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 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s how, with 3 Clicks you can add websites to your MindTap Course. What You’ll Get from this Tip: Step 1: Install Diigo Bookmarklet Step 2: Create a Diigo Group Step 3: Connect Diigo Group to MindTap Now as you add web pages to Diigo, they’ll now be automatically added to MindTap! […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy: D. Larry Crumbley, Contributor to the South-Western Federal Taxation series An excise tax at the Federal corporate tax rate (21 percent) is applied to the five highest-paid covered employees of tax-exempt organizations where such employees’ remuneration exceeds $1 million or the employee receives excess parachute payments. This excise tax applies to universities and their athletic associations (e.g., coaches). IRC […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn her webinars on using virtual and mixed realities in higher ed, Corinne Hoisington shared ideas and tools to use these new technologies in your course. Here are some links to explore to get you started with virtual reality. VIRTUAL REALITY DEVICES Oculus Rift HTC Vive Google Cardboard VIRTUAL REALITY APPS YouTube 360: for use […]
