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Program (last updated 2004-May-21) Room assignments & times subject to change Program Booklet PDF (454K) - as distributed at the conference; current through April 12, 2004
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cancelled: BOF 4: Computers, Freedom & Moore's Law
Workshop: Privacy and Civil Liberties Issues in Computing Applications Research and Development
Numerous computing applications have been proposed, and in some cases implemented, that have the potential of being invasive of privacy. Examples range from commercially produced tags using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to governmental programs such as Total Information Awareness. We will discuss examples of computer science research and of applications of computing technology that raise privacy and civil liberties issues. We shall attempt to answer the following questions: 1. Is technology "neutral"? Should decisions about the applications of technology be left solely to the marketplace, the government, policy makers, and/or the law? Do the people developing the technology have any ethical, moral, or legal responsibilities regarding it subsequent use? What about businesses that market the technology? 2. Is it possible or even desirable to raise awareness of privacy and civil liberties issues among CS researchers and funders of CS research? Do researchers and/or funders have any ethical responsibilities in trying to raise awareness? 3. Is it possible to devise technologies that address privacy and civil liberties concerns? If so, what strategies might be effective in providing or increasing funding for the development of such technologies? Is there a risk in trying to develop "ameliorating" technologies? Examples? 4. Have there been examples of CS R&D projects where such issues have been successfully addressed? 5. Are there any research or development projects on which people should refuse to work? What is the role of the individual? How do you decide? What kinds of penalties might society extract? Examples?
Organizer: Barbara Simons, ACM; Presenters: Ruzena Bajcsy, University of California, Berkeley; Susan Landau, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.: "Science -- and Thinking About Ethical Solutions"; Terry Winograd, Stanford University; Philippe Golle, Xerox Parc; Marcia Hofmann, EPIC; David Culler, University of California, Berkeley; Andrew Grosso, Andrew Grosso & Associates Materials: Ruzena Bajcsy's powerpoint: CITRIS Overview Philippe Golle's Powerpoint: Protecting Privacy in Terrorist Tracking Applications Marcia Hoffman's powerpoint: CAPPS II: A Case Study in Homeland Security Use of Technology CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Tutorial T1: Who Are You? The Basics of Identity, Authentication and Privacy Today
Identity issues have become part of daily business and the daily news for individuals around the world. New identification and authentication technologies are often complex and counter-intuitive. Privacy is often viewed as a barrier to better authentication and identification. But do they privacy and authentication to be in tension? This tutorial will cover the terminology, standards, current controversies and best practices in privacy and authentication. We will explore E-Authentication, biometrics, smart cards, datamining, and pattern analysis. We will consider how some of the current authentication technologies address privacy. Commercial Web services, E-Government, transportation security, and identity fraud issues will be addressed.
Panelists: Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy & Technology; Paula Arcioni, New Jersey Office of Information Technology; Susan Crawford, Cardozo Law School; Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Research; Khaja Ahmed, CTO of Passport Project, Microsoft; Marty Abrams, Executive Director, Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP; Lara Flint, Center for Democracy & Technology; Marcia Hofmann, EPIC; Jennifer Barrett, Chief Privacy Officer/Privacy Team Leader, Acxiom Corporation Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Tutorial T2: Network Surveillance HOW-TO: A Tutorial on Snooping Around Modern Networks
This half-day tutorial workshop will give you hands-on experience in network surveillance. It will provide a high-level overview of network basics, including the OSI layer model, as a prologue to getting down and dirty with packet sniffing, wireless network scanners, intercepting encrypted protocol transmissions, port scanning, and more. We'll cover everything from basic terminology to live demonstrations of how networks can be spied on, including packet sniffing, intercepting traffic, "man-in-the-middle" attacks, SSL spoofing, and more, as well as information and demonstrations on how common defense mechanisms work to protect your networks against passive and active surveillance.
Panelists: Chris Palmer, Staff Technologist, EFF; Seth Schoen, Staff Technologist, EFF; Dan Silverstein, UC Berkeley Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Tutorial T3: Liability for Unsecured Computers
Panelists: Françoise Gilbert, IT Law Group, "Legal Issues"; Jodie Westby, The Work-IT Group; Mike Jerbic, Trusted Systems Consulting Materials: Mike Jerbic PDF CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Tutorial T4: RFID and Privacy
Panelists: Lee Tien, EFF; Richard M. Smith; Linda Ackerman, Staff Counsel, PrivacyActivism; Beth Givens, Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; Ross Stapleton-Gray Materials: Linda Ackerman & Katherine Albrecht's slides Beth Givens' Powerpoint Richard Smith's Slides at http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/cfp2004/index.htm [local .zip] Ross Stapleton-Gray's Powerpoint Lee Tien: RFID: Government Use + Economic and Security Issues and Government RFID Use Table CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Tutorial T5: Constitutional Law in Cyberspace
Mike Godwin, Senior Technology Counsel, Public Knowledge, will teach the basics of constitutional law in cyberspace, with an emphasis on free-speech and privacy issues. This tutorial is designed to inform non-lawyers and lawyers alike about the constitutional issues that underlie computer-crime and computer civil-liberties cases, as well as about the policy issues relating to intellectual property and jurisdiction on the Net. Its goal is to prepare attendees to understand the full range of constitutional and civil-liberties issues discussed at the main panels and presentations at CFP2004, with particular emphasis this year on the intersection of copyright law, constitutional law, and technology policy.
Presenter: Mike Godwin, Senior Technology Counsel, Public Knowledge, has done evolving versions of this tutorial at 11 different CFP conferences (sometimes for CLE credit and sometimes not), and the tutorial has continued to be well-subscribed and highly rated. Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Tutorial T6: Telecommunications Law for the Rest of Us
Primer on telecommunications law and concepts critical to understanding the scope of the Federal Communication Commission's regulatory authority over the Internet. Covers the original regulation of telephone companies under a "common carrier" model, and the gradual removal of services such as data storage and long-distance service from the framework of monopoly regulation, a process that culminated in the 1996 Telecommunications Act. It will also provide an overview of today's hot regulatory topics. It will introduce the major players: FCC commissioners; relevant congressional commissions; state public utility commissions; & affected industries. It will review the classification of Internet access as unregulated "information services," and explain the practical implications of classification as a regulated "telecommunications service." Finally, it will provide background on debates about broadband Internet access, wireless telephony & networks, including spread-spectrum and smart-radio technology, and voice over IP.
Panelists: Christopher Savage, Cole, Raywid & Braverman; Robert Cannon, Federal Communications Commission Materials: Christopher Savage Handouts (PDF) CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Tutorial T7: Privacy Notices: Readability vs. Completeness
Research has established that notices need to be relatively short, in a common format and in plain English to work for consumers. However, such notices are, by definition, not complete. This creates liability issues for companies. Sometimes, laws are conflicted over what lawmakers want from organizations giving notice. This tutorial will explore the research, government action on short notices, and the liability issues.
Panelists: Marty Abrams, Center for Information Policy Leadership; Ari Schwartz, Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Technology; Rebecca Richards, Director of Policy, TRUSTe; Susan Henrichsen, California Dept. of Justice; Beth Givens, Executive Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; Ken McEldowney, Executive Director, Consumer Action; Jennifer Barrett, Privacy Team Leader, Acxiom Ken Anderson, Assistant Commissioner for Privacy, Ontario, Canada Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
"The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems"
Touch-screen voting machines store records of cast votes in internal memory, where the voter cannot check them. Because of our system of secret ballots, once the voter leaves the polls there is no way anyone can determine whether the vote captured was what the voter intended. Why should voters trust these machines?
