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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
More Bush bulge stuff, from Salon.com:
5:02:35 PM 
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Ashcroft: "I don't think we have a public domain attitude.".
Or so he is reported to have said here. Note to General Ashcroft: We checked. You're right. You don't. Nor do you have a privacy attitude, a rule of law attitude, or a free speech attitiude. So here's the real question: How can you be Attorney General of the US, if you reject so much of the Constitution's values? (Public Domain, Article I, 8, 8; Privacy, Amendment 4; Rule of Law: the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, in, say, Rumsfeld v. Padilla; Free Speech: Amendment 1). Stay tuned: Oral arguments in Kahle v. Ashcroft on the 29th. (Could there be a better case name?)
[Lessig Blog]
4:57:13 PM
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Voter fraud isn't just for Florida anymore. Jimmy Carter said we all need to be vigilant about voter fraud in Florida again this year and scrutinize the process. Looks like that applies to the rest of the country, too. In Nevada, employees of a GOP-funded voter registration company say they watched their supervisors rip up Democrats' registration forms -- and that hundreds and maybe thousands of Democrats' forms have been trashed. [Salon.com]
3:37:49 PM
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Foreign Police Vying to Learn Cyber Crime Investigation Skills, by Lee
Jin-woo, Korea Times.
As Korea is one of the strongest
Internet powerhouses in the world, foreign cyber crime investigators are
rushing to the country to learn about the advanced investigation skills
and systems in place here.
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As Korea has set up one of the fastest developed online systems in the
world and related crimes on the Internet have also greatly increased, our
anti-cyber crime center has also developed one of the most advanced
investigation methods and is a well-organized system, a police officer
said.
The center was established as the Hacker Investigation Squad in 1995 and
later changed its name and system a few times until it was transformed
into the current center in 2000.
The number of people arrested for committing crimes on the Internet has
increased seven times in the last three years in Korea.
South Korea boasts of 29.22 million Internet users, accounting for 64.5
percent of its total population.
11:39:13 AM
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Cell Project Update.
Frances administered the quiz on Monday, to two sessions of seventh graders. Today we met and went over the results. We knew there would be a performance gap (test scores less than perfect), but we were still surprised. The students had been tested on the material only two weeks before, yet students that had scored well on the official test didn't even pass our quiz. Was the quiz harder? Nope, the questions were almost identical. Does this mean that the students are not retaining the information after the exam? Very likely. Frances will be posting more about this in the project blog.
We also brainstormed ideas for the learning tool. How can we make the material more tangible to the student? Our time is limited, so rather than cover both animal and plant cells we're focusing on the animal cell for this version. We're going to animate the functions of each organelle, in addition to providing labels and text explanations, when the user clicks on a part of the cell. This version will basically be a prototype of a larger project we'll be working on over the next several months.
I've uploaded some new documents for the project, including the quiz.
[GalaxyGoo Blog]
6:52:23 AM
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Another J-School Tries 'Open Source Journalism'.
The University of Missouri School of Journalism has launched My Missourian, the latest effort to enlist citizens in publishing community news to the Web. Inspired by NorthwestVoice.com (from the Bakersfield Californian) and South Korea's OhMyNews, the site has the motto: "News for mid-Missourians by mid-Missourians." The site is staffed by students, who are responsible not just for editing content, but also soliciting it, says Professor Clyde Bentley.
The Missouri project follows on the heels of GoSkokie.com, launched this past spring by a team of master's students in one of my classes at the Medill School of Journalism. (...)
(Continued at Poynter E-Media Tidbits.) [unmediated]
6:51:09 AM
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Questions for Kerry. Charles Murray, Christie Whitman and Stephen L. Carter present questions they would ask John Kerry at Wednesday’s presidential debate.
Questions for Bush. David K. Shipler, Alice M. Rivlin and Alan Ehrenhalt present questions they would ask President Bush at Wednesday’s presidential debate.
[The New York Times > Opinion]
6:49:03 AM
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Three from Wired News:
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Now, for Your PC: Mac OS X. A Hawaiian company claims to have developed a $50 software emulator that allows a Windows PC to run Mac OS X. A legal expert says it's likely Apple will have some objections. By Leander Kahney.
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New Tack Wins Prisoner's Dilemma. The winner of this year's competition in the classic computerized strategy game shows that a tactic based on cooperating with team members can succeed over one that relies on echoing rivals' moves. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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Music Industry Spurned by Court. The Supreme Court declines to hear the music industry's appeal of a case that forbade it from trying to force phone and internet companies from turning over the names of people suspected of copyright infringement over peer-to-peer networks. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C.
6:47:59 AM
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Pro-Kerry filmmaker offers Sinclair 'equal time' solution. The filmmaker behind the new pro-John Kerry documentary plans to offer it to Sinclair Broadcasting-- free of charge -- to see if the company is interested in showing its viewers a balanced presentation of the candidate. The challenge comes in the wake of Sinclair's extraordinary decision to force its 62 stations nationwide, just days before the presidential election, to air "Stolen Honor," which attacks Kerry's anti-war activities from the early 1970s, and which the Kerry campaign has labeled a smear film. [Salon.com]
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