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Submission + - Microsoft certifications won't boost your pay much (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by jbrodkin
jbrodkin writes: Microsoft certifications are dropping in value and provide a smaller pay boost than IT skills related to Cisco, Oracle, EMC, VMware, IBM, SAP and Red Hat technologies.
"So many people have Microsoft certifications that the gap between supply and demand is not that great, like it is with other certifications," says David Foote of the IT research firm Foote Partners, who adds "you're talking about a company that has lost ground over the last several years."
Microsoft certifications provide a 5.9% pay boost, less than the 7.3% industry average, and have been dropping in value for six months.
Idle

Submission + - Dead People Scientists Keep Messing With (discovermagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Some historical figures are just too interesting to leave alone, even when they're supposed to be moldering in the grave. That's why medical researchers dug up Tycho Brahe, bombarded Napoleon's hair with neutrons in a nuclear reactor, and did everything they could think of to King Tut. Discover Magazine has 8 stories of delayed diagnoses and extreme postmortems.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Kills AutoRun in Windows (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: As malware authors and attackers have continued to employ the Windows AutoRun functionality to help spread their malicious creations--culminating famously in the Stuxnet worm--Microsoft has been making gradual changes to help prevent these attacks. This week the company took the major step of putting an optional fix into Windows Update that will disable AutoRun.

The company made the change Tuesday on the same day that it shipped its monthly crop of patches, and said that the change is designed to bring Windows XP and other operating systems into a more secure state by makign it harder for malware to use AutoRun as a propagation method.

Comment Re:I'm Confused (Score 0) 152

by scotty.m (#35076836) Attached to: Egyptians Turn To Tor To Organize Dissent Online
... said John Gilmore
But that doesn't answer the question. Without Internet, Internet censorship is irrelevant. Also, TOR has nothing to do with censorship.
You must've been rolling that quote around for a while, looking for the right moment to throw it in the mix. This wasn't it.
Science

Submission + - Should Dolphins be Treated as Non-Human Persons?

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Dolphins have long been recognized as among the most intelligent of animals but now the Times reports that a series of behavioral studies suggest that dolphins, especially species such as the bottlenose, have distinct personalities, a strong sense of self, can think about the future and are so bright that they should be treated as “non-human persons”. “Many dolphin brains are larger than our own and second in mass only to the human brain when corrected for body size,” says Lori Marino, a zoologist at Emory University. “The neuroanatomy suggests psychological continuity between humans and dolphins and has profound implications for the ethics of human-dolphin interactions." For example, one study found that dolphins can recognize their image in a mirror as a reflection of themselves — a finding that indicates self-awareness similar to that seen in higher primates and elephants and other studies have found that dolphins are capable of advanced cognitive abilities such as problem-solving, artificial language comprehension, and complex social behavior, indicate that dolphins are far more intellectually and emotionally sophisticated than previously thought. Thomas White, professor of ethics at Loyola Marymount University has written a series of academic studies suggesting dolphins should have rights claiming that the current relationship between humans and dolphins is, in effect, equivalent to the relationship between whites and Black slaves two centuries ago. “The scientific research . . . suggests that dolphins are ‘non-human persons’ who qualify for moral standing as individuals," says White."
Government

Submission + - Leaked: US government strategy to prevent leaks

Submitted by Steve
Steve writes: The US government's 11-page document on how to get various US government agencies to prevent future leaks has been leaked to MSNBC. It doesn't get any more ironic than that. After the various leaks made by WikiLeaks, the US government understandably wants to limit the number of potential leaks, but their strategy apparently isn't implemented yet. The memo was sent this week to senior officials at all agencies that use classified material.

It's clear that the Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive steps to prevent further leaks. According to the document, these steps include figuring out which employees might be most inclined to leak classified documents, by using psychiatrists and sociologists to assess their trustworthiness. The memo also suggests that agencies require all their employees to report any contacts with members of the news media they may have.

Comment Re:Like a bridge over troubled water... (Score 1) 314

by scotty.m (#34769926) Attached to: Will Facebook Become the Net's SSO?
It's laughable someone would even conceive of a Facebook SSO. This must be fake? I mean look at this blokes name: Simson Garfinkel
Given Facebooks history with privacy and the level of success people have with subverting accounts this cannot possibly go ahead. Also, i won't be able to log in anywhere because I'm not signing up to Facebook.

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