Teens + technology = adults who just don't understand
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5389869?source=rss
Middle-school kids forwarded girls' nude pics
Cops investigating dozens implicated in Castle Rock
By Gabriela Resto-Montero Denver Post Staff Writer Denver Post Article Last Updated:03/09/2007 01:34:31 AM MST
Castle Rock - Pictures of naked middle- school girls that classmates forwarded on their cellphones have triggered a criminal investigation.
At least one of the digital pictures reached as far as California over the Internet, said Tony Lane, Castle Rock police chief.
"We can't stop what's already happened," Lane said Thursday. "It's kind of like a wildfire. ... We can track down everyone who's received the pictures."
Police say the girls at Castle Rock Middle School took naked pictures of themselves on their cellphones and then sent them to their boyfriends. The boys then forwarded the pictures to their friends.
... "Kids apparently don't have any clue of right and wrong," said Rochelle Hoins, a mother of seventh-grade twin boys at Castle Rock Middle School who were not involved in sending the nude photos. "They shouldn't have been taking the pictures to begin with."
... An exchange of nude pictures of middle schoolers also occurred in the Boulder area in January, authorities said Thursday, although in that case, charges were not pressed because the pictures were not widely distributed.
Is this going to become an 'issue' or an “ISSUE?” “Unintentional my A-c-l-u!”
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014209.html
March 09, 2007
ACLU Refutes FBI’s Claims of “Unintentional” Patriot Act Abuses
Follow-up to March 8, 2007 posting, DOJ OIG Report Documents FBI Underreporting Use of National Security Letter, this from the ACLU: "Claims that the FBI’s reported Patriot Act abuses were the "unintentional" result of outmoded computer systems and human error are not credible, the American Civil Liberties Union said today, citing evidence that agents contracted with phone companies to obtain customer records and later sought to cover up the illegal requests."
How will the poor defense lawyers learn this stuff?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014205.html
March 09, 2007
National Computer Forensic Institute Unveiled
Press release: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Alabama state officials unveiled today the National Computer Forensic Institute in Hoover, Ala., that will assist in the field of computer forensics and digital evidence analysis. The institute will be developed by the U.S Secret Service and is partially funded by the department’s National Cyber Security Division. It will serve as a national cyber crimes training facility where state and local police officers, as well as prosecutors and judges, will be offered training and equipment."
Horsefeathers!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/10/1450239&from=rss
Can Outing an Anonymous Blogger be Justified?
Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 10, @10:57AM from the scruples-be-damned dept. Privacy The Internet
netbuzz writes "Absolutely, depending on the circumstances, yet a Florida newspaper's attempt to unmask 'a political group hiding behind the name of a fictitious person' has sparked outrage in some circles. Part of the reason for that outrage is that the paper posted to its Web site a surveillance video of the blogger visiting its advertising department, a tactic the editor says he now regrets. What's really at issue here is the right to publish anonymously vs. the right to remain anonymous. The former exists, the latter does not."
For those of us who don't trust the IRS... (May not be complete yet...)
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Open_Source_US_Federal_Income_Tax_Software
Open Source US Federal Income Tax Software
"There is finally a usable US federal income tax program for Linux users who don't wish to file online. TaxGeek is a Mozilla-based US income tax program that includes Form 1040, Schedules A, B, C, C-EZ, D, E, K-1 (1065), SE (Short and Long), W2, Forms 8880, 8853, 8863, 8812, 5695, 4952,3903, 2106, 2106ez, 2441 with access to most other files as PDF
http://taxgeek.sourceforge.net/
In case you run into this wall... (Frustrate your friends: send them an Office 2007 file)
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/11/download-office-2007-converter-word.html
November 10, 2006
Get Ready for Microsoft Office 2007 Without Upgrading Your Office 2003 Version
posted by Amit Agarwal on 11/10/2006 06:53:00 PM
... How do I Open Office 2007 Documents in Office 2003 ?
