Archive for July 1st, 20081sockchuck writes “After initially struggling in its effort to find data center operators willing to share data about their energy usage, the EPA extended the program by a month and has managed to recruit 215 facilities to participate in its program to help the government develop an Energy Star program for data centers. An EPA official states there are no plans to regulate the data center industry.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. JohnnyNapalm writes “In some shocking news out of Texas, PC repair will now require a PI License. Surely this stands to have a substantial impact on small repair shops around the state if upheld. Never fear, however, as the first counter-suit has already been filed.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. bednarz writes “For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment — which fittingly started on April Fool’s Day — was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer each spam message and pop-up ad they got. Mooney was game, especially since McAfee was giving a free Personal computer to all participants. She told her story to Network World.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. An anonymous reader writes “I recently graduated from a ‘major’ university in America with a BS degree in Personal Science. I unfortunately must admit that I’m not very skilled with programming. I finished with the degree, and I’ve spent much of my college career working a job doing technical support (fixing laptops, troubleshooting Windows problems, etc). What jobs can I get with a personal science degree that are NOT mainly programming jobs? A tiny programming wouldn’t be bad, but none would be preferred. And what kind of salaries do these jobs typically fetch?” Read more of this story at Slashdot. ancientribe writes “A researcher performing social-engineering exploits on behalf of several US banks and other firms in the past year has ’stolen’ thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. He and his team have posed as investigators for the FDIC (among other things), and numerous times have literally been able to walk out the door with pilfered identities. The reason: organizations are typically so focused on on the internet ID theft that they’ve forgotten how easy it is for a criminal to socially engineer his way into a bank branch or office and physically hack it.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. Filed under: Utilities, Web services, web 2.0
Here comes another, called IHeartMovies.org. We want to preface this by saying that you should always look into the background of web apps and feel free to contact the company to see if you feel like they’re in it for the long haul. Nobody likes putting info up, only for the company to disappear in a week or month. Having said that, IHeartMovies aims to be a social network for you and your friends (and people all over the world) to share your likes as far as movies go. Great idea, let’s jump right into the features.
Pretty standard stuff, right? But it’s all in the presentation here. When you log in, you’re presented with a pretty neat dashboard that’ll show you whatever you want to see based on your interested. Things like what your friends have added and quick surveys. With this type of format, we really hope that IHeartMovies Hearts us and stays up with things, and that means adding more functionality and more widgets. It’s an ajaxified and friendlier IMDB. Post your lists in the comments so we have the ability to see what kind of wacky movies you like. ancientribe writes “A researcher performing social-engineering exploits on behalf of several US banks and other firms in the past year has ’stolen’ thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. He and his team have posed as investigators for the FDIC (among other things), and numerous times have literally been able to walk out the door with pilfered identities. The reason: organizations are typically so focused on on the web ID theft that they’ve forgotten how simple it is for a criminal to socially engineer his way into a bank branch or office and physically hack it.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. A court in France ordered eBay to pay more than 61 mega-dollars to the parent company (LVMH) of Givenchy, Fendi, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton, because a user sold fake goods on the website. eBay has been sued by other ‘luxury goods’ vendors (such as Tiffany’s (US), Rolex (Germany) and L’Oreal (EU)). Problems stem from some companies demanding that their merchandise (even legal merchandise) not be displayed nor sold as it is a violation of their ‘property.’ Others have complained that eBay is too slow to take down claims. Apparently eBay was hit with two violations: 1) eBay illegally allowed legitimately purchased and owned products made by LVMH to be resold on its website by 3rd parties not under the control of LVMH, and 2) not doing enough to protect LVMH’s brands from illegal sales. eBay has said it will appeal. So eBay is to know what products every company grants to be sold before allowing them to on auction? (There’s also coverage at Yahoo News.) Update: 07/01 17:15 GMT by T : That’s LVMH throughout, rather than LVHM, as originally rendered. Read more of this story at Slashdot. ulash writes “Ars Technica has an article about the (alleged) leaked ‘wishlist’ that RIAA submitted to the US government back in March of this year listing what they wish to see as a part of ACTA. The list includes such gems as forced filtering of materials by the ISPs, gutting the parts of the DMCA that provides safe harbor to the ISPs, and even restricting supplies of ‘optical grade polycarbonate’ in countries ‘with high rates of production of pirated optical discs.’ While the effectiveness of such a ‘wishlist’ on the law is not by any means objectively measurable, if one takes into account how *AA was instrumentative in the passing of DMCA, I think it is more than likely that they’ll get at least some of their wishes.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. ya really notes a blog posting up at Wired reporting that foes of the Telecom Amnesty Bill have mounted a campaign on Barack Obama’s own website. Though the group was created only days ago, on June 25, it has grown to be the fifth largest among 7,000 such groups, just short of Women for Obama. Although it is widely known that Obama changed his stance from opposing telecom immunity to supporting it, many have not given up hope of getting him to switch once again. Meanwhile, left-leaning bloggers and libertarian activists have joined forces to raise $325,000 in the fight against the legislation. “Their Blue America PAC is already targeting Home Democrats who voted for the bill, including placing a full-page ad in the Washington Post [an image appears in the Wired story] slamming Home Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who claimed credit for creating the so-called compromise bill. The coalition plans to follow-up with a Ron Paul-style money bomb, which will be used to target key Senators…” Read more of this story at Slashdot. |
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We all have a ton of DVDs laying around, and have no way to really keep track of them all digitally. Sure, there are services out there who have come and gone that promised to store your precious information once you’ve taken days and days to enter them.
