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Submission + - Equifax Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin Has Retired (marketwatch.com)

Submitted by phalse phace
phalse phace writes: Following on the heels of a story that revealed that Equifax hired a music major with no education related to technology or security as its Chief Security Officer, Equifax announced on Friday afternoon that Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin has quit the company along with Chief Information Officer David Webb.

Chief Information Officer David Webb and Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin retired immediately, Equifax said in a news release that did not mention either of those executives by name. Mark Rohrwasser, who had been leading Equifax’s international information-technology operations since 2016, will replace Webb and Russ Ayres, a member of Equifax’s IT operation, will replace Mauldin.

Submission + - Chinese Scientists Developed Dental Cavity Vaccine (nature.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Dental caries is one of the most common global chronic diseases affecting all ages of the population, scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences developed low side effects and high protective efficiency against caries using flagellin-rPAc fusion protein, KFD2-rPAc, a promising vaccine candidate. In rat challenge models, KFD2-rPAc induces a robust rPAc-specific IgA response, and confers efficient prophylactic and therapeutic efficiency against caries as does KF-rPAc, while the flagellin-specific inflammatory antibody responses are highly reduced.

Submission + - Mystery of Sonic Weapon Attacks At US Embassy In Cuba Deepens (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room. Soon came the hearing loss, and the speech problems, symptoms both similar and altogether different from others among at least 21 U.S. victims in an astonishing international mystery still unfolding in Cuba. The top U.S. diplomat has called them “health attacks." New details learned by the Associated Press indicate at least some of the incidents were confined to specific rooms or even parts of rooms with laser-like specificity, baffling U.S. officials who say the facts and the physics don’t add up.

Suspicion initially focused on a sonic weapon, and on the Cubans. Yet the diagnosis of mild brain injury, considered unlikely to result from sound, has confounded the FBI, the state department and U.S. intelligence agencies involved in the investigation. Some victims now have problems concentrating or recalling specific words, several officials said, the latest signs of more serious damage than the U.S. government initially realized. The United States first acknowledged the attacks in August — nine months after symptoms were first reported.

Comment SBS (Score 2) 224

by kevinroyalty (#41552717) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Open Communications Set-Up For Small Office?
ok, so you've just turned on virtualization on your SBS server. you just broke it. Microsoft supports SBS installed as a GUEST but not as a HOST for virtualization. this is all over the microsoft knowledge base and the SBS Blog (blogs.technet.com/b/sbs) you'd best read up on SBS Best Practices before you make your server any worse. www.sbsbuilddoc.com

Comment Re:subscriptions - shooting themselves in foot (Score 5, Interesting) 167

by kevinroyalty (#40659169) Attached to: The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It
I think you viewed my comment with too wide a brush. let me try to explain. i used to be a newspaper carrier back in jr/sr high school (5.5 years). my customers asked me for newspaper subscriptions like "i want sunday only" and "i want wed and sun only". this was fairly common. when i'd call the newspaper and tell them the amount of papers to deliver each day, they didn't care how many per day, and complied with no issue. the end result: customer happy, me (carrier) happy. i made good money for the short amount of time i worked each day to do that job. so with that knowledge and that now we are 25+ years in the future, i don't see why i can't have the subscription option i want. as a customer, if you want my business, you need to 1) listen and 2) deliver what the customer wants, or they move on and you don't have them as a customer. you get enough of that and you go out of business. the whole point to this, is that the newspaper wants me to subscribe based on THEIR schedule and for me to pay for 3 newspapers a week, when i WANT only 1. Here Mr Newspaper, take my money. No, we want 3x the money and you get 2 more items you don't want. no thanks. no wonder newspapers are dying. Kevin

Comment subscriptions - shooting themselves in foot (Score 5, Interesting) 167

by kevinroyalty (#40658107) Attached to: The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It
my local paper i only want on sunday. in attempting to subscribe for sunday only, they say "no, you have to take it friday/saturday/sunday". i say "sunday only, or i don't subscribe". they wouldn't budge. guess what i decided :) on the occasion i want a sunday paper, i go to the local gas station which is not far from my place and pick up a paper. i won't be shedding any tears when they fold (ha!)
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Submission + - HP Kills ARM-based Windows Tablet, Likely Thanks To Microsoft Surface (hothardware.com) 1

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "That didn't take long. HP has publicly confirmed that it has cancelled plans to bring a Windows RT (aka Windows on ARM) tablet to market in time for the Windows 8 debut. The company has decided to focus on its x86 customer base instead. HP spokesperson Marlene Somsak has said that "The decision was influenced by input from our customers. The robust and established ecosystem of x86 applications provides the best customer experience at this time and in the immediate future." Sources at HP have confirmed that Microsoft's Surface unveil last week was a huge factor in this decision. HP isn't willing to go head to head with Microsoft when it comes to launching new, unproven products. Abandoning x86 is impossible, but dropping Windows ARM is a way for the computer manufacturer to signal its supreme displeasure without unduly risking market share. It also increases the burden on Surface itself. If other OEMs follow suit, MS could find itself as the only vendor selling ARM-based W8 tablets."

Comment Re:OH the memories (Score 2) 342

by kevinroyalty (#39548367) Attached to: 25 Years of IBM's OS/2
i was one of the Team OS/2 members, and founder of the cincinnati team os/2 user group. I was also an OS/2 Ambassador (the equivalent of a Microsoft MVP), one of a small group. i don't remember how may of us there were (Ambassadors) but it was a small number. I recall fondly attending Comdex and running around installing OS/2 at vendor booths and putting up signs. I found an old photo i took recently of the "Microsoft BOB" launch in vegas. one attendee in the audience. still laughing at that one.......

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