Hackers have compromised a computer system at a ski resort and thousands of credit card files may have been exposed. Okemo Mountain Resort is reporting the security breach:
“…The ski resort said Monday that hackers broke into its computer network and potentially gained access to credit card data from 28,168 transactions between Feb. 7 and [...]
A lawsuit against MySpace may go forward. A judgment is pending in an Appeals Court. It is a horrid crime. However, the onus of responsibility is debatable:
“NEW ORLEANS - The family of a teenage girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on MySpace.com asked a federal appeals [...]
Doing backups is a weekly routine for me. I do backups of the desktop hard drive more frequently if there are some important changes on the files that I have used. Because external hard drives are so small and are plug and play on most systems, I also cart along an external hard [...]
It seems that a company is filling a possible consumer niche. If the parents are too busy to read to the kids, there is now the possibility to download audio books for the children:
“…Audible Inc. on Monday launched a Web site where families can choose from over 3,500 children’s listenable books that can be [...]
Dith Pran was a Cambodian journalist, a first witness to a dark time in his native land. He survived the atrocities of Cambodia:
“…Schanberg helped Dith’s family get out but was forced to leave his friend behind after the capital fell; they were not reunited until Dith escaped four and a half years later. Eventually, [...]
There is another data breach at an educational institution:
“YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio—A computer system at Antioch University that contained personal information on about 70,000 people was breached by an unauthorized intruder three times last year, the school said Friday.”
link: Computer breach hits Antioch University
The data breach involves all that is necessary for identity theft. [...]
“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”
Isaac Asimov
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Earth Hour is a call for a conservation, green gesture on Saturday, April 29 at 8:00 PM, wherever you are:
“… Starting at 8 p.m. on Saturday in Christchurch, New Zealand, citizens from around the world will shut off their lights for an hour, to draw attention to the connection between energy use and climate change. [...]
One of the benefits of outsourcing to foreign countries is that there is a financial saving. Nevertheless, there is a cost. For the financial benefits, the company or country relinquishes some control. The regulatory legislations are determined by a foreign government. That has been a consistent concern whenever the issue of [...]
In the competitive Western Conference, the L.A. Lakers can ill afford losing their best player, Kobe Bryant. However, he is just one technical foul away from an automatic one game suspension. With ten games remaining in the regular season, Kobe Bryant has fifteen technical fouls. The suspension rule kicks in when the [...]
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