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Monday, April 10, 2006 |
Let's try that again:
10:57:24 PM 
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Total eclipse seen from space:
(thanks,
Brojo!)
6:54:58 PM
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Three from BNA News:
DISNEY TO OFFER POPULAR TV SHOWS FREE ONLINE
Disney plans to make much of its newest and most popular programming on
ABC and other channels available free anytime on the Web, in a move
that could speed the transformation of television viewing habits and
help revive the struggling TV advertising business. On April 30, ABC
will unveil a revamped Web site that will include a "theater" where
people with broadband connections can watch free episodes of "Desperate
Housewives," "Lost" and other hit shows on their computers.
NIGERIAN 419 SCAM STOLE THE MOST MONEY OFF INTERNET
Americans lost a record amount of money to Internet fraud last year,
with the infamous Nigerian 419 scam nabbing the largest sums from
individuals. Americans reported losing an all-time high of $183 million
to Internet fraud in 2005, up 169 percent from $68 million the previous
year, the Internet Crime Complaint Center said last week. [SF
Chronicle]
NORWAY INCREASING USE OF OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
The Norwegian government said Friday that it would increase its use of
freely shared, open-source software to reduce its dependency on large
computer companies like Microsoft. The Ministry of Government
Administration and Reform said measures to increase use of open-source
programs include a specialist panel to set standards for public
information.
9:54:12 AM
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To packed crowd, speaker discusses cyber security crisis, by Tom
Halleck.
Professor Eugene H. Spafford, Ph.D., a renowned speaker and leader in
the field of computing security, cyber crime and policy, spoke
yesterday on the escalating computer security crisis, as a part of the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering's Distinguished
Speakers Series.
Spafford spoke to a packed room in 330 Student Union, discussing the
most important issues in cyber security, focusing on the lack of
attention paid to security by both the government as well as the
private sector.
He often used humor to show how unreasonable the situation is
regarding computer security, like in the lack of law enforcement.
"We have people committing (cyber crime) offenses again and again, but
it's been calculated as less than five percent of these crimes are
prosecuted," Spafford said. "Please do not take that as career
advice."
7:53:56 AM
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