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1)
"Chance-for-Success Index"
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/standards2.html
The analysis by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center is
based on the "Chance-for-Success Index," which tracks state efforts to
connect education from preschool through postsecondary education and
provides a perspective on the importance of education throughout a
persons lifetime. The 13 indicators that make up the index capture key
performance or attainment outcomes at various stages in a persons
lifetime or are correlated with later success. In general, the report
finds far more activity in the early years. The one social factor that
researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every
country where it has been studied is education. It is more important
than race; it obliterates any effects of income. Year after year, in
study after study, says Richard Hodes, director of the National
Institute on Aging, education "keeps coming up." And, health
economists say, those factors that are popularly believed to be
crucial -- money and health insurance, for example, pale in comparison.

2)
Happy Kids Learn Better
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/play1.asp
No learning theory suggests that fearful or insecure people are more
productive, writes Gary Stager in the new issue of District
Administration. Paradoxically, the same adults who destroyed the
timeless liberal arts tradition in schools sacrificed many of those
"standards" at the altar of accountability and unhappiness.

3)
The United States has planned a change to its DST observance beginning
in 2007.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/leapyear.html
2007 Daylight Savings Time - When we change our clocks. Spring
forward, Fall back
If you are concerned about application failures that may result from
these DST changes,
you should update your Java Runtime Environment.

4)
Chip & PIN terminal playing Tetris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWTzkD9M0sU
demonstrates the vulnerability of the UK's Chip-and-Pin
terminals that want a four-digit number to validate a credit-card purchase.
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/12/24/chip-pin-terminal-playing-tetris/

5)
Tales from the Google interview room
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/05/google_interview_tales/
"Do not remove the batteries from your interviewer.."
Letters We've heard quite a few anecdotes of bizarre interview practices
from Google over the years, so when we asked if you had some of your
own, you didn't disappoint.
The company that turned down Bram Cohen, creator of Bittorrent,
but managed to find a post for crazed neo-con headbanger
Dan Senor, certainly moves in mysterious ways.

6)
Tips to Protect the Home computer
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/morestuff4.html
Find the tools that a parent needs to supervise and keep children and
teenagers safe on the internet.

7)
Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education by
Harry R. Lewis
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~lewis/
What's Wrong with Harvard?
Lewis, former Dean of Harvard College, presents a biting, scattershot
indictment of undergraduate education at America's flagship
university. The curriculum, he contends, is a crazy quilt of courses
that leaves students clueless as to what they should learn and why.
Professors are ivory tower eggheads fixated on their narrow
subspecialties and incapable of offering guidance about academics,
career or character.

8)
Running the Numbers on Second Life January 5th, 2007
http://tnl.net/blog/2007/01/05/running-the-numbers-on-second-life/
There?s been discussion lately about Second Life and how its reported
numbers seem to be off.

9)
Supreme Court Won't KO Airport ID Policy
Published: January 8, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to
federal airport regulations requiring passengers to show
identification before they board planes.
The justices, without comment, let stand an appeals court ruling
against Libertarian activist and millionaire John Gilmore. Gilmore
wanted the court to force the federal government to disclose the
policy that requires passengers to produce identification.
Unless the regulations are made public, air travelers have no way to
determine if the regulations call for impermissible searches, Gilmore
said in court papers. The Justice Department has said that demanding
ID protects passengers' safety.
The case is Gilmore v. Gonzales, 06-211.

10)
Developing Our Brightest Minds
http://tinyurl.com/yakvd9
Who will be the next Albert Einstein? The next Stephen Hawking? A new
report from Vanderbilt University reveals the complex mix of factors
that create these intellectual leaders: cognitive abilities,
educational opportunities, investigative interests and old-fashioned
hard work.

11)
Social networking
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/socialnetwork.html
Websites with no safety czars who publish unfiltered live broadcasts
from Web cameras and video-hosting sites without a lot of rules.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/morestuff4.html
Hosting continuous self-produced reality TV show starring the users themselves.

