Saturday, March 11, 2006

ChgoTrib counter-stalks the CIA (E&P) [orig] .... ChgoTrib counter-stalks the CIA (E&P) [orig] [robot wisdom weblog] 11:14:40 PM    comment []

Kids Learn About Cyber Security. A New York school program teaches high-school students about data protection, firewalls and forensics, as well as ethical and legal aspects of security. It's set to go statewide next year. [Wired News: Top Stories] 11:44:59 AM    comment []

Milosevic dies. RightWinged writes that he's just heard that former Yugoslavian president Slovobodan Milosevic has been found dead in his cell at the UN detention center in The Hague where he was being held during his trial; Sky News confirms. [Pajamas Media] Slobodan Milosevic dies in jail. 1pm: Former Serbian president who was being tried for war crimes in connection with the Balkan wars of the 1990s apparently died of natural causes, UN tribunal says. [Guardian Unlimited] 11:44:54 AM    comment []

Board Approves Reorganization at Rutgers. The move simplifies a complicated system of undergraduate colleges but preserves an all-female niche on the campus. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [NYT > Education] Three earlier posts on the subject at A blog doesn't need a clever name: from July, 2005 from a little later that July and from November of that same year. 6:20:19 AM    comment []

SWSX hack - predicting how crowded a session will be. SWSX hack - predicting how crowded a session will be: Last night, I decided to wade through the intimidating SXSW panel lineup to get a sense of which panels I might attend. To help cope with the paradox of choice, I used a "toolbox" feature on the SXSW website that allows users to create a customized calendar of the sessions they'd like to attend. After creating it, I synch'd it to iCal. In addition to giving me a nice graphical display of all of the sessions I chose, I noticed that the iCal comments frame displays how many people have added the event (session) to their calendars. While this does not reveal how many people will actually attend a session (for example, I've double-booked several sessions and I'm sure only a fraction of attendees are using the calendar feature), it nevertheless should be an indicator of the relative interest in different sessions taking place at the same time. By the way, the most "added to calendar" sessions I've chosen (as of Friday evening when I synch'd up last) is the Jim Coudal/Jason Fried Opening Remarks, which 323 people had added to their calendars. Technorati Tags: sxsw [rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog] 6:20:12 AM    comment []

Mark Frauenfelder: Guy gets credit card using torn up application. Rob Cockerham of Cockeyed.com says: I wasn't sure if just tearing a Credit Card application into tiny bits was good enough to prevent dumpster-diving theft, so I did a test. I tore one up, then taped it back together again, filled it out with a DIFFERENT address and CELL number. Sure enough, in four weeks I was rewarded with a shiny new card with a $5,000 limit. Now I guess I'll go buy a shredder with this card. Link [Boing Boing] 6:20:10 AM    comment []