Coddling Spies: Why the Law Doesn’t Adequately Address Computer Spyware

Consumers and businesses have attempted to use the common law of torts as well as federal statutes like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Stored Wire and Electronic Communications and Transactional Records Act, and the Wiretap Act to address the expanding problem of spyware. Spyware, which consists of software applications inserted into another\u27s computer to report a user\u27s activity to an outsider, is as innocuous as tracking purchases or as sinister as stealing trade secrets or an individual\u27s identity. Existing law does not address spyware adequately because authorization language, buried in click-through boilerplate, renders much of current law useless. Congress must act to make spyware companies disclose their intentions with conspicuous and clearly-stated warnings

Overcoming language barriers and boundaries: Video-mediated eTandem

Ces dernières années, une initiative a été lancée dans les établissements d'enseignement supérieur du Japon pour faciliter les partenariats de recherche et la collaboration aux niveaux local et international. Les objectifs sont de fournir aux jeunes chercheurs une plate-forme pour perfectionner leurs compétences et promouvoir les échanges scientifiques. Cet article rend compte d'une initiative de recherche collaborative entre deux universités nationales au Japon qui ont utilisé une plate-forme eTandem à des fins d'échange scientifique. Les échanges en face à face et par vidéo ont permis aux étudiants de partager des idées de recherche, de travailler en réseau et de jeter les fondations possibles pour de futurs projets de collaboration. Les participants (n = 26) se sont rencontrés chaque semaine dans un environnement d'apprentissage informel. Des enregistrements audio de 13 dyades en tandem ont été collectés et analysés afin d'identifier les défis linguistiques et les échanges les plus significatifs. L'analyse des données a révélé que les étudiants étaient capables de donner et de recevoir des commentaires critiques sur divers aspects de leur apprentissage, en particulier dans les domaines suivants: la conception de posters, le contenu de la recherche, la présentation, la structure organisationnelle de la recherche scientifique et la terminologie hautement spécialisée. Nous avons noté que tout gain dans ces domaines variait de façon importante entre les individus et résultait peut-être davantage d'efforts multiples effectués au cours de la période plutôt que de l'expérience eTandem en tant que telle

I’m not the person I used to be: The self and autobiographical memories of immoral actions

People maintain a positive identity in at least two ways: They evaluate themselves more favorably than other people, and they judge themselves to be better now than they were in the past. Both strategies rely on autobiographical memories. The authors investigate the role of autobiographical memories of lying and emotional harm in maintaining a positive identity. For memories of lying to or emotionally harming others, participants judge their own actions as less morally wrong and less negative than those in which other people lied to or emotionally harmed them. Furthermore, people judge those actions that happened further in the past to be more morally wrong than those that happened more recently. Finally, for periods of the past when they believed that they were very different people than they are now, participants judge their actions to be more morally wrong and more negative than those actions from periods of their pasts when they believed that they were very similar to who they are now. The authors discuss these findings in relation to theories about the function of autobiographical memory and moral cognition in constructing and perceiving the self over time

The impact of embedded generation due to harmonic performance

The paper investigates the most suitable location of inverter connection installed into the distribution line feeder. Thus, it can reduce losses, control voltages as well as the protection system. Besides, it is more focused on mitigated a whack-a-mole phenomenon due to its fifth and seventh harmonics. Whack-a-mole phenomenon occurs as an active filter or passive filter installed on the long feeder line. It effect harmonic voltage where increase on some busses and decrease on other busses, especially at point of installation. In this paper, the inverter replaced by directly connected with the current source. Thus, parallels current source with combination of fundamental, third, fifth and seventh harmonic frequencies were tested. From the analysis, the best location of inverter current source should be at least lambda/4 from end bus. Thus, it proves by looking into its harmonic voltage, harmonic current and total harmonics distortion (THD) performanc

Improved method for the scalar control of induction motor drives

Many control schemes have been proposed for induction motors, which are in themselves highly complex non-linear and sometimes internally unstable systems.One of themost accurate control schemes is encodered rotor flux orientated vector control. The advantages and disadvantages of this control are well known and several variations, or reduced vector schemes, have been proposed. This study introduces an improved encoderless scalar, or approximated vector, control method for induction machines which can be applied to general purpose applications that do not require the most precise control. The proposed method overcomes practical difficulties and is suitable for industrial applications. The slip compensated stator flux linkage oriented scheme proposed in this study does not require flux estimation or a speed sensor, only requiring nameplate data, stator current and stator resistance measurement, which can easily be determined at start-up. Simulation and experimental investigations including field weakening operation and the effect of stator resistance variation demonstrate the improved performance of the new scheme compared to previous open loop V/Hz and stator resistive compensated schemes especially at low rotor speeds