Category — General

Colleges Easy Prey to Hackers: “Conmputer-security experts say that college networks will increasingly be infiltrated by hackers unless campus computing officials take more aggressive steps to protect sensitive data. (Denver Post)”

(Via Chronicle.com – The Wired Campus.)

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this is pretty clear…..

in just the last week, we’ve had 2 computers hacked.

TCS: Tech Central Station – The Ivy League’s Missed Connections: “”

(Via .)

It is as if perennial college football powerhouses like USC, Oklahoma and Miami were obliterated in national Bowl games by tiny programs not even ranked during the regular season.

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i think the author greatly misses the issue. it isn’t that the powerhouses win at football, they still win at football, but any university might beat their ping pong team, because your money, reputation, or anything else doesn’t guarantee that you will have a good ping pong team, only the good people you have do and that is a problem at large institutions where you have more people and thus it is harder to concentrate really good technical people and technical systems because you will have more people and more people will usually approach normal instead of approaching greatness.

Theocracy Watch: “”Christians are mandated to gradually occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns -Definition of Dominion Theology by sociologist Sara Diamond link…”

(Via Spitting Image.)

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cause you know, jesus was a christian warrior……

Put it all online: “

I had the opportunity of sitting with Ismail Serageldin, the director of the Library of Alexandria at a session at the STS Forum. He told me a story about a fellow educator and librarian who was dismayed that students were only citing things that they could find on the Internet and were no longer using physical libraries. Ismail said that he disagreed. He told me that he felt that students using the Internet were correct and that it was the libraries that needed to make more material available online. I totally agree. (He also said he was a fan of Wikipedia.) So it’s good news that:

Matt Haughey @ CC Blog

30 Million newspapers to be put online

Great news for the public domain: The National Endowment for the Arts and the Library of Congress are putting 30 million newspaper pages online, dating from 1836 to 1922.

It’ll take until 2006 to complete the project but the Library of Congress has put up a sample from The Stars and Stripes, an armed forces paper, posting every issue from 1918-1919.

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(Via Joi Ito’s Web.)

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all great news. but i suppose it is much like the online archives of the norfolk and western railroad in the end, they exist online, but no one can find them and if they can find them, they might not find them of particular value for any given reason under the sun. in short, there is a difference between putting things online and putting things online and making them useful.

Watley Review: AOL Admits 40% of Subscribers Don’t Have Computers: “”

(Via .)

this can’t be true…… if it is, they are so in the wrong.

netLibrary: “”

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net library does not let you use safari…. screw em.

FCC casting chill on reproductive rights: “

Dispute over a single word

CHAPEL HILL – There’s a big difference between reproductive rights and reproductive health, says the head of a group forced to substitute one word for the other in an underwriting announcement on a local radio station.

(Via Inside the Mind of Gloria Brame.)

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i wonder what they don’t think is political. wouldn’t every prairie home companion be political, social, religious? this seems purely to be the fcc putting forth anormal standards for political purposes.

The Columbia University ‘Miracle’ Study: Flawed and Fraud (Skeptical Inquirer September 2004): “”

(Via .)

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imagine that….. a study that says praying for pregnancy works… is flawed. now, don’t get me wrong…. nope, nope, it is just silly to believe that there is anything other than a psychological effect here.

Tourist’s Guide To Driving Around Washington D.C. || kuro5hin.org: “”

(Via .)

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heheheheheh, for me the killer is driving downtown where they randomly place stoplights overhead vs on the sides, behind trees, billboards, and occasionally inside manhole covers.

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: “”

(Via .)

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i think they told us more than once that you cannot just murder someone in war. you can’t kill an unarmed non-combatant. it is against the law, several treaties, and well just completely wrong.