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Recently there have been a number of pieces of legislation on the national and state levels that are concerned with telephonic communication. On the national scene our Congress acceded to the wishes of the administration and allowed that warrantless eavesdropping on citizen's phone calls was acceptable and further that those who aided in that electronic surveillance could do so with impunity and immunity from prosecution.
The state of California moved in quite a different and narrower direction when it decreed that the use of a hands-on cell phone while driving was a violation and punishable as same.
What follows is a driver-driven cell phone chat that was inadvertently picked up on the Island, and while it may lack the gravitas of affecting national security it may have some interest to Vineyarders. Here it is as recorded with impunity and immunity and just a touch of the thrill that comes with doing something in questionable taste.
"Hi Ellie, it's Kate. We're here on Martha's Vineyard and just driving around checking out the points of interest. What's that? No, so far we haven't seen any movie stars. Stuart was almost certain he saw Carly Simon but on this Island almost everyone looks like Carly Simon. Of course I'll let you know if we see Ted Danson. But let me tell you what this Island lacks in stars it makes up in turkeys. They rule the roost, so to speak. Oh dear, here's another batch. Whoops . . . oh well, with so many of them who's going to miss a couple, though the little ones were adorable. You know, Ellie, I feel we're doing our bit to bolster the economy here; filling the Hummer with $5-a-gallon gas is an act of Christian charity, who knows how many of these families live off that money. A lot, let me tell you. Ellie I think I'm losing you, I'll just swing over here and see if I get a better signal". (A shout) "Yes, smarty pants, I know it's a bike path but it doesn't say only bikes does it?"
"Ellie, these people are so provincial I'd like to see them with their bikes in real traffic like New York, then see who gets yelled at. Ellie, hold on while I check a map here. No Stuart, this isn't it. This is Meeting Place Road, we want Meeting Place Way or Meeting Place Place, or something. Ellie, you still there? It seems every other street is Meeting Place something or other and there are more Tisburys than you could use in one lifetime. I think we're hopelessly lost. Oh goody, help is at hand; there's a blue and white car that's been following us for a while and it must be some kind of local holiday because his car has flashing lights and all. Oh, he's waved us over, that's a break. I bet he knows where that Meeting Place thing is. Listen, Ellie, I better ring off. It appears he has something on his mind. No, Ellie, don't call me, I'll call you."
Allan Manings, after 40 years of writing and producing for television and films, has retired to Edgartown and California. His column appears regularly in the Gazette.


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80x25 white on black bash, baby.
If I wasn't such a geek, I would have interpreted in such the wrong way.
80x25 white on black bash, baby.
If I wasn't such a geek, I would have interpreted in such the wrong way.
I guess that if we're keen on getting more people into Linux, then some commonality across the major distros might be a good thing. On the other hand, it's not so great for the smaller distros if we get a kind of monolithic Linux which dominates the market and means that people are less willing to try something different.
Still, there'll always be enough of us who want to use things because they're different - and because they are better at doing exactly what we want rather than being more generic, suit-everyone tools.
I hardly think it would stifle innovation (open licenses are so important in all of this). But it might make people think a little more carefully before innovating. That is, there will be yet greater emphasis on integration and interoperability with the other available applications.
And if anything, the need for lightweight desktops and specialized linux distributions is growing with the accumulation of older computers and the advance of the second and third worlds to the computer age.
How thin are you talking? KDE 3.5 runs pretty good on my K6-3/333MHz laptop with 384MB of RAM, and it's actually fast on my Eee PC at 630MHz.
What matters far more is standardising the way the distros handle other things so that HowTos, installation scripts/instructions for printers etc can be written once without a whole lot of "On Ubuntu do this, on Fedora do that" stuff. Things that would help a lot:
*Pick one printer handling mechanism.
*Pick one package manager.
*Standardise one one usb/udev/pam.
*Pick one wireless management policy. Hide madwifi/ndiswrapper etc.
Yeah, well I've been using it as my main OS for 5 years! At least, according to my resume, which I carefully prepared according to the job description.
My main bone of contention with X11 is that it's not being developed seriously as a GUI interface for modern machines. It seems that most of the development is going into code cleanups (important), bugfixes (important) and other maintenance functions. But that's just it - this is all maintenance stuff. The tree needed the reorganization, the code needed to be more modular, etc - nobody is disputing that. On the other hand, threading is overdue and secure X11 channels are insanely overdue. The configuration file changes make things simpler, but it makes it harder to maximise the use of the monitor and graphics cards, even though it's easier (and safer) for the "standard" modes. Simplification is good, but any loss of capability is a regression.
The console is good - and fast - for many tasks, and with the introduction of framebuffers some time back, is capable of many of the tasks people had to use GUIs for in the past. To make the best use of it, though, you really need GNU Screen, and Screen just isn't being maintained that much any more. Really, with framebuffer support and other graphics features for consoles being considered, some of the features of Screen might have to be moved into the kernel in order to function correctly.
I don't use the option of serial-port consoles, so I'm not sure how capable those are these days. PCs are not in the same league as minicomputers or mainframes, so I doubt anybody is looking to hook up a couple of hundred VT220 terminals any time soon, but it is an interface and the underlying code for a terminal is independent of where that terminal is physically located. It should make no difference to Linux whether you are using the local keyboard/screen, a terminal on the end of a serial cable, or indeed a terminal on the end of a USB line.
The more all these distros converge and provide nearly identical desktops, the clearer it will be that most of them don't actually need to exist in the first place.
That's an emergent property of FOSS. It's basically evolution by intelligent design AND natural selection, if that makes any sense. You've got a bunch of different codes. The best become the most popular in their niche, the rest don't. That's the "natural selection" bit.
Instead of sexual reproduction/mutation enabling variation among different
Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS comes with just the core engine and very basic support. This is a very different experience from all the other distributions where they bundle more than necessary applications (OpenOffice on a server distribution? Really?).
A common UI for Linux would suck, because not everyone wants the same thing. If there's a common UI, then that means a bunch of people are going to lose something.
A common UI for "major Linux distributions" is probably a good thing, since even though not everyone wants the same thing, a vast majority are happy to settle for the same thing even if it doesn't fit them well (ever heard of "Windows"?). Those people are the most likely to use "major Linux distributions" and those same people are probably the ones you're most likely to end up having to talk to on the phone. "Click on the foot or gear icon, and then..." Talking grandma through an UI that you know (because you're used to talking people through that one, even if you don't use it daily yourself) is easier than talking her through one of a hundred UIs that you vaguely remember having tried out for a couple days two years ago.
If you suspect a man, don't employ him.

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Jim Sterling writes: "Seth McFailin'. Reviewing Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse is difficult, because if I were to say it's bland, unfunny, and offensive, a large portion of the audience will fire back with, "Just like the show!" Meanwhile, another portion will suggest that I find the game vile simply because I don't like the cartoon it's based on.
Neither response will do justice to quite how rotten this game is, however, because Back to the Multiverse offends independently of the show. For the record, I quite like Seth McFarlane, despite his many detractors, and I am capable of enjoying Family Guy. Yeah, I know, I'm a terrible person for that.
But if you think the SHOW's bad, the game is like that time we did a wacky activity with an obscure eighties personality!"
He even says he doesn't like the show. Probably not the right person you want reviewing for a subjective opinion.
"Just like the show"
Oh please, it's declined in quality sure but it's still entertaining to watch. I don't see people complain about The Simpson despite not being funny since the 90s.


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But another question is why they kept logs anyway? Are they required to keep logs by law?
Now, THAT is the correct question. A server that keeps no logs is a fairly secure server from which to run a VPS. Ditto proxies. When shopping for something of this sort, the important question to ask is, "What logs do you keep, and how long do you retain them?" Every server makes and keeps logs - there is no getting around that. The lifetime of the logs should depend on administrative necessity. Generally, logs should be flushed every 24 hours. Performance logs, security logs, things that pertain to the ongoing health and security of the server should be retained for as long as necessay - sometimes, for months. But every publicly facing server should routinely delete logs that aren't central to the server's main mission. VPS and proxy servers main mission being to protect the anonymity of it's users.
Shouldn't it be considered a fraud, to advertise they you will protect a user's identity, then maintain logs which can be seized by any government agency that demands them?
