Felony Stupidity – I love it!
From the
do-you-know-who-you’re-hiring-on-Craigslist
dept:
Miles Snyder reports:
A Harrisburg man will serve at least two years in prison for recruiting a computer hacker to wipe out fines he owed to Lancaster County.
Zachary J. Landis, 27, was sentenced to 2-4 years in state prison after pleading guilty last week to felony counts of computer trespass, unlawful use of a computer, and tampering with public records, according to the district attorney’s office.
How stupid do you have to be to advertise for a
hacker on Craiglist and then give them not only the docket numbers
but your real name and email address? There should be a felony
stupidity charge tacked on to some cases…
Read more on ABC27.
[From
the article:
Authorities saw the ad and a detective who posed
as a hacker contacted Landis for the court docket numbers. The
detective received three docket sheets from cases associated with
Landis and found the ad was posted using his email address and phone
number.
Authorities said Landis still owes more than
$9,000 to a victim in a 2008 assault case. The
other cases include two DUI convictions. [That
suggests where this idea came from. Bob]
The UK market for personal encryption just got
hot.
Has the UK lost its collective mind? Tom
Whitehead reports:
Internet and social media companies will be banned from putting customer communications beyond their own reach under new laws to be unveiled on Wednesday.
Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Measures in the Investigatory Powers Bill will place in law a requirement on tech firms and service providers to be able to provide unencrypted communications to the police or spy agencies if requested through a warrant.
Read more on The
Telegraph.
So the UK is not going to ban encryption, because
it’s desirable for some things, but they’re going to ban really
good encryption, because it’s undesirable for some things.
I see…
Will Watson just talk about the weather or is IBM
ready to do something about it? (Is Watson setting the strategy at
IBM?)
IBM Bets
Big on Weather Data With The Weather Company Acquisition
… According to The Weather Company, it gathers
billions of data points from sensors, smartphones,vehicles and
airplane flights. In March, the company partnered with IBM to bring
its data to the IBM Cloud and make it available to customers through
IBM's analytics and cloud services. At the time, IBM noted that
"weather is perhaps the single largest external swing factor in
business performance – responsible for an annual economic impact of
nearly half a trillion dollars in the U.S. alone." Reflecting
the demand for that data, IBM says that the The Weather Company's
cloud platform currently handles 26 billion requests per day.
… IBM believes there are significant
opportunities to merge The Weather Company's treasure trove of data
with Watson's capabilities to transform industries. For instance, it
points to the possibility that airlines could save significant
amounts of money "by tapping multiple real-time and historical
data sources to optimize fuel consumption, reduce delays and airport
congestion, and improve passenger safety during disruptive
conditions."
… This could shape how the IoT market evolves.
Right now, a growing number of companies are focused on building
turnkey platforms that companies can use to power their own internets
of things, but larger competitors like IBM, which not only have IoT
platforms of their own but a means to monetize IoT data, could rain
on their parade by purchasing the companies that generate the most
and most attractive IoT data.
All the news that fits Facebook's business model.
Big Data
How
Facebook will use artificial intelligence to organize insane amounts
of data into the perfect News Feed and a personal assistant with
superpowers
Using some quick and dirty math, Facebook CTO Mike
Schroepfer estimates that the amount of content that Facebook
considers putting on your News Feed grows 40% to 50% year-over-year.
But because people aren't gaining more time in the
day, the company's algorithms have to be much more selective about
what they actually show you.
Entertainment.
Spotify Now
Has the Complete Works of Bach and Beethoven
There are plenty of websites
for listening to classical music, but it’s easy to forget that
Spotify contains tons of old
music, too.
Using the Spotify playlists created by user
Ulysses’
Classical, you can stream both the
complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach and the
complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Bach’s 3,488 songs will take you 169 hours to
finish while Beethoven’s 1,203 songs will take you at least 98
hours. All combined, that’s over 260 hours of wonderful classical
music to enjoy.
… If these playlists piqued your interest,
check out these other ways
to explore public domain music.
I predict a social network that will randomly
connect you to people around the world.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/03/are-smartphone-connected-sex-toys-the-next-big-thing.html?__source=google|editorspicks|&par=google&google_editors_picks=true
Are
smartphone-connected sex toys the next big thing?
… We-Vibe sells several devices that connect
your smartphone with aspects such as vibration able to be controlled
from your handset. It works over distance too, allowing someone in
another location to control the sex toy. The app that is used to
control the device also comes with a videolink feature allowing
people to see each other too.
Attention Trekies!
Stream Me
Up, Scotty: CBS to Release New Star Trek Episodes Beginning January
2017
In January 2017, the Star Trek franchise
is boldly going to a medium it’s never gone to before: Online.
Today, CBS announced that it will be rebooting the
Star Trek series on its digital subscription video-streaming
service, CBS All Access. A preview broadcast will run on TV,
but the first episode and the rest of the series will be available
only through the streaming service.
For my CS & IT students.
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