
Opportunity missed.
After all, she could have put on the dominatrix gear and gone for the full 'flogging a dead horse' thing...
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If the threat is acted on, there will literally be blood on the streets - the Zetas have been hit hard by the Mexican government this year, but are still highly dangerous, as are their rival cartels, who would doubtless be interested to know who's been working against them.
So both those 'outed' and those doing the outing will be endangered - the Zetas have acquired the services of hackers in the past, after all, and have absolutely no restraint when it comes to removing those who annoy them.
Whatever one may think of Steve Jobs, his impact was immense, and he left this world far too early for someone with such drive.
On a different note entirely... "Tommy John of the eponymous surgery" - Tommy John surgery may well be something that baseball fans know about, but over on the eastern side of the Pond it's going to cause 'John Thomas' jokes...
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The makers of alcoholic drinks including Baileys and Smirnoff have agreed to introduce a code of practice for their adverts of Facebook and other social media, and said that such websites are now often the main route for promoting alcoholic drinks.
New guidelines will restrict access to official brand pages for users under 18 years old on social networking sites such as Facebook. Advertising will only be placed in environments where more than 70 per cent of viewers are over 18.
The European Forum for Responsible Drinking (EFRD), which represents the largest alcoholic spirits manufacturers in Europe and America, such as Diageo, said the new guidelines will extend responsible alcohol advertising to brand pages on Facebook, blogs and mobile apps
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From the Daily Telegraph, Sept 21st 2011.
My kids use FB, and are well aware that I reserve the right to check up on their profiles or even access their accounts and/or hardware should the occasion arise.
They have of course been educated in Internet safety by me, starting with serious chats before they were allowed online, and are reminded about it constantly. They have also been indoctrinated with my healthy paranoia about computer security, and know that spot checks can and do happen... woe betide the first one who is careless enough to pick up a virus or Trojan! (After several years, neither have, touch wood).
I would worry more about parents who DON'T try to keep track of their kids online, and I am always very nervous of the vast majority who aren't capable of advising on security issues.
Coz it is actually part of their job.
From their own website:
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Computer Fraud - Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 1030, authorizes the Secret Service to investigate computer crimes. Violations enforced under this statute include unauthorized access to protected computers, theft of data such as personal identification used to commit identity theft, denial of service attacks used for extortion or disruption of e-commerce and malware (malicious software) distribution to include viruses intended for financial gain.
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I think data for personal identification includes images of people taken without either their knowledge *or the knowledge of the computer's owner* and then sent to an offsite server.
And that's before we include the argument about whether his code is, strictly speaking, malware or not, and before we consider whether these computers should be considered 'protected' by being on Holy Ground.
So the story here is that a Chinese municipal government is making a planned and properly thought-through investment, rather than just rely on the ad hoc and irregular patchwork of both publicly and privately operated CCTV cameras, speed cameras and cashpoint cameras used by the forces of law and order in every Western city?
Wow. Big news.
If the number has been withdrawn, then his vehicle is unregistered unless he has a second plate somewhere. So he can be as stubborn as he likes, but can still be nicked for it.
Whether that means he *must* return the old ones for a refund rather than just keeping them and displaying them behind the windscreen is, I guess, a different matter...
Not fair, but I can't see him winning this one.
... because this will now effectively give them sole and exclusive control over their company domains in all territories at a single stroke.
Instead of needing to trust, rely or bully the local distributor who managed to nab their name with the local country suffix way back in the day, they can now insist that all their genuine info goes under their own 'vanity' domain - making changing distributor rather easier, should it become necessary.
I suspect that Canon and Hitachi will be the tip of a very, very large iceberg.
On the plus side, customers going to such multinational-suffixed sites will reduce the risk of getting themselves scammed by a local con artist, I guess... (which is no guarantee that the multinational won't scam them itself, of course!)
AC writes: "If this is the full postcode, then they are normally specific to about 15 houses"
Fifteen? Heck, in some cases a UK postcode may be specific to just two houses!!! (I used to live in a detached house that shared its postcode only with next door).
Agree that it's not like in some other countries where the postcode is a whole district or even town, which makes this loss far more worrying than might otherwise appear to be the case.
"An internet search engine is a public acommodation, just like a hotel or restaurant," Preziosi argued."
But if you don't like a hotel or restaurant, you just choose to go to a different one.
Activists suing Baidu because the latter's searches don't show their work is like the Beef Producers' Association suing a vegetarian restaurant over their menu choices.
So obviously a smear, the fundies won't fall for it.
All the news about 'what was found' - allegedly e-mail, contact lists, pr0n, operational details - has been designed to spread FUD.
As always, the question should not be "what is being leaked from the investigation", but "who is handing out this info, and why are they doing so right now?"
"It will be interesting to learn just how adept bin Laden was at protecting the data stashed on his computer gear."
Why on earth should we learn about it at all?
The Spooks will certainly want to keep anything they find very deeply secret, so that they can make use of it before other potential targets are warned off.
Given the need to rely on physical couriers, I highly doubt that there's any handy address book on there. Any 'leaks' from the Spooks which do occur will probably be misinformation designed to scare a reaction out of people they haven't been able to find.
"Presumably he's thinking of Dragons setting down on Mars, being refuelled..."
Or he's been talking to Buzz Aldrin (pictured at a SpaceX bash on their website) and believes that there should be no return option for the first colonists - Aldrin's stated view is that “They need to go there more with the psychology of knowing that you are a pioneering settler and you don’t look forward to go back home again after a couple a years”"