That sidesteps my point, really. Assuming that you want a proxy server to actually hide you - you need to determine what logs they keep, right?
You also seem to ignore my final question. Shouldn't it be considered fraud, if they promise to "cover your ass", then they hand logs to whichever government agency demands them?
Dropbox - for a while they claimed that only user has encryption keys and it is impossible for their staff to decrypt anything
Actually, they never claimed that only the user has the encryption keys, and they didn't say "impossible", they said "can't", which is a softer guarantee.
Just goes to show you when reading security guarantees, "fraud" is not nearly as much a problem as companies being intentionally vague and optimistic, customers reading in to their statements what they want to hear, and everyone having poor reading comprehension and inadequate skepticism.
a, not really.. you can easily eliminate potential proxy services by assuming that at minimum they comply with the local data retention laws...
b, possibly, but who do they claim to "cover your ass" from?
Alternately to (b), what do you expect them to do? Subpenas and warrants are not optional. You can, right up to the minute the court order comes in, tell government agencies that your policies forbid releasing customer data... after that, your choices are pretty limited (they involve "hand over information" or "go to jail and let them search for it themselves"). If you want true, court order proof, privacy, the onus is on you to find a company that can provide it, Ideally you want a company located in a
They are based in UK, so they so not retaining logs is illegal. If you want proxy without logs find one based in country without data retention laws. Hint: it is nowhere in EU.
Judicially, no. But, unless I'm mistaken (and don't base hiding of ass on my level of informedness, please), Sweden is for example not abiding by that EU law yet, incurring ever growing fines in the process.
My ISP still claims the logs of who had what IP at what point in time are gone in about a week.
Not retaining logs might be illegal, but is it illegal to not make the logs in the first place?
If it is, does that mean that it's illegal to code software that doesn't do logging at all? (eg, specifically removing the code from squid that does this, or writing one's own proxy and never actually get around to the point of writing the logging part).
Servers in the uk have a legal obligation to keep certain logs, and we are America's bitch. TOR is the only safe option.
TOR is only as safe as the government permits it to be. I stated above that the darkweb is subject to MIM attacks. TOR is merely a subset of the darkweb - albeit, less secure than I2P and other protocols.
But every publicly facing server should routinely delete logs that aren't central to the server's main mission. VPS and proxy servers main mission being to protect the anonymity of it's users.
Shouldn't it be considered a fraud, to advertise they you will protect a user's identity, then maintain logs which can be seized by any government agency that demands them?
reason for keeping logs: [hidemyass.com]
"16:32 edit: We have had a few queries as to our logging policies. We only log the time you connect and disconnect from our service, we do not log in any shape or form your actual internet traffic.
21:05 edit: Why do we log the above^ information? Being able to locate abusive users is imperative for the survival of operating a VPN service, if you can not take action to prevent abuse you risk losing server contracts with the underlying upstream providers that empower your network. Common abuse can be anything from spam to fraud, and more serious cases involve terrorism and child porn. The main type of logging is session logging – this is simply logging when a customer connects and disconnects from the server, this identifies who was connected to X IP address at X time, this is what we do and all we do."
makes sense, they have to protect their other customers and themselves, if someone logs in and does kiddie porn or terrorism and HMA doesn't have the logs they'll lose relationships with the other VPN servers they're using. Govt might even just come in and take what servers they do have and shut down the website if HMA doesn't cooperate.
Honestly I think lulzsec was stupid for using their credit card on a VPN service for hacking online, if they thought "Let's be safe, I'll just enter my credit card number...." then they're stupid and deserve what they got. Should have gone anonymous (no credit cards, or at least prepaid) and should have gone through several VPNs in other countries.
Wanna hack anonymously? Buy a used PC, wipe the drive (or install new HD), install OS, use it only for hacking, never put any personal information on it, never check personal email, facebook, forum accounts, bank, credit card, paypal, etc. Create fake email on PC, use fake email to create fake accounts, find free VPNs [google.com] and go through several of them (at least three). Wipe cookies, temp files, etc after every session. Even better if you buy a used laptop and use wifi at starbucks, mcdonalds, B&N, or open networks from wardriving [wikipedia.org] and switch networks daily.
Yes, Internet Service Providers are required to keep laws by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
Why do we log the above^ information? Being able to locate abusive users is imperative for the survival of operating a VPN service, if you can not take action to prevent abuse you risk losing server contracts with the underlying upstream providers that empower your network. Common abuse can be anything from spam to fraud, and more serious cases involve terrorism and child porn. The main type of logging is session logging – this is simply logging when a customer connects and disconnects from the server, this identifies who was connected to X IP address at X time, this is what we do and all we do. Some providers choose not to do session logging and instead try to locate the abusive customer by using the intelligence from the complaint, for example if someone hacks XYZ.com they may monitor traffic to XYZ.com and log which customers have a connection to this website. Ask yourself this: if a provider claims not to do any form of logging, but is able to locate abusive customers, how are they able to do this without any form of logging?
I have to ask what exactly they expect people to use such a service for. How many people need to hide their IP address from servers badly enough to invoke a third party like this when they aren't planning anything nefarious? Without a court order that IP address cannot be matched to a person anyway and people who are just using general caution would likely prefer a service that uses its basic design for reducing your traceability, not the promises of a single third party (after all who's to say that third p
Some possibitilies:
- A celebrity or politician who was gay, or holds an view unpopular in their party.
- A whistleblower
- Someone who lives in a country where certain speech is considered terrorism, or books are banned, or certain technology is prohibited.
- A male who likes Justin Bieber music.
In the UK, not only do they have to keep the logs for 18 months but practically anyone, including the fire service, can look at them. The British law is the craziest in the world in that regard and anyone stupid enough to use a British proxy/VPN must need their head examined. If you use a Swiss or a Swedish proxy they will not even keep logs, so there is nothing for the FBI to ask the court to make them hand over. If you buy a car you look into which car does the job that you want it to do... So if you get a proxy it is up to you to make sure it will do what you want. If you want to watch British TV or whatever without being told that you cannot because you are not in Britain then OK but for privacy??? MORON!!!
The UK requires (under the Digital Economy Act) that any internet service provider (which the law defines in an exceedingly broad way) keeps logs of all customer connections and retain them for a minimum period of 6 months. They are not required to log the contents of the connection, merely the IP.
This includes an individual or small business offering wi-fi to customers on their premises. Under the DEA, they are an ISP and must keep the relevant logs (which include positive identity of the customer) for the
On the other hand in Germany the courts have ruled that the extended data retention spans are unconstitutional. Of course they have also ruled our federal voting laws to be unconstitutional and the politicians have done nothing about that.
If you're expecting to use public VPN servers to "hide your ass" you're doing it wrong.
If you're not competent enough to "hide your own ass" then you really shouldn't be fucking with other people's networks.
Perhaps you could write a "How to" for covering your ass, then. There aren't very many ways to hide your ass on the internet, and those that I know of are all subject to a MIM attack. Yes, even the darknet is subject to MIM, if the gubbermint wants to throw enough resources into finding you. So, what do you use?
I'm not claiming to have a method. My option is "don't do retarded shit on the internet and expect not to get caught".
But using someone else's VPN service in a western country is pretty much equivalent to using nothing at all.
Alright, can't fault your logic there.
Well of course. there's a difference between not getting busted by your employer for doing stuff you shouldn't be doing at work and attacking the US government and multinational corporations, however.
If your want to fuck with the big boys, then you better have your shit in order. Be it some bot-net to hide your tracks with, an account in backpackistan, or whatever.
Renting service of a VPN provider in the UK (who is well known to be the USA's bitch in recent years) to attack megacorps and the US gover
Actually, there is a ton of things the government will attempt to do to try to get you, even if it is a puny, pariah, poor government. I was helping a few friends of mine who live in a country, where people who laugh at politicians are still beaten up, to publish some funny videos about their top politician. Since I also visit there occasionally, we took full precautions. Private VPN to a foreign country, rather unfriendly to the regime, chained proxies, then TOR, new email addresses and video upload accounts, different chained proxies to access each of those, etc.
Once the videos hit the tubes,some people got mightily pissed off, and started an official, but silent investigation. Imagine my surprise, when two of our e-mail accounts (free, with a large US-based web mail provider) that we used for the services were blocked, and login attempts redirected us to customer support barely a day into the operation. Since the investigation in these countries tends to leak like a sieve, we got info that that particular country was paying someone mid-level in customer support dept. to give them data on customers.
