http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081117053609991
Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Monday, November 17 2008 @ 05:36 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
A recap of incidents or privacy breaches reported last week for those who enjoy shaking their head and muttering to themselves with their morning coffee.
Source - Chronicles of Dissent
I didn't say that... I thunk it many times, but I never said it.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081117052810962
A Wealth of Data, and Nobody in Charge
Monday, November 17 2008 @ 05:28 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Wanted: scout to look out for Big Brother and his cousin, Data Breach. Evangelist to spread the word about what information can be shared. A shredder abettor who knows what is nobody's business. This person should also be prepared to help our college recover from embarrassing headlines about Social Security numbers gone missing.
Colleges may soon be running ads something like that for chief privacy officers, a title so new in higher education that one campus public-relations official, when asked if his institution had a CPO, replied, "What in the blue blazes is that?
Source - Chronicle of Higher Education
Not all laws are rational...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081116140414285
Google and Europe at odds over privacy
Sunday, November 16 2008 @ 02:04 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
When Google began hiring in Zurich for its new engineering center in 2004, local officials welcomed the U.S. company with open arms. Google's arrival is still bearing fruit for Zurich: 450 employees, about 300 of them engineers, work in Google's seven-story complex in a converted brewery on the outskirts of the placid mountain metropolis.
But almost five years into its expansion into Europe - where it has a headquarters in Dublin, large facilities in Zurich and London and smaller centers in Denmark, Russia and Poland, among other countries - Google is beginning to bump up against a web of privacy laws that threaten its growth and the positive image it has cultivated as a company dedicated to doing good - its unofficial motto.
Source - International Herald Tribune
Here comrade citizen, stick this up your nose... (Do we have a list of “Do not fly” diseases?)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0904-detecting_disease_in_less_than_60_seconds.htm
Detecting Disease In Less Than 60 Seconds
Viral Immunologists Invent Speedy Virus Identification Technique
September 1, 2008 — Chemists and immunologists devised a new rapid system for detecting and identifying viruses. It uses surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy to measure the frequency of near-infrared laser light as it scatters off viral DNA and RNA. After a swab of a person's nasal passage, the technique can detect individual virus particles quickly and identify many types.
This technology has been around for years. Perhaps this indicates that Identity Theft is rising above background noise.
http://www.switched.com/2008/11/16/new-visa-card-features-keypad-generates-random-security-codes/
New Visa Card Features Keypad, Generates Random Security Codes
by Lee Bains, posted Nov 16th 2008 at 10:01AM
In response to popular concerns with online credit card fraud, Visa Europe has announced a newly designed credit card, complete with a keypad and digital number display, according to the Daily Mail.
While the credit card is of the usual size and features a credit card number and magnetic strip for use with conventional card readers, it does not have a security code number in the traditional sense. Instead, cardholders will enter their PIN into the keypad, which will then generate a random number on the display. This random number will serve as the cardholder's one-time security code, which can then be entered to make online purchases.
“We're a technology-selling company not a technology-understanding company.”
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/0234256&from=rss
In AU, Dodgy Dell Deal Faces Consumer Backlash
Posted by kdawson on Monday November 17, @04:22AM from the you-advertised-it-now-honor-it dept. Businesses Hardware
Ben Seberry writes
"It appears Dell has been caught red-faced by yet another pricing mistake on their Australian website. Many customers thought they had spotted a fantastic deal when they came across a 55%-off offer. Dell later denied that this was a valid special and telephoned customers to offer them a choice of the standard price, or a cancelled order. Dell's senior manager of corporate communication came out and apologized for the mistake, promising processes would be reviewed to prevent it from happening again. In the days after the original 'incorrectly priced' offer was fixed, Dell made a different error leading to an even cheaper price being advertised. This time, on many user forums and blogs, users are debating Australian contract law as it applies to this matter — it is not as clear-cut as many originally believed."
How far out could these orders ripple? (Not as outlandish as it sounds...)
