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Comment Mt.Gox initial response (Score 4, Informative) 302

"MtGox has read on the Internet that the United States Department of Homeland Security had a court order and/or warrant issued from the United States District Court in Maryland which it served upon the Dwolla mobile payment service with respect to accounts used for trading with MtGox. MtGox takes this information seriously. However, as of this time MtGox has not been provided with a copy of the court order and/or warrant and does not know its scope and/or the reasons for its issuance. MtGox is investigating and will provide further reports when additional information becomes known.

Regards
Mt.Gox Co. Ltd Team."

https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130515.html

Submission + - Phone Hacker Gets 10 Years (wired.com)

xaosflux writes: Christopher Chaney was sentenced to 10 years in prison for hacking celebrity e-mail accounts, including Scarlett Johansson's. Wired reports that the conviction includes charges for hacking, identity theft, and wiretapping.

Comment To the ocean (Score 1) 722

At my last shop we used functional names for internal servers (e.g. COSVR048) but for external servers we used fish names for the primary data center and aquatic mammals for the secondary.

Education

Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? 622

Hugh Pickens writes writes "Paul Krugman writes in the NY Times that information technology seems to be reducing, not increasing, the demand for highly educated workers (reg. may be required), because a lot of what highly educated workers do could actually be replaced by sophisticated information processing. One good recent example is how software is replacing the teams of lawyers who used to do document research. 'From a legal staffing viewpoint, it means that a lot of people who used to be allocated to conduct document review are no longer able to be billed out,' says Bill Herr, a lawyer at a major chemical company who used to muster auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end. 'People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don't.' If true this raises a number of interesting questions. 'One is whether emphasizing education — even aside from the fact that the big rise in inequality has taken place among the highly educated — is, in effect, fighting the last war,' writes Krugman. 'Another is how we [can] have a decent society if and when even highly educated workers can't command a middle-class income.' Remember the Luddites weren't the poorest of the poor, they were skilled artisans whose skills had suddenly been devalued by new technology."

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