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The Courts

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

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kstatefan40
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."
Image

A Unique Environmental Policy to Deal With Fraudulent Customers Screenshot-sm 7

Posted by samzenpus 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."
Idle

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

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kstatefan40
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."
Space

Panel Advises Longer Life For Space Station 237

Posted by samzenpus from the if-it-isn't-broke dept.
suraj.sun writes "A presidential panel reviewing the US space program has found that the United States needs to boost NASA's budget by $1.5 billion to fly the last seven shuttle missions and should extend International Space Station operations through 2020. The panel also proposed adding an extra, eighth shuttle flight to help keep the station supplied and narrow an expected 5-7 year gap between the time the shuttle fleet is retired and a new US spaceship is ready to fly."

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

by kstatefan40 (#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.
Linux Business

What Did You Do First With Linux? 739

Posted by Soulskill from the indulged-in-moderately-maniacal-laughter dept.
ruphus13 writes "OStatic has an interesting article on remembering the first time you used Linux. Quoting: 'I'm not sure if the admission that I remember my first Linux installation much more clearly than any date with my first boyfriend or my first date with my husband is a really wise thing to put in writing. I will freely admit it wasn't quite as anxiety-inducing as a date, and the long-term relationship that sprang from it taught me quite a bit about myself, how I learn, and how to passionately load kernel modules at boot. So, what was your first Linux experience?'"
Programming

What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? 586

Posted by timothy from the onion-belters dept.
gilgongo writes "It's more than 10 years since people started making a living writing web page markup, yet the job title (and role) has yet to settle down. Not only that, but there are different types of people who write markup: those that approach the craft as essentially an integration task, and those that see it as part of UI design overall. The situation is further complicated by the existence of other roles in the workplace such as graphic designer and information architect. This is making recruitment for this role a real headache. So, how do you describe people who 'do HTML' (and CSS and maybe a bit of JavaScript and graphics manipulation)? Some job titles I've seen include: Design Technologist, Web Developer, Front-end Developer, HTML/CSS Developer, Client-side Developer and UI Engineer. Do you have any favourite job titles for this role?"
Security

Submission + - WebHostingTalk Data Breach: Lessons Learned

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kstatefan40
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."
Security

Submission + - WebHostingTalk Hacked Again, Credit Cards Stolen 3

Submitted by kstatefan40
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 (#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 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.
The Military

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

Posted by Roblimo 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.
Businesses

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

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Anonymous Coward
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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