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The morning of their interview appointment on Feb. 6, Mikel Pukri said, his father put on a suit and gathered all the documents he thought he would need for the meeting. Tears, he said, rolled down his father's cheeks that morning at the prospect of becoming a legal resident. Neta Pukri said she had bought a new dress ... |
Mikel Pukri, who turned 21 last month, said he was disappointed and questioned whether USCIS had set up his parents. |
Neta Pukri said she loves the United States and just wanted her family to have peace of mind. |
Lamar County Board of Supervisors is holding two community meetings on transportation projects in the county. |
Lamar County Board of Supervisors is holding two community meetings to give residents information about transportation projects happening in the county. Property owners, businesses, and other interested parties are encouraged to attend. |
According to a listing on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group's (SIG) website the LG C900 - thought to be one of the first Windows Phone 7 handsets due to hit the shelves — will be available from 'around' 28 September.Until now Microsoft has reiterated its 'holiday 2010' release window for the first Windows Phone 7 de... |
According to a listing on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group's (SIG) website the LG C900 - thought to be one of the first Windows Phone 7 handsets due to hit the shelves — will be available from 'around' 28 September. |
Until now Microsoft has reiterated its 'holiday 2010' release window for the first Windows Phone 7 devices, but the listing on the Bluetooth SIG indicate the LG C900's release as planned for sometime around the 28 September. |
The listing, somewhat unsurprisingly considering the source of the info, confirmed Bluetooth 2.1 is a dead cert, but little else of the handset's specifics. Leaked pictures of the device at EngadgetMobile.com show that it also packs a four-row sliding Qwerty keyboard into the chassis. |
According to CNET UK's Crave blog it should arrive in the US bound for the AT&T network — which should mean it will work fine in the UK too. |
Microsoft minimum requirements for Windows Phone 7 handsets dictate that the phone should arrive with a 1GHz (or better) processor, 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and A-GPS. |
Polk is Minnesota’s 34th most populous county, but the rate it sends people to prison is the highest in the state. |
Prisoners recount suicide attempts, mental harm and lack of services; former Waupun psychologist describes harsh treatment of inmates. |
Prisoner advocates praise the new policies but continue to push for ending severe isolation, which many liken to torture. |
Black people make up less than 6 percent of Minnesota’s population, but 35 percent of the state’s prisoners. |
The 1889 death of inmate Taylor Combs led to a scandal, and then major reforms, at the Rochester State Hospital for the Insane. |
Maltreatment and recidivism resulting from private prisons’ single-minded pursuit of profit has long term costs for the health of our communities. |
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A running list of some of the best writing on the intersection of technology and privacy. |
“How Companies Learn Your Secrets,” Charles Duhigg, The New York Times Magazine — The story of how Target learned that a teenager was pregnant before her parents did, reporting in great detail about how retailers collect data about their customers. |
“Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data,” Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, The New York Times — A report on how the Weather Channel app used tracking data not just for local forecasts but also for commercial purposes. |
“How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met,” Kashmir Hill, Gizmodo — A look at the ways Facebook uses contact information harvested from phone address books to make inferences about users’ social graphs. |
“Online Tracking: A 1-Million-Site Measurement and Analysis,” Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University — This academic paper discusses the mechanics of online tracking through “fingerprinting.” For a more digestible format, see the FiveThirtyEight interview and the Boing Boing blurb. |
“Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret,” Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, Michael H. Keller and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times — As smartphones have become ubiquitous and technology more accurate, an industry of snooping on people’s daily habits has spread and grown mo... |
“From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece," Scott Shane, The New York Times; “We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator in the Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned,” Laura Sydell, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” — These two articles provide numbers for how profitable online advertising can be for fake ... |
“As Domestic Abuse Goes Digital, Shelters Turn to Counter-Surveillance With Tor," George LeVines, Beta Boston — Digital surveillance as domestic abuse is becoming increasingly common. Some technological tools can mitigate it. |
“Breaking the Black Box,” Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. and Surya Mattu, ProPublica — This four-part series looks at what Facebook knows about users, price discrimination online, and the effects of machine learning and artificial intelligence. |
“I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone,” Joseph Cox, Motherboard — T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint sold access to their customers’ location data, allowing third parties to track down phone users at will. |
“What Happens When You Dare Expert Hackers to Hack You,” Kevin Roose, Fusion — A hacker specializing in social engineering gains access to Mr. Roose’s account with his cellphone provider and even gets customer support to change his password. |
“Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car,” Michael Corkery and Jessica Silvera-Greenberg, The New York Times — Cars secured with subprime loans are sometimes equipped with GPS and remote kill switches that allow lenders to locate and turn off cars when lessees fall behind on payments. |
“Machine Bias,” Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Suryu Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica — An investigation into criminal-sentencing algorithms, an important glimpse into the macro harms of a data-driven society. |
“How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions,” Matthew Rosenberg, Nicholas Confessore and Carole Cadwalladr, The New York Times; “‘I Made Steve Bannon’s Psychological Warfare Tool’: Meet the Data War Whistle-Blower,” Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian — How Facebook data was misappropriated by a third pa... |
“These Academics Spent the Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Listening to You," Kashmir Hill, Gizmodo — A deep dive into a smartphone conspiracy theory that just won’t go away. |
“Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life,” Helen Nissenbaum — A theoretical work with a solid grounding in the realities of modern technology that provides a good overview of the debates around what the right to privacy is. “A right to privacy is neither a right to secrecy nor a right t... |
“The House That Spied on Me,” Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu, Gizmodo — The writers set up a smart home to see how gadgets are collecting information on us. |
“The Fight Between the F.B.I. and Apple Is About Setting Precedent, Not Breaking Tech,” Sheera Frankel, BuzzFeed News — A look into Apple's fight against the F.B.I. and the future of tech companies’ compliance with government orders. |
“The Data That Turned the World Upside Down,” Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus, Motherboard — The first big report on Cambridge Analytica, dissecting the particulars of psychographic profiling and its influence in elections. |
“The U.S. Government Will Be Scanning Your Face at 20 Top Airports, Documents Show,” Davey Alba, BuzzFeed News — How the Trump administration's push for border security and a “biometric entry-exit system” may usher in a new era of expansive facial recognition. |
“Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence — Sources," Joseph Menn, Reuters — How a major tech company complied with a classified government demand to invade user privacy. |
“Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race,” Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica — Using Facebook's own advertising tools to lay bare the ways in which tech platforms and their algorithms discriminate. |
“Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product Marketed to Target Activists of Color,” American Civil Liberties Union — A report detailing police surveillance of activists using raw feeds of social network data. |
“This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can't Even Tell You About It,” Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Motherboard — Shedding light on the ethics of reporting on data leaks or breaches when the companies themselves seem unable or unwilling to fix them. |
“I have great respect for our public officials; after all, they speak for the people, and that commands a certain degree of humility from those of us in the judicial branch, who do not. |
The nasty fight over Kavanaugh’s confirmation and his replacement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is likely to solidify a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for a generation. It now has five consistent conservatives, all chosen by Republican presidents, and four liberals picked by Democratic presidents. |
But Roberts said the court must try not to become identified with partisan interests. |
Justices don’t react to polls, Roberts said later in his comments, and he said some of the great decisions of the court — Brown v. Board of Education or West Virginia v. Barnett, which said government could not compel students to salute the flag in violation of their religious beliefs — came in cases where the court wa... |
“The court has from time to time erred and erred greatly,” he said. “But when it has, it’s been because the court yielded to political pressure.” He noted that the court “shamefully” upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. |
Roberts gives only a few public speeches each year, and is known for choosing his words carefully. It seemed clear that he felt he needed to address how the partisan fights in Washington have turned the judiciary into something of a political spoils system. |
Since the confirmation fight, other justices have made similar defenses of the court, or made symbolic gestures of unity. Both liberal and conservative justices showed up for Kavanaugh’s hastily scheduled swearing-in after he was approved in one of the closest votes in history. All justices attended a later White House... |
Roberts did not mention Kavanaugh specifically, but gave him a nod of approval by quoting him. |
The 63-year-old chief justice noted that for a century, justices have shaken each other’s hands before taking the bench to hear arguments. |
In a conversation with law professor Robert A. Stein and answering questions from students, Roberts also touched on a number of other subjects, including cameras in the courtroom, his female colleagues and having a new member of the court. |
He repeated his opposition to cameras, saying he doesn’t think they would help the court in its essential job of deciding cases. He said he worried lawyers and some of his colleagues might act differently. |
He also is unconcerned about polls that show few Americans can name him or other members of the court. The court should speak as a body rather than as individuals. It’s why “we wear black robes,” he said. |
He insisted the court’s collegiality is real, despite its splintered decisions. For one thing, he said, “we do think we are in this important enterprise together.” And he said “we’re often the only people we can talk to about certain subjects,” such as politics. |
