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| ots: Parks Associates und CEA geben Digital-Living-Unter. (Stock World) Parks Associates und CEA(R) gaben heute die Liste von Sponsoren für CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe: "Strategies for Digital Living Markets" bekannt. Diese Konferenz und Ausstellungsmesse für Führungskräfte findet vom 4. bis 6. Dezember 2007 im Adlon Kempinski in Berlin (Deutschland) statt. us.rd.yahoo.com |
City needs to fix ban on camping in parks (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Honolulu's ban on camping in city parks without a permit was struck down this month by the state Supreme Court as too broad, but small changes can be made to reinstate the ordinance. The City Council should take swift action to repair it to satisfy the court's requirements. us.rd.yahoo.com |
North Jersey Jews skeptical of summit (The Record) North Jersey Jews expressed skepticism Monday that a U.S.-backed meeting of Israeli and Palestinian leaders this week in Annapolis, Md., will end the violent stalemate between the two camps. us.rd.yahoo.com |
ARCHITECTURE; A Landscape’s Isolation Is Turned Into a Virtue The winning design for the proposed park on Governors Island reflects the kind of imaginative, civic-minded thinking that can restore our faith in city and state leaders. nytimes.com |
News Bytes of the Week: Trading security for sweets [News] Trick and treat: Workers divulge computer passwords for the promise of candyWorried about someone stealing your identity? Hopefully you're more careful than our friends across the pond. Organizers of the Infosecurity Europe computer security trade show were alarmed to discover this week that 121 of 576 subway riders (21 percent) at London's Liverpool Street Station were prepared to reveal their computer passwords in return for a chocolate bar. The only comforting thing about the survey is that more people kept their mouths shut this time than they did last year when 64 percent of those polled were willing to part with their secret code in return for chocolate. It seems that women were most vulnerable on this score: 45 percent of women compared with 10 percent of the men surveyed gave up their passwords to researchers. "This research shows that it's pretty simple for a perpetrator to gain access to information that is restricted," says Claire Sellick, event director of Infosecurity Europe, set to begin in London on April 22, "by having a chat around the coffee machine, getting a temporary job as a [personal assistant] or pretending to be from the IT department." We hope the chocolate was good, at least. [More] rss.sciam.com |