TEDxMidAtlantic-Marcus Ranum-11/5/09 How networks send stuff through all the internets / sockets / services / clients. 10 pages of code does this. We could have made it all work except from the call back thing and that's how we get firewalls acting like the man in the middle.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Another Era  Whole Earth Catalog June 1971  Electronic Edition 

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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


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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,

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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"

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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

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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.

It's really about science and technology. Sight See HouseHold Hacker

For the first time in the prestigious national math and science contest's nine-year history, girls were awarded both grand prizes

More about these amazing PEOPLE and the JOB they did for AMERICA. These People are COMPUTER PIONEERS. Computer Wonder Women Hedy Lamarr's Invention Finally Comes of Age Movie actress Hedy Lamarr invented cell phone technology. Decline in Numbers of Women in Computer Science Threatens U.S.Competitiveness

NetHappenings Google's campaign to digitize the world's books. How to work with Google.

NetHappenings - Everybody must read Conversation between Schneier and Marcus Ranum will appear in Information Security Magazine this month. < - >

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Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. - Observations on Scholars' Use of Digitized Resources - Technology Standards for Students - Preventing Online Exam Cheating, Call for Papers on Academics in Virtual Environments - Recommended Reading: Book Review STUDIO THINKING: THE REAL BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION

Simply put, we're on the precipice of something groundbreaking that will change this industry forever. Whether it will be good or bad is unknown, but regardless of the long-term effect, Google has its sights firmly planted on this 700MHz spectrum and if you ask me, we won't even know what hit us.

Sight See Utterz publish brief audio updates via your cell phone and Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Find all the job openings in D.C.and We all know what Home Schooled means but what is "Unschooling"?

Preservation of digital media. This world is going to loose a lot work.

Secure desktops not just for Vista. Al Gore's Web site hacked. Flaw leaves Microsoft looking like a turkey.

IT'S ALL ABOUT INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE! Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words hypermedia, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people. His motto is: A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. Ted Nelson promotes four maxims: "most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong". (see Chapter II, 3rd paragraph, 3rd and 4th sentences, of: Wolf, G. "The Curse of Xanadu" [1]).

The district is so confident in its security, it has dared students and hackers to crack it, offering a free wireless router for anyone who could.

If I can read 100 blogs, which should I read to be most up to date?

Let’s get something straight here: technology is complicated, and it’s unreasonable to expect every professor to understand the nuances of digital projectors, editing software, classroom response devices, PowerPoint lectures or even — God help you if this is true — Internet browsers.

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Linked in is the largest professional Networking site. Its biggest global competitor is Facebook.

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Children And The Internet, Internet, Internet Governance Forum, Internet Security, Law Of The Internet, Breaking Media News, Media Literacy only about 1 billion, or 20% of the world's population have Net access

More than 150 friends?!

The Wall Street Journal's "numbers guy," Carl Bialik <http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119518271549595364.html>, zoomed in on that number - 150 - which many reporters have cited as the limit to the number of personal contacts any human being could possibly sustain. This is when they're writing stories about the lengthy friends lists some teens have amassed in social sites. The 150 comes from the research of Robin Dunbar at Oxford University, "extrapolating from social groups in nonhuman primates and then crediting people with greater capacity because of our larger neocortex, the part of the brain used for conscious thought and language." Ah, got it. So we definitely can sustain more friendships than primates. But, actually, Dunbar himself, Bialik reports, believes that social sites "could 'in principle' allow users to push past the limit." To the professor, the real question is "whether those who keep ties to hundreds of people do so to the detriment of their closest
relationships - defined by Prof. Dunbar as those formed with people you turn to when in severe distress." Bialik cites another recent UK survey that found - no huge surprise - friendships really start offline, but "less-close friendships and acquaintanceships, however, also die offline, while the Web can help sustain them" [read the article for examples].

A massive security breach involving the personal information of "virtually every child in Britain" has occurred in the United Kingdom. This is a clear illustration of risky it would be to have a national database of children's personal information in the US, which is what would be required in order to establish children's age verification online.

Google buys and collects everything - it's frightening!

Over the past several years I've been playing with Linux to get an idea of what it's all about and how it can be used. It wasn't until recently that I felt comfortable telling my non-techie friends to jump in.

* Japan is now fingerprinting all foreigners. Fingerprinted foreigners now will have the distinction of having the same status as former Korean slaves.

