Could it happen to the DC subway?
The Korea Herald reports:
The computer server of one of Seoul City’s subway operators was found to have been hacked last year, allegedly by North Korea, though little damage has been confirmed, officials said Monday.
According to Saenuri Party Rep. Ha Tae-keung quoting the National Intelligence Service’s report, two servers in charge of managing the PCs of Seoul Metro were hacked in July last year, allowing unauthorized access to 213 company computers. Of them, 58 were found have to been infected with a malicious code, resulting in the leak of 12 work documents.
Read more on Korea
Herald.
[From
the article:
The NIS, however, said it could not find the first
point of hacking and the source of the code, citing insufficient
log files, officials said.
… Seoul Metro also stressed that the hacking
did not affect subway safety as the central
control system is run separately in an enclosed type of network
server. [Do we
do the same? Bob]
As part of the efforts to improve the server
safety, Seoul Metro formatted all PCs last year and strengthened the
security measures.
Seoul Metro has seen a rise in cyberattacks in
recent years. As of last month, over 350,000 cases were confirmed
this year, which is nearly equivalent to last year’s total figure,
Seoul officials said.
Understand the freemium model or live in the last
century. (Like in “1989.”)
Spotify CEO
Explains How Ticking Off Taylor Swift Was Big For Business, Still
Wants Her Back
Taylor Swift once said of the streaming music
scene, and Spotify in particular, that it feels like a "grand
experiment," one in which she's not willing to contribute her
life's work to because it doesn't fairly compensate the artists, song
writers, and everyone else who contributes to the creation of music.
She ended up pulling her library of songs from Spotify, though
looking back on the situation. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says the high
profile breakup actually benefited the company.
… "The middle of America found out what
Spotify was, so we had a big success," Ek said through a video
feed at the IAB Mixx interactive advertising conference in New York,
according to CNET. "I wish we could have gotten that attention
in a better way than pissing off Taylor Swift."
Swift's
point of contention with Spotify was that users of the service's
ad-supported tier could listen to her music at no cost. Even though
Swift was still being compensated for her tunes streamed
to non-subscribing music listeners, she felt strongly that it created
a culture in which consumers would view music as being worthless.
I think it's because government understands
financial firms, but not individuals. They can follow a trail of
evidence that explains what the firm did. There is less evidence of
management failures, dysfunctional corporate cultures and other soft
factors. Big fines sound impressive but rarely have a lasting impact
on these firms.
Ben
Bernanke: More bankers deserved to be jailed for financial crisis
Don’t expect Ben Bernanke to have a lot of nice
things to say about Wall Street bankers in his upcoming memoir, which
comes out this week. In a wide ranging interview with USA Today, the
former chairman of the Federal Reserve says more of the bankers and
corporate executives who helped cause the financial crisis should be
in jail.
He says the Department of Justice focused too
much, in the wake of the meltdown, on sanctioning financial firms,
and getting large fines.
He said there wasn’t enough effort put into punishing individuals.
It might be useful to teach our Criminal Justice
students a bit more about existing technologies. An App similar to
this one could locate witnesses who might have taken photos or video
of crimes.
How to Use
Twitter API and PHP to Locate Eyewitnesses
Geotagging is the process of embedding latitude,
longitude, and even altitude coordinates in some type of media, such
as a photo, video or promotional offer. Many people don’t realise
it, but modern mobile phones are constantly recording
our movements and making that information available to network
providers, and sometimes even third-parties willing to pay for the
data.
As the second
installment in a two-part Tuts+ series on harnessing location
data from social media, Jeff Reifman discussed using the Twitter
API to find eyewitnesses to a public event.
(Related)
See Where
You’ve Been with Google Maps’ New Timeline Feature
… If you think that Google logging everywhere
you go and then displaying that information on a map/timeline is
creepy, you’re probably right. In fact, we’d absolutely hate it
— if it wasn’t so damn cool!
… your timeline will show you where it thinks
you’ve been, when you arrived at and left each place, and how you
travelled between places.
It’ll also automatically attach any photos you
took while at said destination, log events about each “trip” into
town (such as time/route taken), and make lists of the places you
frequent the most, offering tips and recommendations for other
similar nearby places.
Is there a cure? An interesting application of
statistics.
Supreme
Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older
… There’s an old saw,
often mistakenly
attributed to Winston Churchill, that goes something like this:
“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If
you’re not a conservative when you’re 35, you have no brain.”
A person should start left and drift right, and not the other way
around, the adage suggests.1
But when it comes to Supreme Court justices,
growing older appears to incite a trend in the opposite ideological
direction. One prominent measure of judicial ideology — the
Martin-Quinn
score — illustrates this tendency. These scores, as
DW-Nominate does
for legislators, use the justices’ votes to quantify their position
on a left-right spectrum. A more negative score means a justice is
further left; a more positive score means she’s further right. The
scores are based on data from the Supreme
Court Database and are calculated back to 1937.
… Why might this happen? What forces act upon
a justice as he or she ages on the bench? Here are a few theories
that emerged after I poked around and talked to some experts:
We used to call this stuff “Targeting
Information.” Immediately after 9/11, the government was paying
local police to monitor dams – in case terrorists agreed. What has
changed?
National
Inventory of Dams
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 4, 2015
Via IRE – “The
National Inventory of Dams (NID) contains records on dams in all
50 states, kept by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Dams are included if
they meet at least one of the following criteria:
— High hazard classification – loss of one human life is likely if the dam fails,
— Significant hazard classification – possible loss of human life and likely significant property or environmental destruction,
— Equal or exceed 25 feet in height and exceed 15 acre-feet in storage,
— Equal or exceed 50 acre-feet storage and exceed 6 feet in height.”
— High hazard classification – loss of one human life is likely if the dam fails,
— Significant hazard classification – possible loss of human life and likely significant property or environmental destruction,
— Equal or exceed 25 feet in height and exceed 15 acre-feet in storage,
— Equal or exceed 50 acre-feet storage and exceed 6 feet in height.”
Collections by obsessive/compulsives always amuse
me. If my website students used these I have to give those pages a
ZERO.
An Insane
Collection of 1990s GIFs
People of the Internet, join me, as we travel back
to the year 1997. It was an era of yowling modems, AOL chatrooms,
and websites under construction.
And you knew they were under construction because
they told you. With GIFs. Glorious, blinking, yellow and black GIFS.
… “It represents this utterly different
philosophy that you need to know that this site is under
construction, it's not done yet,” said Jason Scott, a historian at
the Internet Archive. “Now, we know all sites are not done. If
your site is done, something is wrong. It’s bad. You’re
either out of money or your boring.”
Scott has given this matter a good deal of
thought, in part because he’s spent time collecting these lost GIFs
from across the web, saving them from total obscurity. “It's
a ridiculously massive collection,” he said. And it’s
worth perusing his
page devoted to “under construction” GIFs, in all their
frenetic 1990s glory, for yourself. (The dizzying effect you get
when the page is loading was intended.)
Could be handy for those points I have to repeat
endlessly for my students. (Late policy. APA formatting. “I”
before “E.”)
Record your
Presentations with Present.me
Present.me
is a great tool that you can use to record your presentations. You
can create a video recording of yourself, a voice over, or simply a
looping slideshow!
The process is quite simple. Just create a free
account on the Present.me education website (you are limited to three
videos a month and and are limited to live recordings, no uploaded
video). You can upload your presentation directly or via Google
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you select whether you want to record your presentation with a video,
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When you finish, your video is published on the
Present.me
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can also get the embed code and publish it to a blog or website.
This is a great tool if you are interested in flipping
your lessons, teaching an online course, or want students
to create their own content.
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