tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6066767430613522392024-03-13T07:42:23.340-07:00The Modular Man"We have created the disposable person:Modular Man."
Alvin Toffler, Future ShockCalebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.comBlogger493125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-998278291948042022014-01-24T07:49:00.000-08:002014-01-24T07:49:16.620-08:00Sleepwalking Into Censorship: How Internet Freedom Is Under Threat In a US Court last week, the concept of net neutrality received a
blow to the head from which it may not recover. Why is this important?
Net neutrality is the principle that no content gets preferential
treatment on the internet. All data is treated and transmitted in the
same way, at the same speed, whether coming from a multi-billion dollar
company or from a self-hosted blog. This idea has been a guiding
principle in the development of the internet to date, but also something
that a couple of big digital players have been fighting hard against.
The most active of these are American internet service providers (ISPs)
Verizon and Comcast. The Federal Communications Commission is the body
set up by US government to regulate companies who provide means of
communication to people, originally dealing with telephone companies.
ISPs now fall under their jurisdiction.<br />
Verizon have long been challenging the rules they are governed by.
Last week, they won a major victory in that battle, forcing the FCC to
accept that their application of their own regulations was wrong. You
can read the ruling <a href="http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/3AF8B4D938CDEEA685257C6000532062/$file/11-1355-1474943.pdf" target="out">here</a> (PDF).<br />
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<a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/14342-net-neutrality-internet-censorship-politics" target="_blank">The Quietus </a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-82474823545044087412014-01-21T10:01:00.003-08:002014-01-21T10:01:43.497-08:001981 Internet report <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5WCTn4FljUQ" width="420"></iframe><br />Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-12119846631606513242013-12-16T13:43:00.001-08:002013-12-16T13:43:20.437-08:00Judge Deals Blow to NSA Phone Spying<div style="font-size: 15px;">
WASHINGTON—A federal judge on Monday ruled
against the National Security Agency's collection of phone records,
saying the program "almost certainly does violate" the Constitution.</div>
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However, the ruling will have little immediate effect and faces a lengthy future of court proceedings.</div>
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<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304403804579262483158344924" target="_blank">WSJ </a></div>
Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-92066890318751655742013-12-12T13:00:00.005-08:002013-12-12T13:03:25.531-08:00Freakishly realistic telemarketing robots are denying they're robots<div class="first-text" data-textannotation-id="111137b6a8d58effd45f68386a5887b5">
This
is how it starts, people. First we get our chatbots to sound and act
realistic — and then we get them to convince everyone they're actually
human. Listen to this crazy conversation between <i>Time</i>'s Michael Scherer and a telemarketing robot who refuses to admit her true artificial nature. </div>
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Recently, <i>Time</i>
Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer received a phone call from an
apparently bright and engaging woman asking him if he wanted a deal on
his health insurance. But he soon got the feeling something wasn't quite
right. </div>
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After
asking the telemarketer point blank if she was a real person or a
computer-operated robot, she chuckled charmingly and insisted she was
real. Looking to press the issue, Scherer asked her a series of
questions, which she promptly failed. Such as, "What vegetable is found
in tomato soup?" To which she responded by saying she didn't understand
the question. When asked what day of the week it was yesterday, she
complained of a bad connection (ah, the oldest trick in the book). </div>
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Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-72507093176092951022013-08-30T07:51:00.003-07:002013-08-30T07:51:38.226-07:00The Black BudgetCovert action. Surveillance. Counterintelligence. The U.S. “black
budget” spans over a dozen agencies that make up the National
Intelligence Program.<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/" target="_blank">The Washington Post </a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-12887127730410806012013-08-29T10:13:00.001-07:002013-08-29T10:13:17.893-07:0050 years later, hotline to Moscow still relevant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - The Washington-Moscow Hot Line, used by U.S.
