Comment Re:I did a double-take (Score 1) 271
Also Google Analytics on anonplus.com is a little fishy, no?
Submission + - The Queen sets a code-breaking challenge (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Queen Elizabeth II has made her first ever visit to Bletchley Park, the home of the UK's World War II code-breaking efforts and now a museum. To mark the occasion The Queen has issued a code cracking challenge of her own "The Agent X Code Book Challenge" aimed at getting children interested in cryptography. Perhaps a royal programming or general technology challenge is next....
Submission + - Microsoft Developer Is Top Linux Contributor (muktware.com)
sfcrazy writes: The 343 changes made by Microsoft developer K. Y. Srinivasan put him at the top of a list, created by LWN.net, of developers who made the most changes in the current development cycle for Linux 3.0.
Submission + - EU Considers Strict Data Breach Notification Rules (computerworld.com)
JohnBert writes: The European Commission is examining whether additional rules are needed on personal data breach notification in the European Union.
Telecoms operators and Internet service providers hold a huge amount of data about their customers, including names, addresses and bank account details. The current ePrivacy Directive requires them to keep this data secure and notify individuals if such sensitive information is lost or stolen. Data breaches must also be reported to the relevant national authority.
"The duty to notify data breaches is an important part of the new E.U. telecoms rules," she said. "But we need consistency across the E.U. so businesses don't have to deal with a complicated range of different national schemes. I want to provide a level playing field, with certainty for consumers and practical solutions for businesses."
Telecoms operators and Internet service providers hold a huge amount of data about their customers, including names, addresses and bank account details. The current ePrivacy Directive requires them to keep this data secure and notify individuals if such sensitive information is lost or stolen. Data breaches must also be reported to the relevant national authority.
"The duty to notify data breaches is an important part of the new E.U. telecoms rules," she said. "But we need consistency across the E.U. so businesses don't have to deal with a complicated range of different national schemes. I want to provide a level playing field, with certainty for consumers and practical solutions for businesses."
Comment Re:CHANGE!! (Score 5, Insightful) 646
According to everything I've read, this is *not* an attempt to achieve "broader Internet wiretap authority" but rather to force providers to put systems in place so that they can easily and quickly comply with *existing* authority. You can argue that the existing authority is overreaching, but that's a separate matter.
Comment Luck (Score 1) 646
Whoever tagged this story "goodluckwiththat" obviously doesn't understand the American legal system. Amazon is already feeling the effects of this, and they will have to pay lawyers to fight it. They'll settle for less than it would cost them. No luck involved.
Comment Re:Strongly worded letter? (Score 2, Insightful) 281
Agreed, and I'd say he's setting himself up for a not-so-frivolous defamation suit.
Submission + - Missing Apollo 11 tapes may have been found (theregister.co.uk)
saccade.com writes: "The Register and several other outlets are reporting that the missing tapes of the first manned lunar landing may have been found at a storage facility in Perth, Australia. If found, these could have much clearer pictures than the recordings we currently have that were downsampled for TV broadcast. We don't have pictures yet, though: 'Whether the world will finally enjoy high-quality pics of Aldrin and Armstrong strolling the Moon's surface remains to be seen. When NASA coughed to having lost the original tapes, John Sarkissian of the Parkes Observatory noted that even if a machine could be found to replay them, they would be "so old and fragile, it's not certain they could even be played.'"
Submission + - The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software (computerworlduk.com) 1
Glyn Moody writes: "Detractors of free software like to point out it's not really "free", and claim that its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is often comparable with closed-source solutions if you take everything into account. And yet, despite their enthusiasm for including all the costs, they never include a very real extra that users of Microsoft's products frequently have to pay: the cost of cleaning up malware infections. For example, the UK city of Manchester has just paid out nearly $2.5 million to clean up the Conficker worm, most of which was "a £1.2m [$2million] bill in the IT department, including £600,000 [$1 million] getting 'consultancy support' to fix the problems, which including drafting in experts from Microsoft." To make the comparisons fair, isn't it about time these often massive costs were included in those TCO calculations?"
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