Last December, I drafted a "Resolution on Electronic Voting" stating that every voting system should have a "voter verifiable audit trail," which is a permanent record of the vote that can be checked for accuracy by the voter, and which is saved for a recount if it is required. After many rewrites, I posted the page in January with endorsements from many prominent computer scientists. At that point, I became embroiled in a surprisingly fierce (and time consuming) battle that continues today.
We still don't have an answer for why we should trust electronic voting machines, but a lot of evidence has emerged for why we should NOT.
In this talk, I will discuss the basic principles and issues in electronic voting. Materials: David Dill's PowerPoint [local copy] David Dill Keynote - download audio recording: mp3 David Dill Keynote - stream audio recording: wma | mp3 CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
2004 marks the 40th Anniversary of the '64 Civil Rights Act. This landmark Act outlawed discrimination in public places, required employers to provide equal employment opportunities, and stated that uniform standards for the right to vote must prevail. We will explore the relationship between privacy and civil rights, in light of the anniversary, focusing on the segment of our population who are without computers but constantly subject to computer monitoring. Computer systems have not eliminated discrimination - on the contrary: Discrimination has been grafted into profiling algorithms, taking on airs of impartiality. We will focus on three prominent issues that intersect computing and disadvantaged populations: Homeless Management Information Systems, Credit Scoring, and Biometric Collection of information on recipients of public benefits.
Moderator: Chris Hoofnagle, EPIC Panelists: Cindy Southworth, National Network to End Domestic Violence; Chance Martin, SF Coalition on the Homeless; Birny Birnbaum, "Insurance Credit Scoring: 21st Century Redlining"; Grace A. Galligher, Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations Materials: Birny Birnbaum, "Credit Scoring: 21st Century Redlining and the End of Insurance" [pdf] Cindy Southworth, NNEDV, How Tracking Systems Place Victims at Risk Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Plenary 1 Blog
The FBI is back, insisting that VoIP be subject to the same wiretap-friendly design mandates that apply to the plain old telephone system under the controversial CALEA legislation. The FBI recently filed a petition asking for an FCC rulemaking on the issue. Will the desire to guarantee law enforcement access reach into the core of the Internet? What are the risks of tapping the Net? Can surveillance questions be rationally addressed in the age of terrorism? Leading participants in the debate from law enforcement, civil liberties and industry explore these and related issues.
Moderator: John Morris, Center for Democracy and Technology Panelists: Jeff Pulver, pulver.com; Lee Tien, EFF; Steve Bellovin, AT&T Lab-Research; Mike Warren, Fiducianet Materials: Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Plenary 2 Blog
Concurrent 1: RFID and Privacy
Radio frequency ID (RFID) presents the possibility of an "Internet-for-things", bringing digital information economics and control into the analog, informationally limited, real world. It presents a new set of privacy risks, including the possibility of much more robust and pervasive profiling. To what degree should RFID be subject to regulatory restraints? Can we avoid privacy problems through intelligent technical design now?
Moderator: Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University Law School Panelists: Beth Givens, Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; Elliot Maxwell, Fellow, Center for the Study of American Government, Johns Hopkins; Jackie Griffin, Director, Berkeley Public Library; Ann Brick, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California Materials: Concurrent 1 Blog
Concurrent 2: Technology Transfer, Technology Dumping
Moderator: Mike Godwin, Senior Technology Counsel, Public Knowledge Panelists: Xiao Qiang, China Internet Project; Jagdish Parikh, Online Communications Content Coordinator, Human Rights Watch; Mary Wirth, Yahoo!; Dave Del Torto, Cryptorights Materials: Jagdish Parikh's slides Gus Hosein's slides Concurrent 2 Blog
Concurrent 3: Gatekeepers of the Web: The Hidden Power of Search Engine Technology
People use search engines for the vast majority of online content they access - giving a handful of companies the ability to shape what the world sees and thinks about. Alarmingly, and unbeknownst to users, search engine companies effectively censor content in subtle ways, both for commercial reasons and when asked by governments. Ranking technologies provide users with a homogenized handful of sites, and render smaller sites nearly invisible. Search engine results are famously prone to manipulation. Finally, using search engines is more complex than it seems, and general users have difficulty finding the right content. The panel exposes hidden vulnerabilities of these critical gatekeepers to the online world, and considers remedies.
Moderator: Kenneth Neil Cukier, Fellow, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government Panelists: Prof. Dr. Marcel Machill, Professor for Journalism & International Media Systems, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany, and the Bertelsmann Foundation: "Transparency on the Net: Search Engines and Media Policy"; Andrew McLaughlin, Google; Matthew Hindman, Fellow, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Benjamin Edelman, Student, Harvard University: "Empirical Research on Google Omissions" Materials: Concurrent 3 Blog
Concurrent 4: Nations vs. the Net: The UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Are governments trying to take over the Internet? Are their actions indispensable to bringing the benefits of the information society to all? Or is it something in the murky middle, where the details (and devils!) lie? In Dec. 2003 over 10,000 delegates from governments, industry and activist groups convened in Geneva for the first round of the UN World Summit on the Information Society. There was little harmony on issues - from human rights and the digital divide, to open source software and ICANN. Join us for a meeting to discuss the issues, the stakes and the dangers that will emerge as the world prepares for the final round of the Summit, in Tunisia in 2005.
Moderator: Peter Harter, Managing Principal, The Farrington Group Panelists: Bertrand De La Chapelle, Founder, Open-WSIS Group; Stephanie Perrin, President, Digital Discretion; David Maher, Chairman of the Board, Public Interest Registry; Esther Dyson; Ralf Bendrath Materials: Concurrent 4 Blog
Search and analysis of structured and unstructured data races in parallel to the ever increasing volume of information generated globally by people and technology. Technology continually converts analog to digital, adding to the complexity of information. These developments erode security through obscurity individuals have historically enjoyed. This panel will discuss the positive and negative aspects of the business and government activities which capitalize and exploit person-based data.
Moderator: Peter Swire, Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University Panelists: Jeff Jonas, SRD; Lara Flint, Center for Democracy and Technology; Stewart Baker, Steptoe & Johnson LLP (and former counsel at National Security Administration); Doug Tygar, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Materials: Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Plenary 3 Blog
Can online organizing change the outcome of the 2004 elections? From the "open-source" campaign model that briefly propelled Howard Dean to the front of the Democratic pack, to the stunning impact of Moveon.org, American politics is being turned upside down by new and innovative network-centered campaign strategies. Or is it? We will examine recent trends and explore their implications on the 2004 election and American Democracy, discussing what tools and strategies have worked - and failed - in recruiting and mobilizing supporters.
Moderator: Jonah Seiger, Connections Media Panelists: Bill Pease, Get Active; Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org; Tom Matzzie, AFL-CIO; Myles Weissleder, Vice-President of Communications, Meetup.com Materials: Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Plenary 4 Blog
This video screening brings back the futuristic promises of the past -- alluring, utopian ideas like domestic robots, ubiquitous networking, telepresence, and intelligent appliances -- and shows how major American corporations appropriated them as their own. Their promise: a bright, affluent future enabled by cybernetics and technology, and they're still singing the same song. We'll counterpose films like CENTURY 21 CALLING, A NATION AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, and MAGIC IN THE AIR with recent futuristic TV commercials from AT&T and IBM. What (if anything) has changed? Why has utopian fantasy become campy anachronism rather than call to action? And would we really want to live in this utopian world, anyway?
