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Submission + - Can an iPod bring your company down?

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BobB
BobB writes: "The recent buzz about security threats posed by iPods to corporations has reinforced the need for IT managers to treat these devices like any other removable media that employees with malicious intent can use to extract sensitive data. Following the suggestion recently made by a security company that iPods be banned from the workplace until proper protection is in place, and the emergence of a proof-of-concept iPod virus, it would seem that iPods pose a particularly high risk to corporations that let employees wander into work with these devices strung to their ears. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/040907-ipod- company-security.html"

Feed Laptop thefts expose 40,000 Chicago teachers (theregister.com)

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Identity crisis

A thief walked into the headquarters of Chicage Public Schools (CPS) on Friday, April 6 and grabbed two laptops containing the names and social security numbers of 40,000 teachers. The CPS has released an image of the suspect captured by CCTV and is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the thief or recovery of the data.

Feed Male Births: Decline In The US And Japan (sciencedaily.com)

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During the past 30 years, the number of male births has decreased each year in the US and Japan. The decline in births is equivalent to 135,000 fewer white males in the US and 127,000 fewer males in Japan over the past three decades and suggest that environmental factors are one explanation for these trends.
Media

Submission + - Drobo equals USB pseudo-RAID

Submitted by
mcoko
mcoko writes: "I saw this little fella running at Photoshop World in Boston. Drobo is a USB hard drive enclosure that provides full mirrored protection in box. Basically you load it up with 2-4 hard drives of any size and it will mirror data across the drives. Once protection is achieved you can hot swap or loose any drive with out loosing data. If and when a drive is lost or removed the Drobo will re-mirror/reorganize the data to ensure that another drive can be lost. Of course the total storage does not equal that of the drives installed. A simple set of lights indicate when data is completely protected and you can risk loosing one drive. The lights indicate when you are running low on space and when you are not in a protected mode. Check out the community site to read some in depth discussions. Here are a few short reviews."
Privacy

Submission + - Hacker's Case May Add to Students' Privacy Rights

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Article in Inside Higher Ed says the legal loss of a hacker in federal appeals court may result in students at public universities having MORE privacy rights. The hacker lost, but federal appeals court also said he had (generally) a right to privacy on computer in his dorm room:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/09/heck enkamp
Media

Submission + - Web art turned to plagiaristized gold.

Submitted by Moraiat
Moraiat writes: Plagiarism on the internet is tricky business. For some, it's quite profitable. Todd Goliath (Goldman) of David and Goliath Tees has had much of his art discovered to be copied, derived, or blatantly traced(SomethingAwful.com). Shmorky's (Dave Kelly) art was recognized as duplicated by Goliath and the outcry from the online community has been rapidly intensifying over the course of a day. The main story can be found on SomethingAwful's forum, progress is added as the story develops. The artwork in question, the original, and the overlay of it being visibly "traced" (Image) can be found, posted by the real artist, can be found on his forum post.
Other artists are joining Kelly in his plight, Goldman's been copying others' work for many years, only now someone is standing up to him. Goldman's art is self-proclaimed to be random, zany, stupid, and in your face. His self-biography can be seen here.
Bug

Submission + - The TurboTax Solution: Lie on your Tax Return

Submitted by
Reinhard
Reinhard writes: "Getting this message when trying to efile at turbotax.com?

Your Order Can't Be Processed Now. Please try again later.
No worries! Turbotax has a great solution:

Change the following personal information to some fictitious information: First Name, Last Name, Birth Date, Soc. Sec. No.
"
Education

Submission + - Gates to Senate: Education Reform Now

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Bill Gates appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions last week and called for education reform. "We simply cannot sustain an economy based on innovation unless our citizens are educated in math, science, and engineering," he said. "As a nation, we should start with this goal: Every child in the United States graduating from high school." From the article, "A federal study released last month found that about a third of high school students fail to take a standard-level curriculum of at least four credits of English and three credits each of social studies, math, and science. Another recent federal study found that 40 percent of high school seniors failed to perform at the basic level on a national math test. And on a national science test, half the twelfth-graders who took the test lacked basic skills.""
Novell

Submission + - Novell linked to 'Windows cheaper than Linux' stat

Submitted by
NuMessiah
NuMessiah writes: "As seen on ZDNet: 'Novell has issued a joint press release with Microsoft, in which HSBC, a customer of joint technology from the two companies, claims that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux.'"
Networking

Submission + - Online Board Games for Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After 6 years away from Linux I install Ubuntu. It's great. But — I can no longer play online Chess or Go. Sure, Ubuntu and its ilk are great — but this is a deal-breaker. Don't expect me to give up DirectX *and* online (Java-based) games! Where is a realtime Chess/Go server for Linux/Ubuntu?
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - PAL PS3 backwards compatibility update

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An anonymous reader writes: Following statements by Sony about reduced backwards compatibility in the PAL version of the PS3, The Inquirer reports that Cynamite in Germany got their hands on an European PS3 model and tested its backwards compatibility with 12 of the most famous PS2 games. The results were that only one of those games worked properly, Eragon. Those tests were done with a PS3 containing version 1.5 of the PS3's firmware. Other sites are reporting that on launch day, Firmware version 1.6 will be released, which will allow about 1200 PS2 games to be played, accounting for about 50% of all PS2 games launched in Europe. This means that people who want to play older games will most likely have to update their Firmware right after buying their PS3. Sony will only release the definitive list of backwards compatible games on launch day, 23rd of March.
United States

Submission + - DC Residents Get Credit Freezes (Finally)

Submitted by
Jeremy
Jeremy writes: "The Washington Post reports that DC residents will soon be able to get Credit Freeze protection (starting July 1st, 2007). They don't go into much detail other than to say that there's a $10 fee per Credit Reporting Company (so effectively $30). If you're not familiar with why this is such a big deal, see my article here. But the short version is that credit freeze laws are part of the 2 step plan for crippling the identity theft problem that I submitted to the FTC's Identity Theft Task Force's open request for ideas to help stop identity theft. If every state had a good credit freeze law and we prevent congress from enacting a weaker federal law, identity thefts will start to dry up fast."

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