http://trace5.com/fb/fb/0F365CE6ECE11D44AA96CC4B1441D016ECD54962070B0526C755486C0D97C488/show.aspx
The answer: “Not much”.
That’s what’s wrong with a “put everything in the cloud” architecture.
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SERVICE: What do you do when the “cloud” is out
Saturday, April 23, 2011
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment Internet Identity plan
Saturday, April 23, 2011With passwords “broken,” US rolls out Internet identity plan
By Nate Anderson
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NIST hopes to arrive at privacy standards that will give Internet users confidence in using such credentials, to clarify the liability that credentials providers will face should someone still manage to steal your identity, and to issue a “trustmark” that accredits participating credential providers and websites.
Public meetings on NSTIC begin in June, and NIST hopes to be funding pilot projects by 2012. Still, ordinary Internet users won’t be able to use the system for three to five years.
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The Gooferment did so well with the Social Security Number, I think they should just leave everyone the hell alone.
What’s next tattoo everyone?
Kick the ISPs! They are being paid to provide access. Credit cards! That sounds like a reliable identity to me.
Argh!
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RANT: Minnesota School Issues iPad 2 To Every Student
Saturday, April 23, 2011http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/04/23/019219/Minnesota-School-Issues-iPad-2-To-Every-Student
Minnesota School Issues iPad 2 To Every Student
Posted by timothy on Friday April 22, @09:40PM
from the boondoggle-defined dept.
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tripleevenfall writes
“Thanks to a federally-funded grant for magnet schools, every student at Heritage Middle School in West Saint Paul, Minnesota, now has an iPad 2.”
Why in my day, we had to buy our own graphing calculators — in the snow, both ways, uphill!
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Why am I paying for this? Nuke the Department of Education and such waste. I’d like an IPAD2! Why do I have to pay for someone else to get one?
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RANT: The Gooferment’s role in “healthcare”
Friday, April 22, 2011Don’t Let the Republicans kill Medicare!
act.credoaction.com
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Republicans are pushing hard on a plan to end Medicare as we know it. They’re trying to replace it with a ludicrous privatized system where seniors are given vouchers to try to buy coverage from private, for-profit insurance companies–the very same companies notorious for denying them coverage.
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And, it’s a lousy system. Have you seen the stats on how much goes to fraud and waste. Never mind the “personal mobility” scams. Sorry, but Medicaid is the big hole in the Titanic and Medicare is the second biggest. Now we can stand around and listen to the orchestra play “Nearer My God To Thee”. OR, we can debate how to fix this disaster better, faster, and cheaper. Personally, I never want to have the Gooferment as having any role in healthcare. It can either be the referee or a player in the game. Not both. In the case of Medicare, the Gooferment wants to be the doctor, the insurance company, and the referee. Argh! And, it has a vested financial interest in the decision in both Social Security, Medicare, Standard of Care, and the “overhead in medical care” born by the Gooferment. Still want the Gooferment deciding about care?
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MEMORIES: Days Of Our Lives aka DrOOL!
Friday, April 22, 2011“NBC has only one soap opera left, “Days of Our Lives.”
Our Girl’s “soap”. She watched it with her Mother growing up. (I believe watching it transported her to a happier place and time. For her, it was a near religious experience.) She watched it every chance she got. When it was bumped by a current event, the Saint Patrick’s Day parade, or anything, she’s get up and watch it at 2 or 3 in the morning.
With the advent of the VCR, she watched it every night. And woe was me, the techie genius, if the VCR didn’t tape. (Luckily, much later in our lives, the SOAPNET channel rebroadcast it at 11PM and 4AM. And on weekends, all five episodes were on in a row, twice. DrOOL overload. A few times I caught her peeking.)
She took a lot of good natured ribbing about “DrOOL” from me, but she never wavered from her devotion to her “television family” The Hortons. Maybe it was the family she wanted to have in her childhood. In the TV realm, everyone is perfect. The men are hunks; the women not a hair out of place. No one is poor. No one is hungry. No one suffers. And, they all look good as they deal with all their “problems”.
When we were flush, I even took her on a “DrOOL” cruise. She was disappointed; she wanted the whole TV family to be there. And, Micky didn’t look to “Micky-ish” in the harsh glare of sunlight and no make up. After seeing him in person, she didn’t want to see anymore “real life” representation of her idealized family. I guess one has to protect the only emotional link she had to her long passed Mom.
DrOOL was that link. And, I hope that she’s with her Mom finally. Finally at peace. And, I’m sure they are watching DrOOL together once again as the did so many decades ago.
I wonder if Micky looks better now that he’s passed too? I wonder if Tom Horton is there as well. She mourned their passing as she would an old friend.
I’m glad NBC never cancelled DrOOL while Frau Reinke was with us. That would have been tragic for her.
I still watch it from time to time. And, I imagine her sitting in her recliner, eating her lunch, usually Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup, Diet Pepsi, and a baloney sandwich. In a time warp, back with her Mom. Watching DrOOL together.
When NBC cancels DrOOL as it eventually will, that will be tragic for me, severing my connection to Our Girl.
