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As expected, David Hasselhoff is returning to TV – and bringing his family.
The former "America's Got Talent" judge's latest small screen effort is a documentary series about himself and his daughters on A&E. The network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of the reality show, which will focus on the Hoff's real-life role as a single dad with daughters Taylor-Ann, 19, and Hayley, 17.
The show will document the sisters' goals of becoming professional singers.
"It's the dream of every parent to be able to help their children succeed," David said in a statement. "I told the girls that I would help them open the door when they are ready, but they would have to walk through it on their own. This is their time and I am excited to be a part of it by partnering with A&E and FremantleMedia on this new series."
FremantleMedia, which produces "American Idol," is handling the new show, which is currently untitled. It will debut later this year.
The star announced in January that he would be leaving his hosting gig for his own show. Former "Deal or No Deal" host Howie Mandel will replace him at the judges' table alongside Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne.
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I visited the Luxman/Vivid/Synergistic room several times during the show. I was amazed by the huge 3D soundstage there. Other rooms at the show sounded flat by comparison. During one of my visits Ted Denny of Synergistic Research demonstrated the effectiveness of his products by removing the Acoustic ART System from the room. I was shocked! The soundstage became flatter, less coherent, and unstable. I bought the Acoustic ART System then and there. Next he unplugged the PowerCell and the Active Shielding from the cables. At that point the entire system collapsed. This was not a subtle demonstration. In fact, without the Acoustic ART System in place and the PowerCell and Active Shielding turned on the system sounded mediocre at best. I've been an avid audiophile for over twenty years. During that time I've attended many a show but never have I witnessed such an impressive demonstration. Kudos to you Ted Denny for a job well done. I'll be looking into buying more of your gear.
Vivid Speakers
Luxman and Vivid distributor Philip O'Hanlon, of On A Higher Note, always has a great selection of music at Shows, and RMAF was no exception. With a system based on Vivid B1 stand-mounted speakers ($13,500/pair) driven by a Luxman 30Wpc class-A integrated amplifier via Synergistic Research cables, the sound of an open-reel dub of a Reference Recordings Malcolm Arnold orchestral piece was distinguished by an enormous, stable soundstage, and excellent dynamics, with superb resolution of low-level orchestral detail. But I just can't get used to the speaker's alien-pod appearance.
How is that possible, it all collapsed and became unstable? And exactly what are these Synergistic magic things doing anyway? So the Class A Luxman and these expensive speakers are not that good? It needs special attachments? Unstable could be the stands don't look large enough for the top heavy speakers?
I can't explain it, all I know is that the soundstage became less focused and more diffuse without the silly ART system in place.I absolutely hate audiophile "black magic" devices, but the fact remains that they DID improve the sound, and not just for psychological reasons. I WANTED the ART to make NO difference, but it DID. It wasn't subtle.That having been said the Vivid Audio B-1s sounded wonderful without it, the ART system just focused the soundstage and presentation _that_ much more. I suspect the unknown variable is how more conventional room treatments would have helped in the same environment.What I don't know is how much Synergistic is going to charge for it.
A few observations from someone whose feet are still sore from visiting every room at the show:1. Less then a hand full of rooms (3) at RMAF even came close to the room filling sound of the Luxman/Synergistic/Vivid room.2. Of those that did, all were high six figure systems.3. Of all the high six figure systems at the show, only a few got close to the modest Luxman/Synergistic/Vivid room. From my observations at the show I gather the synergy between the electronics, speakers, cables, line conditioning, and room acoustics were significant. After all, given the small size of the speakers, low powered integrated amp, and moderately priced components, the sound was amazing.
"In fact, without the Acoustic ART System in place and the PowerCell and Active Shielding turned on the system sounded mediocre at best." -- I have perceived, at any rate, various odd accessories make a difference to the sound, but if the system sounds "mediocre at best" without the esoterica then the entire breathless judgment is suspect.
The sound in this room was excellent and the impact of switching the various Synergistic Research products in and out of the system was much as described above.Personally, I would not characterize the sound of the Luxman/Vivid/SR system sans the SR devices as mediocre. It's just that the addition of the SR active shielding/Power Cell/ART improved the performance of this system to a level that belies the relative cost of these devices. I think one would be hardpressed to achieve at similiar level of performance improvement with the same investment in other products (assuming one's system is already capable of excellent sound reproduction).SR provides customers with the opportunity to try their products in their own systems prior to a purchase decision. Skeptics should do so - I think you will be very impressed.
No Snake oil here.... I went to the factory to hear the Acoustic ART System and the difference was amazing! The music I heard with the system was bass was tighter and all other frequencies focused and easy to listen to. Without the Acoustic ART System, the music and voices became less smooth and what seemed like a little harsh. Bass sounded a little more tubby. This Acoustic ART System is worth its weight! I bought one the next day!
Why is it that whenever someone posts a positive result anywhere, there are always these childish idiots who suddenly show up and shout 'shill! snake oil!' If you haven't heard the product, then shut the hell up already. Nothing better to do?


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Given that the series made NBA history with its third overtime game, it might take less time too.
The Celtics outlasted the Bulls 106-104 in another overtime classic Tuesday night at TD Banknorth Garden, taking a 3-2 series edge and grinding more nervous fans' teeth down in the process.
