| Ronald Reagan vs. the University Press
This was my first formal publication on the subject (after a lot of conference presentations, blog posts, etc., over the years), and I’ll admit to feeling some trepidation about its reception. I can safely say that my fears were misplaced. While I don’t agree with all of my critics—or even some of my supporters, as I’ll explain in a moment—the discussions that are swirling around this question about the future of scholarly publishing seem to me to be of a requisitely high level to actually drive constructive change. That is, the impulse is there, and the question is really one of whether any real degree of consensus will crystallize around a particular approach or set of approaches, or whether we’ll fall back into the same kind of fatalism that characterizes so much of the field at present.
A new ID system will make US citizens more secure, according to the ...
However, even the older folks will need one of the new IDs in order to board a plane by 2017. The new licenses will include three additional security layers, but no microchips -- yet. This will likely comfort some of RFID's vocal opponents. Secretary of State offices will now take pictures for licenses at the start, instead of the end the application process, so upon rejection, the person will be put in the system in case they try to return or forge a license. Additionally, it'll mandate all states to perform social security checks when licensing. This program is representative of the major government drive in recent years to increase security, even at the expense of cost and privacy. Many of the stateside logistics are already in place in some states; others will be forced to update their procedures. Meanwhile on the federal level, the government must embark on the massive task of network citizen data between its branches and attempting to keep this data secure.
Avnet Technology Solutions Helps Partners Tap the Growing Software as ...
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