Highlights of the symposium are featured in an executive summary by Editor Jane L. Polin and through panel excerpts.

November 30 Annual event "to remind people to protect their computers and information." Features a list of over 50 suggestions. Headlines: Insecure Servers, Security Breach Costs Jump 30%, Global hackers threaten net security in cyber warfare aimed at top targets, Security risks of temp workers being ignored, Hacker steals non-profits' data from marketing firm, Security central to Parliament WiFi, U.S.-China company merger deemed 'threat', FBI Cracks Down (Again) on Zombie Computer Armies, Russia Okays Blackberry Use, Cyberwarfare Now 'Business as Usual', Electrical supe charged with damaging California canal system

Network Newsletter: USING STORAGE ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGIES TO PROTECT END USER DEVICES

This week: 55 advisories

Published out of England.

Scout Report Network Tools

Science - Nasa Announces Teacher Challenge - Space Weather News Solar Wind Dries Venus. Chandra Discovers a Cosmic Cannonball. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making freely available to high-school students and teachers a collection of material in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

With the help of KABOOM!, a national non-profit devoted to creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America, we are building a new playground at Stallings, Saturday, January 19, 2008!

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

Top 10 Debuts, Top 25 Vinyl for last week, Top 200 for Week Ending 11-25-07

Learn about Naomi Klein. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman allows Naomi Klein to ask former Federal Reserve Chairman about his statement that the occupation in Iraq is all about the oil and those missing billions from Iraq.

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.

Get an up-close view of nuthatch similarities and difference. As always we include lists of birds banded and recaptured, plus some miscellaneous nature notes and a mug shot of a Fox Sparrow

All application materials must be received on or before February 1, 2008.

ISN'T IT CHEAPER JUST TO TEACH SOMEONE TO READ. Failing Reading Scores and Building Prison Cells is Big Busine$$

Book Review: In this illuminating book, Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners.

Domain name disputes and resolution faq's. Complainant accuses Respondents of "typosquatting," intentionally registering a domain name that is identical to its mark but for a simple typographical error.

"It's in your blood," Mr. Dallas said. "You hear people say that kind of thing, but now you know it really is."

Science about empathy and Bullies and Antisocial Behavior. Samson, the celebrated Biblical strongman, suffered from the earliest recorded case of antisocial personality disorder.

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]).

What a total load of Deep Doo Doo!

A new model for conservation Yet for the first time, the program is facing resistance on Capitol Hill from budget hawks and property-rights advocates. The National Park Service has called for a freeze on new designations until lawmakers approve more formal guidelines for the program.

Bring Safe, Self-x and Organic Computing Systems into Reality.

NetHappenings News Headlines - ESU's Code Breakers, Steganography. Security expert's data alert went unheeded. Comps stolen from Kanpur DRDO lab. Germany seeks malware 'specialists' to bug terrorists. Hushmail To Warn Users of Law Enforcement Backdoor.

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.

Linux Advisory Watch Network Newsletters

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This presentation of The Franklin Institute's Case Files highlights individuals from the history of science and technology.

NYU prof Jay Rosen, has a new project underway -- and they need beat reporters to help.

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.

Here are some of the sources of inspiration behind Giselle. (Warning: Minor spoilers ahead.)

Stop the NSBA who made no mention of the fact that it has become glaringly obvious that their primary purpose is to generate advertising revenue.

2 day symposium at Princeton.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES - by and FOR WOMEN - MUSIC QUOTES - COMPUTER QUOTES - TEACHER QUOTES AND BUSINESS QUOTES

Badges? We ain't got no badges.

Sight See: SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES - Learn how to find and use the Invisible Web and Meta Search Engines at the Educational CyberPlayGround. Find a Guide to Online Research A visual mapping of Complex Networks and all the Free E-books you can eat.

Contains details of slave holders in Barbados and Antigua who received compensation under the terms of the 1833 slave emancipation act.

Interesting collection of images of earth from space.

sight see the unusual pie and chips, eat the press, get off the bus, freedom's watch, center for media and democracy falsie awards, and camtasia studio software free download for screencasting for pc users.

"To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence" "We've got a public culture which is almost entirely commercial- and novelty-driven," says NEA chairman Dana Gioia. "I think it's letting the nation down."

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

Attention Teens and adults Sign up, to "legally download music" and avoid getting sued by the music industry, not true.

Get the Widget for your website - Education, News, Law, Security, Literacy, K - 12, Internet, NetHappenings, Technology, Music, Science, Literacy, Arts,Books,

Bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders.On November 15, the non-partisan National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) released results of the 2007 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), which provides comparable data on fourth- and eighth-grade reading and mathematics achievement in 11 of the nation's urban school districts.

