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7/30/10
TechNews for the week: July 30; July 28; July 26;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation; Leaked files lay bare war; View Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War;
Top U.S. officer warns Afghan war will get worse; Afghan intelligence contracts apply some limits; Afghan police fire shots to quell protest after accident;
Audit Pentagon can't account for how it spent $2.6 billion in Iraqi funds; 95 percent of $9.1 billion Iraq reconstruction fund cannot be account for;
Federal records show steady stream of oil spills in gulf since 1964; Federal probe finds a series of iffy decisions;
Battle looms on tax breaks; Digging into finance's pay dirt;
Senate Republicans block legislation on political ad disclosures; Republicans continue Senate filibuster of small-business bill;
Prominent GOP donors charged with massive fraud;
Federal judge blocks key parts of Arizona immigration law;
FBI director defends bureau over test cheating;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
Wolfram Alpha widgets bring computation engine to any website;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
First Amendment, Free Speech
Privacy issues
Homeland Security
Other News
Parents Behaving Badly via Text Messages;
360 Panorama does instant, awesome panoramas;
Education:
Panel says Universities Can Save Millions by Cutting Administrative Waste; Economy Slows Colleges' Ability to Hire and Delays Retirements;
Survey: Colleges Are Spending More on Marketing Themselves;
State Budgets Begin a Long Climb Out of the Red;
Report: Teacher-Education Programs Are Unaccountable and Undemanding;
Connecticut State U. System Cuts Raises for Chancellor and Presidents; Chicago City Colleges to Lay Off 225 Employees;
Hedge-Fund Manager Pleads Guilty to Multimillion-Dollar Swindle of 4 Universities; U. of Michigan major donor charged with fraud;
Closer Look at 'Gainful Employment';
Students Not as Web Savvy as They Think They Are; 5 Lecturecasting Tools That I Can't Live Without (and Why);
As college text prices soar, students get a rental option; Justice Department Weighs Putting Web Sites Under Disability Rules;
NCAA Punishes U. of Arizona basketball program; NCAA sending strong message to SEC programs;
The underbelly of college sports; The Regressive Athletics Tax;
Man who helped commercialize college sports now wants athletes to get their due;
U Wisconsin - Milwaukee Facing Athletics Deficit sends basketball team to Italy;
7/23/10
TechNews for the week: July 23; July 21; July 19;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Report: Top Secret America; Part 2: National Security, Inc; Part 3 Next-door secrets and more;
Afghan leaders cutting ties with Karzai; Afghanistan, Pakistan reach trade agreement; India, Iran distrustful of renewed Afghan-Pakistan ties;
Records Show Doubts on ’64 Vietnam Crisis;
Anger in America;
Technician: Deepwater Horizon warning system disabled to prevent 'false alarms'; BP caught using altered image of command center;
As credit card holders play it safe, issuers increase non-penalty service fees; Bailed-out banks overpaid execs;
GOP senators move to block FCC on Net neutrality;
White House predicts record $1.47 trillion deficit;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
Fixing the flaws in North American maps;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
First Amendment, Free Speech
Homeland Security
Other News
12 reasons Your Boss Is Clueless; The Age of Obfuscation;
Astrophotography; MC Escher panorama;
Violating Web Site Rules Not A Crime;
U Chicago Math Biologist Says Robots' Future May Lie In Taking Delegated Tasks.; Your own Robot Scientist;
Education:
Report card for Schools of Education; the article; Many States Adopt National Standards for Their Schools;
Education Department posts 'Gainful Employment' Rule to regulate debt by students at for-profit colleges;
New Earmark Limits Make Universities Desired Partners, but Some Just Say No;
19 Community Colleges Will Take Part in Remedial-Math Experiment; Winthrop Tackles Student Retention with Web-Based Alert System;
Does Financial Lit Change Student Behavior? One Researcher Says 'Yes and No';
Faculty, IT Diverge on the Importance of Classroom Tech; Robots Make Computer Science Fun Again;
Tennessee State's Defense of Itself Draws More Criticism; 5% of medical residents plagiarize personal essays;
U of Idaho to study decline in STEM enrollment;
Judge says cheerleading is not a sport;
So. Cal hires former FBI head to clean up its athletic program;
7/16/10
TechNews for the week: July 16; July 14; July 12;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Petraeus runs into resistance by Karzai over village defense forces; Karzai finally approves plan; Karzai to ask U.N. to trim blacklist of Taliban figures;
BP well remains sealed as pressure tests continue; Lessons from Exxon Valdez spill have gone unheeded;
Senate approves landmark financial overhaul; Financial regulation moves into new era; GOP has no problem adding $678 billion to debt for tax cuts for the rich;
More setbacks for campaign finance rules; lawmakers, staffers get free golf;
Doctors among those arrested in $251M Medicare scams;
Ex-Justice official: detainee questionings may have exceeded limits; U.S. paid $5 million to Iranian scientist;
Profiling's enabler: High court ruling underpins Arizona immigration law;
2008 voter-intimidation case against New Black Panthers riles the right;
Automated Debt-Collection Lawsuits Engulf Courts;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Patent issues
First Amendment, Free Speech
Other News
In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don't Matter Don't Matter; Arizona ignores the facts;
Airlines CEO Defends Fees: Says Bags Are 'Not Essential' For Vacations;
Education:
Governors Unveil Their Own Effort to Get More Students Through College;
Many More Students Are Defaulting Than Official Tallies Show; Education Dept. Audit Finds 2 Lenders Violated Ban on Inducements;
Audit: Sallie Mae Gave Illicit Incentives for Loans at Corinthian; Short-Sellers New Foe of For-Profits in Regulation Battle;
For Colleges in Some States, Financial Relief Is Far Off; Oregon Universities Ask State for More Autonomy;
Can Students Expect Study Guides for Tests?; Is cheating epidemic a result of lazy faculty? Technologically Illiterate Students;
U South Carolina ponders unusual $4.8 million question; West Virginia Treasurer's Daughter Sues Marshall U., Alleging Privacy Violation;
Tennessee State U. Professors Led Campaign to Oust President;
Beleaguered Birmingham-Southern College Makes Sweeping Budget Cuts;
U Calif faculty wants athletic support cut in half; the report;
Taking Athletic Branding Seriously; Study: Distracting the Kicker;
Four students sue Savannah State for pulling football scholarships; NCAA Violations at Ball State U.;
7/9/10
TechNews for the week: July 9; July 7;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Afghans view police, judiciary as corrupt ; War costs: Afghan outpaces Iraq's;
Petraeus takes command in Afghanistan, pledging victory; Soldiers say: 'This is not how you fight a war';
General picked to lead operations in Afghanistan, Middle East know for 'It's fun to shoot some people';
Turkey threatens to sever ties with Israel over deadly flotilla raid ;
FBI spent nearly decade pursuing spy suspects in bid to gain counterintelligence; U.S. weighed spy swap well before 'sleeper' agents were arrested;
BP falling far short of claims on oil removal;
State and local gov't workers' job security fades; Old technology foils Schwarzenegger's wage order;
Justice Department files suit against Arizona on its new immigration law; Nov. ballot question: Should the Constitution be rewritten every generation?
