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THE UNCOMPROMISING Free Software Foundation (FSF) looks unlikely to adopt the latest Apple iPhones and roll them out across its organisation.

Apple launched the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S this week. Whatever they promise users has not impressed the FSF, which said that it wanted nothing to do with the walled-garden handsets.

FSF executive director John Sullivan said that the hardware, which includes a fingerprint scanner called Touch ID, is coming out at a time when people are particularly concerned about privacy. He suggested that these two things do not match up together well.

"Mobile phones are the most widely used and deeply intimate personal computing devices. With all of the emails, text messages, photos, and videos mediated by these devices, it is essential that the software they run be fully under the control of their users," he said in a statement.

"Instead, Apple has given us new hardware with the same old restrictions, allowing only Apple approved software, putting users - along with their data, their privacy, and their freedom of expression - at the mercy of programs whose operations are secret and demonstrably untrustworthy. We can't imagine a more hostile reaction to the wave of privacy concerns sweeping the world right now than debuting a proprietary, network-accessible fingerprint scanner as your new 'feature'."

With this in mind the FSF cannot possibly recommend that anyone use the Apple kit, and instead is telling people to avoid it.

"Because so many people carry computers in their pocket which can track and transmit where they have been, who they have communicated with, what they are interested in, and what sights and sounds are around them at any given moment, any liveable future absolutely depends on free 'as in freedom' software," added Sullivan. "Free software empowers users to replace any software hostile to their interests. The first step is rejecting Apple's restrictions."

The Apple iPhone 5S is where you will find the fingerprint scanner, and Youtube is where you can find a video that shows how it works. Jony Ive says that it is part of an overall care package that is designed to make the handset as useful as it possibly could be.

The video shows what a detailed fingerprint your handset will build up over time. Apple said that fingerprint information is encrypted and stored on the iPhone's A7 chip. Data stored is only available in access terms to the fingerprint scanner, and no other applications, it claimed.

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When talking about educational technology, what does the idea of openness mean? The word open appears in bothopen-access publishingand MOOCs (massively open online courses), but does it represent the same things? Does it stand for the same values, or help the same set of people?

A small essay by Amherst College professorJohn Drabinski, published today, examinesthe word in the context of a higher education institution confronted with contemporary technological choices.

In 2013, Drabinski writes, the Amherst faculty had to decide on three big questions:

All of these questions turn on the concept of openness. Two concerned open-access publishing," one "massively open online courses." The Amherst faculty chose to create a digital repository and make Amherst College Press open-access," but not to capitulate to MOOC manufacturers.

Drabinskis post has a long explanation of why, in addition to a great inside look at what it feels like to be wooed by a MOOC instructor. (The companies continually assured Amherst of its specialness.)Ultimately,the faculty decided the first two were beneficial to the fellowship of scholars, and the latter was not. MOOCs could put scholars out of work; an open-access repository could make more knowledge available to good researchers who were not affiliated with an institution or university library.

This is the developing, conscientious line among academics: Pro-openness on open-access; anti-openness on MOOCs. (Just last week, aprofessor at Princeton, Mitchell Duneier,stopped teaching his popular MOOCout of concerns that it would undermine public higher education.)

So when is openness good? Dickinsons little explication is, I think, useful:

It occurred to me then, after we discussed this in pairs and groups and as a whole faculty, as it occurred to most, that openness is nothing like an absolute value. In fact, it is a value that is made good by what it enhances in self and offers to others. When we publish, openness is a value because it enhances our visibility and offers ideas to others without classist and cultural conditions. If you think that is worth doing, you support (in this case) the repository and the press.

He continues, and its worth reading.But this is an elegant, short rebuttal to the always-positivebuzzword senses of open, and a nice framework for thinking and handling the wholerhetoric of openness.Openness is nothing like an absolute value. Well said.

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Published on September 12, 2013

SYDNEY Six books published by Cape Breton University Press will share the various stages at The Word on the Street festival which takes place September 22 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., on the Halifax waterfront.

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Cape Breton University offers programs at a campus in Cairo that is currently closed due to turmoil and violence in the streets of the Egyptian city.

New to the regions biggest book and magazine festival is the Open Book tent to be located immediately behind the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

That tent will highlight literature from the regions predominant cultures: aboriginal, Acadian, African-Canadian, Celtic and English, as well as other immigrant experiences.

CBU Press authors making presentations on the Open Book stage are Cassie Deveaux Cohoon ("Jeanne Dugas of Acadia" 11 a.m.), Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis ("The Language of This Land, Mikmaki" 1 p.m.) and Michael Newton (editor of "Celts in the Americas" 3 p.m.).

The Remarkable Reads tent aboard HMCS Sackville will feature a cooks and books panel featuring Anne Marie Lane Jonah (co-author of "French Taste in Atlantic Canada" 11:30 a.m.), while the Vibrant Voices tent, focusing on books for young adult readers, will include Hugh R. MacDonald ("Trapper Boy" 1 p.m.).

Dynamic Dialogues will include a railways panel discussion with Herb MacDonald ("Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History" 4 p.m.). That book is shortlisted for the Evelyn Richardson prize for non-fiction, the winner of which will be announced Saturday evening at a Writers Federation of Nova Scotia ceremony on September 21.

Mike Hunter, editor-in-chief at Cape Breton University Press, says he is delighted about the selection of authors and their books for Word on the Street.

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