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Peter Cali

The Amazing Money Machine - The Atlantic (June 2008) - 0 views

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    "The story of Obama's success is very much a story about money. It provided his initial credibility. It paid for his impressive campaign operation. It allowed him first to compete with, and then to overwhelm, the most powerful Democratic family in a generation-one that understood the power of money in politics and commanded a network of wealthy donors that has financed the Democratic Party for years."
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    Excerpt from article, "The story of Obama's success is very much a story about money. It provided his initial credibility. It paid for his impressive campaign operation. It allowed him first to compete with, and then to overwhelm, the most powerful Democratic family in a generation-one that understood the power of money in politics and commanded a network of wealthy donors that has financed the Democratic Party for years."
Burks Oakley

News: An Experiment Takes Off - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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    Wow - great to see a new online program EXCEED its initial enrollment goals! This model is worth keeping an eye on.
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    It is growing! I saw a commercial a couple of years ago that really struck me. It depicted two kids in a very modern home in Japan with their mother mulling about doing house work. Instead of playing video games on the large flatscreen on the wall, they were engaged in a math course talking to the teacher in real time. I have to believe that it is very real model that will evolve and succeed as it is at USC. Great article, thanks!
Jeffrey Kendall

Format shifting, low damages put Canada on IP watch list - 0 views

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      DRM as listed by Wikipedia: Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to try to impose limitations on the usage of digital content and devices. It is also, sometimes, disparagingly described as Digital Restrictions Management. The term is used to describe any technology which inhibits uses (legitimate or otherwise) of digital content that were not desired or foreseen by the content provider. The term generally doesn't refer to other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented without modifying the file or device, such as serial numbers or keyfiles. It can also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices.
  • The Great White North is "fast gaining a reputation as a haven where technologically sophisticated international piracy organizations can operate with virtual impunity." The country is "virtually alone" in flouting "minimum world standards" for copyright and its rules are "hopelessly outdated." Finally, "no other country is farther behind the curve in combating copyright infringement in cyberspace."
  • The ability to circumvent DRM in order to make legal uses of the content?
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    • Jeffrey Kendall
       
      All Laws are subjective on a country to country basis, it's interesting that the Canadian governemnt doesn't view this type of thing as infringement.
  • It is not at all clear that this is actually the legal position in Canada; back in 2004, judge Konrad von Finckenstein ruled that "the downloading of a song for a person's private use does not constitute infringement." (von Finkenstein is now Canada's top telecoms regulator; his ruling was changed on appeal, though the issue remains murky.)
  • What really chaps the collective hide of the copyright groups is BitTorrent trackers, though, and the IIPA document refers multiple times to the fact that "4 of the top 10 illicit BitTorrent sites in the world" are in Canada.
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    Useful for anyone interested in digital piracy/acquisition and legal steps to limit copyright infringement on multiple formats.
Morgan Diffenderfer

DEA Diversion Control - Consumer Alert - 0 views

  • DEA Warning--Buying drugs online may be illegal and dangerous!
  • Federal law prohibits buying controlled substances such as narcotic pain relievers (e.g., OxyContin®, Vicodin ®), sedatives (e.g., Valium®, Xanax®, Ambien®), stimulants (e.g., phentermine, phendimetrazine, Adderall®, Ritalin®) and anabolic steroids (e.g., Winstrol®, Equipoise®) without a valid prescription from your doctor. This means there must be a real doctor-patient relationship, which by most state laws requires a physical examination. Prescriptions written by "cyber doctors" relying on online questionnaires are not legitimate under the law. Buying controlled substances online without a valid prescription may be punishable by imprisonment under Federal law. Often drugs ordered from rogue websites come from foreign countries. It is a felony to import drugs into the United States and ship to a non-DEA registrant. Buying drugs online may not be only illegal, but dangerous. The American Medical Association and state boards of medicine and pharmacy have all condemned the practice of cyber doctors issuing online prescriptions as unacceptable medical care. Drugs delivered by rogue websites may be the wrong drugs, adulterated or expired, the wrong dosage strength, or have no dosage directions or warnings.
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    This site talks about the DEA and it's warnings that the federal law prohibits buying controlled drugs online. Working in the pharmacy, I know that controlled substances are very addictive and this was interesting to see that it is actually a federal law that prohibits it!
Sanny Y

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Yvonne Garth

:: The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It - 0 views

shared by Yvonne Garth on 01 May 11 - Cached
  • This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control
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    Here is an article on the "Future of the Internet."
Daniel Sprotte

Want to read all about it online? It may cost you - washingtonpost.com - 1 views

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    It is going to get expensive getting our news.
Jeffrey Kendall

BBC News - Australia introduces web filters - 0 views

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      A noble idea but is it an economically feasible one?
  • "We're yet to hear a sensible explanation of what this policy is for, who it will help, and why it is worth spending so much taxpayers' money on."
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      At what point does this control over content become too much? Does this in any way resemble what China has attempted to do?
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  • The "noble aims" of the filter could be lost in its implementation, he warned.
  • "You have to take extreme caution in how these things are rolled out and the uses to which they're put."
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    Good article for someone interested in Government oversight of internet content.
Sarah Cooper

