|
|
 |
Welcome!
Jenkins has been providing information to the Pennsylvania legal community for over 200 years. Our mission is to continue to make legal information easy to find and affordable. First time here?
|
|
|
| |
 |
An article in the Los Angeles Times alerted me to Medpedia, a "work-in-progress" online encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia, but for health information only. And, unlike Wikipedia, the entries are written and can only be edited by health professionals, who will write their entries with the consumer in mind. The article quotes Joseph B. Martin, former dean of the medical schools at Harvard University and UC San Francisco, and...
Submitted by Alice McCreary, Reference Librarian on 08-20-2008
Posted in: Medical  [Comment] |
|
|
|
|
| About a month ago, Google added a useful security feature to Gmail: encryption. If you select the "Always use https" option in your Gmail account settings, Gmail will set up an encrypted connection between you and the Gmail servers, similar to the connections you're used to with, say, Amazon.com.
You ought to use https with Gmail, especially if you access Gmail on unsecured wifi networks in public places. Without https, a tech-savvy person sitting nearby could -- if properly motivated -- sniff your packets and hijack your account.
Soon, that may...
[Comment] |
|
|
| Today U.S. District justice George O'Toole, Jr. threw out a gag order against a group of students from Massachusets Institute of Technology who had discovered security holes in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's smart cards. The students had wanted to present their findings at DEFCON 16 two weeks ago, but were prevented from doing so by the gag order.
One of the students, Zack Anderson, emphasized that the group wasn't trying to teach others how to rip off the MBTA: "Despite what's happened...
Submitted by Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian on 08-19-2008
Posted in: Privacy/Security [Comment] |
|
|
| I first heard the news on KYW1060 AM this morning. Then my boss forwarded me a link to the full report from the Communication Workers of America. (She's prodding me to blog more.) The verdict: Internet access in Japan is about 30 times faster, on average, than access in the U.S. Cheaper, too.
The report...
[Comment] |
|
|
| Wired's Listening Post blog today reports on the compact disc's 26th birthday. Unfortunately, the article pronounces CDs dead:
"Because there is nothing faster, or better, than purely digital music fired across the internet's synaptic network."
Maybe ... maybe not. Untill all digital music is DRM-free, you run the risk of having your tunes evaporate, as users of Yahoo Music have recently...
[Comment] |
|
|
More Blog Posts »
|
 |
|
Wed. [8/20]: