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Howdy,
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<Karen Ellis>
1) Real Time Google Search of Haiti
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23haiti
2)
Receive alerts and useful information and most importantly to get their
emergency information to relief organizations on the ground in Haiti.
http://4636.ushahidi.com
Machine translation project to get text in haitian-creole, french,
french-creole into english text. There apparently is a real time SMS
translation project going on at this site.
# Haiti
http://4636.ushahidi.com/search_post.php
Texting emergency needs and location information to 4636 on Digicel allows
anyone in Haiti to report issues, receive alerts and useful information and
most importantly to get their emergency information to relief organizations on
the ground in Haiti. These services are operated by a collaborating group of
organizations including Ushahidi, InSTEDD, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Sahana
and the US Dept of State and provide a channel for many response and
information activities on the ground.
3) Steve Job's presentation of the iPad (Apple's tablet) is here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=3Dstream1
4)
Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO ? A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook
from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers'
accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch ? the
result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T ? revealed a
little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the
Internet, not just Facebook users. The problem had nothing specific to do with
Facebook. It is a more general problem.
See http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100116/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_at_t_glitch
Facebook's "new Settings" in one's profile has "View By Everyone" as the
DEFAULT for who can view anything you post (and that means...ANYone, not the
carefully selected few you'd previously selected!). Here's what you can do,
below, to change it all back to "keep my original settings". The Times article
recommends changing all settings to to "Friends Only". Unfortunately, there is
no way to detach the original creator of a Facebook page. This is a known issue
that apparently Facebook is choosing to ignore.
http://www.jeffthomascobb.com/2009/09/facebook-pages-ownership/
5)
The U.S. State Department released a "digitally enhanced and aged" image of
Osama bin Laden, complete with a reminder of the $25-million reward for his
capture or obliteration ( http://bit.ly/6mBHBj ). A top Spanish lawyer and
Member of Parliament to notice that the new image representing the world's most
wanted man was similar to his own. The FBI originally had claimed that it aged
terror suspect photos using "cutting edge" technology. But after Gaspar
Llamazares (who turns out to be a critic of the U.S. "war on terror") expressed
concerns about sharing much of his face with someone carrying such a massive
bounty, the FBI admitted to using a different procedure in this case. They
took a photo of Llamazares from an old campaign poster found on Google Images,
then simply cut and pasted his hair, jaw line, and forehead onto bin Laden's
face ( http://bit.ly/77iMEO ). The State Department has now pulled that photo
down from their wanted
terrorists Web Site. "A Spanish politician has said he was shocked to find out
the FBI had used his photo for a digitally-altered image showing how Osama Bin
Laden might look. Gaspar Llamazares said he would no longer feel safe
travelling to the US after his hair and parts of his face appeared on a
most-wanted poster. He said the use of a real person for the mocked-up image
was "shameless". The FBI admitted a forensic artist had obtained certain facial
features "from a photograph he found on the internet"."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8463657.stm
6)
FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/fbi-att-verizon-violated-wiretapping-laws/?
One of the key takeaways from the article referenced: "But in a surprise buried
at the end of the 289-page report, the inspector general also reveals that the
Obama administration issued a secret rule almost two weeks ago saying it was
legal for the FBI to have skirted federal privacy protections."
7)
Is telecom infrastructure peaking?
[Commentary] In Washington, things may finally be starting to happen that will
affect the creation of advanced information infrastructure. This follows a year
of mostly words, minor symbolic actions, and procedural walkabouts. A paltry
one per cent of the federal economic stimulus money had been allocated to
broadband communications. Of this, a year later, the first small grants are now
trickling out, just as the economic crisis has hopefully turned the corner. But
a second concrete activity is approaching -- a plan by the Federal
Communications Commission on how to fill in the white spots on the geographic
and social maps of broadband penetration. We should keep in mind that each new
infrastructure industry goes through a cycle -- early experimentation,
accelerating growth, a flattening out, and eventual decline. All American
infrastructure industries had their day in the sun, followed by a pronounced
decline in investment. Soon, it will be the turn of communications
infrastructure investments to slow, mature, and even decline. For
infrastructure technology companies this is not a positive outlook but a wakeup
call. They had hoped for an ongoing growth scenario, not declining investment
levels by their best customers. Their business model will have to move to the
edge of the network, to users and applications providers, and to less mature
markets. But it is positive news for network providers because their need to
invest declines, which improves their bottom line and lowers consumer prices in
the long run.
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/00353664-0540-11df-a85e-00144feabdc0.html>
5)
Supreme Court on corporate rights
The FBI was so cavalier -- and telecom companies so eager to help -- that a
verbal request or even one written on a Post-it note was enough for operators
to hand over customer phone records, according to a damning report (PDF)
released on Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector
General.
<http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1001r.pdf> [306 pages, 5.6MB]
and
US Supreme Court overturns corporate campaign finance laws on 1st Amendment
grounds - Citizens United v. FEC The Supreme Court today reversed two major
precedents and held that the First Amendment protects the right of corporations
to make expenditures in support of candidates in elections.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
The Court's holding dooms the 1907 Tillman Act, which also prohibits corporate
contributions to candidates.
6)
NASA EXTENDS THE WORLD WIDE WEB OUT INTO SPACE
HOUSTON -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special
software upgrade this week - personal access to the Internet and the World Wide
Web via the ultimate wireless connection.
Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first use of the new system
Friday, when he posted the first unassisted update to his Twitter account,
@Astro_TJ, from the space station. Previous tweets from space had to be
e-mailed to the ground where support personnel posted them to the astronaut's
Twitter account.
"Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space
Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your's"
This personal Web access, called the Crew Support LAN, takes advantage of
existing communication links to and from the station and gives astronauts the
ability to browse and use the Web. The system will provide astronauts with
direct private communications to enhance their quality of life during
long-duration missions by helping to ease the isolation associated with life in
a closed environment.
During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using
high-speed Ku-band communications, the crew will have remote access to the
Internet via a ground computer. The crew will view the desktop of the ground
computer using an onboard laptop and interact remotely with their keyboard
touchpad.
Astronauts will be subject to the same computer use guidelines as government
employees on Earth. In addition to this new capability, the crew will continue
to have official e-mail, Internet Protocol telephone and limited
videoconferencing capabilities.
To follow Twitter updates from Creamer and two of his crewmates, ISS Commander
Jeff Williams and Soichi Noguchi, visit:
http://twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts
For more information about the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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