Keeping up with the
Euros...
In a landslide vote
(534 to 49), the European Parliament has passed a Resolution
on drones, targeted killings, and fully autonomous weapons.
Stay tuned for a post
from one of the leading experts on the topic, Anthony
Dworkin. Many readers will be familiar with Dworkin’s
influential policy paper, Drones
and Targeted Killing: Defining a European Position (2013).
In the meantime, here
are highlights of some of the most significant parts of the
Resolution (with my emphasis added):
1.
Obligations for Post-Strike Investigations and Transparency:
2.
Geographic Restrictions on Targeted Killings:
3.
Action Items on a European Position:
Perspective
The
World Map of Internet Censorship
Not the Internet, the
Web. Many of us were long time Internet users by 1989.
Pew
– The Web at 25 in the U.S.
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on February 27, 2014
The
overall verdict: The internet has been a plus for society and an
especially good thing for individual users, by SUSANNAH
FOX AND LEE
RAINIE
“This report is the
first part of a sustained effort through 2014 by the Pew Research
Center to mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of the
World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Lee wrote a
paper on March 12, 1989 proposing an “information management”
system that became the conceptual and architectural structure for the
Web. He eventually released the code for his system—for free—to
the world on Christmas Day in 1990. It became a milestone in easing
the way for ordinary people to access documents and interact over a
network of computers called the internet—a system that linked
computers and that had been around for years. The Web became
especially appealing after Web browsers were perfected in the early
1990s to facilitate graphical displays of pages on those linked
computers.”
This might amuse my
students.
You
Can Build Your Own Search Engine
Earlier this week I
received an email from someone who had found the custom
video search engine that I built last summer. The person who
emailed me asked how I did it. There's not much to it other than
following a few steps at Google.com/cse.
As you can see in the directions embedded below, you don't need any
coding skills in order to build your own search engine.
It must be much longer
than a New York minute.
An
Internet Minute Infographic
Something to calm the
savage beasts... (One example)
Ten
Google Easter Eggs You Missed Somehow
Play
Atari Breakout In Your Browser
Go
to Google Image
Search and search for Atari Breakout, the classic arcade game.
You’ll see the thumbnailed results pop up as usual. But wait for a
few seconds and boom! You are now playing Breakout in your browser,
with the thumbnails acting as bricks.
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