Freighter ships offer passengers stops at unusual ports, plenty of quiet time and an unusual way to travel.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
The Wasteful War On Drugs Is Doomed By Economics 101 - Forbes
The Wasteful War On Drugs Is Doomed By Economics 101 - Forbes:
online medical journal BMJ Open, “seizures of raw and prepared opium increased by more than 12,000%.” To put it another way, the amount of opium seized in 2010, 57,023 kilograms, was 126 times the amount seized in 1990.
online medical journal BMJ Open, “seizures of raw and prepared opium increased by more than 12,000%.” To put it another way, the amount of opium seized in 2010, 57,023 kilograms, was 126 times the amount seized in 1990.
How Much of Your Money is Wasted in the War on Drugs | Open Society Foundations (OSF)
How Much of Your Money is Wasted in the War on Drugs | Open Society Foundations (OSF):
Enforcing the drug control system costs at least $100 billion a year.
Federal spending in the United States alone totals around $15 billion annually and according to one estimate, state and local drug-related criminal justice expenditures amount to $25.7 billion.
Enforcing the drug control system costs at least $100 billion a year.
Federal spending in the United States alone totals around $15 billion annually and according to one estimate, state and local drug-related criminal justice expenditures amount to $25.7 billion.
See All The Companies That Are Tracking You On Facebook
See All The Companies That Are Tracking You On Facebook Business Insider:
If you're worried about your privacy, you can do two things: Opt out of ad tracking and — and this is sometimes rather alarming if you haven't done it in a while — look up the list of app companies that are logged in to your Facebook account.
If you're worried about your privacy, you can do two things: Opt out of ad tracking and — and this is sometimes rather alarming if you haven't done it in a while — look up the list of app companies that are logged in to your Facebook account.
Boston.com
we can pursue our individual dreams, but still come together as one American family to make sure the next generation can pursue its dreams as well."
http://mobile.boston.com/art/21/lifestyle/health/health_stew/2014/01/obama_lays_it_on_the_line?single=0&p=3
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Deep Dive into First Unitarian Church v. NSA: Why Freedom of Association Matters | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Patient Privacy Rights saw calls to its hotline halved form 40 calls a month to 20 after the phone records dragnet became public.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/deep-dive-first-unitarian-church-v-nsa-why-freedom-association-matters
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Checklist of Responsible Information-Handling Practices | Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Checklist of Responsible Information-Handling Practices | Privacy Rights Clearinghouse:
Thus, a critical starting point for preventing future data breaches (and the identity theft that can follow) is developing ironclad policies and practices for handling personal information from within the workplace.
Thus, a critical starting point for preventing future data breaches (and the identity theft that can follow) is developing ironclad policies and practices for handling personal information from within the workplace.
Monday, January 27, 2014
WikiCFP : Call For Papers of Conferences, Workshops and Journals
Quite interesting for researchers...
WikiCFP : Call For Papers of Conferences, Workshops and Journals:
'via Blog this'
WikiCFP : Call For Papers of Conferences, Workshops and Journals:
'via Blog this'
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Lessons from the World's Most Tech-Savvy Government - Sten Tamkivi - The Atlantic
Lessons from the World's Most Tech-Savvy Government - Sten Tamkivi - The Atlantic: Ultimately, the states that create these kinds of environments will be best positioned to attract the world’s increasingly mobile citizens.
PUBLICATIONS - deCODE genetics
Genome-wide association study identifies a sequence variant within the DAB2IP gene conferring susceptibility to abdominal aortic aneurysm. Nat Genet. 2010 Aug;42(8):692-7. Epub 2010 Jul 11.
