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Using Megaphone to organise workers (or why you should care about online petitions)
By Moira Cully
Learn from Moira Cully's (Data Organiser at the Victorian Trades Hall Council) experience of online petitions and in particular using Megaphone, a petition platform for the Australian union movement and their supporters. Moira shared her key learnings at a workshop called Up Your Digital Game at Progress 2019, Australia's largest social change conference.
Note: This text is an amended version of Moira's speaking notes. You can also view the slides from this presentation.
A lot of people dismiss online petitions and online campaigns as clicktivism or slacktivism. But you can use online petitions to make a real difference. Do online petitions work? Well – just like real life tactics – some don't. Ok, a lot don't. But lots of them do.
Why do they work?
What Megaphone can do
Case study – Food delivery riders
Best practice petitions
They don't necessarily need lots of signatures to win.
Petitions work best when they're in coalition.
Workers should be front and centre of campaigns, even online.
Stories not complicated policy asks.
Digital is only part of a campaign.
Have a ladder of engagement plan for supporters.
They work because they put pressure on decision makers (especially decision makers who are not used to being targeted),
they can do significant brand damage,
they can change votes,
and importantly they can help identify supporters to take further action on an issue that they care about.
This last one is the part I want to focus on today. I want to talk to you about Megaphone – the petition platform of the Australian union movement. Megaphone is run out of Trades Hall here in Melbourne. We're proudly union-run and unlike some other platforms, we only accept petitions that are progressive and have union values. We work in partnership with union members, unions and NGOs to run campaigns that will improve the lives of working people. In less than 4 years we've had nearly half a million people sign petitions on Megaphone.
Collect new, clean data
Custom tick-boxes and custom fields
Optimised sharing
Embed into your website
"Email a decision maker" tool
Collect donations
Inbuilt email tool with templates
Live data flow
Dedicated support for unions
I want to talk you through a brief example of some of our recent work around organising delivery riders – like UberEats or Deliveroo riders. It's pretty clear that there are huge problems with exploitation going on in the industry and that unions can play a role in empowering workers to fight back against that exploitation. Going back a few years, the first step for us was identifying not only supporters who care about the gig economy, but also workers who are in the industry. How can we find those workers, especially in an industry where they're dispersed and don't have a common workplace? One place that we can start is by finding them online. This Megaphone petition was started by Alison who worked for Deliveroo, in partnership with the Transport Workers Union (TWU). There are a few key things that we've learnt about best practice petitions – using Alison's case as an example.
We've won campaigns in the past with just a few hundred signatures on a petition if the target isn't used to campaign pressure. Or if your campaign is very specific to an issue in one workplace or one industry you might only get a small list of people, but you know that all of those people are invested in your issue. In this case, we wanted to cast quite a wide net to start to identify a group of people. So this one has a decent amount of signatures – not heaps but enough to start that work.
Practically, there's no point doubling the work and fighting for signatures and space in people's inboxes. We know that we're stronger when we act together and this goes for online as well. Why have 5 petitions with 10,000 signatures each when you could have one petition with 50,000? That's a lot more powerful. The important part of this is that by acting collectively in starting the petition together, this has to have follow through as well. So we will always give unions the list from petitions they've started. And we will send future campaigns on issues to a broader list, so everyone benefits.
There are a few parts to this. Firstly, you can see on this petition it's clearly from Alison and there's a photo of her here on her bike. Secondly, the story that Alison is telling about being exploited by Deliveroo is much more compelling than me starting a petition with general facts and figures about delivery riders.
We know that stories move people to action, not facts and figures. So we tell Alison's story on the petition and in all of the content that we're pushing out asking people to sign the petition. Both of these things are important in making sure that the campaign has an authentic and compelling voice. It needs to be backed up by grassroots action as well – people aren't stupid, they can tell when a campaign is superficial.
Megaphone is just one tool that you can use to start identifying people to take further action. Petitions are just one tactic you can try. It has to all fit together into a broader strategy. Going back to the petition you can see here there are checkboxes for 'I'm a rider' and 'I'm a former rider'. The other thing on the petition form here is this field for occupation which is on every single Megaphone petition. This is key for the next step in our plan to identify people to take further action – we need to work out who are the workers and who are the people that just want to support the campaign. This is important because we want to be able to treat them differently and ask them to take different kinds of actions.
We send emails to the Megaphone list asking them to take different actions largely based on their past behaviour. For example, a survey on the gig economy asks for people to identify as riders – via email but also via Facebook. We have a list of people who we know are either delivery riders or former delivery riders based on what they've told us. So we used custom audiences on Facebook as well as lookalike audiences to ask them to take part in the survey which does a number of things – firstly the information can be used in the government's gig economy enquiry. Secondly, it helps organisers to start to map the workers – what are the key issues, who is angry about what, who might want to join a group or even lead a group. By pulling together the list of riders and the survey data, organisers in the gig economy team and workers are building a group of delivery riders.
The other part I want to touch on quickly is about sharing these tools with workers so that they can run the campaigns they want, and to build trust with groups we're trying to organise. Just from this petition and one list of data, we've built up a group of delivery riders who are organising their community, we've got a list of potential members, we've got a list of people who support them, we're raising money for injured delivery riders, we've made a submission to the gig economy enquiry. There's obviously still a long way to go and a lot to learn. But next time someone tries to tell you that online petitions are just clicktivism you can tell them they're wrong.
From this petition but also from our work on Megaphone more broadly there are a few key lessons:
Workers to the front, even online
Digital doesn't and can't replace organising – it's just part of it
What you think will work won't necessarily work – take risks, test and track everything
Break data silos by working collectively to build power
Work collectively
View the slides from this presentation.
Campaigning - Digital_Virtual
Movements_Campaigns - Labor_Worker's rights
Organising - Digital_Virtual
Petitions - Digital_Virtual
Progress 2019 (Conference)
Author: Moira Cully
Organisation: Victorian Trades Hall Council
Resource: Progress2019_Using-Megaphone-to-organise-workers_Moira-Cully.pdf


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He is also former co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning; and he campaigned successfully for a 14-19 University Technical College (UTC) to be established in his constituency, specialising in computing, science and engineering.
Although it took the department three weeks to confirm his full remit - encompassing careers support for all ages as well as skills policy - he seems to have quickly worked out his own priorities.
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He is also enthusiastic about further education, which he dubbed the 'Heineken sector': reaching areas that others don't reach.
He is committed to digital skills as 'core' alongside English and maths, and is particularly enthusiastic about the recent opening of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills in Tottenham Hale, a deprived area of north London. The college offers both sixth form studies – A levels and BTECs - and higher level apprenticeship training, and has been set up in partnership with companies including Merrill Lynch, Deloitte and IBM.
Finally, he wants to try to solve the careers support conundrum – what can government sensibly do with limited resources, and how can it "replicate good things without destroying them"? The Government has been accused by the Education Select Committee of "burying its head in the sand" on careers support, reflecting a growing frustration among educationists and business people. The long-promised careers strategy will be Mr. Halfon's first real test when it is eventually published.
Mr. Halfon has already clashed with the opposition over apprenticeship funding, despite having changed proposals in response to concerns about young people and those in disadvantaged areas. He will also have his work cut out implementing the Government's plans for technical education.
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My local store doesn't offer Fairtrade products, what can I do?
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When your shop starts stocking Fairtrade products, pass on the word and get others to support them in turn!
How much of the price I pay for Fairtrade products goes to the farmers and workers?
The FAIRTRADE Mark on a product means that farmers and workers have been paid at least the Fairtrade Minimum Price (and often more) and received Premium funds for investment in their communities or businesses. When you find Fairtrade products on a store shelf, all requirements have already been meant – this means they are not reliant on the retail price or sales of finished products to receive a fairer deal for their goods.
Check out our Impact section for more.
Why do some products claim they are "fairly traded" but do not carry the FAIRTRADE Mark?
Some organizations have been trading fairly for many years, before the creation of Fairtrade. The creation of new Fairtrade Standards is a long and considered process, and many of these organizations sell products that do not fall under them (like handicrafts), instead following the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) 10 principles of fair trade.
Some companies create 'fair trade' claims without the independent, third party foundation that Fairtrade has, or without being a member of a network such as WFTO. Consumers should question these claims. Look for the FAIRTRADE Mark as a trustworthy way to know that farmers and workers are actually receiving a better deal and fairer trading conditions.
Why aren't handicrafts Fairtrade certified?
Fairtrade was created to cover commodities, such as cocoa, coffee and cotton. These type of products represent a large percentage of international trade and have traditionally not ensured that the producer gets a fair deal.
Fairtrade Standards are revised continually in order to stay on top of changing market factors. Sign up to our newsletter to be informed of any changes regarding handicrafts.
How do I get my product certified or source a Fairtrade certified product?
Take a look at the Business section on our website. Our Business Development Team will help you through the process of certifying your products.
Why doesn't Fairtrade certify coffee plantations?
Of the world's coffee farmers, 70% are small-scale farm owners, who must deal with specific challenges in the international market. Fairtrade's mission is to make trade fairer for these disadvantaged farmers and workers, and as such, the system decided as a whole to support sustainable purchase from these small-holder farmers. This is one way we're different from other organizations who promote fair trade goods – we don't compromise or lose focus on our core mission of helping these small-scale farmers.
Are Fairtrade products fully traceable?
For most Fairtrade products that make up 100% of the final retail product—such as coffee, spices, rice, flowers, bananas—the Fairtrade Standards call for these products to be fully traceable. Therefore, these products can be tracked at each level of the supply chain, from the farm to the store. For some other products however, this proved to be near impossible in terms of how they are processed and manufactured.
Take chocolate for example. Cocoa beans are delivered by farmers in bulk, mixed during shipping, and mixed again during manufacture. Chocolate companies cannot always keep the Fairtrade cocoa beans separate from the uncertified beans.
As opposed to restricting this entire industry from using Fairtrade cocoa—therefore disadvantaging the thousands of small farmers who would have been able to sell on Fairtrade terms—we have set up a system under 'mass balance' so that manufacturers can purchase exact amounts of the Fairtrade commodities needed to create their final product and bear the FAIRTRADE Mark on their packaging.
For example, for a chocolate block that uses 300 pounds of cocoa, a manufacturer must buy 300 pounds of cocoa on Fairtrade terms and pay the additional Fairtrade Premium for community development. So, even though the cocoa beans may later be mixed with cocoa bought on the conventional market, the cocoa farmers are still benefiting.
Our strict evaluation and auditing system makes sure that the amount of Fairtrade products manufactured is correct for the amount of Fairtrade commodities that have been traded.
What does Fairtrade do about genetically modified organisms (GMOs)?
Consumers are worried about genetically modified (GM) crops, and the hazards they bring. Fairtrade does not allow GM crops, and supports farmers to monitor their neighboring fields. Contamination, however, is still possible, and it is for this reason that we do not label our products as 100% Non-GMO.
