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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Facebook Adds Like Button To Mobile Messages, A One-Touch ?OK?
"Alright", "Yes", and the much-hated "k" just got a visual redesign. Facebook's iOS and Android apps have rolled out the option in messages to reply with a one-tap thumbs-up Like button sticker. It's a highly-functional flourish that replaces the greyed-out Send button when you haven't typed anything. And while it seems simple, I'm finding it quite satisfying.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/VmxdyhTrWrQ/
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Wing walker, pilot die in crash at Ohio air show
CINCINNATI (AP) ? A plane carrying a wing walker crashed at an air show and exploded into flames Saturday, killing the pilot and stunt walker, authorities said.
The crash of the 450 HP Stearman happened at around 12:45 p.m. at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton in front of thousands of horrified spectators. No one else was hurt.
A video posted on WHIO-TV shows the plane turn upside-down as the performer sits on top of the wing. The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground, erupting into flames as spectators screamed.
Ian Hoyt, an aviation photographer and licensed pilot from Findlay, was at the show with his girlfriend. He told The Associated Press he was taking photos as the plane passed by and had just raised his camera to take another shot.
"Then I realized they were too low and too slow. And before I knew it, they hit the ground," he said.
He couldn't tell exactly what happened, but it appeared that the plane stalled and didn't have enough air speed, he said. He credited the pilot for steering clear of spectators and potentially saving lives.
"Had he drifted more, I don't know what would have happened," Hoyt said. He said he had been excited to see the show because he'd never seen the scheduled performer ? wing walker Jane Wicker ? in action.
On the video, the announcer narrates as the plane glides through the sky and rolls over while the stuntwoman perches on a wing.
"Now she's still on that far side. Keep an eye on Jane. Keep an eye on Charlie. Watch this! Jane Wicker, sitting on top of the world," the announcer said, right before the plane makes a quick turn and nosedive.
Federal records show that biplane was registered to Wicker, who lived in Loudon, Va. A man who answered the phone at a number listed for Wicker on her website said he had no comment and hung up.
One of the pilots listed on Wicker's website was named Charlie Schwenker. A post on Jane Wicker Airshows' Facebook page announced the deaths of Wicker and Schwenker and asked for prayers for their families.
A message left at a phone listing for Charles Schwenker in Oakton, Va., wasn't immediately returned.
Dayton International Airport spokeswoman Linda Hughes and Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston confirmed that a pilot and stunt walker had died but declined to give their names. The air show also declined to release their identities.
The show was canceled for the rest of the day, but organizers said events would resume Sunday and follow the previous schedule and normal operations. The National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating the crash.
Another spectator, Shawn Warwick of New Knoxville, told the Dayton Daily News that he was watching the flight through binoculars.
"I noticed it was upside-down really close to the ground. She was sitting on the bottom of the plane," he said. "I saw it just go right into the ground and explode."
Than Tran, of Fairfield, said he could see a look of concern on the wing walker's face just before the plane went down.
"She looked very scared," he said. "Then the airplane crashed on the ground. After that, it was terrible, man ... very terrible."
Wicker's website says she responded to a classified ad from the Flying Circus Airshow in Bealeton, Va., in 1990, for a wing-walking position, thinking it would be fun. She was a contract employee who worked as a Federal Aviation Administration budget analyst, the FAA said.
She told WDTN-TV in an interview this week that her signature move was hanging underneath the plane's wing by her feet and sitting on the bottom of the airplane while it's upside-down.
"I'm never nervous or scared because I know if I do everything as I usually do, everything's going to be just fine," she told the station.
Wicker wrote on her website that she had never had any close calls.
"What you see us do out there is after an enormous amount of practice and fine tuning, not to mention the airplane goes through microscopic care. It is a managed risk and that is what keeps us alive," she wrote.
In 2011, wing walker Todd Green fell 200 feet to his death at an air show in Michigan while performing a stunt in which he grabbed the skid of a helicopter.
In 2007, veteran stunt pilot Jim LeRoy was killed at the Dayton show when his biplane slammed into the runway while performing loop-to-loops and caught fire.
Organizers were presenting a trimmed-down show and expected smaller crowds at Dayton after the Air Force Thunderbirds and other military participants pulled out this year because of federal budget cuts.
The air show, one of the country's oldest, usually draws around 70,000 people and has a $3.2 million impact on the local economy. Without military aircraft and support, the show expected attendance to be off 30 percent or more.
