Giving up control means
you can no longer predict how the Internet will work.
ICANN
will transition to global plan for private stakeholder control
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on March 23, 2014
- Via Nextgov: “A top Commerce Department official pushed back Wednesday against concerns that the Obama administration is opening the door to an Internet takeover by Russia, China, and other authoritarian regimes. The fears stem from the Commerce Department’s announcement last Friday that it plans to give the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, an international nonprofit group, control over the technical system that allows computers to connect to Web addresses.” See this statement, Promoting Internet Growth and Innovation Through Multistakeholder Internet Governance via the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and via Pew - What happens to the internet after the U.S. hands off ICANN to others?“
[From
the “fears” article:
"If the Obama
Administration gives away its oversight of the Internet, it will be
gone forever," wrote
Daniel Castro, a senior analyst with the Information Technology and
Innovation Foundation.
Castro argued that the
world "could be faced with a splintered Internet that would
stifle innovation, commerce, and the free flow and diversity of ideas
that are bedrock tenets of world's biggest economic engine."
Rep. Marsha Blackburn,
a Tennessee Republican, called the announcement a "hostile step"
against free speech.
"Giving up control
of ICANN will allow countries like China and Russia that don't place
the same value in freedom of speech to better define how the internet
looks and operates," she said in a statement.
I told ya! Anti-social
is the way to go. I can see a big market among teachers trying to
avoid students!
New
Cloak App Helps You Avoid Friends. Have We Reached the Anti-Facebook
Era?
The turf war for social
media top dog has never been more ferocious, with new apps
encouraging us to update the world on our lives’ minutiae being
launched daily. But, mercifully, there’s a new creation willing us
to embrace our anti-social sides: Cloak,
the app that tells you where your friends are so that
you can avoid them at all costs.
Interesting. Legal
education that costs less than a textbook.
New
on LLRX – Using Raspberry Pi and Open Source to Understand
Technology
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on March 23, 2014
Via LLRX.com
- Using
Raspberry Pi and Open Source to Understand Technology - Elmer
Masters, Director of Internet Development at the Center for
Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, has a new column which he had
graciously agreed to share with LLRX readers. In this article, he
examines the concept of using the open nature of a Linux powered
Raspberry Pi to better understand some of the tech tools we use all
the time. He describes Raspberry Pi as an excellent little computer
and a great tool for learning programming, learning about Linux,
prototyping interesting things, and more.
For my Business
students. Marcus Zillman collects links, LOTS of links.
New
on LLRX – Business Intelligence Online Resources
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on March 23, 2014
Via LLRX.com
- Business
Intelligence Online Resources: An Internet Annotated Link Dataset
Compilation. Marcus
P. Zillman’s new, comprehensive guide comprises the most
current and accurate business intelligence source available via the
web, free and fee based. Zillman includes
resources and sites mined from both the visible and invisible web.
His carefully selected business intelligence resources and sites are
described along with their current URL address, providing researchers
with mission critical tools and techniques relevant to immediate and
ongoing projects.
We'll need something
like this as we disconnect from Cable TV.
– is a search engine
for when you are looking for legal sources to stream
movies and TV programs. Just enter the name of the TV
program or movie and it will give you the various legal sources that
you can get it from (such as HBO, Netflix, Amazon, etc). You can
filter the results by price, length, content rating, and genre.
For my Math students.
WolframAlpha
(Related)
Desmos
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