Peter Wood and Peter Lake from the Chronicle Point: The Public Has a Right to Know By Peter Wood The (Republican request for (aculty emails) has been widely interpreted as a political reprisal, and I see no reason to disagree. A week later, a conservative-leaning think tank sent a similar [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Net Neutrality’
April 5th, 2011 - 10:29 am § in Uncategorized
We need privacy of conversation .. in text, twit, or talk!
April 2nd, 2011 - 11:59 pm § in Uncategorized
Got Google? .. talk with the Google
Welcome to Google Talk Guru! HAL 9000 RECOMMENDED! Get started! Send a chat invitation to [email protected]. Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat application[...]
March 28th, 2011 - 1:32 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Letter seeks to reassure alumni that tenured faculty members are not under attack.
from the statesman.com more on The AVE about the University of Texas, including the effort to lower standards in a medical school. and proposals to arm the faculty. University of Texas System regents, stung by criticism a day earlier from the alumni association at UT-Austin, pledged support Friday f[...]
Ran Yunfei (冉云飞): Another Chinese Imprisoned for Daring to Use Free Speech
Ran Yunfei (冉云飞) has been sentenced to ten years for advocating free speech on his blog. “In a free country I would happily spend my life in the library doing research. But I live in a country where I cannot in good conscience merely live such a a life. I feel that I have no […][...]
March 25th, 2011 - 2:12 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
RIGHT OF FACULTY TO SPEAK OUT: Playing Zorro
GOP DEMANDS EMAILS OF UWisc. HISTORY PROFESSOR Ed. Remember Batman? How about Zorro? Batman and Zorro could fight crime only while their Bruce Wayne or Don Diego de la Vega identities were kept secret. Here on campus we are all “Zorro”: no matter how idealistic our goals might [...]
March 23rd, 2011 - 4:05 am § in Uncategorized
Microsoft Watching Over The Web
from The Microsoft Blog U.S. Marshals seized hard drives and servers at Internet service providers in seven U.S. cities including Seattle, disconnecting most of the IP addresses that controlled the botnet, according to court documents. The servers were removed as evidence and will be analyzed by Mic[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 10:03 pm § in America
Is MaBell Back?
Ed. We all made fun of MaBell .. she was a monopoly Then came court decisions and the internet phone. Free enterprise was great, while it lasted. from Bloomberg AT&T Inc. (T) agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) for about $39 billion in cash and stock to create America’s[...]
March 19th, 2011 - 7:11 am § in Uncategorized
Democrat Congressman Wants to ‘Defund’ Fox News
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) took to the House floor Thursday and said, “If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to strip funding from NPR because they believe — wrongly, in my view — that NPR is biased, then we should be given the same opportunity” and prevent taxpa[...]
March 16th, 2011 - 12:51 pm § in Politics
INTERNET OPTION: What happens when only 18 people in King County show up to vote?
Over at SLOG, Goldy has a fascinating post. In 1989 only 18 voters cast ballots countywide in the King County Conservation District (KCCD) election. The last election had a turnout of 4 votes per thousand voters. Moreover, voting is EXPENSIVE. King County Elections charges a per-voter fe[...]
March 16th, 2011 - 12:08 pm § in Religion
Denial of Service Attacks on Science Blogs
Pharyngula has been down for several days as have several other blogs housed under Scienceblogs. PZ Myers, the blogger at Pharyngula, * reports: PZ tweeted 6 hours ago: New info: We ARE under a DDoS attack, and it’s coming from Turkey and Qatar. * for those who do not know, Pharyngula is a ver[...]