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Students, law prof want RIAA trial live and onlineOpen in New Window
The group of Harvard Law students defending one Joel Tenenbaum in an RIAA lawsuit have an unusual request for the judge: they want the whole case streamed live over the Internet.Read More... read more »
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Boston subway in talks with students over transit card flawsOpen in New Window
"In a positive twist, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has announced it intends to partner with the same group of MIT students it once sued in an attempt to prevent them from revealing read more »
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Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats TextingOpen in New Window
"Today's high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13. Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have an average of about 2.4 add read more »
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Can Data Mining Save America's Schools?Open in New Window
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee writes about the efforts by school districts in the US to utilize data from standardized test scores, attendance, grades, and other data sources to spot weaknesses and streng read more »
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Help Ars Technica raise money for students with DonorsChoose.orgOpen in New Window
"As a part of its ongoing mission to help out students, DonorsChoose.org has launched a program today that lasts through the month of October, called Blogger's Challenge, where the top blogs and their audiences can "compete" against each other." read more »
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Judge: School can suspend students over fake MySpace profileOpen in New Window
"If you're a student, what you do online in your room may come back to bite you in the butt at school. A federal judge has ruled that a school had the right to suspend students over "lewd and vulg read more »
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MIT students ungagged: Judge vacates gag orderOpen in New Window
Richard Koman writes, "Federal Judge George O'Toole ungagged the three MIT students who had planned to speak at Defcon on weaknesses in the Boston T's CharlieCard system..." read more »
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Subway agency wants to keep MIT students quiet over hackOpen in New Window
A federal judge has ordered three student researchers who uncovered holes in the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority fare collection system from divulging their discoveries to anyone else. read more »
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