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Greetings,
happy reading
<Karen>
1)
What's special about this number?
http://tinyurl.com/rhc6
A delightful site, with great links (useful in figuring out some of
the references in the text)
2)
Ever thought of using keyword advertising to promote a gripe site?
http://www.citizen.org/documents/lennaramicus.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/yvs8t7
3)
Skype asks FCC to open up cellular networks
http://tinyurl.com/2gbccj
4)
Paul Feldman, deputy director of the nonprofit Health Privacy Project,
http://tinyurl.com/2zhfvl
stepped down from his position as co-chair of the American Health
Information Community's Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security
Workgroup, created in May 2006.
[..." the workgroup's efforts to establish standards for the nation's
developing healthcare IT network, are "a far cry from a comprehensive and
timely approach that would give privacy policy equal and necessary footing
with interoperability and systems development efforts."]
"We already know that the majority of people in this country fear
that their health information is more prone to misuse in electronic form,"
Feldman said. "We must not shirk our duty to protect them from such harm."
5)
LearningSpace
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
contains dozens of different online courses, categorized into
disciplines such as education, modern languages, and history.
6)
Global Integrity
http://www.globalintegrity.org/
is an independent, non-profit organization tracking
governance and corruption trends around the world. Global Integrity
uses local teams of researchers and journalists to monitor openness
and accountability.
7)
Hackers exploit old Internet Exploder bug
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37781
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/128385
8)
Symantec subscription glitch derails users
http://tinyurl.com/27h437
Symantec has apologised after a glitch with its software resulted in
"small group" of its customers been falsely advised that their software
subscriptions had expired early.
The early renewal alert SNAFU affected an unknown number of users of
2006 versions of Norton products. Users of 2005 and the latest (2007)
versions of Norton-branded security products from Symantec were not
affected.
In a statement, Symantec said the glitch was "caused by a technical
problem within the subscription client, which has since been identified
and for which a fix is now available. Norton customers with 2005 or 2007
product versions are not affected by this issue".
get patch
9)
90% Of E-Mail Will Be Spam By Year's End
http://tinyurl.com/ypg34n
10)
Customer Data Breach Began in 2005, TJX Says
http://tinyurl.com/3yrrsz
Retail giant TJX, whose stores include discount clothing chains T.J.
Maxx and Marshalls, said yesterday that a computer-security breach
stretched back 10 months earlier than the company originally thought,
compromising credit and debit card data, drivers' license numbers, and
names and addresses.
11)
BeelineTV.com
http://beelinetv.com
provides links to a selection of "free online TV channels from around
the world."
12)
WSU's Web-based radio gives a voice to students
http://tinyurl.com/2g7bem
Armed with modest computer equipment and big dreams, students at
Wichita State University hope to use the Internet to spread
local music worldwide. Students there have been unable to
broadcast their own radio shows for more than a decade,
going online, under the call letters WSUiR, they can keep costs low
and allow DJ's to
put a diverse mix of music on the air. Internet radio has found
a growing audience among people who grow weary of repetitive
play lists on commercial stations.
http://cratel.wichita.edu/research/wsuir/wsuir_main.php
13)
Research vs. Research
http://tinyurl.com/yw8rfl
under the Whaddiya talk'n about department of life?
14)
Folklore and folktales collected by Charles E. Brown, 1921-1945
http://tinyurl.com/ncqfj
Charles E. Brown (1872-1946) collected a substantial body of folklore
on Wisconsin Indians, lumbering, steamboating, local history, and
related topics which he published in pamphlet form.
15)
5 Key findings from this DeHavilland Associates Survey
http://tinyurl.com/m9wr5
offers insights into how community/school partnerships are
structured and what types of relationships schools and districts have
established.
16)
Active WebCam 8.0
http://www.pysoft.com/
17)
The Stanford SRP Authentication Project
http://srp.stanford.edu/
The Secure Remote Password protocol is the core
technology behind the Stanford SRP Authentication
Project. The Project is an Open Source initiative that
integrates secure password authentication into new and
existing networked applications.
[NEW](1/17/2007) Version 2.1.2 beta3 is available for
testing. This is primarily a security and bugfix
release.
18)
The U.S. Education Department reported
http://tinyurl.com/ynw5nk
Nationwide, 73% of 12th-grade students achieved a "basic" reading
score in 2005, down from 80% in 1992, according to the NAEP
a sampling test the government calls the "nation's report card."
Sixty-one percent scored at or above the basic level in math.
National Assessment of Educational Progress Report
Download Report
19)
Canadian Music Week
http://www.cmw.net/cmw2007/index.asp
20)
Smithsonian Head's Expenses 'Lavish,' Audit Says
Board Calls Small's Charges 'Reasonable'
http://tinyurl.com/27man8
Lawrence M. Small, the top official at the Smithsonian Institution,
who in 2000 became the 11th Smithsonian secretary, will earn $915,698
this year in total compensation -- more than that of the outgoing president
of Harvard University, which has an endowment about 30 times the size
of the Smithsonian's. Over the past seven years, Small has also received
$1.15 million for making his house available for official functions.
<snip>
"The secretary's staff justified some spending that appeared to violate
policy because they believed "the Secretary could waive any policy
if it applied" to him.The inspector general replied in a footnote, "We
are aware of no written authority for the Secretary to waive
Smithsonian policies."
21)
Former Bell Labs researcher played role in Microsoft MP3 patent case
http://tinyurl.com/yoqylv
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