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1) Teenagers using the car?
better than a cell phone you can find out
and they won't know.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/8212/


2)
VERISIGN KEEPS CONTROL OF .COM UNTIL 2012
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/icann.html
ICANN had threatened  to Take Away VeriSign's '.com' right to sell ".com"
domain names if it fails to clean up its public database that
records who owns which Web sites.
Now The U.S. government has approved a deal under which VeriSign, which has
operated the .com domain since 1999, will retain control of the domain
until 2012.

Learn about ICANN and it's history
John Gilmore on why ICANN can't.
The strings that were pulled before and during the Clinton
administration's "Green Paper" and "White Paper" process,
that ultimately resulted in the creation of NewCo,
also known as ICANN, were pulled by SAIC.

3)
Insurance Covers Financial Losses From Hacking
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200612/kt2006120519175511870.htm
Financial service providers will be required to insure customers
accounts to cover financial damage caused by hackers and financial
accidents beginning next month, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS)
said Tuesday.
The FSS will make it compulsory for banks to sign insurance contracts
that can cover financial damage of up to 2 billion won in the case of
hackers and electronic system breakdowns. The policy is in line with
toughened regulations on online financial transactions that will take
effect beginning January.
Commercial banks, the Industrial Bank of Korea and the National
Agricultural Cooperative Federation must provide insurance that covers
damage up to 2 billion won.


4)
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School District Website URL to
the historic and first online directory
Be a part of  INTERENT HISTORY
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5)
FBI Looking Into Los Alamos Breach
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/05/national/main2232633.shtml
The FBI has conducted two interviews and may schedule a third with the
woman who walked out carrying classified documents from what's supposed
to be one of the most secure facilities in the world, the Los Alamos
National Laboratory, CBS News has learned. The incident has exposed
continuing security weaknesses at Los Alamos, which has been the focus
of security and management scandals for seven years.
Sources say 22-year-old Jessica Quintana was hired to archive data from
weapons tests, and even had access to information on how to deactivate
the locks that keep nuclear weapons from firing. Somehow, she managed to
leave the laboratory with hundreds of pages of classified documents and
several portable computer storage devices known as "thumb drives."

Computer Stolen from 130th Airlift Wing in Charleston
http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=17093
CHARLESTON -- A laptop computer with personal information about every
member of West Virginia's Army National Guard 130th Airlift Wing in
Charleston recently was stolen.
The government-owned laptop computer was stolen from a member of the
unit while he was attending an offical training course.
Maj. Todd Harrell said the computer's hard drive contains personal
information, including Social Security numbers, names and birth dates of
everyone in the 130th Airlift Wing.

6)
Admins, Parents & Teachers Learn How to Keep Your Child
Safe on the Interent -- Trouble Areas for Kids
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/morestuff4.html
Find out what your kids have put up online, their names,
address, pictures, what they think. This needs to be
supervised and you won't be able to keep up with
what is going on here. Chat Rooms, Blogs, Instant
Messaging, IRC, Newsgroups - they don't understand
that they have gone public and have lost their privacy.

7)
Student hacked into computers, police say
http://www.gazetteextra.com/mraz120506.asp
ELKHORN - A student hacked into computers of four UW-Whitewater
staffers, gaining access to sensitive information such as passwords,
student disciplinary discussions and exam answers, according to a
criminal complaint.
According to the complaint, Mraz installed "Keylogger" software onto at
least four computers by downloading it from his university-issued flash
drive, a portable data storage device. Mraz worked in the Resident Life
office.
When installed, Keylogger software captures keystrokes of the computer's
user as well as screenshots of locations the user might visit. The
hacker can remotely monitor this activity to decipher the user's ID and
password and gain access to programs the hacker is not otherwise allowed
to use.


8)
Microsoft Issues Word Zero-Day Attack Alert
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068786,00.asp
Microsoft on Dec. 5 warned that an unpatched vulnerability in its Word
software program is being used in targeted, zero-day attacks.
A security advisory from the Redmond, Wash., company said the flaw can
be exploited if a user simply opens a rigged Word document.
Affected software versions include Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word
2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft
Word 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac. The Microsoft
Works 2004, 2005 and 2006 suites are also affected because they include
Microsoft Word.
There are no pre-patch workarounds available.

Vista vulnerable to a third of malware
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=7497
Windows Vista is wide open to nearly 40 percent of the malware currently
circulating, Microsoft has admitted, following a report by Sophos.
Remarkably, with the new operating system just released to business, the
software giant said in effect that there is nothing it can do about the
threats in question - Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O - because they
rely on social engineering to invade systems. The three threats together
account for 39.7 percent of currently circulating malware, according to
Sophos.