Still, he said, it is good that the justices basically don’t see each other for two months after the term ends in late June. |
And he acknowledged that after 13 years as chief justice, it remained harder than he had hoped when he joined the court that he could encourage bigger majorities for decisions and fewer 5-to-4 splits. |
“Well, I have to say it’s a project in progress still,” he said. |
The biggest smallest airport in the world is located in Hamburg, Germany inside the actual Hamburg Airport. The Knuffington is an incredibly detailed model airport which features 40 planes and 90 vehicles that autonomously move about the airport. |
This model airport is the world’s largest, took 7 years to build and cost a whopping $4.8 million dollars! The model includes a “carsystem” that moves the vehicles via computer while tiny wires make the airplanes appear to takeoff and land. Passengers actually appear to walk around the terminals and real flashing light... |
There are approximately 40,000 lights, 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, 10,000 trees, 50 trains, 1000 wagons, 100 signals, 200 switches and 300 buildings. You have to see it to believe it and although this video (scroll down for video) does not do it justice it will have to do until the next time you find yourself in Hambur... |
"Of Course I Know How to Google!" |
"What? Of course we know how to Google! Come on, Ms. Sackstein." |
A full room of seniors stared at me like I had three heads, confused and maybe even insulted that I had the audacity to suggest they didn't know how to search the world's more well known search engine. |
Taking them at their word, I set them on a mission to search for high school publication advertising policies in NY. They logged into accounts, opened up Google and do what anyone who knows how search Google does: put keywords into the line and when the exact hit doesn't come up in the first three options, proclaim the... |
Minutes go by and they are all deeply engaged with the computers. I hear rumbles of frustration and questions of what they are supposed to look up. |
"Did you find anything? I can't find anything. There's nothing here. Ms. Sackstein, there isn't any information. Am I doing this right?" |
"Are you sure? I asked. What did you search?" |
"Just what you told us to search." |
"And what was that exactly?" |
"Advertising policies in NY, right?" |
As I walked to each group, they all had similar information on their screens, but none of them were in the ballpark. They found articles about commercial advertising in schools or policies about laws governing commercial involvement in schools, but nothing specific about advertising policies in scholastic publications. |
One group found a lot about bans on selling sugary substances and why schools can't sell them anymore. Some were searching laws associated with advertising, but all of them definitely missed the mark. |
Processing their utter inability to search effectively, we needed to figure out what was going wrong. I mean, if they all know how to use Google, how come no one found information that was appropriate? |
"Stop what you're doing. Attention to the front. Someone please tell me what you did to find information?" |
"I put NY advertising policies in school in the line and searched images first. Then I tried a variety of different words but arrived at the same conclusion. Nothing!" |
"It's not enough just have key words. You need to work with what you have. Try using quotation marks to limit what you're searching for. Try using the advanced search to narrow the field. Then take the time to view different sites, not just the first three that appear. Now you try." |
As I walked around the room the second time, students were still having a hard time, but some were getting "luckier", closer to what the assignment required of them. They wouldn't be able to write their own policy if they didn't research what one looked like and what should be included in it. |
One of the greatest challenges my students face is my unwillingness to tell them what to do directly. Always looking to support their learning styles and voices, I offer help and guidelines but never one and only way to accomplish a task. This ambiguity creates a lot of anxiety for my students as they are more consumed... |
My students thought they knew how to Google. They were insistent upon it. I was crazy for even thinking they didn't know, but what each of them realized is maybe they don't know. As much as this can be uncomfortable to recognize, it is also the first essential step to changing their situations. Once a student realizes ... |
At the end of the class, each pair of students was able to create an advertising policy for the school publications. Using different models and websites to make it happen, their more specific searches were able to get them more reliable sources for the task at hand. |
Google is a powerful tool, but like many tools, if it isn't used correctly it can be useless and frustrating. We can't take for granted that our students know how to successfully use tools that we see them using all the time. |
It is imperative as teachers, that we acquaint ourselves with the full function of technology, so we can use it effectively with our students. |
Using technology for the sake of using it serves little purpose, but once we make it an integral means of developing understanding it becomes essential. Students look to us as models of this usage, so the learning must begin on our laptops so we can show kids how to use these tools with proficiency. |
"Girls are so pretty I'm stressed." |
2. We are gathered here today because women are beautiful. |
4. Like very, very beautiful. |
5. Like oh my god, how...? |
8. How does anyone get anything done knowing beautiful women exist?? |
9. They're outside. They're inside. Sometimes right next to you. Just. |
12. Where are you supposed to look without getting flustered??? |
13. It's so unfair, but also we have been so goddamn gifted. |
14. Oh my god, women. |
20. It's truly an honor. |
The right drive for the right job. |
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