I dare say they don't like it... But
then a dumb idea by any name is still just as dumb...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/030061.html
April 16, 2012
EFF
FAQ on CISPA Cybersecurity Bill
Follow up to posting on SOPA’s
Evil Twin Sister – CISPA, via Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Cybersecurity
Bill FAQ: The Disturbing Privacy Dangers in CISPA and How To Stop It,
by Trevor Timm
This week, EFF—along with a host of
other civil liberties groups—are protesting the dangerous new
cybersecurity bill known as CISPA that will be voted on in the House
on April 23. Here is everything you need to know about the bill and
why we are protesting:
Well, it's not like judges actually
understand the law...
Contradicting
a Federal Judge, FCC Clears Google in Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle
The Federal Communications Commission
is clearing Google of wrongdoing in connection to it secretly
intercepting Americans’ data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers.
The commission concluded Friday, in an
order unveiled Monday, that no wiretapping laws were violated when
the search giant’s Street View mapping cars eavesdropped on open
Wi-Fi networks across America.
… Last year, a federal judge ruled
that the search-and-advertising giant could be held liable for
violating federal wiretapping law, giving the greenlight to lawsuits
seeking damages over Google’s objections.
But the commission, which fined Google
$25,000 for stonewalling the investigation, found that legal
precedent — and an unnamed Google engineer’s refusal to speak to
FCC investigators — meant Google was off the hook for wiretapping.
“Based on careful review of the
existing record and applicable law, the bureau will not take
enforcement action,” the FCC’s enforcement bureau wrote
(.pdf) in a heavily redacted 25-page order. The agency commenced an
investigation after the Electronic Privacy Information Center
demanded that the government review Google’s behavior
How can you show tremendous
improvements in education if you don't start with low-scoring
students?
"Robert Krampf, who runs the
web site 'The Happy Scientist,' recently wrote in his blog about
problems with Florida's Science FCAT. The Florida Comprehensive
Assessment Test is an attempt to measure how
smart the students are. [So,
how well they are educated has nothing to do with it? Bob]
Where other states have teachers
cheating to help students, Florida decided to grade correct
answers as wrong. Mr. Krampf examined the state's science answers
and found several that clearly listed right answers as wrong. One
question had 3 out of 4 answers that were scientifically true. He
wrote to the Florida Department of Education's Test Development
center. They admitted he
was right about the answers, but said they don't expect 5th graders
to realize they were right. For this reason they marked them
wrong. As such, they were not changing the tests. Note: they
wouldn't let him examine real tests, just the practice tests given
out. So we have no idea if FCAT is simply too lazy to provide good
practice questions, or too stupid to be allowed to test our
children."
Canada has a “tax” on
blank CDs and DVDs that pays the music industry for “piracy” –
couldn't you argue that this is music they already paid for?
"A number of Canadian media
companies have joined forces to try to shut down a free music website
recently launched by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., claiming it
threatens
to ruin the music business for all of them. The group, which
includes Quebecor Inc., Stingray Digital, Cogeco Cable Inc., the Jim
Pattison Group and Golden West Radio, believes
that CBCmusic.ca will siphon away
listeners from their own services, including
private radio stations and competing websites that sell streaming
music for a fee. The coalition is expected to expand soon to include
Rogers Communications Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc., two of the
largest owners of radio stations in Canada. It intends to file a
formal complaint with the CRTC, arguing that the broadcaster has no
right under its mandate to compete with the private broadcasters in
the online music space. ... 'The only music
that you can hear for free is when the birds sing,'
said Stingray CEO Eric Boyko, whose company runs the Galaxie music
app that charges users $4.99 a month for unlimited listening. 'There
is a cost to everything, yet CBC does not seem to think that is
true.' ... The companies argue they must charge customers to offset
royalty costs which are triggered every time a song is played, while
the CBC gets around the pay-per-click problem
because it is considered a non-profit corporation.
... Media executives aren't the only ones who have expressed concern.
When the CBC service was launched in February, the Society of
Composers, Authors and Music Publishers said that when it set a flat
fees for the more than 100,000 music publishers it represents, it
never
envisioned
a constant stream of free music flooding the Internet."
Think about this one.
Does it foreshadow the death of the telephone industry? (Can they
compete with unlimited free video chat?)
Microsoft
Wants to Put Skype in Your Web Browser
Mozilla recently showed off a demo of a
video chat app built entirely from web standards. Now
Microsoft’s Skype video calling service appears to be headed to the
web browser as well.
Liveside.net points
out a number of new Microsoft job
ads that describe “Skype for Browsers” and say the company is
looking for developers with experience building HTML5-based apps.
How else can I know what's cool?
Google Trends is the simplest and most
obvious solution to see what’s trending now.
Clicking on or searching for a trend
will allow you to see an analytical profile for those keywords. It
will scale the “hotness,” give you related searches, show a graph
of the search activity, and give you some relevant search and blog
results for the term.
What the Trend uses the internet’s
most trendy social network, Twitter, to graph out and explain what is
trending right now.
My favorite thing about WtT is that it
goes in great depth to not only present trends, but to explain why
they are trending and show you a history of the trend.
While it doesn’t monitor “topics”
in the same way as our previous two websites do, BF does a great job
of sharing viral content that will make you say LOL,
OMG, or WTF.
Check out these other articles:
More for my Math students...
Monday, April 16, 2012
… here is my short list of YouTube
channels not named Khan Academy that offer mathematics lessons.
WowMath.org
is developed by high school mathematics teacher Bradley Robb. His
YouTube
channel has more than six hundred videos covering topics in
Algebra and Calculus. You can access the videos on a mobile
version of WowMath too.
Numberphile
is a neat YouTube channel about fun number facts. There are
currently thirty-three videos in the Numberphile collection.
Bright
Storm is an online tutoring service. On their YouTube
channel Bright Storm provides hundreds of videos for Algebra I,
Algebra II, Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Calculus.
Ten
Marks is another online tutoring service that offers mathematics
tutorial videos on their site as well as on their YouTube
channel. Some of the lessons in their playlists include lessons
on units of measurement, decimals, fractions, probability, area and
perimeter, and factoring.
Math
Class With Mr. V features seven playlists made by a mathematics
teacher teaching lessons on basic mathematics, geometry, and algebra.
In all there are more than 300 video lessons. Like most mathematics
tutorials on YouTube, Math Class With Mr. V uses a whiteboard to
demonstrate how to solve problems.
The Open University is one of my go-to
YouTube channel for all things academic. A quick search on The Open
University reveals seven
playlists that include lessons in mathematics. The lessons that
you will find in these playlists are more theoretical than they are
"how to" lessons.
Yay
Math! features an excited teacher teaching mathematics lessons to
his students. The videos capture just the teacher and his whiteboard
with some feedback from students. The videos cover topics in Algebra
and Geometry. You can check out the Yay
Math! companion website to learn more about Robert Ahdoot, the
teacher featured in the videos.
Global Warming! Global Warming! Is
really Global Climate Change. To say we don't yet have the full
picture is a gross understatement.
Some
Asian glaciers 'putting on mass'
A French team used satellite data to
show that glaciers in part of the Karakoram range, to the west of the
Himalayan region, are putting on mass.
The reason is unclear, as glaciers in
other parts of the Himalayas are losing mass - which also is the
global trend.
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