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Hi Everyone,


Reminder to Grab a friend and go vote.

<Karen>




1)

REMEMBER TO VOTE TODAY
2006 Election Voter Education
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/vote.html

'It's Not the People Who Vote that Count;
It's the People Who Count the Votes'

Black Box Voting - Eliminate Secrecy Consumer Protection for Elections
Hacking Democracy - HBO 3 years in the making.


2)

TEXAS LITERACY SCANDEL

GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS FOR LITERACY AND READING - CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
http://edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/govprograms.asp
9/2006 The Inspector General of the Department of Education says the
Bush administration's $4.8 billion dollar a year Reading First program
ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted and
the conflicts of interest .
Ignite! Neil Bush Profits also see
Voyager Expanded Learning
Reading First

Literacy Statistics
http://edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/stats.asp


3)

The Arts In the K12 Curriculum
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Home_Arts.html
encourage communications proficiency in the digital age

Don't miss this!
Babies laugh 400 times a day on average.
Find out about the wonderful science of laughter.
http://edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/laugh.asp

and help you and the community play which is art
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/play.asp


which will allow the use of technology to Bridge the Digital Divide.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/diarts.html


3)

"Gazetteer of Caribbean in Revolutionary War" at
http://jrshelby.com/sc-links/carib/index.htm
by John Robertson http://jrshelby.com/jr-email.htm


4)

The Internet Protocol Journal
http://www.cisco.com/ipj
A Quarterly Technical Publication for
Internet and Intranet Professionals

5)

U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave Country
Personal Data Will Be Cross-Checked With Terrorism Watch Lists; Risk
Profiles to Be Stored for Years
http://tinyurl.com/y5r3yb
November 3, 2006; A18
The federal government disclosed details yesterday of a border-security
program to screen all people who enter and leave the United States,
create a terrorism risk profile of each individual and retain that
information
for up to 40 years.
The details, released in a notice published yesterday in the Federal
Register, open a new window on the government's broad and often
controversial data-collection effort directed at American and foreign
travelers, which was implemented after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
While long known to scrutinize air travelers, the Department of Homeland
Security is seeking to apply new technology to perform similar checks on
people who enter or leave the country "by automobile or on foot," the
notice said.


6)
- Oh no! Tim joins Al Gore as the inventor of the internet :-(

My fears for the web's future: Berners-Lee
http://tinyurl.com/yx39dm
November 3, 2006
The British scientist who developed the World Wide Web warns that if
left to develop unchecked, the internet could be consumed by
"misinformation and undemocratic forces".
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
scientist who is credited with creating the internet, said in an
interview with the BBC today that the way the web is used should be
examined by a broad spectrum of experts.
Berners-Lee told the BBC that if the way the internet is being used
is left to develop unchecked, it could be consumed by "misinformation
and undemocratic forces".

7)
US Customs announces massive new database on trucks and travelers
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061103-8143.html

8)
Library community comes together to build bridges for diverse library users
More than 1,100 attend first Joint Conference of Librarians of Color
DALLAS - More than 1,100 library staff, authors and educators packed
the Adams Mark Hotel from October 11 - 15 to discuss diversity issues
that impact America's libraries and their users during the first Joint
Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC).
The conference, themed "Gathering at the Waters: Embracing our Sprits,
Telling our Stories," offered more than 100 programs and poster
sessions. Such topics as minority recruitment, early and adult
literacy, collection development and delivery of service to
communities of color were key areas of discussion.
To learn more about the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color
(JCLC), please visit www.ala.org/jclc. To reach JCLC spokespeople,
please contact PR Coordinator Macey Morales at 312-280-4393.

9)
Corporal punishment is still allowed in 23 states.
Suggestions that will help you manage your classroom.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/teachers/newteacherdisci.html

10)
The Smithsonian Institution has announced
Earth From Space http://www.earthfromspace.si.edu/
provides information about and examples of satellite
imagery.