Presenter: Rick Prelinger, Prelinger Archives Materials: Prelinger Archives at prelinger.com CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Privacy International holds the 6th annual US Big Brother awards to celebrate the invaders and champions of privacy. "Orwell" statutes will be presented to the government agencies, companies and initiatives which have done most to invade personal privacy. Brandeis Awards will be given to champions of privacy. The Brandeis Award is named after US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who described privacy as "the right to be let alone." The awards are given to those have done exemplary work to protect and champion privacy.
BOF 1: The Great American Privacy Makeover, Undressed: Survey Results & Methodology
Presenter: Andrew Brandt, Senior Associate Editor, PC World Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 2: Social Networking BOF
BOF 3: The Future of the PATRIOT Act
Is the Patriot Act a foreshadow of things to come, or an aberration soon to be corrected? What are specifics of the Patriot Act and "Patriot II", and their pluses and minuses? What are the courts doing about the Act, and how should computer professionals respond as responsible citizens?
First, a description of the Patriot Act, the proposals in "Patriot II," the history of the various provisions, and a description of court cases that are coming down the pipe. Then a round table discussion as to the pluses and minuses of the Act's purposes and means; where these might lead in the future; and the role of technology in such evolution.
Presenter: Andrew Grosso, Andrew Grosso & Associates Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 5: New CFP Attendees Town Hall [Tentative]
BOF 6: Creative Commons Users' Meeting
Organizer: Herkko Hietanen Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 7: MobiloPhobia
MobiloPhobia is part of a series of events and discussions on mobile and locative media, which opened with MobiloTopia at Transmediale (Berlin, DE) exploring the utopian hopes generated by locative media, and will culminate in the Mobile Connections conference and artistic programme at the futuresonic04 festival (Manchester, UK)
Presenters: Dr. Drew Hemment, AHRB Research Fellow in Creative Technologies at University of Salford, UK; Nicola Green, Dept. of Sociology, University of Surrey Materials: www.mobileconnections.org www.futuresonic.com CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 8: San Francisco Surveillance Camera Players
The San Francisco Surveillance Camera Players oppose the surveillance of everyday life, in particular the video surveillance of public space, including public transit, streets, and parks. We perform short, silent plays in front of surveillance cameras in public places, to bring attention to and challenge their presence. We also are beginning to map the locations of surveillance cameras in the Bay Area and give occasional walking tours. We will discuss how to identify surveillance cameras, how common they are in the Bay Area, and what some of the issues are (legal, Constitutional, and moral).
A walking tour is also scheduled for the following Saturday, April 24th. It meets at 2pm by the statue in the middle of Union Square in San Francisco (take the BART to Powell Street, then walk three blocks north on Powell).
More information can be found on our website at http://www.survile.org/.
Players: Martin and Bettina Materials: www.survile.org CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Recent technology initiatives described as "Trusted Computing" have been very controversial. We'll examine how they work and what their advantages and disadvantages may be from a variety of points of view.
Moderator: Danny Weitzner, W3C and Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Panelists: Seth Schoen, Staff Technologist, EFF; David Safford, IBM; Geoffrey Strongin, Platform Security Architect, AMD Materials: Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Plenary 5 Blog
As governments increase the use of technology and bring functions online for everything from birth certificates, paying taxes, and voting, the software that is used determines the degree of transparency and freedom. Open source proponents claim that open source lets citizen users inspect, improve and redistribute the software freely, and point out that commercial software risks locking up official documents in proprietary formats. But commercial software advocates point out the benefits to a single entity claiming responsibility for their work. What are the risks and benefits to each model?
Moderators: Jennifer M. Urban, Visiting Acting Clinical Professor, University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall); Kenneth Neil Cukier, Fellow, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government Panelists: Tony Stanco, E-Government; Bernard Benhamou, Director of Forecasting and Internet Governance, E-Government Development Agency, Office of the Prime Minister, France; Jason Matusow, Microsoft; Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology for UC Berkeley Special Guest: Eric M. K. Osiakwan, Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) Materials: Tom Kalil powerpoint: "And now for something completely different!" Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Plenary 6 Blog
Concurrent 5: Wardriving, Wireless Networks, and the Law
Wireless networks are exploding in popularity, but are difficult to secure. Locating insecure networks & advertising their locations has become a sport known as "wardriving". We examine the Pen Register Act, the Wiretap Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act to evaluate criminal and civil liability which may apply to wardriving.
Moderator: Jennifer Granick, Stanford CIS Panelists: Steve Schroeder, CCIPS consultant; Simon Byers, AT&T; Kevin Bankston, EFF Materials: Concurrent 5 Blog
Concurrent 6: Privacy and Liberty Implications of Suing File Sharers
Copyright owners have sued p2p network services, providers of software, ISPs, phone companies, and even venture capitalists who fund p2p companies. While those initial suits were successful, content industries have recently suffered reversals, most notably in their litigation against Streamcast & Grokster. Unable to shut down p2p networks altogether, the music industry has begun to sue individuals who upload music files. These lawsuits present numerous legal, moral and policy issues. What First Amendment and privacy rights are affected by the RIAA's subpoenas to ISPs' file sharers' identities? How to balance the fact that p2p software has legal uses as well as illegal ones, with the RIAA's claims that it is more efficient, and better business, to sue the p2p software companies rather than users? Or should the RIAA simply find a new business model? This panel will involve a vigorous and wide-ranging debate among advocates of each of these positions, with a focus on the privacy and liberty implications of the recent spate of lawsuits.
Moderator: Mark Lemley, Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, and Of Counsel, Keker & Van Nest. Panelists: Stacey Dogan, Associate Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law; Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times; Wendy Seltzer, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Materials: Concurrent 6 Blog
Concurrent 7: Fahrenheit 451.3: Using ISPs to Control Content on the Internet
Recently, governments have tried a controversial new approach to regulating Internet content: requiring ISPs to block access to content, such as pornography and gambling, before it is delivered to Internet users. Targeting neither the source nor host of the content, this content control instead places the burden of blocking content on the delivering ISP. Yet this approach often leads to the blocking of wholly unrelated content. We'll look at the court decision on the Pennsylvania web blocking law, and other government efforts to control content at the ISP bottleneck.
Panelists: John Morris, Center for Democracy & Technology; Stewart Baker, U.S. Internet Service Providers Association (Steptoe & Johnson); Wolfgang Schulz, University of Hamburg Materials: Wolfgang Schulz's slides: "Regulating the Code? Using ISPs to block banned web-sites in Germany" (not for publication or citation) Concurrent 7 Blog
Concurrent 8: Data Retention and Privacy: A Real World Approach to EU and US Regulations
Data retention of ISP-generated traffic data is a major issue, for privacy protection and also for the enforcement of the right of defense in court. We'll analyse first the difference and similarity between EU and US and, from a technical point of view, at which conditions the ISP retained data might be held reliable in Court.
