And I remember when getting a valentine
was a big deal...
Teenage
Sexting Is Becoming The Norm
“Under most existing laws, if our
findings were extrapolated nationally, several million teens could be
prosecuted for child pornography,” explains
a new study on teen sexting, which finds that a whopping 28% of
teenagers text fully-nude pictures of themselves. We took a deep
dive into the much reported Pediatrics
& Adolescent Medicine article, and found some weird insights
into a 21st century trend that is quickly becoming the norm among
teenagers.
1. White kids love
sexting.
2. “Several
million” teens could be held liable for child pornography, as some
states do not define inappropriate sexual behavior as only between an
adult and a minor.
3. If you find
sexting pics sent from your kid’s phone, there’s a strong
possibility that he or she is sexually active.
4. Gender
stereotypes hold true with new technology: boys are bothered by being
asked to sext much less than girls.
5. The suburbs
aren’t safe from the trend either: socio-economic status had
virtually no effect on whether teens sexted.
I'll have to download these since I
want to appear to be following all that “politically correct”
nonsense.
July 06, 2012
EPIC:
Industry Association Publishes Guidelines for Drone Operators
Follow up to previous
postings on drones, via EPIC: "The Association
for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the organization
representing drone manufacturers and operators, has released an
Industry "Code of
Conduct". Compliance with the guidelines is both voluntary
and not enforceable. The association acknowledges that invasive
drone surveillance technology poses a risk to the public, and
specifically tasked users to "respect the privacy of
individuals." In February, EPIC, joined by over 100
organizations, experts, and members of the public, submitted a
petition
to the FAA requesting a public rulemaking on the privacy impact of
drone use in U.S. Airspace. The Agency has not yet responded or
addressed these concerns. For more information, see EPIC:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Drones."
The “Ponderous Pendulum of Public
Privacy Perception” swings again.
California
Court Suspends Sacramento Judge’s Order For Juror Facebook Postings
July 6, 2012 by Dissent
From AP, the latest in the “Juror
Number One” case:
The California
Supreme Court has suspended a Sacramento judge’s order requiring a
juror to submit his Facebook postings about a criminal trial so the
judge could decide if the juror’s comments constituted misconduct.
The justices on
Monday granted the juror, Arturo Ramirez, a temporary stay of Judge
Michael Kenny’s order compelling Ramirez to give Facebook
permission to turn over his postings about the 2010 trial involving a
gang-related beating.
Read more on CBS.
If you feel like you’re watching a
judicial ping pong [That works too Bob]
match, you’re in good company. It was on May 31 that the
California Court of Appeal in Sacramento had denied
Ramirez’s petition.
If this is believed to be true, at what
point will social networks be required to identify suicidal users and
notify someone?
"The data that is available in
social networks is often used to detect the opinion of the crowd —
but can it reveal the state of mind of the individual. New research
suggests that some simple but non-obvious
characteristics of social network use are related to suicide.
Data mining is usually about determining things of economic
advantage, but in this case, suicide we have a personal loss and an
economic one. A new paper by a group of Japanese researchers Naoki
Masuda, Issei Kurahashi and Hiroko Onari claims to have found ways of
detecting suicidal tendencies — or at least the tendency to think
about suicide, so-called 'suicide ideation.' The study used the
Japanese social network mixi, which has over 27 million members and
allows users to join any of over 4.5 million topic groups — some
focusing on the subject of suicide. This provided a study and
control group to compare. The most interesting finding is that while
users in the suicide group had lots of friends, they didn't have as
many transitive relationships i.e. where A friends B friends C
friends A. This suggests that it isn't lack of friends but a lack of
tight social groupings that is a factor. The
same technique could be used to investigate similar problems such as
depression and alcohol abuse."
[and voting Democrat... Bob]
Geek tools
Opera’s
‘SPDY’ Sense Tingling in Labs Release
The latest Labs
release of Opera’s flagship desktop web browser adds support
for the nascent SPDY protocol.
You can download the latest Opera Labs
build for Windows
32-bit, Windows
64-bit, Mac
and Linux
from Opera.
… The SPDY protocol handles all the
same tasks as HTTP, but SPDY can do it all about 50
percent faster.
… If you’d like
to get your own site serving over SPDY, check out
mod_spdy,
a SPDY module for the Apache server (currently a beta release) or
read up on Nginx’s
preliminary support.
Attention Ethical Hackers. During the
Blitz, England was able to “bend” the radio beams the Germans
were using for navigation. Your assignment is to “bend” a
concave shape to the detection grid in our goal and a convex shape to
the other guy's... Don't make it too obvious – no scoring when the
ball is at mid-field.
Soccer
Finally Comes to Its Senses With Goal-Line Tech
Soccer has finally come to its senses.
After years of discussion and debate,
the sport has at long last approved the use of goal-line technology
at all levels of the game. Thursday’s decision by the
International Football Association Board will all but end flubbed
calls that have decided games as monumental as the World Cup final
and made the sport look embarrassingly Jurassic in a hyper-connected
age of instant replay and instant communication.
Odd & ends I find interesting...
A federal judge has struck
down the Department of Education’s “gainful
employment” rules, which the Obama Adminstration issued
last year and were designed to stop career training and for-profit
schools from leaving students with massive amounts of debt but no job
prospects. The for-profit schools had opposed the regulation, and
Judge Contreras agreed saying that the provisions meant to measure
schools’ preparation of students had "no real
basis." [Wow! There goes a whole bunch of laws... Bob]
… Stanford University recently
announced that computer science has become the
largest major on campus, with more than 90% of its students taking at
least one CS class. The school is now considering how it might
redesign
the degree and its core curriculum.
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