and Russian leaders for frank discussions about crises including the
1967 Six-Day War and the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan,
marks its 50th birthday Thursday with the nations still grappling with
competing interests in regional conflicts.<br />
The next crisis could be just around the corner,
said Roald Sagdeev, a former director of the Soviet space exploration
program who was among the scheduled speakers at Fort Detrick in
Frederick, where the Army maintains a satellite link for the hotline.<br />
"It's very important to make sure we can keep this,
especially at the time of what's happening in Syria," Sagdeev, now a
University of Maryland physics professor, said Wednesday. "We should
stay with at least keeping what we have for the rainy day."<br />
Despite popular myth and movie lore, the president
doesn't use a red phone to talk with his Russian counterpart. In fact,
the connection established in 1963 was for written communications only. A
voice component was added two decades later as the system evolved from
an undersea telegraph cable to today's exchange of data by both
satellite and fiber-optics.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wrex.com/story/23289991/50-years-later-hotline-to-moscow-still-relevant" target="_blank">WREX13 </a><br />
<br />Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-40024245364846894712013-08-21T08:58:00.003-07:002013-08-21T08:58:49.346-07:00Blarney, Fairview, Oakstar, Lithium and StormbrewWASHINGTON—The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited
legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network
that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have
publicly disclosed, current and former officials say.<br />
The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet
traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of
communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains
the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and
also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology, these
people say. The programs, code-named Blarney, Fairview, Oakstar, Lithium and
Stormbrew, among others, filter and gather information at major
telecommunications companies. Blarney, for instance, was established
with <a class="companyRollover link11unvisited" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=T">AT&T</a> Inc.,
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former officials say. AT&T declined to comment.<br />
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<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324108204579022874091732470.html" target="_blank">WSJ </a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-81494015897966698132013-08-08T20:08:00.002-07:002013-08-08T20:09:45.025-07:00Email service Lavabit abruptly shut down citing government interference<blockquote>Founder of service reportedly used by Edward Snowden said he would not be complicit in 'crimes against the American people'</blockquote>
If you weren't scared already...
<blockquote>This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/08/lavabit-email-shut-down-edward-snowden">The Guardian</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-44393628780305642302013-06-17T10:38:00.002-07:002013-06-17T10:38:42.856-07:00What We Need to Know About PRISMA lot remains uncertain about the number of users affected by the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data">NSA PRISM surveillance program</a>
that is taking place, the extent to which companies are involved, and
how the NSA handles this sensitive data. Does the NSA regularly collect
and examine a huge swath of the cloud communications of American and
foreign Internet users? Does the agency present evidence and seek
careful judicial review to obtain limited amounts of user data related
to individual investigations? Or is the answer somewhere in the middle,
with queries being constructed such that algorithms scan most or all of
the accounts, identifying a smaller set of "interesting" accounts whose
contents are sent to the NSA?<br />
<br /><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/what-we-need-to-know-about-prism" target="_blank">EFF</a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-16017815753174721722013-06-17T10:35:00.001-07:002013-06-17T10:35:19.645-07:00U.S. gov't destroyed my chance for fair trial"If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702,
and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst
gets it," he said. "All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers,
attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and
can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants."<br />
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<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57589622/snowden-u.s-govt-destroyed-my-chance-for-fair-trial/" target="_blank">CBS News</a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-47871020380155688622013-05-15T10:27:00.001-07:002013-05-15T10:28:00.837-07:00Space Oddity- Commander Chris Hadfield<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KaOC9danxNo" width="400"></iframe><br />Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-50157145996878586652013-05-15T08:25:00.004-07:002013-05-15T08:26:27.322-07:00It’s Time to Talk about the Burgeoning Robot Middle Class"It is time for not just economists but roboticists, like me, to ask,
“How will robotic advances transform society in potentially dystopian
ways?” My concern is that without serious discourse and explicit policy
changes, the current path will lead to an ever more polarized economic
world, with robotic technologies replacing the middle class and further
distancing our society from authentic opportunity and economic justice."<br />
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<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514861/its-time-to-talk-about-the-burgeoning-robot-middle-class/" target="_blank">MIT Technology Review </a><br />
<br />Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-43321861672581943822013-05-03T09:56:00.000-07:002013-05-03T10:00:03.450-07:00Throw-Away Society"Actual sea-battles were rare, and even then were fought close to shore.