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!

Last month, I resigned as a five-year veteran teacher of Broward County schools. Letter to the editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, Florida. FCAT equals Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

Try to imagine a person engaged in any activity. Now list the objects that are included in this scene. There are always things. The clothes we wear, the surfaces we touch, what we can see, our own body, the smells, the sounds. Even in philosophies that try to keep to only the bare essentials, let us say for example Zen Buddhism, a great concern with objects, in Zen the simplicity and crudeness of artifacts used for tea ceremony, has taken much attention and work. Material culture is everywhere, but not enough in academic work, say the authors of the volume reviewed here.

Teaching Intelligent Design vs Evolution in the classroom. Is intelligent design religion or science? The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting gives a kind of scholarly imprimatur to a phenomenon that first emerged in 2005, during the debate in Kansas over whether intelligent design should be taught in public school sciences classes.

Steven Van Zandt starts Middle School and High School Music Education Curriculum.T hat's guitarist/singer Steve Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band -- a.k.a. Little Stevie, a.k.a. Miami Steve, a.k.a. Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's consigliere -- at a sit down in the Capitol yesterday with Sens. Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg.

Known as the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time. Early Twentieth Century Afro-Caribbean Activist/Intellectual in Harlem.

The state of Pennsylvania is telling those who sell other people's stuff on eBay that it's time to get a state-issued auctioneer's license.

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

Educational CyberPlayGround - Music Culture - Internet Technology - Copyright vs. Copyleft, The Creative Commons Larry Lessig- How Creativity is being strangled by the law 3 stories - vocal chords of the millions will be lost. Music Deals, Music Contracts, Copyright Law, Music Downloads, Works for Hire, Agencies , Music Rights , License, Open Audio License, Open Source.

Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Best for Enterprise Use and Congress Moves Forward With Required University Subsidies To Napster, Ruckus. MPAA Explains Why It's Okay To Tie Federal Funds To Blocking File Sharing.

NetHappenings Headlines and Resources - Internet + Happenings = NetHappenings going strong for 18 Years!

This week, advisories were released for zope-cmfplone, horde3, gallery2, phpmyadmin, glib2, gpdf, xpdf, mono, libpng, cups, flac, pcre, net-snmp, samba, util-linux, openssl, pam, httpd, mailman, tcpdump, xterm, wireshark, ruby, kdegraphics, tetex, php, vmware, poppler, emacs, flac, pidgin, and ImageMagick. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Ubuntu, and Forsight.

This week: 76 advisories

Best resources for both reading games, traditional Language Arts and interactive Childrens Books Online that integrate technology into the classroom. Best resources for both traditional Language Arts and modern communications sites and applications on the web.Online stories and activities - Explore this site, you'll find lots of resources such as songs, simple texts, audio files and educational games for beginners.

Video games are very effective teaching tools for teaching aggression.

Learn How to Handle CyberBullies. A 13 year old girl who was bullied at school struck up an online MySpace relationship with a 13 year old boy that went sour and turned to bullying. She committed suicide. It turns out that the 13 year old boy who taunted her was actually the mother of another 13 year old girl in the neighborhood.

Michelle Malkin our student’s test scores on a major international reading exam have been rendered invalid because the contractor who printed the tests misnumbered the pages–and the Department of Education failed to proofread the booklets! Comments anyone?

There's no cost to teachers or schools to participate. Public school educators propose ideas for needed resources. A nonprofit website that provides students with the books, technology, and supplies that they need to learn.

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

K-12 Newsletters - Music Education and Dance Movement Education Resources for Music Teachers - Classroom Teachers - Phys. Ed Teachers

In a nutshell, this is what I think about and publish.

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

The seasonal change is the topic for "This Week at Hilton Pond" for 1-7 November 2007. To view this latest photo essay, please visit Hilton Pond.

Aeronautics Competitions for High School and College Students and 21st Century Explorer Podcast Competition

2007 American Book Award Winner and Author Dan Cassidy of How the Irish Invented Slang will be meeting Spike Slattery's grandson. Spike was the guy who first used the word jazz in front of Scoop Gleeson at a reading in Sonoma, CA where the old jazz and gin-i-ker came back to life.

The future of the music business lays in a simple formula: 1 Artist + 1 Mgr = 1 Enterprise. ~ John Hartmann

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Use freeware called "Eulalyzer" to give a quick analysis of a EULA before you finish the installation.

What is PhilaPlace? An online resource chronicling the history, culture, and architecture of two of Philadelphia’s oldest immigrant and African American neighborhoods: South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties/Kensington. PhilaPlace MP3 file posted at WHYY's 6th SQ.