The partisan rancor beneath Boehner's rhetoric;
Reid, D-Nev. Takes Down Website After Demand from Opponent; Tea party star on hot seat over comments;
With Help From Universities, Companies Get Around Earmark Ban;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
Review: Dan Bricklin's Note Taker HD Puts The "Pad" in iPad;
A Gentle Introduction to Parallel Programming;
Google obsoletes YouTube app for iPhone;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Homeland Security
Other News
Mathematics offers innovative weapons for fighting terrorism;
Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster; 10 excuses your boss doesn't want to hear;
Bill Would Require Sales Tax Collection Online;
From metal to money: Making America's coins;
Education:
National Conference of State Legislatures Report on State Finances; New Web Tool Helps Both Experts and Public Grasp Colleges' Costs;
Financial Pressures Grow on New Jersey's Public Universities; Many Higher-Education Nonprofit Organizations Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status;
Educators Strive To Keep Pace With High-Tech Cheating; Videos: YouTube and Context; Research Links Bullying With Lack Of Problem-Solving Skills;
Roger Williams U. President Resigns Abruptly;
College athletics in 2010: The Intersection of Conference Realignment and Transparency; USC Disqualified From Football Coaches' Poll;
U Georgia football player charged with misdemeanor after he either wouldn't or couldn't give his middle name;
7/2/10
TechNews for the week: June 30; June 28;
War Politics and Reports (Also, see Free Speech and Homeland Security)
Karzai aides impeding derailing corruption cases involving elite; CIA chief: Afghan insurgents show no real interest in reconciliation talks;
Some Afghan military officers to receive training in Pakistan; Audit: U.S. too upbeat on Afghan capabilities; Endless war, a recipe for four-star arrogance;
Democrats cast doubts on Obama's Afghan policy; GOP head says we can't win in Afghanistan;
Risk-tolerant China investing heavily in Iraq as U.S. companies hold back;
Judge in drilling case held stock in oil company affected by moratorium; Oil-spill victims compensated for lost wages will have to pay taxes;
Second pipe may have crippled BP well's defense mechanism;
June Unemployment rate falls, but job momentum weak; Recession hits half of U.S. workforce; Calif Gov orders min wage for state workers;
For G-20, a struggle over growth and debt;
House passes financial overhaul; AIG Financial Products leader to testify on Capitol Hill; Goldman Sachs wants share of AIG's bailout money;
Supreme Court rules: Cities cannot restrict gun ownership; preserves Sarbanes-Oxley; passes on tobacco cases, takes on Ariz. immigration law;
Goofs mar Palin's Reagan college tribute, legal fund appeal;
Ex-employees say TSA makes air safety worse;
Information technology:
Security issues
Design issues
Other news
"Smart Sheets" Fold Themselves Into A Variety Of Shapes;
Apache Unleashes New Tomcat Open-Source Web Server;
Net politics:
Good sources include Politechbot.com and Greplaw (cyberlaw forum at Harvard Law School);
Patent issues
Homeland Security
Other News
Historians and Political Scholars Rate the Presidents;
Naval Academy's Induction Day;
For Pioneering Russian Mathematician, rejects $1-million Millennium Prize;
Education:
Inadequate Grant Aid Hurts Low-Income Students' Chances of Earning Degrees;
Report Highlights Steps States Can Take to Close College-Readiness Gap;
Wall Street Reform and Student Loans;
Southern Accreditor Acts on Several Colleges; South Carolina State U.'s Board Rehires President It Ousted 2 Weeks Ago;
Study: Students Think Schools Inadequately Incorporating Technology Into Learning; Is being tech savvy a requirement for being competent?
Social Media Pervasive in Admissions Practices; Federal rules on campus file sharing take effect; Hacking Your Library's Catalog: SMS and RSS;
Loopholes? 'Double Dipping' College Employees;
Grambling State University audit uncovers loss of $1M; Naval Academy 'Slush Fund' discovered;
Dana College Announces It Will Close; Regent U. Gets a Bailout From Pat Robinson's TV Network, Moody's Outlook Remains Negative;
U. Southern California Files Appeal of NCAA Penalties; Big Athletic Money in Michigan; West Virginia U tension between building and finances; athletics in control;