ChiefMonkeyGrinder - Slashdot User

+ - SAP in yet another exec reshuffle-> 0

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Tuesday December 21, 2010 @07:27AM

DMandPenfold writes "Three SAP vice presidents and a head of services are leaving the company, as part of a major management reshuffle, it is understood."
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+ - FBI: Dell, AMD execs sold inside information -> 0

Submitted by ChiefMonkeyGrinder on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:53AM

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Four executives at publicly traded technology companies, including Dell and AMD, have been arrested on charges they sold inside information about their employers, sometimes for hundreds of thousands of dollars."
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+ - Fund Set up for Bail of WikiLeaks' Assange -> 0

Submitted by geek4 on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:36AM

geek4 writes "A legal defence fund for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange has been set up, backed by journalist John Pilger

A fund has been set up for the legal defence of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, backed by leading investigative journalists.

The Julian Assange Defence Fund was announced on Twitter today, and will be used to defend Assange against legal actions in the US and Sweden, and may be used to assist with future bail conditions – Assange was bailed yesterday for £240,000 -. It has been described in detail in a document held on the site of law firm Finer Stephens Innocent."
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+ - Assange Defence Fund Backed By Pilger And Others-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:02AM

An anonymous reader writes "A legal defence fund for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange has been set up, backed by journalist John Pilger among others

A fund has been set up for the legal defence of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, backed by leading investigative journalists.

The Julian Assange Defence Fund was announced on Twitter today, and will help pay Assange’s bail charges – set at £240,000 – as well as defending Assange against all legal actions including criminal and extradition actions brought against him in the US and Sweden. It has been described in detail in a document held on the site of law firm Finer Stephens Innocent."
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+ - BP monitoring tech failures in $21bn govt lawsuit-> 0

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Thursday December 16, 2010 @10:57AM

DMandPenfold writes "The US government is suing BP for $21.1 billion over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, alleging that a serious failure of the company’s monitoring systems played a leading role in the accident.

BP and its partners had failed to use the safest and best drilling technology to monitor the well’s conditions and keep it under control, the Department of Justice said in its filing yesterday in a New Orleans court."
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+ - Bank of America says confidential databases stolen-> 0

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @09:58AM

DMandPenfold writes "Bank of America has claimed in a lawsuit that four ex-employees copied confidential databases of its trade secrets, and executed a “co-ordinated” attack on its wealth management unit using the data..."
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+ - Amazon: hardware, not hackers, caused outage-> 0

Submitted by ChiefMonkeyGrinder on Monday December 13, 2010 @08:27AM

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Amazon has denied reports that its European sites were brought down by a DoS attack by a hacker group sympathetic to Wikileaks cause. The retailer was a planned target for the attackers, called Anonymous. But Amazon said it was a hardware failure in its European data centre network that caused the half hour outage in Europe."
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+ - I, for one, welcome our new patent overlords -> 0

Submitted by ChiefMonkeyGrinder on Friday December 10, 2010 @08:02AM

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "A significant event took place yesterday: potentially the biggest software patent troll of all has finally woken from its slumbers: Today Intellectual Ventures enforced its rights and filed patent infringement complaints in the US District Court of Delaware against companies in the software security; dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and Flash memory; and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) industries. Intellectual Ventures was founded by Microsoft, Intel and a Seattle based lawfim."
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+ - Cloud will create thousands of IT jobs-> 0

Submitted by ChiefMonkeyGrinder on Thursday December 09, 2010 @07:14AM

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Cloud adoption could help the UK achieve economic benefits of £100.7 billion over the six-year period from 2010 to 2015, according to a study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). Cloud could also create thousands of new jobs, says CEBR. In the UK, 289,000 jobs are expected to be generated cumulatively over the 2010 to 2015 period, contributing to the more than 2.3 million jobs that are expected to be created across France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. The net annual figure for all five economies is forecast to be 446,000 new jobs."
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+ - Oil spill IT disasters: Chevron modeling crashes -> 0

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @11:02AM

DMandPenfold writes "Chevron has been given the go-ahead to drill off the UK coast in the North Sea, in spite of the oil giant’s admission that its spill prediction software constantly crashes and is not a reliable predictor of how far oil could travel if an accident took place.

The news comes as an inquiry into BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill was derailed by one of the company's IT constractors. National Oilwell Varco, a firm that offers modeling software, rejected US government demands to provide access to its proprietary HiTech application. It said that handing over the code would..."
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+ - BP inquiry stranded as IT supplier refuses access-> 1

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:07PM

DMandPenfold writes "The investigation into BP’s disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill has hit the buffers after a drilling technology firm refused to hand over access to fundamental safety software used on the rig..."
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+ - Wikileaks Julian Assange arrested in London-> 0

Submitted by ChiefMonkeyGrinder on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @07:44AM

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "The UK Metropolitan Police arrested the 39-year old founder of Wikipedia this morning on the basis of a European Arrest Warrant, as he voluntarily turned himself into a police station. He will appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court later. Assange is accused by the Swedish authorities of sexually assaulting two women. He has said the charges are wrong and are part of a campaign against him as Wikileaks reveals a raft of confidential government communications."
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Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' 1425

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @01:45PM
from the name-calling dept.

DMandPenfold writes "Sarah Palin, who is widely tipped as a possible Republican candidate for president in 2012, has said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be hunted down in the way armed forces are targeting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda." So that means we should spend billions of dollars and not catch him? Good plan.

+ - BP ignored safety modeling software to save time-> 0

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Friday November 26, 2010 @11:45AM

DMandPenfold writes "BP ignored the advice of safety critical software in an attempt to save time before the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a presentation slide prepared by US investigators.

The slide in question briefly appeared on the Oil Spill Commission’s website in error, but was quickly retracted.

Advanced cement modelling software, provided by BP’s cement contractor Halliburton, had highlighted serious stability concerns with the well..."
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Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria 164

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 25, 2010 @03:05PM
from the feed-your-flashdrive dept.

Bananana writes "A research team out of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found a way to do data encryption and storage with bacteria. The project is called 'Bioencryption,' and their presentation (as a PDF file) is here."