Get the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats. The Compatibility Pack will let you read Office 2007 documents in Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003. So you can open a .docx file with Word 2003 or .pptx with PowerPoint 2003.
Download Office 2007 Compatibility Pack
How do I create and save documents in Office 2007 XML format using Office 2003 or earlier versions ?
It's very easy to create a Word 2007 document using Word 2003 or even Word XP. Just download the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack outlined above.
This pack allows you to create 2007 versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files by opening a blank file and using the Save As command in your version of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
I don't have any version of Microsoft Office, can I still open Office 2007 documents ?
Sure. Microsoft has released free document viewers for all popular Office programs that let you read or view Office files without having to install the corresponding program.
Who'd a thunk it?
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/10/1953258&from=rss
Political Leaning and Free Software
Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 10, @07:32PM from the free-as-in-markets dept. GNU is Not Unix Politics
00_NOP writes "HateMyTory is the world's first political rating site and occasionally gets blasted or promoted by British bloggers on either side of the political spectrum. But here's something even more intriguing: when the right come visiting they hate the site but they are disproportionately likely to be users of free software, whether that is just Firefox on top of their Windows box, or all the way with some Linux distro. But when the left rally to the cause they are more likely than not to be proprietary software users, albeit with a big bias towards Apple. If Microsoft's defenders think free software is the road to socialism, why don't the left seem to agree? As a leftie, and a free software advocate, I find this pretty puzzling."
This is one version of online academic publication...
http://www.ucc.ie/en/NewsandEvents/PressReleases/Headline,31747,en.html
08 Mar 2007
Launch of Cork Online Law Review
The sixth edition of the Cork Online Law Review (COLR) [ http://colr.ucc.ie/ ] was launched on Wednesday, 7 March at UCC. The COLR, which was founded in 2002 as Ireland's first exclusively web-based legal journal, is run by law students at the Faculty of Law in UCC. The 2007 edition includes 12 essays on a variety of legal topics, with contributions from students from Ireland, Canada, Spain and Nigeria.
...here is another.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014208.html
March 09, 2007
HHMI and Elsevier Announce Public Access Agreement
Press release: "The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Elsevier have established an agreement to make author manuscripts of articles published in Elsevier and Cell Press journals publicly available six months following final publication. It takes effect for articles published after September 1, 2007...Elsevier will deposit author manuscripts of original research articles, along with an article's supplemental data, on which any HHMI scientist is an author - including HHMI investigators, group leaders and fellows at the Janelia Farm Research Campus, and other institute employees - to PubMed Central (PMC), the digital archive of biomedical and life sciences literature maintained by the National Institutes of Health. The author manuscript has been through the peer review process and accepted for publication, but has not undergone editing and formatting."
We will need to revise the structure of education to allow students to pursue whatever interests them, across all disciplines, and at their own pace. Here is a source of raw material, how do we re-order it?
http://digg.com/apple/Free_UC_Berkeley_Courses_via_Video_and_Podcast_Essential_Classes
Free UC Berkeley Courses via Video and Podcast (Essential Classes)
UC Berkeley has made available great courses (some by streamed video, others by podcast) that you can access for free. You'll find here many essential/core courses: Physics for Future Presidents, US History, General Psychology, Intro to Computers, General Biology, Intro to Statistics, European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present, etc
http://www.oculture.com/weblog/2007/03/berkeley_videos.html
Well, that's not very well thought out...
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/10/182242&from=rss
Windows Live OneCare Can Eat Your Email
Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 10, @02:24PM
from the have-a-care dept. FutureDomain writes in to point us to a blog sponsored by PC Magazine, reporting about another problem with Windows Live OneCare. Apparently, it sometimes deletes the entire Outlook or Outlook Express .PST mailbox when it finds a virus in one of the messages. The only solution is to tell OneCare to exclude the entire Outlook mailbox. This is the software that came in last in antivirus tests. The trail of tears is ongoing over on the Microsoft forums.
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