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Facebook Places could spark new privacy fire

Having to opt out instead of opting in makes some unhappy about Facebook’s new location-based app

On Wednesday, Facebook took the wraps off of Places, a smartphone-based service that enables users to tell their friends where they are, and to track friends. The service, which is slowly being rolled out to users, enables people to share their friends’ locations.

Forcing users to opt out of using the service rather than allowing them to opt in has some privacy advocates up in arms. Facebook has set up Places so that it is on by default, and users must make their way through the system’s privacy controls in order to turn it off.

“I’ve watched how they’ve handled users’ privacy over the last year and a half or so, and they continually step on their dance partners’ feet every time they get a new dance partner,” said Brad Shimmin, an analyst at Current Analysis.

“The fact that it’s turned on by default really ticks me off as a user. Those missteps bother me and show that they really are running a little bit faster than they know how,” Shimmin continued. “They keep requiring users to jump over hoops to protect themselves.”

While there hasn’t been widespread outrage over the new feature, Shimmin wasn’t the only one who was angry about it. Soon after Facebook announced Places, the ACLU of Northern California issued a statement saying the social network has failed to build in some important safeguards.

“In the world of Facebook Places, ‘no’ is unfortunately not an option,” the ACLU said in the statement. “Places allows your friends to tag you when they check in somewhere, and Facebook makes it very easy to say ‘yes’ to allowing your friends to check in for you. But when it comes to opting out of that feature, you are only given a ‘not now’ option. ‘No’ isn’t one of the easy options.”

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt fired back today, saying he’s “disappointed” in the ACLU of Northern California. “Facebook Places sets a new standard for user control and privacy protection for location information,” he wrote in a statement.

“No one can be checked in to a location without their explicit permission. Many third parties have applauded our controls, indicating that people have more protections using Facebook Places than other widely used location services available today,” Schnitt said.

It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In seconds the target car’s engine, brakes, and door locks are under their nefarious control.

Texas cops say a man hacked into GPS systems and disabled more than 100 cars.It doesn’t take a great script writer to figure out what’s next – except that it’s not the movies anymore. It’s real – well, almost.

Hackers aren’t taking over our cars just yet, but without tighter computer security they be able to before too long, research conducted by scientists at four universities indicates.

For example, scientists hacked into a car’s computer system by commandeering the wireless tire-pressure monitoring signal of a target vehicle – all while driving at more than 60 miles per hour, according to a joint study released Thursday by Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina.

The new study, along with a similar one from May, suggests looming dangers: People within a vehicle could be tracked using the wireless signals, and they could potentially could be harmed if malevolent hackers learn to exploit or invade a vehicle’s control systems from a distance.

“Our research shows that there are multiple risks,” says Marco Gruteser, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers University. “Privacy is a problem since every car has these unique fingerprints from tire pressure, and that makes it possible to track movements. But this vulnerability can lead to something more serious.”

The wireless hacking was done by taking advantage of the sensors inside each tire that broadcast a brief radio signal every 60 to 90 seconds. The signal tells one of the car’s computer systems the pressure of each. But researchers found that even those weak signals could be intercepted up to 120 feet away and hacked from a roadside location – or by a car in traffic.

Traveling in tandem with the target car, the researchers sent false low-air-pressure warnings to the car’s dashboard display and eventually wrecked the internal computer.

If sending a spurious “low pressure” messages doesn’t sound exactly like Mission Impossible, the work of other researchers yielded potentially more-serious vulnerabilities. In May, a team of researchers reported that they succeeded in hacking into the onboard computer networks that controlled the engine, brakes, and door locks, among other systems.

For full article goto “Scientists hack into Cars’ computers”

GRAND FORKS, N>D. – Parts of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks were abuzz with speculation Thursday after some residents woke up to a strange sight — dozens or even hundreds of dead dragonflies and monarch butterflies on lawns and sidewalks around the community.

Stuart Kovar, foreman at East Grand Forks Public Works Department, said this was probably caused by the mosquito spraying done by both cities Wednesday evening.

