Here's
what a number of you have been waiting for. The
Privacy Foundation (http://privacyfoundation.org/
) has announced the topic for their May 11th Seminar!
The
Fourth Amendment Clash with Technology: Warrantless GPS Tracking and
Court Ordered Release of Encryption Codes
Legal
and ethical implications will be discussed by some very interesting
speakers.
Make
your reservations early! Contact: Diane
Bales, Sturm
College of Law, 303.871.6580
It's
obvious Privacy isn't high on the President's list.
Hearing
Strains to Revive Addled Privacy Watchdog
April 19, 2012 by Dissent
Adam Klasfeld reports on yesterday’s
hearing on nominees to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight
Board, a board that has been inactive for years:
… Three years
into his term, Obama made his first five nominations: James Dempsey,
an executive with the Center for Democracy & Technology;
Elisebeth Collins Cook, a former Department of Justice lawyer; Rachel
Brand, an attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Patricia Wald, a
former federal judge for the D.C. Circuit; and David Medine, a
WilmerHale partner tapped to chair the board.
Dempsey, Wald and
Medine are Democrats. Cook and Brand are Republicans.
All of the
candidates seemed reluctant Wednesday to comment on Obama
administration policies that most trouble civil libertarians.
Read more on Courthouse
News.
The nominees seemed to follow the same
strategy as Supreme Court nominees: say nothing controversial or even
clear about specific issues.
It's
a bad law, but it's all we have?
"The case
involves an online game, MapleStory,
and some people who set up an alternate server, UMaple, allowing
users to play the game with the official game client, but without
logging into the official MapleStory servers. In this case, the
people behind UMaple apparently ignored the lawsuit, leading to a
default judgment. Although annoyed with MapleStory
(The Judge knocked down a request for $68,764.23 — in profits made
by UMaple — down to just $398.98), the law states a minimum of $200
per infringement. Multiply that by 17,938 users of UMaple... and you
get $3.6 million. In fact, it sounds like the court would very much
like to decrease the amount, but notes that 'nevertheless, the court
is powerless to deviate from the DMCA's statutory minimum.' Eric
Goldman also has
some further op-ed and information regarding the case and
judgement."
Congressman
surprised to learn how government works?
"Despite President Obama's
recent call for companies to 'insource' jobs sent overseas, it turns
out that the federal government itself is spending
millions of dollars to train foreign students for employment in
some booming career fields--including working in offshore call
centers that serve U.S. businesses. The program is called JEEP,
which stands for Job Enabling English Proficiency. It's available to
college students in the Philippines through USAID. That's the same
agency that until a couple of years ago was spending millions of
dollars in U.S. taxpayer money to train offshore IT workers in Sri
Lanka. Congressman Tim Bishop (D-New York), told about the program
on Tuesday, called it 'surprising and
distressing.' Bishop recently introduced a bill that would make
companies that outsource call centers ineligible for government
contracts." [Let's hope he meant
“offshoring” rather than “outsourcing” or he's in for another
surprise. Bob]
Could
be useful for my dual language students...
Sobotong is a free to use search engine
that lets you search for items in two different languages. You use
the site like any other search engine; the only difference is that
you specify two languages to go along your query. A wide list of
languages is supported by the site. Your search results are displayed
in the first language you select, with the translated query on top.
Similar tools: 2Lingual.
'cause
I never seem to have enough.
On Monday I published a list of Seven
YouTube Channels Not Named Khan Offering Math Lessons. Thanks to
three helpful readers I learned of three more good YouTube channels
offering mathematics tutorials. Then I reminded myself that
The
New Boston which is primarily a channel for computer
science lessons also has some good playlists of geometry,
algebra,
and basic
mathematics lessons.
James Gubbins commented on Monday's
list with the suggestion of adding Hurley
Calculus to the list. Hurley Calculus, as the name
implies, provides lessons on calculus. There are currently 73 videos
in the Hurley Calculus channel.
Math
Doctor Bob's YouTube
channel was suggested by a reader using the Disqus ID
Npisenti. Math Doctor Bob offers nearly 700 video lessons on
statistics, algebra I and II, calculus, geometry, and much more. The
lessons feature Doctor Bob giving the lesson in front of a whiteboard
so you see him and don't just hear his lessons.
Patrick
JMT was suggested by Robert Borgersen who wrote,
"Patrick JMT is HUGE, and equally good, if not better in some
places, than Khan." Patrick JMT doesn't cover as many topics as
Khan or Math Doctor Bob, but the videos are equally solid. I've
included one of the Whole Numbers and Place Values lesson video
below.
(Ditto)
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