Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious Bloggers are plagarists? “[R]esearchers have discovered that authors of popular blog sites regularly borrow topics from lesser-known bloggers — and they often do so without attribution.” Here are several people linking to this article: http://contrafactos.blogspot.com/http://sapventures.typepad.com/main/http://www.geekpress.com/http://neotheologue.blogspot.com/http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/http://strategize.blogspot.com/http://www.wordsoup.com/word/http://stormy.tblog.com/http://www.unstruct.org/http://www.kenjioba.net/blogger/From BlogPulse
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Francis Perkins on Social Insurance (what ultimately became Social Security): It has taken the rapid industrialization of the last few decades, with its mass-production methods, to teach us that a man might become a victim of circumstances far beyond his control, and finally it “took a depression to dramatize for us the appalling insecurity of the…
Yesterday was a good test of electronic voting. Georgia, California, and Maryland all use electronic kiosk touchscreen voting systems. Of course, there were problems making the electronic voting work. Not that punch-card or paper balloting do not run into the occasional problems. MORE 5:20 PM: A blog (more or less) from a computer science faculty member strongly opposed…
There seem to be a ton of computer worm variants hitting the Internet lately. Kudos to those technicians putting in overtime to identify them. My favorite social engineering worm (at the moment) is WORM_BAGLE.J (aka W32/Bagle-J). Dear user of e-mail server “___”, Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing from your email account,…
It wasn’t the Chicxulub asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. It was 3 asteroids + excessive volacanism. Heard on the radio Gerta is bunk because her methodology is flawed. So, I am thinking that while some doubted an asteroid impact could have killed off the dinosaurs, this new theory will also be doubted. <sarcasm>Anyway, all that is…
Yesterday was a good test of electronic voting. Georgia, California, and Maryland all use electronic kiosk touchscreen voting systems. Of course, there were problems making the electronic voting work. Not that punch-card or paper balloting do not run into the occasional problems. MORE 5:20 PM: A blog (more or less) from a computer science faculty member…