Why doesn't the FAIRTRADE Mark apply to American Farmers?
Fairtrade was created especially to support the world's most disadvantaged farmers and workers, using trade as a way to encourage and build sustainable development in developing countries.
We also recognize that some farmers and farm workers in America are also struggling to make ends meet and achieve high social and environmental standards. This being said, there are some major differences between production in our country and that in developing countries.
Most farmers in developing countries do not have infrastructure support, systems or safety nets in place to assist them if they cannot get a sustainable price for their goods. Fairtrade's expertise lie in developing standards to enable these farmers and workers to work their way out of poverty through fairer trade. If we shifted our focus to also include developed nations like the USA, it would reduce the benefits we are currently able to provide our producers—the very producers Fairtrade was created to support.
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Movement Lab
When 5 Nov - 5 Nov 2019
BLACK BOX - UNSW ART & DESIGN
CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
Movement Lab is a workshop series engaging the body as a material, mechanism and agent for creating performance art. Head along for 60 minutes of movement led by guest emerging and established performance artists. During the workshop these artists will demonstrate how they engage the body in their practice and lead you in movement exercises, teaching you how to use your body in performance and how you can apply this to your own practice.
Movement Lab will run throughout the year, inviting 15 guest artists in total to lead performance workshops between April and November 2019. Each artist will apply their specific practice to the workshop, guiding you through using dance, text, technology, telepathy, speech and everything in between to create performance.
Movement Lab #1
Monday April 15th 6pm - 7pm lead by Patricia Wood
Patricia is a dancer and choreographer based in Sydney. Her work draws from choreographic and ethnographic process and takes multiple forms, including performance, radio transmission and text.
Monday April 29th 6pm - 7pm lead by Sarah Rodigari
Sarah is an artist whose practice addresses the social and political potential of art. Her work is site responsive, employing durational live action and improvisation to produce text-based performance.
Tuesday June 25th 6pm - 8pm lead by Lizzie Thompson
Lizzie Thomson is a choreographer, performer and researcher whose practice interrogates processes of embodiment as they relate to cultural, historical and temporal forces. Her work draws on both choreographic and sculptural processes and takes multiple forms including performance, video installation, text and sculpture.
Tuesday July 9th 6pm - 8pm lead by Ivey Wawn
Ivey Wawn makes dance-based work for various contexts. Her artistic work and research centre on social relations and their historic specificities, with particular interest in relations of power, control and consent in the organisation of labour. She is committed to dance as a potential form of resistance; to social abstraction and commodification, due to its relative ephemerality and the opportunities it provides for sociality. Her works have focused on the wage relation, microbial reproductive labour, commodity fetishism, and invisibility among other things. In the past she has worked with Kaldor Public Art Projects, Underbelly Arts Festival, RMIT Design Hub, Liquid Architecture, DirtyFeet, Critical Path and Firstdraft. She will be creating new work for Next Wave and Dirtyfeet in 2020.
Monday July 22nd 6.30pm - 8.30pm lead by Ayeesha Ash (Black Birds)
Ayeesha is a proud Grenadian Māori Woman of Colour who creates art to spark social change. Her work is inspired by her experience as a mixed race, Third Culture Kid. As the Artistic Director of Black Birds, she has performed in, written, directed & produced shows, events & workshops in Australia & Aotearoa. Ayeesha is currently working on PACT: Salon; a collaboration between Black Birds and Sela Vai (You Therefore Me), a new video work for Cement Fondu and SPRING1883, a theatrical work for Next Wave Festival 2020 and an event for Sydney Fringe Festival. She is also a facilitator for La Boite's Open Homes project and is rehearsing for Belvoir's Life of Galileo.
Tuesday August 6th 6pm - 8pm lead by Justin Shoulder
Justin Shoulder is an artist working in performance, sculpture, video and nightlife/community events production. He was born on the un-ceded lands of the Gadigal people (Sydney) and is of Filipino and European heritage. His main body of work "Phasmahammer" is an ecology of alter personas based on queered ancestral myth. These creatures are embodied through hand crafted costumes and prosthesis and animated by their own gestural languages. Shoulder uses his body and craft to forge connections between queer, migrant, spiritual and intercultural experiences. He is a founding member of queer artist collective The Glitter Militia (Monsta Gras, Pink Bubble) with partner and key collaborator Matthew Stegh and Club Ate with collaborator Bhenji Ra.
Tuesday October 8th 6pm - 8pm lead by Marcus Whale
Marcus Whale lives and works on Gadigal land. As a musician, he has made music under his own name and as part of groups BV and Collarbones. Primarily forming an electronic world around his singing, the songs across these projects play out dramas of desire and projection. He has also created performance works for Liveworks, Underbelly Arts Festival, Sugar Mountain Festival, Vivid and Art Month Sydney in collaboration with artists Athena Thebus and Eugene Choi. As a writer, a first collection of poetry "Devotionals" was released in 2015 by Ruin Press.
Tuesday November 5th 6pm - 8pm lead by Samia Sayed
Samia Sayed is a contemporary artist and writer, currently living and working on Darrug and Gadigal land. She works with text, sound and performance and through this explores what she has lived through and witnessed to be forms of resistance within domestic, religious and cultural spheres.
No experience is needed!
Wear comfortable clothing
Bring your student ID (if you are a student)
$5 for UNSW Art & Design Arc Members
$15 for General Public
Tickets are also available on the door (Cash Only!)
Get in touch with AD Space Coordinator Anna May Kirk at a.kirk@arc.unsw.edu.au
AD Space is a student run exhibition space at UNSW Art & Design. Managed by Arc @ UNSW limited in partnership with UNSW Art & Design faculty.


