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This is the first time we can legally study a voting system's innards without NDAs or court-ordered secrecy. Join the fun :).

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[ECP} Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Newsletter The Conscience Un-Conference: Using Social Media For Good is a free, one-day "un-conference" co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media click to apply.

The newly created position of Vice President, Government Affairs (Americas) will have primary responsibility for policy development and advocacy before the U.S., Latin America, and Canadian governments. This position will oversee all levels of government affairs activities for both legislative and regulatory issues.

IP Intellectual property, ACTA sucks Protect the commons and your rights from corporations' corrupt copyright controls standards of practice. International treaties used to hijack your Fair Use rights.

Privacy / China / USA / somebody ought to sue someone. The audit showed that several DOD organizations did not follow disposalpolicies, did not properly train personnel or did not develop and implement on-site procedures for the authorized release of IT equipment.

First Solar signs massive deal with China inner mongolia. China has cornered well over 90% of the market for rare earth metals, which are essential in various high-tech products.

Leaching of lead from computer printed wire boards and cathode ray tubes E-waste dump of the world

In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning Man to sell products.

25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives

Censorship Herdict.org users report their Web site problems anonymously. Web site tracks world online censorship reports.

Anyone who is censored on the Net either in America or in China needs a VPN.

China Baidu.com Bravo! Hewlwtt-Packard, the world's top PC maker and Dell Inc. Said they wer not providing Green Dam with their PC's in China. DO NOT BUY Acer, Lenovo and Sony who are providing Green Dam Software and Minor Escort programs with computers sold in China on July 4th which coincides with America's Independence Day Celebration.

We have just received 4 new letters from SCOPUS about Notification of Coverage of the 4 new (most recent ) WSEAS Journals in SCOPUS Upload your papers for CSCC 2009, EDU, EMESEG, CUHT, UPT until May 31, 2009 Keynote Prof. Barbara H. Liskov , Laureate of the 2008 Turing Award,PLEANARY SPEAKERS: more than 40 see http://www.wseas.org/

Lessig has announced that Warner Music issued a DMCA takedown on one of Lessig's own presentations, in which his use is almost certainly fair use. Lessig, of course, is a lawyer, and a big supporter of fair use, so it's no surprise that he's also said he's going to be fighting this.copyright, dmca, fair use, larry lessig, takedown,Companies:warner music group

Canvastic Will apply a 50% discount to any purchases made. IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) will receive $12.5 billion. EETT (Enhancing Education Through Technology) will receive $270 million.

barbara liskov, computing, software engineering, turing Big brother is watching every word you say, every step you take, every sound you make they are watching you.

computer security, programming, gender gaps and about her research.

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One of the great ironies of the information age is that, while the late twentieth century will undoubtedly have recorded more data than any other period in history, it will also almost certainly have lost more information than any previous era.

an online how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying. EFF created the site with the help of the Open Society Institute in order to educate Americans about the law and technology of communications surveillance and computer searches and seizures, and to provide the information and tools necessary to keep their private data out of the government's hands.

Silicon Valley luminary Esther Dyson is the latest to start training for a space flight.

[ECP]K-12 Newsletters - EDU - Preliminary results of a recent online survey of NSTA members show more than half use social media websites at school for professional development and to obtain classroom resources. However, more than 80% of respondents said their schools block internet access to at least some social media sites.

Special Edition to Celebrate Women's History Month in March. K-12 Edu Online Curriculum Module. Changing Girls Attitudes Towards Computers in the Classroom. Websites for girls and Young Women to help them get interested in science and technology. Computer Wonder Women. Venture Capital for Women.

The purpose of this website is to inform you of a proposed Settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights and those of other Rightsholders of Books and Inserts

free Inexpensive file-to-PDF conversion solution. Apple tells Copyright Office Jailbreaking iPhone is Illegal; Mozilla & Skype Support EFF's Request for an Exemption to the DMCA.

Intercosmos Media Group d/b/a directNIC.com creates link farms out of parked domain names. WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center returns www.ironmountaininc.com back to owner. Iron Mountain stores everyone's data. Of course it was registered with Intercosmos Media Group d/b/a directNIC.com who is causing all these problems and took 1 year to get resolved!!