Presenters: Andrea Monti, Electronic Frontier, Italy; Susan Brenner, University of Dayton School of Law; Cindy Cohn, Electronic Frontier Foundation Materials: Concurrent 8 Blog
Concurrent 9: The Next Drug War: Possession Statutes Target Technology
Suing customers appears to be in vogue. But long before the RIAA got in on the action, DirecTV blazed the trail. Today, state "super DMCA" initiatives across the US aim to make "mere possession" of general purpose technologies unlawful, encouraging others to go where only DirecTV has dared to go before. What are the implications for civil liberties and general purpose technologies when lawyers can come after you for "mere possession"?
Moderator: Fred von Lohmann, EFF Panelists: Jason Schultz, EFF; Albert Zakarian, Esquire, DTVDefense.com; Christian Genetski, Partner, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Anti-Piracy Counsel for DirecTV; Robert S. Apgood, Attorney at Law, AvantLaw PLLC Materials: Concurrent 9 Blog
The FCC has long had a role in regulating (or not regulating) the Internet. Recently it has been reviewing that role. This panel will provide an overview of the FCC's current plans and examine the implications for the future of the Internet, focusing not only on concrete regulatory issues but also policy issues about competition, openness, network neutrality, the "end-to-end" principle and the concept of common carriage. Can FCC regulation or regulatory forbearance foster openness, competition, and neutrality?
Moderator: Lee Tien, EFF Panelists: Chris Savage, Cole, Raywid & Braverman; Robert Cannon, Senior Counsel for Internet Issues (Federal Communication Commission's Office of Plans and Policy); Jeff Pulver, President and CEO, Pulver.com, Inc.; Dan Brenner, Senior Vice President for Law & Regulatory Policy, National Cable & Telecommunications Association; Paul Misener, Vice President, Global Public Policy, Amazon.com; Jonathan Askin, General Counsel to pulver.com Materials: Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Plenary 7 Blog
Plenary 8: Facing the Music: Can Creators Get Paid for P2P File Sharing?
While the entertainment industry litigated and lobbied, many observers concluded that p2p is an exciting technology with one significant downside: how to pay authors & artists for their work. The file sharing wars inspired widely divergent proposals for fostering online distribution and paying authors and artists. We'll consider leading alternatives, including digital rights management, compulsory licenses and levies, voluntary collective licensing, and voluntary user payments. We'll focus on nuts & bolts, rather than debating the file-sharing wars. We'll ask which proposals could work. What are their practical advantages & drawbacks? How do they measure consumer demand? How do they affect privacy?
Moderator: Jessica Litman, Wayne State Univ. Law School. Panelists: Ted Cohen, EMI; Sarah Deutsch, Verizon; Eric Garland, CEO, BigChampagne, LLC; Daniel Gervais, Univ. of Ottawa Faculty of Law; Neil Netanel, UT School of Law; Fred von Lohmann, EFF Materials: Download audio recordings: mp3 Stream audio recordings: mp3 | wma Plenary 8 Blog
The Council of Europe Cybercrime Treaty is an international agreement created for the stated purpose of helping police cooperate on crimes that take place on the Internet. Its supporters, including the US DOJ, argue that it is a surgical instrument necessary to allow for international law enforcement cooperation in prosecuting crime on the Net. Opponents say it is a meat axe, requiring signatory nations to cooperate with foreign dictatorships and giving invasive new surveillance powers to law enforcement. While the treaty has broad implications for the wired world, it has received very little attention since 9/11. President Bush recently sent the Treaty to the Senate for ratification, which will rekindle the controversy in the US. Readings: Two FAQs on the Treaty are available at: http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=13475&c=131 http://www.cybercrime.gov/COEFAQs.htm Moderator: Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Research; Panelists: Gus Hosein, Fellow, Privacy International; Betty Shave, Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section of the US Justice Department; Abraham Sofaer, Hoover Institute; Barry Steinhardt, American Civil Liberties Union Materials: Download audio recordings: mp3 Stream audio recordings: mp3 | wma Plenary 9 Blog
EFF established the Pioneer Awards to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology. This year's ceremony will be held at Chabot Space and Science Center. The event will begin at 6:30pm with a Planetarium show, which will be followed by a catered reception, and the Pioneer Award ceremony itself.
BOF 9: Screening: "Misleading Information: The Future As It Never Was"
BOF 10: Travel Data and Privacy
Presenter: Edward Hasbrouck, Author, "The Practical Nomad", Hasbrouck.org Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 11: Digital Copyright in Europe and Asia: How Does it Differ From the U.S.?
Moderator: Yugo Noguchi, Stanford University Law School Presenters: Qiong Wu, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall); Daniel Benoliel, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 12: Litigating Surveillance: How to Fight the USA PATRIOT in the Courts
Lawyers and legal activists are invited to brainstorm solutions to the legal hurdles facing any challenge to the USA PATRIOT Act's surveillance provisions. In particular, we'll talk about how to find plaintiffs with standing to challenge surveillance laws that operate in secret, and what legal theories may succeed in the face of a decades-long weakening of Fourth Amendment protections.
After 10-15 minutes of introductory comments from Kevin Bankston outlining the various legal hurdles facing lawyers hoping to challenge the PATRIOT Act's surveillance provisions, attendees will participate in an interactive discussion of innovative approaches and potential solutions to these problems.
Presenter: Kevin Bankston, EFF Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 13: Designing in Privacy - Architecture and Strategy Discussion
Technologists, developers, policymakers and advocates are invited to a discussion with the HP Chief Privacy Officer and a HP Trusted Systems Lab scientist to explore the needs of developers to design and build privacy-compliant and privacy enabling products and systems. We will focus on ideas that contribute to the practical application of design: tools, training, impact assessments and review guides.
The HP Privacy program has been recognized by many as having an industry-leading privacy policy and practices. We work hard on "walking the talk." The HP Chief Privacy Officer is leading an internal intitative to take operational privacy excellence to our commercial products and services. We're interested in having an "outside looking in" perspective on both classic and novel approaches to "designing in privacy". We are interested in techniques and practices that can be leveraged across the industry.
Presenters: Barb Lawler, Chief Privacy Officer, Hewlett Packard; Tomas Sander, Research Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 14: Screening: "Hacktivista" Documentary
"Hacktivista" is the story of three University of Toronto students who travel with their professor to Guatemala and Chiapas to work with human rights organizations and activists on Internet security and connectivity. The students call themselves "hacktivists" -- a new breed of social activists who use technology to fight for privacy and freedom of speech. See http://www.citizenlab.org/hacktivista/ for more info.
Presenter: Robert Guerra, consultant to & translator for the documentary, will introduce the documentary & answer questions after the screening. Materials: http://www.citizenlab.org/hacktivista/ CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 15: Software Demonstration: Program for Online Deliberation
This session will include a demonstration of a new free/open platform for online deliberation: an asynchronous, web-based tool for group discussion, collaboration, and decision making, which is a project of PIECE (Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement, http://piece.stanford.edu). The platform is aimed at helping grassroots organizations to be more participatory, with a richer environment for online asynchronous meetings than is available in message boards, email lists, and other groupware of which we are aware. We will demonstrate the capabilities of POD and discuss the relationship between its design and the problems of grassroots democracy. The fact that coming to decisions generally requires real-time, face-to-face meetings serves as an excuse for inner-circle decision making, which we hope to undermine through this project. The free/open aspect will also allow groups to control their own online spaces, serving as an antidote to the liberty-threatening policies of commercial providers.
