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Guidance counselor in need of one takes to Facebook and threatens to ‘shoot’ protesters

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A Pennsylvania high school guidance counselor has chosen one of the worst ways imaginable to demonstrate to her students the dangers of using social media while under the influence of anger.

MaryKate Blankenburg, an employee of Central Bucks High School West in Doylestown, Pa., was unhappy that people were planning to protest the recent legal decisions in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., at the Philadelphia Eagles home football game on Sunday.

So she posted on Facebook: “If my child cannot get to the Eagles game due to protesters, I will personally SHOOT every one of them. You’ve been warned idiots!!”

Here is a screen capture, courtesy of a Philadelphia TV station:

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Network World Paul McNamara

Amazon Lambda takes the administration out of cloud computing

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At its AWS re:Invent cloud computing conference today, Amazon announced AWS Lambda, a way of performing computing in the cloud in response to events without the need for virtual machines, compute instances, or any kind of administration.

The usual model when performing computation in cloud services is to create some kind of a persistent application, such as a Web server on a virtual machine. Sometimes the developer manages everything on the VM. Sometimes aspects of this are abstracted away—Azure’s Web roles, for example, leave management of the base operating system and server up to Microsoft, letting developers focus solely on the Web content—but those persistent deployments, with their time-based billing, have become the basic model of cloud computing.

With Lamba, those things are abstracted away even further. Developers write functions—currently using JavaScript running on node.js, though Amazon says there will be more options available in the future—and plumbs those functions into event sources, such as file uploads to S3 storage. Every time an event fires, Amazon’s cloud will trigger the Lambda function, seamlessly taking care of managing the underlying resources.

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IBM takes on enterprise cloud security

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As organizations increasingly move their operations to the cloud, they need to remain vigilant against security breaches. IBM had this in mind as it prepared a new portfolio of services designed to help secure an enterprise’s cloud operations with the same rigor that has come to be expected with in-house operations.

“The move to the cloud is nothing new, but what we’re seeing now is that people are now considering moving critical workloads to the cloud,” said Marc van Zadelhoff, IBM vice president of strategy for security systems.

The Dynamic Cloud Security portfolio, available now, “allows customers to take security to the cloud with them,” Zadelhoff said.

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Bitcoin Checkout app takes on Apple Pay

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Just two weeks after Apple launched its near-field communications (NFC) system for mobile payments in retail stores, Bitcoin payments processing company BitPay announced Bitcoin Checkout, an NFC-based tool for mobile Bitcoin transactions.

Announcing the system in a company blog post, along with plans to demo Bitcoin Checkout at this week’s Money2020 event in Las Vegas, BitPay says its app is already available for merchants using Android devices (more on iOS later). Bitcoin Checkout also features multi-employee checkout and tools for handling tips, particularly useful for those in service industries.

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Network World Colin Neagle