How Companies Harvest Data To Target The Most Financially And Emotionally Vulnerable | Co.Exist | World changing ideas and innovation
What's perhaps most concerning in the report is the way the firms then use this data to classify people into "buckets" and sell their profiles to third-parties.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Vatican cleric Scarano charged with money-laundering
Prosecutors allege that Monsignor Scarano got dozens of people to make contributions to a home for the terminally ill in Salerno, and used the money to pay off a mortgage on one of his properties.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
CrowdStrike Takes On Chinese, Russian Attack Groups in Threat Report | SecurityWeek.Com
CrowdStrike Takes On Chinese, Russian Attack Groups in Threat Report | SecurityWeek.Com: The attack against the Council of Foreign Relations website in early 2013, which also compromised Capstone Turbine and Napteh Engineering & Development Co., involved three different adversaries using multiple types of malware, the report found. In March 2013, one of the attack groups compromised a Harvard University site targeting people who were concerned with military, international relations, and human rights issues in the Far East.
Monday, January 20, 2014
Putting the “D” and “I” Back in DIME | In Homeland Security
DIME(FIL) was added to include statecraft resources of financial, intelligence and law enforcement dynamics to be applied to the operational environments.a
http://inhomelandsecurity.com/putting-the-d-and-i-back-in-dime/
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Dear White People Gets Their Attention -- Vulture
"For all the white people in the audience, on behalf of all the black people in the world, you most definitely have permission to laugh."
http://www.vulture.com/m/2014/01/dear-white-people-sundance.html?mid=twitter_vulture
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
CCC-TV - Through a PRISM, Darkly
From Stellar Wind to PRISM, Boundless Informant to EvilOlive, the NSAspying programs are shrouded in secrecy and rubber-stamped by secret opinions from a court that meets in a faraday cage. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Kurt Opsahl explains the known facts about how the programs operate and the laws and regulations the U.S. government asserts allows the NSA to spy on you.
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5255_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312301400_-_through_a_prism_darkly_-_kurt_opsahl.html
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Tampa 'first lady' of tax refund fraud gets 21 years in prison | Tampa Bay Times
Tampa 'first lady' of tax refund fraud gets 21 years in prison | Tampa Bay Times: "I'm Rashia, the queen of IRS tax fraud," the post stated, all in capital letters, with a little less punctuation than this:
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
How Sotomayor undermined Obama's NSA | MSNBC
How Sotomayor undermined Obama's NSA | MSNBC: “It may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties,” Sotomayor wrote in 2012. “This approach is ill suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks.”
Monday, January 13, 2014
People Are More Freaked Out by Hacking Than Tracking, Survey Finds - Liz Gannes - Security - AllThingsD
People Are More Freaked Out by Hacking Than Tracking, Survey Finds - Liz Gannes - Security - AllThingsD: Some 75 percent of those surveyed said they are worried about hackers stealing their personal information, while 54 percent are worried about their browsing history being tracked by advertisers.
That’s according to interviews with 1,000 American voters in November commissioned by the Computer and Communications Industry Association and conducted by Benenson Strategy Group and American Viewpoint.
That’s according to interviews with 1,000 American voters in November commissioned by the Computer and Communications Industry Association and conducted by Benenson Strategy Group and American Viewpoint.
SMB Retailers with Security Problems and Big Data Interest Fortinet Survey Finds
SMB Retailers with Security Problems and Big Data Interest Fortinet Survey Finds: 55 percent are unaware of their state’s security breach requirements, and 40 percent lack any established policy adhering to those requirements.
an update on our data breach and financial performance
an update on our data breach and financial performance: The updated sales expectation reflects stronger-than-expected fourth quarter sales prior to the Company’s Dec. 19, 2013 announcement of a payment card breach, meaningfully weaker-than-expected sales since the announcement,
Cisco | CCNA | 5 Day Instructor Led Training | CCBOOTCAMP
Cisco | CCNA | 5 Day Instructor Led Training | CCBOOTCAMP: CCBOOTCAMP offers the CCNA Boot Camp which consists of five consecutive days of intense training from our certified instructors. This course is designed to assist students in obtaining their CCNA certification.