They hit the video upload sites with official requests and apparently tried to hack into one, obtained logs from the ISPs of all online forums that we used to advertise the videos to, had videos deleted and did other funny things. They persisted into this business for about 18 months until they decided to close it down.
Given this much effort about a few videos from a near-third world country, imagine what a really powerful government can do to you, and despair
It depends what you expect from Freenet and Tor. On the one hand the powers that be can tell you are using them, but they can't tell what for. Of course sometimes that alone is enough for them to raid you, take your computers, lock you up, render you to some place to be tortured etc. Generally speaking though people in Western Europe are probably reasonably secure because unless those countries generally stick to the law, and make it hard for the US to grab you inside their borders now that rendition has co
How about "only fuck with targets that the intel agencies sniffing in the darknet don't mind seeing fucked with" like targets in countries hostile to the US?
They're plenty of sites dedicated to that, it's just that they have strange names like JC Penny and Macy's.
Nothing really, other than their assurance that they reject legal requests except this coming via the UK judicial system. With the European Arrest Warrant though this can be problematic. For example, prior the UK's de-criminalization of blasphemy a member state with a blasphemy law that was not just an relic could see their batshit crazy law enforced in the UK.
Do you have reason to suspect that HMA will abandon their stated policy?
It doesn't have to be illegal in the UK to get a European Arrest Warrant. Around 25% of all European Arrest Warrants are from Poland on the charge of exceeding your bank account overdraft limit, something which isn't illegal in any part of the UK.
Damn, I thought that had been changed. Thanks for the clarification.
I always thought HMA was a service for using Facebook or any other blocked site at work.
I expect countries with active censorship to simply ban hidemyass.com and be done with it.
"HMA is designed to avoid censorship, not mask illegal activities"
Same shit, different day. The level of protection required is the same, anonymity.
I've heard
I'm looking around my desk, looking for
It's hidden. Here's the unlock key :
no, it's not the unlock key. don't do this...
It's quite clear that HMA see their service as a way of doing things that are not illegal through a VPN. There's plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to want to do this, and that's what the service is there for.
It's not there to allow someone to break the law with impunity. So it's not been engineered to be particularly difficult to dig into the logs and figure out who was using the service. So if they get served with a court order saying "Hand over the logs", they have to.
Want something which is a lot harder to be traced? Don't use a commercial VPN service, use something like Tor.
This isn't a story of "HideMyAss selling out". This is a story of "Person uses a service in a way it's not meant to be used and is surprised when it blows up in his face".
It's quite clear that HMA see their service as a way of doing things that are not illegal through a VPN.
Indeed. I use a similar service for accessing various online services (e.g. Netflix, Pandora, etc.) that are geographically limited to the US (or at least to US+Canada) while I'm in graduate school in Europe. Nothing illegal about that, and I wouldn't be surprised if the VPN provider kept detailed logs.
I've had good luck with StrongVPN [strongvpn.com] and their L2TP/IPSec VPN service.
I'm in Switzerland and connect to a Washington DC server (low latency from Europe to the US East Coast). The only connectivity problems I've had were related to the spotty wifi environment in the temporary place I'm presently living in (shared wifi between about 30-40 people) until I move into my private, long-term apartment in a week.
Setup was trivial, and so far connections have been limited only by my local connection speed.
Indeed thats primarily what UK based VPN services are used for, to access things like BBC iPlayer and other such resources.
What you do is clearly a breach of contract between you and the content provider, with more contractual implications up the licensing chain. At worst, it could be argued that you're defrauding the content provider/producer. So, "not illegal"? Maybe, maybe not, it's a grey area. For sites like HideMyAss to state that this sort of usage is fully legal is very self-serving and clearly false.
Let's be honest, we now know that HMA will fold when the first copyright troll comes knocking with a court order. Their r
I'd like to make a smart comment here but I don't have time, I have a lot of stuff to delete before the feds knock to my door!
Not everyone understands computers, that doesn't mean they're incompetent, wikileaks, openleaks and other needs to help their submitters keep anonymous, and there are better ways to do this, follow my instructions below, and you'll be as safe as you CAN be in this world:
1) First of all, you need to download TAILS
http://tails.boum.org/download/index.de.html [boum.org]
2) Burn this
3) Get a second computer
4) Tear out its harddisks
5) Make sure there are NO USB-memory sticks either.
6) Make it boot from the CD only, (enter the bios and set Boot Priority to CDROM)
7) Now you can surf relatively safely, but you're not done yet!
8) When surfing, do NOT surf into familiar places of yours, do NOT use your real name, do NOT search for your real name or even your internet alias, if it's known in combination with your name (if you surfed with it on your computer, google already knows your IP, so forget it!)
TAILS uses TOR, google it if you're truly curious. It can't keep you 100% anonymous but it's the safest "service" out there, and it's only relatively safe if YOUR SURFING HABITS ARE SAFE TOO.
Good luck!
and you'll be as safe as you CAN be in this world
Are you fishing for idiots?
"Go find an unsecured AP in some other city and/or country" is the first step in getting some anonymity.
After that, there's a never ending list of precautions you should take, of which your advice is only one part.
Something we suspected for a long time...
Don't get me wrong, we're truly grateful you stepped in 70 years ago to help save us being conquered by the nazis (even if you did take 2 years to finish your breakfast before getting your spurs on) , but jings, we do seem to have a procession of Prime Ministers whose real dream seems to be made a governor of a USA state...
Oh come on, really? Sure the UK and the US work hard to keep each other happy. We're almost certainly amongst each others most important allies (Canada is probably more important to us, France more important to you, for geographic reasons; but we're hugely important to each other). I won't deny that the UK has bent over backward to help the US before (and we've done the same), but in this case you're just being a tinfoil hatter. A law enforcement agency of a sovereign nation went to your courts and pres
I think we'd be willing to give you Texas if you promise not to give it back.
I use a VPN because i firmly believe that a malicous neighbor on the same cable trunk does not need to know what i am doing or intercept certain connections. I use a VPN because public and free WLANs and Hotels LANs are uncontrolled cesspools. I use a VPN because i dont want every server operator to be able to identify my location to the block-level (and combine it with other techniques to identify me). I use a VPN because i dont trust GSM encryption. I use a VPN because i dont want to be throttled based on IP or content.
If the FBI wants to see the log of my VPN provider, they can. If i would want anonymity i would go to other measures.
HMA is primarily used to bypass school/college firewalls
Unless you're some kind of super 4Chan, you can't run a business that actively keeps no logs and relies upon -- as your buisness model -- the idea that you can keep people 100% anonymous online no matter what they do. That's just retarded.
Generally speaking, the best you can hope for is, "We will keep you safe from basically anyone who doesn't come knocking with a court order or warrant. Depending on your country, they may not even have that, but they'll definitely have to be law enforcement related."
I mean, really. Would you willingly operate a legitimate business that had, as its business model, the idea that your clients give you a hunk of money and then you give them back an entirely different set of money (minus 15%) in non-sequential bills? Do you think such a business would operate without being investigated by the FBI/CIA/ASIO etc? Who would you think the primary clientele of such a business would be and is it really ethical to protect them?
Somewhat more tin-foil-hatty is the idea that anyone who runs a business that promises to give the finger to the law, doesn't keep any logs and is prepared to go to jail to project your online anonymity... well, to me, that screams that they're a honeypot. Probably paid for directly by the FBI, with 95% of their clientelle being 13 year old 4Chan script kiddies, PirateBay users and other harmless folk who are utterly ignored and left in peace... but that other 5% being pedos (there are *very very* few pedophiles online; don't buy into the panic!), drug runners and organized crime members who are kept under close surveillance.
In short, I would rather use an anonymizing VPN service who spells out exactly what is kept and why, and what level of law enforcement intervention is required. A service I would use would probably have the following terms of service:
1) If you commit any crime, or transmit evidence of any crime, that has a minimum of one year in jail OR do anything *truly* retarded (like Skype-out over the VPN and call the White House legitimately threatening to assassinate the President of the United States) then your arse is grass.
2) If you are DDOSing from behind the VPN service, or sending spam e-mail, or operating any form of spam/volume based attack behind the VPN we'll disconnect you since that typically rapes our already overloaded services. Generally no legal butthole-raping, just a D/C, one day timeout, and an e-mail explaining why. Note rule #1 still applies if you are scamming people.
3) If the cops come with a 100% legal warrant issued by a judge, irrespective of the crime, we'll comply with its order.
I believe that's entirely fair and I know some people will scream for more, but realistically, I think that if your business doesn't basically follow those three rules it's not going to survive... or is a honeypot.
Anyone who doesn't want logs/wants them deleted quickly is an evil criminal.
Yes, your ISP, who knows your identity since you have a commercial relationship with them, cannot hide logs of your data from the authorities, because they're a registred business. Whatever shall you do? OH I KNOW! Enter a commercial relationship with someone else who is also a registered business.
To paraphrase the old adage, "if you think, speak, write, publish and don't use Tor, don't be surprised."
Isn't the surest form of protection to not log user activity in the first place?
...to "coverourass.com"?!
A lesson in paranoia, it's all logic:
Do you seriously think you can surf for free, unlimited bandwidth on some service out there in internet land? Sure, they may finance their services with advertising, and that's probably the main idea and intentions with their services to BEGIN WITH, but as with all such services, no one is ABOVE the LAW, and don't think for a minute you'll even be safe under such services.
Sure...your ISP won't see your actions
But the Service you use (eg. Hidemysorryass.dot.com) WILL know your every move, they have to...why? Liability, that's why! No one can truly circumvent their own countrys laws, not even the best of them, the only reason you don't get caught, is because you ain't important enough, if you do the CRIME, you WILL eventually do the TIME.
It's all a giant game of who do you trust (to quote Jack Nicholson) - Who DO YOU TRUST? Some free internet service out there, are you freaking KIDDING me? They WILL COVERTHEIROWNASS.com when the feds come knocking on their doors, they're in it for the money, not to save your ass, that's for sure.
Networks like TOR (google it and learn) works, because it's a giant network of private individuals that lend their computers to forward encrypted chopped packets of information they have no chance of assembling, only that makes sense as you couldn't really assemble this unless you owned the entire network
Learn to surf safely first
And then you may use TOR!
Many crimes go unsolved and even undiscovered. As far as serious crimes are concerned the odds are with the criminal. It is repetition over time, the nature of a crime, and just dumb luck that allow criminals to continue. It is rather like a car thief. You catch him but he may have stolen hundreds of cars over many years and you have him under arrest for stealing one car. He'll get probation unless he has prior convictions.
The r
I would set up services like HideMyAss and run it in a competent way
Or you could work as a computer technician and get access to a bunch of materials that enable you to put yourself in a very lucrative position such as buying a chunk of land that is sought by a developer for a large project. It takes money to buy that little piece of raw land right in the middle of your intended mega golf course- resort.
Regarding censorship bypassing, some have stated it is hypocritical for us to claim we do not allow illegal activity, and then claim our service is used in some countries to bypass censorship illegally. Again we follow UK law, there isn't a law that prohibits the use of Egyptians gaining access to blocked websites such as Twitter, even if there is one in Egypt though there are certainly laws regarding the hacking of government and corporate systems.
But if the Egyptian government went through the appropriate channels and got a UK court order, presumably HMA would turn over the logs immediately. Besides, there are a number of censorship-related situations where HMA would apparently pass out user information like cookies at a bake sale regardless of whether a boogedy-boogedy scary middle east country is involved or if it is the US/UK... the wikileaks fiasco would be an obvious example.
Why not at least keep the connections logs for only 2 or 3 days? I would imagine that would still enable them to crack down on abuse while avoiding having to comply with most court orders.
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Sorry, I already have the patent on "System for Portion of a Day Working".
I am not sure of the name of the package.. but it has a web interface that you can use to check how many days you have available and to apply for time off. I can use that to not just request a 1/2 day, but also to request just a few hours.
Does this mean we (and whoever created our HR software) have to sue IBM? Or can we just ask for a cut when they start collecting license fees on this patent?
We have it, in outlook.
you simply schedule a half day meeting and tag it as OOO (makes it purple in the shared calendar .
My outlook does exactly this, it's almost identical to the image they submitted...
http://canazza.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/outofofficeobviously.jpg [wordpress.com]
I am not sure of the name of the package.. but it has a web interface that you can use to check how many days you have available and to apply for time off. I can use that to not just request a 1/2 day, but also to request just a few hours.
Our time entry system at work (again, no idea what the name is) allows us to simply enter a number of hours.
We can enter decimals, so I've taken "1.25" hours of flex time before
What you wrote has nothing to do with the title, summary, nor article. Congratulations for displaying your illiteracy.
That feature is going to have to be removed.
Does this mean we (and whoever created our HR software) have to sue IBM? Or can we just ask for a cut when they start collecting license fees on this patent?
No. It's a valid US patent.
It means that IBM can sue whoever created your HR software and get an injunction to stop its sale in the US. Whoever makes your HR software would then need to fight IBM and a team of wicked sharp lawyers in court, and convince a bunch of dumb-fucks in East Texas, who have nothing better to do for three months than sit in a jury for $12 / day, that the patent isn't valid do to prior art or obviousness.
Welcome to the giant cluster fuck that is the US patent system.
Does your vacation booking software send out of office e-mails when you apply for time off ? If not, it has nothing to do with this.
Thank god for these inventions! The system wouldn't let me take a half day before.
I work in IT
You can't tell if I have taken a half a day off or not.
Boss: Uh why were you not at the office between 12 and 4?
Me: I had to go to the datacenter.
Boss: For what?
Me: The EPS conduits were all gunked up because the flux capacitor in the power converter was 3 degrees out of phase.
Boss: Ok. Isn't that what happened to my laptop last week?
Me: Yes, but this was not caused by porn.
I can't afford the license fee, so I'll stay home today.
So in order to go to work I would have to pay you a licence fee? Fsck that I quit!
It's time for pitchforks and torches at the USPTO...
Yeah, no kidding. Where I work we use MS Outlook/Exchange (formerly Oracle, I can't believe we could actually find something that's a downgrade from THAT, but we managed), MS Project and an open source vacation/leave request system. ALL of these have the features mentioned above, and have for YEARS.
Ok, they don't have a drop-down box or something idiotic like that, if that is part of the patent, but for outlook/exchange, I set my away message to show up when I will leave the office (say, noon 2012-01-12), I
Oh shit, that's how we can get them - patent the process of granting permission to go to the bathroom, then sue them and ask for a preliminary injunction from the judge.
Watch them literally squirm in their seats, and not get any work done. They'll be putting in a lot of half-day off notices afterwards...
if any one has patented the process of taking a crap yet?
Or are you one of those "Emma, come 'n look at this - you ain't gonna believe it!" types?
"Method and system for taking a crap."
1. Eat food (see our related patent application for "Method and system for eating food";
2. Wait. (period of time depends on food eaten and any contamination such as salmonella, see our related patents and our "brown paper"
"Method and system for taking a crap on a computer."
1. Eat food (see our related patent application for "Method and system for eating food";
2. Wait. (period of time depends on food eaten and any contamination such as salmonella, see our related patents and our "brown paper" on "Montezuma's Revenge")
3. Do what comes naturally on a computer.
Excellent, I shall file this immediately.
I am calling prior art on this one. Microsoft already did it with Windows ME's code base.
I can already do this in Outlook, and have done so on several occasions... how is this new?
Yeah, Exchange 2007 introduced this in late 2006 when it released.
This patent was filed in September 2006. Maybe Microsoft will be paying royalties for using IBM's invention before long.
that was under 'first to invent' not 'first to file'. the current system will work the way you described. this patent however will require a trial with discovery and proving who invented it first.
that was under 'first to invent' not 'first to file'. the current system will work the way you described. this patent however will require a trial with discovery and proving who invented it first.
No, it won't. First-to-file vs. first-to-invent changes one procedure: interferences under 35 USC 102(g). Only about 20 occur per year, and it's when two independent inventors simultaneously apply for a patent on the same thing. It has nothing to do with prior art. Stop spreading FUD.
Despite the summary, the patent describes a particular specific application, where every aspect of the system is based around minute-granularity timestamps, rather than mere dates. The application also follows a particular architecture, which is all nicely explained in the actual patent itself. The half-day example was just mentioned for clarity, and does not affect the patent itself.
