http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090518060407623
MyIDscore.com Offers Free ID Theft Risk Score
Monday, May 18 2009 @ 06:04 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Consumers trying to determine their risk of becoming an identity theft victim typically are told to check their credit report for signs of unauthorized or suspicious activity. But a new Web-based service aims to give users a view into tricks ID thieves use that credit reports often miss, such as when crooks use only parts of a victim's identity to fabricate a new one.
Source - Security Fix Related - ID Analytics Press Release
Another long winded but interesting article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12cyber.html?_r=3
Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness
By JOHN MARKOFF Published: May 11, 2009
For old-fashioned detectives, the problem was always acquiring information. For the cybersleuth, hunting evidence in the data tangle of the Internet, the problem is different.
… Indeed, the discovery raised as many questions as it answered. Why was the powerful eavesdropping system not password-protected, a weakness that made it easy for Mr. Villeneuve to determine how the system worked? And why among the more than 1,200 compromised government computers representing 103 countries, were there no United States government systems? These questions remain.
“We did it for the children!”
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/18/0751255&from=rss
Database of All UK Children Launched
Posted by timothy on Monday May 18, @04:44AM from the can't-help-but-think-of-'em-now dept. Privacy Government
An anonymous reader writes
"'A controversial database which holds the details of every child in England has now become available for childcare professionals to access. The government says it will enable more co-ordinated services for children and ensure none slips through the net. 390,000 people will have access to the database, but will have gone through stringent security training.'"
What happened to politicians who want their image everywhere? (Perhaps this is too much like making sausage?)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/17/2151216&from=rss
Canada Gov't Censors Parliament Hearings On YouTube
Posted by timothy on Sunday May 17, @06:41PM from the state-vs.-everyone dept. Censorship Government The Media
An anonymous reader writes
"The Canadian government has admitted sending cease and desist letters to YouTube demanding that it remove videos of Parliamentary hearings. Lawyers for the House of Commons argue that using videos of elected representatives without permission constitutes copyright infringement and a contempt of Parliament."
[From the article:
SCPHA hearings held earlier this year revealed that Canada's elected officials safeguard Parliamentary video with very restrictive licencing requirements that are generally limited to use in schools or for private study, research, criticism or review. Relying on crown copyright, the policy states that any other use - including any commercial use - requires the express prior written approval of the Speaker of the House of Commons. This stands in sharp contrast to the United States, where the default presumption is that such videos are in the public domain and can be freely used without permission. House of Commons lawyers portrayed that approach as representing an extreme position.
Where is the 'invisible hand' pushing news and when does it reach for its wallet? (The comments are worth reading...)
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/17/143206&from=rss
Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 17, @10:51AM from the good-old-supply-and-demand dept.
The Guardian's John Naughton isn't looking to micro-transactions or licensing fees from search services to solve the online news business model problems that have come to a head recently. Instead, he's simply waiting for capitalism to do its job in killing off the providers who can't cut it. Once that happens, he says, the remaining organizations will be in a far better position to see what web-goers will pay for online news, and he doesn't think it will inhibit the growth of an increasingly information-rich news ecosystem.
"Things have got so bad that Rupert Murdoch has tasked a team with finding a way of charging for News Corp content. This is the 'make the bastards pay' school of thought. Another group of fantasists speculate about ways of extorting money from Google, which they portray as a parasitic feeder on their hallowed produce. ... But what will journalism be like in the perfectly competitive online world? One clue is provided by the novelist William Gibson's celebrated maxim that 'the future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed.' In a recent lecture, the writer Steven Johnson took Gibson's insight to heart and argued that if we want to know what the networked journalism of the future might be like, we should look now at how the reporting of technology has evolved over the past few decades."
Their job is to intimidate potential pirates, not provide factual arguments.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/17/1632242&from=rss
Calling BS On the BSA Global Piracy Report
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 17, @01:35PM from the i-think-that-stands-for-bachelor-of-skepticism dept. The Internet Software
An anonymous reader writes
"The Business Software Alliance released their annual global piracy report earlier this week. In addition to the usual claims of software piracy (PDF) and the grudging acknowledgment of open source software, Michael Geist noted that the report ultimately undermined one of the BSA's core arguments — that countries which enact DMCA-style legislation experience significantly reduced piracy rates. Questions have also been raised over the BSA's methodology, as has happened in the past."
You know I like lists, but things like the Areacode/Zipcode map are actually useful.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/9-awesome-useful-google-maps-mashups/
9 Awesome & Useful Google Maps Mashups
May. 17th, 2009 By David Pierce
Paper maps are SO over. Using Google Maps these days, you can do literally anything you can think of. Want to map your own weather radar? Done. How about seeing, in real time, where in the world people are using Twitter? Also done.
The Google Maps API has opened up a ton of different uses of Google Maps, and some fantastic applications have been built on top of and use Google Maps. Below are nine of the best.
This could be useful. Is there a business model hidden here? If they find data (from academic or commercial organizations) could they provide a “Details for sale!” link that interested parties would follow?
Your e-health future
May 18, 2009 4:00 AM PST
In this three-day special report, CNET News takes a look at the rapidly digitizing health care industry, detailing the stumbling blocks and dangers, as well as how the stimulus plan and legislation could affect the average person. In the process, we inch a little closer to answering one of the most vexing questions of American medicine: why are so many doctors such Luddites?
Keep an eye on this, it may be googles answer to Wolfram/Alpha (without the math?)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/021391.html
May 17, 2009
Google Squared - Coming Soon
"Google Squared will be coming soon. For now, why not have fun squaring some numbers?"
Via Google Blogoscoped: Enter the number 42 - the query returns the following: "The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"
An interesting hack. I could backdate a few predictions and become an instant “oracle.” (This is why I make my students include the link...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/customizing-headers-footers-for-printing-webpages/
Customizing Headers & Footers For Printing Webpages
May. 17th, 2009 By Saikat Basu
What’s your biggest webpage printing woe? For me, it’s the header and footer information that gets printed automatically with every page. Webpage URL, title, page number, date and time or some other information right on top (or bottom) makes up the header-footer information.
Amusing hack
http://www.totallyfreecursors.com/
TotallyFreeCursors
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