Artists Express Concern Over PhotoBucket | PlagiarismToday - 0 views

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    Added this site to one of the other students' phase one, second paper topic thread.. thought it was overall interesting because it shows the procedures that photo websites like photobbucket have to go through with copyrighting material
Morgan Diffenderfer

Buying Prescription Drugs in Mexico - Buying Drugs Over the Mexican Border - 0 views

  • Is Buying Drugs in Mexico Illegal Under U.S. Laws?
  • The interstate shipment, including importation, of unapproved new drugs is prohibited in the U.S. "Unapproved" drugs are any medicines that have not received the FDA's approval and include foreign-made versions of U.S.-approved drugs. Controlled substances including, but not limited to, tranquilizers and pain killers, are under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Drug Enforcement
  • Serious Risks When You Buy Prescription Drugs in Mexico
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    This would be intersting to also use in my paper because it talks about buying drugs over the border, its pros and cons
Benjamin Sperry

New privacy concerns for Facebook over phone numbers, addresses - 0 views

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    This article explains how Facebook is deciding to allow third-party app developers to have access to the users phone number and address. It explains that Facebook is taking some precautions to make sure that this feature is as safe as possible, but others mentioned in the article do not agree that it is enough.
Mark Klinger

Considerations on ID Issues in Mobile Environment - 0 views

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    This article, which is authored by a member of the Asia Future Internet Forum, looks at some of the current mobile internet trends, and also addresses some of the potential problems. It gives the author's proposal for an alternative mobile network design. While I don't expect anyone to read all the fine print in this (some of it is IT oriented and somewhat confusing), the big picture is what I find interesting-- people have so much faith and support for mobile internet that they want to develop some sort of international standards for it. People taking initiative such as this will really have a big impact on how the mobile network is shaped in the future!
Burks Oakley

Could Google Wave Replace Course-Management Systems? - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    Good article about Google Wave - and how it could replace course management systems - it certainly is the "wave" of the future!
Burks Oakley

Free speech battle pits mom vs. Web -- chicagotribune.com - 1 views

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    Provocative article about First Amendment, free speech, minors, privacy - it has it all!
Burks Oakley

Imagine... What a decade it has been. - Teaching, Learning & Technology in Higher Educa... - 0 views

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    "Imagine... What a decade it has been. "
Rob Eden

Bing to use Wolfram Alpha results - bing, Microsoft, search engines, wolfram alpha - Go... - 0 views

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    Bing has announced that it will be using Wolfram Alpha data in its results.
Yvonne Garth

TX bill expanding online sales tax collection OK'd - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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    "The Texas House approved a bill on Tuesday that would expand the number of Internet companies required to collect sales tax. The bill, which passed on a 122-23 vote, would change the definition of what it means to have a physical presence in Texas. State Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, said it would force Internet-based companies like Amazon.com to collect sales taxes if they pay marketers in Texas to advertise for them."
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    Here is an article on how the Texas created a law in order to create online salex taxes.
Aaron Finder

Future of the Internet - 0 views

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    This is a pretty good article the discribes why the internet will be changing. Check it Out!
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    This is a pretty good article the discribes why the internet will be changing. Check it Out!
Burks Oakley

Google wins praise for its defiance of China over censorship - latimes.com - 0 views

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    Good article about Google & China - it will be interesting to see this play out.
Jeffrey Kendall

U.S. aid to spread broadband access criticized | The Columbus Dispatch - 0 views

    • Jeffrey Kendall
       
      Companies always complain about competition when it's too late and they've already missed the band wagon. These other companies have had chances even if it was small and incremental to make improvements to their broadband offerings and they chose not too. They also had an opportunity to bid for this stimulus money and unfortunately they did not receive it. If they had they would not be complaning right now.
  • These local phone and cable companies fear that they will have to compete with governmentsubsidized broadband systems, paid for largely with stimulus dollars. If the taxpayer-funded networks siphon off customers by offering lower prices, private companies might be less likely to upgrade their lines, endangering jobs and undermining the stimulus plan's goals, they warn.
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      this is similar to Googles plan to introduce gigabit service to smaller cities on a limited scale to see if the results are profitable. I will be interesting to see if these underdeveloped areas really do take advantage of this service or if it will be lost on them.
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  • Many existing systems, they note, lack the capacity to meet mush rooming demand for bandwidth. The new, stimulus-funded networks will provide far more-robust connections - many of them offering speeds of up to 100 megabits or even 10 gigabits per second to schools, libraries and other "anchor institutions." That's 20 to 2,000 times faster than the DSL and cable wires linking most U.S. homes.
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    Government stimulus attempt to bring broadband access to rural areas that have limited or no high speed internet access.
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