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Submission + - Working from Home ... Hasn't Broken the Internet (wsj.com)

Submitted by sixoh1
sixoh1 writes: Per the WSJ (with some nice graphs tracing daily broadband usage) the shift in data usage is significant, but as one might anticipate the bulk of extra data usage is occurring outside the peak window. Quote -

"Home internet and wireless connectivity in the U.S. have largely withstood unprecedented demands as more Americans work and learn remotely.

Broadband and wireless service providers say traffic has jumped in residential areas at times of the day when families would typically head to offices and schools. Still, that surge in usage hasn’t yet resulted in widespread outages or unusually long service disruptions, industry executives and analysts say. That is because the biggest increases in usage are happening during normally fallow periods."

Submission + - SPAM: China Supplied Faulty Coronavirus Test Kits to Spain, Czech Republic 1

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The majority of rapid test coronavirus test kits supplied by Chinato Spain and theCzech Republic are faulty, local news outlets reported.

Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty, according to local Czech news site Expats.cz. The tests can produce a result in 10 or 15 minutes but are usually less accurate than other tests. Because of the high error rate, the country will continue to rely on conventional laboratory tests, of which they perform about 900 a day.

The country’s Health Ministry paid $546,000 for 100,000 of the test kits, while the Interior Ministry paid for the other 50,000.
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Submission + - Cybercriminal Group Mails Malicious USB Dongles to Targeted Companies (csoonline.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Security researchers from Trustwave SpiderLabs have disclosed the first known, in the wild use of the BadUSB exploit, in which a USB dongle is 'reprogrammed so that, when inserted in a computer, it reports that it's actually a keyboard and starts sending commands that could be used to deploy malware,' writes Lucian Constantin for CSOonline. According to the researchers, such a USB device was mailed to a US company in February, packaged with the promise of a $50 gift card good for use on 'any product from the list of items presented on an USB stick.'

Submission + - Virginia Is the First Southern State With a 100% Carbon-Free Electricity Goal (hydrogenfuelnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Virginia has become the first among the Southern US states to take on a goal for 100 percent carbon-free electricity. State governor Ralph Northam, an Army veteran and pediatric neurologist, issued Executive Order 43. The executive order detailed the state’s plans to reach a zero CO2 energy goal by 2050. In September 2019, Northam also brought Virginia into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which is a carbon trading network that spans nine states. Before then, Northam’s efforts to take these initiatives and to join the RGGI were thwarted. However, following the 2019 election, voters in the state changed the political climate in the state. This opened the opportunity to move forward with renewable energy-based efforts. Earlier this month, the state General Assembly passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA), which brought Northam’s previously failed efforts into law. The House voted in favor 51 to 45 and the Senate voted 22 to 17.

Among the VCEA goals are to gradually reduce the use of fossil fuels until they are no longer a part of the state’s electricity production. Instead, it will use 100 percent clean energy to power the state. In order to achieve this goal, Virginia has a four-part plan:

1. Join the RGGI and develop a cap-and-trade system. The states that are already using similar strategies and that are a part of the RGGI have experienced healthy economic effects overall. Moreover, the hope is that the addition of Virginia to a heavily supplied market will only boost competition. This is meant to drive the clean energy transition forward even faster.
2. Achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2050.
3. Keep power costs low and protect vulnerable and low-income communities.
4. Build rooftop solar, offshore wind, and power storage.

Comment Re: Computer hacker steal my fingerprint.... (Score 1) 58

by tronicum (#58257672) Attached to: Debit Card With Built-In Fingerprint Reader Begins Trial In the UK
I am very sure those fingerprint readers are basic as they need to fit on a card. They won't check for pulse or similar. Even worse almost all readers that try that have bin tricked. It's more or less a back port of Apple Pay back to a card. I also don't believe those readers will endure bending and other impacts on cards for a long time.

Comment trustees and you are done (Score 2) 461

there are some, very few, country domains that have such requirements. Often this leads that domain name registrar (or their resellers) offer a trustee setup that, for a small fee, register the name but you stay in control of it. I was suprised that .EU has such requirements, they are quite well hidden in the "registration policy" (not the "rules for domains" or "terms and conditions").

relevant part of the registration policy:
In this first step the Registrant must verify whether it meets the General Eligibility Criteria, whereby it must be:
(i) an undertaking having its registered office, central a dministration or principal place of business within the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein, or
(ii) an organisation established within the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein without prejudice to the application of national law, or
(iii) a natural person resident within the European Union, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.

So that are rules that are not new or changed because of the brexit...

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