12)
EFF's client, an anonymous citizen-journalist, posted the
links on the wiki located at http://zyprexa.pbwiki.com. Eli
Lilly complained, and Judge Weinstein issued his order on
January 4. EFF went to court today to challenge this order
as an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech in
violation of the First Amendment and to ensure that the
right of nonparties in the litigation to link to publicly
important information remains protected.
For the full motion filed in the Zyprexa products liability
litigation:
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/zyprexa/zyprexa_motion.pdf
For the court's order of January 4:
http://eff.org/legal/cases/zyprexa/jan4_order

13)
Apple renamed to Apple Inc. no more Apple Computer
Phone out in June $499. - $899. on Cingular with a 2 year contract.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/cell_phone.html
Apple and Windows compatible product from Mvix - the Mvix MX760-HD.
Apple's Jobs Introduces Apple TV Set-Top Box for Sharing Files

Multi-touch interface changing how we interact with machines.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/arts/home_arts.html

Iphone might have a non- replaceable battery
iPhone Cingular will no longer unlock phones
Apple?s own copy-protection software cripples the device.
When you buy songs at the iTunes Music Store, you can
play them on one ? and only one ? line of portable player, the iPod.
And when you buy an iPod, you can play copy-protected songs bought
from one ? and only one ? online music store, the iTunes Music Store.

The only legal way around this built-inlimitation is to strip out the copy protection.

http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/drm.html


14)
V&A MUSEUM MAKES DIGITAL IMAGES FREE TO SCHOLARS
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Beginning in early 2007, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London drops
their fees for reproduction of its collections' images in scholarly
books and magazines. Part of the rationale for this move is because,
although reproduction fees have brought more then 250,000 Pounds
annually, administration costs eat heavily into these revenues. The
upside for scholars is access to more than 25,000 of the museum's
images online . It is hoped that V&A's move will
encourage other museums to also afford the same privileges to scholars.


15)
Looking for Tenure? Get the facts on what you need to publish.
MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
http://tinyurl.com/yakf8u
Are you a K12 Teacher or University Professor? Do you know how to
negotiate with your employer to own what you create for your
brick classroom or virtual online class?

16)
One Giant Screwup for Mankind
http://tinyurl.com/ybphhd
NASA put a man on the moon - then lost the videotape.
After schmoozing his way into the stacks and sifting through
boxes for months, Lebar found evidence that more than 140,000
tapes from the Apollo era had been checked out of the Records
Center between 1979 and 1985 and sent back to the Goddard
Space Flight Center. But from there, Lebar fell straight into a black hole.
At Goddard, there was no record of where the footage had gone.

17)
Viral Marketing and how it works in 2006Patricia Rios
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/ViralMarketing.html

18)
It's official: Department of Defence gets secure
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7583
The Department of Defence has become the first government department in
the State to be certified for best practice to international standards
in information security.

19)
Botnets - your computer - your email and spam
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/e-mail/Email3.html

20)
India should have exhaustive cyber laws to deal with cyber crimes
http://www.gujaratglobal.com/nextSub.php?id=2186

21)
ID Theft 101: Beauty cons her way onto Ivy's Rolls as an ed.ringer
http://tinyurl.com/y5stsp
A cunning co-ed con artist was able to dupe some of the nation's top
universities
 - including Harvard and Columbia - into granting her admission by stealing
other people's identities, including that of a woman who has been
missing for more than seven years, investigators have discovered.
Esther Elizabeth Reed, 28, managed to attend Columbia University
as a graduate student for two years under the name Brooke Henson
before investigators caught wind of the scam last summer.

22)
Winny linked to more GSDF data breaches
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070109TDY01004.htm
Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force have inadvertently allowed
information to be exposed in 27 cases via the Winny file-sharing program
installed on their personal computers between fiscal 2002 and the end of
October, sources close the GSDF said Monday.


23)
NOTICE:
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand
of the Doomsday Clock on January 17, 2007, from 7 to 5 minutes to
midnight.
http://www.thebulletin.org/weekly-highlight/20070117.html
BAS announced the Clock change at an unprecedented joint news
conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
in Washington, DC, and the Royal Society in London. In a statement
supporting the decision to move the hand of the Doomsday Clock, the
BAS Board focused on two major sources of catastrophe: the perils of
27,000 nuclear weapons, 2000 of them ready to launch within minutes;
and the destruction of human habitats from climate change.
Created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Doomsday Clock
has been adjusted only 17 times prior to today, most recently in

February 2002 after the events of 9/11.

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