Book Review: Basile's Tale of Tales, also called the Pentamerone, is a collection of fifty stories--chiefly complex tales of magic, popularly known as fairy tales--published in Naples in 1634-1636.

Book Review

The federal government is inviting comments (at http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/documents/20071026.htm) on policies that lead to the intrusion of institutional review boards (IRBs) into oral history research. This provides a rare opportunity for members of our profession to register their objections. I urge every historian who conducts oral history, or is responsible for students who use oral history methods, to respond to this request and express their concerns about the inappropriate and often arbitrary way this policy has been applied to history research in many colleges and universities. You have until December 26, 2007 (send comments to the mailing and email addresses listed at the end of this post).

DOS commands

Apparently the Ohio Education Association has sent a memo discouraging teachers from using social networking sites. I think this is the wrong message. How about: "Never post anything online you would not want to see on the front page of your state's largest newspaper."

New Word Womenomics - Women 'Becoming Valued' by Businesses, Think Tank Says

Databases for Educators: NY Times Lesson Plan Archive; Gateway to Educational Materials; ASN State Standards Viewer. The ASN provides tools and databases that enable access to and interaction with the authoritative collection of learning and content standards from states and national content groups.

FAQ and Oil Spill Training opportunities and action alerts, and links to background about the spill and cleanup and restoration efforts.

"the sole national point of contact for reporting all oil, chemical, radiological, biological, and etiological discharges into the environment anywhere in the United States and its territories."

WOW - first one onto the BLOG! Congratulations to the Goodpasture Christian School from the great state of Tennessee. Does your K-12 School or School District have a website? Can you find it in the Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Directory?

From IATSE Local 470, the local section of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) labor union in Wisconsin.

E-Loan co-founder Chris Larsen's online marketplace matches lenders and borrowers. Banks and "payday" outfits alike will be watching closely

Norman Mailer, died in November 2007.

Two consumer advocacy groups, the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, say the social- networking sites should offer consumers the chance to have their data excluded from the advertising plans, and should fully inform consumers how their personal information will be used. The groups wrote a letter to the FTC Monday asking the agency to look into the matter.

The hack required little more than tools freely available on the internet, and Egerstad maintains he broke no laws. In fact, he is confident the email accounts he gained access to were already compromised by other hackers, so his efforts in fact prevented them from continuing their spying.

Experts have said 80 percent of successful intrusion into our government computer systems can be attributed to software errors or poor software quality. Many software products have poorly written or have poorly configured security features. Computers and networks without operating firewalls, up-to-date virus and password protection are invitations for disasters. DHS computers were subjected to penetration by Chinese hackers because we failed to install and monitor the necessary "intrusion-detection systems."

As temperatures at the underground site will stay at 15 degrees Celsius all year, air conditioning systems will not be necessary while groundwater can be used to cool the servers.

"This reserve reflects [TJX's] estimation of probable losses in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles based on information available to [TJX] and includes an estimation of total potential cash liabilities, from pending litigation, proceedings, investigations and other claims, as well as legal and other costs and expenses, arising from the computer intrusion," TJX said in its SEC filing.

End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth [1] provides an in-depth look at the various issues around defense in depth.

This is not the first time that Litchfield has conducted this type of research. Two years ago, he released his first Database Exposure Survey, estimating that there were about 350,000 Microsoft and Oracle databases exposed.

GIANT COMET and ROSETTA FLYBY

November is National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Find: Thanksgiving, Native American Dance, Music, Language, The debate about mascots, The Oneida hymn tradition, Buffy Saint-Marie, Bureau of Archives and History Pennsylvania State Archives. First Nation Rights Activists, Law, Alaska People, Black First Nation People, Tainos, Carib First Nation People who lived in the U.S.Caribbean Islands, HAWAIIANS The first settlers of Hawai'i.

November 15, 2007 Issue 181 FIRST NATION - OPPORTUNITIES HIGHLIGHTS

traveler anti-terror scan airport inquisition.

Check it out and read between the lines.

California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, their user contracts and anti-fraudulent advertising statutes.

³Granting retroactive immunity for companies that allegedly went along with this illegal program is unjustified and undermines the rule of law,² Feingold said in a statement.

Commentary by Bruce Schneier Why you should worry about a new random-number standard that includes an algorithm that is slow, badly designed and just might contain a backdoor for the National Security Agency.

The four winners of the 2007 National Book Awards, announced at a dinner and ceremony in New York City on November 14, are:

What Do You THINK? Please Leave Your Comments Every hear What happened to the CIO joke?

