Requiring software vendors to build intercept functionality into their products is unwise and will be ineffective, with the result being serious consequences for the economic well being and national security of the United States. See https://www.cdt.org/files/pdfs/CALEAII-techreport.pdf
for more details. http://wh.gov/Skyk
Please go to link and sign,
I wish I had confidence that Obama's economic folks are reading the right solutions that are being put forward. My concern is that the economy will stay bad until there is liquidity in the housing market.
Most of the proposals I see to address that try to help people keep prices at the last sale value which is artificially inflating prices over the current market clearing amount. The Economist had an article on this:
It not only has a proposal based on things that have been done before, to avoid foreclosures while lowering house prices to the market rate, but also addresses the connectivity risk between banks and other financial institutions.
Anyone interested in thinking carefully about future economic policy should read this paper.
Also I would think that a Slashdot crowd would like Obama's team to read 'The Gridlock Economy' which addresses among other things the significant negative economic affect of our intellectual property system - an issue near and dear to many slashdot readers.
I like the idea of setting what has to be learned in a semester or year, and once students have tested to show their proficiency, they are on vacation for rest of that period which should be a fair reward to learn. Other permutations involve students having options between different, more flexible, more fun or on to the next curriculum - once they have have tested out. I think this plan would make learning way more popular.
There is an April 19 dialogue between Will Wilkinson and Clay Shirky on:
http://bloggingheads.tv/ specifically http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/10353
that turned me on to Clay Shirky, I haven't ordered his book yet, but it is
on my Amazon wish list;->
Slashdot Mirror
Requiring software vendors to build intercept functionality into their products is unwise and will be ineffective, with the result being serious consequences for the economic well being and national security of the United States. See https://www.cdt.org/files/pdfs/CALEAII-techreport.pdf for more details. http://wh.gov/Skyk Please go to link and sign,
I wish I had confidence that Obama's economic folks are reading the right solutions
that are being put forward. My concern is that the economy will stay bad until there
is liquidity in the housing market.
Most of the proposals I see to address that try to help people keep prices at the last
sale value which is artificially inflating prices over the current market clearing
amount. The Economist had an article on this:
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12470547
which cites Luigi Zingales - Plan B paper.
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/luigi.zingales/research/PSpapers/plan_b.pdf
It not only has a proposal based on things that have been done before, to avoid foreclosures
while lowering house prices to the market rate, but also addresses the connectivity risk
between banks and other financial institutions.
Anyone interested in thinking carefully about future economic policy should read this paper.
Also I would think that a Slashdot crowd would like Obama's team to read 'The Gridlock
Economy' which addresses among other things the significant negative economic affect of
our intellectual property system - an issue near and dear to many slashdot readers.
I like the idea of setting what has to be learned in a semester or year, and once students have tested to show their proficiency, they are on vacation for rest of that period which should be a fair reward to learn. Other permutations involve students having options between different, more flexible, more fun or on to the next curriculum - once they have have tested out. I think this plan would make learning way more popular.
There is an April 19 dialogue between Will Wilkinson and Clay Shirky on: http://bloggingheads.tv/ specifically http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/10353 that turned me on to Clay Shirky, I haven't ordered his book yet, but it is on my Amazon wish list ;->