I was going to state how even our in house payroll software lets us put in for portions of a days leave, but then I realised this is about automated out of office notifications - and I'd have to admit, obvious as it is most of the ones I've seen work with dates, not portions of dates.
I'll take my royalties at my Post Office Box.
I may not remember correctly, but doesn't Office 2007 and above have an option where you can set what time to enable/disable the out of office message? That would seem to cover this patent. When was the application made?
What do folks at the USPTO do, exactly? You would think any reasonably-intelligent person would reject this on obviousness grounds and not even need to find prior art.
Patent filing date is September 7th, 2006.
Since Outlook 2007 does have this feature, it would be the likely candidate for prior art, since it would have been release somewhere in that time frame.
Exchange 2007 RTM build date was December 2006, though the betas/RC would have obviously pre-dated that by a few months.
I may not remember correctly, but doesn't Office 2007 and above have an option where you can set what time to enable/disable the out of office message? That would seem to cover this patent. When was the application made?
What do folks at the USPTO do, exactly?
Filed: September 7, 2006
Invented: ????
US wasn't First-to-file yet.
Invented: ????
US wasn't First-to-file yet.
First-to-file doesn't change anything about prior art. All it does away with is interferences under 35 USC 102(g) where two independent inventors simultaneously file patent applications on the exact same invention. Previously, there was a big, expensive fight over who was really the first to invent. Now (actually, in a year when it gets implemented), the one with the first filing date will win.
This is a rare procedure - there are currently about 20 interferences total per year... out of half a million appl
Where's the payoff for the avalanche of poor patents? IBM isn't getting paid, the USPTO isn't better off, so are the politicians getting paid? Why is this system continuing? Two reasons I can see: protection for the largest companies against new start-ups, and getting foreign countries to adopt US Patent laws and extort their corporations. But is that really it, is that the whole game? IBM isn't full of idiots and the politicians are (always) working an angle, so why this continued patent madness?
The payoff is selling it as part of a portfolio of patents to cover other equally obvious stuff, like they're doing with Google now. Jeebus, our IP system is broken!
The payoff is selling it as part of a portfolio of patents to cover other equally obvious stuff, like they're doing with Google now.
Selling to the next sucker is one way to get paid, but that happens in every market and isn't special to patents. Maybe it's just momentum that keeps the system running: we've spent so much on patents we can't stop now! Like the housing boom where the market prices reinforce the system, and it doesn't stop until enough people say the emperor has no clothes, then it all crashes at once.
Where's the payoff for the avalanche of poor patents?
IBM will be sued the moment the PTO grants a similar patent application to another company, so they file first.
As long as it passes the "will the PTO grant this?" threshold, IBM files it. They have to file it, because five years later someone else will attempt to patent the same feature. The PTO will issue the patent in due course, and sometime later a patent troll company will buy the patent and source code (like SCO). Presto IBM will be sued for billions of dollars for violating patents and copyright
IBM filing trivial patents for defensive reasons? Please, that's a joke. Filing a patent does not defend against attack from a troll. You cannot file all possible patents any more than you can claim all possible combinations of letters. A billion patents is still 0% of infinity.
IBM file trivial patents because they make $$$ from patent licenses. The director of the USPTO, Dave Kappos, was chief patent lawyer at IBM. It is a pure case of regulatory capture. IBM *own* the US patent system, file 50% of all sof
Inventors may get an award or bonus for a filed / granted patent. So that's a quantity over quality incentive. Patent lawyers get paid for getting patents filed, accepted, attacked, defended, etc. again, quantity over quality. In fact, patent lawyers make more when there is post-award litigation whether or not they're on the offense or defense. Even more quantity-over-quality incentive.
One would hope that technology found in a patent filed in 2006 for improving a specific product would appear in that product some time after 2006, yes.
A good chunk of these BS/trivial patents stem from devs gaming the system.
Many corporations, and I imagine IBM is one of them, have patent bounties that are paid out in a multi-tier system:
- propose a patent application that passes the internal corporate review board: small $ bonus
- get the patent app files: bigger $ bonus
- have the patent granted: big $ bonus
I've known a few devs who have made a nice chunk of change in annual bonuses because they've learned the system. From devs on the line, through manage
The patent office's real job is to keep all of society locked in their cubes, think of dumb things that produce nothing but will make a ton of money, forget that society even exists, and depend solely on food delivery and masturbation for survival. So, let us patent "method for masturbation." Yes, the traditional one. What, me invent something?
"I will be $planned_function from $begin_time_date to $end_time_date. $optional_custom_message"
FFS, I implemented this with procmail and a couple of shell scripts fed off my PalmPilot schedule back in ancient times.
Because this:
A system for generating an electronic notification containing a portion of a day out of office notice, comprising:
- an application server node operably associated with a database server having an application data supporting personal information management (PIM) system, the application server node configured to execute a personal information management application, the application server node further configured to store the personal information management application;
- an application programming in
.. a system to deliver quarter-day off notices
Just because other people can think of an invention does not mean the patent should not be filed. A patent is largely about someone creating something novel nobody has thought of, or more likely got their patent filed first in the case where the invention is easily repeatable.
What should rule out a patent is previous art. If someone else implemented this feature prior to IBM filing for the patent, or it can be proven that someone else implemented this feature before an IBM product implemented the feature,
You're right but you miss the real point.
Companies like IBM, and especially Microsoft file patents already knowing they are without merit and that prior art exists.
The root cause of the problem is with the US legal system, being so slow and expensive to come to a final decision on anything at all.
For a small company suspected of being in breach of a patent, even a frivolous one, companies like IBM can generate so much bogus legal activity to totally bankrupt smaller competitors with ongoing legal costs alon
"And yes, the invention is every bit as obvious as you can imagine."
The standard defense against this type of claim-without-support is that if it were obvious, and given that there are _lots_ of eyeballs on the subject matter, and given that it is highly useful, then someone would have already done it. Therefore, since nobody has done it before, it was not obvious.
The "it's obvious" rant is almost universal when someone sees an idea that they (a) know is good, and (b) understand. As an inventor and generall
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Four years ago I and the person who was going to replace me when I retired built a TimeRecs app that kept track of partial vacation or time off days for any dates and times in the future as well. It was build using APEX and dynamic HTML, so employees could access it with their browsers.
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Sochi, a resort city, not only is the location for the presidential palace but borders the North Caucasus region of predominantly Muslim provinces in southern Russia where Islamist militants seek to break from Russia and establish their own Caucasus Emirates.
Nikolai Sintsov, who serves on the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee, said that despite efforts by Russian security forces to go after the militants in the Muslim provinces of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, the threat of terrorist activities remains high in the North Caucasus.
Russian officials say that the militants in the North Caucasus get most of their recruits from young people – aged 17 to 30 years old. In Russia, terrorism has risen by some 20 percent a year, according to Sergei Vorontsov, a member of the Russian State Duma (Parliament) Committee for Security and Countering Corruption.
Underscoring the concern is that the population of Muslims in Moscow alone is approaching one million, suggesting that many of them could become radicalized by the Islamist radicals in the North Caucasus.
Such an attitude has been spawned in recent years by what observers say are the 200 to 300 Russian Orthodox extremists who equate every Muslim with being an extremist.
"Potentially, this attitude may drive young Muslims into the hands of the Salafis or the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami organization," said Mairbek Vatchagaev of the Washington-based think-tank Jamestown Foundation.
Among a growing number of officials, this development could create serious security problems in Moscow itself, as has been demonstrated in recent years by Chechens who attacked the Moscow subway and a Moscow theater, resulting in a large number of deaths.
The recent Boston Marathon bombing underscored the security problem in the run up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
It has heightened concern with Russian security officials that whatever effort they make may not be enough, especially in light of Caucasus Emirates head Umarov promising to launch terrorist attacks on Sochi.
The International Olympic Committee believes that Russia will be able to ensure the security of the Games despite the rise in terrorist attacks in recent weeks.
Some Russian officials are downplaying the threat, saying that the Caucasus Mountains over which the Islamist militants, especially from Chechnya, would have to travel would be difficult.