Network Engineer wanted

Grants & Scholarships feed seems to have a BUG. You can search the blog using the word GRANTS and find everything OR you can use Grants Scholarships as the correct feed. It's the "&" sign that is causing the problem in "Grants & Scholarships". Sorry, but this is a work in progress.

M.J. McDermott explains the current state of math education in 4th and 5th grades. Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth How to integrate Math and Computers + Applied Math and Science Education Repository. .

Mr. Stevenson, 54, does not deny using a .22-caliber rifle fitted with a scope to kill the cat, which lived under the San Luis Pass toll bridge, linking Galveston to the mainland. He also admits killing many other cats on his own property, where he operates a bed and breakfast for some of the estimated 500,000 birders who come to the island every year. Jurors heard opening arguments on Tuesday in the trial of a bird-watching enthusiast who fatally shot a cat that he said was stalking endangered shorebirds. James M. Stevenson says he was protecting piping plovers. FYI: A Billion Birds Die in Plate Glass.

More about Student Use of Technology and How it Impacts the Classroom. It’s time that teachers wake up and realize that the only way to reach today’s student is to meet them on their own playing field. The fact is, that many of those working in education, in politics, in the civil service are the equivalent of modern day illiterates. Without understanding how to read and write on the web, there is no other way, really, to describe this state of being. This is why media literacy teaching and learning need to be the top of every school's literacy strategy. Reading and writing is about more than pen and paper these days.

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.

Washington post article reports unique threats women bloggers face. The article highlights the poor treatment of women on-line often happens offline. Women are being intimidated - they include ACADEMICS, PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS [emphasis added other women normally UNAFRAID to speak their minds.]

Historical Roots - In 16th-century Germany, cartoons in the form of broadsheets or broadsides (single cartoons printed on large pieces of paper) began to be posted in public places with the intent of swaying people's beliefs. It's a tentative move onto the Internet: Comics can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded, and new issues will only go online at least six months after they first appear in print. Find out more about Cartoon Art.

The secret motivation that makes students read. Debates about improving student performance rarely take into consideration an important perspective of students, that is, how much they value an education and whether they see education as a path to success. Children who are emotionally involved by having fun and enjoying the activity. Test subjects are able to remember twice as many emotional words and pictures as neutral ones.

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.

SlideShare now has private sharing! Get full control on what, where and how to share! Keep it private, share with contacts, send business presentations to clients & colleagues, embed on company intranets etc.

Sight See

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.

Yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer detailed the archival work on Chew family documents regarding slaves that is has been undertaken at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

The public radio station in Harrisburg, PA will feature our new 31-track CD "Where the Coal Trains Load: World Music from Eastern Pennsylvania" in their weekly "Artbeat" segment that highlights arts and cultural events in central PA on Friday, November 23 on WITF-FM 89.5. Where the Coal Trains Load is chock full of the sounds of home, 31-tracks of music from around the world, recorded in the coal region, where singers and musicians can trace their roots to every continent.

Interdiscipliary - TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculum

In Shadow of the Fathers, Robert Friedman turns a disturbing, possibly tragic historical event in Puerto Rico into a captivating work of fiction. Personal obsessions and public events collide as the novel's characters grapple with lies, false identities, puzzling connections, U.S. wars and colonialism.

Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix The best-known "mashups" are astute combinations of artistic product -- vocals from a hip-hop album laid over Beatles tracks, for example, or a Sergio Leone film set to a new score. But as Brian Lamb points out in Educause Review, the world of mashups now incorporates not just art, but also online applications and other forms of digital media. Mr. Lamb, the manager of emerging technology and digital content at the University of British Columbia, makes a strong case that professors ought to take mashups seriously. That doesn't mean every educator should painstakingly edit Disney films into a treatise on copyright, but it does mean that professors should learn about "data mashups" and strive to make course content open and remixable. "We might ask if the content we presently lock down could be made public with a license specifying reasonable terms for reuse," Mr. Lamb writes. "When choosing a content management system, we might consider how well it supports RSS syndication."

Funky Tonight' is performed by John Butler Trio & Keith Urban at the ARIA Awards Oct.2007

WAIT! I thought YOU were in charge of security!!!!!!!

What Elste discovered in June was that there was no system for tracking the CDs after they are sent, no system for getting them back or destroying them, and that the data on the discs wasn't even encrypted.

Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.

The researchers describe the Windows random number generator as a program that is "a critical building block for file and email encryption, and for the SSL encryption protocol" which is used by all Internet browsers.

In time, Egerstad gained access to 1000 high-value email accounts. He would later post 100 sets of sensitive email logins and passwords on the internet for criminals, spies or just curious teenagers to use to snoop on inter-governmental, NGO and high-value corporate email.

