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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Vista and Microsoft monopoly -- Comment()
Rivals Voice Complaints About Microsoft’s New System: "Rivals of Microsoft are charging that the new Vista operating system is the company’s effort to extend its monopoly to the Internet." [NYT > Technology]
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Do you know mathematics? How about your children? -- Comment()
The Declining Quality of Mathematics Education in the US: "Mathematics education seems to be very subject to passing trends - surprisingly more so than many other subjects. The most notorious are, of course, the rise of New Math in the 60s and 70s, and the corresponding backlash against it in the late 70s and 80s. It turns out that mathematics education, at least in the US, is now subject to a new trend, and it doesn't appear to be a good one." [kuro5hin.org]
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They are watching me and you -- Comment()
There is increasinly surveillance on all levels from streets and public buildings to homes to airports etc. What is the cost to society? When huge datasets are mined for information about suspicious activities, what happens when thousands are innocently accused? (My new column in Finnish, Elvis, iPod ja valvontayhteiskunta.)
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