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When Yale sophomore and anti-war activist Katherine Lo hung an American flag upside-down from her window, she must have known that her actions would be somewhat incendiary. The U.S. flag code states that Old Glory is never to be displayed down “except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property...
...electro” element in electroclash doesn’t signal a return to the jittery rhythms of “Planet Rock” and its progeny, but rather to Kraftwerk and the cool futurisms of synth-pop. Herein lies the problem; the profound inhumanity of machine music was central to the latter group’s ethos and appeal. With the radio often sounding more deranged and metallic than those early experiments, this late revival really comprises some of the oldest sounding new music around...
...networks to surf freely without a password. The practice of looking for those networks--known as wardriving, in homage to Matthew Broderick's wardialing in the movie War Games--got a boost when the descendants of ham-radio enthusiasts figured out that you could pick up a much stronger signal by welding an empty Pringles can to your Wi-Fi card...
...think big. Despite the expense, it had to build 20,000 access points across America. These access points have to be as secure as Fort Knox and support Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs (think of a VPN as a solid, encrypted tunnel of data in the middle of any signal). Free Wi-Fi rapidly loses its appeal when you realize those home users could potentially take a peek at the data on your laptop as part of the bargain...
CASAH also made numerous and detailed recommendations on how to improve sexual assault education. Devoting resources to education is one of the clearest ways to prevent sexual assault and to signal the University’s concern about its presence on campus. Current programs do not provide outreach or education after students’ first year, and even the program for first-year students leaves much to be desired. In their first week at Harvard, students now attend a 90-minute “Safe Community Night” program with their proctor groups, 30 minutes of which is devoted...