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Scalia gets a schooling in online privacy

Scalia gets a schooling in online privacyI agree with ScaliaI've been saying for years now how the idea of "privacy" through anonymity on the Internet is incredibly ignorant. It's like saying that anytime I leave my house I can put on a costume and take off my car's license...

Tags: NOW IT, Scalia, schooling, online privacy

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Open source will not save education

Open source will not save educationOpen sourceHuh?If I need a course on calculus, every g** d*** calculus teacher doesn't need to invent it. This is monkey see, monkey do.Wait a second. Aren't teachers "government employees"?Never mind.I beg to differIt isn't the teachers, it's IT. There's an education IT...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, education, open source, computer, information technology, game

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

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Peak oil panic? Dubai or not Dubai?

Harry, please ignore the deniersThey will try to quash any voice of reason. I believe they hope to maneuver themselves into a position where they can argue that they should not be affected by the consequences because they don't believe in man-made climate change. Pure selfishness.Keep it coming. We are...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, oil

Discussion threads 2009-11-26

What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Works of John Galsworthy. FREE Author's biography & play in the trial 11.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Aussies give open source golden crumbs from Microsoft table

Swine Flu...And now this!Swine flu, Windows 7...What other diseases are kids picking up in school?Maybe home schooling with low cost FLOSS systems ain't so bad after all!Dana, just to set the record straight,[b]FreeMind[/b], just like [b]Audacity[/b] is also available for [b]Linux[/b] ; I have it installed on my 64-bit [b]Ubuntu...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, learning curve, MuseScore, job, Microsoft Corp., computer skill, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"

Deja VuSince it's already been tried so many times before, what makes you think it'll work this time?Tablets are dirty, if not now, they will be soon as people can't keep their fingers off them ;-)WiznotesWhat do you think about students from high school to college using Wiznotes for taking...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, tablet computer, Wiznotes, computer, software

Discussion threads 2009-08-16

i Fishing 1.6 (Mobile)

Create a photo feature lets you superimpose your catch over an existing photo on your device and email it to your friends for bragging rights. 15 unlockable lakes with three difficulty levels. Variety of lures with different actions. Many species of freshwater fish to catch. Use the iPhone's accelerometer to...

Tags: Lake, Mobile, Lure, Egerter Software, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-06-01

Time for Plan B?

Time for Plan B?propheti guess you posted about this person because you believe him?proves why ya should get a real job instead of being paid by CBS I'm still waiting for my house to become waterfront property.I'm still waiting for my house to become waterfront property. This thing was supposed...

Tags: Food & Beverage, food, prophet

Discussion threads 2009-05-22

News to know: IBM; SAP; Microsoft; Sarbanes-Oxley; EMC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes combo Joe McKendrick: Goodbye, SOX? AP: Supreme Court to...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Craigslist, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Netbook, IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Scalia gets a schooling in online privacy

Justice Antonin Scalia doesn't think there's much need for Internet privacy rules. Speaking at the Institute of American and Talmudic Law, he exclaimed: "Every single datum about my life is private? That's silly." At Fordham University Law...

Tags: Online Privacy, Fordham University, Privacy, Dossier, Conference, Scalia, Joel Reidenberg, Identity Theft, Internet, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-18

How a student fooled the world's media

How a student fooled the world's mediaDid you use Wikipedia as a source on this? You have an error ...The Wikipedia article originally said that Shane Fitzgerald attended "Dublin University", which within Wikipedia redirects to "University of Dublin" ... which as of this edit is where you are showing...

Tags: Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Wikipedia, media

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Tech vendors: We're ready to help you spend Obama's stimulus money

If you don't think tech will be one of the first sectors to recover from the current economic conditions, think again. Technology taps into pretty much every sector out there - from manufacturing and health care to education and energy. Many of the businesses in those sectors...

Tags: ARRA, Dell Computer Corp., E-health, Electronic Health Record, Healthcare, IBM Global Financing, Information Technology, Investment, Management, Sam Diaz, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-01

Tech-take on the spread of swine flu

A public health emergency is now in place in the United States, even though the US especially, with 20 people ill, are "more prepared than ever before", according to White House officials. Spread of the swine flu, hereon in as H151, has been confirmed as the same highly virulent form...

Tags: Spread, Flu, Public Health Emergency, Government, Healthcare, Security, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-26

Summer reading...the data don't lie

We collect a lot of data on our students. State standardized tests, DIBELS, and RTI feedback from Lexia and Symphony software in particular all provide us with the opportunity to modify instruction based on specific student needs. That's a good thing. Obviously, the data collection process...

Tags: Kid, Transportation, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-19

Social networking jamming up university public PC's

Students from Bournemouth University have vocalised their concerns, as well as another hundred thousand who haven't spoken, about the university library and public machines which are being used to access Facebook and Twitter. As I've experienced, you can second-guess when the off-peak times will be, attempt to...

Tags: Facebook, Network, PC, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Target Toss Pro: BAGS(TM) (Mobile)

The nation''s hottest tailgating sensation comes to cell phones! Target Toss Pro: Bags?, from Incredible Technologies, is deceptively simple, yet really fun and extremely competitive game where players try to toss bean bags into a hole of a box for points. The game is divided into 6 innings during which...

Tags: Mobile, Player, In-Fusio, Nation', Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-02-22

RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whip

The headlines across the blogosphere make it sound like the Recording Industry Association of America has thrown in the towel and decided to stop going after music pirates on the Internet. That's not exactly the case. Instead, the RIAA is teaming up with Internet Service Providers to...

Tags: Lawsuit, RIAA, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Is Command & Control Management Inefficient?

When most people think of how businesses are organized, they visualize command and control management: the pine tree visual with the leaders at the top. Since we are entering the Western festive season here are some appropriate images to illustrate this. The traditional 'Christmas Tree'...

Tags: Fractal, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Can free tech keep docs in practice?

Can free tech keep docs in practice?What's this "we," Kemosabe?[i]But any labor negotiation covers both wages and working conditions, and if we can give on the latter maybe we can get some serious talk started on the former.[/i]Insurers are behind the 8-ball when big-name hospitals demand three times the compensation...

Tags: Operational accounting, Insurance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, back-office staff, back-office

Discussion threads 2008-11-18