Saturday, April 27, 2013

St. Louis' Washington University: Free Speech For All!* (*At The Sole Discretion Of School Administration)


For some reason, higher education institutes seem to be tempted to treat adults and children candid proactively grass covering their ears and eyes to something offensive rear its ugly head and right smack soundly in their armored fists sensitivities. Critical thinking is a skill that is to be grown during the years of the formation of the person, but thanks to a series of studies overprotective political speech (often apparently designed to prevent bullying) to start primary school and continues throughout the post-secondary education, many children are now adults, fully aware that the meshes of the world and the cloistered existence they have enjoyed for the last 12-16 years.



The other strange aspect of these policies speak restriction is that universities consider champions of liberal democracy (in the classical sense) education, broaden horizons and open mind while preparing today's youth for the future. These days, almost anything is "off" or "open". Instead, students are placed in a narrow path that has been polished to a high shine by idealism wrong.

FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) was followed by the First Amendment, speech that violates university policy for a decade. Many policies have been discussed too much, but few achieve the conflicting policies dissonance of Washington University in St. Louis are related to speech.

Washington University is a private university, which gives a bit more leeway in terms of restriction of freedom of expression. However, the university said that students can enjoy the freedom of expression while enrolled.



Introduction to the University student judicial code University (PDF) states explicitly:
freedom of thought and expression is essential to the academic mission of the University. Nothing in this Code shall be construed as limiting the free and open exchange of ideas and points of view, even if this change is to be offensive, rude, annoying or disparage certain. If Washington U. had stopped there, there would be no story. It is an admirable policy, guaranteeing students freedom of expression, something that many institutions are reluctant to do, because freedom of expression can often be "offensive, rude, annoying or humiliating. "

So what's the problem? Well, it is difficult to reconcile the" essential character "of freedom of thought and expression in other parts of Political Washington U. student manual guidelines Residence Life and WUSTL procedures
define "harassment":

... any behavior that is harmful or potentially harmful to the physical, emotional or psychological well-being

determined at the sole discretion of the University

. Such behavior is subject to disciplinary action.


Washington U said "nothing in Code
be construed as limiting the free and open exchange of ideas. " I guess that's technically true. This limitation of "free and open exchange of ideas" is produced in a separate section of the policy for students. Replace this anti-bullying clause the Student Code, which makes it a Animal Farm piece -esque
policy. "Students have the right to freedom of thought and expression
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Japan clears 787s for takeoff pending FAA-approved battery fix

DNP

Japan

Cathedral transport, Akihiro Ohta, today announced that the plane of the country can not continue to fly Boeing 787 Dreamliner to land, once a system has been installed recently approved battery. "We have reached the conclusion that there is no problem with the decision of the FAA," said

of Ohta

Associated Press . In January, two separate fires caused by lithium-ion batteries of 787 led to the FAA temporarily grounded all Dreamliner.'s decision comes shortly after Japan Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said during a recent conference call tax on companies 50 aircraft, which should be set by the middle of May. Responsible for the Japanese airline predict a timetable for a little longer, with 787 in the country to return to the sky around June and test flights from April 28.

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Fruit, Yogurt, & The Other Benefits Of Being A Paid Porn Identifier In China


As someone who sees the humor to go through the news you do not, it was hard to find a lot of laughs in China using the so-called "Great Firewall ". Censorship is as terrible as it is, the stories are about tend to be sober attempts by U.S. companies to push the country towards the right side of history, or the hypocrisy of those who commit censorship. It is difficult to find a lot of humor there.


But then, as always seems to happen, those who commit evil acts come to the rescue. Censorship through automation can only go so far, after all, what gives us what is probably the largest open job listing all the time. The list identifies the role to fill as "head of pornographic identification" of the "League of security."

Position: Director of Pornographic identification
work: Beijing

Compensation: 200,000 yuan (U.S. $ 32.300) per year

Job Description: Fast Determination adult sites
Requirements:

1) must be familiar with the quality of adult content in the world

2) must be familiar with the rule of law in China regarding adult content, know the rules documented

3) must be familiar with the standards of adult content on the Internet in China and service providers
4) Regardless of gender, must be college graduate 25-35 years 5) must have a strong sense of responsibility and work well as a team
Read it, learn to love: the Chinese want to pay someone $ 32ka year for surfing Internet pornography and the highest position in the history labor. Even better are the benefits, including insurance, communication costs, daily fruit and yogurt, and obligations of birthdays and weddings. This raises the question of who might have the time for love with all that pornography be navigated immediately? In all cases, the interest in the work was ... seriously.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Amazon making a TV set-top box?

