Judicial Nominations In the Internet Age
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 16, @10:18AM
"Chris Good writes in the Atlantic that nominees to the Supreme Court and other high profile positions are required to provide the Judiciary Committee with everything they've ever written or said publicly, to the best of their abilities within reason. Thanks to the Internet, the last major judicial nominee reported out by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ninth Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu, included links to YouTube videos of lectures and talks he gave, 573 pages of public writings, news articles about him, syllabi from courses he taught, and statements about legal issues. Even so, Liu was admonished for failing to fully disclose his writings and public speeches to Senators including appearances at such occasions as brown bag lunches and alumni gatherings. 'In preparing my original submission, I made a good faith effort to track down all of my publications and speeches over the years,' wrote Liu. 'I checked my personal calendar, I performed a variety of electronic searches, and I searched my memory to produce the original list. But I have since realized that those efforts were not sufficient.' Not so long ago, entire news articles in local papers could go wholly unnoticed, by both the nominee and committee members and staff but not so in the era of the internet. 'Imagine what will happen when, decades from now, a president nominates someone to the Supreme Court who had access to Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook at the age of 15.'"
(Related) Meanwhile, I'm limited to the information (and misinformation) on this site. Look for yourself. Some of this is dead on, some is wildly inaccurate. But ask yourself: “Where do they get this information?”
http://www.techi.com/2010/05/spokeo-the-internet-white-pages-for-stalkers/
Spokeo: The Internet White Pages For Stalkers
... What if there was a website that pulled data from all of your social networking profiles, from Twitter to Flickr, and put it on display for anyone with curious eyes to see?
I hate to break it to you, but there is… introducing… Spokeo!
Another case of an organization doing what seemed beneficial to them with no consideration of customer desires. Is it so inconceivable that customers would have multiple accounts for a reason?
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=10231
Toronto woman sues Rogers after her affair is exposed
May 17, 2010 by Dissent
Betsy Powell reports:
A Toronto woman says the billing practices of Rogers Wireless Inc. led to her husband discovering her extramarital affair.
Now the woman, whose husband walked out, is suing the communications giant for $600,000 for alleged invasion of privacy and breach of contract, the results of which she says have ruined her life.
[...]
The statement alleges Rogers “unilaterally terminated its cellular contract with the plaintiff that had been in her maiden name and included it in the husband’s account that was under his surname.
“The plaintiff’s maiden name and the husband’s surname were different. Such unilateral action by the defendant was done without the knowledge, information, belief, acquiescence or approval of the plaintiff.”
[...]
[Gabriella] Nagy’s lawyer, Edward Tonello, says this case is unprecedented in Canada.
“In Ontario, we don’t have a privacy act, unlike British Columbia and other provinces.”
Read more in the Toronto Star.
Will Universal Health Care raise this to 90%?
http://www.docuticker.com/?p=34428
Census Bureau Reports Nearly Half of U.S. Residents Live in Households Receiving Government Benefits
I will certainly warn all my students that this “service” may result in the RIAA sending in the Legal Marines!
http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/makeitmp3-com-creating-mp3s-in-an-easy-way
MakeItMP3.com - Creating MP3s In An Easy Way
This site is not novel under any concept, but as a lover of music in its every expression I have to share it with everybody. You see, it will let you take any video found on sites like YouTube and Metacafe and have its audio extracted as a MP3 file.
For my website students...
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/capturefullpage-full-page-screenshots/
CaptureFullPage: Capture Full Page Screenshots For Any Website
… What is great about this web app is that it lets you capture the full webpage in high resolution, something that you cannot do manually on most webpages since you are limited to what is viewable in your monitor. All in all, Capture Full Page is a very useful tool especially if you frequently take screen captures of websites.
Similar Tools: Snapcasa and WebSnapr.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Goofram - Google and Wolfram Alpha Side by Side
Goofram is a mash-up of Google Search and Wolfram Alpha search. Enter your search term(s) into Goofram and it will display relevant results drawn from Google and Wolfram Alpha.
Goofram really shines when you're searching for information about a topic that could potentially have a lot of numerical information as well as text-based information. For example, when I searched using the phrase, "first person to climb Mount Everest," the result was a column of links, generated by Google, to articles about Mount Everest and a column of statistical information, generated by Wolfram Alpha, about Mount Everest.
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