Seven in 10 college graduates get a sense of identity from their job: “U.S. workers continue to be more likely to say their get a sense of identity from their job, 55%, as opposed to having their job just be something they do for a living, 42%. These results have been consistent throughout multiple Gallup… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2014
The 1,000-robot swarm – Harvard Gazette
Caroline Perry, SEAS Communications: “The first 1,000-robot flash mob has assembled at Harvard University. “Form a sea-star shape,” directs a computer scientist, sending the command to 1,024 little ’bots simultaneously via an infrared light. The robots begin to blink at one another, and then gradually arrange themselves into a five-pointed star. “Now form the letter K.” The “K”… Continue Reading
The transfer of personal data to third countries and international organisations by EU institutions and bodies
European Data Protection Supervisor – The transfer of personal data to third countries and international organisations by EU institutions and bodies. Position paper. Brussels, 14 July 2014. “This paper provides guidance to EU institutions and bodies on how to interpret and apply the rules laid down in Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 in the context of international transfers of personal… Continue Reading
Regulatory Process, Regulatory Reform, and the Quality of Regulatory Impact Analysis
Ellig, Jerry and Fike, Rosemarie, Regulatory Process, Regulatory Reform, and the Quality of Regulatory Impact Analysis (July 4, 2013). Mercatus Center at George Mason University Working Paper No. 13-13. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2485610 “Numerous regulatory reform proposals would require federal agencies to conduct more thorough analysis of proposed regulations or expand the resources and… Continue Reading
Reading Statutes in the Common Law Tradition
Pojanowski, Jeffrey A., Reading Statutes in the Common Law Tradition (August 22, 2014). Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2485599 “There is wide agreement in American law and scholarship about the role the common law tradition plays in statutory interpretation. Jurists and scholars of various stripes concur that the common law points away… Continue Reading
The new digital ecosystem reality: Innovation’s next frontier is in customer service
PWC: “In their quest to improve the customer experience, many organizations have overlooked a key element: customer support. Traditional support is episodic and event-driven, with the onus on customers to initiate and maintain contact. Customers, however, have come to expect much more. The next-generation customer experience requires innovation in service and support across all access channels—contact… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Four Part Series on Privacy and Data Security Violations
Via LLRX.com – fours new articles by law professor Daniel J. Solove on privacy, data protection and the harm caused by breaches. Privacy and Data Security Violations: What’s the Harm? – Daniel J. Solove is a Law professor at George Washington University Law School, an expert in information privacy law, and founder of TeachPrivacy, a privacy and security… Continue Reading
Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
Research suggests that recall of plot after using an e-reader is poorer than with traditional book, Alison Flood – The Guardian “A new study which found that readers using a Kindle were “significantly” worse than paperback readers at recalling when events occurred in a mystery story is part of major new Europe-wide research looking at the impact of digitisation… Continue Reading
MuckRock 50 States of FOIA Project
“The MuckRock 50 States of FOIA Project aims to shed light on what it’s like to work with public records around the U.S., through the voices of requesters state by state. This time, we focus on the state of Massachusetts. MuckRock spoke with Colman Herman, a freelance investigative reporter whose work can be found in the Globe, the Herald, and Commonwealth… Continue Reading
Backoff: New Point of Sale Malware
“This advisory was prepared in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), United States Secret Service (USSS), Financial Sector Information Sharingand Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), and Trustwave Spiderlabs, acting under contract with the USSS. The purpose of this release is to provide relevant and actionable technical indicators for network defense. Recent investigations revealed… Continue Reading
Why You Should Talk to the Librarians
Paula Krebes, Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bridgewater State University: “If you haven’t spent a good few hours going over your syllabi with a librarian trained in your subject area, you’re shortchanging your course and your students (and yourself). Librarians keep up with the technology in your field. They know the campus holdings and can… Continue Reading
The Simple Analytics of Helicopter Money: Why it Works – Always
Buiter, Willem H., The Simple Analytics of Helicopter Money: Why it Works – Always (August 21, 2014). Economics, Vol. 8, August 2014, DOI: org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-28. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2484853 “We provide a rigorous analysis of Milton Friedman’s parable of the ‘helicopter’ drop of money – a permanent/irreversible increase in the nominal stock of fiat base… Continue Reading