The trial will be webcast live from SVT Direkt, starting Monday 16th February.

M-Lab will make available three network measurement tools that provide users the ability to test their network connection speed and diagnose network performance problems - including whether specific applications like BitTorrent are being blocked or adversely impacted by throttled bandwidth.

It was a bad idea to begin with. Another thing that went wrong was that Nicholas Negropante completely ignored the rise of the mobile phone in the Third World. In polyglot countries with low literacy the primary communications device is a phone.

birth of the internet 1981 TV report KRON reporter: “This is only the first step in newspapers by computers. Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer, but that’s a few years off.”

LOCAL SHARED OBJECTS - WHAT ARE FLASH COOKIES No matter how you may have configured your browser, you still have the option to allow or deny the application that runs in Flash Player permission to store the information, and to specify how much disk space the stored information can occupy.

Obama promises to build high-speed Internet connections as an engine of growth.

Profound change in the technology realm for the US thanks to Obama.

On FreeYourPhone.org, people can sign EFF's petition to the Copyright Office and share their stories about cell phone frustrations. EFF will also help people officially submit those stories to the Copyright Office before the February 2 deadline. The Copyright Office will hold public hearings on the DMCA exemption requests in Washington, DC, and California in the spring, and the final rulemaking order will be issued in October.

Obama to announce new position, Filter Plan -- And Words from the Smothers Brothers,Obama's CTO,RIAA Ditches MediaSentry,Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post

Another Era  Whole Earth Catalog June 1971  Electronic Edition 

http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1150

Computer Lib/Dream Machines Retrospective

This astonishingly prescient book originally written and published by by Theodor H. Nelson in 1974

in a glorious oversized format is one of the "tap roots" of the soon to be born microcomputer and "cyber" cultures.

The following pages provide a retrospecitve of this work and Ted's current projects and vision. We will present excerpts
from the 1975 (second?) edition, kindly provided to us by Dan Croghan.

Majel Barrett, widow of Gene Roddenberry and the voice of the Enterprise's computers, passed away today at 76.

two years later, they're rushing to set up the new TLD process, but there's no study.

The French EU Presidency, the European Commission, and the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State agreed to a Statement on Information Sharing and Privacy and Personal Data Protection and recorded progress on a set of principles that will advance both data privacy and data sharing in a law enforcement context.

The Forces Driving Women Out of Computer Science - NYTimes.com


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html?adxnnl=1&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1226800900-dlFIEuaFUWsKj4J+ka5gbw

ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered
why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl
ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer
science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper,

13 year old commits suicide, bullied by a mother on myspace!

In June 1944 was part of a 4 man team camping on a mountain top near Kunming, China. We were but a link in the radio network linking China to Burma.

"All of our forensic investigators felt it was a complete miscarriage. It was clear she was absolutely innocent,'' he said. "The mistakes and misinformation that occurred in that courtroom were astounding."

There is NO liability for schools if they choose not to set it to block an area and something "inappropriate" happens to appear on that site. The CIPA regulations mentioned the understanding that filtering is not perfect. EVERY librarian and ed tech specialist in the schools should have the authority to override the filter and provide access to a site that has been inappropriately blocked - based on the educational determination of its content!

Digital Youth Project Major Findings

How will schools provide students with the necessary instruction for future employment, as well as responsible consumption (information credibility), without opening the door to Web 2.0 instructional technologies?

JCT is a K-12 oriented online periodical where the emphasis is on teaching about computing. JCT is published under the auspices of the Special Interest Group for Computer Teachers (SIGCT) in the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The primary mission of SIGCT is to enhance precollege computing instruction.

Touchscreen voting machines at the center of recent vote-flipping reports can be easily and maliciously recalibrated in the field to favor one candidate in a race, according to a report prepared by computer scientists for the state of Ohio.

Primarily computer parts.

The Official Web Site of the The U.S. Presidential Transition.... Obama Technology Plan - Science, Technology and Innovation for a New Generation - Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age.

VOTE 2008 Election Embeddable Visualizations Get the Widgets

Copyleft v RIAA, False IP address, file sharing - download The Pirate Bay’s tracker returns random IP addresses which also includes false or random numbers. Use this defense in court when sued by the RIAA.

