http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/23/1853214&from=rss
College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni
Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 24, @05:25AM from the you-broke-it-you-bought-it dept. Privacy The Internet
Hugh Pickens writes
"The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that as college papers have begun digitizing their back issues, their Web sites have become the latest front in the battle over online identities. Youthful activities like underage drinking that once would have disappeared into the recesses of a campus library are now preserved on the public record, and alumni are contacting newspapers with requests for redaction. Unlike with Facebook profiles, that other notable source of young-adult embarrassment, the affected parties can't remove or edit questionable content. In 2007, a Cornell University alum sued the Cornell Chronicle over a newly digitized article from 1983 that reported he had been charged with burglary while a student at Cornell. The alum found the article after Googling his name and claimed that its new presence online was causing him 'mental anguish' and 'loss of reputation.' But a California judge threw out the case after determining the report to be accurate. Some student papers, like The University Daily Kansan, have found a middle ground by adding the noindex meta tag so that the documents stay online, but search engines such as Google do not index them. 'I thought that would be better than kind of like sticking it to [the alum] and saying the paper is always right and we can publish anything on the Web we want,' says the paper's editor."
What a fun hacking target!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090522/ap_on_bi_ge/as_nkorea_mobile_phones
N.Korea allows limited Internet cell phone service
… Mobile phone use in authoritarian North Korea comes with restrictions. Phones do not allow contact with the outside world, or with the special telephone networks that foreigners are normally permitted to use inside North Korea.
Tools for students? Do they still teach typing in schools?
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/typingweb-learn-quick-typing-online/
TypingWeb: Learn Quick Typing Online
For the Swiss Army folder...
Farkie
Farkie is a free online application which can do many neat little tricks and can be used to Download Youtube Videos, Download MySpace Playlists, Download Website Objects, and much much more...
Ditto
File2HD.com
Download any file from any site
Ditto
Free OCR
Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you supply.
This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address.
Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP or PNG format.
The only restriction is that the images must not be larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels and there is a limit of 10 image uploads per hour.
What a great list! May seem trivial to you, but I'm going to replace all my computers beep and squeaks with dialog and sound effects from Star Trek.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/beam-back-star-trek-computer-sounds/
Get Yourself Star Trek Computer Sounds
May. 23rd, 2009 By Ryan Dube
Has the economy crashed this badly?
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/backyardchickens-learn-how-to-raise-your-own-chickens/
BackYardChickens: Learn How To Raise Your Own Chickens
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