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Thomas reported from Philadelphia. Associated Press writers Kerry Lester in Chicago and Randy Pennell in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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Secret college admissions practice for men
The Supreme Court is poised to release its opinion on an affirmative-action case that could forever change the way public colleges and universities consider race in admissions. But even if, as some predict, the justices issue a broad ruling slapping down the use of race in admissions, an open secret in higher education?that many colleges lower their admissions standards for male applicants?remains unchallenged and largely unremarked upon.
For years, the percentage of men enrolled in college has been declining, with women making up nearly 57 percent of all undergrads at four-year colleges last year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. While schools are prohibited under the federal Title IX law from discriminating based on gender, some admissions officials have admitted in recent years that male applicants get a leg up from colleges hoping to avoid gender imbalances on campus.
Jennifer Delahunty Britz, the dean of admissions at the private liberal arts school Kenyon College, was among the first to admit this when she wrote an op-ed titled "To All the Girls I've Rejected" in The New York Times in 2006.
"The reality is that because young men are rarer, they're more valued applicants," she wrote, adding that two-thirds of colleges report that more women than men apply for admission. "What messages are we sending young women that they must, nearly 25 years after the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment, be even more accomplished than men to gain admission to the nation's top colleges?"
Delahunty Britz's acknowledgment opened the floodgates, and reporters began looking closely at schools that admitted a much higher percentage of male than female applicants.
Of course, these gaps don't necessarily mean that women are being discriminated against. It's possible that the male applicant pool is better qualified on average, though that's hard to ascertain when colleges generally resist releasing their admissions data.
The University of Richmond, a private liberal arts school, acknowledged in 2009 that it attempts to keep its gender balance at about 50-50, which meant women's admit rate was about 13 percentage points lower than men's over the previous 10 years. Admissions officer Marilyn Hesser told CBS that men and women had about the same standardized test scores, but that male applicants' GPA was lower on average. (The college's admission rate suddenly became more gender neutral the following year, in 2010-2011, when men's acceptance rate was only 3 percentage points higher than women's.)
The same year, the College of William and Mary, a public institution in Virginia, accepted 39.4 percent of its male applicants and 27.2 percent of female applicants. The school's admissions dean, Henry Broaddus, said men have slightly higher standardized test scores but lower GPAs than women, on average.
Broaddus defended the policy, insisting that William and Mary's female students want the college to to be gender-balanced and that colleges in general risk becoming less attractive to both men and women when the gender balance tips too far toward women.
"Even women who enroll ... expect to see men on campus," Broaddus said at the time. "It's not the College of Mary and Mary; it's the College of William and Mary."
In 2005, some of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's trustees reportedly wondered whether they should instate "affirmative action for men," to counteract the declining percentage of men on campus. (The school is more than 58 percent female.)
The stories prompted admissions consultants who charge $200 per hour to caution on their web site that women applicants must try harder. "The best advice we can give female applicants is to follow the same advice we're giving everyone?only more strictly: start your college applications early, apply to an appropriate number and range of schools, and prepare each one of your applications carefully."
Interestingly, none of these revelations prompted a wave of lawsuits, or even much outrage, from feminist organizations or other groups. It's even more surprising since the issue is probably more clear-cut, legally speaking, than race-based affirmative action.
In Grutter v. Bollinger, the 2003 case that set current law around race-based affirmative action, the Supreme Court ruled that in order to achieve a "critical mass" of underrepresented minority groups, colleges can use race as a limited factor in admissions decisions. The court said at the time they believed affirmative action would no longer be necessary after 25 years, an argument the Supreme Court is now reconsidering with Fisher v. University of Texas, a case brought by a white student who was rejected by the university.
Many legal experts expect the court, which is more conservative now than it was in 2003, to rule against UT, which could mean public colleges could have to stop considering race in admissions as a way to increase on-campus diversity.
But with men, there's no "critical mass" argument to make; men are outnumbered by women on campus, but not so vastly that they can be considered an underrepresented minority. The constitution does allow for more discrimination based on gender than race. (The courts treat any classification based on race with strict scrutiny; gender-based classifications get a more relaxed degree of review.)
But Title IX pretty clearly forbids any admissions decision that discriminates based on gender, meaning Congress has already made gender-balancing admissions decisions effectively illegal. In the one known case on this issue, plaintiffs challenged the University of Georgia in 2000 for both race and gender admissions preferences, and a federal circuit court found that gender preferences were illegal and struck them down. The school declined to appeal.
Why haven't there been more lawsuits?
