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Submission + - E-paper Display Gives Payment Cards a Changing Security Code

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Using payment cards with an embedded chip makes payments more secure in physical stores, but it’s still relatively easy for criminals to copy card details and use them online. Payment specialist Oberthur Technologies has another idea, which it will soon be testing in France. Oberthur’s Motion Code technology replaces the printed 3-digit CVV (Card Verification Value) code with a small e-paper display. The code changes periodically, reducing the time a fraudster has to act.

Comment Re:Solution (Score 1) 384

by ripvlan (#49737211) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue?

I was going to suggest contacting the pump vendor and see if they have a solution. It might be considered cheaper to pay this guy than it is to fix the problem.

Or - get a dozen of those new Intel PCs on a stick. Rather than running a dozen wires across the parking lot to trip on or finding a managed switch that can support that many VLANs - just create PC dongles.

Submission + - New Chrome Extension Uses Sound To Share URLs Between Devices (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Google Tone is an experimental feature that could be used to easily and instantly share browser pages, search results, videos and other pages among devices, according to Google Research. 'The initial prototype used an efficient audio transmission scheme that sounded terrible, so we played it beyond the range of human hearing,' researcher Alex Kauffmann and software engineer Boris Smus wrote in a post on the Google Research blog.

Submission + - Kubi telemedicine device gets HIPAA clearance for streaming medical data (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel
Hallie Siegel writes: Revolve Robotics and Swymed have collaborated to create a HIPAA compliant telepresence device called Kubi that can stream medical data. This compliance is a big deal: no longer do MDs have to rely only upon what they see, or think they see, to make a diagnosis; they can use data streaming directly to the app to help make decisions. In smaller rural hospitals or even in ambulances, where a specialist cannot be physically there, this is going to be the best alternative.

Submission + - 20 Years Of Java Through Its Creator's Eyes

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: As the father of Java, James Gosling gets a lot of love from the millions of developers who use the language around the world. Today, however, he programs robots that swim in the ocean. SD Times caught up with him http://sdtimes.com/twenty-year... to discuss the early days of Java, the evolution of the JVM and how Java 1.0's legacy relates to the Internet of Things.

Submission + - After A Year of Secret Field-Testing, Brain-Controlled Bionic Legs Are Here (popsci.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Today, an Icelandic prosthetic-maker announced that two amputees have been testing brain-controlled bionic legs for over a year. The devices respond to impulses in the subjects' residual limbs, via sensors that took were implanted in simple, 15-minute-long procedures. This is a huge step forward (sorry) for this class of bionics, which may like a solved problem based on reports and videos from laboratories, but that has never been exposed to real world use and everyday wear and tear. Here's my story for Popular Science, including insight from one of the two testers.

Submission + - Kim Kardashian's Official Website Full Of Security Flaws, Researcher Finds

Submitted by blottsie
blottsie writes: Kardashian's personal website is full of security holes that put visitors at risk of malware and potential identity theft, according to a security report obtained by the Daily Dot.

In early April, security researcher and university student Jamie Woodruff discovered over a dozen security vulnerabilities in Kardashian's website, KimKardashian.com. Woodruff says he immediately reported the security flaws to the site's administrator, which he corroborated in an April 10 email shared with the Daily Dot. He says he also tweeted directly to Kardashian and her media-relations representatives. More than a month later, Woodruff has yet to receive a response.

Submission + - Feds bust cops who cleaned up credit histories by filing fake police reports. (miamiherald.com)

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: For a few very profitable years, Vanessa and Mario Perez made more than $322,000 by clearing up the blemished credit reports of people with bad bill-paying histories, almost as if by magic.

Federal authorities say the Perezes had a secret weapon: a network of dirty Miami-Dade County, Florida police officers, who wrote 215 falsified police reports. The Perezes used these falsified police reports to claim their customers were victims of identity theft when they were not.

The false ID theft claims provided the Perezes’ clients with an official excuse for their bad credit histories so they could get negative items removed from their reports. In turn, the customers could boost their credit scores with reporting agencies such as Equifax and obtain credit cards, loans and other financing again.

Submission + - Google Offers Cheap Cloud Computing For Low-Priority Tasks (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Much of the history of computing products and services involves getting people desperate for better performance and faster results to pay a premium to get what they want. But Google has a new beta service that's going in the other direction — offering cheap cloud computing services for customers who don't mind waiting. Jobs like data analytics, genomics, and simulation and modeling can require lots of computational power, but they can run periodically, can be interrupted, and can even keep going if one or more nodes they're using goes offline.

Submission + - Shanghai takes steps to regulate taxi-hailing app services (thestack.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Shanghai has announced this week that it will be working to better regulate smartphone-enabled taxi-hailing apps within the city and that the changes will come into effect from 1st June this summer. The initiative would make Shanghai the first city in China to authorize an industry which faces nationwide roadblocks to its services over legitimacy concerns. Transport officials said that data from the government’s log of taxis and drivers, from the dispatching systems used by the city’s four largest taxi firms, as well as from the popular taxi-hailing app Didi Dache would be compiled to support the new regulations. Vehicles registered to the Didi Dache network will also have their ‘pirate cab’ status removed. According to the city authorities, the move to legitimize taxi-hailing services would help tackle the problem of private car drivers using the app illegally to transport passengers. They hope that it will also prevent taxi drivers from gathering data about their passengers, stop them from looking at their phones while driving and improve road safety.

Submission + - Princeton Study: Congress Statistically Does Not Care About You

Submitted by chavez988
chavez988 writes: A study conducted by Princeton researchers recently found there is almost no statistical correlation between the opinions of 90% of the the population and how congress votes, but a an almost 1-to-1 correlation between the top 10%. So one question is whether or not we can still call congressmen "representatives"? This video explains the study well.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 387

by ripvlan (#49725449) Attached to: Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students

I call bullshit. This person sounds more like a bully salesperson. While I may not use *chalk* - we all use "whiteboard" markers. My children use chalk in the drive-way to express themselves - and I may, [ahem], play along. Cursive? My 4 year old has no problem reading my cursive when I draw letters in chalk on the driveway. When digital fails it is nice to have a backup plan.

Somewhere was an article that writing things down helped with retention of new concepts.

I can agree with her point that we use digital pens - when designing (software) I use a bamboo as a virtual whiteboard to collaborate with people across the globe.

Plus - she used "in the cloud" during the presentation. It was sales !! Not "research says"

Comment Re:your crap gets in my way (Score 1) 618

by ripvlan (#49719253) Attached to: Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral

Over the weekend I heard a different take on this (Reply All podcast). For Hasidic Jews - the internet contains immoral content. While they have their own websites that meet religious requirements, there is a company that builds special blocking software for accessing more public websites (Amazon was the example). For example it causes images of people to appear as blacked out - just in case it was a scantily-clad woman.

It is like net-nanny on steroids. Except steroids are immoral so it would be - not that.

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