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"Lo and behold, the cheapest 64GB USB stick in the world from Van Der Led. For those of you who have a thing for Netherland, the USB drive is 100% of Netherland - the origin of components, and the assembly process are both in Netherland. Wrapped in leather, the USB sticks look like an exclusive item, the fact that it retails for a mere $111. The MeMe 64GB USB sticks are available in brown and black."
http://vanderled.com/onlinestore/product_info.php/products_id/100"Lo and behold, the cheapest 64GB USB stick in the world from Van Der Led. For... more
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The loss of the details, which were stored on an unencypted computer memory stick, has raised fears that the taxpayer may now face a multi-million pound compensation bill from criminals whose safety may have been compromised and police informants who could be at risk of reprisals.
The home addresses of some of Britain's most prolific and serious offenders - including those who have committed violent and sexual crimes - are understood to be among the missing data.
A full investigation is now underway to find the memory stick – containing information on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales, including some release dates, plus details of 43,000 most serious and persistent offenders – which was descibed as a 'toxic liability' by David Smith, the Deputy Information Commissioner.
The loss of the details, which were stored on an unencypted computer memory stick, has... more
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The Home Office set out a proposal to allow local councils, health authorities and hundreds of other public bodies the power to access details of everyone's personal text, emails and internet. The plan is to make it mandatory for phone and internet companies to store details (this never is good in the UK lately) of ALL PERSONAL traffic for at least a year. Why? In case they need it for investigations... or so they can leave it on a train for some random to find. That's right, not just suspected individuals, but everyone.
"The Home Office last night admitted that the measure will mean companies have to store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day". As the measure is the result of an EU directive, the data will be made available to public investigators across Europe. The consultation paper published yesterday estimates that it will cost the internet industry over £50m to store the mountain of data."
Money well spent?The Home Office set out a proposal to allow local councils, health authorities and... more
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Young Britons are being 'criminalised for life' by the expansion of the national DNA database, according to research released today. Britain has the largest DNA database in the world, holding the genetic records of more that four million people. It's estimated that 25% of those people have never been found guilty of any offence. AND more than 100,000 of these are children. The Human Genetics Commission's research found evidence of widespread public alarm and hostility over the massive scale of the database. Currently, genetic material is taken from all people arrested by police, regardless of whether they disturbed the peace or murdered somebody, and there is no distinction on how long that material is held.
"Detailed consultation on the database by the commission, the Government's genetic watchdog, found the public believed samples provided by the innocent should be destroyed and those of people convicted of lesser offences removed after a few years.
The damning verdict was delivered by panels in Birmingham and Glasgow. After studying evidence about the database they called for an array of reforms designed to reassure the public that it would not be abused. They concluded that the records of children convicted of minor offences should be removed after a short period... The panel members unanimously supported a nationwide publicity campaign to raise awareness of the database, using the internet, posters, leaflets and school visits."Young Britons are being 'criminalised for life' by the expansion of the... more
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FTC says it won't intervene to protect Internet user privacy
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission indicated Wednesday that it would leave it to data-mining Web companies and Internet marketers to decide how best to protect users' privacy.
"Self-regulation may be the preferable approach for this dynamic marketplace," Lydia Parnes, the director of the commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, told a Senate committee.
The FTC's decision not to step in — even as Microsoft and Google representatives testified that some regulation would be helpful — means that Washington won't address the matter before a new administration and Congress take office in January.
At issue is what privacy rights consumers have when data-mining companies use their Web browsing patterns to target them for ads. It's a gold mine for online advertising and Internet marketing, but consumer and e-privacy groups say it's intrusive.
NebuAd, a media company based in Redwood City, Calif., has been in the hot seat for partnering with Internet service providers to deliver personalized ads to users' computer screens.
The company's chief executive officer, Bob Dykes, told the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee that there's no privacy lost in the process.
"NebuAd's systems are designed so that no one, not even the government, can determine the identity of our users," Dykes said.
Leslie Harris, the chief executive for the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based civil liberties group, said that NebuAd and other data-miners shouldn't be able to track browsing patterns without advance consent from computer users.
She also fears that privacy will be lost as more companies enter the field and their techniques become more sophisticated.
"Self-regulation is a piece, but self-regulation alone is not enough to protect privacy, and we need to have some baseline legislation in place," Harris said.
Microsoft and Google representatives said they supported a privacy protection scheme that included advance consent, encryption of identities and clear notification of what information was being collected.
Federal regulation would be easier for Internet companies to live by than inconsistent state and local regulations.
"There's just this emerging patchwork of federal and state privacy laws," said Michael Hintze, associate general counsel for Microsoft.
