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Submission + - Seizure of MLB Players' Drug Tests Ruled Illegal (webhostingbuzz.com)

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kstatefan40

on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @11:33PM

kstatefan40 writes: "CNN is covering [CNN.com] a recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against federal investigators who seized drug test records on 104 Major League Baseball players in 2004. From the article, "The appeals court's decision says such a standard for computer searches would be dangerous to everyone's privacy as protected by the Constitution's Fourth Amendment. 'Seizure of, for example, Google's e-mail servers to look for a few incriminating messages could jeopardize the privacy of millions,' wrote the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges. The judges noted that 'some players appear to have already suffered this very harm as a result of the government's seizure.'" The warrant was for 10 players records, but since 104 were in plain site, they took those too. This is good news for everyone who has information stored on servers around the world."

Comment Re:Wow. (Score 1) 7

by kstatefan40 on Monday August 17, 2009 @04:14PM (#29096963) Attached to: A Unique Environmental Policy to Deal With Fraudulent Customers

Oh, we were quite serious. And look for a picture of us handing them a $100 check coming on the site in the next week or so. Enough is sometimes enough, especially when these people abuse our staff.

A Unique Environmental Policy to Deal With Fraudulent Customers 7

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 17, 2009 @12:54PM from the the-customer-is-sometimes-right dept.

kstatefan40 writes "Hosting company WebHostingBuzz introduced a unique environmental policy this weekend, calling for executives at the company to use fraudulent complaints as toilet paper and donating $100 to the International Tree Foundation to apologize for the abuse of such precious resources by customers who fraudulently file complaints against their company. The story goes back a few weeks, but it ended with WHB CEO Matt Russell telling a fraudulent customer who filed a complaint against with the BBB, 'Cool. I look forward to tearing it up and wiping my ass with the piece of paper.' Read and enjoy the entire exchange."

Submission + - Introducing Unique Environmental Policy for Fraud (webhostingbuzz.com)

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kstatefan40

on Sunday August 16, 2009 @04:26PM

kstatefan40 writes: "Hosting company WebHostingBuzz introduced a unique environmental policy this weekend, calling for executives at the company to use fraudulent complaints as toilet paper and donating $100 to the International Tree Foundation to apologize for the abuse of such precious resources by customers who fraudulently file complaints against their company. The story goes back a few weeks, but it ended with WHB CEO Matt Russell telling a fraudulent customer who filed a complaint against with the BBB, "Cool. I look forward to tearing it up and wiping my ass with the piece of paper." Read and enjoy the entire exchange."

Comment Take the Cash - NOT Stock Options (Score 1) 412

by kstatefan40 on Saturday May 09, 2009 @12:36AM (#27885509) Attached to: What To Do When a Megacorp Wants To Buy You?

Whatever you do, do not accept stock options. Take the cold hard cash - it has real value. I've seen too many small startups get screwed when their genius product was bought out and then the company that bought it went under. Suddenly, they sold the rights to their product for... nothing. Take cash. Upfront.

Submission + - WebHostingTalk Data Breach: Lessons Learned

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kstatefan40

on Thursday April 09, 2009 @03:19PM

kstatefan40 writes: "WebHostingTalk's data breach situation just keeps getting worse. First, over 50,000 user names and encrypted passwords were stolen from a backup server and the parent company iNET assured their clients that absolutely no credit card information was taken. Unfortunately for iNET, Tuesday of this week it was reported that nearly 10,000 credit card numbers were posted in plain text, including their corresponding CVV2 numbers, expiration date, and the full name of the owner of the card. The response from WHT has been all over the board and has really angered some of their clients. I wrote an analysis of what went wrong in WHT's response and lessons that can be learned from the incident."

Submission + - WebHostingTalk Hacked Again, Credit Cards Stolen 3

Submitted by kstatefan40 on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @04:10PM

kstatefan40 writes: WebHostingTalk was hacked about three weeks ago and was discussed here on Slashdot due to the unique nature of the attack, targeting the company's backup systems. Today, it seems they have been hacked again and this time the stolen data includes decrypted credit card information. If you have used them for advertising or bought a premier membership through them, it is time for you to cancel the credit card you used and consider purchasing credit monitoring services. The speculation can now begin: what the hell went wrong this time?

Comment Re:Star Wars (Score 1) 1419

by kstatefan40 on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @01:33AM (#24112295) Attached to: Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens?

As an 18 year old, I can recommend the Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson. They are absolutely fantastic books to start with and can really get thought patterns down. Once they are comfortable reading that, and if they enjoy it, move them into Mathew Stover's writing. It is absolutely dark and political, but it is also amazing at getting someone to understand themselves and controlling their emotions. Although it is fiction, Stover really gets down to the fundamental level of human nature, and they will be valuable lessons to know growing up.

New Power Adapter Fixes Space Issues 97

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 29, 2008 @02:51PM from the for-those-who-didn't-like-the-clutter-of-the-squid dept.

Tributaries has just announced a solution to all or your oversized power adapter woes. The new T12 power strip features 12 different outlets and eight of them are located on the edge and can be rotated by as much as 90 degrees. The adapter also provides surge protection for RJ-11, RJ-45, and Coax if you so desire.

Ask the Air Force Cyber Command General About War in Cyberspace 315

Posted by Roblimo on Friday February 29, 2008 @02:44PM from the play-the-ultimate-MMORPG dept.

We ran an article about the new Air Force Cyber Command and its recruiting efforts on February 13, 2008. Now Major General William Lord, who is in charge of this effort, has agreed to answer Slashdot users' questions. If you're thinking about joining up -- or just curious -- this is a golden opportunity to learn how our military is changing its command structure and recruiting efforts to deal with "cyberspace as a warfighting domain." Usual Slashdot interview rules apply.

Submission + - Buyer Beware: Wal-Mart Site to Store (pcmech.com)

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Anonymous Coward

on Sunday December 09, 2007 @03:41PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Wal-Mart has started to offer a new service from their web store, dubbed "Site to Store". They offer free shipping of products if you are willing to go to one of their locations to pick up the order. Sounds like a pretty good deal, right? Not when the employees are not supervised enough to prevent theft of the (already paid) product. Don't forget having to deal with Wal-Mart's customer service once it happens. PC Mecahnic's Editor-in-Chief, Tyler Thompson, shows the service's vulerability in an open letter to Wal-Mart Corporate Headquarters describing his recent troubles with the service. In short: Be mindful of these problems before choosing to use Site to Store. Wal-Mart has a lot of work to do."

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