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silveradeptNelson Mandela is dead at 95 years of age. Without a concerted effort, the history of Mandela will swiftly become hagiography, therefore we must remember all the dimensions of Nelson Mandela, not just the ones that are convenient to our narrative.
What was the story of Susan Pevensie after she was written out of Narnia? Presumably, it was a good and long life, full of activism and bucking social trends.
If you are looking for a dose of humor in an otherwise academic paper, look to the acknowledgements section. There's a lot to be had in snark and shout-outs there.
40 million cards were stolen from Target. Not too soon after, they could be bought online and used to commit fraud.
A Harvard student sent a bomb threat to get out of an examination. He used the anonymizing network TOR...from the campus wireless, which made it easier for the FBI to identify him by cross-referencing the two data points. More anonymity would have made it harder, whether by using public wireless or by having more people using TOR.
And in encryption, a paper purporting a method to extract RSA cryptographic keys by using a sufficiently sensitive microphone at close range to capture the acoustic leakage from a computer voltage regulator during the decryption of specifically crafted ciphertexts. The attack apparently can also be executed using the attacker as a conduit that allows for the measurement of differences in current. The researchers provided countermeasures against their methods before publishing, so later implementations of crypto can defeat these attacks.
A six year-old child who forced a kiss on a classmate has had the sexual harrassment complaint against him dropped. This has apparently also brought out many comments claiming that there is far too much hullabaloo about a kid and a kiss, but think of it this way: if we want to teach children that there are wanted and unwanted touches with regard to grown-ups, and we teach kids about aggressive gestures that have to be curbed for the classroom to work, then we should take it seriously when one child gives another an unwanted touch, regardless of how its coded. Boundaries have to be learned, and earlier is better than later. And we wouldn't want to perpetuate the misogynist idea that women's boundaries are okay to ignore, now would we?
We must trust children and teens can handle serious issues like suicide, and then take them seriously when they tell us they have issues that lead toward ideation.
Leaking information tells us of two Americas, one an empire determined to keep its processes entirely secret from everyone, the other a democracy that demands to know what the government is doing in their name, and further demands a voice in making decisions going forward, because they are very unhappy about the way things are going now.
A fragrance campaign chooses to use a tattooed BBW for their glamour shots. Considering who is normally in those shots, this is different and edgy. Elsewhere in artistic expression, the use of from machines and electronic construction sparks a debate in metal communities about whether the machines are losing the soul of the music in their quest for speed.
We need more than just three ways of expressing gender. We need to not ask for it unless absolutely necessary.
A fifth grader wrote and delivered a first-rate speech about tge evils done in the name of religion, and was selected to represent his school at a county-level competition...until his school attempted to censor his work, ostensibly because they believed students couldn't handle topics like mass murder in the name of religion. Head. Desk. Thankfully, the school reversed, and the student went on to win the higher-level competition. The more we trust children to be able to handle big things, the better we educate them.
A Methodist minister officiated a wedding in a state where that marriage was legal, for his son, and was defrocked after a congregation member in his home state complained. As one might guess, the wedding was between two men. Aside from the church doctrine that forbade the officiating, there was no other reason to complain.
Grief may be alleviated best by laughing and smiling, but not because the grief is not intense, but because people are wired to return to normal. Which is weird, in its own way, because it means a lot of things that are important fade.
After the FAA proposed changes to rules that would allow mobile phone voice calls on airplanes, two Senators swiftly rushed to propose a bill that would ban voice calls.
Internet traffic intended for specific destinations was discovered to have been rerouted through unintended destinations thanks to taking advantage of trust in the way Internet traffic is routed. So unencrypted anything was potentially intercepted and/or modified before being sent on to its destination. Wouldn't it be nice if our ISPs encrypted everything by default before sending it off to another network?
60 Minutes and the NSA want you to believe that they are saving the country and world against malicious hackers that wanted to shut down all America's computers and other similar cartoon-villain plots. Over here in reality, a federal judge has ruled that the NSA's warrantless collection of phone metadata is uncsontitutional, a ruling that will be appealed by the agency, because they don't want to have to respect the law. The judge ruled that the government's precedent claims are in such a different telecommunications realm that old ruling don't apply to the new world. And then another judge ruled the metadata collection was entirely legal.
The Obama Administration admits the previous Administration started widespread Internet traffic collection, makes a case that the NSA should remain secret.
Bluetooth Low Energy and geofencing are helping to make our smartphones smarter without draining the battery pinging satellites. As one might guess, advertising is taking the lead on how to exploit this new idea.
The linguistics of the dialect developing on the Interwebs are fascinating, and possibly making language shifts happen off-line as well, much to the annoyance of teachers and managers everywhere.
Last for tonight, the quotable Mr. Gaiman about political correctness, and the interesting Mrs. LeGuin about how science fiction and writing changed as she has been writing. Also, an affectionate cat and tentacles. And tips for improving writing, in addition to doing more writing.
