Comment The Blame Game (Score 0) 444
So, it's my fault that _you_ destryored _your_ stuff?
We should be ashamed of ourselves...
Comment Re:So what? (Score 0) 423
If you were on trial for murder, would you want the person in the jury thinking about what his next tweet would be, or would you want him thinking about if you are guilty or not? I think it's pretty simple, but that's just me.
Comment Sounds like a plan! (Score 0) 1797
1. Cut Student Loans
2.
3. PROFIT!!!
Comment wut? (Score 0) 165
They want our brains?
zOMG zombies!
Submission + - Human Brain is Sensitive to Light in Ears (prnewswire.com)
vuo writes: Finnish researchers have shown that the human brain contains photoreceptors that react to intracranial illumination. Light is provided through the ear canal with bright-light headsets by Valkee. These devices, much like earphones or should we say "earlumes", are registered medical devices. Retinal illumination or bright-light therapy has been previously assumed to be the only way light indirectly affects brains. Light therapy helps with mood swings, seasonal affective disorder, jetlag and other circadian rhythm disruptions.
Submission + - Software patent reform happening now (blogspot.com)
Jim Hall writes: "Many of us in IT recognize that software patents are a bad idea — you can patent just about anything if you put "on a computer" at the end of it. But now we can finally do something about it. Congress is considering the America Invents Act — your Representatives are very interested in hearing from you. Also, the USPTO is inviting public comments to change the system (you need to file by June 29, 2011.) I've written a blog post about software patents with more, starting with a primer of copyright and patents."
Feed Google News Sci Tech: RSA finally comes clean: SecurID is compromised - Ars Technica (google.com)
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RSA finally comes clean: SecurID is compromised
Ars Technica
RSA Security is to replace virtually every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently in use as a result of the hacking attack the company disclosed back in March. The EMC subsidiary issued a letter ...
Security Firm Offers to Replace Tokens After AttackNew York Times
After Hack, RSA Offers to Replace SecureID TokensPCWorld
RSA Security offers to replace SecurID tokens: WSJAFP
Bizjournals.com-Wall Street Journal-TheStreet.com
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Ars Technica
RSA Security is to replace virtually every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently in use as a result of the hacking attack the company disclosed back in March. The EMC subsidiary issued a letter
Security Firm Offers to Replace Tokens After AttackNew York Times
After Hack, RSA Offers to Replace SecureID TokensPCWorld
RSA Security offers to replace SecurID tokens: WSJAFP
Bizjournals.com-Wall Street Journal-TheStreet.com
all 46 news articles
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Compensating technical people 3
cloud-yay writes: "I work for a IT consulting firm and recently I've been tasked with heading up our engineering consulting team — which without the fancy corporate speak means that we're trying to empower our engineering team to think a little like sales people instead of being purely service orientated.
To clarify, our technical people are viewed by our customers as trusted advisors and when they see a opportunity for a complementary sale/network refresh/project they often involve our sales team, however when the customer sees the sales people, they always clam up because they're "sales people" and customers think they are just interested in alleviating them of their money!
Because of this, we'd like to get our engineering team looking more for opportunities and then advising customers of these but I think it's only fair that we compensate them for this additional work on their behalf.
I'm interested in what the Slashdot community thinks of how we should remunerate engineering teams for this 'sales' work (which would cost us commission to sales people anyway) but in a way that doesn't foster any animosity between sales and tech staff because in the end sales people live and die on commission. Has anyone worked in this environment anywhere and what works/doesn't work in your experience?
Thanks in advance!"
To clarify, our technical people are viewed by our customers as trusted advisors and when they see a opportunity for a complementary sale/network refresh/project they often involve our sales team, however when the customer sees the sales people, they always clam up because they're "sales people" and customers think they are just interested in alleviating them of their money!
Because of this, we'd like to get our engineering team looking more for opportunities and then advising customers of these but I think it's only fair that we compensate them for this additional work on their behalf.
I'm interested in what the Slashdot community thinks of how we should remunerate engineering teams for this 'sales' work (which would cost us commission to sales people anyway) but in a way that doesn't foster any animosity between sales and tech staff because in the end sales people live and die on commission. Has anyone worked in this environment anywhere and what works/doesn't work in your experience?
Thanks in advance!"
