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Hi-Tech Nativity Security 110

Posted by samzenpus from the a-higher-satellite-power dept.
To combat vandalism and theft of their holiday displays, many churches and cities are turning to a technological answer. After one of their cows was stolen, St. Marks Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn, Ill. installed GPS devices in the figurines of its nativity scene. This year the village of Wellington, Fla. added security cameras to protect their display. From the article: "BrickHouse Security in New York City offered churches and synagogues free GPS and cameras to protect their displays this season. Seventy have signed up so far. About 24 of them are also installing security cameras. In Merrick, N.Y., the Chabad Center for Jewish Life is putting GPS in its 8-foot menorah on display in a park."

Comment Microsoft Phishes your accounts. (Score 1, Informative) 287

by smeckert (#32725874) Attached to: New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes

Microsoft Phishes your accounts.

I was showing my friend how to get a paypal account, and had him sign up,
the whole time warning him about phishing emails.
"Never click the paypal link in an email. Go there on the browser."

He signed up using a hotmail.com address, and the "verify
your account" email came back phished by microsoft passport.

The email had an IP address in the href= for the link.
The IP address resolved back to a passport.microsoft.com address block.

They wanted him to sign in to paypal on their server, steal his login,
  and then pass the info along to paypal.

Don't take my word, try it!
They NEED bashing.
Science

Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132

Posted by Soulskill from the four-out-of-five-ain't-bad dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"
Security

Scammers Target Neopets Users 122

Posted by Soulskill from the guess-wow-finally-dried-up dept.
An anonymous reader writes "If you have children that play on the popular virtual world game Neopets, you might want to warn them of a social engineering scam gleefully targeting 12-year-old kids. Neopets users looking for rare items are sent private messages from the scammers, who direct them to sites hosting keyloggers & trojans. They then use the infected PC as a means to get to data the parents might have stored there, be it credit card details, Paypal accounts or online banking. Seeing the screenshots of some of these people talking about putting these children into botnets is just unbelievable — if ever you wanted proof that people up to no good online will go to any lengths to get their hands on some money (or even just feel good about outsmarting a 12-year-old), here it is."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - New Report on Municipal Wireless

Submitted by
PublicNet SF Coalition
PublicNet SF Coalition writes: "New Report on Municipal Wireless
Civil Defense — a weblog by Joshua Breitbart

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has just published a new report called "Localizing the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem," arguing for municipal ownership of new wireless and fiber optic networks.

The report's author is Becca Vargo Daggett, whose presentation I'll have the pleasure of moderating at the National Conference for Media Reform.

The argument is persuasive. There is clearly a need for more aggressive public involvement in broadband deployment and the affordability of wireless is a great opportunity for that. Giving this opportunity over to private corporations is double the loss."
User Journal

Journal Journal: On Taxing Real and Virtual Goods

Journal by ThosLives

There's another article on taxation of virtual goods that caught my eye, this time from cnn.

I have been thinking about this for a while, and I think I finally have a more coherent view of my thoughts on the concept of transaction taxes.

Businesses

Submission + - Using the Web to Get the Boss to Pay More

Submitted by
Arun Jacob
Arun Jacob writes: "The NYT has an interesting article — Using the Web to Get the Boss to Pay More — on online tools that can help in salary negotiations. Link here (Free registration required).

To summarise, the article talks about the websites that provide information on standard compensation packages for your position and role. Using this information, it should be easier to negotiate your pay with a fact-based approach rather than "feelings-based" approach. The sites profiled are —
Salary.com (Data available only for US)
Payscale.com (International)"

Comment Re: First day/First two hours... (Score 2, Informative) 57

by e1mer (#14546073) Attached to: E3 Grows Up - A Little
In reference to the GameStop employees that are planning on going...

I expect to say this on the phone a thousand times over the next two months.

E3 has instituted a "Priority Buyer" program this year.

If you work at any of the major retailers (EG: gamestop, game crazy, EB, Best Buy),
then you will not be allowed to register for free admission.

Instead, the corporate offices of these companies will be sent a pre-determined
number of pre-qualified passes. These passes are the only people from these
companies that will be allowed to attend for free.

Anyone else from these companies will be welcome to pay 500 bucks to get in.

This means attendance is going to be way down, but the experience will be far better.

***if you don't work at one of these places.***

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