Plaintiff’s Mom Ordered to Produce Her Laptop and Flash Drives for Forensic Examination
The plaintiff’s mother in a case in New Orleans, Mary Catherine Hoover, was ordered to produce her laptop, flash drives, and other ESI storage devices to the defendant for forensic inspection. Hoover v. Florida Hydro, Inc., 2008 WL 4467661 (E.D. La. Oct. 1, 2008). The third-party subpoena was enforced even though she was not a party to the suit and had done no wrong. The plaintiff’s best friend from college days was subject to a similar subpoena and order. The decision was rendered by an experienced and highly regarded Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby. How could such a thing happen you may well ask? This blog will attempt to fathom the answer and see what lessons can be learned from the decision.
What percentage of Lawyering involves bluffing? (Is this the Legal equivalent of a lousy poker face?)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/1258246&from=rss
Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 16, @09:16AM from the see-what-sticks dept. Censorship
An anonymous reader writes
"TorrentFreak reports that Toyota's lawyers have recently contacted computer wallpaper site Desktop Nexus in a blatant example of DMCA abuse. Toyota issued a blanket request to demand the immediate removal of all member-uploaded wallpapers featuring a Toyota, Lexus, or Scion vehicle (citing copyright violation), regardless of whether Toyota legally holds the copyright to the photos or not. When site owner Harry Maugans requested clarification on exactly which wallpapers were copyrighted by Toyota, he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor."
This is somewhat surprising...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10098287-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Hulu's ad revenues to catch up to YouTube's?
Posted by Chris Matyszczyk November 17, 2008 12:01 AM PST
It has always been in the back of many minds that having many not quite legal and not quite professional videos on your site might just affect advertising revenue.
Now Arash Amel, an Analyst at Screen Digest, a company that researches digital media, is forecasting that Hulu's US revenue will rival that of YouTube next year, his estimated number being $180 million. (Hulu hasn't even got around to launching in the rest of the world yet)
Mr. Amal makes YouTube's earnings sound like profit of doom: "YouTube is in a very tough place right now," he told the Financial Times. "Most of that user-generated content is worthless or illegal. The next 18 months will determine whether or not it was just an expensive mistake for Google."
Think of this as a blueprint for a Small Business...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/019821.html
November 16, 2008
Pew Data Memo: When Technology Fails
News release: "Although information technology is well integrated into the lives of many Americans, gadgets and communication services require, for some, a call for help. Some 48% of technology users usually need help from others to set up new devices or to show them how they function. Many tech users encounter problems with their cell phones, internet connections, and other gadgets. This, in turn, often leads to impatience and frustration as they try to get them fixed."
Does this suggest a marketing strategy? (Now the Kindle comes with free subscriptions to the following newspapers and magazines...)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/2035233&from=rss
On the Economics of the Kindle
Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 16, @04:18PM from the how-much-is-cool-worth dept. Books Displays Handhelds
perlow writes
"Just how many books a year would you need to read before the cost of Amazon's Kindle is justified? The answer is not so cut-and-dried. If you're a college student and all of your texts were available on Kindle (possible but unlikely), you could recover the cost of the reader in a semester and a half. For consumers to break even with Kindle's cost in that time, they would have to be in the habit of buying and reading four new hardback books per month — if the convenience factor wasn't part of the equation. At two books per month, breakeven would be in three years."
Here is the spreadsheet if you want to play with the numbers.
For my website students
http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/pizap-com-have-fun-with-photographs
Pizap.com - Have Fun With Photographs
All pranksters out there are going to relish visiting to this site, along with those who don’t fall in that category but are prone to a bit of tomfoolery every now and then. In general terms, piZap is a web-hosted service that will enable you to upload a picture and modify at will. You can add stickers and text as well as implementing different effects and adding any text you like.
Once you have finished work on your masterpiece, you can save it and share with other via social networks and the like. Moreover, you can create products using your finished designs and order them through the site.
This service is actually provided free of charge, and (as it was already mentioned) it is wholly web-based – you don’t have to incur into any kind of software download, nor worry about system specs and compatibility issues. All it takes for you to use it is a computer with an Internet connection, and you’re ready for some photographic action.
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