Reading Time: 2 minutes[Reading Time – 1 minute 52 seconds] Cheating on exams has been around as long as there have been exams. Yet with the use of technology cheating today has become much more rampant. Not only do students sneak in their smartphones to look up answers, they likewise post test questions and answers online for other […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes[Reading Time – 3 minutes 45 seconds] This morning I received an email that an outside company used by our school had suffered a data breach. The names of school employees and their social security numbers were exposed. This is not the first time school employees have been the victim of a data breach. And […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: William A. Raabe, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series It is hard to shop for some people at Christmas. The done seems not to have any pressing needs, or the donor does not know the person well enough to come up with “the right gift.” The recommended action according to some etiquette experts […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes[Reading Time – 3 minutes 50 seconds] Early in 2020 Mozilla announced that it will turn on DoH DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for all new U.S. installations of its Firefox web browser, and will soon silently turn it on for all existing installations of Firefox. But DoH is highly controversial, and can even weaken security. First, the […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou’ve just made it through TSA airport security and are headed to your gate. You notice that your smartphone needs charging so you can binge-watch all those movies on your long flight. But as you search for your phone charger cord suddenly panic sets in! You realize that you left it at home. And you’re […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesJanet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer of professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. I was brought into the cult of self-reflection kicking and screaming. I did not want to take time away from teaching course content so students could reflect upon course content. But I […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy: William A. Raabe, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series Issues involving identity theft have plagued citizens for over a decade. The most frequently encountered tax manifestations of identity theft include buying or stealing a taxpayer’s social security number and then filing a tax return claiming deductions, credits, or refunds that are sent to the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: Annette Nellen, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series Conyers, Order No. 13969-18 (9/11/19) – This designated order held that Ms. Conyers had to report the value of a Jeep and one year of car insurance she won. While a senior in high school in Tennessee in 2016, her high school entered her in the […]