Authorities allege that during this time, Butler began to illegally hack into computer networks operated by the Air Force, NASA and the federal Defense and Energy departments. He didn't steal any information, but again left open a door so he could re-enter later, authorities said.

Interruption is a major workplace concern today, especially for people engaged in information work, and computer technologies are widely viewed as exacerbating the problem. One reason for concern is the high incidence of interruptions.

Join NASA and NSTA for two, free Web seminars featuring scientists and education specialists from NASA. Designed for educators of grades K-6, the seminars will focus on how educators can better engage parents and enlist their support for inquiry-based science and mathematics education. The presenters will share their expertise, answer questions from the participants and provide information regarding Web sites that students can use in the classroom.

A group of research and industry technology leaders today announced two demonstrations at the SC07 Conference in Reno, Nev. to show leading-edge capabilities designed for the high-bandwidth needs of the research community worldwide. The demonstrations involve the transport of large volumes of data at rates significantly in excess of 10 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) by infrastructure built to support the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), over a 40 Gbps network and the use of Generalized Multi Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) User to Network Interface (UNI) signaling between routers and optical systems to provision bandwidth on demand.

Listen to First Lady of Philadelphia Soul Carla L. Benson Sing Hatikvah Isreal's National Anthem and find many more about the Music of War Resources, Patriotism, Propoganda and Protest. Also find Civil War, WW1, WW2, Military War music Patriotic, Protest and Union Songs.

Ethics are absolute. Business ethics are relational. And ethical leadership requires a position of influence. What does that mean? Certainly there are absolutes to business ethics, such as respecting employees and stakeholders, competing fairly and within the law, and being a responsible corporate citizen.

Network tools - research and education

WabiSabiLabi, the eBay of security vulnerabilities, confirmed that its founder and strategy director has been arrested in connection with an ongoing spying investigation and remains custody in Milan.

With exploit code in circulation and no patch available for a buffer-overflow bug, Oracle Corp.'s flagship database software is open to attack, security researchers said today.

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary This week: 93 advisories

Yahoo has a new niche social site for college students that's supposed to be more professional than social

What Parents, Teachers and Administrators need to know.

sudden transformation of tropical storms to dangerous hurricanes

COMET TAIL: Exploding Comet & TAURID METEOR SHOWER

PRIVACY GUIDANCE, ADOLESCENT READERS INITIATIVE, a Competitive Edge - Reading First and more

Fellowships & Grants available for women grad students and professionals Deadlines for 2008-09 are approaching - see the following list: Also see Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Business and International Education Program -- CFDA# 84.153A * Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs -- [CFDA#s 84.334S and 84.334A] * Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee Program -- CFDA# 84.330B

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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Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress Two first place World Hoop Dance Champions have joined together to model and dance a vision of male and female balance, harmony and respect as traditionally practiced by their ancestors. Dallas Chief Eagle, Rosebud Sioux tribal member, and Jasmine Pickner of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe are both world-traveled hoop dancers. They share with audiences an ancient hoop dance story outlining sacred hoop wisdom.

Library of Congress Symposium, March 13 & 14 National Archives & Records Administration Film Festival, March 15 On March 13 and 14, 2008, leading scholars from throughout the United States will join experts from the Library of Congress in a free public symposium produced by the Library’s American Folklife Center. The event will highlight new research and recent discoveries inspired by the Library’s unparalleled collections of documentary materials generated by the groundbreaking cultural programs of the New Deal.

"The Defense Department is being awarded the Chairman's Award by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, for their innovative program to teach deploying military personnel about cultural preservation. . . . The DoD program, entitled 'In Theater Heritage Training for Deploying Personnel' educates troops about the importance of heritage assets, and methods of protecting them."

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Perfect Pitch vs. Tone Deaf People The way that people talk about 'high' and 'low' notes makes it sound as though musical pitch has something to do with physical location. Now it seems there may be a reason for this: the same bit of our brain could control both our understanding of pitch and spatial orientation.

Carrying this book around recently Ive caught more than a little flak, not least from my kids, who once thought of me as a literary intellectual, or at the very least as a guy who espoused the virtues of reading. Hey, really, I told them as well as my wife and the guy sitting next to me on the subway no kidding, its a serious book, written by a professor of literature whos also a psychoanalyst. A French professor/shrink, no less, whos written books on Proust, Maupassant, Balzac, Laclos and Stendhal, among other canonical heavyweights. So lay off.

