It is never enough to simply implement
a security procedure. You actually have to follow Best Practices
exactly and then test it every way you can...
"A new project that was setup
to monitor the quality and strength of the SSL implementations on top
sites across the Internet found that 75
percent of them are vulnerable to the BEAST SSL attack and that
just 10 percent of the sites surveyed should be considered secure.
The SSL
Pulse project, set up by the Trustworthy Internet Movement, looks
at several components of each site's SSL implementation to determine
how secure the site actually is. The project looks at how each site
is configured, which versions of the TLS and SSL protocols the site
supports, whether the site is vulnerable to the BEAST or insecure
renegotiation attacks and other factors. The data that the SSL Pulse
project has gathered thus far shows that the vast majority of the
200,000 sites the project is surveying need some serious help in
fixing their SSL implementations."
In Texas it's, “One revenuer, one
revolution.”
"The Houston Chronicle is
reporting that Amazon.com
will soon start collecting sales tax from buyers in state of Texas.
'Seattle-based Amazon, which had $34 billion in sales in 2010, has
long opposed collecting taxes. That has drawn fire from state
governments facing budget shortfalls and from traditional
brick-and-mortar retailers, who say online sellers essentially give
customers an automatic discount when they don’t collect taxes.
Combs has estimated the
state loses $600 million a year from untaxed online sales.
However, Amazon has recently begun making deals with a number of
states to collect sales tax. Those deals have usually included a
one- to three-year window exempting Amazon from sales tax
collection.'"
A new legal niche? “If you can't be
civil, we'll fit you for a civil suit?”
Teen
Sues Over Facebook Bullying
A teenager in Georgia has decided to
take things into her own hands after her school and police said they
could do nothing about the classmates bullying her on Facebook.
Oh look, a symptom! Now, how to we
cure the disease?
When
Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
It’s an age of unprecedented,
staggering technological change. Business models are being
transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of
possibility opened up. Or something like that. These are all pretty
common assertions in modern business/tech journalism and management
literature.
Then there’s another view, which I
heard from author Neal
Stephenson in
an MIT lecture hall last week. A hundred years from now, he
said, we might look back on the late 20th and early 21st centuries
and say, “It was an actively creative society. Then the internet
happened and everything got put on hold for a generation.”
Stephenson was clearly trying to be
provocative. But he’s not alone in the judgment that we’re not
actually living in an era of great innovation. Economist Tyler
Cowen’s e-book-turned-book, The
Great Stagnation, made similar points: Compared with
the staggering changes in everyday life in the first half of the 20th
century wrought by electricity, cars, and electronic communication,
the digital age has brought relatively minor alterations to how we
live.
… The most common response to such
griping has been, just wait. Many techno-optimists base
their thinking on a
famous 1990 paper by economic historian Paul David, which
described how, for decades, electricity had little effect on
industrial productivity as manufacturers simply swapped out older
energy sources for electric power but changed nothing about how they
made things. It was only as new factories were built that took
advantage of the unique properties of electric motors that a
productivity boom ensued. Just give the digital age a bit more time,
and you’ll see huge changes (and, one hopes, improvements) in how
we work and live.
[A correct link to Paul
David's paper:
After using Open Office for more than
10 years, perhaps it's time to move?
"If you are looking
for small niche features such as interactive word count, bundled
report designer, or command line filtering etc – LibreOffice
beats OpenOffice hands down. 'Noting the important dates of June
1, 2011, which was when Oracle donated OOo to Apache; and Apache
OpenOffice 3.4 is due probably sometime in May 2012; Meeks compared
Apache OpenOffice 3.4 new features to popular new features from
LibreOffice: 3.3, 3.4, 3.5. It wasn't surprising to find that
LibreOffice has merged many features not found in Apache OO given
their nearly year long head start.'"
This could be very useful as I try to
teach my students my SOP PDQ. (LOL)
When you are browsing websites, you
will come across countless abbreviations. These abbreviations can be
anything, ranging from Internet slang to something specific to the
website you are visiting. What you need is a tool which you can use
to quickly reference abbreviations and their possible meanings
without having to leave the webpage you are currently on. Here to
offer you that is a service called ABBREX.
ABBREX is a free to use browser tool.
It comes as an add-on for Mozilla Firefox and an extension for Google
Chrome. The purpose of ABBREX is to reveal all the possible meanings
of abbreviations you find on websites. Although you could easily
execute a web search to find out what an abbreviation stands for,
ABBREX lets you learn the abbreviation’s meaning without having to
leave the webpage.
With the add-on or extension installed
in your web browser, all you have to do is place your mouse pointer
over an abbreviation and its meaning is shown in a floating window.
Multiple meanings are shown and these are all contributed by ABBREX
users.
How geeks become experts before
'normal' people even hear of the software.
OnlineBeta is a website that allows
users to participate in beta tests of unreleased products. Users get
a chance to review products from well-known companies such as
Logitech, Dell, T-Mobile, Polycom, Kodak, Yahoo and many more. The
products range from household items to video games to enterprise
class hardware . The website sends only offers that might catch the
interest of the users.
To use the service, you must sign up
for a free account, and you will be sent offers over the period
according to the information you have provided along with the beta
product details.
Similar tools: BetaBait
and InviteShare.
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Proponents of flat tax also say that the tax system is fair, compared to other tax systems.
Issacureshi London tax specialist
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