Examples of poor security even my students will
recognize!
A fun video
describing some of the many Federation security vulnerabilities in
the first Star Wars movie.
My Data Management students are using an eTextbook
this quarter. Perhaps they will use this App to do research?
(Probably not.)
Libby App
Connects eReaders to Business Titles from Most Major Metro Public
Libraries
… The Libby app connects local libraries and
the thousands of eBooks and audiobooks on their digital bookshelves
24/7.
The Libby
app is developed by OverDrive.
… After you download the Libby app on your
Android
or iOS
smartphone or tablet, (or on your Windows
PC) all it takes is your library card to start borrowing books.
If you happen to have an Amazon Kindle, the books you borrow on Libby
can be sent to the device.
Once you have the app, it will help you find your
local library and even get you a card using your mobile phone number.
You can sign into multiple libraries using one or more cards.
When it comes to reading or listening to the
books, you can stream or download them. And best of all, the company
says it will always be free.
Why you need to think carefully before you pass a
law?
Child porn
law goes nuts: 14-year-old girl charged for nude selfie
A 14-year-old girl is facing charges in Minnesota
juvenile courts that could lead to her being placed on a sex offender
registry—all for taking a nude selfie and sending it to a boy at
her school. Prosecutors say that she violated Minnesota's child
pornography statute, which bans distributing sexually explicit
pictures of underaged subjects.
But a legal
brief filed this week by the ACLU of Minnesota says that this is
ridiculous. Charging a teenager for taking a nude selfie means the
state is charging the supposed victim—an absurd result that the
legislature can't have intended when it passed Minnesota's child
pornography statute, the ACLU argues.
… The ACLU also argues that charging a teen
for taking nude selfies violates the First Amendment. In a 2002
case, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protected
the creation of virtual child pornography—in which no actual
children were used in the creation of works that appeared to involve
sex with children. The court held that laws against child
pornography were justified because protecting children against
exploitation was a compelling state interest. But that argument
doesn't apply to a ban on virtual child pornography.
The ACLU argued that a similar point applies here.
It doesn't make sense to say that a 14-year-old girl is coercing
herself into creating child pornography. Hence, in the ACLU's view,
the state lacks a compelling interest to limit the expressive rights
of 14-year-olds to create nude selfies and voluntarily share them
with peers.
Looks like I’m a big hit in Italy! No idea why…
No comments:
Post a Comment