Maybe I can buy a DVD of an episode and replay that over and over, when I need to feel her emotionally.
Donna Nobis Pacem.
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TECHNOLOGY: McGraw-Hill and ebooks
Thursday, April 21, 2011http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/64169
McGraw-Hill Create: Customized eBooks for the Classroom
April 14, 2011 12:28
From CNBC:
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The McGraw-Hill Create platform enables instructors to easily customize digital content for their courses, combining their own course-specific materials with a range of other resources. Instructors have instant access to a vast library of McGraw-Hill resources to develop instructional materials adapted specifically to the needs of local markets. At Create’s core is a Google-like search engine functionality that enables professors to immediately pull from a wide range of quality content, including 4,000 McGraw-Hill textbooks, 5,500 articles, 11,000 literature, philosophy and humanities readings, and 25,000 business case studies from prominent providers such as the Harvard Business School
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Perhaps they are feeling the heat, as their “franchise” swirls the bowl? I guess the days of big over-priced textbooks is over and the inet hosted ebooks is just over the horizon. Obviously, this has implications for MC, the faculty, and staff. Not to mention the Library, and the Technology Architecture. Argh! I guess my big concern would be who own’s the copyrights and the “organization of the dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom)”. Maybe I’m a skeptic, but, since “crowd sourcing” is all the rage, perhaps the “customized digital content”, and the organization there of, becomes the property of McGraw-Hill. Then, they turn around and “sell” it as a new “title” to anyone who will buy it? Bet some evil lawyer has billed a lot of hours writing that licensing agreement that will be a quick pop up. Hmmmm?
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GOVERNACIDE: One sailor “in a non-combat incident” is just as lost
Thursday, April 21, 2011Wednesday: 1 US Soldier, 8 Iraqis Killed; 30 Iraqis Wounded
by Margaret Griffis, April 20, 2011
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At least eight Iraqis were killed and 30 more were wounded in new attacks. Also, one U.S. sailor was killed in a non-combat incident.
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Who knows what?
But I do know that that sailor shouldn’t have been there.
Bring all the boys and girl home now.
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FUN: Walk on water
Thursday, April 21, 2011FROM Frau Reinke’s bud
Paddy had long heard the stories of an amazing family tradition. It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birthday. On that special day they’d each walked across the lake to the pub on the far side for their first legal drink. So when Paddy’s 18th birthday came ’round, he and his pal Mick took a boat out to the middle of the lake. Paddy stepped out of the boat and nearly drowned! Mick just barely managed to pull him to safety.
Furious and confused, Paddy, went to see his grandmother. ‘Grandma,’ he asked, “It’s my 18th birthday, so why can’t I walk ‘cross the lake like my father, his father, and his father before him?”
Granny looked deeply into Paddy’s troubled eyes and said, “Because your father, your grandfather and your great grandfather were all born in December, when the lake is frozen, and you were born in August, ya dip!!!!
(Laughing)
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INSPIRATIONAL: Addis Hope — USA $9.00 — sponsor a child for a year!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011Dear Donor Partners of Addis Hope,
The cost of running the Addis Hope program has now increased by 53% and when some long standing donor partners can no longer assist at the same funding level, I am extremely worried about the future of this much needed program. Your desperately needed financial support obviously continues to be our vital life line. The 150 Ethiopian dollars – the equivalent today of USA $9.00 we have been asking for the last ten years of the program to sponsor a child for a year makes it very difficult to keep the program operational in light of the huge increase in the cost of living.
As many of you have responded very generously to our Christmas appeal, I’m now asking if it would be possible for even more of you to do the same this Easter season by going to our web site (http://www.addis-hope.com/) to locate any additional “disposable income” for the program.
For the children of Addis Hope the program is intended to grow their minds to feed their future in a country where malnourishment of both the intellect and body is very evident.
Again, many thanks and may the risen Lord continue to bless you.
Brother Gregory Flynn (Jack)
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[JR: I prefer charities that I can “see”. In this case, I trust my fellow Jasper. Seems like a good “sacrifice” to make — 9 bucks. Little more than a “designer” beer at any place other than a dive. For a year! Seems like a “good buy”.]
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FUN: Preventing a night time “dunking”
Wednesday, April 20, 2011http://unclutterer.com/2011/04/13/unitasker-wednesday-light-up-toilet-seat/
Unitasker Wednesday: Light Up Toilet Seat
All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!
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Whenever I’m cleaning the toilet in my house, I think to myself, “This toilet really could use something to brighten it up.”
I’m sure you think the exact same thing about your toilet. Toilet darkness is a major concern for most people. And, I think we all know that bleach will never be able to brighten our toilets the way we need them to be illuminated.
Well, our days of having toilets that loom in the shadows are gone. We can now install a Light Up Toilet Seat:
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I know a young ten year old lady who would love to have this. She lives with two younger brothers. And, I have been told that one more than one occasion in the middle of the night, she’s “sat” in the toilet. The screams reportedly woke the neighbors. But not her brothers, who she wanted to stuff IN the toilet. This maybe a joke to us, but I bet she’d buy it. LOL.
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