A convenient way to buy
your ticket, a simple way to steal your credit card information.
Alfonso A. Castillo
reports:
Police
are investigating an apparent credit and debit card scam involving
tiny video cameras hidden on Long
Island Rail Road ticket vending
machines.
The
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department first learned
of the scam after a customer found one of the small video cameras on
the floor — having apparently fallen off a ticket vending machine.
Authorities
went on to find hidden cameras attached to seven machines at four
LIRR stations: Bayside and Great Neck on the Port Washington branch,
Merillon Avenue on the Huntington/Port Jefferson branch, and
Greenvale on the Oyster Bay branch.
Police
Friday were continuing to inspect all of the LIRR’s more than 200
ticket machines at 124 stations. MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg said
that, as of Friday night, all but 14 machines had been checked, and
no additional cameras had been found.
Read more on Newsday
(sub. req.)
Impressive! I wonder
how many cities know what data they have and where their data
resides...
City
of Chicago’s Data Open Source Dictionary
“Welcome to the City
of Chicago’s Data Dictionary. This website serves as a single,
comprehensive database catalog for the City of Chicago and City of
Chicago sister agencies. It is a resource for anyone who is
interested in understanding what data is held by City agencies and
departments, how and if it may be accessed, and in what formats it
may be accessed. We invite you to explore the huge volume of data
maintained by the City of Chicago.”
- See also Chicago City Initiative 14 Increase and improve City data: “The City will continue to increase and improve the quality of City data available internally and externally, and facilitate methods for analyzing that data to help create a smarter and more efficient city.”
Interesting. I did a
search for “Math” and found some interesting links.
– Reddit is a rich
source of information and community on the Internet, all split up
into different “sub-reddits”. But it can be very difficult to
keep track of new sub-reddits, the current popular ones, or simply
what subjects are available. That is where Reddit Metrics comes in,
giving you all the information in a neat table with the relevant
stats.
For my cultured
students.
– Google has
partnered with hundreds of museums, cultural institutions, and
archives to host the world’s cultural treasures online. Discover
exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the
world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from
hidden gems to masterpieces. Create your own galleries and share
favorite finds with friends.
I've got several
audiences for articles like this one. (If I can do it, anyone can)
5
Fears You Can Destroy Today To Become A Kickass Blogger
Ever since their debut
at the beginning of the millennium, blogs have been an integral part
of what we consider as “the Internet”. Starting as a simple way
to record and share your thoughts and experiences, blogs have
developed into something much bigger: a full-blown alternative to
printed newspapers and magazines.
Unlike newspapers,
though, absolutely anyone can write a blog. Yes, even you. It takes
almost no effort to set
up your own blog, and once you do, you’re left with the really
easy part: writing it. Think you can’t? Continue reading. When
you’re done, consider again.
My weekly amusement.
The US
government is back open again. Whee. The cost of the
shutdown: an estimated
$24 billion dollars. You know what else we could have done with
that $24 billion? Free
public higher education.
… Education
Week reports on the $41 million settlement that New York
City is paying out to educators in back pay “after they
had to work outside of their contractually mandated workdays because
of slow school Internet connections and other technical challenges.”
… Wolfram
Alpha has launched a new tool called the Wolfram
Problem Generator (available to pro subscribers) that, as the
name suggests, creates unlimited, random practice problems.
… Coming
soon to Khan Academy: a complete Calculus
course. Khan Academy is partnering with the prestigious boarding
school Phillips Academy to create the course.
Tuition at Phillips Academy will run you $47K a year, but hey, now
you can learn from the most elite institutions for free!!
… Educause
has released its annual
survey which asks some 113,000 undergraduate students about their
technology usage. Among the findings: students aren’t interested
in badges; students’ computing device ownership continues to grow;
and 71% of students have used free or openly licensed educational
resources.
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