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Never mind...just tell their students if they're naughty

As the Senate continued adding, revising, and removing amendments from the Higher Education Act on Wednesday, outcry from universities, lobbyists, and private citizens caused Harry Reid to withdraw his amendment on college file sharing. The original amendment, was sweeping, vague, and fairly clueless about it's implications. While work...

Tags: Piracy, Legal Issues, Higher Ed, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-25

Privacy is for the ignorant

Lately, Ive increasingly had trouble understanding why people worry about privacy, particularly online. Several people responded to Teachers + MySpace = Bad Idea? and Google spyware? Fine by me… with concerns about privacy. This includes people who were worried about their personal information floating around Googles servers as...

Tags: Legal Issues, K-12, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Some colleges backing student file sharers

North Carolina State Universitys Student Legal Services Department has advised students to push back on the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA as they offer them settlement deals on piracy suits. The group has been sending notices to universities and requesting that these notices be forwarded to offending students...

Tags: Legal Issues, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software

Attacking the issue of illegal downloading on all fronts, one Congressman is proposing legislation to give grants to schools to install anti-piracy programs, reports Internet News. Rep. Ric Keller of Florida introduced legislation recently which would allow schools to apply for federal grants to help purchase anti-piracy systems. The...

Tags: Legal Issues, Higher Ed, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-03-30

Students sue plagiarism service for copyright infringement

Turning the tables on an anti-plagiarism service, four high school students have brought suit against the online service claiming that it violates copyright law, Turnitin, a service that compares student term papers and essays against a database of more than 22 million student papers, online sources and journal archives, to...

Tags: Legal Issues, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-03-30

Copyright infringement by your students is your problem

I was not the least bit surprised last week when I read RIAA cracks down on downloading at 25 colleges. After all, institutions are routinely notified whenever resources residing in their domain are associated with disruptive activity outside of that domain. For that reason, we take substantive measures...

Tags: Standards, Legal Issues, Social networking, Higher Ed, Policy, IT Management, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Legal download service Ruckus expands to all colleges

Ruckus Network, a free and legal online music resource, has expanded service to include all U.S. colleges, not just subscribers, reports eSchool News. The service, currently used by over 100,000 students, used to be only available through universities that had an agreement with the company. Now, any student that...

Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Legal Issues, Ruckus

Blog posts 2007-01-31

Additional Resources

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...

Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Comcast challenges FCC authority

I don't have time to review this right now, but I wanted to get it up ASAP. Comcast is appealing the FCC decision on network management, even though it plans to comply. Here's the message I received: In connection with its filing today in the...

Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, Sales Force Management, Federal Government, Internet, Networking, Sales, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Political party playlists

We know the Democrats and Republicans are split over policy issues, but does their musical taste fall down party lines too? And what kind of gadgets did they bring to the conventions to listen to their music? CNET reporter Kara Tsuboi finds out.

Tags: News, republican national convention, mp3, ipod, country music, christian rock

Videos 2008-09-04

What can we do better?

I'm collecting data from teachers across my district (using a Google Form, of course), trying to get a handle on issues we still haven't addressed, ways we can use technology more effectively, and what their wishlists might be for the coming year. Here's the questionnaire that went...

Tags: Classroom, Teacher, Notebooks, Productivity, Telephony, Projectors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Components, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Chrome's new EULA drops wide-ranging claims to user content

I think Chrome is awesome. It's at least 10 times faster to start up than Firefox on my XP laptop. Unlike some of my peers at ZD, I don't have a problem adopting it as my default browser. Chrome's EULA definitely raised some eyebrows thought with its ...

Tags: Google Inc., EULA, Chrome, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Dell repair adventure, day 5, with updates

Since our last episode, our hero has been communicating with Bob Pearson, Dell's VP of Communities & Conversations, and Bill Bivin, Dell's Community Liaison, about getting my Dell Lattitude D620 back up and running. Both Bob and Bill give every impression of trying very hard to deal not only with...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'Very strong words...RE: Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'how did this music get to the web? everything that gets to the web should be free! go after the persons who do the uploading not the down loaders. it got there some how. how...

Tags: Piracy, album poster, Rot, RIAA, Cogill

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'

You might question why illegally posting an unreleased album on your website should put you in federal penitentiary for three years, but Guns 'n' Roses guitarist Slash doesn't. "I hope he rots in jail," said Slash, the former Guns N' Roses...

Tags: Resource, Attorney, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?

Drug profit incompatible with scientific method?Patentability and ProfitThe problem with new drugs like Vytorin is that we must rely on short-term studies & short-term observation in order to gamble on the drugs' safety. There is, presently, only one cholesterol medication that has not only proven to be most effective in...

Tags: tobacco, new drug, drug company

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?

Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?God help your state’s taxpayers.God help your state’s taxpayers. Anyone who would take your view of client side protection in a school is incompetent.Since I use Linux for servers and clients...I only use ClamAV to scan inbound email.RE: Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?Do...

Tags: Flash memory, client side

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...

Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Would you abort George Clooney

Would you abort George ClooneyWowNot willing to take on controversial topics, are you? Good luck with this one. :)Here's my two cents: Genetic research and the possibility of using it to "purify" the gene pool using whatever criteria can be justified reminds me of an episode of the old Muppet...

Tags: George Clooney, gene

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopper

Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopperHave you ever read MS EULA? In short...We can go into your machine and do what ever we want.If this is the case with the browser....how are they using your data in their cloud?Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopperI looked...

Tags: Web browsers, EULA, Google Inc., Chrome EULA, TOS

Discussion threads 2008-09-03