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Submission + - California judge issues preliminary injunction blocking COVID 'misinformation' (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The law, known as Assembly Bill 2098, was set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2023. Under the law, the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California could discipline physicians who "disseminate" information about COVID that is not in line with the "contemporary scientific consensus."

In November, Jenin Younes, counsel for the NCLA(New Civil Liberties Alliance) said California’s new "misinformation" law is the result of the increasing censorious mentality that has gripped many lawmakers in America.

"That this shocking bill passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the First Amendment," Younes said.

Doctors said the law violates their First Amendment rights because it impedes their ability to communicate with their patients during treatment.

Submission + - Disaster Recovery Causes Disaster On NYSE (cnbc.com)

Submitted by cstacy
cstacy writes: On Tuesday morning, the New York Stock Exchange failed to open normally, and trading was disrupted. "This caused significant price dislocations and trading halts" according to CNBC.

NYSE President Lynn Martin and other exchange officials confirmed to CNBC that the root cause of the Big Board’s trading glitch at the Tuesday open was due to a manual error involving the Exchange’s Disaster Recovery configuration.

After the 9/11 disaster, the NYSE was obligated to maintain a primary trading site (at the NYSE) and a back-up site (which is in Chicago).

On Monday evening, routine maintenance was being performed on the software for the Chicago back-up site.

On Tuesday morning, the back-up system (Chicago) was mistakenly still running when the primary system (NYSE) came online.

Because the back-up was still running, when the primary site started up some stocks behaved as if trading had already started.

As a result, Designated Market Makers (DMMs) (Wikipedia) who would normally publish an opening auction print for each stock were prevented from doing so because the system operated as if an opening had already occurred.

Another "file" problem, I guess. You computer people seem to have a lot of them.

Submission + - A Network of Knockoff Apparel Stores Exposed 330,000 Customer Credit Cards (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you recently made a purchase from an overseas online store selling knockoff clothes and goods, there’s a chance your credit card number and personal information were exposed. Since January 6, a database containing hundreds of thousands of unencrypted credit card numbers and corresponding cardholders’ information was spilling onto the open web. At the time it was pulled offline on Tuesday, the database had about 330,000 credit card numbers, cardholder names, and full billing addresses — and rising in real-time as customers placed new orders. The data contained all the information that a criminal would need to make fraudulent transactions and purchases using a cardholder’s information.

The credit card numbers belong to customers who made purchases through a network of near-identical online stores claiming to sell designer goods and apparel. But the stores had the same security problem in common: Any time a customer made a purchase, their credit card data and billing information was saved in a database, which was left exposed to the internet without a password. Anyone who knew the IP address of the database could access reams of unencrypted financial data. Anurag Sen, a good-faith security researcher, found the exposed credit card records and asked TechCrunch for help in reporting it to its owner. Sen has a respectable track record of scanning the internet looking for exposed servers and inadvertently published data, and reporting it to companies to get their systems secured.

But in this case, Sen wasn’t the first person to discover the spilling data. According to a ransom note left behind on the exposed database, someone else had found the spilling data and, instead of trying to identify the owner and responsibly reporting the spill, the unnamed person instead claimed to have taken a copy of the entire database’s contents of credit card data and would return it in exchange for a small sum of cryptocurrency. A review of the data by TechCrunch shows most of the credit card numbers are owned by cardholders in the United States. [...] Internet records showed that the database was operated by a customer of Tencent, whose cloud services were used to host the database. TechCrunch contacted Tencent about its customer’s database leaking credit card information, and the company responded quickly. The customer’s database went offline a short time later.

Comment Re: I want (Score 1) 35

by Drishmung (#63131144) Attached to: Gold Nano-Coating Works Like an Anti-Fog Heating Element For Glasses

I also had a Schubert helmet (C3 Pro). I have had no luck with pin lock and fogging.

Of course, my glasses fog up anyway.

Interesting. I've also got the C3, and the anti-fog does work perfectly for me (apart from my glasses fogging up sometimes [photochromic, toughened plastic, in case it matters], which I can usually fix by cracking the visor open a tiny bit).

Comment Re:"Hey want to be unemployed temporarily?" (Score 1) 49

by Drishmung (#63097752) Attached to: Intel Offers Irish Staff a Three-Month Break From Being Paid
Except that they are not unemployed, so aren't eligible for unemployment benefits (I assume, not being intimately familiar with Irish law). However, if they just made them redundant, then they'd be liable to a minimum payment of two weeks gross pay for each year of service, possibly more if they have a better employment agreement.

Comment Re:Inversely proportional to sexual activity (Score 1, Interesting) 289

by Drishmung (#63095744) Attached to: Sperm Counts Worldwide Are Plummeting Faster Than We Thought
So, you are saying that people began to masturbate more because of the increasing availability of pornography due to the Internet.

Which of course means that people must have masturbated less back then than they do now.

So the Victorian diatribes against 'self-abuse', and Kellog's Cornflakes were a reaction to something that didn't exist, because nobody was actually doing it.

Sigh...

Comment Re:GDPR (Score 3, Informative) 49

Indeed, they have a lot of money. But a lot less than they had last year., and their menu and lawyers haven't stopped them being fined even if they are still appealing the judgements.

I was obviously being provocative with my question, but GDPR is having an effect, with companies having mandatory all-staff training; with multi-million dollar (tens of $M) software upgrades; with significant changes in how they do business.

Meta however has a problem. Its core business model is arguably incompatible with GDPR, so it's really difficult to fix. And as pointed out here, it may have even more fundamentally existential problems.

Comment Re:Dont spam with shit jobs (Score 1) 105

by Drishmung (#62277395) Attached to: Tech Companies Face a Fresh Crisis: Hiring
>Headhunters are like apartment finders. They're generally unnecessary if parties on both sides of the transaction are actually interested and above-board.

Yeah, mostly. Last time I was looking, one agent looked at my C.V. and said that my list of achievements (projects delivered etc) was too long and could I cut it down to the edited highlights? Dude, that was just the edited highlights. OTOH another agent said that he didn't have a position available at the moment, but knew a company that needed to hire me, and he was going to talk to them and convince them of that.

In the end, I got a job not through a headhunter but through a friend who said, had I seen this ad? I hadn't. Hmm, I can do that, looks interesting. What's the catch? Turns out there wasn't one :)

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