According to a new report, Amazon is prepping a TV set-top box for later this year


Amazon does not have much of hardware. However, devices that have focused on -
ahem, Kindle
- have done very well. According to a new report, which will soon be able to add another gadget Amazon to the list, the company is working on a TV decoder to compete with Roku and Apple TV ... Continue reading Amazon making a TV decoder?


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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Ross Lovegrove and Renault create the high-concept Twin'Z city-car

On the non-existent dash, a smartphone provides speed, mileage, turning signals and other ...


in automotive design there are concept cars and projects of high concepts. And now, apparently, there are concepts that exist in a seemingly ordinary LED infused. Renault, with the help of the famous British designer Ross Lovegrove took the latter course, and has developed one of the most
lit
concepts in the years to come: the style double Tron 'Concept Z. .. Continue reading Renault Ross Lovegrove and create the concept city car at high Twin'Z


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

KPMG Partner Assured Coconspirator Who Handed Him Bags Of Cash In Parking Lots That Insider Trading Wasn't Really Illegal


Swapped Dealbreaker

I do not want to give legal advice but on the other hand you can get a worse source. Scott of London, for example:

Insider trader Bryan

] Shaw said about July 2012 received a notice from Fidelity Brokerage Services Fidelity became high in your account investment. Shaw said he immediately called in London and expressed concern that the use of privileged information was discovered. Shaw said London has ensured that there was no reason to worry, and explained that the insider was like counting cards in a casino in Las Vegas - if you get stuck, ask you to leave because they can not prove it.

Oops! Six months later, the FBI came to Shaw, the incentive to cooperate to save, and now London has been charged with criminal insider trading.

is tempting to conclude that the moral of this story is "Do not take legal advice from an accountant," but in reality it's more like "do not take legal advice from his criminal co-conspirator."



This case is very rare. I mean the real case is quite annoying London as KPMG audit partner in a large number of accounts on the west coast, has information profits before it becomes public, then he gave Shaw, Shaw shares bought and options and made money on it and then literally handed literal bags full of money literally in London to thank you for the advice. After Shaw began cooperating London met a thread and what happened:

Before the meeting, the FBI provided Shaw with $ 5,000 in cash, which was placed in a manila envelope and wrapped in a black paper bag which was consistent with the way Shaw had described his hiding earlier payments he had made to London.

Oh you put money in an envelope

in a bag

? Do not get caught!



I've never understood the psychology of insider trading: Shaw would have been approximately $ 1.2 million and paid $ 50,000 in London, I can not imagine what it's worth going to jail for. But reading this complaint that you feel that the drama came psychic satisfaction of the following: "Oh, look at us, we are the major internal fish traders with our black paper

bags "London insider was not exactly full of drama and insight:

LONDON Shaw asked me if I should buy [HLF], and London, said usually the course of action would amount based on profits that were to be released, but has been very volatile, so it was hard to tell. LONDON confirmed that management would be high, but said he "know exactly." ...

LONDON and Shaw discussed how the share price jumped Herbalife recently when Carl Icahn purchased a large block of shares. LONDON Shaw said: "I wish I knew I was going to drop it and we could make some money" LONDON answered. "Yes, it would have been" LONDON

reference and rumors had spread Herbalife recently about privatization, which had been the subject of several reports London said. "This is where you make a lot of money. .. because, you know, we know. " LONDON then advised that if this were to happen, "What we need to do is, when I know that you will begin to happen, what you do is start buying only small blocks, the right to not to attract attention and then, you know, it's a little weird at all. "
  • Basically
  • met and fantasized about finding a merger with trading on insider information. Unlike its privileged information Deckers