Presenter: Todd Davies, Coordinator, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, and Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement Materials: http://piece.stanford.edu CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
BOF 18: Provable Elections
Presenter: David Chaum Materials: CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
Plenary 10: GMail, Spam Filters, and Email Privacy -- Expectations, the Law, and the Marketplace Replaces "Policy Laundering" Plenary
Moderator: Deirdre K. Mulligan Announced Panelists: J.C. Cannon, Microsoft; Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy & Technology; Chris Hoofnagle, Electronic Privacy Information Center; Sonia Arrison, Pacific Research Institute; Sunil Paul, Brightmail; David Link, Technology Counsel, Cal. Sen. Liz Figueroa; Nicole Wong, Senior Compliance Counsel for Google Materials: Images provided by Google: GMail Screenshot | GMail Inbox Screenshot Plenary 10 Blog
The US government's use of corporate databases containing personal information on individuals in its effort to identify terrorists has garnered criticism from elected officials, private citizens, and other nations. At the same time, elected officials, think tanks, and those involved in intelligence and law enforcement argue that identifying terrorists requires enhanced access and use of information. We'll consider the current legal framework controlling government access and use of private sector databases, the privacy and security concerns posed by government use of such databases for terrorism purposes, and the possible benefits of government use of such databases.
Moderator: Nick Gillespie, Reason Magazine Panelists: Jennifer Barrett, Chief Privacy Officer, Acxiom; Bill Scannell, DontSpyOnUs.com; Jim Harper, Privacilla; Nuala O'Connor Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security Materials: Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Bill Scannell's Graphic [also available at www.dontspyonus.com] Plenary 11 Blog
Concurrent 10: Identity Theft: Addressing the Problem at a Global Level
Identity theft often reaches beyond the borders of a single state or country. Recently, for instance, credit card information of US citizens was used to manufacture false cards in Romania, and then the cards were used in the EU. To efficiently combat cybercrime and ID theft, countries must cooperate to create a system of protection & enforcement that goes beyond each country's borders. This session will provide actual examples of national and global identity theft schemes; analyze existing and pending cyber security laws, protections, and initiatives in different countries that address directly or indirectly identity theft; review existing global cybercrime treaties and initiatives, and suggest potential coordinated actions nationally and globally.
Moderator: Françoise Gilbert, Managing Director & Founder, IT Law Group Panelists: Mark Webber, English Solicitor, Osborne Clarke; Jacques F. Gilbert, Senior Vice-President & Chief Architect, First Data Corporation; Joanne McNabb, Chief Office of Privacy Protection, State of California Materials: Joanne McNabb's PowerPoint Françoise Gilbert's PowerPoint Jacques Gilbert's slides, "Identity Theft: Technology Aspects" Mark Webber's PowerPoint Concurrent 10 Blog
Concurrent 11: Cease and Desist: Two Years of Fighting Online Chill
During the course of the conference (or before, if you're less fortunate) you may have been served with a cease-and-desist demand letter making outrageous allegations that your online activities violate the law. The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse (chillingeffects.org) has been collecting and cataloguing these letters for the past two years and, where appropriate, fighting online chill. Panelists from the project will give a weather map from data we've gathered, assessing the climate for online activity: What activities risk being frozen out? What can we do to warm the air?
Panelists: Wendy Seltzer, Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Jennifer M. Urban, Visiting Acting Clinical Professor, University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall): "Two Years of DMCA Takedowns"; Agnes Li, J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School Materials: chillingeffects.org Fake C&Ds Passed Out to CFP Attendees: DMCA 512 notice (pdf) | trademark infringement notice (pdf) Concurrent 11 Blog Chillingeffects_JM_Urban.ppt
Concurrent 12: Next Generation Democracy: The Internet, Young Voters, and Election 2004
The 18-24 year-old age group exhibits a vigorous attachment to online community, from p2p networks to IM and text messaging. Will these attachments spill over into the physical, and the political world? Will these attachments stick with youth as their own demographics change? This panel will explore the ways that the Internet has been used to engage youth in politics and in Election 2004.
Moderator: David M. Anderson, Executive Director, Youth '04 Panelists: Vincent M. Keenan, President, Publius.org; Thomas A. Bryer, Director, Party Y; David B. Smith, Executive Director, Mobilizing America's Youth Materials: Concurrent 12 Blog
Concurrent 13: The Law and Ethics of Online Research
A lawyer and an ethicist will lead a discussion regarding the unique ethical and legal issues of privacy, anonymity, consent, and data ownership that attend on-line research, and regarding the formulation of guidelines for conducting such research.
Panelists: Dan Burk, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota; Charles Ess, Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Distinguished Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University Materials: Concurrent 13 Blog
Concurrent 14: Security and Privacy for the Citizen in the Post 9-11 Digital Age: A European Perspective
Identity is a unifying concept bringing together security and privacy aspects under one roof. The European Union has developed a strong legal and regulatory framework in order to properly manage the balance between these two aspects while respecting the fundament rights of the citizen. This balance, strongly influenced by cultural environments in each country, has been challenged recently by emerging information and communications technologies and post 9/11 policy initiatives. In this panel, technical experts will provide an overview of the future of identity in Europe and its impact on security & privacy. Presentations will be followed by a discussion between European privacy proponents & representatives from law enforcement agencies about the future challenges related to identity.
Moderator: Emilio De Capitani, Civil Servant, European Parliament, Secretary of Committee on Citizen's Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, "Identity and Balance Between Security and Privacy in Europe" Panelists: Laurent Beslay, Scientific Officer, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), European Commission, "Identity: Privacy and Security for the Citizen in the Information Society"; ; Paul de Hert, Associated Professor (UHD), University of Leiden University (the Netherlands), and Professor of Law, University of Brussels (Belgium), "Privacy and Data Protection Concepts in Europe"; Marie-Hélène Boulanger, Justice and Internal Affairs, European Commission, "Integration of Data Protection Concerns in Justice and Home Affairs Large Scale IT Systems." Materials: Passenger Name Records - 31/03/2004 [local copy] Laurent Beslay's slides Paul de Hert's slides Emilio De Capitani's slides Concurrent 14 Blog
Two candidates will stump us all in an election for "CFPer of the Year" at a mock election designed to raise some of the issues brought up by electronic voting systems with and without an auditing capability. Run by Verified Voting Founder David Dill, this election will employ real election officials impersonating mock election officials representing California and Florida and will serve as an excellent introduction to the Electronic Voting panel that follows. Join us for a fun way to explore this important topic and support the candidate you like best. Who knows what might happen to your vote!
Presented by the Verified Voting Foundation Materials: CFP 2004: Mock Voter Information Center Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma CFP2004 General Discussion Blog
If your next vote is cast on a touch screen voting machine, how will you know that it was counted correctly? Many computer scientists and public interest groups argue that voter verified paper ballots are a necessary check for the integrity of our elections. Opponents of voter verified paper ballots counter that they unnecessarily complicate the voting process, add needless expenses, and make providing access for the disabled more difficult, without really improving the integrity of elections.
