Submission + - Canadian DMCA Introduction Delayed (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: Follow up: "The word this afternoon is that Industry Minister Jim Prentice will not introduce the Canadian DMCA tomorrow."
Submission + - End users behaving badly (networkworld.com)
bednarz writes: "IT managers share tales of dangerous user behavior, including sharing passwords, copying sensitive information to portable storage devices, and accessing personal e-mail accounts at work. Bruce Bonsall, CISO at MassMutual Financial Group, worries most about the intertwined work and home life of most corporate employees that leaves networks open to security holes. He also gets concerned when a user population isn't as educated about security policies or potential threats as they should be. "The bad guys are going after high network staff and senior executives, which is very disturbing. The more information they use that relates to the target, the more likely someone will get tricked, even savvy end users," Bonsall says."
Submission + - Icelandic Teen Arrested for Calling Bush
jeepliberty writes:
ABC news is reporting that an Icelandic teen was arrested for calling President Bush on a private White House number.
Its No Fly list and banned US entry for this resourceful teen.
Its No Fly list and banned US entry for this resourceful teen.
Submission + - ASU's Failed Peoplesoft Implementation (wsj.com)
An anonymous reader writes: As written about in the Wall Street Journal, Arizona State University recently "upgraded" its Human Resources software to Oracle's PeopleSoft. After fast-tracking and releasing the product, more than 3,000 employees have received incorrect — and sometimes empty — paychecks. While many employees at ASU state that this is just another reason why employee morale is at an all-time low, Oracle and ASU administration are claiming the project as a success. The project did come under budget but there have been student-aid screw-ups, bugs-a-plenty, and a lack of communication to ASU students, faculty, and staff from the implementation team. Some are claiming that this is merely the tip of the iceberg and most people don't know much of the story.
This is a pretty embarrassing situation for ASU, especially for Adrian Sannier, the University Technology Officer, who seems to be the man behind this implementation. Even though they're trying to sweep the situation under the rug by heralding Adrian's "implement, adapt, grow" attitude and by changing all references of HCM to HRIS on websites and documentation, it appears the truth is inescapable.
This is a pretty embarrassing situation for ASU, especially for Adrian Sannier, the University Technology Officer, who seems to be the man behind this implementation. Even though they're trying to sweep the situation under the rug by heralding Adrian's "implement, adapt, grow" attitude and by changing all references of HCM to HRIS on websites and documentation, it appears the truth is inescapable.
Submission + - Schedules Direct Reaches Price Target
Submission + - Mutant Algae to Fuel Cars of Tomorrow?
Hugh Pickens writes: "Algae has long been known as a promising source of biodiesel, however algae also produce a small amount of hydrogen during photosynthesis. The MIT Technology Review reports that now researchers have created a mutant algae that makes better use of sunlight to increase the amount of hydrogen that the algae produce. In a commercial bioreactor, the top layers of algae absorb most of the sunlight but can only use a fraction of it. Anastasios Melis and his team at the University of California have manipulated the genes that control the amount of chlorophyll in the algae's chloroplasts reducing the chlorophyll so that the algae absorb less sunlight. This lets more light penetrate into the deeper algae layers so that more cells use the sunlight to make hydrogen. Although the process is still at least five years from being used for hydrogen generation, Melis estimates that if 50% of capacity of the photosynthesis of the algae could be directed toward hydrogen production, an acre could produce 40 kilograms of hydrogen per day bringing the cost of producing hydrogen to $2.80 a kilogram. At this price, hydrogen could compete with gasoline, since a kilogram of hydrogen is equivalent in energy to a gallon of gasoline."