Comments, thoughts, and suggestions requested. Botnets (also called zombie armies or drone armies) are networks of compromised computers infected with viruses or malware to turn them into “zombies” or “robots” – computers that can be controlled without the owners’ knowledge. Criminals use the collective computing power and connected bandwidth of these externally-controlled networks for malicious purposes and criminal activities, including, inter alia, generation of spam e-mails, launching of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, alteration or destruction of data, and identity theft.

Bunhill Cemetery is just down the road from my flat in London. It’s a handsome old boneyard, a former plague pit (“Bone hill” -- as in, there are so many bones under there that the ground is actually kind of humped up into a hill). There are plenty of luminaries buried there -- John “Pilgrim’s Progress” Bunyan, William Blake, Daniel Defoe, and assorted Cromwells. But my favorite tomb is that of Thomas Bayes, the 18th-century statistician for whom Bayesian filtering is named.

Brett Glass computer journalist and founder of LARIAT.NET a local Internet service provider based in Laramie, Wyoming. Founded in 1993 as a community network and relaunched as a private ISP in 2003, we were the world's first wireless broadband provider and have more than 15 years of wireless Internet experience -- more than anyone else!

Award-winning correspondent, David Faber examines the rapid advance of technology which allows companies to monitor our every move and record our most private personal information. Driving habits are being recorded; employees are monitored; shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; internet searches are saved and used as evidence in court. It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it is the government that’s using it. The documentary takes viewers inside the FBI, the Border Patrol, police departments and schools to see how they are using biometric technologies to establish identity. There is also a rare look inside a little-known division of AOL that works solely with law enforcement requests for information about AOL’s members.Faber also examines some of the downsides of the new surveillance society: a man whose cell phone records were stolen by his former employer; a women who lost her job due to mistaken identity; a man who discovered his rental car company was tracking his every move.BIG BROTHER, BIG BUSINESS takes an enlightening and sometimes disturbing look at how the growth of the information society may be eroding the freedoms many people take for granted.

Your right to have your own radio station. Protect your rights! "In recent weeks, the Federal Communications Commission, and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, have made strong public statements about supporting the low power FM radio service, and the vital work that it does nationwide. As the commission works at its November 27th meeting to make decisions about the future of LPFM, they must lay the groundwork to ensure that LPFM will not only be available in rural areas in the future. They must also protect the low power stations from losing their frequencies to full power stations that encroach upon their signals. No matter what happens in Congress, LPFM will only be available in America's cities if the FCC acts to make room for it. threaten to knock them off the air. NetHappenings

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The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education Conference is happening now. Education Vendor Directory.

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Live Search Maps are so INCREDIBLE if you haven't seen it you MUST.

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Student Use of Technology and how it impacts the classroom. Let’s be clear about another thing. The episode in his classroom had been plotted and scripted ahead of time, with Neil Noland part of the charade all along. The phone was an extra of his mother’s, its service contract long expired.

Educational CyberPlayGround Directory was is the first one ever created. Is your K-12 School in the directory? It started in the U.S. circa 1993. Can you imagine that it's built by people like you? If you submit the neighborhood school or school district it will go in the directory. We build it! It's a national folklore project. And we get to see the what our schools can do - and what they aren't doing! If you've got it FLAUNT IT.

10,000 links that can drive up test scores in all areas, and more specific needs such as motivation. The Educational CyberPlayGround™ has it all. From the simple beginning steps up to the most sophisticated technology you need to know.

The author of the blog post, Matt Hickey of Seattle, says that using paper as a shim to put pressure on the hard drive has worked on about 70 percent of the failed iPods he has encountered — even though he is not sure why it works.

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A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nonprofit technology, educational technology, adoption challenges, information design, visual thinking, creativity, ICT in the developing world, and much more.

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What Parents, Teachers and Administrators need to know.

Girls in K-12: More Math, Less Interest in Comp Sci The findings of the inaugural report showed that, starting in K-12 education, girls seem to have an advantage over boys in coursework but do not pursue careers or majors in information sciences. While girls have, on the whole, more experience in their K-12 educations in math and some engineering areas than boys, only 1 percent of females taking the SATs in 2006 indicated an interest in pursuing computer and information sciences as an intended major.