IT firms lose billions after NSA scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
"US companies have seen some of their business put at risk because of the NSA revelations," said James Kelleher of equity research firm Argus Research.
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Sunday, January 12, 2014
Agencies to Focus on Illegal Cyberweapons Trade in 2014 - Nextgov.com
Agencies governmentwide over the next nine months must work together on guidelines for controlling the trade of cyberwar technology, under newly approved military legislation.
Tapping analytics to fight cyber crime | UTSanDiego.com Mobile
Eslambolchi calls CyberFlow's technology "Anomalytics," which means using analytics to spot anomalies in a corporate information technology network that might be data-stealing cyberattacks.
http://m.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Nov/15/Hossein-Eslambolchi-CyberFlow-cyber-crime/
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Why backdooring security products is SO wrong
Why backdooring security products is SO wrong
To be continued...
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To be continued...
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Friday, January 10, 2014
12 Volt DC - 3 Amp (12V, 3A) Power Supply
12 Volt DC - 3 Amp (12V, 3A) Power Supply: High Quality 12V DC Power Supply Adapter for any device that requires stable DC power. Examples: LCD Screens, Audio and Video Devices, Digital Media,
Laptop Adapter Outlet - More Power For Your Money
Laptop Adapter Outlet - More Power For Your Money: Adapters can fit different Brands and Models. It is important to check the Specs like Watts, Volts and Amps when you purchase an adapter. It is also important to know the size of your Adapter tip.
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com: “We can put out any statement or statistics, but in the wake of what feels like weekly disclosures of other government activity, the question is, will anyone believe us?”
Here's how data thieves have captured our lives on the internet | John Naughton
Here's how data thieves have captured our lives on the internet | John Naughton: It's not just governments. Companies such as Google and Facebook spy on us too. We have clicked through to their 'free' digital services at the cost of sacrificing our privacy. So how do we get out?
Snapchat's Security Breach: Time to Lawyer Up: Video - Bloomberg
Snapchat's Security Breach: Time to Lawyer Up: Video - Bloomberg: Chris Soghoian, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union and David Kennedy, CEO at TrustedSec, discuss the hacking of Snapchat users’ data on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”
Fwd: Google Alert - 23andme
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News 1 new result for 23andme
23andMe Test Reveals Disturbing Artificial Insemination Switch LiveScience.com The family discovered the truth about their daughter's parentage thanks to a direct-to-consumer genetic test by 23andMe, according to CeCe Moore, ...
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Blogs 1 new result for 23andme
23andMe Test Reveals Artificial Insemination Nightmare - Business ... Lauren F Friedman When a trip to the fertility clinic goes horribly wrong — and nobody knows until 21 years later.
Business Insider
Web 4 new results for 23andme
23andMe Test Reveals Disturbing Artificial Insemination Switch ... From Yahoo News: A young women conceived with help from a fertility clinic in Utah in the early 1990s is actually the biological daughter of the former ...
news.yahoo.com/23andme-test-reveals-disturbing-artificial-ins... 23andMe's rush to market irresponsible: Column - USA TODAY 23andMe's rush to market irresponsible: ColumnUSA TODAYIn 2010, Government Accountability Office investigators testified before Congress on ...
www.medicalwebtimes.com/.../23andmes_rush_to_market_irr... 23andme | Boston Biotech Watch There was a flood of news in late November about the stinging letter that Mountain View, California-based 23andme received from the U.S. Food and ...
bostonbiotechwatch.com/tag/23andme/ 23andMe Test Reveals Disturbing Artificial Insemination Switch ... A young women conceived with help from a fertility clinic in Utah in the early 1990s is actually the biological daughter of the former clinic receptionist,
www.capitalofpakistan.com/.../23andme-test-reveals-disturbin...
The Economist explains: What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims? | The Economist
CLASHES between Islam's two big sects, the Sunni and the Shia, take place across the Muslim world. In the Middle East a potent mix of religion and politics hassharpened the divide between Iran's Shia government and the Gulf states, which have Sunni governments.
