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ancientribe writes: Jeff Moss, aka "The Dark Tangent," and founder of the Black Hat security conference and DEFCON, the world's largest hacker conference, has been named vp and CSO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Moss will take on the position of Black Hat Conference Chair, where he will continue to play a key role in the development of conference and training content.
An anonymous reader writes: Gizmodo has a video of a piece of software called Lantern 2,used by the police to extract information off a smartphone:
"Plug your iPhone in. Click 'Aquire'. Wait for a progress bar to complete. After about 15 minutes, I had the entire contents of my phone in an extremely user-friendly interface. Anything you would want to know — or didn'(TM)t even know you'd want to know – about my phone is easy to tap. An entire minute by minute chronology of my text exchanges. Every picture I'd ever taken. My bookmarks. My cookies. Every Skype call I've ever placed. My entire Facebook friend list. Every mobile tower my phone has touched, with longitude and latitude coordinates. All there."
RedEaredSlider writes: Sony is being hit with a class action suit in the wake of the recent PlayStation Network outage that was caused by a hacking attack.
Hackers broke into Sony's PlayStation Network last week, swiping user information and possibly credit card numbers. The lawsuit, filed by Novato, Calif.-based Rothken Law Firm on behalf of Kristopher Johns, says Sony did not do all it could to both prevent the intrusion into its systems and inform subscribers of its occurrence.
According to the lawsuit, Sony failed to maintain adequate security over user information, which made them unable to prevent hackers from getting in and stealing user names and passwords, which ultimately lead to account information.
The problem with IQ is not one of acceptance or usefulness. Some scientists have already pointed out that taking the results of IQ tests at face value has some very Unfortunate Implications, see this article by Paul Barrett for example. (the article points out consistently measured significant differences between IQ scores between races, for example).
Basically, IQ is an undefined construct which has a purely statistical basis at best. Nonetheless it is a very widely known construct which has nested itself deeply in the collective psyche.
RedEaredSlider writes: Minnesota Senator Al Franken has called out Apple after reports emerged that the company's products were keeping detailed records of the location data of their users.
In a two-page letter sent to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Franken discusses what he calls the "worrisome" existence of data that presents the user's location in such detail. But the biggest risk, he says, is what can happen if that data, much of which is unencrypted, falls into the wrong hands.
Franken ends the letter by asking Jobs a nine key questions, many of which touch on the same issues and concerns raised by the initial reports. Among them are whether the conduct is permissible under the terms of Apple's own privacy policy.
You are querying the wrong table.
TFA clearly mentions a table named CellLocation. Which would probably contain cellphone location records, just like your table called WifiLocation contains wifi base station locations.
I'm not sure if you are trolling or just extremely willfully ignorant.
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People get headaches because of 60Hz CRT monitor refresh rates. Which is why faster monitors were invented. The whole issue is moot anyway with LCD displays.
This has nothing to do at all with framerates.