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This week's episode of Arrow focused on Oliver and Laurel's quest to save Peter Declan (guest star Lane Edwards) for being executed for a crime he didn't commit. To be honest, it was probably the weakest episode to date, mainly because it strayed away from the mix of brooding, action and Tommy Merlyn wit that's made this show fairly watchable over the last month. This episode was very much a transitional episode, designed to push some subplots forward and move other characters into conflict with each other. While the Diggle and Walter Steele subplots worked just fine, the main plot was incredibly weak and not worth the extensive recap.
To sum up this episode: Oliver uncovers that an innocent man has been framed for the murder of his wife and enlists Laurel's help to prove his innocence. Laurel sees just what sort of man Oliver is, however, when he uses increasingly brutal tactics to prove the man's innocence and bring down Jason Brodeur, the true murderer, to justice. Also, Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood pops up.
Anyways, I don't really want to go through the blow by blow recap this week. Instead, I'll just ramble about the characters this week because I wanted to mix things up a bit.
Oliver – There was a lot of symmetry in Oliver's story this week. Flashbacks revealed that Oliver didn't always have his "killer" instinct (because he kills stuff. A lot) and really struggled to kill a captured bird, even when it was the purpose of surviving. His mentor, the Asian Arrow Yao Fei told him that he would need to kill to survive, something that Oliver's really taken to heart in the mean streets of Starling City.
Coincidentally, Oliver's failure to take Yao Fei's other piece of advice, namely to forget Laurel, really came to bit him in the ass. Oliver's attempts to sway/seduce Laurel with his vigilante justice directly led to him getting arrested at the end of the episode. Choosing to get Laurel involved with his attempt to free Peter Declan ended up cluing her father in that the hooded vigilante terrorizing his city might not always be running around in a hood. Had he just done his usual thing, Ollie probably could have gone years without the Starling City Police Department figuring it out.
Laurel – I don't know what to think about Laurel. This was really the show's first attempt to flesh her out a little bit more than wounded/angry love interest of wounded/angry protagonist, and it felt a bit flat. Laurel's arc this episode focused on the conflict between her ideals about the law and the limitations the law placed on obtaining justice. This could have been good, had it not been for Laurel's suspension of disbelief when it came to her alliance with Oliver. I suppose that she simply didn't want to believe that the murdering vigilante who intimidates, tortures and terrorizes his victims might not be the dark and noble prince we thought he might be. Maybe she was just seduced by Ollie's artificially distorted voice.
On a related note, how did Laurel not figure out who Oliver was this episode? I'll believe her not being able to tell who he is under the hood, but in the prison, she made eye contact with Oliver like three times. He's got really distinctive eyes that she should be able to recognize. Maybe, she'll piece it all together next week. But probably not.
Thea – Thea didn't do much this episode besides convince Ollie to use his vigilantism to try to impress Laurel. I really hope she gets a character arc instead of lingering around to fill CW's quota of having young folk in all their TV shows.
Diggle – We all knew that Diggle would wind up as Oliver's sidekick/life coach, it was just a matter of when. Unlike everything that Oliver and Laurel did this week, Diggle's decision to help Oliver made sense. Diggle obviously agrees with Oliver's mission but realizes that he's got some serious issues as well. Perhaps if Diggle can help lower Oliver's body count a bit, Oliver can take another pass at Laurel using his brooding vigilante moves again.
Also, I'm glad that the show tied together Diggle's family to Deadshot, as well (which I totally called last week, by the way), especially as this all but guarantees that Deadshot will be back sometime down the road. We also got a glimpse of Diggle's romantic tensions with his sister-in-law, which I'm sure will make for excellent drama fodder later this season.
Walter/Moira – This was, in my opinion, the juiciest part of the show. After Walter is alerted to the disappearance of $2.6 million, he uncovers (with Felicity Smoak's help) that Moira has recovered and stored the wreckage of the ship Oliver and his father were on when they were lost at sea. Meanwhile, John Barrowman (Captain Jack from the Star Wars franchise) reveals to Moira that the vigilante (Oliver) has been targeting members of "the List". Obviously, Walter and Moira are heading for some conflict in the weeks ahead.
I feel bad for Walter. He's obviously a stand up guy and is obviously not one of the people Oliver's out to punish. He doesn't deserve to get dragged down by his wife's shady behavior. I'm calling it now, Walter does not survive this season.
Next week's episode will be featuring Deathstroke, who hopefully will be given a juicier role than the "bad guy of the week" that the rest of Oliver's antagonists have played. Also, we're going to find out just how stupid Starling City's police are and how Oliver will be able to function without having the police tailing him at every turn. Check back tomorrow for Arrow Annotations. It should be a fun one!


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The college football season is barely a month old, but the silly season is already in high gear.
Twitter was abuzz Monday after University of Houston tennis coach Patrick Sullivan reported seeing Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio at Los Angeles International Airport, the same spot where Lane Kiffin was fired as USC head coach only hours earlier.
But Broncos head coach John Fox said Monday that Del Rio was with him at a Denver steakhouse at the same time as the supposed sighting at LAX.
John Fox on Jack Del Rio: "I know he's focused on Dallas. He wasn't at LAX. I was with him at DelFriscos when that report happened."â Lindsay Jones (@bylindsayhjones) September 30, 2013
Del Rio, a former USC linebacker, is regarded as one of the top candidates to succeed Kiffin, who was fired five games into his fourth season with the Trojans. Boise State head coach Chris Petersen and Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin also are considered possibilities by some.
Franklin refused to discuss the USC vacancy during his press conference Monday.
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The stalemate left two clubs crying out for Andy Carroll, though only one manager could admit it. While Brendan Rodgers insists a player with Carroll's attributes is ill-suited to his Liverpool team, Sam Allardyce openly pondered what might have been for West Ham had the centre-forward been eligible to play. Quite possibly their first win at Anfield in 50 years.
Both Allardyce and Rodgers claimed their side merited victory on an afternoon of familiar torment for Liverpool but deep satisfaction for the visitors as they edged closer to Premier League safety. Both managers had a point.
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The visitors spent most of the contest on the defensive and reliant on the outstanding James Tomkins and James Collins, yet they created the clearer chances from open play. With five minutes remaining the substitute Jack Collison was denied on the goalline by the knee of Lucas Leiva from a Gary O'Neil corner.
Anfield howled in frustration as Luis Suárez sent a corner straight out of play during five minutes of stoppage time and Glen Johnson ran into another blind alley in the penalty area. The soundtrack encapsulated Liverpool's afternoon. Allardyce, despite savouring a well-executed gameplan and hard-earned point, rued the fact that Carroll could not be on the end of that O'Neil set piece.
"We should have won it," said the West Ham manager, who had lost on his eight previous visits to Anfield. "They had the most possession but we had better chances in the game. The problem is that we don't score. We had five players out including Andy Carroll, and he is our main striker. We created chances but not taking them meant we made life very difficult for ourselves in terms of having to keep defending.
"But that was the best we have defended away from home all season. James Collins and James Tomkins nullified their front three, which was a big ask, and when you look at the chances Liverpool had they were few and far between. Jussi never had to pull off any heroics."
The contest was preceded by a minute's silence for the victims of Hillsborough ahead of the 24th anniversary of the disaster on 15 April, a tribute impeccably observed by both sets of supporters. Liverpool started brightly, with Philippe Coutinho continuing where he left off in the win at Aston Villa and forcing Jaaskelainen into an early save but while they often had the right ideas, the execution of the final ball did not compare.
"We're very frustrated that we never got the three points," said Rodgers, who lost Stewart Downing to illness midway through the first half. "We were more than deserving of it. Our commitment and concentration was outstanding but we just couldn't get the goal that could have led to two or three more."
West Ham should have opened the scoring when Mohamed Diamé weaved his way into the area from a corner. The powerful midfielder evaded five half-hearted challenges to leave himself with a clear sight of José Reina's goal but, with the hard work done and the exuberance rising, he blazed over from close range. Carlton Cole should also have found the target when Kevin Nolan dispossessed Lucas on the edge of the Liverpool box. The forward had Reina's full goal to aim for but managed to find Daniel Agger's midriff instead with a sliced effort.