“It’s not that we want to hurt them or anything,” he said. “It’s just the way the chemicals worked.”

The chemical works by attacking the nervous system of a mosquito after being absorbed into its body. It breaks down quickly and is completely gone within 24 hours, Kovar said.

Still, the war on mosquitoes does have unintended consequences. He heard from several people Thursday wondering why there were so many dead bugs around the city.

Kovar thinks it’s getting noticed because there seems to be more butterflies and dragonflies than normal this year. He’s been spraying mosquitoes for about 17 years but said he can’t remember a year with so many bugs.

“Since we have so many of the species around, it’s just that our chemical is showing it’s killing them anyways,” he said. “There isn’t much we can do about it. We can change all of the chemicals, and it’s still going to kill them.”

Arnason, a fourth-grade teacher in East Grand Forks who helps manage a butterfly garden at Central Middle School, has seen more monarchs than usual in the past couple of weeks.

While she’s glad to notice that upward trend, she said the attempt to eradicate mosquitoes could lead to butterflies taking a big hit.

“I think I’ve seen more monarchs than ever, and I think that’s a good thing,” she said. “But now when they get to the stage of being butterflies, our city’s doing damage.”

Monarch butterflies are migratory insects that fly as far north as Canada during the spring. Arnason said once they get here, they lay eggs that will eventually become caterpillars that transform into new butterflies that fly south to Mexico for the winter.

She said there could be more butterflies in the skies because of more abundant milkweed, a vital plant that grows in ditches all over the region and serves as the monarch larva’s source of food.

“It’s good and bad,” she said. “The taxpayers are getting what they’re paying for and you can enjoy your yard.”

“I would say if they’re killing off the butterflies, they’re doing damage,” she added.

Kovar said his department has to be on alert because it’s the peak season of West Nile virus, a sometimes-fatal flu-like disease spread by mosquito bites. August and September are often the two “toughest” months for the Culex tarsalis mosquito, the type most likely to transmit the virus in the region.

“We don’t want to destroy the butterflies, and we don’t want to destroy any other bugs if we don’t have to,” he said. “Our goal is to keep the mosquitoes away so people don’t get sick.”

We are so glad that everyone gets a chance to see the Fox Cities in action. I live 2 blocks from this “Extreme Makeover” house. We don’t know the Filipino family YET. But are looking forward to being a part of their lives. It is all about community and working together. This picture shows the excitement of this filipino family as they see their new house for the first time.

ST. PETERSBURG — Police say it was shortly after midnight Thursday when the two men climbed over a security fence at the Renaissance Vinoy Hotel.

Police say shortly after midnight Thursday two men, Michael Cline, 19, and Andrew Harris, 18, climbed over a security fence at the swanky Renaissance Vinoy Hotel, a historic Mediterranean Revival styled hotel in St. Petersburg, reports the St. Petersburg Times. The two were watched by Vinoy security guards as they befouled the swimming pool with human feces. Guards called police, who found the men in the hot tub. Harris told police he wasn’t a guest at the Vinoy and wasn’t visiting anyone, but he regularly went to the hotel to swim.

Both Harris and Cline denied the allegations. Security guards told police similar incidents have happened recently, forcing the hotel to close the pool and drain it, and to compensate some guests. General manager Russ Bond said the hotel isn’t packed now, so few guests have been affected by the pool closure.

The resort has another pool at the golf course, he said, and the North Shore pool has accommodated some of the hotel’s guests. I think people with a public or private pool have had similar issues,” the General Manager told the St. Petersburg Times, “We just happened to catch the people who did it.”

The men face charges of commercial burglary, a felony. They remained in jail Thursday in lieu of $10,000 bail. Police say the men were charged with felonies because of the cost of cleaning the facility.

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Immigration bureau execs told to liquidate cash advances ASAP

By Tetch Torres INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Immigration on Thursday ordered its officials and employees with outstanding cash advances to liquidate them as soon as possible or face possible administrative and criminal case.

