In a multi-platform world, we need
multi-platform malware.
Terrifying
Android Malware Hacks Your PC and then Eavesdrops On You With Its
Microphone
It's one thing when malware attacks
your phone, but it's another when that same malware hops over to your
PC and then uses it to listen in on all your conversations on top of
just messing with your phone. A newly discovered Android app—one
that's in the Google Play store—can
do just that. Beware.
The sketchy app, which masquerades as a
"cleaner" app called DroidCleaner, was discovered
by Kaspersky, and if it infects you, its tendrils will wrap
themselves around a seriously impressive number of things.
Was there an assumption that everyone
used their phones as a phone?
Cell
Phone Activities 2012
(Related)
Just
Call Someone Already
You won't believe this. There's a
technological marvel that, instead of forcing you to communicate with
others in writing, actually allows you to hear other people's voices
and words — you can even hear the tone and volume of their voices!
And wonder of wonders, they can hear you! Across any distance! It's
incredible! Not many people use the device today, but it's truly in
a class by itself for productive communication.
Please pardon the sarcasm, but the way
people shun the telephone these days is getting ridiculous.
You used to be able to just call
people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone
conversation.
How many strikes should social networks
get?
Less than a week
after social network Path settled with the US Federal Trade
Commission for collecting childrens’ private information to the
tune of $800,000 it has once again been caught publishing users’
private information.
The social network
and photo sharing mobile app has been automatically
geotagging users’ photos even when they have completely disabled
location services. [“We look to see if you have 'Opted Out,' then
we do it anyway...” Bob]
The bug was
discovered by security researcher and hacker Jeffrey Paul who found
that Path had geotagged a photo he published from his phone even
though his location services had been disabled.
Read more on news.com.au.
Path claimed initial ignorance of the issue and replied to Paul that
they were addressing it. Now what, if anything, will the FTC do?
A
reversal on this one may force us to “Open Source Only”
resources. Fortunately, that's not a big deal.
February 03, 2013
Electronic
Course Reserves Copuright Infringement Case Moves to Appeal
Chronicle
of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard: "Fair use and
electronic course reserves are back in court. A keenly watched
copyright case that pitted three academic publishers against Georgia
State University has entered the appeals phase, with a flurry of
filings and motions this week and more expected soon. One surprise
motion came from the U.S. Department of Justice, which requested
more time to consider filing an amicus brief either in support of
the publishers or in support of neither party...he case in question
is Cambridge
U. Press et al. v. Mark P. Becker et al. In 2008, Cambridge,
Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publishers sued Georgia State,
asserting it had committed widespread copyright violations when it
allowed some of their content to be used, unlicensed, in e-reserves.
The Association of American Publishers and the Copyright Clearance
Center, which specializes in licensing content to universities,
bankrolled the legal action."
(Related)
Idiots can be found at all levels in all organizations.
"A proposal by the Prince
George's County Board of Education to copyright
work created by staff and students for school could mean that a
picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher
or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not
the individual. It's not unusual for a company to hold the rights to
an employee's work, copyright policy experts said. But the Prince
George's policy goes a step further by saying that work created for
the school by employees during their own time and using their own
materials is the school system's property."
Think
this is true? Could we run Geeks for Congress? (Interesting read)
Geeks
are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties
Add
to my library request list. Published only as an eBook?
February 03, 2013
MIT
- The New Initiative on the Digital Economy
"The
Initiative for the Digital Economy (IDE) is a major effort
addressing the impact of digital technology on businesses, the
economy, and society. Drawing upon MIT Sloan’s strengths in
technology and innovation, its internationally recognized faculty,
and over a decade of research and partnership with MIT Sloan’s
Center for Digital Business, the new Initiative will analyze the
broad sociological changes brought about by digital technology. Many
of the key issues are described in a recent book by Professor Erik
Brynjolfsson and Dr. Andrew
McAfee, Race
Against the Machine - How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating
Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming
Employment and the Economy. In the book, they outline the
relevant issues the new initiative will address..."
For
all my students
These days, school careers advisors are
more likely to be asked about careers in programming, IT, web and
software developing, and anything else which involves a monitor and a
keyboard. That is the subject of today’s infographic, courtesy of
Schools.com.
So forget law school and medicine
school – try programming school instead. Brush up on your database
skills. And instead of learning Spanish, learn another language such
as Python
or Ruby.
That will lead to the jobs with big bucks, especially when Skynet
takes over the world and they need people human slaves to keep the
computers upgraded.
I'm
thinking, Math-Mag: Adventures in Addition. What do you think?
If you are looking to publish your
content online in a way that is quite similar to traditional
magazines, check out Zeen, an online content platform that lets users
create and view elegant-looking web magazines.
A
re-cap of Commercial Fest 2013
Super
Bowl 2013 Commercials
[My favotite:
http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/23411.html
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