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Joseph A. Fisher
JOSEPH A. FISHER is a Hewlett-Packard Senior Fellow at HP Labs, where he has worked since 1990 in instruction-level parallelism and in custom embedded VLIW processors and their compilers. Josh stud...показать большеJOSEPH A. FISHER is a Hewlett-Packard Senior Fellow at HP Labs, where he has worked since 1990 in instruction-level parallelism and in custom embedded VLIW processors and their compilers. Josh studied at the Courant Institute of NYU (B.A., M.A., and then Ph.D. in 1979), where he devised the trace scheduling compiler algorithm and coined the term instruction-level parallelism. As a professor at Yale University, he created and named VLIW architectures and invented many of the fundamental technologies of ILP. In 1984, he started Multiflow Computer with two members of his Yale team. Josh won an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984, was the 1987 Connecticut Eli Whitney Entrepreneur of the Year, and in 2003 received the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award. He is also the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award, recognizing his work in the development of trace scheduling compilation and pioneering work in VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architectures.показать меньше
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Embedded Computing: A VLIW Approach to Architecture, Compilers and Tools
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This Week in Modern Software: HBR Says Every Company Is a Software Company
By Kevin Casey • Apr. 22nd, 2016 • Technology Industry
Apple, cloud computing, entertainment, gaming, Intel, Microsoft, modern software, security, software development, TWiMS, virtual reality
Welcome to This Week in Modern Software, or TWiMS, our weekly analysis of the most interesting and important news, stories, and events in the world of modern software and analytics.
This week, our top story addresses a notion near and dear to New Relic—the idea that every company is a software company, whether they realize it or not.
TWiMS Top Story:
You Don't Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One—Harvard Business Review
What it's about: If you don't think every business is a software business, it's time to go back to school. In a new Harvard Business Review essay, U.C. Irvine professor and Founding Director of the Center for Digital Transformation Vijay Gurbaxani explains why and how all businesses must start thinking like software companies—or risk getting trampled by the competition in the digital age. "You may be thinking: but my company isn't a software company," Gurbaxani writes. "That may be the case, but the current business environment requires all leaders to view their companies as software businesses—and think like software executives." He kicks off with a short list of fundamental software strategy questions all business leaders must ask, including "What do you do uniquely well and what do you know how to do that your competitors do not?"
Why you should care: New Relic founder and CEO Lew Cirne has long maintained that every business is a software business, and Gurbaxani offers tangible ways for companies in any industry to put that mantra into practice. For example, Gurbaxani stresses the importance of taking what you do uniquely well and considering it in a software and platform context. "The big opportunity here stems from identifying which of your company's unique capabilities can be built into a software layer that can then be made available at scale over digital platforms," he writes. Gurbaxani points to Nordstrom's Personal Book point-of-sale application, which transformed the company's already well-known customer service into a scalable software platform that integrates with its customer database. Skeptical business leaders should keep reading: Gurbaxani explains the power of software thinking in terms any executive can embrace: "Software platforms have incredibly attractive economics.… They amplify the value embedded in the software layer by making it easier to increase reach and scope. They support profitable growth: a business can deliver margins that increase with scale as it adds each new user to the platform at modest incremental cost."
Hyper Vision: The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World's Most Secretive Startup—WIRED
What it's about: If you think virtual reality is just the next fodder for the Great Tech Hype Machine, you'd be forgiven—but you might change your view after reading Kevin Kelly's in-depth feature for WIRED on the past, present, and future of VR. Kelly spent five months with mysterious yet insanely hot startup Magic Leap and a slew of other players and technologies in the VR/MR world. His piece includes a deep dive into Magic Leap's mixed reality—virtual experiences that overlay reality rather than (temporarily) replacing it altogether. "Experience" is the operative word here: Kelly calls it "the new currency of VR and MR," one that will ultimately replace the currency of the internet. That, according to Kelly, could propel newcomers like Magic Leap into being big players. "Technologies like Magic Leap's will enable us to generate, transmit, quantify, refine, personalize, magnify, discover, share, reshare, and over-share experiences," Kelly writes. "This shift from the creation, transmission, and consumption of information to the creation, transmission, and consumption of experience defines this new platform."
Why you should care: Like Jeff Goodell's recent two-part feature on AI for Rolling Stone, Kelly's piece on Magic Leap and VR is a thoughtful, perceptive, in-depth look at the state of the technology and its implications. There's a reason why companies like Google, Facebook, and Samsung are investing so heavily here. While Cardboard or Oculus Rift have been earning ink, Kelly credits Magic Leap, a famously secretive South Florida startup, as possessing perhaps the most advanced technology for creating artificial visual experiences. Kelly describes these experiences as being very real and evocative, even in Magic Leap's prototype phase, and suggests that we're about to enter a phase of hyper-growth and improvement in VR (and MR). One of the more interesting observations from his five-month review: "The best experiences I had in VR or MR involved at least one other person," Kelly writes, adding that VR/MR is a the-more-the-merrier proposition. "VR will be the most social medium yet. More social than social media is today," he predicts.
Intel Can't Win Mobile, But It Owns the Cloud—For Now—WIRED
What it's about: On the heels of last week's data on falling personal computer shipments, chip-making giant Intel on Tuesday announced a public goodbye to the PC era as it repositions itself as a cloud and Internet of Things company: "Intel Corporation today announced a restructuring initiative to accelerate its evolution from a PC company to one that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices." The move includes a massive restructuring that will include reducing its workforce by 12,000 employees, or 11% of its current headcount.
Why you should care: As WIRED's Cade Metz notes, Intel is the dominant chipmaker in both the cloud and traditional data centers, but hasn't found the same traction in mobile. With PC sales continuing to decline, cloud represents a logical and lucrative next chapter. With spending on cloud infrastructure set to surge nearly 19% this year to $38.2 billion and 12.5% annually for the next five years—reaching $57.8 billion in 2020 according to recent IDC data—cloud represents a good bet for revenue growth in the foreseeable future. The move may also be a tacit acknowledgement that Intel missed the mobile train; WIRED's Metz notes the company's announcement did not mention the word "mobile."
Why Intel Is Laying Off Thousands of Workers—Time
Intel Axes 12,000 Jobs As It Seeks to Break Away From PCs—Computerworld
Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Focus on Cloud—The Wall Street Journal (Paywall)