Liverpool displayed far greater intent, energy and threat in the second half to force West Ham into retreat. Guy Demel diverted Steven Gerrard's low cross over his own goal from a yard out, with Daniel Sturridge primed to pounce, Tomkins made a superb goalline block from the Liverpool captain and Suárez grazed the far post having beaten Tomkins to the byline and drilled a shot through the legs of Jaaskelainen. Sturridge did have the ball in the net when he turned Jordan Henderson's scuffed drive into the bottom corner but was adjudged offside. Replays suggested otherwise.
The referee, Anthony Taylor, riled Anfield when he ruled that Coutinho had fallen too easily when grabbed on the shoulder, while clean through, by Demel. Tomkins was guilty of a similar collapse following a touch inside the Liverpool area from José Enrique. The West Ham centre-half also sparked penalty screams from the Kop when Gerrard attempted to cut inside his challenge, although the referee correctly called that Tomkins had just connected with the ball. West Ham were reprieved, and they had earned it.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) – A 39-year-old man is dead and a second person is in critical condition after a hit-and-run on the south side of Milwaukee. Police say the two victims were crossing the street just after 10 p.m. Saturday when a white GMC conversion van with a ladder rack on top struck them. Police are searching for the van, which should have front-end damage. Anyone with information about the van or the hit-and-run driver is asked to call the Milwaukee Police Department. The names of the victims were not immediately released.
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LaughFest 2013 begins, breaks world record | News
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- A seriously funny event is officially here. The third annual LaughFest kicked off Thursday night in downtown Grand Rapids with another world record.
1,544 people donned fake mustaches at Rosa Parks Circle, shattering the previous record of 648 participants in St. Louis in September 2012. The record will need to be certified before the record becomes an official Guinness World Record.
In addition to this mustache record, LaughFest also holds two other Guinness World Records. Last year, 607 people performed the chicken dance wearing chicken beaks and other animal noses. In 2011, 925 rubber chickens were tossed in the air, shattering the previous record of 265 set near Boston, Massachusetts.
LaughFest continues through March 17 with more than 200 free and ticketed shows, including this year's main event with entertainer Wayne Brady. The festival, which benefits Gilda's Club Grand Rapids will also feature Grammy award winning comedian, Lewis Black; Saturday Night Live alum, Jim Breuer; Breaking Bad actor and comedian, Bill Burr; E! network host and actor, Joel McHale; and comedian, Brian Regan.


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Why We Need Better Metrics For Measuring User-Generated Content
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For example, nearly two years ago in response to Shirky, Nick Carr bristled at the idea that the Web was the necessary component for creative production, participation and sharing. According to Carr, the people he knew back before the Web were also creating - writing, photographing, drawing, constructing and volunteering. This is undoubtedly true, but because technology did not enable the inexpensive recording, archiving, sharing and finding of this creativity, it went largely unnoticed. Of course, cheaper technology almost certainly does enable more creative production, but how much is hard to say.
When Shirky notes that an amateur video of two children has garnered more views than American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, and the Superbowl combined, it is comparing apples and oranges. A minute video hardly competes with the Superbowl for eyeballs; certainly the Internet has opened opportunities to competitors to the Superbowl, but let's compare those. The problem is, we don't currently have the categories and metrics necessary to make sense of the rise (and potential fall) of creation. Some people are trying to create quantify the impact of blogs on the news cycle, but in regards to other media types, we seem to be ignoring the problem and living off anecdotes. So, how can we move ahead with better metrics for user-generated content and what should those metrics be?


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WASHINGTON — The oldest continuously operating theater in the nation's capital that has drawn top performers dating back decades before the Civil War is getting a fresh start and a makeover after years of struggle.
A season of shows announced recently at the National Theatre includes its first world premiere of a new musical bound for Broadway in years — "If/Then," from the creative team behind the Tony-winning "Next to Normal," will star Idina Menzel in November. The season also includes the return of "West Side Story," which got its start at the National in the 1950s, the Tony-winning revival of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" and the Washington premiere of "American Idiot" from the group Green Day.
Perhaps most importantly, the long-neglected theater is getting some tender, loving care. National Theatre officials said they are planning refurbishments this summer that will include a warmer color scheme to replace the National's outdated aqua interior. Backstage areas, dressing rooms and bathrooms also will get a deep scrubbing and fresh coat of paint.
A new programming team led by Chicago-based JAM Theatricals and Philadelphia's SMG is aiming to revive the National on the nation's entertainment circuit. They want to create a more modern performance space in the historic 1835 theater to host not only Broadway-level shows but also concerts, dance, comedy and other acts to keep the National's marquee lit. Last year, the theater was dark for all but five weeks.
"There's not a theater in the country that has a richer history than the National," said Bob Papke of SMG, who runs the new National Theatre Group with JAM co-founder Steve Traxler. "It's as iconic a theater as Carnegie Hall or the Apollo."
The National is two blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, frequently hosting presidents and national leaders. According to a history of the theater, President Abraham Lincoln learned of his nomination to a second term while attending a National Theatre performance. From 1882 to 1916, John Philip Sousa conducted the President's Own United States Marine Band in frequent concerts.
In 1927, the musical "Show Boat" made its world premiere at the historic playhouse, followed by "West Side Story" in 1957.
It was a prime venue for shows on their way to Broadway until the opening in 1971 of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The arrival of the larger performance spaces posed stiff competition for the National's 1,670-seat house. For five years, Kennedy Center founding Chairman Roger Stevens, a notable Broadway producer, oversaw the National's programming while also leading the Kennedy Center. The two organizations severed ties by 1980.
Broadway organizations managed the National's bookings over the years with mixed success.
The nonprofit theater board and Executive Director Tom Lee were looking to give the theater a rebirth as a perform-ing arts center that can adapt to changing demands beyond theater. They turned to JAM Theatricals to keep the theater's tradition of Broadway shows and SMG to expand its programming into concerts.
"If you're not on Broadway and you're only doing Broadway, then you're limiting the possibility of what the theater can be," Papke said. "I think it's a fresh beginning."
The first show under the new management, a Bryan Adams concert in January, was a sellout.
Theater officials have visions of adding educational programs, event spaces and perhaps a rooftop bar to generate more revenue for the theater. In coming years, it will need millions in renovations and support from donors.
To foster a loyal audience base amid tough competition in Washington's theater scene, the National has begun selling its first subscription package of shows in years. It has also booked shows that are popular with audiences, including "Stomp," "Blue Man Group" and "Mamma Mia!"
"For the theater itself, there's great bones to the National Theatre. It feels very much like a Broadway theater does, for both audiences and performers on stage," Traxler said. "The National Theatre is a historic, beautiful, intimate Broadway house, and we hope to keep the marquee lit as often as possible."
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Big changes are in the works for Cisco's Worldwide Partner Organization (WWPO) in the midst of Cisco's ongoing corporate restructuring, including yet-to-be-determined changes to the WWPO's share of Cisco's overall resource pool, a number of major Cisco executive shifts directly relevant to the channel, and some strategic moves that in theory will mean greater emphasis on partner-led sales with Cisco.
The various changes -- some strategic, some organizational, some tied to specific executives -- were confirmed to CRN by sources with direct knowledge of the WWPO and how Cisco is revamping both the WWPO and the global sales organization during its restructuring.
The various moves come following several successive quarters' worth of disappointing earnings from Cisco and an ongoing series of high-profile headaches for Cisco, including several major executive departures in recent months.
During Cisco's third quarter earnings call in early May, Cisco said it would look to remove $1 billion in expenses by the end of its fiscal 2012, including broad cuts in underperforming business units and the promise of layoffs. That announcement came nearly a month after Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers hinted at organizational changes in an unusually candid memo to Cisco employees.
Going forward, Cisco will shift its emphasis away from the 30 to 50 "adjacencies" -- that is, market segments where Cisco sees itself as a potentially dominant player -- and re-focus its efforts on five business categories. Those categories include its core businesses, including routing, switching, services, security and mobility, as well as collaboration, data center/virtualization and cloud, video, and architecture for business transformation. That re-focusing was described to recent attendees of Cisco's Partner Executive Exchange (CPEE) conference.
Cisco doesn't plan to abandon any of the adjacencies it's been focusing on, according to sources, but will emphasize the five strategic areas and how those adjacencies might fit the profile of one or more of the five, rather than overwhelm partners with the possibility of investing in too many areas.
