Surveillance sneaks in
on little cat's feet... What happens when the police run out of
“It's for the children,” “We gotta catch terrorists,” and
“These guys are criminals!” justifications?
Florida
police use cameras to track cars in red-light districts
I guess I missed this
(guess I should read the Intelligence Act more carefully) Could be
interesting if the volume is a great as I think it is.
Congressional
Notification for Authorized Public Disclosure of Intelligence
Information
Steven
Aftergood/Secrecy News: “A new Department of Defense directive
requires the Pentagon to notify Congress whenever a DoD official
discloses classified intelligence to a reporter on an authorized
basis, or declassifies the information specifically for
release to the press. The new directive on “Congressional
Notification for Authorized Public Disclosure of Intelligence
Information” applies to all components of the Department of
Defense. It was issued last week — despite the government shutdown
— in response to a provision in the FY2013
Intelligence Authorization Act (section 504) that was passed by
Congress last year as part of an effort to stem leaks of classified
information.”
Perspective. Looks
like a bright future for my Computer Forensics students!
More
than half of all Koreans have become victims of identity theft since
September 2011, when laws were tightened to prevent the
practice.
According
to a report submitted to Saenuri Party lawmaker Kim Young-joo by the
Ministry of Security and Public Administration, 29.26 million people
reported being victims of identity theft every year since 2011.
Supposing there were not too many repeat reports, that boils down to
57.4 percent of Korea’s total population of 50.9 million.
SOURCE: Chosun
Interesting. Will we
learn and implement?
… The
ultra-low-cost position of Indian hospitals may not seem surprising —
after all, wages
in India are significantly lower than in the U.S. However, the
health care available in Indian hospitals is cheaper even when you
adjust for wages: For example, even if Indian heart hospitals paid
their doctors and staff U.S.-level salaries, their costs of
open-heart surgery would still be one-fifth of those in the U.S.
(Related) IBM wants a
piece of that Health Care money/
Isn't there a “Fund”
to ensure remote communities are connected to the telephone network?
Is that no longer a strategic goal? (Or has it been lobbied away?)
On
a New Jersey Islet, Twilight of the Landline
Hurricane Sandy
devastated this barrier island community of multimillion-dollar
homes, but in Peter Flihan’s view, Verizon Communications has
delivered a second blow: the telecommunications giant did not rebuild
the landlines destroyed in the storm, and traditional telephone
service here has now gone the way of the telegraph.
I can probably adapt,
or I could offer an offline “How to learn online” class.
Gallup
– In U.S., Online Education Rated Best for Value and Options
Viewed
as weakest in terms of trusted grading and acceptance by employers
by Lydia Saad, Brandon Busteed, and Mitchell Ogisi
“Still something of a
novelty, online education is seen relatively positively by Americans
for giving students a wide range of curricula options and for
providing good value for the money. However, Americans tend to
think it provides less rigorous testing and grading, less qualified
instructors, and has less credence with employers compared with
traditional, classroom-based education. Public perceptions about
online education’s ability to deliver education in a format most
students can succeed in, as well as its ability to tailor instruction
to the individual, are more mixed, but tilt negatively. In line with
these views, Americans’ overall assessment of Internet-based
college programs is tepid at best. One-third of Americans, 34%,
rate such online programs as “excellent” or “good.” The
majority calls them “only fair” or “poor.” In contrast,
two-thirds of Americans (68%) rate four-year colleges and
universities as excellent or good, and nearly as many (64%) rate
community colleges this highly.”
Amusing. In Colorado
the colors could change 50 times per day!
Mood
cars: Paint reacts to temperature changes
Useful, because I know
there are millions of you out there looking for ways to send me
money!
Square
Cash lets anyone send money by e-mail -- for free
Square launched a free
service Tuesday that lets anyone send money via email to anyone else.
The service, known as
Square Cash,
was previously available only in an invite-only
beta. For now, at least, it is only available in the United
States.
Square Cash doesn't
require either person in a transaction to have a Square account, and
there are no fees, said product manager Brian Grassadonia. In order
to send money, all that's required is for the sender to address an
e-mail to the recipient, with a CC: to cash@square.com, and the
amount in the e-mail's subject line. The body of the email can
contain any information the sender wants.
Although users don't
need a Square Cash account, both the sender and the recipient must
link their e-mail address to a debit card, Grassadonia explained.
That step takes place after the e-mail is sent. Once a recipient has
gone through that process, that person can then send someone else
money without having to re-enter their debit card number. The funds
are deposited directly in the recipient's bank account, and not in a
stored balance account.
Might be useful...
– , as the name
suggests, converts whatever units of measurement you can think of,
on your Android phone. These include things like angles, oven
temperature, metric unit, clothing sizes, text conversions, digital
image resolution, temperature, currency, and more.
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