9)
 It's December and you know what that means. Are You Ready?
http://tinyurl.com/ydetbk
The must haves: Jingle Bells Dance, Dominick the Christmas Donkey, Kwanzaa,
Chanukkah, Wassail History, Mummers, Chanukah the Festival of Lights,
and everyone's favorite- The Pagan Goddess St. Brigit's and her Fire House.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish2.html

10)
Transdisciplinarity is the synthesis of apparently different disciplines.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/iec.html
Think 21 century literacy skills, quill to key convergence.
Chant is the heartbeat of culture, designed to bring everyone
together in harmonious synchronicity as any traveling pack
animal culture needs to survive. The need to display ourselves,
is the nucleus of all art. Song stories were told helped to explain culture.
They helped you to memorize information, and since print
was invented we've forgotten our roots of why we did this.
Speech and Song is an oral / aural tradition, useful when
there are stories to tell that may be as long as 2,500 verses.

11)
Stephen Colbert Interviews Richard Dawkins
http://tinyurl.com/yeuwcn
Richard Dawkins is interviewed by Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central's
'The Colbert Report.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXpysYEhgA>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXpysYEhgA

12)
Fantastic music Video Clips.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/video_favsMusic.html

13)
Russia asserting ownership of AK-47 design
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/11844.html
MOSCOW, Dec. 5 Russia plans to crack down on manufacturers who sell
copies of its famous Kalashnikov assault rifle, also known as the AK-47.
The Kalashnikov, one of the world's most popular military weapons, is
named after Mikhail Kalashnikov, who designed it in 1947. Kalashnikov
won many honors under the Soviet Union and the Russian governments
but made no money from the weapon, although he has recently
capitalized on his name by selling a brand of vodka.

U.S. Copyright Law
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/1copyright.html


13)
FREE admission to "New York Divided" Fridays 6-8 PM made possible by
American Express Company-
The New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) opened "New York Divided:
Slavery and the Civil War," the final exhibition in its groundbreaking series on 
slavery and its impact on the people, landscape, institutions and
economy of New York. The exhibition runs through September 3, 2007.
"New York Divided" provides a bold look at one of the most challenging
periods in our City's history, when it was torn by the violence of the
1863 draft riots, produced some of the most significant figures in the
Abolitionist movement, and became the economic engine of the country,"
says Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society.
"The ideas and stories that are part of our American history have the power
to challenge conventional wisdom and provoke new thought and action.
Thousands of visitors to the groundbreaking Slavery in New York
exhibition left video testimony that they learned something new from their visit 
and made important connections between the past and their present-day lives.
The important historical lessons to be presented in New York Divided
introduce a critical chapter in American history that is largely unknown
to the general public.
The exhibition explores the dual role New York played as a key
commercial and political bulwark of slavery in the South-following emancipation in 
the State-and as a major center of the nation's abolitionist movement.
Through a range of original historic documents, objects and interactive
displays, the show examines one of the most important periods in American history, 
enhancing the visitor's understanding of the great struggles of the
time, and the crucial efforts of New Yorkers-black and white-in the  fight for
freedom and equality that bore fruit at the close of the Civil War and
in the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
For more information about "New York Divided" please visit
www.nydivided.org.
The New-York Historical Society located at Central Park West and 77th
Street from November 17, 2006 to September 3, 2007.
Museum and Museum Store Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 AM to 6 PM
Open Friday until 8 PM
Open Holiday Mondays: January 1, January 15, February 12, and
February 19, 2007
--
N-YHS Presents: http://www.nyhistory.org
New York Divided; Slavery and the Civil War - November 17, 2006 to
September 3, 2007
Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery - June 16, 2006 to
January 7, 2007
Elegy in the Dust: September 11 and the Chelsea Jeans Memorial - August
25, 2006 to January 7, 2007
Suspicious Truths: Politics and the Press in American History -
September 19, 2006 to December 17, 2006

14)
Wha Technology Do the Women Want
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR200612
0201017.html
The upshot: Women who have historically wielded serious power of the
purse as consumers are now buying all kinds of technology for their
families and themselves, outspending their male counterparts 3 to 2,
according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
...
Women come to the table with a different sensibility when they talk
about technology," said Pat Houston, general manager of Yahoo Tech. They
think less about the technology itself, and more how it fits with their
life, he said. "I would argue it's the new gold standard -- it really is
a more mainstream sensibility."
...
Women over 25 "tend to be a bit more practical in their choices,"
compared with their male counterparts, she added. Women favor
lightweight, durable and functional devices over gadgets that feature
speed, versatility and high resolution. "It sounds sexist, but it's
true," Raskin said.

15)
Women In Science
Special Edition
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/womenspecialedition.html
Changing Girls' Attitudes About Computers
Computer Wonder Women
National Women's History Month
What you can do to help GRRLS get into technology!
Best Online Resources For Women and Minorities in Science and Technology
Educating Girls in the New Computer Age
HERSTORIES Classroom Projectaking a video resume".


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