Call it “privacy nihilism.” Whether you’re reading about the latest security breaches across the Net, or the jaw-dropping details of the latest NSA leak, or you’re explaining the importance of crypto to your blank-faced family, or struggling to stop your own government’s plans on burning your right to privacy, it’s sometimes easy to just throw […]
Archives for October 2014
SKINNER for DUMMIES
Posted on October 15, 2014 Written by
DAY 14: Skinner Horror Files THE BIG LIE EXPOSED Direct from the horse’s mouth “It is always to be kept in mind that these principles are quite in contrast to “rote learning” or drill. “In rote learning, many wrong responses are permitted to occur, and the student eventually learns to develop his own prompts often to a relatively […]
Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
Posted on October 14, 2014 Written by
The publishing world may finally be facing its “rootkit scandal.” Two independent reports claim that Adobe’s e‑book software, “Digital Editions,” logs every document readers add to their local “library,” tracks what happens with those files, and then sends those logs back to the mother-ship, over the Internet, in the clear. In other words, Adobe is […]
EPA Funds Environmental Projects Along US-Mexico Border
Posted on October 14, 2014 Written by
Efforts of the U.S., Canada and Mexico to “integrate” into the North American Union continue. “Border 2020” is a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tied to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The North American Development Bank (NADB) finances environmental infrastructure projects identified by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC). Both […]
Is the NSA Grabbing All Americans’ Phone Call Content?
Posted on October 14, 2014 Written by
The NSA and the National Director of Intelligence have consistently denied that they listen to the content of Americans’ telephone calls, but the history of intelligence agency claims about the scope of its spying on Americans is one of lies and more lies. So the question must be asked: Are they lying again with respect […]
The Making of a Mexico-to-Canada Wolf Corridor
Posted on October 13, 2014 Written by
Part 1: Mexican wolves can devastate a ranch economically in ways not readily apparent or understood by the public The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is delisting and relinquishing management of their imported Canadian gray wolves back to state wildlife officials while simultaneously proposing “new rules”1 to “save” the Mexican gray wolf. These proposals […]
Teaching vs. Training
Posted on October 13, 2014 Written by
Day 13: Skinner Horror Files “…Teaching thus differs from training and conditioning, which are concerned with performance rather than belief and rational action.… To be ethical, conditioning must have student cooperation in and awareness of its use to change behavior.” N.L.Gage and David C. Berliner, Educational Psychology, Rand McNally College Publishing Co., Chicago, 1975, 129–131
“The Attitude Changing Machine”
Posted on October 13, 2014 Written by
Day 11: Skinner Horror Files And you thought computers just taught academics? In 1963 THE ROLE OF THE COMPUTER IN FUTURE INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS was published as the March/ April, 1963 supplement of Audiovisual Communication Review.[1] James D. Finn of Los Angeles was the principal investigator and Donald P. Ely (later of Project BEST: Basic Educational Skills […]