Immigration officer-in-charge Ronaldo Ledesma already ordered the bureau’s finance division to issue final demand letters to the concerned officials and employees for the settlement of unliquidated cash advances.

“Failure on the part of the employees to comply with the directive will cause the bureau’s payroll section to deduct the cash advances from salaries of those concerned,” he said. Ledesma issued the statement even as the bureau’s finance chief clarified that the bureau’s outstanding cash advances was significantly reduced to only P2.021 million as of August 15.

Elvira Presado, BI finance and management division head, said the Ombudsman’s report that the bureau’s cash advances amounted to P9.88 million pertained to outstanding cash advances as of May 31 this year. This is reflected in a schedule that was then submitted to the Commission on Audit (CoA).

Presado also explained that in most cases, and so as not to hamper the agency’s operations, cash advances were released to accountable employees while liquidation reports on prior cash advances of the same employees were still being processed or completed.

She gave the assurance that her office is exercising extraordinary diligence to liquidate within the period prescribed by law and in conformity with the CoA’s rules and regulations. “In fact, there have been instances where we initiated and recommended to the administrative division salary deductions against the concerned employees,” she added.

We often don’t realize how far we have fallen, until someone cares enough to tell us how far we’ve come!

The reason we hold onto our pasts may not be a conscious act so much as a habit! If we have been so long in the dark, we may not want or be aware of the help being offered to find light “light switch”!  

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We know from personal study, that Our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ, The only TRUE GOD, the ONLY TRUE Way Out, intentionally, ministered first to “the LEAST OF THESE”!  Was this because he didn’t care about the Wealthy & Educated, or perhaps, because the “Preferred”, had the training & education to know better but still refused to acknowledge “the LIGHT”!

Perceiving yourself as Ultra-Moral, is just as devious a SIN, as active drug use, prostitution, Alcohol abuse in all its forms or Murder!!  Jesus Christ, Came to save from SIN, ALL that would be saved from SIN, regardless of economic position, societal acceptance, or distance a part do to Un-Godly Living!

The Story, does not begin or end at the Cross, the Cross, proves to be the intermission, a moment of personal introspection for anyone considering an attitude of superiority, distance if you will from the damning effects of poor choices!

If you are have any problems at all justifying the socially corporate nature of this GOD-MAN’S Ministry, then comfort yourself with this knowledge. It was the relationship Jesus Christ of Nazareth had with the down trodden, derelicts, prostitutes, the socially NEVER ACCEPTABLE, that played a HUGE part in the desire to crucify HIM.

Blood of Jesus Ministries, IS Courageous enough, to ask you if you can hear “Your Brother’s Blood” crying from the ground that received it!!(Gen 4:9)  If you answered Yes, then YOU like us, believe we are in all ways beneficial to the Kingdom & the Individual: “Our Brothers Keeper!”

As members of Christ Bodily representation here in this world, what do you think it is, we keep for our brother JESUS?  Does it matter, that we were created from THAT(the dirt), which absorbed HIS HOLY BLOOD?  Is there benefit, in connecting with those, The Lofty; would rather turn their noses up to;  are “the Least of These”, regardless of any other consideration impoverished in all ways because the GOSPEL is not be shared as effectively possible?

Just as the blood of Jesus ran down Golgotha’s Hill some 2,500 years ago, so today the Ministering Message of the POWER, within the blood of Jesus, will flow from the top of another hill, out into the streets of Sheboygan, reaching into the lives of all who will receive it!!

God NEVER changes, Jesus Christ NEVER changes, neither apparently do the extremes THEY will go to, in order to WIN SOULS!!  Blood of Jesus Ministry’s, has ONE desire, seeing “The Lost” Found, Won & Living as Victorious, Soul Winning Disciples of Jesus Christ!!  

If we seem a bit peculiar, should we meet, then we know we are doing something right! Our Calling to be a Peculiar Priesthood(1 Peter 2:9), doesn’t negate Individual personalities, it accentuates it!    

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