by Leroy Hurt | Dec 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and Washington Post: This year’s National Security Agency revelations have created a firestorm of reports and debates about the state of U.S. surveillance technology and intelligence policy. It set off a brief international manhunt. Entire...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via The Atlantic: Under pressure to turn out more students, more quickly and for less money, and to tie graduates’ skills to workforce needs, higher-education institutions and policy makers have been busy reducing the number of required credits, giving credit for life...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via The Guardian: It’s nothing new, this fear that there is someone out there watching my every move, knowing my inmost thoughts. It used to be a fear of God. Now it’s a fear of Google, the NSA and GCHQ. In other words, we have invented a secular form of...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Wired.com: Because the very concept of professional gaming is so unusual to most — “people get paid to play games?” — terminology tends to unduly dominate discussion about eSports: organized video game competitions that pit world class players against each other...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via The Atlantic: Mayer and Mutchler are running an experiment which works with volunteers who agree to use an Android app, MetaPhone, that allows the researchers access to their metadata. Now, using that data, Mayer and Mutchler say that it was hardly any trouble at...
