Does this mean they found something better?
Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' On MSN
"In response to work by Stanford University researchers who found that Microsoft and several other high-profile companies were using a controversial technique to keep persistent cookies on users' PCs to track their movements, Microsoft says it has discontinued the practice of using so-called 'supercookies.' In July, Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at Stanford, revealed that some companies were still employing techniques that enabled browser history sniffing, which give the companies information on what sites users have visited and what links they've clicked on. The research also found that some companies were using cookies that re-spawn even after users have deleted them. Microsoft was using this technique on one of its sites, MSN.com, and now the company said that it is no longer doing so."
Interesting. How am I to understand a law that different states interpret differently?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20094866-93/facebooks-like-button-illegal-in-german-state/
Facebook's 'Like' button illegal in German state
The state of Schleswig-Holstein has ordered all government offices to remove the button from their Web presence and shut down any Facebook "fan" pages, on the grounds that these things violate German and European data privacy laws. A release from the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection in the German state claims that information collected from German users' "liking" and other activities is sent back to the United States where Facebook uses it to create a profile, all of which runs afoul of Germany's uberstrict privacy laws.
Sites that don't comply with the take-down order could face a 50,000 Euro fine.
The agency goes on to urge German residents to go a step further and give Facebook one big existential thumbs down. It warns to resist the temptation to click on social plug-ins or to even start a Facebook account, all to "avoid a comprehensive profiling by the company."
(Related) It's not that big a deal in the US... (According to Facebook)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/028071.html
August 18, 2011
A Guide to Facebook Security For Young Adults, Parents, and Educators
A Guide to Facebook Security For Young Adults, Parents, and Educators, Linda McCarthy, Keith Watson, and Denise Weldon-Siviy, August 2011.
"This online guide explains how you can:
Protect your Facebook account
Avoid the scammers
Use advanced security settings
Recover a hacked Facebook account
Stop imposters
Perhaps it could be tied to a coffee maker?
Car Makers Explore EEG Headrests
"A number of car makers are looking at whether EEG devices built into headrests could prevent accidents by sensing when a driver is in danger of drifting off. The technology comes from Neurosky, which already makes commercial EEG units for use in gaming and market research. Other approaches, such as using cameras to spot drooping eyelids, have proven too unreliable so far. From the story: 'Fatigue causes more than 100,000 crashes and 40,000 injuries, and around 1,550 deaths, per year in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Some studies suggest drowsiness is involved in 20 to 25 percent of all crashes on monotonous stretches of road.'"
This can't be true, can it? I'll have to ask my students...
Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F
"Google search anthropologist Dan Russell says that 90 percent of people in his studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page. 'I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for,' says Russell, who has studied thousands of people on how they search for stuff. 'At the end I'll say to them, "Let me show one little trick here," and very often people will say, "I can't believe I've been wasting my life!"' Just like we learn to skim tables of content or look through an index or just skim chapter titles to find what we're looking for, we need to teach people about this CTRL+F thing, says Alexis Madrigal. 'I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all,' writes Madrigal. 'We're talking about the future of almost all knowledge acquisition and yet schools don't spend nearly as much time on this skill as they do on other equally important areas.'"
Sorta like buying an Edsel?
HP Issues TouchPad Liquidation Order – Get Yours Now For $100
Wow. The day after HP announces they’re discontinuing all their webOS devices, and they’ve already issued a liquidation order. Best Buy, Future Shop, The Source, London Drugs, and Staples will be selling the 16GB TouchPad for $100, and the 32GB version for $150 starting tomorrow. Well, in Canada at least.
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