As Intel Shifts Its Focus to the Cloud, It Commands Its PC Products to Fight—or Die—PCWorld
Cloud Takes Top Spot at EMC, SAP, and Intel Quarterly Announcements—BCN
Intel Announces Restructuring Initiative to Accelerate Transformation—Intel Newsroom
Hacking Your Phone—60 Minutes
What it's about: 60 Minutes on Sunday aired a segment that's a must-watch for anyone with a smartphone. In "Hacking Your Phone," CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi travels to Berlin, Germany, for an inside look at a team of security researchers and hackers led by Karsten Nohl, who earned his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Virginia. To show just how vulnerable mobile devices and networks are, the show sent an off-the-shelf iPhone to Congressman Ted Lieu, who agreed to use the device as part of the segment. Alfonsi called Lieu at that iPhone from Berlin, and Nohl's team was able to hack in and listen to both ends of the call immediately, with no information other than the number of Lieu's iPhone. Nohl explained that he used a flaw in Signaling System 7 (SS7) to get access. After hanging up with Lieu; Alfonsi traveled to Las Vegas, where Lookout co-founder John Hering demonstrated a variety of other mobile phone hacks: he set up a spoof of the hotel's WiFi network and when Alfonsi connected, within seconds Hering was reading her email and quickly accessed her Uber account, including all associated credit card accounts.
Why you should care: This hits a lot closer to home than the Apple/FBI argument over cracking a passcode: "You've probably been warned to be careful about what you say and do on your phone," Alfonsi says, "but after you see what we found, you won't need to be warned again." While some of Hering's demonstrated hacks—including watching a video stream of Alfonsi in her hotel using her smartphone's camera—required social engineering or other human error, the SS7 hack is particularly damning: Nohl tracked Lieu's whereabouts for as long as he used the phone, regardless of any choices Lieu made: device, mobile carrier, apps, GPS, and so forth. (From a security standpoint, Nohl tells Alfonsi: "All phones are the same.") When Alfonsi played back a recording of an official business call, Lieu called it "creepy" and said it angered him. That could be because the SS7 flaw has been known in the security and intelligence communities for quite some time; according to Alfonsi the latter group isn't too eager to have that flaw fixed. Hering did note that most people won't be subject to these kinds of attacks, but warned that "We live in a world where we can't trust the technology that we use."
The Minecraft Generation—The New York Times Magazine
What it's about: A New York Times Magazine feature profiles the transformational success of Minecraft. Just seven years after its release, Minecraft is the third-best-selling video game of all time with 100 million registered users, many of them children. But as Clive Thompson writes about the Minecraft phenomenon, "It doesn't really feel like a game. It's more like a destination, a technical tool, a cultural scene, or all three put together…. Minecraft encourages kids to get under the hood, break things, fix them and turn mooshrooms into random-number generators. It invites them to tinker." Minecraft is providing the first meaningful entry point into modern software for legions of children.
Why you should care: First of all, this is a fascinating read, and not just of interest to Minecraft devotees and their parents. (Don't be fooled, you don't need to be a kid to play Minecraft. Microsoft, which bought Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion, pegs the average player at somewhere between 28 and 29 years old, according to the Times piece.) In fact, the story will resonate with software developers: Unlike today's ubiquitous point-and-click interfaces, Minecraft teaches children and other players "what computer coders know and wrestle with every day, which is that programs rarely function at first: The work isn't so much in writing a piece of software but in debugging it, figuring out what you did wrong and coming up with a fix," writes Thompson, who notes that Minecraft has become a perfect, albeit unintentional, computer science learning tool. "Minecraft, rather audaciously, includes a command line and requires players to figure it out," Thompson notes. "Complex commands require a player to master chains of sophisticated command-line syntax."
RIP Prince, a Legendary Musician With a Complicated Internet History—Network World
What it's about: The internet paused just about everything else on its agenda on Thursday to pay tribute to musical legend Prince, who died on Thursday at the age of 57 in his Paisley Park recording studio in Minnesota. His one-of-a-kind career inspired generations and intersected with plenty of areas beyond music—including technology—as evident in the outpouring of online tributes and commentaries that began soon after the news of his death went public. While Prince once declared "the internet is completely over"—the Purple One even famously quit the internet in 2014—he was far from anti-tech. It's just that his approach to technology, like everything else about him, was truly his own.
Why you should care: Prince's massively successful career both preceded and spanned the massive changes in music and technology since the 1980s. He didn't follow the crowd—we're talking about Prince, people—and he certainly wasn't all-in on the digital age. But as Mashable's Lance Ulanoff noted, he wasn't a Luddite, either. Jon Caramanica at the New York Times writes that Prince "understood how technology spread ideas better than almost anyone else in popular music." His Purpleness was even at the forefront of some trends: AdWeek's Christopher Heine recalls Prince selling the three-CD set Crystal Ball online back in 1997; to get your copy, you had to dial 1-800-New-Funk. USA Today recaps his involvement with #YesWeCode, whose mission is to help teach 100,000 underprivileged children the skills necessary to launch a technology career.
There have been some lighter "Prince and tech" memories, too, such as when he sent magazines floppy disks with a custom font to be able to print the symbol that once replaced his name. Prince also conducted an interview in 2001 with the Omaha World-Herald via email and fax machine. And, in spite of his own on-again, off-again feelings about the internet, the torrent of online tributes is likely to inspire new generations who haven't listened to much of his music to give the legend a try. For starters, they can watch Prince drop (well, throw) the guitar after his epic solo during a rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Prince, a Master of Playing Music and Distributing It—New York Times
Prince Had a Legendary Love/Hate Relationship With Technology—Mashable
Prince's Twitter Icon Has Become an Instant Tribute to the Late Artist—The Next Web
Internet Sheds Tears of 'Purple Rain' for Prince—CNET
Prince Was a Tech Innovator Who Doesn't Always Get Credit for His Early Commitment to Digital—AdWeek
Prince Remembered as an Innovator, Advocate for Black Youth—USA Today
The Time Prince Sent Magazines Floppy Disks With a Custom Font for His Symbol—New York Magazine
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This Week in Modern Software: Here Come the Facebook Bots
By Kevin Casey • Apr. 15th, 2016 • Technology Industry
Apple, bots, cloud, cloud computing, Facebook, government, Internet, Intuit, modern software, privacy, SaaS, security, TWiMS, wearables
Modern Software Podcast: How Education Elements Used New Relic to Slash Its Cloud Costs
By Fredric Paul • Apr. 20th, 2016 • Technology Industry
AWS, bots, cloud computing, Facebook, modern software, Modern Software Podcast, podcast
This Week in Modern Software: How Big Data Technology Helped Analyze the Panama Papers
By Kevin Casey • Apr. 8th, 2016 • Technology Industry
cloud, DevOps, encryption, Google, modern software, open source, privacy, security, TWiMS, WhatsApp