11)
Controversial course teaches spyware writing
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1101gns-spamcollege01-ON.html
College student Nathan Friess recently designed a computer spyware
program that could invade your computer, log your keystrokes and even
collect the password to your bank account.
"It did a good job of hiding itself," said Friess, 23. "It also made
itself relatively difficult to remove."
If you think his sinister-sounding creation got Friess into trouble,
think again. The spyware program was homework for the graduate student
at University of Calgary in Canada. And it earned him an A.
A hands-on computer security course at the school teaches students in a
secure lab how to write spyware and spam -- and how to defend against
them.

12)
Computer Security Expert Most Prospective Job
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200611/kt2006110122024010600.htm
Computer security expert will be the most prospective job after 10
years, according to Korea Research Institute for the Vocational
Education and Training yesterday.
Based on the occupational employment survey on prospects of 367
professions after 10 years, the institute said that as demand for
computer security will increase with rising use of computers, wage of
computer security expert will increase by the largest margin.

13)
The Virus That Ate DHS
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72051-0.html
A Morocco-born computer virus that crashed the Department of Homeland
Security's US-VISIT border screening system last year first passed
though the backbone network of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
bureau, according to newly released documents on the incident.

14)
Attack code out for new Apple Wi-Fi flaw
http://news.com.com/Attack+code+out+for+new+Apple+Wi-Fi+flaw/2100-1002
_3-6131711.html
Kicking off a "month of kernel bugs," a security researcher has released
attack code that he claims exploits a new security hole in wireless
software from Apple Computer.
The vulnerability lies in the Apple AirPort driver, according to details
on the flaw published by H.D. Moore, the developer of the Metasploit
security tool. It affects only the AirPort driver provided with wireless
cards shipped between 1999 and 2003 with PowerBooks and iMacs, the
posting said.

15)
Army command laptop missing
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/42491-1.html
The Armys Accessions Command in Ft. Monroe, Va., reported a laptop
computer with personal information on 4,600 scholarship applicants for
the Reserve Officer Training Corps went missing Oct. 23.

16)
New Words for the Day Podslurpers and Camsnufflers
Beware the Podslurpers...
http://www.contractoruk.com/news/002936.html
In the case of podslurping it is the use of iPod type devices normally
through USB ports which could also include mobile phones, PDAs or even
flash drives which are commonly 2GB now with 32GB drives on the horizon.
Camsnuffling refers to the use of digital cameras or camcorders through
either firewire ports or USB ports. Use of these devices is on the safe
side of normal security systems and so it is a very real threat for many
businesses. The threat can be in a number of forms;

17)
Air Force to create Cyber Command
http://www.fcw.com/article96685-11-02-06-Web
The Air Force plans to establish a new command to bring full-scale
military operations to cyberspace, Secretary of the Air Force Michael
Wynne announced Nov. 2.
Air Force officials will work on plans for the new command throughout
2007, with the goal of going operational in 2009, Wynne said. The Cyber
Command will be part of the 8th Air Force.
Service officials have said they view cyberspace as a strategic and
tactical warfighting domain, similar to air, sea, land or space.

18)
The History of the Internet makes a full circle
Cyberspace as a strategic and tactical warfighting domain,
similar to air, sea, land or space.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/history_internet.html

19)
'Scrubbed' laptop had data on 6,000 Utahns
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650203974,00.html
More than 6,000 people who worked for Intermountain Healthcare's central
urban region in 1999 have learned that a file listing their Social
Security numbers was briefly for sale for $20.
The good news, according to Intermountain, is the man who unknowingly
bought the data didn't compromise anyone. And steps have been taken to
see it never happens again.
What happened when an old laptop from Intermountain's human-resources
department was donated to Deseret Industries recently is a cautionary
tale for employers who think they've scrubbed important information off
discarded hard drives and those who still use Social Security numbers to
identify employees.

20)
Learn How To Erase those Hard Drives
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/erasehd.html

21)
Web Statistics and Trends
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
 Internet Explorer 6 is the most common browser,
XP is the most dominating operating system, and
most users are using a display with 1024x768 pixels or more,
with a color depth of at least 65K colors.


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