what about writes “Apparently there is a quick, simple, and undetectable way to grab all of your cellphone data. CNet reports on the Cellular Seizure Investigation (CSI) Stick, developed for law enforcement but available to the public, which ‘connects to the data/charging port and will seamlessly grab e-mails, instant messages, dialed numbers, phone books and […]
ruphus13 writes “A lot of developers for open source software have full-time day jobs too. As economist Milton Friedman said, ‘The business of business is business.’ So, does it make sense for companies to encourage their developers to contribute to the open source community? OStatic discusses a blog post by Alfresco exec Matt Asay, who […]
An anonymous reader writes “A group of Canadian engineering students was one of 10 teams to win a $275,000 prize from internet search giant Google Inc. Their program, Ecorio, gives users the ability to reduce their environmental footprint with tools that provide transit options for trips, invest in carbon reduction projects, and share their tips […]
fahrbot-bot tips a story of mad cow disease, a private meat packer that wants to test all of its beef for the disease, and the USDA, which controls access to the test kits and just won an appeals court ruling that the government has the authority to block testing above and beyond the 1% the […]
An anonymous reader points out a story in The Register by Opera Software CTO Hakon Lie which tells the story of how Microsoft’s interoperability promise for IE8 seems to have been broken in less than six months. Quoting: “In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: use its most standards compliant mode, […]
JimLane writes “The Washington Post reports on the findings of Cyveillance, a company that ‘normally trawls the Internet for data on behalf of clients seeking open source information in advance of a corporate acquisition, an important executive hire, or brand awareness.’ Cyveillance decided ‘on a lark’ to test its methods by monitoring the Wikipedia biographies […]
Anti-Globalism suggests an article at Science News on the passing of Henri Cartan, one of the founding members of a strange and influential group of French mathematicians in the twentieth century. “In the 1930s, a group of young French mathematicians led an uprising that revolutionized mathematics. France had lost most of a generation in the […]
Dynamoo writes “Legendary comedy writer and producer Geoffrey Perkins has died in a road accident in London. Perkins was until recently the head of comedy for BBC TV. Earlier in his career he produced the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series, and was a writer, director, and producer of many comedy shows including Spitting […]
Anti-Globalism points out an analysis of India’s CAPTCHA-solving industry posted at ZDNet. It begins: “No CAPTCHA can survive a human that’s receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of data processing while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHAs, I’m already […]
Anti-Globalism points out a story at the German magazine Spiegel profiling two small US companies that monitor terrorist networks online — IntelCenter and SITE Intelgroup. “[Founders of the two companies] Venzke and Devon are two of the most prominent ‘terror trackers’ worldwide. In the United States, and increasingly in other countries, the term refers to […]