Teferison - Slashdot User

Comment Not news (Score 1) 88

by Teferison on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @01:42PM (#27137483) Attached to: Cheap Scanners Can "Fingerprint" Paper

This is not news, the university of applied sciences in Mannheim worked on this several years ago, and it is already implemented in their diplomas.
Interestingly they discovered it as a side effect, while trying to cramp more data on a sheet of paper.

This is the german page where you can test a diploma: https://zeugnis.hs-mannheim.de/

Comment Re:bad summary (Score 1) 67

by Teferison on Sunday February 22, 2009 @10:10AM (#26948259) Attached to: Uncle Sam's Travel Site Grounded By Breach

They are not hosting information IN Taiwan, they were hacked FROM Taiwan..

Forensic analysis revealed that hackers were able to gain access from four remote systems (3 systems residing in Taiwan and 1 system belonging to Harvard University)

Submission + - Social web sites sign EU pact vs. "cyber-bully (reuters.com)

Submitted by Teferison on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @02:37PM

Teferison writes: After the famous case of Megan Meier the European Commission has appealed to 17 social networking sites (Arto, Bebo, Dailymotion, Giovani.it, Google/YouTube, Hyves, Netlog, Nasza-klaza.pl, One.lt, Skyrock, StudiVZ, Sulake/Habbo Hotel, Yahoo!Europe, and Zap.lu) to sign a voluntary agreement order to protect under-18s. This agreement includes:

Ensure that private profiles of users under the age of 18 are not searchable on the websites or search engines.
Provide an easy to use and accessible "report abuse" software button, allowing users to report inappropriate contact from or conduct by another user with one click.
Make sure that the full online profiles and contact lists of website users who are registered as under-18s are set to "private" by default, making it harder for people with bad intentions to get in touch with young people.

Comment Left & Right (Score 1) 91

by Teferison on Monday January 05, 2009 @04:58AM (#26327467) Attached to: Data Mining Rescues Investigative Journalism

It depends a lot on your perspective.

If you're standing next to Bush, all the medias (and even Berlusconi and Sarkozy) will look leftist.(http://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2)

Comment Re:Wrong summary (Score 1) 455

by Teferison on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @11:21AM (#26132841) Attached to: Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability

It's not only misleading, but actually contradicts the BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm

But Microsoft counselled against taking such action. "I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw," said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's Windows group.

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