Apple has released a report from the Analysis Group detailing the claims of being responsible for the creation of over 514K jobs in the U.S. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop and get the documented figures for how many jobs Apple created overseas.
We’ve created or supported more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers: from the engineer who helped invent the iPad to the delivery person who brings it to your door.
A Frenchman is suing Google for making him the laughing stock of his village after the firm’s Street View service put on the Internet a picture of him urinating in his garden, his lawyer said Thursday.
“He discovered the existence of this photo after noticing that he had become an object of ridicule in his village,” lawyer Jean-Noel Bouillaud told AFP, asking for the name of the village not be published.
The slightly blurred photo, seen by AFP, shows an individual relieving himself in a garden in the village in the west-central Maine-et-Loire department.
“My client lives in a tiny hamlet where everyone recognised him,” said Bouillaud, adding that his client was on his own property and that the gate to his garden was closed at the time the photo was taken.
WHAT KIND OF WITCHCRAFT IS THIS!?
The business world has a password problem—starting with the fact that the No. 1 computer password employed by business users is, wait for it: “Password1”. Unfortunately, that’s just the most cringe-worthy example of bad enterprise security cited by Trustwave in its recently released Global Security Report for 2012.
Why “Password1”? Because “it satisfies the default Microsoft Active Directory complexity setting,” the IT security research firm noted. In other words, it’s got a capitalized letter, a number, and the requisite number of characters to qualify under basic password security settings.
