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"General Motors announced in 2005 that it expects it could have a self-driving car that could pilot itself in heavy traffic at a speed of up to 60 mph in production by 2008." From: http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web...

I found it, or at least a similar picture:
http://facstaff.elon.edu/efink/images/lawsuit.jpg

Danah Boyd had a lot of very similar things to say at www2010, and it is worth mentioning:
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/futureweb2010/danah_boyd_www_keynote.xhtml

And I am sure others have reached similar conclusions also, but Paul Adams is definitely not the first to mention the problems of having one "public". Danah goes further and challenges the common notion of privacy more generically than just focusing on social network systems.

I'm not trying to endorse either the Cuban lifestyle or Michael Moore here, but that is actually partially true. The Cuban healthcare system runs far more efficiently than the one in the US, at least as far as the numbers are concerned.

Yes, when you pay doctors less it is amazing how efficient medical care can be! US doctors make about twice the OECD average, for example. Or you can look at how Wal-Mart medical clinics are using cheaper nurses to triage patients and treat simple problems without bringing in an expensive doctor, but of course the AMA is opposing these kinds of clinics.

On the other hand, US Medicare just blocked reducing payments to doctors, so you can imagine that "US Socialized Healthcare" will be more expensive than anyone else's with poor results, just like our socialized education system...

The US also isn't willing to engage in malpractice tort reform which could save nearly 50% of costs due to decreases in "defensive medicine"

I personally prefer internet radio for most of listening. With the students' iTunes collections shared, it's like having a completely on-demand internet radio, that almost never suffers bottlenecks.

We're also pretty good about keeping after virii, and get most machines patched within a couple days of a new breakout (part of this is by semi-enforcing XP for PC users).

Thought it wont necessarily help with Sasser, if you get a blaster or similar type of RPC attack, you can bring up the Run box and type in "shutdown -a" and it will prevent the machine from being rebooted by blaster or welchia or the like.

I used this at work all the time to get the patch installed so we could clean and patch the PCs.

Another suggestion, albeit an obvious one, is to put the most essential stuff on a USB drive or mini CD, and just slap on those before you do plug in the network. I made a "SasserAssassin" tool (in C++) that just killed and deleted any running Sasser copies and then applied the patch from MS. (only limitation is it wont delete system restore copies of it)

Anyone is welcome to download a copy of it at http://jayloden.com/SasserAssasinXP.exe or http://jayloden.com/SasserAssassin2000.exe (pick your OS version, obviously) if it helps you out.

This is how I always worked with computers at my university. There's no need to go through the hassle of downloading all the updates to CD, since all you really need are the major ones. In addition, there is http://autopatcher.com which handles that for you pretty nicely, including some extra goodies. Hope some of this info helps.

-Jay

note: just in case, I've got a backup copy of SasserAssassin located at http://elon.edu/student/jaleman/SasserAssassinXP.e xe and http://elon.edu/student/jaleman/SasserAssassin2000 .exe

Thought it wont necessarily help with Sasser, if you get a blaster or similar type of RPC attack, you can bring up the Run box and type in "shutdown -a" and it will prevent the machine from being rebooted by blaster or welchia or the like.

I used this at work all the time to get the patch installed so we could clean and patch the PCs.

Another suggestion, albeit an obvious one, is to put the most essential stuff on a USB drive or mini CD, and just slap on those before you do plug in the network. I made a "SasserAssassin" tool (in C++) that just killed and deleted any running Sasser copies and then applied the patch from MS. (only limitation is it wont delete system restore copies of it)

Anyone is welcome to download a copy of it at http://jayloden.com/SasserAssasinXP.exe or http://jayloden.com/SasserAssassin2000.exe (pick your OS version, obviously) if it helps you out.

This is how I always worked with computers at my university. There's no need to go through the hassle of downloading all the updates to CD, since all you really need are the major ones. In addition, there is http://autopatcher.com which handles that for you pretty nicely, including some extra goodies. Hope some of this info helps.

-Jay

note: just in case, I've got a backup copy of SasserAssassin located at http://elon.edu/student/jaleman/SasserAssassinXP.e xe and http://elon.edu/student/jaleman/SasserAssassin2000 .exe

U.S. reactors literally cannot go Chernobyl in the event of failure.

Even Chernobyl wouldn't have gone Chernobyl if the stupid bastards running the plant hadn't disabled all the safeties and forced it into that state.

Link above is from a Google search so here's the cache link as well.

"Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes" -Edsgar Dijkstra

That's not to say that, however, that understanding machine code is not a useful skill, but it is certainly the wrong approach to teaching "computer science." When searching for this quote, I found this page which outlines why "computer science" is not about "hardware" at all.

We offer a math & origami class at the university where I teach: Origami of Math It's writing-intensive too, if you can believe that! :) -megan