Short, but useful.
The
Semantics of Cyber Warfare
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 8, 2013
The
Semantics of Cyber Warfare, Jason Fritz, Bond
University. East Asia Security Symposium and Conference. Beijing.
Nov. 2013
“The study of cyber
warfare in China suffers from the same excess of overlapping
terminology as in English documents. This paper will analyze key
cyber warfare terms from authoritative sources and show that all of
them can be broken down into three fundamental branches that are
common to both the People’s Republic of China and the United States
of America. The three branches are: Information Operations,
Computer Network Operations, and Net Centric Warfare.
Streamlined categorizing can aid the efficiency of research and
improve inter-agency structure. Additional benefits include more
accurate threat assessment, limiting media and public
misunderstanding, and increasing transparency to forward cooperation,
understanding, and trust.”
Non-profits have no
legal protection? Or, corporations have no ethics?
Paper
– Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 8, 2013
Spooky
Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations,
by Gary Ruskin, November 20, 2013
“Many different types
of nonprofits have been targeted with espionage, including
environmental, anti-war, public interest, consumer, food safety,
pesticide reform, nursing home reform, gun control, social justice,
animal rights and arms control groups. Corporations have been
linked to a wide variety of espionage tactics. The most
prevalent tactic appears to be infiltration by posing a volunteer or
journalist, to obtain information from a nonprofit. But corporations
have been linked to many other human, physical and electronic
espionage tactics against nonprofits. Many of these tactics are
either highly unethical or illegal. Corporations engage in
espionage against nonprofits with near impunity. Typically, they
suffer nothing more than minor adverse media coverage if their
espionage is exposed. The lack of accountability may encourage other
corporations to conduct espionage. Corporate espionage against
nonprofit organizations presents a threat to democracy and to
individual privacy. Democracy cannot function without an effective
civil society. But civil society and its nonprofit organizations
depend crucially on their ability to keep some ideas, information,
and conversations private. Individual citizens and groups do not
lose their right to privacy merely because they disagree with the
activities or ideas of a corporation. The right to privacy dovetails
with our First Amendment rights to speech, public debate, and full
participation in the “marketplace of ideas.” It is especially
unjust that corporations sabotage Americans’ fundamental rights
through actions that are unethical or illegal. Many things can be
done to protect nonprofits from corporate espionage. Congress should
investigate and hold hearings on corporate espionage against
nonprofits. Congress and state legislatures should enact legislation
to criminalize the theft of confidential, noneconomic information
held by their critics. Law enforcement – especially the U.S.
Department of Justice – should prioritize investigating and
prosecuting corporate espionage against nonprofits.”
How do you say “Google”
in Norwegian?
Commentary
– Norway Decided to Digitize All the Norwegian Books
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 8, 2013
Alexis
Madrigal – The Atlantic: ”The National
Library of Norway is planning to digitize
all the books by the mid 2020s. Yes. All.
The. Books. In Norwegian, at least. Hundreds of thousands of them.
Every book in the library’s holdings. By law, “all published
content, in all media, [must] be deposited with the National Library
of Norway,” so when the library is finished scanning, the entire
record of a people’s language and literature will be
machine-readable and sitting in whatever we call the cloud in 15
years. If you happen to be in Norway, as measured by your IP
address, you will be able to access all 20th-century works, even
those still under copyright. Non-copyrighted works from all time
periods will be available for download. Here in the States, we are
struggling to make even a small percentage of English-language works
accessible to the citizens of our fine country, despite the efforts
of groups like the Digital
Public Library of America, Hathi
Trust, and (I dare say) Google.
Which means that we are not ready for the apocalypse. But the
Norwegians, that’s a people preparing for the deep future. Now
they are home to the Svalbard
Seed Vault and they will have all the
books stored away.”
For my Criminal Justice
statistics students. (told ya!)
New
on LLRX – Calculating Justice: Mathematics and Criminal Law
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 8, 2013
Via LLRX.com
- Calculating
Justice: Mathematics and Criminal Law - Ken
Strutin’s new guide on criminal justice illuminates the growing
importance of math in the administration of justice, with an emphasis
on the areas of proof and judgment. Ken raises the examples of
how statistics (evidence) and probability (analytics) have been used
and challenged in many criminal cases to match people to events
through such means as: DNA, soil samples, eyewitness descriptions,
firearm purchase records, typewritten documents, clothes fibers,
footprints, hair follicles, blood types, sperm, teeth marks, and
conviction rates. Indeed, everything from traffic tickets to
predictive policing draws on math in some way. Ken’s analysis
and through documentation of case law adds a critical perspective on
the manner in which “numbers are used, and abused” in court.
For my fellow teachers,
and not just the technologically challenged.
The
Analog Teacher’s Guide To Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Are you an analog
teacher trying to function in a digital world? Is the professional
chatter of your colleagues littered with terms like Smore, Voki,
Today’s Meet, Prezi, Popplet, Thinglink, and others? If so, then
you are a casualty of a digital divide that exists among the
ever-growing number of educators as they attempt to keep up with the
flow of resources and information. The demand is on for educators to
provide more digital content that allows for the integration of
technology, but where does the professional start? A great place to
start would be a website aligned to Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
Created by a Media
Coordinator and an Instructional Technology Coordinator this
website offers resources from the beginner to the advanced user of
digital resources.
Sometimes Saturday,
sometimes Sunday, sometimes very late on Sunday. But amusement every
week.
… The school board
in Huntsville, Alabama will offer students cash
incentives to do well on their ACT tests – up to $300.
[Teaching students to be politicians? Bob]
… The College
Board, edX, and Davidson College are teaming up to offer special
Advanced Placement courses in calculus, physics and macroeconomics.
More details in The
New York Times.
… “Argosy
University’s Denver campus has agreed to pay $3.3-million in a
settlement with the Colorado attorney general’s office, which found
that the for-profit institution, a division of the Education
Management Corporation, had intentionally misled students about one
of its degree programs.” So
says The Chronicle of Higher Education.
… Boundless, the
“textbook alternative” startup, has launched
its Boundless Teaching Platform, an effort to get more teachers using
and remixing Boundless content.
… According
to a survey conducted by the Los Angeles Board of Education, just
36% of teachers strongly favor continuation of the district’s
troubled iPad initiative. 90% of administrators said the same.
Music to study by?
Enjoy
Curated Music Mixes And Discover Great Artists On 8tracks
Unlimited streaming
music, for free, legally available all over the world, and
with no audio ads. Have I got your attention yet? That’s
just what 8tracks
offers. One of the oldest and best music websites in existence, we
mentioned
8tracks way back in 2008, and far more recently as one of several
great tools
for creating digital mixtapes. Most recently, I’ve shown you
how to enjoy
8track on the go with the amazing third-party client InifiTracks.
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