Dr. Christopher Healey, associate professor of computer science shows Voter results for U.S. Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and state Gubernatorial elections.

ICANN is seeking comments on a proposal that would open up the market for generic top-level domains (TLDs) on the Internet, basically allowing anyone with US$185,000 to buy a new TLD.

FF3 won't work with Adobe Flash. How to fix Firefox 3 to work with flash.

Privacy and the all the personal information they want to dump into all the connected cars on the internet railroad track to the complete loss of privacy on the net. In order to change the internet you need the attorney generals who are on board. This is an easy sell to Elementry and Middle Schools where these companies are doing business already with no oversight from the feds about what they can do with this information.

In order to preserve free speech and protect children online, the next President and Congress should take specific steps, including the following:

For readers who are interested in a technology coordinator salary and want to learn about a technology coordinator job description.

Andrew Appel writes "The AVC Advantage can be easily manipulated to throw an election because the chips which control the vote-counting are not soldered on to the circuit board of the DRE. This means the vote-counting firmware can be removed and replace with fraudulent firmware."

Internet - What is Was, What it is, And What it will be.How it all works.

Three weeks after we delivered the report, on September 24th Judge VOTE FRAUD - NJ - Judge Feinberg ordered us not to release it. This is part of a lawsuit filed by the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, seeking to decommission of all of New Jersey's voting computers.

A FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRAM ASSESSMENT. The report will be released at a one-hour public briefing starting at 12:30 p.m. in the Lecture Room of the National Academy of Sciences building. Those who can't attend can listen live.

University Inc. Campus Commercialization and The CEO Salary. Campus Commercialization University Small Business Patent Procedures Act.

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women computers Circa 1911 Burroughs Typewriter Adding Machine.Thousands of human tabulators.A stunning array of milliflops of raw computing power!Calculating benefits for veterans of WWI.

Full power non-commercial educational (NCE) FM radio station licenses. Aug. 21 2008 FM noncommercial Radio Applications released. These are not final decisions petitions can be filed within 30 days.

for Firefox3 can thwart these “Man-in-the-Middle” (MitM) attacks.

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Kudos to the NJEA Review for this fabulous techie article that we can all understand. The Toolbox Featured in the January, 2008 issue of the NJEA REVIEW Web widgets increase student engagement by Patricia Bruder, EIRC

The future of the Internet

Latest News Headlines - North American Wind Power - Energy, solar, wind power

Goodby Google!! Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of their index, although they claim to know about a trillion unique web pages. It’s pronounced “cool.”

Since Care2.com is classroom-appropriate and kid-friendly, it’s also a great place to do some technology and writing lessons with ecards.

New York 50 Percent of Sequoia Voting Machines Flawed. Don't allow vendors hack the vote.

hese Trends represent general directions regarding computing in libraries — short-term future directions where, from my perspective, things are or could be going.

Consisting of just a glass surface, camera and lighting

And let me make clear, at the outset of this debate, that this is not about domestic surveillance itself. We all recognize the importance of domestic surveillance ­ in an age of unprecedented threats. This is about illegal, unwarranted, unchecked domestic surveillance. And that difference—the difference between surveillance that is lawful, warranted and that which is not—is everything.

LOC summer newsletter. There are three new exhibits available both at the Library and online: Creating the United States, Exploring the Early Americas and Thomas Jefferson’s Library and much more.

Oldie but Goodie from 1999

You can view her 15-minute presentation

Brilliant. Use the attraction of social networking sites to get ³at risk² kids who do not have computers at home into cybercafes and off of the streets­ as a gang prevention approach. And then expand the activities to help these kids focus on a high tech career.

by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - In 1985 when Gary Kildall, IBM's first choice before Bill Gates to design their PC's operating system a few years earlier, came out with the first electronic encyclopedia, who would figure it would be only a quarter of a century before print encyclopedias faded from the limelight to join vinyl records and dinosaurs?

by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - It's all over for those hefty paper encyclopedias. No less an authority than The New York Times tells us it is time to "Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias," that it is all over other than rolling out the last few editions of some last few hard-boiled Luddites who insist on paper encyclopedias, at a price that could easily buy you a decent used car.

A thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain built from a supercomputer. Totally biologically accurate the processing core of a machine can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second. It contains no moving parts.

