Nothing new, other than the debate has
come to Colorado.
Will Ripley reports from Colorado:
The private
information of nearly 85,000 Jefferson County public school students
will soon be available in a single database.
Supporters call it
a breakthrough, but opponents call it an invasion of privacy.
Jeffco Public
Schools is joining forces with inBloom, a pilot program praised by
supporters as a revolutionary way to streamline student information.
Some parents have
serious concerns, that student grades, test scores, even health
records will be vulnerable to cyber attack.
Read more on 9News.com
Another service the requires a Facebook
or Twitter account to use...
Christopher Mims writes:
Safe
Shepherd is a company that searches the web for all the public
records available on Americans, and then presents them in a
dashboard. Try it for yourself—it’s free—and the results are
almost guaranteed to be unnerving. The information is mostly
innocuous, and includes your address, phone number and email, but the
fact that it’s public is more than enough to create a healthy
stream of business for Safe Shepherd, which, according to founder
Robert Leshner,
is “lightly profitable.”
Read more on Quartz.
Dealing with “road rage” the
tough-love way: Maverick missles up you tailpipe.
"The FAA predicts 30,000 drones
will patrol the US skies by 2020, but New Jersey drivers could see
these unmanned aerial vehicles hovering
above the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway much
sooner than that. New Jersey lawmakers from both Republican and
Democratic parties have introduced a number of bills to tackle the
drones issue before the federal government starts issuing the first
domestic drone permits in September 2015."
Perspective Note the assumption the
everyone now defines “data center” as a place customers house
their servers rather than the room a single company keeps its
mainframe in.
"When data centers first opened
in the 1990s, the tenants paid for space to plug in their servers
with a proviso that electricity would be available. As computing
power has soared, so has the need for electricity, turning that
relationship on its head: electrical
capacity is often the central element of lease agreements, and
space is secondary. While lease arrangements are often written in
the language of real estate, they are essentially power deals.
'Since tenants on average tend to contract for around twice the power
they need, Mr. Tazbaz said, those data centers
can effectively charge double what they are paying for that power.
Generally, the sale or resale of power is subject to a welter of
regulations and price controls. For regulated utilities, the average
"return on equity" — a rough parallel to profit margins —
was 9.25 percent to 9.7 percent for 2010 through 2012.'"
For my Website students (and all the
others)
Previously, we beat to death every
single excuse/myth/misconception that there is about creating
a personal website. You no have no reason not to have one.
However, you may still be wondering how making your own website could
really benefit you.
In January, I wrote an article about
why it’s
crucial to have a professional online presence and how to do it,
where I mentioned the importance of having a personal website.
Your Website Is Like a Living
Resume, But More Dynamic
Comparing your website to your resume,
is almost insulting to your website. Although you
can create an awesome resume, a website is so much more than
that. First, it can be whatever you want it to be. Where a resume
is typically supposed to be in a certain format, except for creative
types, a website can be in any format, have any theme, and
contain any content.
Your Website Is Your Ultimate
“Online Profile”
Your Website Helps You Become More
Discoverable
Your Website Improves Your
Credibility and Helps You Stand Out
Your Website Shows Your Dedication
and Career Focus
… Again, I encourage you to look
into using WordPress – it’s not difficult (which I used to think
so), but if you are set on other options, here’s a list of websites
that you might want to consider:
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