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Hi,

Happy reading for today.

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<Karen>


1)
Meanwhile, You Don't Know How Lucky You Are
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/03/2007031401c/careers.html
I started to think a lot about American libraries and the privileges they offer scholars. Libraries had always been a particularly important but somewhat taken-for-granted part of my life: My mother is a librarian, and I am a scholar with a specialization in the materiality of books, the diversity of print cultures in America, and library history. I should have been well aware of what a precious thing free or cheap interlibrary lending is for virtually every student, scholar, and recreational reader in the United States. 


2)
National Education Associations, Cybrarians and Librarians find necessary resources 
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/INTERESTINGSITES/Interesting_Web_Sites2.html

3)
Find free Search Engine databases, Tools, Share Ware, and Data Mining sources.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search3.html

4)
Holocaust Remembrance Day is Monday, April 16, 2007.
I posted on my website 162 links to learn about the Holocaust.
Site languages include English, Hebrew, French, German,
Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
All 162 links have been reviewed / checked this week.
http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm
The top of the page should be dated April 10, 2007.
If the page has an older date, hold the control key and press
the F5 key to refresh your browser with the updated page.

5)
IRS head: All laptops to be encrypted within weeks
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9016078
After an auditor found serious security problems in the way it handled
sensitive data on laptops, the Internal Revenue Service said it will
have all laptops encrypted within the next few weeks.
Speaking in an interview with National Public Radio over the weekend,
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Mark Everson said his organization
was making the effort following a recently released audit that found
unencrypted data on a large percentage of IRS laptop computers.

6)
PHP bug hunter silences his critics with security project
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1395934823;fp;16;fpid;1

7)
The Status of U.S. Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200703.ervin.statuscounterterrorismhomelandsecurity.html
Clark Kent Ervin heads the Aspen Institutes Homeland Security
initiative. Before joining the Institute, he served as the first
Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He has
been an on-air analyst and contributor at CNN and is the author of Open
Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack (St. Martins, May 2006).
This enote is based on his presentation at Five Years After 9/11: What
Needs to be Done? a conference sponsored by FPRIs Center on Terrorism,
Counterterrorism, and Homeland Security, held December 4-5, 2006 in
Philadelphia. The Center is supported by grants from the Department of
Community and Economic Development and the Department of Education,
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
I am often asked whether, in my judgment, DHS has made America safer
than we were on 9/11. My answer to that question is yes. But, whether we
are safer today than we were on 9/11 is not the only question. The key
questions are: are we really as safe as the government says we are, are
we as safe we need to be, and, are we as safe as we can be. The answer
to these questions, ominously, is no.

8)
Data on 2.9 million Georgians goes missing
http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6174946.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
CD containing Social Security numbers, other personal information
on people enrolled in Medicaid or PeachCare is lost. A CD containing personal information on Georgia residents has gone missing, according to the Georgia Department of Community Health. Data on the CD includes addresses, birthdates, full names and Social Security numbers of people who were enrolled in Medicaid or PeachCare, a state health insurance program for children, according to a notice posted Monday on the department's Web site (PDF). http://dch.georgia.gov/vgn/images/portal/cit_1210/19/38/80010015Public_Notice-Missing_Personal_Data.pdf The CD was lost by Affiliated Computer Services, a Dallas company that handles claims for the health care programs, the statement said. The disc holds information on 2.9 million Georgia residents, according to media reports. In response to the loss, the Georgia Department of Community Health has asked ACS to notify all affected members in writing and supply them with information on credit watch monitoring as well as tips on how to obtain a free credit report, it said. 

9)
P2P downloads at warp speed?
David G. Andersen Similarity-Enhanced Transfer SET
"This is a technique that I would like people to steal."
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/
Tomorrow the new SET protocol will be released at a conference in
Cambridge, Mass.
SET http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/technology.php
stands for Similarity-Enhanced Transfer. The scientists say their new system is aimed at easier sharing of academic papers.How's it work? In short SET looks around for multiple sources of similar files. Say a movie exists in numerous files that vary only slightly, having only different file names. The system can pull video form one source and audio form another, simultaneously. The scientists say many music files are 99% similar but have different header or artist titles. SET would take advantage of the shared portion of those files and find the fastest download source. 
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/nsdi2007-set/set-nsdi07.xhtml

10)
The Sixteenth Annual List of the Jefferson Muzzle "winners" is out.
http://www.tjcenter.org/muzzles/muzzle-archive-2007
The unprecedented degree of political interference in communicating government-funded scientific research to the public has earned the Bush Administration a 2007 Jefferson Muzzle. For the sixteenth straight year, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression is celebrating the April birth date of its namesake by calling attention to some of the more egregious or ridiculous affronts to free expression that occurred in the preceding year. Books play a central role in this year's awards. 

11)
OLCP One Laptop Per Child
http://laptop.org/en/contact.shtml
The OLCP Wiki
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Main_Page
Educators
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators
Content
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributing_content

12)
Oracle patches to fix 37 flaws
http://news.com.com/Oracle+patches+to+fix+37+flaws/2100-1002_3-6175041.html

Symantec Patches 'High-Risk' Bug
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198900584

Microsoft patches critical Windows, server flaws
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/10/HNmspathceswindowsserverflaws_1.html

Crash strike caution
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/04/09/1175971018555.html
IF MICROSOFT'S Windows operating system crashes and gives you the "blue
screen of death", it's a pain in the proverbial, but it's hardly
life-threatening. In 1998, however, a United States Navy destroyer, the
USS Yorktown, was left stranded and vulnerable when its Windows NT-based
control system failed.
The tale of the stranding of the Yorktown is a true story former White
House staffer Richard A. Clarke cites as a warning. "(It) was out on an
initial shakedown cruise. The Microsoft software that it was running in
its control system went kafluey, and the entire ship stopped dead in the
water and they had to send tugs out to pull it back ... (it was running)
Windows," Mr Clarke told The Age.

13)
Student's Privacy Rights
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/PRIVACY_INFORMATION.html
University policies, no matter what they say, "do not eliminate [the student's] 
expectation of privacy in his computer when connected to the network.
Read the decision written by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/5copyright.html

14)
Search Engines and the Hidden Net
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search.html
How Google Books is Changing Academic History "...]
Time for a professional dialogue about the new kinds of research
these texts have opened up. For a very vast vista has erupted before us,
and with it, a more serious set of comparative questions as a standard
for social history, and new levels of rigor to be expected from the individual researcher. 
Don't Miss the Research Guide!
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/researchguide.html

15)
How does the Brain Work?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/brain.html

16)
Music Makes You Smarter
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/
Are you interested in the research that shows how
and why music education makes your smarter?
Help teachers integrate music into the classroom.

17)
Free Open Source Content
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/OpenSource.html

18)
INTEGRATE FOLKLORE, MUSIC, & TRADITIONAL CULTURE
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/folk.html
Folk music - sung during the days before there was a music
industry when the role of music was about your life -
about the life and times that most of us don't experience
anymore and when the music was sung because it helped
people through it and sustained them.

19)
Amazon 1-Click to rule 'em all? Not if Kiwi has his way
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/11/2012224&from=rss
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/15/amazon_patent_reexamination/

20)
The LED - older than we thought
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/led-older-than-we-thought.html
If you look in an encyclopaedia, the LED was invented by four
independent American research groups in 1962. But the latest
edition of Nature photonics reveals that it was actually discovered
by a little-known Russian genius around 40 years earlier.

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