Comment Oblig xkcd (Score 2) 454
How long until they just resort to this?
Comment Password Management Tool + Emergency Docs + Will (Score 1) 402
I have something like this in place:
Use a password management tool (e.g. 1Password) which has your different accounts/credentials.
Prepare a document (e.g. will) that will disclose the password management tool's master password to your next of kin or designated executor.
In addition, I prepared a list of 'emergency documents' that contains all the pertinent info I have (passports, social security numbers, tax documents, etc) in both electronic and paper forms.
It's a convenience for me that I have access to all of this at my finger tips, but I imagine it would be a great convenience / time-saver for what is already a trying and difficult time.
Submission + - Google moves censorship from China to Australia (smh.com.au)
mykos writes: Mr Newhouse said Google agreed to take the link down after he filed an official complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
"Lo and behold they agreed last night to take down the sites."
Mr Newhouse believes the site would be filtered under the Federal Government's mandatory filter.
"Sites that promote racial vilification would actually fall within that description [illegal sites] and therefore would be filtered."
The Federal Government plans to introduce legislation this year requiring all service providers to ban "refused classification" material.
"Lo and behold they agreed last night to take down the sites."
Mr Newhouse believes the site would be filtered under the Federal Government's mandatory filter.
"Sites that promote racial vilification would actually fall within that description [illegal sites] and therefore would be filtered."
The Federal Government plans to introduce legislation this year requiring all service providers to ban "refused classification" material.
Submission + - AT&T Glitch Connects Users to Wrong Accounts (boston.com) 2
CAE guy writes: "The Boston Globe reports: 'A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users.' Who needs to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks when your service provider will hijack your session for you?"
Submission + - US to protest to China on Google (bbc.co.uk)
smartaleckkill writes: BBC and BusinessWeek carrying news that the US state department is to formally protest to China over 'alleged cyber-attacks' on Google, 'likely early next week'.
Submission + - Founder of MySQL Delays Acquisition of Sun (again) (fas.gov.ru)
An anonymous reader writes: With the European Commission likely to green light Oracle's acquisition of Sun, Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has released a statement (translation) saying that they have received a petition asking them to investigate the acquisition, particularly in relation to MySQL.
Submission + - AMD Delivers DX11 Graphics Solution for under $100 (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: The new AMD Radeon HD 5670 launches today and it is the first graphics card to bring DirectX 11 support to the sub-$100 market and offers next-generation features to almost any budget. The Redwood part (as it was codenamed) is nearly 3.5x smaller in die size than the first DX11 GPUs from AMD while still offering support for DirectCompute 5.0, Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming and of course DX11 features (like tessellation) in upcoming Windows gaming titles. Unfortunately, performance on the card is not revolutionary even for the $99 graphics market though power consumption has been noticeably lowered while keeping the card well cooled in a single slot design.
Comment GLPI (Score 1) 251
It would really depend on your site requirements -- namely, what you want to track, how to correlate said info, etc.
You might want to check out GLPI. It covers the basics that most inventory management software does. The documentation is a bit lacking / confusing, but there're enough users out there who can help. It's pretty flexible, too, but seeing that the OP mentioned isn't a web coder, that's not as good a selling point.
On another note, I'd recommend searching SourceForge and Freshmeat for "inventory." It might just so happen that someone's written it in such a way that fits your needs. In my experience, every organization has always had something slightly different, where one works better than the other.
Submission + - Electronic Arts CEO Replaced
nespooh writes: The CEO of Electronic Arts (Larry Probst) has been replaced.
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1304231660056979 887624850666510914871032
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/130423166005697
Submission + - Citibank: training users to be less secure
Llamedos writes: Citibank has redesigned their credit card website (Citicards.com) so that the login page is not an SSL encrypted page. Instead, they expect users to simply accept a little lock GIF file they put up themselves, and their assurance that the form is submitted via SSL. According to Citibank, "Your security is important to us. While the new Citicards.com has an "http" address and no lock icon displays in your browser, your personal information is still protected." Citibank's security page While other sites are moving to more security and more ways for the user to protect himself (e.g., Bank of America's SiteKey program), Citibank is tearing away at protections and trying to train users not to care about security.
Submission + - Who's number is on my caller ID? Who Called Us
An anonymous reader writes: I got a few calls today from a number I didn't recognize. They didn't leave a voice mail so I assumed it was a telemarketer. I decided to see what Google thought about the number and the first link that came up was: http://whocalled.us/lookup/3123279690. This link includes the phone number I was searching for. Pretty cool way for us to work together to ID the telemarketers.
IE and Firefox Share a Vulnerability 207
hcmtnbiker writes with news of a logic flaw shared by IE 7 and Firefox 2.0. IE 5.01, IE 6, and Firefox 1.5.0.9 are also affected. The flaw was discovered by Michal Zalewski, and is easily demonstrated on IE7 and Firefox. The vulnerability is not platform-specific, but these demonstrations are — they work only on Windows systems. (Microsoft says that IE7 on Vista is not vulnerable.) From the vulnerability description: "In all modern browsers, form fields (used to upload user-specified files to a remote server) enjoy some added protection meant to prevent scripts from arbitrarily choosing local files to be sent, and automatically submitting the form without user knowledge. For example, '.value' parameter cannot be set or changed, and any changes to .type reset the contents of the field... [in this attack] the keyboard input in unrelated locations can be selectively geared toward input fields by the attacker."
Submission + - Networking Strategic Planning
NorCalRon writes: I work for the State of California in Information Technology. I am working on a committee that is defining the strategic plan for networking. This committee is comprised of people that had a good deal of technical expertise at one time, but our skills have morphed to the "business" side of the house, away from more active technical roles.
The committee is doing a pretty good job addressing the future based upon our technical understanding and experiences, but I am haunted that a bunch of bureaucrats (like myself) may be missing something important. We have already asked similar questions of our technical workforce, as well as some highly (over) paid consultants.
Here is an opportunity to possibly change the way the State of California does its business, especially in the area's of networking, voice, convergence, and security by suggesting ideas that we should be investigating as part of this process.
Any and all ideas welcome, even the inevitable flames. All will be helpful, or at least humorous.
The committee is doing a pretty good job addressing the future based upon our technical understanding and experiences, but I am haunted that a bunch of bureaucrats (like myself) may be missing something important. We have already asked similar questions of our technical workforce, as well as some highly (over) paid consultants.
Here is an opportunity to possibly change the way the State of California does its business, especially in the area's of networking, voice, convergence, and security by suggesting ideas that we should be investigating as part of this process.
Any and all ideas welcome, even the inevitable flames. All will be helpful, or at least humorous.
Submission + - Verizon wins injunction against TXT spammer
Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked 205
Jake's Mom sends word of the serendipitous solution to a decades-old mathematical mystery. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin have unraveled a major number theory puzzle left at the death of one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan. From the press release: "Mathematicians have finally laid to rest the legendary mystery surrounding an elusive group of numerical expressions known as the 'mock theta functions.' Number theorists have struggled to understand the functions ever since... Ramanujan first alluded to them in a letter written [to G. H. Hardy] on his deathbed, in 1920. Now, using mathematical techniques that emerged well after Ramanujan's death, two number theorists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have pieced together an explanatory framework that for the first time illustrates what mock theta functions are, and exactly how to derive them."
