Beginning in February, UC Irvine graduate students who attempted to submit income tax returns electronically were informed by the IRS that their had already been filed, provoking complaints to the UCI Police Department to solve the identity thefts. To date, all 155 reported victims were participants in UCI’s Graduate Student Health Insurance Program.
The investigation is underway. It seems to touch on HIPAA, but the article makes no mention of health records.
After commenting on one of Bruce’s blog entries, I was reminded of a poem called “The Flyting betwixt Montgomery and Polwart”. I tried to find a handy copy to refresh my memory, but instead I ran into an odd article in Folklore:
At all events the British Association has more than once taken note of them, and has not gone so far as the Russian Commissary of Education, who has announced that all mention of fairies, angels, or devils in fairy tales is to be supplanted by the words “scientists and technicians who have served humanity.” Whether these partake the nature of angels or of devils, or incline more to that of fairies, I leave you to judge.
It takes a fair amount of skill to fly a kite. However, thanks to its Sky_liner project, Festo has become the first company to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve fully automated control with the aid of mechatronics, therefore tying in a new development with its core competency of automation using moving air.
Wow, if they can do this then I can see actually bringing a kite to my next picnic. Then I read the next paragraph and noted:
The two kites are operated automatically indoors, using servo motors and artificial wind.
If they were automating flight with genuinely fluky and unpredictable (e.g. real-world) conditions I think they could use the term “automation” more accurately. If you have to create a special environment for something to work properly, it should not be considered a complete demonstration of “fully automated control”.
Imagine a fully automated security control system. Now imagine artificial network traffic…
The government of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has contacted the faculty of computing and information technology (CIT) at Uganda’s Makerere University about the possibility of recruiting 300 IT experts.
First, it is an IDG news article that appears in CIO.com and highlights events in Africa. Second, it mentions that the demand for IT expertise is driven by growth in banking. Are you banking or doing business via Mauritius yet? Another example of how the expansion of Internet commerce, and subsequent trans-national security issues, really has only just begun.
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