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Thursday, January 9, 2014
Growing number of security experts boycott RSA conference for NSA ties — RT USA
Reuters reported in December that RSA, one of the most influential encryption companies among customers seeking to hide their internet activity, accepted $10 million from the NSA to make an agency-authored algorithm the primary technique used to generate random numbers in an RSA encryption product.
http://rt.com/usa/researchers-boycott-rsa-conference-nsa-299/
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IT firms lose billions after NSA scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
"US companies have seen some of their business put at risk because of the NSA revelations," said James Kelleher of equity research firm Argus Research.
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BBC News - CES 2014: Connected tech raises privacy fears
In the future, it might not just be your smartphone that leaks personal and private data, it might be your smart fridge too.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
A Chart That Says the War on Drugs Isn't Working - The Wire
A Chart That Says the War on Drugs Isn't Working - The Wire
...while the blue illicit drug addiction rate line has remained relatively steady at about 1.3 percent, the green line for drug control spending has skyrocketed. The increased spending did not correlate to lower addiction rates.
...while the blue illicit drug addiction rate line has remained relatively steady at about 1.3 percent, the green line for drug control spending has skyrocketed. The increased spending did not correlate to lower addiction rates.
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool - Home
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool - Home:
Note: You cannot install Windows 7 from the ISO file until you copy it to a USB flash drive or DVD with the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool and install from there.
Note: You cannot install Windows 7 from the ISO file until you copy it to a USB flash drive or DVD with the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool and install from there.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
GlobalSecurity.org - SITREP Situation Report | Did the NSA foil the Zazi peroxide bomb plot?
President Obama: "We might have caught him some other way. We might have disrupted it because a New York cop saw he was suspicious. Maybe he turned out to be incompetent and the bomb didn't go off. But, at the margins, we are increasing our chances of preventing a catastrophe like that through these programs."
http://sitrep.globalsecurity.org/articles/130619909-did-the-nsa-foil-the-zazi-pero.htm
Monday, January 6, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Will FireEye’s Acquisition Strategy Work?
FireEye is an outlier, and frankly, overvalued compared to other security companies.
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10News - Local entrepreneurs raising money for protoype of new transparent motorcycle helmet display - 10News.com - News
- A group of entrepreneurs from San Diego have developed new technology that they say will make it easier for those on motorcycles.
Tor Browser Bundle
The Tor Browser Bundle lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained.
A Chart That Says the War on Drugs Isn't Working - The Wire
The controversial war on drugs not only costs a lot, it has done almost nothing to curb the drug addiction rate since 1970
http://www.thewire.com/national/2012/10/chart-says-war-drugs-isnt-working/57913/
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
Is Quibids a Scam? | Celebrity Net Worth
Is Quibids a Scam? | Celebrity Net Worth: Quibids has employed SEO tactics to make their own legit looking review sites dominate the first and second result pages of google. Not only do these sites give Quibids a glowing review, they also (brilliantly/unethically) offer the visitor a free coupon code for the site at the same time they are praising the service. I can't say I blame Quibids, I would do the same exact thing.
The currency bit
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Contraception at Risk — NEJM
Contraception at Risk — NEJM: At issue is whether a for-profit corporation can be required to provide coverage for contraceptive services to its employees. We believe that provision of these services meets a critical public health need and that a woman, regardless of the religious beliefs of her employer, should have access to a full panel
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
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Data, Privacy and Economic Station: The Data Vulnerabilities of Those Less Advantaged
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4520983?utm_hp_ref=tw
"the Target breach seems to have served as a sort of "tipping point," where even the average person who is not spending their entire life online has now been affected by a breach by simply going to a retailer to purchase their everyday items."
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"the Target breach seems to have served as a sort of "tipping point," where even the average person who is not spending their entire life online has now been affected by a breach by simply going to a retailer to purchase their everyday items."
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