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Clearly, the changes occurring between 1976 and 1988, when the PC and automation were becoming ubiquitous in libraries, had nothing on the changes we were to see in the last five, no the last 2 years! Retooling was essential for me. It is essential for the survival of the profession. We cannot expect to assume a leadership role in information technology and instruction, we cannot claim any credibility with students, faculty, or administrators if we do not recognize and thoughtfully exploit the information and communication paradigm shifts of the past two years. I attempted to chart the changes I've observed to help plan for the future. I invite you all to help me refine this chart.

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We've had a few stories now about Verizon FiOS (its fiber optic broadband offering) installs that resulted in fires and damaged properties.

The piece is called, “A Vision of Students Today,” and features a very large class of college students, sharing short notes about their personal and education learning experiences, and the vast gap that exists between the one that they have created (one that many of us remain ignorant of) and the one that we inflict on them.

Artist Courtney Love issued a letter to the music industry explaining that until recently, Congress believed that the RIAA spoke for recording artists, and not a trade group that is paid for by record companies to represent their interests. Her letter calls for support over collective bargaining in negotiations with record companies because singers are served by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), and musicians are served by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and there is no single organization to negotiate health care and pension plans

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Meet my friends The Funk Brothers ~ Karen Ellis MORE #1 HITS THAN The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and Elvis Combined HOW ALLAN SLUTSKY GET THE IDEA FOR THE MOVIE? This film is based on a book of the same title by Mr. Allan Slutsky that won the 1989 Rolling Stone/BMI Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Mr. Slutsky a New Jersey-based musician, author, and movie producer who worked for 14 years in putting together the movie, told me that after a theatrical run, the film will go to cable and then be released on tape and DVD. The documentary movie has already played in Los Angeles for a week in December 2001 in order to qualify for next year's Academy Awards, but that its official world premiere will be in Detroit in January or February of 2002. Produced by Paul Elliott and David Scott, Executive Producers Allan Slutsky, Paul Justman, Sandy Passman and Karen Ellis Founder and CEO of the Educational CyberPlayGround, Honorary Funk Sister

FIOS' delivered Actiontec router Remember that 1394 failed. MoCA (Multimedia over Cable) is a communications path.

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Mobile phones based on Google’s software are not expected to be available until the second half of next year. They will be manufactured by a variety of handset companies, including HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung and be available in the United States through T-Mobile and Sprint.

I commend Verizon Wireless for taking a big step in the right direction by acknowledging that there's a specific threshold for "too much," to wit, 5GB in any billing period. In addition, I am glad that Verizon Wireless is now specifying the throttling speed, 200 Kbps, max. It is a Very Good Thing that Verizon Wireless is acknowledging the specific parameters it is actually using!

He can profile you or your company and Google you and find out all kinds of things out about you -- especially scary banking information.

the 5th edition of the Convention "Net&System Security" on IT Security, which will be held on November 27,at Pisa's Palazzo dei Congressi.

The recent armed robbery of a Chicago-based co-location facility has customers hopping mad after learning it was at least the fourth forced intrusion in two years. They want to know how C I Host [1], an operator that vaunts the security of its data centers, could allow the same one to be penetrated so many times.

Loss or theft of a physical object forms by far the largest hole in data security. According to an analysis (PDF) done recently by David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software, based in Surrey, England, 43 percent of records lost since Jan. 1 slipped out of organizations on paper, computers, laptops, disks or backup media.

Today's Internet is so screwed up, security-wise, that there is absolutely nothing any country has that would stop a massive distributed DDoS (denial of service) attack.

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Everyone knows that a significant number of file-sharers are teenagers and young adults and they get their share of press. But what about the true kids - the under 10’s ? TorrentFreak makes itself feel old trying to keep up with the agile mind of a 9 year old file-sharer.

db: There are sort of four properties and one key practice that are fundamentally different online. The key practice is that you have to write yourself into being. To a certain degree we do this offline as well, whereby you have a body that you're working with that you then accessorize to hell. Online you don't have a body, you don't have a presence, you don't have anything that sort of marks your existence. There are four functions that are sort of the key architecture of online publics and key structures of mediated environments that are generally not part of the offline world. And those are persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences. Persistence -- what you say sticks around. Searchability -- my mother would have loved the ability to sort of magically scream into the ether to figure out where I was when I'd gone off to hang out with my friends. She couldn?t, thank God. But today when kids are hanging out online because they've written [themselves] into being online, they become very searchable. Replicability -- you have a conversation with your friends, and this can be copied and pasted into your Live Journal and you get into a tiff. That creates an amazing amount of "uh ohs" when you add it to persistence. And finally, invisible audiences. In unmediated environment, you can look around and have an understanding of who can possibly overhear you. You adjust what you're saying to the reactions of those people. You figure out what is appropriate to say, you understand the social context. But when we're dealing with mediated environments, we have no way of gauging who might hear or see us, not only because we can't tell whose presence is lurking at the moment, but because of persistence and searchability.

