Crying wolf means you get less press
coverage next time... Right?
Feds:
No hacking in Illinois water pump failure
By The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Federal
authorities say reports that hacking caused a water pump failure in
Illinois' capital city aren't true.
Department of Homeland Security
spokesman Chris Ortman says initial reports over the weekend about
the failure in Springfield were based on raw and unconfirmed data.
He said in a Tuesday statement that
detailed analysis by DHS and the FBI found no evidence of a cyber
intrusion or any malicious activity. Homeland security officials
have said in the past that they investigate every piece of
intelligence that comes into the agency.
With apologies to Steve Allen, This
Could Be the Start of Something Big (Brother)
Malls
track shoppers’ cell phones on Black Friday
November 22, 2011 by Dissent
Annalyn Censky reports:
Attention holiday
shoppers: your cell phone may be tracked this year.
Starting on Black
Friday and running through New Year’s Day, two U.S. malls —
Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center
in Richmond, Va. — will track guests’ movements by monitoring the
signals from their cell phones.
Read more on CNN
Money.
Hey, I like it. They don't have a
“Privacy” or “Security Breach” section yet, but I'll follow
the Technology feed for a while...
November 22, 2011
FindLaw
Legal Pulse is launched - aggregates topical news and social media
News
release: "FindLaw.com is introducing
FindLaw
Legal Pulse, a new content area that offers
continuously updated legal headlines from around the world, along
with news, photo feeds and analysis from such sources as Reuters, the
Associated Press, New York Times and Washington Post. The content
covers a broad range of law-related topics -- everything from Supreme
Court decisions to legislative updates, everyday legal issues and
even sports and celebrity news. FindLaw Legal Pulse offers tangible
user benefits -- the news is up-to-date, comes from a rich variety of
sources, and is tailored to audiences with legal interests."
Who says America has lost its sense of
humor? How come this stuff gets to market and my brilliant idea for
an “anti-social” network (Buttfacebook) didn't make the cut?
Tired
Of Facebook? Try Facedrink Energy Shot Before Zuck Sues
“It gives you social energy. It
gives you taste of friendship.” It’s Facedrink!
And you better go buy some because it will be sued out of existence
any minute now. Following in the footsteps of the unofficial Mark
Zuckerberg action figure, some dude named Barry Moustapha
(ROFLCOPTER) has created a lawyer-magnet energy drink. It’s themed
with Facebook colors and proudly displays an “Add as Friend”
button on the label. I’d be suspicious this was a hoax, but
there’s a photo of a real bottle and reviewers confirm it leave a
worse taste in your mouth than getting Poked by your dad.
How to be well read, the military
version... (General reading?)
November 22, 2011
DOD
Reading Lists Aim to Promote Personal, Professional Growth
Reading Lists Aim to Promote Personal,
Professional Growth, By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service:
"Legend has it that Alexander the
Great slept with a copy of The Iliad, Homer's epic tale set during
the Trojan War, under his pillow. Almost 2,500 years later,
professional reading remains an important part of the military
culture. Every service, most professional military schools and an
increasing number of geographic and combatant commands offer up
reading programs and reading lists as part of their professional
development efforts. In fact, many have multiple reading lists,
aimed at different groups within the military at different ranks and
stages of their careers. Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, commander of
U.S. European Command and NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe,
recently took this initiative to a new level with an online
video encouraging all of his command to check
out the Eucom reading list. The list is divided into sections with
books about different phases of European history, culture and
languages, as well as works of literary fiction that provide insight
into European culture."
Quantitative measure of “Bragging
Rights!”
November 22, 2011
Google
Scholar Citations Open To All
Google
Scholar Blog: "A few months ago, we
introduced a
limited release of Google Scholar Citations, a
simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track
them over time. Today, we’re delighted to make this service
available to everyone! Click
here and follow the instructions to get started.
Here’s how it works. You can quickly identify which articles are
yours, by selecting one or more groups of articles that are computed
statistically. Then, we collect citations to your articles, graph
them over time, and compute your citation metrics - the widely used
h-index; the i-10 index, which is simply the number of articles with
at least ten citations; and, of course, the total number of citations
to your articles. Each metric is computed over all citations and
also over citations in articles published in the last five years."
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