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19 July, 2014
18 July, 2014
I did quite well in high school English, in fact I got an A -- back when teachers were brave enough to give out letters that indicate skill level instead of bland platitudes. But, for the life of me, I cannot understand what my kid’s teachers are saying about him. And I am not alone, when I talk to parents the most common complaint about school reports is that they have become meaningless; afraid to say anything, schools end up saying nothing. Reports become a random selection of safe words and a scale that appears to start at Good and end at Really Good.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Education
A new tamper-proof digital watermark that has been developed in Australia is promising to capture information about people who have downloaded and distributed copyright-protected material. Researchers from Deakin’s School of Information Technology, together with peers at Japan’s Aizu University, developed the technology which embeds metadata - such as a user's credit card and bank details, internet protocol (IP) address, transmission time, and received format - directly into a song or movie. "ISPs and search engines ... represent the entirety of the opportunity to access digital content," he said. "Until they fundamentally change their business practices, pirate content is largely going to continue unabated."
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
Privacy,
research
16 July, 2014
The Australian Electoral Commission has refused a Senate order to reveal the underlying source code of the EasyCount software used to tabulate votes in upper house elections. Source code release could "leave the voting system open to hacking or manipulation"
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