Gee! I didn't think
you cared!
The Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation released its report, “A
“Kill Chain” Analysis of the 2013 Target Data Breach.” The
report was prepared by the majority staff for Chairman Rockefeller.
Debate is good!
Orin Kerr writes:
This
is my second post on recent decisions in computer search and seizure
law by Magistrate Judge John Facciola of the federal court in the
District of Columbia. In my
first post, I covered Judge Facciola’s opinion denying a
warrant on the ground that the government didn’t need one. In this
post, I’ll address a more dramatic and important opinion that
considers how search warrants for e-mail and social media accounts
should be drafted and executed. Judge Facciola’s opinion rejects
an approach to e-mail warrants that DOJ has recommended. It then
concludes that the Fourth Amendment may require third-party service
providers to execute warrants and then pass on the results to the
government. I have posted the opinion here: In
the Matter of the Search of Information Associated with
[redacted]@mac.com that is Stored at Premises Controlled by Apple,
Inc.
Read more on WaPo The
Volokh Conspiracy.
Just another one of
those, “I'm not a lawyer, but here's a legal question.” If the
cops were flying a drone to monitor rush hour traffic and recorded a
car speeding down the shoulder of the road, do they have to
ignore/destroy that evidence?
Activist Post reports:
A
Missouri bill to strictly limit drone use passed out of the state
House on Monday by a vote of 109-44.
It now moves on to the Senate for consideration.
HB1204,
the “Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act,” would
ban law enforcement agencies in Missouri from using a “drone or
other unmanned aircraft to gather evidence or other information
pertaining to criminal conduct or conduct in violation of a
statute or regulation except to the extent authorized in a
warrant.”
Read more on Activist
Post.
An interesting
illustration of Big Data analysis.
1957
was the best-ever year for movies (and other surprising insights from
IMDb)
Want to know which
episode of “Seinfeld” was the greatest? Curious which year
produced the best films? At one point in time, these types of
esoteric queries fell firmly in the realm of bar debates and
bickering critics. But thanks to IMDb — that massive compendium of
cinematic trivia and ratings — we can at last quantify things like,
say, the best move made in 1985. (Spoiler alert: It’s “Back to
the Future.”)
This brilliant and
vindicating insight comes
courtesy Reddit, where “monoglot,” an enterprising user in
the /r/movies forum, parsed tens of thousands of movie reviews to
assemble a list of the movies that got the most perfect reviews for
every year between 1894 and the present. (More on the
methodology here.)
Students, fair warning!
By
Request - Seven Tools for Building and Sharing Online Quizzes
Earlier today, through
the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page, I was asked for
suggestions for tools for creating and sharing online quizzes. Many
online quiz services allow you to create quizzes that give your
students instant feedback. Some of the services provide the option
to include picture and video prompts in your quizzes. And all of
these services save you the hassle of printing your quizzes. Here
are seven ways that you can create and deliver quizzes online.
This is an interesting
iPhone/iPad App. Lots of my students could use this one.
– draws floor plans
all by itself – just touch each wall with your phone. The free
version of RoomScan is great for scanning single rooms, and RoomScan
Pro is available with more advanced features. For super-accurate
instant floor plans, use RoomScan in conjunction with a laser
measure. Just tap a wall on the finished floor plan and input your
measurement.
For my Math students.
Free
Graphing Calculator
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