This was a slam dunk..I
wonder if Japan could do this to Sakhalin island? Russia probably
would not like giving back the oil fields.
Crimean
Parliament Votes to Secede from Ukraine
A day after a contested referendum, legislators in Crimea moved
swiftly on Monday to begin the process of splitting from Ukraine,
with the regional Parliament declaring that Crimea is an independent
state, with special status for the city of Sevastopol.
While the ballot on
Sunday has been rejected in the West and by the government in Kiev,
the legislators asserted that the laws of Ukraine no longer applied
to Crimea and that state funds and all other state property of
Ukraine in Crimea had been transferred to the new state. They also
announced that the Ukrainian authorities had no power in Crimea.
(Related) Our big “or
else” is, we'll ask Congress to come back from vacation?
U.S.
warns Russia against annexing Crimea
Several interesting
choke points in places I would not have guessed. (Think of this as a
CyberWar target map.)
– there are many
cables criss-crossing the oceans floors, more than you could possibly
keep track of. This Cable Submarine Map details where a lot of them
are. Zoom in for more details, or buy a print copy of the map.
IBM does not offer
cellphone service nor do they run Internet search services. What
information do they hold that the NSA would want?
Richard Chirgwin
reports:
IBM
has become the latest of the tech giants to deny handing over
customer data to the NSA’s PRISM program.
In
this
open letter, Big Blue’s general counsel Robert Weber (also
senior veep for legal and regulatory affairs) gives the “no way”
message to the world at large.
Read more on The
Register.
I'll have my students
whip up an App to detect “trademark conflicts” for a mere $20 per
hit.
Web
Domain Name Revolution Could Hit Trademark Defense: UN
The mass expansion of
Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defense of trademarks
in cyberspace, the UN's intellectual property body warned on Monday.
… There
have long been just 22 generic top-level domains (gTLDs), of which
.com and .net comprise the lion's share.
… Around
1,400 new gTLDs are gradually being put up for grabs, with the first
160 already delegated to various Web registration firms.
"The
opportunity for misuse of trademarks expands exponentially,"
said Gurry, noting that registering a domain name is a cheap,
automatic procedure that takes a matter of seconds and does
not have a filter to examine whether there is a trademark conflict.
"That
brings with it the attendant inconvenience of a much greater burden
of surveillance on the part of trademark owners," he said.
I want one!
For my students with
minds. Both of them.
Ten
Good Online Tools for Creating Mind Maps
Creating mind maps or
webs is one of my favorite ways to organize ideas and information.
I've often had my students create mind maps as an exercise in making
visual connections between important concepts, events, and people in
a unit of study. The following free tools offer good options for
creating mind maps online.
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