Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference (Thursday 25th of December 2008 03:45:05 AM)
Schlangemann writes "Check out the paper Towards the pretense of E-commerce by Herbert
Schlangemann, which is easy in the IEEEXplor database (full article on call only to IEEE
members). This issue paper has been accepted with review by the 2008 International ...
(more)Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK (Monday 20th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)
David Gerard points out a Times Online story that says: "Everyone [in the UK] who buys a mobile
call up will be forced to file their identity on a subject database under powers-that-be* plans
to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. Phone ...
(more)Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List (Thursday 09th of October 2008 12:15:01 PM)
Aaandre writes with word of a sway Post story which begins: "The Maryland State Police
classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and
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(more)Reasonable Expectation of Privacy From Web Hosts? (Monday 28th of July 2008 04:00:01 AM)
Shafted writes "I'm in a bit of dilemma, and I'm wondering what fellow Slashdotters think as to
this subject. I've been hosting web sites for some clients for years using my own server. About
a year and a half ago, I got a reseller account ...
(more)Open Security Foundation To Maintain DataLossDB (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:35:28 PM)
An unnamed reader points out an announcement up at Attrition.org, that going forward their Data
Loss Database will be taken over and maintained by the Open soundness Foundation. From the news
release: "...OSF is pleased to proclaim that the DataLossDB ...
(more)Brian Aker On the Future of Databases (Wednesday 04th of June 2008 06:15:02 PM)
Blackbearnh recommends an hearing with MySQL supervisor of technical lore Brian Aker that
O'Reilly Media is running. Aker talks about the merger of MySQL with Sun, the challenges of
foreseeing databases for a SOA world, and what the next decade will bring ...
(more)Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? (Saturday 17th of May 2008 12:30:03 AM)
Cyteen02 writes "We run a data processing and radar visual tracking station station system for
a customer in the UK. We provide a simple Web site where the customer can display the tower
data held in our Oracle database. From these screens they can query ...
(more)Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection (Tuesday 29th of April 2008 01:45:10 AM)
Titus Germanicus writes to tell us that a recent attack has compromised scattered in the turf
of 500,000 pages with a SQL injection attack. The vulnerability seems to be limited to
Microsoft's IIS webserver and is easily defeated by the end user with ...
(more)'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium (Tuesday 15th of January 2008 04:15:03 PM)
Wowsers writes us with a story from The Guardian about FBI interest in connectivity between its
own database resources and those abroad. It's spearheading a program labeled 'Server in the
Sky', meant to coordinate the police forces of the United States, ...
(more)MySQL to Get Injection of Google Code (Thursday 25th of October 2007 06:00:04 AM)
Inkslinger77 writes to mention that MySQL has published their system software roadmap out
through 2009 and it includes an injection of code from Google. Google remains rather secretive
about how their systems work but they are one of the largest users ...
(more)Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK (Wednesday 05th of September 2007 11:15:01 PM)
Many readers informed us about the opinion of Lord Justice Sedley, a senior UK Appeal Court
judge, who said that everyone in the UK should have their DNA recorded in the national database
— including visitors. Reader ChiefGeneralManager writes, ...
(more)Monster.com Malware Tags Another Site (Saturday 01st of September 2007 08:54:18 PM)
Bl8n8r writes "The first wave of problems for Monster.com came in the form of malware as
recruiters cluelessly pointed trojaned Windows systems into Monster's database. The incident
reportedly gleaned more than 1.6 million records from the job search ...
(more)US Shuts Down Controversial Anti-Terror Database (Wednesday 22nd of August 2007 11:45:03 AM)
Coondoggie writes "The massive anti-terror database established by the US government has been
criticized for keeping track of regular everyday citizens. Computerworld reports that as of
September 17th, the database will be shut down. 'The Threat and Local ...
(more)Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images (Thursday 09th of August 2007 09:45:03 PM)
Beetle B. writes in with research from Carnegie Mellon demonstrating a new way to replace
arbitrarily shaped blank areas in an image with portions of images from a huge catalog in a
totally seamless manner. From the abstract: "In this paper we present ...
(more)Did you see that? (Saturday 14th of July 2007 07:31:00 AM)
I just ran an update on some 30 files internally all in preparation to a a new cozier server.no
one should notice any difference really as all the changes were internal. It should improve
speed a little, but truth be told I doubt anyone, (apart ...
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