This article covers a subject that has been deemed non-canon by either the author or the Harry Potter licensees, and thus should not be taken as a part of the "real" Harry Potter universe.
"It's like trying to catch smoke... like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands."
Bem (born c. 1979-1980) was a wizard of Nigerian descent who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1991 to 1998. He was Sorted into Gryffindor and was in Harry Potter's year, however he did not dorm with Harry and friends.
Being Nigerian in descent, Bem began his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991, along with students Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. He was Sorted into the house of Gryffindor, but would not share a dormitory with the other known Gryffindor boys in his year. During Bem's second year, the school would be under attack from a Basilisk. Many students became petrified. Hogwarts was under threat of being closed. Bem was not a mentioned casualty.
Seamus Finnigan: "The Grin? What's the Grin?"
Bem: "Not the Grin, you idiot. The Grim. "Taking the form of a giant spectral dog, it's among the darkest omens in our world. It's an omen...of death."
Bem chose Care of Magical Creatures and Divination as electives in his third year.
He was a black boy with dark eyes and a round face. Slightly overweight with a lisp.
The name Bem means "peace" in the language of the Tiv, of Nigeria and Cameroon and also means "good" or "well" in Portuguese. "BEM" is also an abbreviation for British Empire Medal, a medal received from British royalty for meritorious civil or military service, which reflects Bem being Sorted into Gryffindor.
Like the character Nigel Wolpert, Bem is not mentioned in the books, but is credited in the films. Played by Ekow Quartey, the character is listed in the credits for Prisoner of Azkaban as simply "Boy 1". However, on the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD, the closed captions identify the character as "Bem" during the Divination class scene.
Bem cannot be considered canon, as the books identify in several places that there are only five Gryffindor boys in Harry's year: Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas.
Bem also makes an appearance as a member of Dumbledore's Army in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. His house was changed to Ravenclaw, probably to correct their mistake of putting him in Gryffindor last time. He appears in the credits as Ravenclaw boy.
The Harry Potter Wiki has 5 images related to Bem.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bem's age can be extrapolated from his presence during the third-year Divination class in the Prisoner of Azkaban film.
↑ He was not sent away from Hogwarts while it had been taken over by Death Eaters, so he was not Muggle-born.
↑ He did not appear in CoS, but still the CHARACTER would still be at Hogwarts, even if introduced later, just like Luna, she still attended Hogwarts before OotP but was never mentioned really.