Moderator: Lorrie Faith Cranor, Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Panelists: David Wagner, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Douglas A. Kellner, Commissioner, New York City Board of Elections: "Counting Secret Ballots in Public"; Kim Alexander, California Voter Foundation; Michael I. Shamos, Distinguished Career Professor, Carnegie Mellon University: "Paper vs. Electronic Voting Records: An Assessment"; Scott Konopasek, Registrar of Voters, San Bernardino County, California: "Audit Trail or 'New-Fangled' Chad? The Phenomenon of Unintended Consequences"; Dan Tokaji, Assistant Professor of Law, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law Materials: Scott Konopasek's paper: "Audit Trail or 'New-fangled' Chad? The Phenomenon of Unintended Consequences Michael Shamos' paper: "Paper v. Electronic Voting Records -- An Assessment, April 2004; also available at http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/people/faculty/mshamos/paper.htm David Wagner's PowerPoint Download audio recording: mp3 Stream audio recording: mp3 | wma Plenary 12 Blog
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Mr. Six
Many years ago Mr. Six was a notorious gangster. That was back when there was still such a thing as honour among thieves, when criminals earned respect and maintained principles. These days Mr. Six is all but forgotten, a living relic residing in a narrow alley. One day Six's son, Xiaobo, is abducted by some spoiled punks after he scratches their precious Ferrari. Mr. Six realizes that he must do whatever it takes to get his son back — even if that means returning to the life he thought he had left behind.

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With today's unexpected decline in December payrolls, the cry for more job-related stimulus will grow even louder. But the sad truth is that any new stimulus or jobs bills will ultimately swell the ranks of the unemployed, thereby raising calls for an even bigger federal effort. If we are not careful, government regulations, subsidies, and spending, all designed to fight unemployment, could push the labor market into a death spiral.
Regulation acts like a tax on job creation. By subjecting employers to all sorts of extra expenses when they hire people, regulations increase the cost of employment far beyond the wages employers actually pay their workers. In fact, some regulations are specifically tied to the number of workers employed. This provides some employers with a strong incentive to stay small and not hire.
The minimum wage law, which is really just a very visible workplace regulation, actually makes it illegal for employers to hire certain individuals and destroys entire categories of jobs. For instance, faced with high labor costs, some restaurants will avoid hiring dishwashers by switching to plastic utensils and paper plates. On a larger scale, factories may decide to switch to robotic assembly lines if human labor gets too expensive.
Other types of regulations, such as those that prohibit discrimination, create incentives for employers not to hire individuals that fall within the protected class. This is the result of potential litigation costs that may result from wrongful termination lawsuits. In other words, the more expensive government makes it to fire workers, the less likely they are to hire them in the first place.
Subsidies produce the opposite effect of regulation, but sometimes the results can be just as harmful. Government subsidies divert resources towards politically favored activities, resulting in more jobs in areas such as health care and education, but fewer jobs in other sectors such as manufacturing. The net effect of this transfer is to diminish the productive capacity and efficiency of the economy, which lowers real economic growth and diminishes employment opportunities.
Although not as visible as regulations and subsidies, government spending also plays a large role in job destruction. The more money government spends, the more resources it drains from the private sector. The fiscal 2011 budget proposed by President Obama contains $3.8 trillion in federal spending. Think of government as a cancer feeding off the private sector. The larger it grows, the more jobs it kills. Unfortunately, most politicians follow the misguided advice of economist John Maynard Keynes, who advocated government spending as a means of job creation. In reality, government spending merely results in government jobs replacing more efficient private sector jobs.
Some economists point to taxes as the primary job killer, and argue that lower taxes will boost employment. While I have sympathy for this view, it misses the larger issue that the burden of government is not what it taxes but what it spends. The proposed fiscal 2011 federal budget contains "only??? 2.4 trillion of taxes. The remaining 1.4 trillion of spending is borrowed (incredibly, for every dollar the government collects in taxes, it now spends almost $1.60). I would argue that a dollar borrowed kills more jobs than a dollar taxed. Therefore, cutting taxes and borrowing the shortfall kills more jobs then it creates. This is true because jobs require capital and government borrowing more directly crowds out private capital investment than taxes do.
In the end, I fully expect the government to directly provide make-work jobs to the armies of the unemployed. This will accelerate the pace of private sector job destruction and make our economy even less productive than it is today. This means that while the government may be able to provide people with jobs, the wages they pay will provide little in the way of purchasing power. In the end, we will become a nation of government employees, with plenty of work but little to show for it.


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Dutch government responds to OIC demands: "No," says Dutch government
The Dutch cabinet has responded to unnecessary and inappropriate demands from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to "take necessary and appropriate action to contain the campaign of hatred and incitement by Wilders".
Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal says:
The Dutch Government will continue to reject any call to gag a politician. The Netherlands enjoys freedom of expression and attaches great value to it.
We'll take that as a "no" then.
Rosenthal did take pains, however, to point out that Wilders view's do not reflect those of the Dutch government.


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This TV stand is a storage piece that every living room deserves. The wide-stretching three-drawer design, with an open shelf above, provides ample storage for...
This TV stand is a storage piece that every living room deserves. The wide-stretching three-drawer design, with an open shelf above, provides ample storage for all of your entertainment needs. The black water-based paint lightly reveals the rustic texture of the underlying wood. Handwoven split rattan drawer fronts add a natural and unstructured look to each piece.
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This week at City Crafter Challenge Blog, we want you to use another language other than English on your creation! French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Polish etc, just no English!!!!
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I think one can get a visceral, intuitive sense of how, what is often referred to as "the hard problem of consciousness," actually is "the impossible problem of consciousness," through a simple, thought experiment. Note that in this piece I am going to be using the following words interchangeably: mind, consciousness and you.
But first a reminder that "the hard problem" refers to the question of how the physical processes of your brain create consciousness: your self-awareness, the flow of your thoughts, feelings, and experiences, the totality of your subjective experience, i.e. YOU. This problem is considered by many to be not just a hard problem but the hard problem confronting science, because of the disconcerting but simple fact that there is nothing about the physical activity of the constituent particles of your brain, at any level of organization you choose to examine them, cellular, molecular, subatomic, etc., from which the qualities of subjective experience can be directly derived.
Not only is there nothing remotely like a flowchart in some neuroscience textbook, displaying a sequence of discrete, material steps or processes, describing a smooth transition from physical processes to you; "The hard problem" is one of the very few problems in science, for which there is not even, the beginnings, of an inkling, of a clue, of what a progression of causality from meat to self-awareness might look like. Forget theories, forget hypotheses, after over one hundred years of research, attempts to think about and then elucidate explanatory ideas about this progression of causality amount to vague notions that often reveal more about the limitations of language than "the hard problem" itself.
Think about this for a moment. For many phenomena in nature, scientists can with some confidence project that it is only a matter of time before they can reductively chip away at understanding how one physical process leads to the next, which in turn leads to better ideas about what the next sequence of physical processes will be, et cetera, right along the chain of causation until they get to the thing they are trying to understand. Most things science has described have a fairly clear, contextual place in the map of reality that has so far been worked out, all linked together in a vast network of things and causation. It is not an exaggeration to say that, consciousness exists outside this map. Roads that seem to lead there come to an abrupt cliff far from the final destination.
So Where Do Scientists Think Consciousness Comes From?
Here are brief descriptions of the three predominant working ideas, (at least among the dominant group of materialist scientists who believe that mind arises from and is completely contained in your physical brain), about where you come from.The first is that you don't really exist. In this view, you may think you are aware of yourself reading this as you, but you are not really, it's just an illusion. Consciousness is an illusion. A major proponent of this view is philosopher Daniel Dennett.