Submission + - Discovery of Water In Moon May Alter Origin Theory (yahoo.com)
MarkWhittington writes: "Scientists, working on a NASA grant, have made another startling discovery concerning water on the Moon. It seems that the interior of the Moon has far more water in it than previously thought — as much as the Earth does, apparently.
Researchers made this discovery by examining samples of volcanic glass brought back to Earth by the Apollo 17 astronauts. These tiny beads of glass have about 750 parts per million of water in them: about the same amount as similar volcanic glass on Earth. It is postulated that more water than previously imagined exists deep below the lunar surface and was brought up and trapped in these crystalline beads by volcanic action billions of years ago."
Researchers made this discovery by examining samples of volcanic glass brought back to Earth by the Apollo 17 astronauts. These tiny beads of glass have about 750 parts per million of water in them: about the same amount as similar volcanic glass on Earth. It is postulated that more water than previously imagined exists deep below the lunar surface and was brought up and trapped in these crystalline beads by volcanic action billions of years ago."
Submission + - NASA sting busts woman selling $1.7M moon rock. (space.com) 1
sgcxf949 writes: Woman attempts to sell a moon rock and gets busted by NASA. Who would have thought that NASA had undercover agents?
Submission + - 35 million Google Profiles Collected (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: If you are one of those individuals that made their own Google Profile, chances are that you knew and agreed to the fact that the information you included in it will be available for anyone who searches for it online. But, maybe you haven't thought about the possibility of this information being harvested and indexed in order to make mining of it easier. Whether you have or not, it is ultimately irrelevant — you have shared the information with Google, and it does not forbid the indexing of the list.
Submission + - Prof Questions Sink-or-Swim Intro to CS Courses 2
theodp writes: 'After having taught introductory programming (CS 1) for the past six years,' writes GVSU's Zack Kurmas, 'and having watched many students struggle through this course and the subsequent course (CS 2), I have come to the conclusion that it is absurd to expect students who don't have any prior programming experience to be well prepared to study Computer Science after a single 15-week course (i.e., CS 1). I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no instrumental musical experience to be ready to join the university orchestra after 15 weeks.' Kurmas' frustrations are not unlike those voiced by Physics prof Dr. Yung Tae Kim, who argues the up-or-out, one-size-fits-all rigid pace approach to learning set by teachers and administrators is as absurd as telling a toddler, 'You have ten weeks to walk, and if you can't, you get an F and you're not allowed to try to walk anymore.'
Submission + - If you're going to kill it, open source it! (makezine.com) 2
ptorrone writes: "MAKE Magzine is proposing big companies like Cisco and Sony consider "open sourcing" their failed or discontinued products. The list includes: Sony's AIBO & QRIO robots, IBM's Deep Blue chess computer, Ricochet Wireless, Potenco’s Pull-Cord Generator, Palm, Microsoft’s SPOT Watch, CISCO Flip Camera and more. MAKE is also encourage everyone to post about what products they'd like to see open sourced. What does the Slashdot community want opened up?"
Submission + - Sony sued for PlayStation Network data breach (cnet.com)
suraj.sun writes: Like clockwork, the first lawsuit resulting from the security breach of the personal data of more than 75 million Sony PlayStation Network customers has been filed.
The suit was filed today on behalf of Kristopher Johns, 36, of Birmingham, Ala., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Johns accuses Sony of not taking "reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and sensitive data of its users."
He also believes Sony took too long to notify him and other customers that their personal information had been exposed. Because of that, the complaint alleges, Sony did not allow its customers "to make an informed decision as to whether to change credit card numbers, close the exposed accounts, check their credit reports, or take other mitigating actions."
CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20057921-260.html
The suit was filed today on behalf of Kristopher Johns, 36, of Birmingham, Ala., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Johns accuses Sony of not taking "reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and sensitive data of its users."
He also believes Sony took too long to notify him and other customers that their personal information had been exposed. Because of that, the complaint alleges, Sony did not allow its customers "to make an informed decision as to whether to change credit card numbers, close the exposed accounts, check their credit reports, or take other mitigating actions."
CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20057921-260.html
Submission + - Playstation Network Hacked (playstation.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Playstation network servers were taken offline on April 20th due to a outside network attack in order to verify the security of their servers.
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