http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080929054109294
Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Monday, September 29 2008 @ 05:41 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
A recap of incidents or privacy breaches reported last week for those who enjoy shaking their head and muttering to themselves with their morning coffee.
Source - Chronicles of Dissent
Got statistics? Data will become available for technological and mathematicl mis-interpretation.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/019422.html
September 28, 2008
Web 2.0 and E-Government Facilitate Transparency and Access
W. David Stephenson - Automated Data Feeds Make Smart Regulation Possible Now: "The District of Columbia, long plagued by corruption, began a transparency initiative under former Mayor Anthony Williams. It shifted into high gear under Mayor Adrian Fenty, and CTO Vivek Kundra. They now publish, on a real-time basis, more than 260 different data streams of statistics as varied as violent crime, building starts, and even requests to fill potholes. All of those statistics are available for anyone to analyze and interpret, and current uses range from tracking development around the new Nationals Park to showing crime reports on a Google Map."
Build your own cloud.
The devilish details of desktop virtualization
Early adopters of virtual desktop infrastructure report compelling benefits, significant hurdles, and a cloudy view into ROI
By Tom Kaneshige September 29, 2008
A tool for amateur Big Brothers. Would you expect this to work when actors recite their lines? (Technology isn't really needed – if their lips move, they're lying,)
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/realscoop-com-find-out-if-politicians-are-lying
RealScoop.com - Find Out If Politicians Are Lying
RealScoop is a startup that will let anybody find out how truthful is a politician or any other public figure. In principle, RealScoop employs voice analysis technology to analyze statements made by such individuals. The resulting system goes by the name of “Believability Meter”, and it goes through each second of a provided celebrity video and displays real-time results using different colors. Basically, the statements which are most believable are green, and those that are questionable are first yellow, then orange and finally red.
Scoops are suggested by members of the online community, and these can be accessed from the main page. The site itself presents various categories where scoops can be placed, namely “Entertainment”, “News” and “Sports”. Of course, a subsection named “Elections ‘08” is featured and it is safe to say that it is the one that generates the most interest.
When viewing a specific category, it possible to order the featured scoops by date, number of views, score and received comments.
All in all, RealScoop is an interesting application that will no doubt fuel more than a fair share of debates both online and offline.
Interesting reading? (Perhaps only for bloggers)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/019425.html
September 28, 2008
New on LLRX.com: Book Review - We're All Journalists Now
LLRX Book Review by Heather A. Phillips - We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age - Heather A. Phillips highlights attorney John Gant's contention that one's title, income, and employer are at best side issues in determining who is a journalist in the day-to-day realities of issuing press passes as well as in larger policies such as the extension of shield laws.
Building an alternative to NASA
China's first spacewalk team feted with parade
By GILLIAN WONG Associated Press Writer Sep 29, 12:11 AM EDT
Ditto
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/space-x-did-it.html
SpaceX Did It -- Falcon 1 Made it to Space
By Aaron Rowe September 28, 2008 | 6:26:14 PM
Related Is this why? Worth a trip to the library in any case...
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/16-10/sl_khanna
Parag Khanna: Embrace the Post-American Age
By Daniel H. Pink 09.22.08
Perhaps a class for my students... (Last Quarter we engineered security for a Wiki)
http://www.linux.com/feature/148188/rss
Roll custom social networking sites with Elgg 1.0
By Mayank Sharma on September 23, 2008 (7:00:00 PM)
Elgg is an open source application for rolling out a social network. It installs like any Web-based software, but instead of a blog or a wiki, it gives you all the components of a social networking site -- your own MySpace! It's popular with educational institutes and used by several universities across the world, in addition to powering social networks of companies such as Swatch. The new Elgg 1.0, released last month, is modular in design, making it easier for developers to build social networks around the platform.
The pendulum swings yet again...
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/28/1824232&from=rss
Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain
Posted by timothy on Sunday September 28, @03:12PM from the portable-skills dept. Education The Almighty Buck IT
dcblogs writes
"Thanks to Wall Street's implosion, the chairman of Stanford University's Computer Science Department says he is seeing more interest from students in computer science. Ditto at Boston College. Computer science enrollments crashed after the dot-com bust as students turned to hedge fund majors. And are computer science grads getting jobs? The professor at one university program that graduates about 45 students a year with CS degrees, wrote in a comment: 'Last year 87% of our seniors were employed before graduation. The median starting salary was $58,500. A majority of CIS students had multiple job offers. From where I sit, there is a huge demand for entry level IT professionals in IS and in CS.'"
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