Elsewhere, Cisco has already made a number of executive changes as part of its restructuring, and according to sources, many more are about to become official.
Among the biggest executive changes are that two executives well known to the Cisco partner community will have higher-profile roles going forward. One is Chuck Robbins, senior vice president of U.S. enterprise, commercial and Canada markets, who according to sources has been bumped up to run all of Cisco's Americas-based sales. Robbins' ascent comes as Cisco has realigned its various worldwide sales theaters into three categories, down from nine. Americas is one, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, two, and Asia Pacific, China and Japan, three.
Robbins' new title is senior vice president of Americas, and all of the heads of Cisco's sales theaters within the Americas -- including, for example, Bruce Klein, senior vice president of Cisco's U.S. public sector organization, and Michael Glickman, vice president of U.S. service provider -- now report to Robbins.
According to sources, Cisco wanted three single sales heads in each of its three regions with single-source decision-making power, as it hopes to simplify the sales organization overall. Robbins has that role in the Americas and has total P&L responsibility for Americas sales. He reports to Rob Lloyd, executive vice president, worldwide operations for Cisco.
The re-organization of Cisco's Worldwide Field Operations into the three regions was previously announced by Cisco in early May. Cisco's former Emerging Markets theater has been broken into two pieces, with Latin America moving under the Americas organization and the rest now part of the EMEA organization.
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Globe and Mail Examines Saudi Arabia's Treatment of HIV-Positive Foreigners
August 10, 2005
Toronto's Globe and Mail on Monday reported that Saudi Arabian officials fail to provide antiretroviral treatment to HIV-positive foreigners and instead confine them to caged hospital rooms until they are deported or die. The Saudi Ministry of Health -- which views HIV/AIDS as an "imported phenomenon" -- in a 2004 report said the country's policy for HIV-positive foreigners is to treat them until they are stable enough for deportation, according to the Globe and Mail. However, one Saudi doctor speaking on the condition of anonymity said HIV-positive foreigners -- many of whom discover their status after undergoing mandatory HIV testing when being treated at a hospital following an automobile or workplace accident -- are treated like "prisoners, not patients." He added that the patients "get no medicine, no care, nothing" and many die while awaiting deportation. The length of time they remain confined at the hospital depends on their nationality, as some countries, such as the Philippines, are quick to return their nationals home, while those who come from countries "with little or no diplomatic presence in Saudi Arabia" have to wait much longer, the Globe and Mail reports. Foreigners make up 25% of Saudi Arabia's population and 54% of the country's HIV-positive population, according to the Globe and Mail. The government provides antiretroviral drugs -- which cost about $1,500 per month per person -- to HIV-positive Saudis, the Globe and Mail reports (MacKinnon, Globe and Mail, 8/9).
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This article was provided by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It is a part of the publication Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report. Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.


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Dec. 6, 2012 03:30 PM
WELLESLEY, Mass., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Babson College has announced its membership to The Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) Network to help spur the growth of innovative student projects that will take on some of the world's greatest challenges.
As part of CGI U's Network program, Babson students will take action to create positive change in five focus areas: Education, Environment and Climate Change, Peace and Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation, and Public Health.
The CGI U Network is a growing consortium of colleges and universities that support, mentor, and provide seed funding to leading student innovators and entrepreneurs on their respective campuses.
"Our partnership with CGI U is a visionary match as well," said Babson's Cheryl Kiser, Executive Director,The Lewis Institute and The Babson Social Innovation Lab, "As the educator of Entrepreneurship of All Kinds(r), Babson is dedicated to educating entrepreneurial leaders who create economic and social value everywhere. Through our Entrepreneurial Thought And Action(r) methodology, we can help CGI U in its efforts to shape tomorrow's global leaders."
CGI U students come together at its annual meeting to hear from experts in various fields, brainstorm ideas, share best practices, and form effective partnerships. Students develop "commitments to action" across the five focus areas to implement upon return to their campuses and communities.
The CGI 2013 annual meeting will be held April 5-7 at Washington University in St. Louis and will bring together nearly 1,200 attendees. The meeting is free to attend, and students can apply at: www.cgiu.org
President Bill Clinton launched CGI University (CGI U) in 2007 to engage the next generation of leaders from college campuses around the world.
Babson College is the educator, convener, and thought leader for Entrepreneurship of All Kinds(tm). The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems of business and society -- while at the same time evolving our methods and advancing our programs. We shape the leaders our world needs most: those with strong functional knowledge and the skills and vision to navigate change, accommodate ambiguity, surmount complexity, and motivate teams in a common purpose to create economic and social value. As we have for nearly a half-century, Babson continues to advance Entrepreneurial Thought and Action(r) as the most positive force on the planet for generating sustainable economic and social value. For information, visit www.babson.edu.
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CTIA and IFA announced that they are joining forces on what the two organizations are calling the world's first "borderless" trade show in 2014.
IFA is an annual consumer electronics and home appliances tradeshow based in Berlin, which is now reaching its 52nd edition, and CTIA focuses primarily on the mobility.
The two organizations have signed a memorandum of understanding as the first step in creating the new show.
Rob Mesirow, CTIA vice president and show director, said the partnership "reflects today's borderless and diverse wireless ecosystem, across time zones, across industries and across audiences."
CTIA recently announced that it will be combining its spring show, MobileCON, with its fall show, CTIA Wireless, to create the "Super Mobility Show," which is scheduled to take place September 9, 10 & 11, 2014 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. The IFA show will take place September 5-10 at the Messe Berlin Fairgrounds in Berlin, Germany.
The alliance between CTIA and IFA will begin at CTIA 2013 on May 21-23 at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas.


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Fiber optic recruitment moves forward
Wyatt: Potential operator impressed with survey responses
When the Gothenburg Improvement Company surveyed the community about telecommunication needs, members wanted at least 1,200 responses.
The 1,227 surveys that were recently completed impressed a potential fiber optic operator, said GIC fiber infrastructure committee chair Nate Wyatt.
"It provides him with a good sampling of the community's needs and interests," Wyatt said.
Wyatt said the potential operator will assemble and analyze the data received in both printed and online surveys.
"I'm cautiously optimistic we are advancing the agenda," he said.
The GIC has tried to recruit a local fiber optic service provider for several years, Wyatt said, so the overwhelming response from the community is special.
Wyatt said he was told that the next highest survey response from a community similar in size to Gothenburg was the return of 375 surveys.
Locally, surveys were sent with city utility bills to 1,491 residential households and 350 businesses that may have more than one account.
The community responded through printed or online surveys.
How the community responded will "go a long ways in bringing infrastructure to the community," Wyatt said.
GIC and Gothenburg Chamber of Commerce members used a grassroots effort to spread the word about the importance of completing the survey.
Wyatt said they talked to organizations, church congregations and others and shared a multi-media presentation created for the effort.
"Volunteers even went door to door," he said.
GIC president Mike Bacon likened the effort to the recruitment of Baldwin Filters in 1990 when the GIC tried to convince the Fortune 500 company there was sufficient labor for the facility to locate in Gothenburg.
"We used volunteers manning bank phones for two to three nights and called people to see if they would go to work for a specified wage," Bacon recalled.
Volunteers called hundreds of people and printed out names, telephone numbers and addresses. They then delivered a book of labor candidates to the Baldwin Filters president to prove that more than enough eligible workers were available.
"We told him he could call anyone on the list and that sealed the deal," he said.
In the latest effort, Bacon said the 1,200 survey return target (for a 60% penetration rate) was set by Wyatt to show that Gothenburg was exceptional.
"So the return rate proves that Gothenburg is exceptional and that there is an unmet need for high quality internet, cable and phone service at a competitive price," he said.
Bacon described fiber as important to the community's future as roads and highways.
"It is a tool to bring people here who can telecommute to London or Paris," he said.
Selling the vision of that is what the GIC does well, Bacon said.
"Nate and his team really did an outstanding job," he said. "And Gothenburgers have always made good decisions when they are given the facts."
Without fiber, Bacon said the city will remain in a "digital desert" and limited to coaxial or copper technology to deliver data.
"The citizens of Gothenburg deserve better," Bacon said.
With AT&T and Google investing in fiber installation in high-density markets, he said a town of 3,600 in the middle of Nebraska is not on their radar.
"So, as Gothenburg always does, we will fix it ourselves," he said.
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