Ships were roped together in lines to face an enemy fleet and showers of
arrows and missiles would have been exchanged. Each side then resorted
to hand-to-hand fighting as they attempted to board their opponents'
ships. The warriors in the prow were specially selected for this task.
<b>The aim was not to destroy enemy craft, but to capture them if possible,
as they represented a considerable investment in time, resources and
labour</b>."<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/weapons_01.shtml" target="_blank">BBC </a><br />
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This description of the Vikings not destroying enemy ships due to their value made me recall Toffler's theories on <a href="http://www.e-reading-lib.org/chapter.php/71380/14/Toffler_-_Future_Shock.html" target="_blank">Transience </a>and the <a href="http://www.e-reading-lib.org/chapter.php/71380/16/Toffler_-_Future_Shock.html" target="_blank">Throw-Away Society</a>:<br />
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"Anti-materialists tend to deride the importance of "things." Yet things
are highly significant, not merely because of their functional utility,
but also because of their psychological impact. We develop relationships
with things. Things affect our sense of continuity or discontinuity.
They play a role in the structure of situations and the foreshortening
of our relationships with things accelerates the pace of life."<br />
<a href="http://www.e-reading-lib.org/book.php?book=71380" target="_blank">Future Shock</a>, Chapter 4Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-7299693266887955772013-04-12T07:23:00.001-07:002013-04-12T07:23:30.561-07:00The Future Will Be Silent-OMD<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JaWeB-B46fM" width="420"></iframe><br />Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-56577467491106319072013-04-10T14:29:00.001-07:002013-04-10T14:30:00.865-07:00IRS believes it can read your emails, chats, and more without a warrant<span id="intelliTxt"></span><br />
Looks like the IRS believes it can read your <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.slashgear.com/irs-believes-it-can-read-your-emails-chats-and-more-without-a-warrant-10277338/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0.075em solid rgb(54, 54, 55); color: #363637; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline;">emails</span></a>,
Facebook Chats, Twitter Direct Messages, SMS messages, and more without
needing to obtain a search warrant beforehand. However, a ruling in the
2010 case, U.S. v. Warshak, by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
states that accessing someone’s email messages without obtaining a
warrant first violates the Fourth Amendment. According to an IRS 2009
Search Warrant Handbook discovered by the <a href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/new-documents-suggest-irs-reads-emails-without-warrant" target="_blank">American Civil Liberties Union</a>, the IRS says,<br />
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“Emails and other transmissions generally lose their
reasonable expectation of privacy and thus their Fourth Amendment
protection once they have been sent from an individual’s computer.”</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.slashgear.com/irs-believes-it-can-read-your-emails-chats-and-more-without-a-warrant-10277338/" target="_blank">Slash Gear </a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-607975908642459592013-04-09T08:19:00.000-07:002013-04-09T08:19:12.805-07:00Amazon Secretly Removes "1984" From the KindleThousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's <em>1984</em> from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age.<br />
In this case, the mass e-book removals were motivated by copyright . A
company called MobileReference, who did not own the copyrights to the
books <em>1984</em> and <em>Animal Farm</em>, uploaded both books to the
Kindle store and started selling them. When the rights owner heard
about this, they contacted Amazon and asked that the e-books be removed.
