Frontline ran a show early in the Bush administration on how the DOJ under Ashcroft was gearing up to go after porn. (I don't have time to search the PBS site for you -- but I'm sure it's there.) Then the Admin got sidetracked by more sensational and politically useful (for a while) wars -- War on Terror, War in Iraq, etc. Now that that's under control (wink), they can get back to basics here on the homefront for their base.
Never saw catch27 before this -- pretty cool. But then I loved baseball cards growing up. It's much slicker than myspace. But then so was Friendster.
Still, I'm having trouble getting excited by another web 2.0 concept. Tipping point? Hell, I'm at the gagging point. As much as I'd love to create my own baseball card/music video/t-shirt, I'm at the point that I'd really rather just spend a couple hours in the sun.
Sounds like a policy well-suited to mature students in a class with a well-organized syllabus that can be independently followed.
From my experience teaching lower-division composition and prereuisite humanities classes (I'm from the other side of the academy), such a policy would be maybe not a disaster, but self-reinforcing, as the students who really need to show up to lecture and section, of course, would be the ones absent. And I would guess that a majority of the students who would do just fine on their own would actually be the first ones showing up to class.
I'm always open to progressive innovative teaching methodologies and wouldn't discourage a little experimentation. I would just be prepared, where undergraduates (or law students) are involved, for things to go badly.
Tom
P.S. Like the INTERNET OFF button idea -- it should be connected to one of those red signs that light up -- like they use for applause in tv studios.
Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
but doesn't elaborate.
I've always wondered about extension security. I looked into it a bit a while ago and came to the conclusion that it relied on the integrity/reputation of the developer and the vigilance of the community.
Maybe somewhere here knows the answers to these questions or can shoot back a link:
Are there any safeguards within the browser architecture itself that would, say, prevent an extension that blocked pop-ups from logging keystrokes or otherwise acting as spyware?
How are extensions reviewed before being linked from the Mozilla developers' page? Is that the job of the comments section at the bottom of the page?
I've always been amused by search result comparisons -- especially when they compare total results since most results beyond the first 1000 (as in the case of Google or Yahoo) are inaccessible.
What's the point, for instance, of Google saying there are 16,000,000 results for your query when they will only show you the first 700? I think this is even true of their API.
Incidentally, if for some reason you need to quickly find the last known google result, there's always http://www.lastgoogle.com/.
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Frontline ran a show early in the Bush administration on how the DOJ under Ashcroft was gearing up to go after porn. (I don't have time to search the PBS site for you -- but I'm sure it's there.) Then the Admin got sidetracked by more sensational and politically useful (for a while) wars -- War on Terror, War in Iraq, etc. Now that that's under control (wink), they can get back to basics here on the homefront for their base.
Can they recover in time for 2010?
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http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/ast
Never saw catch27 before this -- pretty cool. But then I loved baseball cards growing up. It's much slicker than myspace. But then so was Friendster.
Still, I'm having trouble getting excited by another web 2.0 concept. Tipping point? Hell, I'm at the gagging point. As much as I'd love to create my own baseball card/music video/t-shirt, I'm at the point that I'd really rather just spend a couple hours in the sun.
zombo.com?
I'm looking forward to the day when my Sims avatar can spend 2/3 of his life playing Sim World of Warcraft.
Have there been any documented cases of malicious extensions?
Sounds like a policy well-suited to mature students in a class with a well-organized syllabus that can be independently followed.
From my experience teaching lower-division composition and prereuisite humanities classes (I'm from the other side of the academy), such a policy would be maybe not a disaster, but self-reinforcing, as the students who really need to show up to lecture and section, of course, would be the ones absent. And I would guess that a majority of the students who would do just fine on their own would actually be the first ones showing up to class.
I'm always open to progressive innovative teaching methodologies and wouldn't discourage a little experimentation. I would just be prepared, where undergraduates (or law students) are involved, for things to go badly.
Tom
P.S. Like the INTERNET OFF button idea -- it should be connected to one of those red signs that light up -- like they use for applause in tv studios.
I like this strategy. After a couple decades in school, I ended up with a system something like it.
I think it's especially well-suited to a del.icio.us-marked, Google-indexed, search-ready information age.
Requiring students to actually show up to class?
I looked at the Mozilla page. It states:
Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
but doesn't elaborate.
I've always wondered about extension security. I looked into it a bit a while ago and came to the conclusion that it relied on the integrity/reputation of the developer and the vigilance of the community.
Maybe somewhere here knows the answers to these questions or can shoot back a link:
Are there any safeguards within the browser architecture itself that would, say, prevent an extension that blocked pop-ups from logging keystrokes or otherwise acting as spyware?
How are extensions reviewed before being linked from the Mozilla developers' page? Is that the job of the comments section at the bottom of the page?
Can extensions be unsafe?
Tom
Good. Maybe someday can resurrect this project on sourceforge and finally put an end to this absurd war in Iraq.
Tom
King of the hill is a good show!
Agreed. Think of it as redneck Futuruma.
It was from Tron Guy that I learned the most important lesson of life on the Game Grid:
When going up against a Master Control Program, always wear your finest fabric-painted unitard.
Exactly.
See also: medicare drug plan
with no one around... does it exist?
I've always been amused by search result comparisons -- especially when they compare total results since most results beyond the first 1000 (as in the case of Google or Yahoo) are inaccessible.
What's the point, for instance, of Google saying there are 16,000,000 results for your query when they will only show you the first 700? I think this is even true of their API.
Incidentally, if for some reason you need to quickly find the last known google result, there's always http://www.lastgoogle.com/.
has anyone pounced on pepelep.eu?
jonfavre.au? I guess that's Australian. (Or is it Austrian?)