The second is that brain activity is consciousness. This is often summarized with phrase "Mind is what brain does." What does this mean exactly? Well proponents don't seem to know either. Here is Dr. Susan Blackmore from her recent post Correlation is not a cause (undated) on Edge.org.
At the moment we have no inkling of how consciousness could be brain activity but my guess is that it will turn out that way. Once we clear away some of our delusions about the nature of our own minds, we may finally see why there is no deep mystery and our conscious experiences simply are what is going on inside our brains.If these two positions seem incoherent to you, maybe you will like the third and probably most mainstream notion, Emergentism. This is the idea that mind emerges from the physical activity of the brain. To quote the Wikipedia entry linked to above:
A property of a system is said to be emergent if it is in some sense more than the "sum" of the properties of the system's parts. An emergent property is said to be dependent on some more basic properties (and their relationships and configuration), so that it can have no separate existence.Unfortunately while every other emergent property known in nature, can be deduced directly as a consequence of the physical processes from which it emerges, with consciousness that is not the case. There is the physical activity of the brain, and then there is you, and in between there is a bottomless conceptual and evidential chasm.
Why do these three main ideas inform neuroscience, because they are the only possible choices allowed for a priori within the materialist paradigm, where nothing by definition, can exist outside the matter and energy fields that comprise the totality of reality, including mind. Current neuroscience research is hobbled by this dogma that the brain must produce mind regardless of any evidence to the contrary. Think about these three ideas after you go through the thought experiment.
Your Brain
Ok, we are just about to dive into our thought experiment, but first I suggest you read this short explanation of how our brains actually work. Trust me it will make the thought experiment that much more illuminating. This passage is excerpted from Why Materialism is Baloney by Bernardo Kastrup, which presents an excellent counter-narrative to both Materialism and Theism that I highly recommend if you wish to explore this topic further.A very brief introduction to neuroscience
Before continuing our discussion we need a little more background on how the brain works. Although neuroscience is a complex discipline, its fundamentals are surprisingly simple. After you read the following few paragraphs you will have a fairly good overview of what happens inside your head. It's simpler than you might suppose and anybody can understand it with little effort, irrespective of background. Moreover, these simple fundamentals will be more than sufficient for you to understand the rest of this chapter. All I ask of you is focused attention for the remainder of this short section.
Here we go. The brain is composed of two main types of cells: neurons and glial cells. Neurons do the actual work of processing information, while glial cells perform support functions like insulation, structural and metabolic support, etc. For the purposes of this book, we can ignore the glial cells and focus solely on neurons.
Each neuron is composed of three main parts: the neuron's body, the dendrites and the axon. See Figure 1. The neuron's body is the main part of the cell, responsible for coordinating all of the neuron's activities. The dendrites are extensions of the neuron's body that contain many branches. The axon is a long, thin, cable-like projection that extends far from the neuron's body so to connect it to other neurons. The tip of the axon typically branches out into several terminals.
The brain is basically a giant network of interconnected neurons. Roughly speaking, the axon of a given neuron connects, through its multiple branching terminals, to dendrites of many other neurons. See Figure 1 again. The point where an axon terminal meets a dendrite is called a synapse. The terminal and the dendrite don't actually touch: a tiny gap remains in between them, which is called a synaptic cleft.
Here is how the whole thing operates: the body of a neuron generates an electric charge. The axon of the neuron carries this electric charge all the way to its terminals. If and when the electric charge grows strong enough to cross a certain threshold, it triggers the release of certain chemicals at the terminals, which are called neurotransmitters. When this happens, the neuron is said to have fired. The neurotransmitters released then drift across the synaptic cleft and stimulate the dendrites of the neuron on the other side of the cleft by fitting into chemical receptors. This is also illustrated in Figure 1. The corresponding stimulus can be an excitatory one – causing the other neuron to increase its own electric charge – or an inhibitory one – causing the other neuron to reduce its electric charge – depending on the neurotransmitter released.
Whether a given neuron fires or not – that is, whether it releases neurotransmitters or not – is thus determined by how many other neurons connected to its dendrites are firing or not, and by what type of neurotransmitters – inhibitory or excitatory – they release when they do fire. A neuron only fires when it has been stimulated with enough excitatory neurotransmitters released by other neurons and provided that it has not been too inhibited by inhibitory neurotransmitters. The entire process has electric aspects – namely, the buildup of electric charge – and chemical aspects – namely, the release of neurotransmitters. We thus say that the brain operates on the basis of electrochemical processes.
A neural network is basically a set of neurons connected together, through synapses, according to some network topology. There can be huge chains of interconnected neurons in the brain: neurons connected to other neurons, which in turn are connected to other neurons, and so on. These networks can also contain closed cycles, whereby a neuron at the end of a chain connects back to a neuron at the beginning of the chain. The brain can be seen as a superset of many neural networks.
Brain activity is associated with the firings of neurons in a neural network. Though there are many neurons in a network, typically only a subset of them is actually firing when observed. Neuroscientists can scan a living brain and see which subset of a neural network is actually active. We call each one of these active subsets a neural process. As we will see below, conscious experience correlates with certain neural processes in the brain, which are then called the neural correlates of consciousness. Naturally, neural processes can be excitatory or inhibitory, depending on whether the neurotransmitters they release respectively increase or decrease the electric charge of connected neurons.
That's it. Not too difficult, was it?"
Bernardo Kastrup, "Why Materialism Is Baloney: How true skeptics know there is no death and fathom answers to life, the universe and everything" (Winchester, UK: Iff Books, 2014) 27 - 30.
The Thought Experiment
She is connecting many incoming electronic signals (phone calls) by physically connecting wires that run between telephones or sub-stations, in a fashion not too remotely dissimilar from the neurons in your head.


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"When you go to doctors, they don't take all your blood, they only take a sample." — Professor Stephen Krashen
Professor Diane Ravitch had a brief comment entitled The True Goals of Education? this morning where a reader suggested a sort of whole child approach based on virtues as opposed to tedious test preparation. That in itself wouldn't merit much attention, but oddly one of the readers posted a comment suggesting that those self-same virtues were the stated intent of Common Core State Standards. The following was my response to that assertion:
For the plutocrat sponsors* of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to suggest that it has any goals beyond imbuing corporate servitude, compliance, petty jingoism, and acceptance of austerity is nothing short of pernicious propaganda.
Certainly David Coleman and Co. coined their "four C's" well after the fact, and clearly this was in response to to cogent criticisms by actual educators including Susan Ohanian, Professor Stephen Krashen, and others.
- Common Core State [sic] Standards
- Stephen Krashen brings Common Core debate to pages of the Sunday New York Times in time for the testing debate at the AFT convention
- High Tech Testing on the Way: a 21st Century Boondoggle?
Everything in Corporate Core Curriculum is designed to discourage critical thinking skills, and this is why CCSS won't be required outside of public schools (eg. charters, parochial, and private schools). There definitely won't be any canned corporate curricula sponsored by the Gates Foundation inflicted on the children of privilege at schools like Sidwell Friends.
Like its fellow malignant projects "No Child Left Behind" and "Race to the Top," CCSS has goals directly aligned to neoliberalism:
- Cause the appearance that the public school school system is broken, and that market solutions (charters/vouchers) would fare better.