And Amazon decided to erase them not just from the store, but from all
the Kindles where they'd been downloaded. Amazon operators used the
Kindle wireless network, called WhisperNet, to quietly delete the books
from people's devices and refund them the money they'd paid.<br />
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<a href="http://io9.com/5317703/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-kindle" target="_blank">i09 </a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-41311633483599464602013-04-09T07:36:00.001-07:002013-04-09T07:37:18.942-07:00 The future is now: Navy to deploy lasers on ships in 2014 The Pentagon has plans to deploy its first ever ship-mounted laser
next year, a disruptive, cutting-edge weapon capable of obliterating
small boats and unmanned aerial vehicles with a blast of infrared
energy.<br />
Navy officials announced Monday that in early 2014, a solid-state
laser prototype will be mounted to the fantail of the USS Ponce and sent
to the 5th fleet region in the Middle East for real-world experience.<br />
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<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/08/future-is-now-navy-to-deploys-lasers-on-ships-in-2014/" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/08/future-is-now-navy-to-deploys-lasers-on-ships-in-2014/" target="_blank">Fox News</a></div>
Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-18089289850408574792013-04-05T07:28:00.002-07:002013-04-05T09:54:46.716-07:00Future of organs? Synthetic tissue built with 3-D printerScientists have built a 3-D printer that creates material resembling
human tissues. The novel substance, a deceptively simple network of
water droplets coated in lipids, could one day be used to deliver drugs
to the body -- or perhaps even to replace damaged tissue in living
organs.<br />
The creation, described in the journal Science, consists
of lipid bilayers separating droplets of water -- rather like cell
membranes, whose double layers allow the body’s cells to mesh with their
watery environments while still protecting their contents.<br />
“The great thing about these droplets is that they use pretty much exclusively biological materials,” said study co-author and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/university-of-oxford-OREDU0000186.topic" id="OREDU0000186" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> researcher Gabriel Villar, making them ideal for medical uses.<br />
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-faux-synthetic-tissue-3d-printer-self-assembling-20130404,0,6286611.story" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times </a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-32381881326341498092013-04-04T21:15:00.001-07:002013-04-04T21:15:49.505-07:00Arthur Frommer buys travel guides back from Google to keep print editions aliveGoogle <a href="http://paidcontent.org/2012/08/13/google-acquires-frommers/">acquired Frommer’s Travel Guides</a> from Wiley in 2012 — and then, last month, <a href="http://skift.com/2013/03/21/google-quietly-pulls-plug-on-frommers-print-travel-guidebooks/">reportedly decided</a>
to stop publishing them as print editions. Now Arthur Frommer, the
83-year-old founder of the brand, has bought Frommer’s back from Google
and will continue publishing the travel guides in print and digital
editions.<br />
The AP <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Arthur-Frommer-gets-Frommer-brand-back-from-Google-4408127.php">reported the news</a>
Wednesday night and quoted Frommer saying, “It’s a very happy time for
me. We will be publishing the Frommer travel guides in ebook and print
formats and will also be operating the travel site Frommers.com.” Google
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/04/arthur-frommer-takes-back-brand-from-google-will-keep-guidebook/">confirmed the news</a>
to Engadget, saying, “We can confirm that we have returned the
Frommer’s brand to its founder and are licensing certain travel content
to him.”<br />
The purchase price was undisclosed. Google reportedly paid Wiley $22 million for Frommer’s last year. The travel site Skift <a href="http://skift.com/2013/03/21/google-quietly-pulls-plug-on-frommers-print-travel-guidebooks/">first reported</a> that Google would stop publishing the Frommer’s guides in print.<br />
Frommer’s had published over 300 guidebooks since its founding in 1957.<br />
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<a href="http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/04/arthur-frommer-buys-frommers-travel-guides-back-from-google-to-keep-publishing-in-print/" target="_blank">paidContent </a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-6573991495296851782013-04-03T08:10:00.000-07:002013-04-03T08:10:39.536-07:00The first cellphone call was made 40 years ago todayMartin Cooper changed the world when he made the first cellphone call 40 years ago. <br />
