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Jeff Ratliff

Academic Earth: Online Courses & Video Lectures - 2 views

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    Scholars from leading universities lecture.
anonymous

HowStuffWorks "How Credit Cards Work" - 1 views

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    Credit card history, how it has come along since 1999. This is from How Stuff Works, and talks about the size of the credit card: "A credit card is a thin plastic card, usually 3-1/8 inches by 2-1/8 inches in size, that contains identification information such as a signature or picture, and authorizes the person named on it to charge purchases or services to his account -- charges for which he will be billed periodically." he first universal credit card -- one that could be used at a variety of stores and businesses -- was introduced by Diners Club, Inc.
Elvira Russ

BU Student fined $ 675,000 for illegal music downloads (Newsbank) - 2 views

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    A graduate student from Boston University got caught for ilegally downloading music and was in court ordered to destroy all the files that had been received this way. The judge said she could have envisioned a fair use defendant for someone who had downloaded these songs before the law was created but Joel Tenenbaum was fully aware of the fact that was he was doing was wrong.
shazad rouf

Online career matchmaker helps MBAs land jobs - CNN.com - 0 views

  • "Even though the economy is not as bad as it used to be, we are still seeing a good uptake. Our traffic is still going strong," Larizadeh says.
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      areas of impact: business and employment
  • Four years and a round of venture capital funding later, what started as a hobby designed to help friends share career information has turned into a network with approximately 600,000 members.
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      social and ethnic issues: security
  • Schools like The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business have formed partnerships with Doostang that enable their students to access the network's premium job listings for free.
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      IT systems in a social sytem: Communication system
Omkar Naik

Hacking firms one click ahead of law - 0 views

  • For $US100, the website provided Cioni, then living in northern Virginia, with the password to her boyfriend's AOL email account. For another $100, she got her boyfriend's wife's password. And then the password of another girlfriend and the boyfriend's children.
  • Federal US law prohibited hacking into email, but without further illegal activity it was only a misdemeanour, said Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University.
  • All the services advertise that they will email a screenshot of the target's inbox or even send an email from the target's account as proof that they've cracked the password. The customer then sends payment. One service then responds with the script of a scene from a Shakespeare play, with the stolen password hidden in the copy.
ajay tambay

Google Books Settlement Update (Rutgers University online newsletter) - 1 views

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    education impact on undergraduates
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