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I often have weird thoughts, like \"everyone should just go die\" and \"I hate everyone\". It\'s little thoughts in the back of my head, and I don\'t only think them in anger. A long with those, I find myself irrationally angry at people who are better than me, or do something I do. It often couples with thoughts of how I need to be better than everyone and when I\'m not, I get depressed and sometimes start drifting slightly from reality. I sometimes even think little suicidal thoughts. I want to know if this is anything I should be worried about, or if I\'m just over-hyping the whole thing.


Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2018 runner up, Roshni Sheoran is all smiles as she is felicitated by the principal of Delhi Public High School Navi Mumbai during her homecoming in Mumbai.
Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2018 runner up, Roshni Sheoran is all smiles during her conversation with the students of Delhi Public High School Navi Mumbai during her homecoming in Mumbai.
Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2018 runner up, Roshni Sheoran is all smiles as she strikes a pose for the lens with the staff of Delhi Public High School Navi Mumbai during her homecoming in Mumbai.
Yamaha Fascino Miss Diva 2018 runner up, Roshni Sheoran is all smiles as she strikes a pose for the lens with the students of Delhi Public High School Navi Mumbai during her homecoming in Mumbai.


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Q: Custom Validator for Static Use of Reflection vs. Custom Rule in SonarQube (Java, Eclipse) There may be some related questions, but I think my situation is peculiar enough to justify a question on its own.
I'm working on a historically grown huge Java project (far over one million LOC, due to other reasons we're still bound to Java 6 at the moment), where reflection is used to display data in tables - reflection is not used for dynamically changing the displayed data, but just for using some kind of short cuts in the code. A simplified part of the code looks like this.
TableColumns taco = new TableColumns(Bean.class);
taco.add(new TableColumn("myFirstMember"));
taco.add(new TableColumn("mySecondMember"));
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List<Bean> dataList = getDataFromDB(myFilterSettings);
taco.displayTable(dataList);

