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Mass. Data Security Law Says "Thou Shalt Encrypt" 510

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 25, 2010 @02:28PM from the some-serious-micromanagement dept.

emeraldd writes with this snippet from SQL Magazine summarizing what he calls a "rather scary" new data protection law from Massachusetts: "Here are the basics of the new law. If you have personally identifiable information (PII) about a Massachusetts resident, such as a first and last name, then you have to encrypt that data on the wire and as it's persisted. Sending PII over HTTP instead of HTTPS? That's a big no-no. Storing the name of a customer in SQL Server without the data being encrypted? No way, Jose. You'll get a fine of $5,000 per breach or lost record. If you have a database that contains 1,000 names of Massachusetts residents and lose it without the data being encrypted, that's $5,000,000. Yikes.'"

Comment Re:Ugh, dollar signs? Really? (Score 1) 790

by caternater on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @03:34PM (#31752660) Attached to: Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback

Man, I am so sick of people talking out of their arse. That's how she stylizes her name.

Bad Driving May Have Genetic Basis 449

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 29, 2009 @01:11PM from the born-to-run-off-the-road dept.

Serenissima writes "Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists. People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it — and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results. About 30 percent of Americans have the variant. 'These people make more errors from the get-go, and they forget more of what they learned after time away,' said Dr. Steven Cramer, neurology associate professor and senior author of the study published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex."

Dissolvable Glass For Bone Repair 168

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 02, 2009 @12:29PM from the heart-of-glass dept.

gpronger writes "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, but Glass Will Certainly Mend Them! The old schoolyard ditty may be changed to reflect developments using metallic glass that will dissolve in situ instead of the traditional stainless steel or titanium hardware, which require removal by surgery once the bone has healed. Physics World reports that researcher Jörg Löffler at ETH Zurich has created an alloy of 60% magnesium, 35% zinc, and 5% calcium, molded in the form of metallic glass. Through rapid cooling, the alloy forms a molecularly amorphous glass that slowly dissolves over time, supporting the injury long enough for healing, then slowly dissolving away."

Comment Double Standard (Score 1) 4

by caternater on Sunday November 11, 2007 @03:30AM (#21311637) Attached to: Facebook under Fire over Breastfeeding Photos

So, men can be (and are) charged as sex offenders for urinating behind a tree, but exposing female breasts in public should be okay just because there's an ankle biter attached to it?

Google Releases 'Testing on the Toilet' 192

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday January 25, 2007 @08:17PM from the logging-off dept.

JasonK writes "Here's a type of Google launch you don't see every day: Testing on the Toilet. This is a service that has been apparently been running internally for several months and teaching developers about testing during their 'down time,' so to speak. Due to the wild success of the program inside of Google, they decided to start a blog where they will post these weekly episodes so that the rest of us can print them out and have our own reading on the can. Is this a step towards Google becoming more open about their development practices?"

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