That settled, this autobiography is less about self-discovery than about public justification. Venter aims to validate his role in the genome contest, defend his motives, settle scores and recount a career that produced several other scientific firsts. The result is engrossing and exasperating and it does indeed suggest a rethinking of the genome race, though perhaps not the one Venter prefers.

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The vast number of computers that Schiefer compromised -- as many as 250,000 -- highlights a stealthy online crime spree on the rise. These botnets, short for "robot networks," remotely harvest personal information, including user names and passwords, to give their operators access to credit card information and online bank accounts.

So far an internal audit by the poker site has discovered that the unfair play went on for about 40 days, beginning on Aug. 14.

Finding who is responsible can get expensive. Dimitrelos, for example, charges $250 to $325 an hour. An security evaluation for a company with 700 to 1,000 or so employees can range from roughly $20,000 to $50,000, he said.

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If so, capuchin monkeys are a lot more complicated than we thought. Or, were less complicated. In a paper in Psychological Science, researchers at Yale report finding the first evidence of cognitive dissonance in monkeys and in a group in some ways even less sophisticated, 4-year-old humans.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information. Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.

Should Folklorists study the interent? Objects and artifacts have long been Professor Turkle’s stock in trade. When she arrived at M.I.T. in the 1970s, fresh from Harvard, Paris and years of studying French philosophy and psychoanalytic thought, Professor Turkle brought a humanist’s eye to the device that her new colleagues had become enamored of: the computer.

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Natalie Merchant Teams With Music Legends for a Special Project to Benefit the Homeless Nov. 9, 2007 — Platinum-selling singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant is lending her world-famous voice to the homeless. "Homeless people are dehumanized by the whole experience," Merchant told ABC News' Charles Gibson in an interview, "and really isolated and robbed of their humanity in the eyes of so many of the nonhomeless people." We went out last night to see Mighty Sam McClain perform his new tune for the first time in public. I had to hold and console his wife she wept with joy so much. Sam & Weepin Willie, the bluesman I take care of, are both on Give Us Your Poor, a project from UMASS Boston & Appleseed Records of Westchester PA! Check the video! S Merchant decided that the way to restore human dignity to the homeless was to give them a voice, and she lent them hers. Merchant and other musical celebrities like Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi and Keb' Mo' paired up with homeless and formerly homeless musicians to create a new album called "Give Us Your Poor." Songs on the album were also written by homeless artists. Merchant described the collaboration as a musical petition on behalf of the homeless: "It's like stop pretending you don't notice us. Listen to us. And that's what I want this record to do. I want people to listen and allow these people to reestablish their humanity."

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The Sanas (Irish Etymology) of Faro, Poker and the Secret Flash Words for the Brotherhood of American Gamblers By DANIEL CASSIDY The Irish... gave American, indeed, very few new words; perhaps speakeasy, shillelah and smithereens exhaust the list." H.L. Mencken, 1937. A Dictionary of Hiberno-English,...corroborates the well-known but puzzling fact that so few Irish words have been absorbed into Standard English." Terence Patrick Dolan, 1999 "There's A Sucker (Sách úr, fresh new "fat cat") Born Every Minute," Mike McDonald, 1839 - 1907 The Irish language in America is a lost, living tongue, hidden beneath quirky (corr-chaoí, odd-mannered, odd-shaped) phonetic orthographic overcoats and mangled American pronunciations. Irish words and phrases are scattered all across American language, regional and class dialects, colloquialism, slang, and specialized jargons like gambling, in the same way Irish-Americans have been scattered across the crossroads of North America for five hundred years. Irish was transformed by English cultural imperialism from the first literate vernacular of Europe in the 5th century, into the underworld cant (caint, speech) of thieves and "vagaboundes" in the 16th century, and then into the countless number of anonymous Irish words and phrases in American Standard English, vernacular, slang, and popular speech today .

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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Karen, on email for first time in 5 days... NYT story is #6 on most emailed POPULAR stories today IT WAS SO GREAT SEEING YOU...YOU ARE THE GIN-I-KER LET'S GET THIS SHOW ON DE ROAD Growing up Irish in Queens and on Long Island, Daniel Cassidy was nicknamed Glom. “I used to ask my mother, ‘Why Glom?’ and she’d say, ‘Because you’re always grabbing, always taking things,’” he said, imitating his mother’s accent and limited patience, shaped by a lifetime in Irish neighborhoods in New York City. It was not exactly an etymological explanation, and Mr. Cassidy’s curiosity about the working-class Irish vernacular he grew up with kept growing. Some years back, leafing through a pocket Gaelic dictionary, he began looking for phonetic equivalents of the terms, which English dictionaries described as having “unknown origin.”

Sources have differing opinions about the legal requirements and what they mean. But given the outcome, the incompatibility of the two organizations seems one thing that is beyond dispute.