FTC says it won't intervene to protect Internet user privacy
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Everyone's favourite neo-fascist tabloid rag, The Daily Mail, was left red-faced today after it emerged that a laptop containing the financial information of thousands of members of staff was stolen.
This ineptitude comes only months after the newspaper lead with a serious of inflammatory front-page headlines attacking the government for 'mind-blowing incompetence' following a similar data-loss incident.
The Mail's publishers Associated Newspapers issued a statement saying that the loss was due to a 'technical issue'.Everyone's favourite neo-fascist tabloid rag, The Daily Mail, was left red-faced... more
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This is an interesting story involving pornography, community standards, and Google Trends data. Basically, a defense attorney who has attempted to use proliferation and availability of pornographic material on the Internet in contrast to more broadly decent content is switching the focus instead to "intent" on a local level using Google search trend data.
Here's a snippet:
"In the trial of a pornographic Web site operator, the defense plans to show that residents of Pensacola are more likely to use Google to search for terms like “orgy” than for “apple pie” or “watermelon.” The publicly accessible data is vague in that it does not specify how many people are searching for the terms, just their relative popularity over time. But the defense lawyer, Lawrence Walters, is arguing that the evidence is sufficient to demonstrate that interest in the sexual subjects exceeds that of more mainstream topics — and that by extension, the sexual material distributed by his client is not outside the norm.
It is not clear that the approach will succeed. The Florida state prosecutor in the case, which is scheduled for trial July 1, said the search data may not be relevant because the volume of Internet searches is not necessarily an indication of, or proxy for, a community’s values.
But the tactic is another example of the value of data collected by Internet companies like Google, both from a commercial standpoint and as a window into the thoughts, interests and desires of their users.
“Time and time again you’ll have jurors sitting on a jury panel who will condemn material that they routinely consume in private,” said Mr. Walters, the defense lawyer. Using the Internet data, “we can show how people really think and feel and act in their own homes, which, parenthetically, is where this material was intended to be viewed,” he added."
So, by focusing on Pensacola search trend data, Walters is suggesting that residents in Pensacola are at least as interested in "orgies" as they are in the term "apple pie." It's noted that "Nascar," "Nintendo," and "surfing" all ranked higher than "orgy."
However, this raises all sorts of concerns regarding Internet privacy, specifically in regards to the group of people who reside in Pensacola and happen to use Google to search for race cars, video games, and your run-of-the-mill orgy.
So, what say you Current? Should the laws regarding obscenity be adjusted based on the personal likes and dislikes of the local community? Or is using data to discern local interest a violation of privacy?
Graph image found at: http://www.reason.com/blog/show/127164.htmlThis is an interesting story involving pornography, community standards, and Google... more
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Inspiring speech global development, Mr. Rosling shares some amazing new data, it will give you a new insight on what is possible in the world.Inspiring speech global development, Mr. Rosling shares some amazing new data, it will... more
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A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism.A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time... more
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Here's more creepy from the faith-based-initiative, I'm guessing:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=789_1179153548
So get this, a senator, guess who, told google today to take all muslim something videos down because they are unable to win their way?! Or... what the heck?
So is that why Youtube went out in Brazil, or not so much because of Islamivids?
Pakistan/India got it back in a few days... They must dig youtube bigtime.
So weird, the power of TV, I mean internet, I mean radio or, ah just search the web and read.
PS, anyone seen what well educated atheist folk are up to?
http://current.com/items/88950964_#88952388
I swear on the the almighty CPU that I'll post some skateboard footie instead.
Like this:
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7096/3021/320/436329/2006sk8.gif
Later lovers and haters.
Here's more creepy from the faith-based-initiative, I'm guessing:... more
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Vanessa Zamora (through metacafe) reporting about the 'snag'.
I think she meant meant $nag! Good job though, all other networks are hooked on spam.
PREPARE FOR RANTZILLA:
The mega-server owners want your oh so precious bits to profit from!
I saw this coming, the whole online community, privatized gold! I hope folks realize they are all relying on databases that they could never sue (I THINK) if their data is compromised. Must be the book 'Being Digital' by Nicholas Negroponte that makes me say such things.
I'll admit, I've tried, found out some things and never went back to any space started by some supposed little guy now owned by CEO x. Then again, I'm hear on current, sigh...
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Face off, hardy harr, I had to.
Vanessa Zamora (through metacafe) reporting about the 'snag'.
I think she... more
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It's taken four and a half years, but the data recovery specialists charged with extracting data from a cracked, charred 400MB Seagate drive aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia have done their duty, retrieving 99% of the information written to the disk. The Columbia burned up on re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003, over Louisiana and Texas. Computerworld reports that the drive was found in a dry lakebed and handed to a team at Kroll Ontrack about six months after the tragedy, but the successful recovery has only just come to light. So, you ask, what was on the drive that was so important?
