History of Information (VIII)
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Background The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program – a program that makes certain communications technology more affordable for eligible schools and libraries.
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AFP: Google explains racist, anti-Semitic search results
WASHINGTON — Google is running advertisements to explain the appearance of racist and anti-Semitic material in search results, including a picture which depicts US First Lady Michelle Obama as a monkey. "Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries," the Mountain View, California-based search giant said in an ad signed "The Google Team." "We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google," Google said. The Google ad appears on a page of image search results for Michelle Obama which includes the offensive depiction of the wife of President Barack Obama. "Search engines are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the Internet," Google said. "The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results.""The Franklin Prophecy" , sometimes called "The Franklin Forgery", is an antisemitic speech falsely attributed to Benjamin Franklin , warning of the supposed dangers of admitting Jews to the nascent United States . The speech was purportedly transcribed by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but was unknown before its appearance in 1934 in the pages of William Dudley Pelley's Silver Legion pro- Nazi weekly magazine Liberation . (Pinckney wrote that he had kept a journal of the Convention, but it has never been found, and Pelley's claims that it was printed privately, and that the Franklin Institute has a manuscript copy, are unsubstantiated.)
The Franklin Prophecy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anti-Semitic Myth: The Franklin "Prophecy" - Part 1
Introduction This article, which thoroughly documents the history of the transparent fraud known as the Franklin "Prophecy", appeared almost forty-five years ago in the April-May 1954 issue of Facts, a publication of the Anti-Defamation League. At the time, the authors wrote "This 20-year-old anti-Semitic hoax is circulating again." Today, more than sixty-five years after it was manufactured, the "Prophecy" it is still circulating, a staple of anti-Semitic propaganda. It can be found on a number of web sites maintained by haters and hate-groups.
The Underground Web
Warning: You are about to enter the dark side of the Internet. It's a place where crime is rampant and every twisted urge can be satisfied. Thousands of virtual streets are lined with casinos, porn shops, and drug dealers. Scam artists and terrorists skulk behind seemingly lawful Web sites. And cops wander through once in a while, mostly looking lost.
Can knowledge be sticky, leaky and intangible? As I wind down. I want to talk about a paradox. And actually, this example came to me as a paradox.
paradox of knowledge-Can knowledge be sticky,leaky and intangible-its contradictory qualities
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, Turner
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This draft is based on a presentation found at http://ull.horizonlive.com/launcher.cgi?channel=WFS_JM_2002_0725_1507_58 and is posted here for discussion at the September 24, 2002 webcast. In speech 101 I was taught to begin a presentation with an attention-getter, and this one, "The University is Dead! Long Live the University!" fit quite nicely—both in getting your attention, and in suggesting that colleges and universities are in a major transition period that will fundamentally affect the way they conduct their business.
The University is Dead
MY WIFE IS MAD AT COMPUTERS. “Those awful machines,” she calls them. “How they mess up our credit card accounts! Imagine sending a bill for $232.24 every month for four months after you’ve paid it!” But I’m not mad.
Behold the Computer Revolution
chief of confusion
In contrast to bombs, viruses, whether bioengineered or software engineered, pose insidious and invisible threats. And whereas only states had the infrastructure and finances to develop the former, the latter may need only cheap, readily available devices to instigate irreversible threats to all humanity. Able to take advantage of our dense, social and technological interconnections to replicate, these threats will spread from obscure beginnings to devastating ends-as the “I love you” virus spread from student’s computer in Manila to cripple computers around the world.
United Kingdom Alfred Marshall (born 26 July 1842 in Bermondsey , London , England, died 13 July 1924 in Cambridge , England) was one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics (1890), was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. It brings the ideas of supply and demand , marginal utility , and costs of production into a coherent whole. He is known as one of the founders of economics .
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Since Cairncross (1997), the notion of the “death of distance” has gained traction, both in the work of academics but more especially in the popular image of globalisation. Citing radical improvements in the cost and efficacy of long-distance communication and transportation, Cairncross depicts a world marked by the free movement of goods, people, and ideas. Unfortunately, this prognosis has been difficult to identify in present-day trade data. One of the first studies to recognise this was Leamer and Levinsohn (1995), who write “that the effect of distance on trade patterns is not diminishing over time. Contrary to popular impression, the world is not getting dramatically smaller”. Taking this view as a starting point, a string of papers has strongly confirmed their initial results.
Revisiting the death of distance | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
A Rape in Cyberspace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
" A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society " is an article written by freelance journalist Julian Dibbell and first published in The Village Voice in 1993. The article was later included in Dibbell's book My Tiny Life on his LambdaMOO experiences. Lawrence Lessig has said that his chance reading of Dibbell's article was a key influence on his interest in the field. [ 1 ] Sociologist David Trend called it "one of the most frequently cited essays about cloaked identity in cyberspace". [ 2 ] [ edit ] Summary "A Rape in Cyberspace" describes a "cyberrape" in a multi-player computer game or MUD called LambdaMOO , the repercussions of this act on the virtual community and subsequent changes to the design of the MUD program.Ryan Giggs is probably not a big fan of Twitter at the moment - in which case he may have found an ally in Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the internet. The scientist has said he finds the social networking website "extreme" and unsophisticated, a view that may be shared by the Manchester United player after his privacy injunction was undermined by its users. Berners-Lee's problem with Twitter concerns the idea of 'net neutrality' - the belief that all information on the internet should be treated equally - and the sharing of data. The scientist, who is himself a user of Twitter and has more than 45,000 followers, told a conference on the New Web at the Royal Society in London that because tweets are limited to 140 characters they tended to be blunt and opinionated. "Twitter isn't designed for the middle ground," he said.