Read excerpts from an interview and watch a short video with Senior Executive Producer Paula Apsell explaining why NOVA decided to tackle the controversial issue debated in Kitzmiller v. Dover. (Grades 9-12) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Morning Edition, November 8, 2007 - Chicago is one of the world's great music cities, but it's still surprising that a Latin Grammy-nominated Mexican folk group calls it home. Sones de Mexico is a group of musicians, all immigrants now living in Chicago, who play a wide variety of Mexican folk styles. Their latest release, Esta Tierra Es Tuya, has been nominated for Best Folk Album. Son is the traditional Mexican music that gives the band its name. But the most striking songs on Sones de Mexico's new CD draw on more diverse influences, including hard-rock giant Led Zeppelin and its song "Four Sticks."

Background and news about the 2007 negotiation for a new contract for television and movie writers and the strike arising from the negotiations.

Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer."

Salesforce.com is refusing to reveal details of a security breach caused when one of its employees surrendered their password in a phishing attack against the company.

Montana State University is sending letters to 271 students and MSU employees to warn them that their Social Security numbers might have been exposed because of three separate security breaches.

Security researchers say they have discovered a program that could be used by Islamic terrorists to launch data attacks against Western targets.

The Russian Business Network (RBN), a notorious hacker and malware hosting organization that operates out of St. Petersburg, Russia, has gone off the air, security researchers said today.

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GSN Host Dylan Lane Discusses the Competition, Prizes and Goals in New Cable in the Classroom Podcast. About the “National Vocabulary Championship” GSN’s National Vocabulary Championship (NVC) is a nationwide academic competition that offers high school students the opportunity to win money toward college tuition through local and national events.

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

In 11 states, over half of students live in poverty. Standardized high school exit exams put states to the test.

Internet2 has today announced that Verizon Business has joined Internet2 as a corporate member. The company plans to engage the consortium in several innovative ways, including collaboration with the Internet2 community on projects involving advanced optical networking as well as in important areas of next-generation content delivery and network security.

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.

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Hilton Pond Center and "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project," we got many reports in 2007 of white hummingbirds around the country. Registration deadlines for our 2008 hummingbird banding trips to Costa Rica are approaching;

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

The Greenwood Library of American Folktales. 4 vols. Edited by Thomas A. Green. 2006. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. 1592 pages. ISBN: 0-313-33772-1 (hard cover). This story of the trickster trying to imitate another occurs in other variants in the Southwest (See, for example, the Jicarilla Apache, "Tales of Fox: Fox and Kingfisher," p. 116). As in the tale types designated by folklorist Stith Thompson as animal tales, "The Coyote and the Woodpecker" offers a moral lesson. The philosophy of acceptance and noncompetitiveness is consistent with general Pueblo worldview and morality. (3:109)

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Bush said $386 million of the new spending would be offset by reductions in previously requested funding and cancellation of unobligated balances, and $50 million would come from funds appropriated in U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans Care, Hurricane Katrina Recovery and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007.

Two men, one of whom worked on the computer help desk at the California State University at Fresno, could be sentenced to 20 years of jail time if convicted of breaking into the university system to change their grades.

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

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This issue features Jim Leary's review of the CD set Folksongs of Illinois; Hilary Virtanen's review of The Rowan Tree: the Lifework of Marjory Edgar, Girl Scout Pioneer and Folklorist; details of a unique concert with folk singers Lou & Peter Berryman and Pete Morton, "Language and Songwriting: An Annotated Concert;" an interview with Mary Lou Nemanic, author of One Day for Democracy; an article by Anne Pryor about Here at Home, the Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture 8-day tour around the state; and an update on CSUMC's archives program by Karen Baumann.

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

It’s a 4-story coral reef exhibit featuring over 150 species. It’s accessible directly from the NEA (with feeding times listed) or via this Earthcam page.

HE WAS SWELL (PUN) Finally, I was at the Irish Arts Center in New York tonight to hear my pal Danny Cassidy talk about and read from his brilliant book on How the Irish Invented Slang—The Secret Language of the Crossroads (CounterPunch). He could and should turn his rap into stage show. He was mesmerizing. inspiring and inspired.

"Student researchers are keenly aware of the importance of effective time management," says John Law, ProQuest director of platform development, who led the study of student research habits. "They understand that their academic success depends upon their ability to find and synthesize a large volume of information, judge its relevance, and incorporate it into their academic experiences.

Registration is open for the 15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race. The Cassini Scientist for a Day contest challenges students to be a NASA scientist studying Saturn.

