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- Law school deans bash site as racist, 'descpicable'
- After the fallout from a the Washington Post story on AutoAdmit - a no-holds-barred message board for law students that hopefully is not indicative of the quality of Americans future lawyers - two top law school deans have condemned some of its practices as being racist and homophobic, reports the...
- Tags: SECURITY, AutoAdmit, Yale University, attack
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Yale to post courses on Web for free
- Yale to post courses on Web for freeFree but no benefitDoesn't sound like its free it it cost $755k with no credit to a degree. More can be learned by reading FREE book from the library.Lectures are a breakthroughMIT put a lot of material on the internet, but...
- Tags: Benefits, Web, Yale University, lecture
- Discussion threads 2006-09-21
- Yale to put course videos online
- There's nothing more mentally stimulating than hearing the words of a dynamic lecturer, and now Yale University is offering some of its courses for free on digital video, reports Reuters. Along with the videos that can be downloaded from the Internet, Yale will offer transcripts in several languages, in...
- Tags: Yale University
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- Stanford economist named Yale: consumers would save with telco tv
- Stanford economist named Yale: consumers would save with telco tvThey are doing it overhere NetherlandsAnd it can save you a decent buck, especially if you venture into triple play (telephone, internetaccess and TV) with one of the vendors (actually cable companies are also allowed to be telco's). I've seen estimates...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, telecommunications company, Yale University, Stanford
- Discussion threads 2006-04-18
- Stanford economist named Yale: consumers would save with telco tv
- My colleague Marguerite Reardon reports on a study by University of California at Berkeley economist and information systems pricing specialist Yale Braunstein that envisions big consumer savings if phone companies are allowed to compete with cable companies for television services. Like Verizon's FiosTV, for instance- which is pictured at the...
- Tags: Braunstein
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
- Yale women demand stand on gender controversy
- Yale women demand stand on gender controversyWhat a crock...The petition calls for Levin to not only criticize Summers, but to improve opportunities for women on the Yale campus.... They demand he says what?So much for free speech. .. "but also to implement policies that would make Yale a leader in...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, enrollment, women, Yale University
- Discussion threads 2005-02-22
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- The future of tech IPOs
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.
- Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs
- Videos 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- Showing you some of the gadgets college and university students really shouldn't live without. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Student, Zack Whittaker, Gadgets, University, Pen drive, Cell phone, Laptop, Computer
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
- NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines
- In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...
- Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia
- News items 2008-07-24
- Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875 is a thoroughly average, entry-level laptop. It wasn't too long ago that an average, entry-level laptop meant one that was underpowered and shabbily...
- Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, laptop computer
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Is this the New Apple?
- PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G. After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 10 hard drive disasters
- Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...
- Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-07-22
- The key barrier to health care reform
- The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Towards low-cost LED lighting
- You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...
- Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
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