Gail Heriot, a conservative law professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the federal U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said it's partly the murky politics of the issue. Liberal, feminist groups tend to support affirmative action for racial minorities, and could be wary that attacking gender preferences for men would lead them into attacking racial preferences.
Meanwhile, conservative groups that reject race-based affirmative action would rather draw attention to the "boy crisis" they believe harms men than seize the chance to deal a blow to both race and gender admissions preferences.
Heriot began a Commission investigation into whether colleges were discriminating against female applicants in 2009, but the eight-member panel voted to end it at the suggestion of a Democratic appointee in 2011. Several schools had refused to hand over the admissions data to Heriot, which made the investigation difficult.
Heriot dismissed the argument that women would rather attend gender-balanced schools, even if it means they had to get better grades in high school than their male peers to get in.
"It strikes me as a very troubling argument to say, 'Gosh, women want to be discriminated against,'" she said. "You're going to have to prove that to me."
She still believes that a case against gender preferences at public schools could win.
"I'm a conservative so I tend to be on the other side of issues from Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. But I'd be happy to argue this one to her. I think I have a shot," Heriot said.
Meanwhile, admissions officers who do not want to give a leg up to men are left to find other means to attract men to campus. Brandeis University (57 percent female) tried offering free baseball caps to their first 500 male applicants, according to Heriot.
Eric Felix, an admissions officer for the University of San Diego, a small liberal arts school that is 45 percent male, says he tries to encourage qualified men to apply by tailoring applications materials to them, highlighting the school's engineering programs and sports teams instead of the beautiful campus shots sent to women. He also visits all-boys schools and ROTC programs to recruit.
Felix said he does not use gender preferences, but that male applicants can often make up for their on average lower GPAs through "non-cognitive" factors such as leadership roles in extracurriculars. "We're only going to admit students that we feel are successful," Felix said. "Once you get to the non-academic pieces then men start to shine, because they put an emphasis on extracurriculars."
Felix said that although men may not be an oppressed minority, they are often discouraged from emphasizing academics because they are expected to get a part-time job or join the military. Felix also argued that gender is part of diversity on campus.
"Students need to be able to interact with a diverse population and part of that diversity is gender," Felix said. "If there's a discussion about rape and sexual assault in court cases [in class] and there's not men to add a voice, that's a conversation that's really missing."
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
High-speed mobile data congestion in Tokyo; iPhone worse than Android
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Mobile Marketing Data Laboratory recently conducted a study into data packet congestion in LTE 4G networks in Tokyo. Packet congestion was defined in this survey as when on an LTE connection the web page under test ? Yahoo! Japan?s top page was used ? fails to completely load within 30 seconds.
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Between the 10th and 14th of June 2013 the investigation team visited the six busiest stations on the Tokyo Yamanote line, choosing two spots on each to test, during both the morning peak period of 7 am to 9 am, and evening peak of 5 pm to 7 pm. 100 connections were made from each collection point, for a total of 1,200 tests for each phone.
Specifically, the stations and locations were Shinjuku South and East entrances, Ikebukuro in front of South ticket wicket and Seibu East entrance, Shibuya in front of Tamagawa ticket wicket and Hikarie entrance, Tokyo Yaesu Central entrance and Marunouchi North entrance, Shinagawa Minato South entrance and Central ticket wicket, and Shinbashi Kasumori entrance and SL Plaza. For the tests, au and SoftBank iPhone 5s tested out Apple connections, and Android was represented by docomo?s Xperia Z, au?s HTC J butterfly, and SoftBank?s Aquos Phone Xx.
Instead of a graph, here?s Shinbashi?s SL Plaza:
SL is the abbreviation used in Japan for Steam Locomotive, as you might have guessed!
Research results
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Station au iPhone 5 congestion rate SoftBank iPhone 5 congestion rate Shinjuku 40.0% 3.0% Ikebukuro 9.5% 2.0% Shibuya 3.0% 0.0% Tokyo 5.0% 0.0% Shinagawa 52.5% 9.0% Shinbashi 12.5% 0.0% Total 20.4% 2.3% 2. iPhone 5 page load time
Station au iPhone 5 page load time SoftBank iPhone 5 page load time Shinjuku 18.11 seconds 5.50 seconds Ikebukuro 8.24 seconds 4.84 seconds Shibuya 6.46 seconds 3.74 seconds Tokyo 7.49 seconds 4.15 seconds Shinagawa 18.32 seconds 7.94 seconds Shinbashi 9.64 seconds 3.28 seconds Total 11.38 seconds 4.91 seconds By time of day, au was about 50% slower in the evening, versus about 20% for SoftBank. By day of the week, Monday and Friday mornings were slower than the mid-week mornings for both carriers, and Friday evening was the slowest overall for au.