Bob Lefsetz quotes Don Passman and author Richard Greenfield. The RIAA can b**ch. Songwriters in Nashville can ask how they're going to get paid. No one's paying attention anymore. They had EIGHT YEARS to make a move, to fix things, and they didn't accomplish a damn thing. Mainstream media is now with the public. The record companies f***** up. Music is free. Accept it and deal with it.

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The framers of the US Constitution intended to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" by granting creative people temporary monopolies. But I feel that of greater benefit to society than copyright is that computers and the Internet enable digital media formats to be copied completely faithfully anywhere on Earth, and with near-zero cost.

A simple chip can stop all that shouting and yelling. With cellular telephones the speaker and microphone tend to be close together, so implementing side tone is more difficult than in a conventional wired telephone. (The feedback could cause a loud squeal.) But, today we have wonderful signal processing in a small chip area that could address this issue. The underlying assumption is some cellphone users shout thinking they will not otherwise be heard clearly. If so, then, requiring acoustic feedback in cellphones would encourage them to speak more softly -- as the sound of their own voice otherwise would be so loud as to be uncomfortable.

TIPS: Apple's upgrades have been flawless for so many years that I've grown to expect smooth sailing. Not this time.

Yesterday the NLR Board of Directors considered a motion to approve the proposed Definitive Agreement relative to the proposed merger with Internet2. For the second time the motion failed to pass, ending eight months of discussion.

'We're now in the middle of the pack of developed countries' says expert. The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them.

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College librarians are leading a charge against measures in the House and Senate that would grant federal intelligence agencies great latitude in gathering data on library patrons.

University asks former employees to keep documents secret. Ohio University agreed Monday to allow two former information technology employees to keep sensitive documents inadvertently given away byuniversity lawyers.

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Insider Threat Controlling who gains access to what on computer networks is vitally important and devilishly hard. Success stories can help. In February 2001, the FBI arrested one of its own veteran counterintelligence agents, Robert Philip Hanssen, for providing classified information to Russia and the former Soviet Union. Hanssen gave up more than 6,000 pages of documents, most of which he pulled from the FBI's own computers.

New Apple Trojan Means Mac Hunting Season Is Open. The Mac has officially gone mainstream. The proof? On Halloween, professional online criminals were found using Trojan-horse software to target, for the first time, computers running Apple's OS X operating system -- just as they have been doing for years on the more ubiquitous flavors of Windows. "Apple's day has finally come, and Apple users are going to get hit hard," security researcher Gadi Evron said. "OS X is the new Windows 98."

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The software company reportedly bested Google in a bidding war, so Microsoft officials likely view the deal as a significant victory in the ir battle for IT supremacy.

Welcome to the new way of teaching kids music. As music classes are squeezed out of many schools in order to permit more time on math and reading, teachers are looking for new ways to integrate music into classrooms.

Google's Ad Success Has Lessons For Television from the ads-are-content dept Patri Friedman points to a fascinating post by a Yahoo employee (speaking only for himself) speculating on the reasons Google is clobbering Yahoo in the search ad market. In a nutshell, Google was a lot quicker to figure out the benefits of ranking ads by ad quality rather than simply auctioning off the top slot to the highest bidder.

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e-book acceptance his surprisingly positive experience using his Blackberry as an e-book reader. A book is, foremost, the arrangement of words in sequence, and they are, to borrow a buzz-phrase from the digital folk, platform agnostic.

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And where was the concomitant record industry investment in Napster? Oh yeah, that's right, Thomas Middelhoff, head of Bertelsmann, invested in the service, saw it as the industry's future, and his record company brethren SUED HIM FOR AIDING AND ABETTING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT! Where is the investment in Limewire? Where is the investment in anywhere the public HAS SHOWN AN INTEREST IN GOING! Stop living in the field of dreams, believing if you build it they will come, didn't work with PressPlay. Turns out the record industry's got no clue what people want. Just like Microsoft doesn't understand social networking. So they went where the FOOD WAS! Remember that old Sam Kinison routine? You shouldn't send FOOD to Africans, but SUITCASES! So they can go where the food is!

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