So the values of the table cells of each row are stored in an instance of Bean. The values for the first cell comes from calling itemOfDataList.getMyFirstMember() (so here comes the reflection part of the code). The rendering of the table cells is done depending on the return type of the itemOfDataList.getMyFirstMember().
This way, it's easy to add new columns to the table, getting them rendered in a standard way without caring about any details.
Problem of this approach: when the getter name changes, the compiler doesn't notice and there will be an exception at runtime in case Bean.getMyFirstMember() was renamed to Bean.getMyFirstMemberChanged().
While reflection is used to determine which getter is called, the needed info is in fact available at compile time, there are no variables used for the column info.
My goal: having a validator that will check at compile time whether the needed getter methods in the Bean class do exist.
Possible solultions:

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*modifying the code (using more specific infos, writing an adapter, using annotations or whatever that can be checked at compile time by the compiler), I explicitely don't want a solution of this kind, due to the huge code basis. I just need to guarantee that the reflection won't fail at runtime.

*writing a custom validator: I guess this shouldn't be too complex, but I have no real idea how to start, we use eclipse as ide, so it should be possible to write such a custom validator - any hints for a good starting point?
The validator should show a warning in eclipse if the parameter in the TableColumn(parameter) isn't final (should be a literal or constant). The validator should show an error in eclipse if the TableColumn is added to TableColumns and the corresponding Bean.getParameter() doesn't exist.

*as we use SonarQube for quality checking, we could also implement a custom rule checking if the methods do exist - not completely sure if such a custom rule is possible (probably yes)

*maybe other solutions that will give a fast feedback within eclipse that some tables won't render correctly after some getter methods were renamed

What I'm asking for:

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*what will be easier in this situation: writing a custom validator for eclipse or writing a custom rule for SonarQube?

*hints where to start either approach

*hints for other solultions
Thanks for your help.

A: Some alternatives:

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*You could migrate to more modern Java for this pattern, it is a prime candidate for method references. Then, your IDE of choice can automatically take care of the problem when you refactor/rename. This can be done bit-by-bit as the opportunity/necessity arises.

*You could write your own custom annotations:

*

*Which you can probably get SonarQube to scan for

*Which could allow you to take advantage of javax.validation.* goodies, so your code may look/feel more like 'standard' Java EE code.

*Annotations can be covered by a processor during the build step, various build tools have ways to hook this up -- and the processor can do more advanced/costly introspection so you can push the validation to compile-time as opposed to run-time.

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AQ: How does the crisis in Venezuela specifically threaten people with HIV?
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Taking HIV drugs regularly is necessary for the virus to become undetectable in someone's blood, and thus unlikely to be transmitted. But UNAIDs reported this past July that only 7 percent of HIV-positive Venezuelans who knew about their status were undetectable. That ranks Venezuela in the bottom 10 countries in the world. We've gone back to the 80s when it comes to HIV in Venezuela.
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