- Control the curriculum and combat any chance that "dangerous" curricula that might cause people to resist neoliberalism or question corporate dominance is taught.
- Further sort students by race and class, and further subject them to endless mind numbing test preparation. Ultimately discouraging any critical thinking skills in any class outside those running society.
- Serve as the perfect excuse for union busting and the total deprofessionalization of teaching. Ultimately leading to low cost, but highly profitable delivery of necessary information (informational texts anyone?) to those not deemed as needing critical thinking. Real teaching will continue to exist in the hallowed halls of elite private schools for scion of the ruling class.
- Obscene profits for charlatans like Pearson, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Gideon Stein, and everyone else associated with the diverse markets connected to school privatization, real estate, and the standardized-testing-industrial-complex.
We must resist Corporate Core by every means posible. Paris 1968 is a good model for us to follow. If we don't, we may as well begin writing our eulogies for public education today.
* I'm not saying Mr. Mindlin is working for one of them. He did, after all, say the so-called "four C's" were "allegedly" at the heart of CCSS.


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What is 2/8 divided by 59
So you want to divide your fraction 2/8 by your whole number 59, right? You're in the right place. In this simple walkthrough guide, we'll show you exactly what you need to do to divide any fraction by a whole number (it's super simple). Keep reading to find out!
If you've ready any of our fraction walkthroughs before, you'll know we always kick the show off with a quick recap for the kids. The number above the dividing line is the numerator, and the number below the line is the denominator. Simple stuff but sometimes we can all get a little forgetful!
To visualize the question we are trying to solve, let's put 2/8 and 59 side-by-side so it's easier to see:
So here is the incredibly easy way to figure out what 2/8 divided by 59 is. All we need to do here is keep the numerator exactly the same (2) and multiple the denominator by the whole number:
Can it possibly be that simply to divide a fraction by a whole number? Yup. I hate to disappoint you but this might be the easiest problem you've had to solve all day long!
In this particular case there is one slight adjustment we can make. The new fraction we have (2/472) can actually be simplified down to a smaller fraction:
You're done! You now know exactly how to calculate 2/8 divided by 59. Hopefully you understood the process and can use the same techniques to divide other fractions by whole numbers.
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Multimedia Support in the Linux Kernel
Kernel Sounds
We'll show you how to tune up your Linux system for multimedia applications.
In the late 1960s, "multimedia" was a new term connected typically to the work of artists such as Andy Warhol. Although Warhol was not the only artist working in this domain, his Exploding Plastic Inevitable performances defined the multimedia event. An EPI show simultaneously included film, projected images, dancers, music, recitations, and so on, for an effect calculated to overwhelm the senses. By comparison, the multimedia experience on your computer is relatively restrained, but it can be colorful and exciting.
A computer-based multimedia production comprises text, graphics, sound, and video, but these elements can be combined into a media-rich presentation, an interactive audio/video installation, or a stroke-inducing first-person action game. Each combination is a true multimedia production. Like the original multimedia events, they require abundant resources. Modern machines have plenty of drive space and RAM, fast CPUs, and powerful video capabilities, but modern multimedia software can test the performance envelope of even the most powerful desktop computer.
In this article, I look at the Linux kernel's integral support for the hardware and software required by machines intended for the production and presentation of rich media formats. Because of space limitations, I can only touch on some of the factors required to optimize that support, but I hope my efforts inspire you to compile your own media-optimized kernel. The source code is free, the build process isn't terribly complicated, and the results can yield a considerable improvement in audio and video performance.
Configuring the Kernel for Multimedia Machines
The Linux kernel provides support for multimedia with drivers for a variety of devices (sound cards, video boards, graphics tablets, etc.) and code for features of various motherboard chipsets. The kernel's openness and modularity invite extension by developers who want to add new capabilities to the existing kernel services.
Before you compile the kernel, you must configure its options, usually with the help of a menu-based utility that presents the configuration options and preferences in an organized GUI (Figure 1). The scope of this article is restricted to those parts of the kernel configuration that apply to the topic (i.e., support for multimedia), and the following descriptions and explanations assume some experience in compiling programs from source code. However, even if you're a complete novice, Google can direct you to text and video guides for the process. It's not terribly difficult, and if you're patient and thorough, it might be fun.
CPU Type
The first settings will be made in the Processor type and features section. The processor type is an easy choice, but if you're not sure what CPU is in your machine, just issue the uname -a command at a terminal prompt.
This tool will respond by listing various facts about your hardware and its operating system. For example, on my notebook, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 with a kernel patched for real-time operation. The uname utility reports the following information about my system:
dlphilp@maximus:~$ uname -a Linux maximus 2.6.27-3-rt #1 PREEMPT RT Mon Oct 27 03:05:19 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
From this report, I learn that my kernel is numbered 2.6.27-3-rt, that it's running on the first (#1) of a dual-core machine, and that it has been compiled for full preemption. Also, I know that my CPU type is an i686, a post-Pentium processor type. Actually, it's an AMD Turion-X2, configured as a single-core 32-bit i686 (with the CONFIG_X86 kernel option) so that I can use certain software that will not run on a dual-core 64-bit machine.
Kernel Timers
Successful multimedia performance of any kind is critically dependent on timing. Audio and video need tight synchronization, and sound needs to be free of dropouts and spurious noise. Fortunately, the modern Linux kernel provides the necessary components, but your distribution might not have the options enabled for those timers. To acquire the benefits of better timing, you might need to recompile your kernel.
The high-resolution timers option (CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS) enables a "tickless" system with a timing accuracy of about 1msec on most contemporary machines – a considerable improvement over the standard hertz-based timer resolution. Introduced in kernel 2.6.21, the tickless system reduces the load on the system clock by shutting off the timer interrupt (the tick) whenever the system idles. This process saves power on laptops and notebooks and improves multi-tasking performance. The option for high-resolution timers can be enabled without the tickless system, but in an optimal multimedia system, make sure that CONFIG_NO_HZ is set to true.
The high-performance event timer (HPET) was once known as the multimedia timer. According to its entry in Wikipedia, this timer "… can produce periodic interrupts at a much higher resolution than the RTC [real-time clock] and is often used to synchronize multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing the need to use other timestamp calculations." The option (CONFIG_HPET_TIMER) is machine dependent and will not work on older hardware or operating systems, including the Linux 2.4 series. It also requires the rtc-cmos driver instead of the traditional RTC driver discussed next.
Which of these timers should you use? On my JAD 1.0 box (openSUSE 10.2), the HPET and the high-resolution timer options are both compiled into the kernel. Clocks and timers operate transparently on Linux, so don't worry about loading modules or installing other control software. The kernel module loader handles everything. You did enable the support for loadable modules, didn't you?
At this point, I'll include a word about Ye Olde Way of configuring high-resolution timing at the kernel level. Users of pre-2.6 kernels might not have access to the new timers, but they can still set up their kernels for enhanced resolution. The CONFIG_HZ option allows frequency settings for 100, 250, and 1,000Hz, the last of which is the preferred resolution for any system running audio and MIDI applications. Conventional wisdom advises compiling the RTC driver, again a necessity for high-resolution audio and MIDI event timing. Note that the timer frequency option is available in the Processor type and features section of your kernel configuration, but the RTC driver is selected in the Device Drivers section.
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