LONDON Shaw asked, regarding Deckers stock if "could go a little?" LONDON replied: "It could go a little." LONDON said he was not sure how to respond action. Shaw asked if he agreed LONDON must "buy a little, if it passes, then made a little money" LONDON replied: "Yes ... I think it's great.".
Zzzz. Incidentally: Deckers, huh? Deckers is a public company and an audit client of KPMG. Shaw and London insider traded in five stocks, all KPMG audit clients. Both are no longer public - to be fair, both were purchased and Shaw insider trading before each merger, so, yeah, good bigwigs employment - and two Herbalife and Skechers, which are Now former KPMG audit clients. This leaves Deckers. Why is it always good KPMG Audit them?
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs to Step Down, Just as Firefox OS Is Debuting

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Mutual 'Friend' Of John Steele And Alan Cooper Implies That Cooper Was 'Off His Meds' When Accusing Steele Of Identity Fraud

A bunch of new applications in the main guarantee of events has added some new wrinkles ongoing soap opera. The documents were presented by Heather Rosing, who represents the lien, Paul Duffy (officially only director of garment) and Angela Van Den Hemel (Commitment paralegal). It is not John Steele and Paul Hansmeier, many have argued are the real brains behind the slimming (Rosing That represented briefly two of them too, but it is only pushing against appearing at the hearing March 11 added). However, the document should focus the most attention is that Rosing presented as a strange character attack Alan Cooper. It is a declaration of a "mutual friend" of John Steele and Alan Cooper Alan Cooper suggests that mental problems and was "out of their medication" when he made allegations against Steele. You can not do these things (well,
I can not ...). The statement is full of rumors, but basically, Brent Berry, who claims that Cooper and Steele introduced, suggests very strongly that Cooper is not right in the head, and do crazy things when he is not on drugs correctly.



From the end of 2011, Alan began exhibiting unusual behavior several times when I was visiting the property. Alan began acting erratically, often threatening to harm others.



several occasions, Alan boasted that "If you are angry, never find my body, like other"



Because Alan strange behavior, I started to reduce my contact with him unless others were around. Though I still consider myself a good person and friend Alan to date, some days he acted like a completely different and very restless person. I learned later that day that Alan had acted very rare are those in which some had not taken an antipsychotic medication the doctor had prescribed.



[....]

Almost immediately, I realized that the mental state was Alan deteriorated even more and I felt very uncomfortable being alone around him.

on August 13, 2012, I went to the property of Mr. Steele prepare for a potential buyer. My girlfriend was with me on this trip. Alan left his cabin and was clearly a very agitated state. Before I could talk to him, began to threaten to hurt me. Due how they make threats were made, your comments about the violence of the past, I feared for my life.

immediately called John Steele and told him what happened and he could not show the property under these conditions. I contacted the police Aitkin County report what had happened. Due to the request of Mr. Steele, it is went ahead with the laying of charges.



Alan sent me a series of text messages from strangers, exact copies of which are attached as Exhibit A hereto. Under these text messages, he threatened to shoot Alan said it was withdrawing the timber owned by Mr. Steele said he had a mental illness (s), and apologized for his strange behavior.


Although Alan asked in his writings that go to the doctor who treated him for his mental illness.


Alan indicated that entered the property I was going to shoot. Though Alan told that I would only get in the foot, I felt out of an abundance of caution not to trust the security that does not make me an essential part of my body. The full presentation (linked above and embedded below, also shows the exchange of text messages, poorly photographed . This is just one of them.




Frankly, reading the text, which does not seem so bad ads Berry suggests they are. And states do not have clarity on, and seems to involve a lot of other discussions that do not appear in the pictures. More importantly, they seem to have absolutely nothing to do with Steele, clothing, AF Investments or something like that.



In the same presentation, Berry says that meeting Steele and Cooper, who has been involved in many conversations with them - although they seem to have all the details, suggests Cooper knew that Steele help on several bills, including a "porn company."



On several dates, I had the opportunity to be present when Mr. Steele and Alan talk about various subjects. Usually this happened while we were sitting around a fire between the two cabins.
and Alan Steele seemed to have a very good relationship and Alan are routinely ask John how he would help Mr. Steele for all the things that Mr. Steele did for Alan as allowing you to live in the property for free. became clear in the discussions and references to the legal work of Mr. Steele who participated Alan working with Mr. Steele. Alan did not seem bothered by this relationship, and often makes jokes about not having to worry about having to buy beer again due to help Mr. Steele.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Twitter talks audience activation, social TV strategy and #DoggingTales

Dan Biddle recommends "Twitter programming their channel program for broadcasters

recent Channel 4 documentary Dogging It was a mouth beat the UK, thanks in part to recommendations mouth-to-mouth on Twitter, as it was broadcast.