How do people practice love? Sometimes, that also means figuring out how to do things that the RA training doesn't cover.
What was the story of Susan Pevensie after she was written out of Narnia? Presumably, it was a good and long life, full of activism and bucking social trends.
If you are looking for a dose of humor in an otherwise academic paper, look to the acknowledgements section. There's a lot to be had in snark and shout-outs there.
40 million cards were stolen from Target. Not too soon after, they could be bought online and used to commit fraud.
A Harvard student sent a bomb threat to get out of an examination. He used the anonymizing network TOR...from the campus wireless, which made it easier for the FBI to identify him by cross-referencing the two data points. More anonymity would have made it harder, whether by using public wireless or by having more people using TOR.
And in encryption, a paper purporting a method to extract RSA cryptographic keys by using a sufficiently sensitive microphone at close range to capture the acoustic leakage from a computer voltage regulator during the decryption of specifically crafted ciphertexts. The attack apparently can also be executed using the attacker as a conduit that allows for the measurement of differences in current. The researchers provided countermeasures against their methods before publishing, so later implementations of crypto can defeat these attacks.
A six year-old child who forced a kiss on a classmate has had the sexual harrassment complaint against him dropped. This has apparently also brought out many comments claiming that there is far too much hullabaloo about a kid and a kiss, but think of it this way: if we want to teach children that there are wanted and unwanted touches with regard to grown-ups, and we teach kids about aggressive gestures that have to be curbed for the classroom to work, then we should take it seriously when one child gives another an unwanted touch, regardless of how its coded. Boundaries have to be learned, and earlier is better than later. And we wouldn't want to perpetuate the misogynist idea that women's boundaries are okay to ignore, now would we?
We must trust children and teens can handle serious issues like suicide, and then take them seriously when they tell us they have issues that lead toward ideation.
Leaking information tells us of two Americas, one an empire determined to keep its processes entirely secret from everyone, the other a democracy that demands to know what the government is doing in their name, and further demands a voice in making decisions going forward, because they are very unhappy about the way things are going now.
A fragrance campaign chooses to use a tattooed BBW for their glamour shots. Considering who is normally in those shots, this is different and edgy. Elsewhere in artistic expression, the use of from machines and electronic construction sparks a debate in metal communities about whether the machines are losing the soul of the music in their quest for speed.
We need more than just three ways of expressing gender. We need to not ask for it unless absolutely necessary.
A fifth grader wrote and delivered a first-rate speech about tge evils done in the name of religion, and was selected to represent his school at a county-level competition...until his school attempted to censor his work, ostensibly because they believed students couldn't handle topics like mass murder in the name of religion. Head. Desk. Thankfully, the school reversed, and the student went on to win the higher-level competition. The more we trust children to be able to handle big things, the better we educate them.
A Methodist minister officiated a wedding in a state where that marriage was legal, for his son, and was defrocked after a congregation member in his home state complained. As one might guess, the wedding was between two men. Aside from the church doctrine that forbade the officiating, there was no other reason to complain.
Grief may be alleviated best by laughing and smiling, but not because the grief is not intense, but because people are wired to return to normal. Which is weird, in its own way, because it means a lot of things that are important fade.
After the FAA proposed changes to rules that would allow mobile phone voice calls on airplanes, two Senators swiftly rushed to propose a bill that would ban voice calls.
Internet traffic intended for specific destinations was discovered to have been rerouted through unintended destinations thanks to taking advantage of trust in the way Internet traffic is routed. So unencrypted anything was potentially intercepted and/or modified before being sent on to its destination. Wouldn't it be nice if our ISPs encrypted everything by default before sending it off to another network?
60 Minutes and the NSA want you to believe that they are saving the country and world against malicious hackers that wanted to shut down all America's computers and other similar cartoon-villain plots. Over here in reality, a federal judge has ruled that the NSA's warrantless collection of phone metadata is uncsontitutional, a ruling that will be appealed by the agency, because they don't want to have to respect the law. The judge ruled that the government's precedent claims are in such a different telecommunications realm that old ruling don't apply to the new world. And then another judge ruled the metadata collection was entirely legal.
The Obama Administration admits the previous Administration started widespread Internet traffic collection, makes a case that the NSA should remain secret.
Bluetooth Low Energy and geofencing are helping to make our smartphones smarter without draining the battery pinging satellites. As one might guess, advertising is taking the lead on how to exploit this new idea.
The linguistics of the dialect developing on the Interwebs are fascinating, and possibly making language shifts happen off-line as well, much to the annoyance of teachers and managers everywhere.
Last for tonight, the quotable Mr. Gaiman about political correctness, and the interesting Mrs. LeGuin about how science fiction and writing changed as she has been writing. Also, an affectionate cat and tentacles. And tips for improving writing, in addition to doing more writing.
How do people practice love? Sometimes, that also means figuring out how to do things that the RA training doesn't cover.
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Date: 2014-01-01 09:09 pm (UTC)