How to use video to make money on your blog.

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 29 November 2007—Lawsuits have been dismissed and issues surrounding distribution of eAudiobooks have been resolved, according to Recorded Books and NetLibrary, the parties involved.

Educational CyberPlayGround - Technology. 1934 Paul Otlet invented hypertext, multi-media, and the web. He didn't use these words of course. He called it the International Network for Universal Documentation. In his 1934 "Treatise of Documentation"

"The Kickoff Webcast with Karen Ellis" webcast.

Find out how to contact online librarians and get help for free. See if your library is online and participates. It's better than Google!!! Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars

The Metasploit Project announced today the free, world-wide availability of version 3.1 of their exploit development and attack framework. The latest version features a graphical user interface, full support for the Windows platform, and over 450 modules, including 265 remote exploits. "Metasploit 3.1 consolidates a year of research and development, integrating ideas and code from some of the sharpest and most innovative folks in the security research community" said H D Moore, project manager. Moore is referring the numerous research projects that have lent code to the framework.

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MPAA has told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.

We put up an analysis of the 700 MHz auction that starts today, trying to give our readers an idea of what's at stake, and what to expect.

The Military Industrial Educational Complex - Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission:

Learn How Bit Torrent Works: Being tracked by anti-piracy organizations and receiving infringement notices on file-sharing networks is becoming more common. A security project manager has just released a short video showing how it’s done.

Fascinating, enlightening ... and appalling. WELL worth the time to read it! Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent

XO laptop, Give 1 Get 1, G1G1, One Laptop per child - Critics of the rollout have two key concerns.

Virtuoso hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang has posted a fantastic review of the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, from a hardware engineer's perspective.

Kudos to the NJEA Review Web widgets increase student engagement. W00t word and the language it comes from. Clustering Search Engines, K-12 Science. Sears exposes customer information via its web site. National Archives of Ireland 1911 Census. XO 1LPC, G1G1 Negreponte and Intel part ways. IWWIW Turn off the TV. Kids virtual worlds.

In October, Mr. Snyder was inducted into the National Security Agency-Central Security Service hall of honor for his work, which began in 1936 with the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service.

TIP: USE SCROOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY. Stop using Google directly.

How hard it was to destroy data? If you don't know how to do it then smash it into oblivion.

XO Laptop My Experience & Disappointments

amateur media production and its importance in life-long learning. Since 1988, it has been an annual, statewide event open to school-aged Texas residents.

XO laptop delivered today - see it fresh out of the box!

Understand Rootkit and why Sony is a Cracker.

Developers urged to avoid built-in backdoor

205 high schools in the state, representing about 125,000 high school students, now have access to the materials through the agency's servers.

Comcast's Secret War on File-Sharing Packet Forgery By ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair Without telling customers, Comcast had begun a secret program to send automatic reset commands to customers'computers if they were using BitTorrent, Gnutella, or a few other programs. Comcast installed new software or equipment on its networks that began selectively interfering with some of Comcast's customers' TCP/IP connections

School officials say IDs will only be checked against sex-offender registries.Phone with sex-offender alerts: With GPS technology, linked to a national database of sex offenders.

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Sigmund Lubin pirated films and claimed them as his own. The program discusses Lubin's piracy and how it changed the world of film. He was brought into court by Thomas Edison and it is determined whether his piracy is considered legal or not.

Community radio supporters have fought for years to not just stop media consolidation, but to roll it back -- bringing new voices to cities and towns, large and small. Don't miss your chance to stand up for diverse and accountable media in the United States! Take a stand now. You can file a comment at the FCC here: http://tinyurl.com/2yswbr Technology, Internet, K-12 Newsletters, NetHappenings, Network Newsletters, Arts, Music

Pfaffenberger's study has already turned up some surprises.

802.15 beyond bluetooth of interest re licence-exempt wireless

This is probably the ugliest intrusion on privacy I've seen in this whole controversy. - Dave

A millowatt is 1/1000 of a watt. Something we learn in middle school science.For companies, it would mean having smaller computers that are far more powerful than today's machines, yet produce far less heat.

Google's primary purpose in these programs seems to be to increase the number and quality of Open Source programmers.