Associations head

Twitter broadcasting in the UK, Dan Biddle, use the show as a key example of how television can benefit from Twitter ringing in his speech at the MIPCube conference in Cannes, exhorting Twitter thought of programming broadcasters that their channel program. "

Biddle showed tweets from celebrities and ordinary at the same time to show viewers how they reacted to Dogging as it was broadcast. "Twitter has gone mad," he said. "People have become more because the material leaving Twitter was so much fun."

Biddle also welcomed the deodorant brand Lynx for their quick reaction to any of the characters in the statement documentary Lynx was the perfume of choice when dogging.

Instead of panicking about the negative publicity, the official Twitter Lynx Effect "A good choice of perfume @ Channel4 - guaranteed to get a little more attention, regardless of the situation. . DoggingTales # "

then followed the next morning with a team photo parody social media meetings Lynx "crisis" with similar masks doggers in the documentary.

"The key was Lynx was here [on Twitter] and Lynx also found the jokes after the show, and since this is something we can do something outside" Biddle said. "Twitter has the potential to reach and bind to their audience."

Mobile has been an important part of Twitter activity around TV shows. Biddle said that 60% of active Twitter users access the mobile 200m service, but that percentage is 80% in the United Kingdom.

"40% of tweets in the UK during peak television is television. Twitter is the part where we see on television," said Biddle, who cited previous assertions CEO Dick Costolo Twitter is a reinvention of the village.

"If you imagine that instead of the city, watching TV, Twitter launched the biggest sofa you can imagine, and everyone is sitting on it at the same time."

Much of the presentation focused on Biddle examples of how broadcasters and British producers have joined Twitter in their shows.

were covered Question Time with the BBC to launch a second Twitter account @ BBCExtraGuest to someone off camera to livetweet each episode, tweets ITV2 city fans during commercial breaks only way is Essex and Ant and Dec get followers suggest opening gifts for each episode of Saturday Night Takeaway.

not, needless to say, a certain amount of interest here. Twitter is not the only online destination stations promote their viewers - think Facebook pages, official websites, catch-up TV services and more

Discussion
should Biddle gave no advice on how broadcasters can juggle these different messages, or what kind of interaction works best on different platforms.

Biddle
praise Fight Channel 4 show Hugh Fish, a documentary featuring Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall which aims to change the way supermarkets source of fish, and awareness of their clients.

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Monday, April 8, 2013

Bracelet uses social network to protect civil rights activists

The Natalia Project bracelets



struggle for human rights is a noble pursuit, but also very dangerous in places where the struggle is not only to discuss abstractions. Recognizing the very real activists beaten, kidnapped or assassinated possibility, the civil rights Stockholm launched the project Natalia. The name of Natalia Estemirova, the human rights who was kidnapped and murdered in Chechnya in 2009, is based on an electronic bracelet that sends a pre-programmed alarm text if it is enabled or not. .. Read strap uses the social network to protect civil rights


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Huawei G520 outed as an inexpensive, quad-core smartphone for China

Huawei G520 outed as an inexpensive, quadcore smartphone for China

Huawei

put your best foot forward (twice), last week at CES, but it seems that the company has yet another round smartphone: 4.5-inch Android device known as the G520. According

Gizchina , the phone is said to run a quad-core 1.2 GHz Mediatek MT6589, but its main selling point is the price - is said in district ? ?1.399 yen ($ 225). The resolution expresses the G520 is currently known, and the same is true for the Android version to be sent. That said, Ice Cream Sandwich seems more plausible, since the smartphone has 512 MB ??of RAM. Huawei G520 also includes a rear 5-megapixel camera and it is said to go on sale January 21 in China. Hopefully by then we will know a little more about it.

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Mushkin Super Sizes mSATA Storage with First 480GB Model

Mushking Atlas 480GB mSATA Solid State Drive

Atlas Mushkin 480GB mSATA SSD is small in size but big capacity.

Mushkin

will begin shipping it says is the first power unit in the world, 480 GB mSATA SSD (SSD) in January 2013, the Company announced this week. Unlike traditional SSD, the units mSATA (mini-SATA) are much smaller and sports a connector that looks like a mini PCI Express card is not electrically compatible even if the data signals must be introduced into the SATA controller.

mSATA units are commonly found in mobile devices such as thin Ones Profile (Intel), ultrathins (AMD), and tablets. Despite its small size, the mSATA SSD can run fast and in this case, store tons of data.