3. Android packet congestion rates
Station docomo Xperia Z congestion rate au HTC J congestion rate SoftBank Aquos Phone Xx congestion rate Shinjuku 4.0% 0.0% 0.0% Ikebukuro 17.5% 0.0% 0.0% Shibuya 2.0% 0.0% 0.0% Tokyo 3.5% 0.0% 0.0% Shinagawa 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% Shinbashi 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% Total 4.9% 0.0% 0.0% 4. Android page load time
Station docomo Xperia Z page load time au HTC J page load time SoftBank Aquos Phone Xx page load time Shinjuku 6.27 seconds 2.47 seconds 3.30 seconds Ikebukuro 8.96 seconds 3.16 seconds 5.12 seconds Shibuya 4.78 seconds 2.76 seconds 3.76 seconds Tokyo 8.06 seconds 2.98 seconds 3.46 seconds Shinagawa 4.00 seconds 3.28 seconds 3.86 seconds Shinbashi 5.08 seconds 3.24 seconds 4.19 seconds Total 6.19 seconds 2.98 seconds 3.95 seconds It was difficult to see any obvious trend by time of day or weekday here.
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[iPad Mini] Technology in education with iPads
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I have been toying with the concept of flipping my classroom as well, but face challenges in motivating my weaker pupils to view my screencasts, as well as finding the time and energy to record them after a long day's work.
I appreciate the share, as I am also a teacher using an ipad in the classroom, and am always in the lookout for new and inventive ways to utilize my ipad better.
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STOCKHOLM: Pirate Bay Swede sentenced for hacking, fraud ...
FILE - In this May 20, 2013 file photo, Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, center, is escorted into the courtroom at Nacka District Court, in Stockholm, Sweden. A Swede serving a sentence for involvement with file-sharing site Pirate Bay has been found guilty of fraud, hacking into Sweden?s tax authority and a bank, and the attempted illegal transfer of money between accounts in Europe. The Nacka District Court in Stockholm on Thursday, June 20, 2013 gave Gottfrid Svartholm Warg a two-year prison sentence, and also found another Swede, Mathias Gustafsson, guilty of hacking and placed him on probation. It was not immediately clear if they will appeal. (AP Photo/Erik Martensson, file) SWEDEN OUT
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STOCKHOLM ? A founder of the popular file-sharing website Pirate Bay who was arrested in Cambodia under an international warrant was convicted in Sweden on Thursday of hacking and fraud and given a two-year prison sentence.
The Nacka District Court in Stockholm said 28-year-old Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who is currently serving a one-year sentence for copyright violation, was found guilty of hacking into a company that handles sensitive information for Sweden's police force, the country's tax authority, and Nordic banking group Nordea AB. The court also convicted him of fraud and attempted fraud for stealing money from an account in Denmark and trying to illegally transfer euros 654,000 ($863,000) of money in European accounts.
Another Swede, Mathias Gustafsson, age 36, was found guilty of hacking and was placed on probation. It was not immediately clear if they would appeal.
"The data intrusion has been very extensive and technically advanced," the court said in its ruling.
The men denied wrongdoing, claiming their computers were used remotely by others, but computer forensic experts told the court they found evidence that the two men were behind the hacking.
In 2009, a Swedish court gave Svartholm Warg and three Pirate Bay colleagues one-year sentences for copyright violation. They also were ordered to pay 46 million kronor ($6.5 million) in damages to the entertainment industry.
Svartholm Warg appealed that ruling, but he left the country and was arrested in Cambodia in 2012, after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for him. He was repatriated and his one-year prison sentence was upheld in an appeal court hearing last year.
Known by his Internet alias "Anakata," Svartholm Warg also is wanted in Denmark, where he is suspected of hacking to access sensitive information. During the Swedish investigation, police tipped off colleagues in neighboring Denmark who investigated and found traces of hacking of Danish sites, possibly by Svartholm Warg and a Dane.
The Danish Justice Ministry said the hackers had accessed "some information" from the Schengen Information System - a large European database maintained by police and legal officials - and had copied Danish social security numbers and data from the country's register of public and private businesses.
The Pirate Bay is one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, offering millions of users a forum for downloading music, movies and computer games.
Associated Press writer Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/06/20/3547385/pirate-bay-swede-sentenced-for.html
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