Computerworld reports that the shuttle mission included conducting atmospheric tests.
One of those tests was an experiment for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to determine how xenon gas flows in a zero gravity environment.It's taken four and a half years, but the data recovery specialists charged with... more
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China, already the world leader in cellphone use, has surpassed the USA as the No. 1 nation in Internet users.China, already the world leader in cellphone use, has surpassed the USA as the No. 1... more
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“Hey, I got a new Facebook account. I’m going to delete this one, so add my new profile,” take a second, third, and maybe a fourth look at the page that follows such a message on Facebook else you run the risk of getting scammed!
If some hapless user already got fooled by this one, they would’ve been led to a URL on view-facebookprofiles.com, a domain registered (and whois-protected) on Namecheap and hosted at Softlayer that looks identical to the Facebook login. And if they’ve also entered their user details, all their contacts would have ended up getting similar messages — the scam spreading like a virus. This isn’t the first attack on Facebook; but it’s the most coordinated one yet. Another attack earlier this year (which was reported as the first attack on Facebook) had users receiving a message: “lol I can’t believe these pics got posted… its going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these- http://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn”. Obviously, users got so carried away with the message that they didn’t stop to see the fake-looking last part of the URL.
Facebook has been a soft target for many ‘Phishing’ attacks (cases where identical-looking fake pages got loaded to extract user names and passwords). The perpetrators of such scams have often used user information to spread the scam to accounts linked to the hacked accounts or simply spread nauseous content. Recently, some hackers used Phishing attacks to spread pictures of children being tortured on the Funwall of users’ Facebook profiles.“Hey, I got a new Facebook account. I’m going to delete this one, so add... more
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Scientists have created the world's smallest diamond ring, measuring up to only 5 microns (or millionths of a meter) in diameter and 300 nanometers (or billionths of a meter) in thickness, this isn't your average bling.
The ring, as beautiful as it is, has a much greater role in life than sitting on someone's finger, it can help scientists who are developing quantum information processing.
The ring acts as a component in a device that produces and detects single particles of light (photons). These photons, called qubits, can hold a value of 1 and 0 at the same time, which according to the scientists could be a massive development in the possibilities available for information storage.
Scientists have created the world's smallest diamond ring, measuring up to only 5... more
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Each year our friends at Google compile a list of the most searched for terms of 2007; they call it the Google Zeitgeist. A quick look through some of these lists turns some fairly interesting results, for example, the top news searches of 2007 included American Idol, Britney Spears, Chis Benoit and Anna Nicole Smith! Iran reached only number 9 on the list! What, if anything, can you gather from the list of search terms online? Answers on a postcard Current users.
1. American Idol
2. YouTube
3. Britney Spears
4. 2007 cricket World Cup
5. Chris Benoit
6. iPhone
7. Anna Nicole Smith
8. Paris Hilton
9. Iran
10. Vanessa HudgensEach year our friends at Google compile a list of the most searched for terms of 2007;... more
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While no one used remotes THAT old two years ago (pictured) times really have changed quite a bit in such a short amount of time. Reflect and see how far we've come.While no one used remotes THAT old two years ago (pictured) times really have changed... more
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I've just noticed this handy little feature. If you ever want to sell yourself to the devil and don't know where to find your most personal data, just head over to Google.com/history where you'll find everything precious to you stored neatly and efficiently.
Google know every single search query you've ever pumped into their magical little box, and the information they have is identifiable to you personally. I for example have been "on record" since January 2006 when I signed away my life for a gmail account. During that time Google have learned more about me than I have.
They know when I surf the most, what time of day is peak surfing time, what day of the week is peak surf time, they know what my favorite sites are, they know what my favorite search queries are, they know it all! More over its even posted on a nice neat little graph, including "Top Sites" "Top Clicks" and "Top Queries".
http://www.google.com/history/trends
I have to admit that upon my discovery of this "feature" I immediately felt a little naked, as if I'd just been mugged in the street for the clothes I stand up in and even my soul (in a digital .xls format).
Anyone else a little concerned by this?I've just noticed this handy little feature. If you ever want to sell yourself to... more
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This picture is from the article, listing their top favorite off switches. Really. (Spoiler: It's in his leg!)This picture is from the article, listing their top favorite off switches. Really.... more
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One of those interesting obituaries about people you've never heard of. Sounds like this guy was a real innovator in information technology and database creation, back in the punch-card days of computers. Always fun to reminisce about life before Google.One of those interesting obituaries about people you've never heard of. Sounds... more
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