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Tattoo Copyright Strikes Again: Tattoo Artist Sues THQ For Accurately Representing Fighter's Tattoo In Game

About a year and a half, we wrote what we thought was just a fun theoretically post on the copyright of tattoos. The general idea was that if a tattoo artist create a unique new design, while technically are the one who gets the copyright. And this can lead to some difficult legal issues. Of course, it lasted only three weeks before this "theoretical" issue became real when a tattoo artist who became famous tattoo Mike Tyson sued Warner Bros. because the character Ed Helms plays in

The Hangover 2
ends with a tattoo similar (but not identical). WB finally settled the case to make.
As many people have told Christopher Escobedo tattooist sued video game company THQ since accurately represent Carlos Condit UFC fighter in the game UFC Undisputed 2010. Condit has a tattoo leading "lion", which is reproduced in the game. You can see the tattoo here:
None of the media reports that we have seen have posted current legal presentation, we published here and integrated below. There are some things to note. The game was released in 2010. Escobedo created the tattoo in 2009 ... but

not save

until February 24, 2012. This can
significant
Escobedo limit the ability to collect. More specifically, if you want to ask
statutory damages ($ 150,000), registration must take place within three months of the work of its publication and

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Once Again: High Tech Jobs Are Important, Growing And Everywhere

Few months ago, we told you about a presentation by Bay Area Economic Council, in association with the motor (I am a member of the steering committee, but it had nothing to do with it), showing that high-tech jobs have a high point of the economy. Unlike many other industries, jobs were increasingly - and contrary to what many believed, were not concentrated in one area but spread across the United States. In addition, their economic contribution tends to be significant. Basically: the technology industry is more important to our economy, and policy makers must be careful not to muck it. This week, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, commissioned by the engine, turn off the full report on the subject, entitled Works High-tech employment and wages in U.S. (PDF) Tech once again highlights the importance and success of the technology industry. Some highlights:
  • Since the fall of hit bottom dot-com at the beginning of 2004, employment growth in the high-tech sector has exceeded the growth of the private sector as a whole in a ratio of three a. Employment in high technology was also stronger in the recession and recent recovery, and in the last year. The unemployment rate of the labor force in high-tech sector has always been well below the rate of the nation as a whole, and the recent wage growth has been stronger.
  • employment growth in stem job was solid throughout the last decade, exceeding the growth of employment in all occupations in a ratio of 1 to 27 between 2002 and 2011 . When combined with a very low and unemployment high wage growth, reflecting the strong demand for workers in these fields.
employment projections indicate that the demand for high-tech workers is higher than for workers outside the high-tech, at least until 2020. Employment in high-tech industries will grow by 16.2 percent between 2011 and 2020 and employment in STEM occupations is expected to increase 13.9 percent. It is expected that employment growth for the nation as a whole and 13.3 percent during the same period. workers in high-tech industries and STEM occupations earn substantial pay a premium of 17 to 27 percent compared to workers in other areas, even after adjusting for factors outside the industry or occupation that affect wages (such as level of education, citizenship status, age, ethnicity and geography, among others).

increased revenue generated by the industry of high technology and strong employment growth that supports are important contributors to regional economic development. This is illustrated by the local multiplier, which believes that the creation of employment in the high-tech region is associated with the creation of 4.3 additional jobs in the local product and service economy from the same region in the long term. This is more than three times the local multiplier for manufacturing, 1.4, is still quite high.


These are all important issues, but the biggest may be that covers technology works much these days. Not only "Silicon Valley" at all, but all kinds of jobs for all kinds of businesses. Tech is not an industry. Not just a job function. It
a part of almost all aspects of our economy. . Give other sectors of the economy more efficient and increase opportunities in many different areas. And because of this, the work of "technology" are growing in all directions. When I see you (the report) places like Boise Idaho, Augusta, Georgia and Illinois Peoria see the growth of more high-tech job, it's a good sign. We had problems when all you have is a "company town", where a whole industry based in one place. This is not "technology industry", but the fact that each industry is a high-tech and high-tech jobs are everywhere - and taking into account the economic situation, very important

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