What type/target/'volume of hacking
rises to this level?
"In one of the photos, the
dark-haired, bearded hacker is peering into his computer's screen,
perhaps puzzled at what's happening. Minutes later, he cuts his
computer's connection, realizing he has been discovered. In an
unprecedented move, the country of Georgia — irritated by
persistent cyber-spying attacks — has published
two photos of a Russia-based hacker who, the Georgians allege,
waged a persistent, months-long campaign that stole confidential
information from Georgian government ministries, parliament, banks
and NGOs."
For my Disaster Recovery students.
This isn't a bad weather issue, this is a bad design issue! (Were
you planning to rely on your cell phone in the next emergency?
Telecom companies have reported that
25% of cell towers have been knocked out in 10 states in the wake of
Hurricane Sandy. In addition, 25% of cable services have also been
lost in those states, although landline outages are reported to be
“far fewer.” Emergency calls are currently being rerouted to
different call centers, according to the FCC.
In an increasingly connected world,
laws have an increasing global impact? If I offer a free “Guide to
Tokyo” App on a Tokyo website, I'm still subject to California laws
because someone in Ferndale downloaded the App? Perhaps I should
make it free except in California, where it is $2500?
The state of
California has warned OpenTable, United Continental, and Delta Air
Lines over their inaccessible privacy policies for mobile users,
according to a source familiar with the issue. Reportedly, the
companies were notified via a letter from the California Attorney
General that they have 30 days to make their privacy policies
“readily accessible.” The source declined being named because
the happenings aren’t public.
…
According to Conley, California is the only state that requires
privacy policies for apps in addition to websites. Failure to adhere
to the privacy policy laws could result in a $2,500
fine per app download.
...and when
Lawyers enter the Bar, they must pass beneath this inscription:
"Abandon all logic, ye
who enter here" At least, that's how it appears to
this non-lawyer.
MPAA:
Don't let MegaUpload users access their data
Hollywood's lobbyists are a bit alarmed
at the possibility that MegaUpload users may be getting their data
back.
The Motion Picture Association of
America told a federal judge in Virginia today that any decision to
allow users of the embattled file locker to access their own files
could "compound the massive infringing conduct already at issue
in this criminal litigation." MegaUpload's servers with
approximately 25 petabytes of data are currently unplugged, offline,
and in storage at Dulles, Va.-based Carpathia Hosting.
When an FBI raid took down MegaUpload's
U.S.-based servers early this year, federal agents also seized
electronic property belonging to Americans who used the file locker
to store perfectly legal backups of their own data. One user, Kyle
Goodwin, an Ohio-based sports videographer, has
been trying since May to get his copyrighted video files back,
and to allow other users in the same predicament to do the same.
… CNET previously
reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is opposing
Goodwin's request to access his own files, saying it would mean
"releasing assets of the defendants which are subject to
mandatory forfeiture." [Except he's not a
defendant – or am I missing something? Bob]
More “my brain hurts” articles
about patents...
Let’s
Go Back to Patenting the ‘Solution,’ Not the ‘Problem’
We
already know the patent system is broken. And it desperately needs
to be fixed: Patents affect and will continue to affect nearly every
technology business or product we use. So for the next few weeks,
Wired is running a special series of expert opinions – representing
perspectives from academia to corporations to other organizations —
proposing specific solutions to the patent problem.
Interesting. Not only shows me where I
can vote early, it lists all 16 candidates for president
(alphabetically by first name)
October 30, 2012
Google
Launches new Voter Information Tool
Google
Official Blog: "Every four years in the United States,
people prepare to head to the polls and increasingly
search for information about how to register to vote, where to
vote and who is on their ballot. Even though it is 2012, important
voting information is disorganized and hard to find on the Internet.
To help voters research candidates and successfully cast their ballot
on Election Day, we’ve launched our new Voter
Information Tool. You can enter your address to find information
on your polling place, early vote locations, ballot information with
links to candidates’ social media sites and voting rules and
requirements."
Pimp your mouse! (For people who
actually do stuff with their computer...)
The Windows right-click menu is a
feature that we may often take for granted, but it can really make
our lives easier. Advanced users probably don’t use it that much,
having learned all the necessary keyboard shortcuts to do whatever
they want in the blink of an eye, but what if you could spice up that
right-click menu? What if it could do a bunch of awesome tasks that
you couldn’t replicate with the keyboard?
That’s one of the drawbacks to the
menu, I think. A lot of the menu options are either rarely used so
we don’t remember to use them, or they’re easily replaced by a
simple key combination like in the case of copy-pasting. But thanks
to a few awesome programmers, we can boost the usefulness of our
right-click menus by adding more features to it.
Limited free diagrams, but then why buy
Visio if you don't need it?
A
Platform Play – Gliffy Moves Its Online Diagram Service To HTML 5
And Says Goodbye To Flash
Gliffy
is moving to an all HTML 5 platform, showing the change in
developer and business users needs to collaborate online across any
platform and within third-party application environments.
Maybe you can't just copy everything...
Step
by Step Guide to Upgrading to Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 8 is finally out and
can now be upgraded to or downloaded. Windows 7, XP and Vista users
can simply upgrade to Windows 8 for only $39.99.
But this is a limited time offer, from October 26th to Jan 31st
2013.
If you wish to upgrade to Windows 8 and
want to know how you can do it, then you are at the right place as
today we are presenting a step by step guide to upgrading to Windows
8. So check these easy steps out and start with the upgrading
procedure!
1. Download Windows Upgrade Assistant
from HERE.
After you are done downloading, launch it from your existing Windows
install.
… Windows 7 users are provided with
the option to keep files and apps, but unfortunately
XP and Vista users do not have any such option.
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