CNN’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Special Ignites Heated Race Debate | Urban Faith CNN’s fourth Black in America documentary, “The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley,” hasn't even aired yet, but it’s already sparking a debate about racism in the tech start-up community. Plus, an interview with CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien. A Fiery Debate Breaks Out CNN’s “Black in America 4: The New Promised Land — Silicon Valley” hasn’t even aired yet and it has already ignited a fierce debate about whether or not tech start-ups succeed based on a pure meritocracy or the culture is tainted by racism like the rest of society. The documentary posits that Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are mostly young, white and male and follows eight Black entrepreneurs who live together for a two-month immersion program called the NewMe Accelerator. Online War of Words As a largely African-American audience watched a screening of the documentary at the Time-Warner building in New York City October 26, a Twitter feud between two tech entrepreneurs featured in the program broke out. Comparing Experiences
Albert Spaggiari Albert Spaggiari (December 14, 1932 – June 8, 1989), nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France in 1976. Earlier life[edit] Spaggiari was born in Laragne-Montéglin in the Hautes-Alpes département. He grew up in Hyères, where his mother had a lingerie store. Spaggiari is reported to have committed his first robbery in order to offer a diamond to a girlfriend. Perhaps as part of a deal made with the authorities, he would later join a paratroop regiment during the Indochina War. During the Algerian War he worked for the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS), a clandestine anti-de Gaulle and anti-decolonisation organization. In 1976 he was the owner of a photographic studio in Nice, living in a house in the hills over Nice named Les Oies Sauvages. Heist[edit] When Spaggiari heard that the sewers were close to the vault of the Société Générale bank, he began to plan a break-in into the bank. Works[edit]
Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries Imagine a world where YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter had never been created due to the cost of regulatory compliance. Imagine an Internet where any website where users can upload text, pictures or video is liable for copyrighted material uploaded to it. Imagine a world where the addresses to those websites could not be found using search engines like Google and Bing, even if you typed them in directly. Imagine an Internet split into many sections, depending upon where you lived, where a user’s request to visit another website was routed through an addressing system that could not be securely authenticated. Imagine that it’s 2012, and much of that world has come to pass after President Obama has signed into law an anti-online piracy bill that Congress enacted in a rare show of bipartisan support. Yes, the examples above represent worst-case scenarios, but unfortunately, they’re grounded in reality. Those pro-legislation constituencies do have their supporters. Allan A.
m.e.driscoll: data utopian • eight golden rules of interface design As we dedicate an increasing fraction of our time interacting with software — from airport check-in terminals and parking meters, to desktop and mobile applications — digital interface design is becoming as important as physical architecture in improving our experience of the world. Here are Professor Ben Schneiderman’s Eight Golden rules for optimally designing that experience (drawn from his classic text, Designing the User Interface): 1 Strive for consistency.Consistent sequences of actions should be required in similar situations; identical terminology should be used in prompts, menus, and help screens; and consistent commands should be employed throughout. 2 Enable frequent users to use shortcuts.As the frequency of use increases, so do the user’s desires to reduce the number of interactions and to increase the pace of interaction. Abbreviations, function keys, hidden commands, and macro facilities are very helpful to an expert user.
change As a supporter of the Women's Media Center, I was saddened to hear MSNBC host Ed Schultz's misogynist comment about extreme right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham. While Ingraham's views are also detrimental to women, she provides enough fodder for progressive criticism that such base attacks, such as Shultz's have no place in news coverage or commentary. Unfortunately, several other of MSNBC's... Unfortunately, several other of MSNBC's male hosts and commentators from Chris Matthews to David Shuster have used their on-air platforms to also espouse sexist views and speech. As a new generation of women enter media and politics, such comments dissuade women from exposing themselves to vile attacks, and perpetuate inequality in newsrooms and in congress.
Getting Started: gadgets.* API - Gadgets API Welcome to the gadgets API! To learn more about different types of gadgets and where they run, see the gadgets API Overview. This developers guide is intended for people who want to use the gadgets API to write gadgets. Gadgets are so easy to create that they are a good starting point if you are just learning about web programming. Contents "Hello, World" The simplest gadget is just a few lines of code. Note the following about the "Hello World" example: Gadgets are specified in XML. What's In a Gadget? The gadgets API consists of a few simple building blocks: XML, HTML, and JavaScript. XML is a general purpose markup language. XML is the language you use to write gadget specifications. HTML is the markup language used to format pages on the internet. JavaScript is a scripting language you can use to add dynamic behavior to your gadgets. Where to Go From Here For general gadget programming information, go to Writing Your Own Gadgets. Back to top
The great Internet blackout of 2012 | City Brights: Sarah Granger Twenty years from now, the children of today may not remember this moment in history, but they might remember watching a LOLcats video on YouTube, or they could recall that fun website, Google, that changed their logo for every holiday. Or if they’re a bit older, they’ll recall the wonderful online encyclopedia that they used to research class projects. But in that distant future, these sites may not exist, if two bills pass in the U.S. House of Representatives in the next few weeks. Today, what we’re seeing is truly unprecedented – some of the most popular and powerful sites on the Web displaying black pages and notices arguing against SOPA and PIPA. While Wikipedia raised the most attention before today about plans for “going black,” essentially blocking access to most of their pages (when accessed via browser), other sites have joined in different ways. The problem in this case is not actually piracy.
JSONP JSONP or "JSON with padding" is a communication technique used in JavaScript programs running in web browsers to request data from a server in a different domain, something prohibited by typical web browsers because of the same-origin policy. JSONP takes advantage of the fact that browsers do not enforce the same-origin policy on <script> tags. Note that for JSONP to work, a server must know how to reply with JSONP-formatted results. JSONP does not work with JSON-formatted results. The JSONP parameters passed as arguments to a script are defined by the server. A typical JSONP request is similar to the following sample code: <! How it works[edit] To see how this technique works, first consider a URL request that returns JSON data. This JSON data could be dynamically generated, according to the query parameters passed in the URL. Here, a HTML <script> element specifies for its src attribute a URL that returns JSON: In this example, the received payload would be: Padding[edit] Rosetta Flash[edit]
Sarah Stierch: SOPA Blackout: Why Wikipedia Needs Women Do you know who Ada Lovelace is? She is considered the world's first computer programmer. I never would have known that the first computer programmer was a woman, if it wasn't for one website: Wikipedia. As a female contributor to Wikipedia, since 2004, I've come to terms with my geekiness. As I write this at 11:15 pm on January 17, I watch our team of staff and volunteers slowly black out Wikipedia, and I realize something: We 9 percent are losing our voice on the 6th most popular website in the world during this blackout. So what can you do to make Wikipedia a stronger, more diverse landscape of free information? And if for no other reason, do it for Ada. SOPA and PIPA have been developed to deprive us, regardless of gender, of control over one area of our lives where we still can have control -- what we contribute to the Internet.
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