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iTunes Uncovers Musical Hoax 311

Posted by kdawson from the man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-Hatto dept.
holy_calamity writes "The reliance by iTunes on the CDDB has burst open a musical fraud in the usually staid world of classical piano. Albums by the much vaunted British pianist Joyce Hatto, who died in June 2006, are identified by the iTunes player as belonging to other performers. A more scientific analysis by an audio remastering firm has found that none of Hatto's works appear to be hers. Her husband, who produced all her albums, says he 'cannot explain' the similarities."
Security

Who Pays For Credit Card Breaches? 313

Posted by kdawson from the buck-stops-where? dept.
PetManimal writes "A scheme to steal customers' credit and debit card information at a New England supermarket chain highlights a little-understood fact about credit card security: Customers still think that the credit-card companies have to eat fraudulent charges, but since the PCI DSS standards were adopted, it's actually the merchant banks and merchants who have to pay up. And, according to the blogger writing in the latter article, it's a good thing." "The main reason PCI exists is that there are tens of thousands of merchants who don't understand the basics of information security and weren't even taking the very minimum steps to secure their networks and the credit card information they stored... PCI pushes that burden downstream and forces merchants to... put in a properly configured firewall, encrypt sensitive information and maintain a minimum security stance or be fined by their merchant banks... [T]he credit card companies have taken the bulk of the financial burden off of themselves and placed it on the merchants, which is where much of it belongs...'"
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Journal Journal: The Inside Traveller

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While travelling recently, I hit on a new idea for an investment strategy. Dubbed the "Hors d'Ouvres" method, it takes advantage of a little known and under-used source of publicly available information about forthcoming business events. Although it requires a small up-front commitment, and the ability to travel, it has the perquisites of luxury accommodations, sumptuous afternoon snacks, and rubbing shoulders with accidentally-rich and willfully-blind quasi-celebrities. The technique also

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