We invite individual, commercial, nonprofit, government, and all other Internet users and stakeholders (including ISPs) to participate in the Network Neutrality Squad.

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.

Now that the price of coal is at a historic low relative to oil, there's no stopping consumers and producers alike from embracing Al Gore's nightmare.

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!

The path from CISO to executive team may not be a well-tread one, but breaking out of the security box and into the board room can be achieved by thinking about business. Five things that CISOs should do less of:

A new blue-ribbon panel that will develop cybersecurity recommendations for the next president faces a compressed schedule and the challenge of agreeing on a cybersecurity agenda that it wants the next administration to address.

According to the indictment, Escalera worked at Fresno State's computer help desk and used his access to a PeopleSoft management system program to hack the password of a supervisor, then used that to obtain full administrative privileges. Armed with root rights, Escalera was able to access the usernames and passwords of several people authorized to change student grades, including the school's registrar and its academic records coordinator.

The path from CISO to executive team may not be a well-tread one, but breaking out of the security box and into the board room can be achieved by thinking about business.

Apparently the civil servants gained access using passwords and codes belonging to a former GPD employee and a journalist still working at the agency. For over a year, government staff were snooping around in the newsroom computers of GPD and its associated newspapers.

The Doig River First Nation, an Aboriginal Dane-zaa group from northeastern B.C., has officially launched their virtual exhibit Dane Wajich Dane-zaa Stories & Songs: Dreamers and the Land. The exhibit showcases Doig River First Nation oral traditions and teaches about Dane-zaa history and culture through an exciting mix of video and sound files, photographs, and text. This online exhibit was developed in partnership with the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) at virtualmuseum.ca, an initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The exhibit represents the work of many people over several years.

The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center (AFC) announces the release of its online card catalog.. This tool will enhance access to the most heavily used recordings in the American Folklife Center*s collections -- field recordings made primarily in the 1930s and 40s. It will be available on the Library of Congress web site starting on November 1, 2007. This new resource, entitled Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog, will provide researchers the convenience of accessing AFC *s card catalog without traveling to the Library.

My friend often summarizes for me what he sees, firsthand, every day and every month, year in and year out, in his classroom. He speaks not merely of the sad decline in overall intellectual acumen among students over the years, not merely of the astonishing spread of lazy slackerhood, or the fact that cell phones and iPods and excess TV exposure are, absolutely and without reservation, short-circuiting the minds of the upcoming generations. Of this, he says, there is zero doubt.

Scientists had tried without success to teach nonhuman primates to imitate vocal sounds when R. Allen Gardner and Beatrix T. Gardner, cognitive researchers, adopted the 10-month-old chimp from military scientists in 1966. The Gardners, skeptical that other primates could adequately speak human words, taught Washoe American Sign Language, encouraging her gestures until she made signs that were reliably understandable.

The Web changes constantly, and sometimes that page that had just the information you needed yesterday (or last month or two years ago) is not available today. At other times you may want to see how a page's content or design has changed. There are several sources for finding Web pages as they used to exist.

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Screen performance data and new research indicate that users will scroll to find information and items below the fold. There are established design best practices to ensure that users recognize when a fold exists and that content extends below it.

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A report from the Legislative Auditor released Thursday showed that as late as May of this year, nearly 950 of the department's laptops were not encrypted, despite specific state policy requiring it. In addition, about 300 of the department's laptops had no physical security, such as cable locks.

Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux security headlines. This week advisories were releaed for dhcp, iceweasel, xen-utils, Opera, sylpheed, qt, the Linux kernel, firefox, libpng, and cups. The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, Red Hat, Slackware, and Ubuntu.

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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NSSE is pleased to present the online edition of the NSSE Annual Report 2007: Experiences That Matter: Enhancing Student Learning and Success. The 2007 report examines NSSE findings and general themes, national benchmarks, and how schools and stakeholders are using NSSE results. Our online edition contains both the Annual Report 2007 and technical reports related to the 2007 survey.

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.

"Parent's can Learn the basics of children's health on the Educational CyberPlayground. My wife, who specializes in music induced hearing loss as part of her dual Audiology/Speech Pathology certifications, is currently involved in a research project that identifies the massive upsurge in this sort of damage. Earbuds are responsible for a large spike in significant hearing loss. The tragic thing about this sort of damage is that it can never be repaired, nor will it heal. It is permanent.

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.

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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.

Immigration agents at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport have some explaining to do, after they allegedly harassed three Finnish musicians who arrived at MSP in September for a tour in Minnesota. The Minneapolis-St.Paul Star Tribune reports the musicians filed a complaint with the US Embassy in Helsinki, after they endured over two hours of interrogation.

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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