This column by Cecilio Arillo has some interesting figures…. and concerns.
IF no security contingency
plan is yet in place, the country’s armed services (police and military) should
immediately draw up one because the likelihood of an election failure is not
far removed as a result of the massive hacking of the confidential biometric
files of voters stored in the Commission on Elections (Comelec) databank.
The hacked data included
the complete names, fingerprints, pictures, cell phones and landline telephone
numbers, individual addresses of 54,363,329 voters and the exact locations of
the 84,000 clustered precincts they will be voting in on election day (May 9)
in 81 provinces, 145 cities and 1,489 municipalities throughout the country.
The National Capital Region
officially listed 6,253,249 voters; Luzon, 24,164,023; the Visayas, 11,316,792;
and Mindanao, 12,629,265.
Read more on Business
Mirror. I wonder how readily the
cheating scenarios he describes could actually be implemented but where there’s
a will, there may be a way?
Probably a really good idea but I can’t help asking, are they reading
these tweets while driving?
Highway Regulators Fight Texting and Driving by Calling Out
Culprits on Twitter
In what is pretty definitively the best government use of
social media of all time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is
pushing back at Twitter users who admit to texting and driving. Over a dozen times a day during April, it has
@-replied to tweets mentioning or confessing to the bad habit.
Most of those on the receiving end of the tweets seem to
be stunned into silence—NHTSA isn’t getting many replies from its targets, and
some seem to have even deleted questionable tweets. But the exercise
in public shaming is drawing onlookers, with NTSHA’s tweets getting a good
bit of interaction and shares.
It’s a gutsy move for a government agency, and probably
took some real work to sell internally. Direct
replies on social media can backfire, and have landed big
brands in hot water, especially when automated or generic.
But NHTSA’s tweets are personalized, and mostly strike
just the right tone—stern but caring, rather than bossy, scolding, or
judgmental. Plenty of social
media marketers could learn
from the example.
Where there’s a will (to bypass censorship) there’s a
way. And a market.
The Ingenious Way Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in
Banned Internet
… YouTube is blocked in Iran. The TED site
isn’t, but Iran’s trickling internet speeds make its videos virtually
unwatchable anyway. So every couple of
days, Reza plugs a USB drive into his satellite TV’s set-top box receiver and
changes the channel to a certain unchanging green and white screen that shows
only fixed text instructions. He sets
the receiver to record to the USB. Then a few hours later he takes the
resulting MPEG file on the USB over to his computer, where he decodes it with a
piece of software called Toosheh. The
result, each time, is more than a gigabyte of compressed, fresh digital
contraband pulled directly from space, past both Iran’s infrastructure
bottlenecks and its draconian censors.
… a Los
Angeles-based group of eight Iranian and American activists that calls itself
Net Freedom Pioneers officially launched Toosheh, that free anti-censorship
system.
Are you familiar with all of these people? You probably can’t be elected if you aren’t.
Five internet powerbrokers who could shape the election
Mark Zuckerberg
Matt Drudge
Matt Drudge
Arianna Huffington
Erin Hill
Erin Hill is the executive director of ActBlue, a company
started in 2004 that provides online fundraising software to Democratic
candidates.
… Sanders is
using ActBlue, Democratic front-runner Hillary
Clinton is using her own online fundraising tools. [Was
nothing learned from the email debacle?
Bob]
Interesting. This may explain how
why some of my students are confident before a test and stunned after.
Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates
Estimates of Internal Knowledge
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Apr 23, 2016
Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates
of Internal Knowledge, Matthew Fisher, Mariel K. Goddu, and Frank C. Keil,
Yale University. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General. 2015 American Psychological Association 2015, Vol. 144,
No. 3, 674–687.
“As the Internet has become a nearly ubiquitous resource
for acquiring knowledge about the world, questions have arisen about its
potential effects on cognition. Here we show that searching the Internet for
explanatory knowledge creates an illusion whereby people mistake access to
information for their own personal understanding of the information.
Evidence from 9 experiments shows that
searching for information online leads to an increase in self-assessed
knowledge as people mistakenly think they have more knowledge “in the head,”
even seeing their own brains as more active as depicted by functional MRI
(fMRI) images.”
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