The former Motorola vice president and division manager made the call on the company's DynaTAC phone <a href="http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1111338">while standing in front of the New York Hilton on Sixth Avenue</a>. His first call: to the head of research at Bell Labs, which had also been racing to build the first cellphone. <br />
Cooper's call did more than untether people from their traditional fixed
phone lines; it opened the door to true mobility and continues to
affect virtually every aspect of our lives.<br />
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<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57577704-94/the-first-cellphone-call-was-made-40-years-ago-today/" target="_blank">cnet </a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-44553742303510565322013-04-01T10:30:00.001-07:002013-04-01T10:30:05.092-07:00The Risks of Parenting While Plugged InWHILE waiting for an elevator at the Fair Oaks Mall near her home in
Virginia recently, Janice Im, who works in early-childhood development,
witnessed a troubling incident between a young boy and his mother.<br />
The boy, who Ms. Im estimates was about 2 1/2 years old, made repeated
attempts to talk to his mother, but she wouldn’t look up from her
BlackBerry. “He’s like: ‘Mama? Mama? Mama?’ ” Ms. Im recalled. “And then
he starts tapping her leg. And she goes: ‘Just wait a second. Just wait
a second.’ ” <br />
Finally, he was so frustrated, Ms. Im said, that “he goes, ‘Ahhh!’ and tries to bite her leg.”<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/garden/10childtech.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">The New York Times </a><br />
Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-86853070989199457112013-04-01T10:28:00.000-07:002013-04-01T10:28:21.149-07:00Russia Censors Sites Like Facebook, Twitter to Protect Children<span id="lblBody">Russia is using a new law to <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Iran+Beefs+up+Internet+Censorship+With+Proxy+Crackdown/article30084.htm">block certain internet content</a> that is considered unsafe for children's eyes.<br />
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The law, passed in November 2012, allows the Russian government to
remove internet content on websites like Facebook and Twitter if it is
deemed harmful for children.</span><br />
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<span id="lblBody"><a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Russia+Censors+Sites+Like+Facebook+Twitter+to+Protect+Children/article30246.htm" target="_blank">DailyTech</a><br />
</span>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-73647934463935445642012-11-03T19:37:00.002-07:002012-11-03T19:38:12.239-07:00Technology Changing How Students Learn<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say</b> </blockquote>
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There is a widespread belief among teachers that students’ constant use of digital technology is hampering their attention spans and ability to persevere in the face of challenging tasks, according to two surveys of teachers being released on Thursday.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/education/technology-is-changing-how-students-learn-teachers-say.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)">New York Times</a><br />
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Meanwhile...<br />
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<b>iPads work well for little kids in new preschools</b><br />
In the preschool at Arlington Elementary School, “A” is for apple. It also stands for app – as in application. The 4-year-olds in this South Tacoma school are learning to use digital-world apps that turn their classroom iPads into reading, writing, spelling, speaking, coloring, counting and sorting tools.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/11/03/2354529/ipads-are-their-favorites.html">Tacoma News Tribune</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-36532736062790346682012-04-02T13:25:00.001-07:002012-04-02T13:26:45.583-07:00Deconstructing the Creepiness of the 'Girls Around Me' App—And What Facebook Could Do About ItLast week, Cult of Mac had a fascinating, stomach-churning story about an application called Girls Around Me that scraped public Foursquare and Facebook checkins onto a map that showed people in your vicinity. Its branding was crass -- "In the mood for love, or just after a one-night stand? Girls Around Me puts you in control!" -- but, as the developers of the app argued, they had technically done nothing wrong aside from being piggish and crude.<br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/deconstructing-the-creepiness-of-the-girls-around-me-app-151-and-what-facebook-could-do-about-it/255351/"><br />The Atlantic</a>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606676743061352239.post-16561873771922318312012-03-29T13:30:00.001-07:002012-03-29T13:32:13.556-07:00Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC<iframe width="400" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OIRZebE8O84" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Calebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568645544568803124noreply@blogger.com0