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Comment Re:McCroskey (Score 1) 106

by wiz31337 (#29996318) Attached to: Facebook and MySpace Backdoors Found, Fixed

I agree, unfortunately there are a lot of people that don't realize this and will click on any and every cool looking app out there.

However, even if your Facebook account is compromised people need to realize that they should only be putting information on their page that they want the whole world to see. If people would just ask themselves one question "Am I ok with my [boss, wife, mom, complete stranger] knowing this" before posting a lot of issues could be avoided.
Government

Submission + - Minnesota to block online gambling (kare11.com)

Submitted by wiz31337
wiz31337 writes: Minnesota is working with local ISP to block access to over 200 gambling websites.

Using a 1961 federal law designed to stop illegal gambling, the state has directed 11 telephone and Internet service providers to block nearly 200 gambling Web sites.
Biotech

Leg-Paralysis Sensing, Stimulation Device Steps Up 20

Posted by timothy from the zombies-are-next dept.
AndreV writes "After 30 years of development, a device developed at Simon Fraser University that assists people to walk who have paralysis in one leg will soon be on the market in Europe and, eventually, in the US and Canada. The pacemaker-like Neurostep uses nerve cuffs to sense and stimulate nerve activity in the paralyzed leg, allowing greater mobility for those suffering from neurological disabilities such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, or cerebral palsy. About the size of a cell phone, the 'brain' integrates three digital modules: the neurosensing module (receives nerve impulses), real-time adaptive control module (interrogates the signals and identifies physical events), and neurostimulation module (delivers stimulation to the target nerve). It was recently approved for use in Europe, and they are working to begin clinical trials and introduce the device in the US."
Encryption

How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? 468

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the first-step-is-teaching-people-how-not-to-be-stupid dept.
Dark Neuron writes "My institution has thousands of computers, and is looking at starting an IT policy to encrypt everything, all hard drives, including desktops, laptops, external hard drives, USB flash drives, etc. I am looking at an open source product for Windows, Mac, UNIX, as well as portable hard drives, but I am concerned about overhead and speed penalties. Does anyone have experience and/or advice with encrypting every single device in a similar situation?"

Comment Missing Address (Score 4, Insightful) 168

by wiz31337 (#26534745) Attached to: Largest Data Breach Disclosed During Inauguration

"The nature of the [breach] is such that card-not-present transactions are actually quite difficult for the bad guys to do because one piece of information we know they did not get was an address," Baldwin said.

Because as we all know it is impossible to get someone's address by having only their full name and credit card number.

They are trying to down play a very serious incident by disclosing the breach on a day heavily focused on the inauguration. Then they have the nerve to say "don't worry they didn't get your address" as if to say someone smart enough to embed malicious software which gathers credit card numbers is not smart enough to find someone's address. Common!
Security

Submission + - Canadian Spy Coin's Secrets Revieled

Submitted by
arthurpaliden
arthurpaliden writes: "An odd-looking Canadian quarter with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a false espionage warning from the Defense Department about mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters. The harmless "poppy quarter" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP."
Space

Submission + - Fat Planet Discovered

Submitted by ExE122
ExE122 writes: Scientists have discovered an unusually fat planet approximately eight times the size of Jupiter. The planet, HAT-P-2b, is the largest planet discovered to date. This new discovery contains "so much gravity a 150-pound person would weigh in at more than a ton".
Programming

Submission + - Memory leak patterns in JavaScript

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Plugging memory leaks in JavaScript is easy enough when you know what causes them. This article walks you through the basics of circular references in JavaScript and explain why they can cause problems in certain browsers, especially when combined with closures. After seeing some of the common memory leak patterns you should watch out for, you'll learn a variety of easy ways to work around them.
Patents

Submission + - Educause asks Blackboard to drop patent suit

Submitted by toaster-repair
toaster-repair writes: "Inside Higher Ed is reporting that Educause, leaders in higher education, recently sent a very strongly worded letter to Blackboard, encouraging them to drop their patent lawsuit against desire2Learn. They cited the patent as being too broad and hurting the eLearning industry. Blackboard has not replied favorably." An excerpt of Educause's letter expresses the intense anger of customers and eLearning vendors, "Among those who have been most directly involved in the development and evolution of course management systems — customers whom Blackboard has relied upon for ideas and advice — these concerns are most pronounced. Their anger over the law suit is so intense that many are simply not communicating with Blackboard."

Feed News: Nightmare At Twenty-Thousand Feet (penny-arcade.com)

From feed by pennyarcadefeed
Tycho: Recently returning home on a terrifying sky journey, Gabriel tried to explain that he couldn't shut off his game system - couldn't - because the Mana Tree had just released some kind of surge, unleashing monsters upon isle of Illusia. His aircraft's stern women were unmoved, even by the delicacy and imminence of his imaginary plight, because the genuine danger posed by airborne videogames was simply too grave.

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