sales Estimates
June 9, 2008 By Evan Schnittman
When the Kindle first launched there was plenty of predictions about how it and its predecessor the Sony Reader would sell. Over time the chatter died down, halted partly by the Kindle going out of stock. At the end of April, the chatter returned and hit full volume after last week’s Book Expo America in Los Angeles. The catalyst was Jeff Bezos’ speech, which let out some tantalizing, yet cryptic information on ebook sales volume at the Kindle store. The chatter, as reported in the NY Times, has publishers and others speculating that Amazon has sold somewhere between 10,000 - 50,000 Kindles.
I think all the speculations are completely wrong. By my calculations, combined sales of the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader will be 1,000,000 units in 2008. This estimate is based on solid data.
Think of it as a Terrorists Target Acquisition Device...
http://www.killerstartups.com/Mobile/citysense-com-mobile-signals-tell-wheres-hot/
CitySense.com - Mobile Signals Tell Where's Hot
Here’s another cool app that’ll either make you salivate or quiver in fear of the Orwellian implications. CitySense is a new downloadable application for your Blackberry (iPhone coming soon) that let’s you find out where the party’s at. How? This is the Orwellian bit. CitySense uses technology from its parent company Macrosense which is able to track billions of bits of data based on cell phones, GPS, WiFi and much more. So by sensing where people are, and then by using Yelp or Google to link to that location, you can find out where’s popular or not. The popular clubs, bars etc appear as a red blotch on the map. What’s more, once you use it long enough, it learns what you like and hooks you up with people like you. Currently, the results are only available in San Francisco.
http://www.citysense.com/home.php
Ethics & e-Discovery Shouldn't it be obvious that significant thought should be put into an e-Discovery plan?
Hundredth Blog: Thoughts on SEARCH and Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc.
... careful planning ... is the core message of the hot case of the day, Victor Stanley, Inc. v. Creative Pipe, Inc., 2008 WL 2221841 (D. Md., May 29, 2008).
.. Lawyers need to treat search and review seriously, and either take the time necessary to become adept in this complex area, or employ experts who are. If not, the consequences can be devastating, as Victor Stanley shows. The defendants waived their attorney-client and work product privileges to 165 ESI files by their botched search and review before production.
[Note: This is 165 documents out of 39 gigabytes of ESI. The article also list many obvious failures on the part of the defendant's legal team. (Why does that make me giggle? Bob]
Related
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/018543.html
June 09, 2008
Introduction to Information Retrieval
"This is the companion website for the following book. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. This "is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering. Written from a computer science perspective, it gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents and of methods for evaluating systems, along with an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. Designed as the primary text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in information retrieval, the book will also interest researchers and professionals. A complete set of lecture slides and exercises that accompany the book are available on the web."
Think of it as e-Stocks?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080609/1833381353.shtml
Better Response To Crimes On YouTube: Force The Criminals To Apologize On YouTube
from the much-better-response dept
We keep seeing stories of proposed legislation to make it a crime to post video evidence of yourself committing a crime. This seems totally backwards. If the person is posting evidence of themselves committing a crime, that makes it that much easier for the police to capture them. Giving them reasons not to post evidence of their own crime seems backwards -- and even some of those advocating these laws seem to implicitly recognize this fact.
It appears one judge has a much more reasonable response in a case involving some kids who committed a dumb act and put the video evidence on YouTube: part of their punishment is to also post a video apology on YouTube. If the idea behind putting the video up on YouTube was to get some "fame" for filming themselves doing something stupid, shaming them on YouTube seems a lot more sensible than adding additional criminal charges.
This probably doesn't apply to my take on blogging... (Although I do enjoy pointing out the stupid managers.)
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/09/1614221&from=rss
Blogging Now Good for You, Still Bad for Some
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 09, @02:01PM from the join-the-eggs-and-cholesterol-club dept.
Several users have alerted us to a May Scientific American article that has been getting some attention more recently. Apparently, blogging is now good for you and, at least in this context, is the suggested reason for the explosion of blogging. This is quite the departure from some of the results we have seen in practice for more prolific bloggers.
Tools & Techniques
http://www.pcsympathy.com/2008/06/09/oswa-assistant-wireless-hacking-auditing-livecd-toolkit/
OSWA Assistant - Wireless Hacking & Auditing LiveCD Toolkit
June 9, 2008 – 6:20 am
The OSWA-Assistant is a no-Operating-System-required standalone toolkit which is solely focused on wireless auditing. As a result, in addition to the usual WiFi (802.11) auditing tools, it also covers Bluetooth and RFID auditing. Using the toolkit is as easy as popping it into your computer’s CDROM and making your computer boot from it!
You can download OSWA Assistant here:
oswa-assistant.iso Or read more here.
More sites than I knew about, but still only keyword on titles.
http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/videofetcher-com-vast-video-search-engine/
VideoFetcher.com - Vast Video Search Engine
VideoFetcher.com is a search site that checks out over 100 video sites at once to provide users with a large array of videos from a specific search. Sites searched include the biggies, like YouTube and MySpace, and some of the smaller players too, like StupidVideo and ShowMeHowTo. Users click on the site they wish to search, having the option to select all of the video search engines, if they so choose. Because so many different sources are consulted, search results are varied and vast. The process is also consolidated and effort is drastically reduced, seeing as all the work is brought into one single location.
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