It would move the cost
of storage from the NSA budget to the far less efficient individual
carriers. I can see this appealing to politicians who seems to
believe that “If a thing is worth doing, we should do it as
inefficiently as possible.”
Phone
companies say 'no way' to storing phone data for NSA
… Major phone
companies argue that being required to store metadata for an extended
period of time for the NSA would be costly, time consuming, and
risky, according to a
report from The Washington Post on Saturday.
It's not a crazy as it
sounds. Think of “HealthBook” as very similar to FaceBook, but
without the bad privacy decisions. Business opportunity?
We’d
all be better off with our health records on Facebook
A Facebook user’s
timeline provides both a snapshot of who that user is and a
historical record of the user’s activity on Facebook. My Facebook
timeline is about me, and fittingly, I control it. It’s also one,
single profile. Anyone I allow to view my timeline views my
timeline—they don’t each create their own copies of it.
… In medical
records: The “about” section would be a snapshot of the patient’s
health and background. It should include the patient’s age,
gender, smoking status, height, weight, address, phone number, and
emergency contact information; the patient’s primary care provider;
and insurance information. This section would include a summary list
of the patient’s current diagnoses and medications, as well as
family history. And importantly, both the doctor and the patient
would be able to add details.
(Related) On the other
hand...
Facebook
Is ‘Dead and Buried’ to Teens, and That’s Just Fine for
Facebook
Anthropologist Daniel
Miller has been studying British teens, and he has a dire message for
Facebook: The social network is “dead and buried” to Britain’s
16-to-18-year-olds because they’re “embarrassed even to be
associated with it.”
In a recent
article for academic clearinghouse The Conversation, Miller
shares preliminary findings from a 15-month ethnographic study of
social media in eight countries, and explains that Facebook is “so
uncool” to teens because their parents and other family members are
using it to keep tabs on them.
“You just can’t
be young and free if you know your parents can access your every
indiscretion,” Miller writes. “Young people care about style
and status in relation to their peers, and Facebook is simply not
cool anymore.”
This is interesting.
Take an old document and translate it to use new technology.
Atlas
of the Historical Geography of the United States
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 28, 2013
“Here
you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O.
Paullin and John K. Wright’s Atlas of the Historical
Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This
digital edition reproduces all of the atlas’s nearly 700 maps.
Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in
print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view
the underlying data—remarkable maps produced eight decades ago with
the functionality of the twenty-first century.”
Could explain why
students fail my math classes...
New
research suggests that people even solve math problems differently if
their political ideology is at stake
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 28, 2013
Mother Jones - Science
Confirms: Politics Wrecks Your Ability to Do Math, by Chris
Mooney
“Everybody knows that
our political views can sometimes get in the way of thinking clearly.
But perhaps we don’t realize how bad the problem actually is.
According to a new
psychology paper, our political passions can even undermine our
very basic reasoning skills. More specifically, the study finds that
people who are otherwise very good at math may totally flunk a
problem that they would otherwise probably be able to solve, simply
because giving the right answer goes against their political beliefs.
The
study, by Yale law professor Dan
Kahan and his colleagues, has an ingenious design. At the
outset, 1,111 study participants were asked about their political
views and also asked a series of questions designed to gauge their
“numeracy,”
that is, their mathematical reasoning ability. Participants were
then asked to solve a fairly difficult problem that involved
interpreting the results of a (fake) scientific study. But here was
the trick: While the fake study data that they were supposed to
assess remained the same, sometimes the study was described as
measuring the effectiveness of a “new cream for treating skin
rashes.” But in other cases, the study was described as involving
the effectiveness of “a law banning private citizens from carrying
concealed handguns in public.”
Easier than a garage
sale?
– is the fastest,
most efficient way to list items to online marketplaces like eBay.
It simplifies and demystifies the process of listing items, and can
be used on any smartphone, tablet, or desktop. WorldLister
intuitively guides you step-by-step and generates a complete,
attractive listing.
Might be a useful tool
for my Website students!
– is a tool to take
existing HTML webpages off the web, extract the main content, and
turn it into Markdown so you can store it as plain text. Whether you
keep your notes in raw Markdown, or render them into HTML or Rich
Text for another organizer, Marky will give you clean markup and
easy-to-edit notes.
I'm not sure my
students would be interested in “games from ancient history.”
Hundreds
of Classic Console Games Can Now Be Played Online, Free
Thanks to the good
people at the Internet Archive, classic console video games like
Donkey Kong, Mario
Bros., Asteroids,
Dig
Dug, and Pac
Man are now fully playable online. The games, released as
the
Internet Archive Console Living Room, are also available for
free downloads. They don't have sound yet, but the archive
promises to get that up and running soon. And even though the
collection isn't complete at this point, the archive promises
to expand it "in the coming months." Because the
archive has versions of each game available in an browser-based
emulator, you can jump right in to the game of your choice without
downloading any specialized software.
… For instance: the
archive contains ET:
The Extra Terrestrial, a
game so bad that someone made a documentary about its failure.
On the other hand, there's always Frogger,
which is still excellent.
Some of the games
even come
with the original manual, which if nothing else, gives a good
glimpse at the conceptual imagination behind the very sparse graphics
game designers had to work with at the time.
For my Criminal Justice
students...
Sandy
Hook Elementary School Shooting Reports
There's an App for
that!
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