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Doug Peterson

24 ways: Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms - 0 views

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    Forms are usually seen as that obnoxious thing we have to markup and style. I respectfully disagree: forms (on a par with tables) are the most exciting thing we have to work with. Here we're going to take a look at how to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques. I promise you will want to style your own forms after you've read this article.
Doug Peterson

Researchers Discover How to Steal Credit Card Data Using Square - 1 views

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    Researchers attending the Black Hat security conference on Thursday demonstrated two ways in which Square - a mobile gadget that enables Android, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to accept credit card payments - can be hacked to steal credit card data, with very little technical hardware required and "no technical skills at all."
Doug Peterson

Computer Viruses and the Internet « Welcome to a Bloggin' Education - 0 views

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    I have spent a lot of time throughout the years researching and collecting facts and stimulus materials on the topic of Computer Viruses. Recently when I was watching my regular TED talk on my phone I watched this talk by Mikko Hypponen. I found it fascinating for the way in which he not only explores and shows some of the history of viruses but also talks of the social and ethical implications of the contemporary viruses being releases. He explores the use of viruses from a cyber-crime and organised-crime perspective.
Doug Peterson

‪How to choose a strong password - simple tips for better security‬‏ - YouTube - 1 views

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    Sophos's Graham Cluley explains a simple way of creating a complex hard-to-guess password - and how you should never use the same password on different sensitive websites.
Shirag Najarian

MIT Open Courseware - High School - 0 views

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    Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers.
Peter McAsh

6 weird malware tricks hackers use to bypass security - 0 views

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    6 weird malware tricks hackers use to bypass security Security experts presenting in the upcoming SecTor conference reveal six new tactics that cyber criminals are employing to circumvent security and avoid detection.
Doug Peterson

Supercookies: What You Need to Know About the Web's Latest Tracking Device - 0 views

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    Recently, online properties like Hulu, MSN and Flixster have been caught using a tougher version of the common cookie. These "supercookies" (aka "Flash cookies" and "zombie cookies") serve the same purpose as regular cookies by tracking user preferences and browsing histories. Unlike their popular cousins, however, this breed is difficult to detect and subsequently remove. These cookies secretly collect user data beyond the limitations of common industry practice, and thus raise serious privacy concerns.
Doug Peterson

Welcome - IBM Programming Contest Central - 0 views

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    The goal of IBM Programming Contest Central is to promote Computer Science and Information Technology opportunities to high school students. We encourage high school students, high schools and post-secondary institutions to use the resources provided in order to host their own programming contests. We also want to build a community of high school Computer Science teachers by providing the chance to network and share resources with each other.
Doug Peterson

Scratch Curriculum Guide Draft | ScratchEd - 0 views

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    This Scratch curriculum guide provides an introduction to creative computing with Scratch, using a design-based learning approach.
Doug Peterson

Can Microsoft Web Matrix 2.0 lure developers to Azure? - Cloud Computing News - 0 views

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    Microsoft hopes to use the company's Web Matrix 2.0 tool-now in beta-to lure new-age web developers to Azure, its cloud-computing platform-as-a-service.
Doug Peterson

HPCwire: Comparing GPUs and CPUs - 1 views

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    A feature article at the TeraGrid website takes a look at the most common building blocks of today's supercomputers, the ubiquitous CPUs and GPUs. Interest in GPUs was already high when China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer achieved a number one TOP500 ranking using the power of the graphics chips.
Doug Peterson

US Police Increasingly Peeping at E-mail, Instant Messages - PCWorld - 0 views

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    Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher.
Peter McAsh

Android phones keep location cache, too, but it's harder to access - 0 views

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    Following the revelation that iPhones log location data even if you don't use location-based services, a software developer has demonstrated that Android devices perform the same type of logging. Though there are some differences and the on-device data isn't accessible in the same way, Google does collect this data in a way that could be tied to an individual user.
Peter McAsh

5 Reasons Why Thunderbolt Is a Big Deal (and Why You Should Care): Apple News... - 1 views

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    I plan to use this with ICS3U as a research project on a current trend in CS.
Doug Peterson

Video: Japanese Robot Talks Like A Human | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    We're one step closer to the Robocalypse: a research team at Japan's Kagawa University has developed a robot that's able to "speak" like a human being. While talking robots are not new by any means, this model isn't using software but a set of mechanical, human-like vocal organs, for example artificial vocal chords or a tongue and lips that are made of silicone
Peter Beens

Hash table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    At the heart of the hash table algorithm is a simple array of items; this is often simply called the hash table. Hash table algorithms calculate an index from the data item's key and use this index to place the data into the array.
Peter Beens

Scientific Computing Tools For Python - Numpy - 1 views

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    NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. It contains among other things: - a powerful N-dimensional array object- sophisticated (broadcasting) functions- tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code- useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities.
Doug Peterson

How an email hacker ruined my life and then tried to sell it back to me - 0 views

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    This would be a great story to use in any course on computer/internet ethics to spark discussion and do some research on keeping your resources secure.
Peter Beens

Bootstrap, online programming language - 0 views

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    Bootstrap is a standards-based curriculum for middle-school students, which teaches them to program their own videogames using purely algebraic and geometric concepts. 
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