Any potentially necessary trip to the dentist is optional. Watching Thursday night's Game 6 at the United Center is not -- if drama is your thing.
Paul Pierce's 19-foot jumper with 3.4 seconds remaining -- his third straight over an isolated John Salmons -- won it for the defending NBA champions.
The Bulls blew their opportunity to tie when Brad Miller -- who might need a trip to the dentist -- missed the first of two free throws with two seconds left, then committed a violation when his second, intentional, miss didn't hit the rim.
Pierce missed two free throws with 1.3 seconds left, but Glen Davis grabbed the rebound on the second and the Bulls didn't have any timeouts anyway.
Pierce dribbled down most of the 24-second shot clock on his game-winner before moving to his right and calmly sinking the jumper when no double-team came.
"I thought about doubling a lot," coach Vinny Del Negro said. "He fades away and he's 6-8. He hit tough shots with hands in his face. That's what great players do. But we've come with single cover, bigs, littles. He has seen it all."
In NBA history, the winner of Game 5 from a series tied at 2-2 has gone on to prevail in the series 121 of 145 times, 83.4 percent.
The Bulls felt Miller drew a flagrant foul from Rajon Rondo with two seconds left. There also was some grumbling about Kendrick Perkins interfering with the basket on Miller's shot off a sweet inbound play that left Miller thundering down the lane all alone.
The officials huddled to discuss the call for several minutes as trainers attended to a woozy Miller, whose tooth cut his lip, requiring postgame stitches. But no call came.
"Absolutely," Miller said when asked if he thought it was a flagrant. "There was blood on the floor."
Said Del Negro: "Rondo didn't come near the ball. He came right across his face. I agree that it is a hard playoff foul, but you still have to call it a flagrant and I'm sure that will be addressed."
Ben Gordon, playing 51 minutes on a strained left hamstring, had tied the game 104-104 by making three free throws with 27.3 seconds left after drawing a foul on Tony Allen.
Rondo had a game-high 28 points while Gordon and Pierce each had 26 points.
"It was up to me to guard him down the stretch and he hit three good shots," Salmons said of Pierce.
The Bulls took their largest lead at 77-66 with 9:28 left in regulation when Gordon hustled back after a miss to block Eddie House's shot and Miller fed Joakim Noah (17 rebounds) inside for a layup.
The Bulls led 83-73 on Derrick Rose's jumper with 7:19 left when Boston ripped off a 9-0 run. But Ray Allen fouled out with 5:27 left when Miller suckered him into a double foul away from the ball.
The Bulls still led 91-87 on Rose's driving layup with 1:50 left before Rondo scored on a drive, Perkins blocked Salmons' shot and Pierce scored on the ensuing fast break to tie it.
Gordon's jumper with 16.6 seconds left pushed the Bulls back up by two. But Pierce, 7-for-18 at the time, sank a foul-line jumper over Rose with 10.5 seconds left to force overtime -- again -- after Gordon's jumper at the regulation buzzer wasn't close.
"We came in confident, and we're leaving confident," Salmons said. "We gave ourselves a chance. We just didn't pull it out."
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Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 91
Not Altogether Clear
IN reviewing the decision of the United
States Supreme Court, under date of
January 6, 1930, in the case of United Railways
and Electric Company of Baltimore
v. West, Chairman, et al (Public Service
Commission of Maryland), one cannot help
but be somewhat amused at an admission
of uncertainty expressed in the decision of
the Maryland Court of Appeals, from
which decision the case went up, on appeal,
to the United States Supreme Court.
The admission is found in the following
"Counsel for the commission suggests
that to restore value would be to 'require
the financing of additions to plant, to the
extent of the excess of replacement over
original cost of property replaced, by the
public, which would in turn have to pay
a return on the capital thus required.' The
meaning of that suggestion is not altogether
clear, but if it is that the company is entitled
to the return of anything less than
the value of its property it cannot be sustained.
Money deducted from earnings to
replace equipment which has become worn
out or obsolete, by other equipment of the
same character and the same value, adds
nothing to the company's resources, but
merely keeps them at the same level."
The argument of counsel for the Commission
is one of the best reasons yet advanced
for replacement costs. If it is granted that
the amount invested in five units of property
on the basis of original cost will purchase
but four units when the time to
replace arrives, and the utility will at that
time still require five units for efficient
service, let the corporation then borrow,
or increase its own capital investment
accordingly. There can be no objection
during the next depreciation cycle, under
the original cost theory, which then will be
applicable, to recovering the additional
amount invested from recipients of service
in that cycle. Ergo, why not extract, in
advance, from the present generation,
what it is estimated will be required
sometime in the future?
The decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States is interesting, but long. The
essence of the decision, from an accounting
point of view, is found in the following:
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Here is a protocol for a key exchange:
- Bob encrypts a message $m$ with his key $K_B$: $m_1 = E_{K_B}(m)$.
- Bob send the result $m_1$ to you.
- Alice encrypts my encrypted above message with her own key: $m_2 = E_{K_A}(m_1)$.
- Alice sends her encrypted message $m_2$ back to Bob.
- Bob decrypts this message with his key: $m_3 = D_{K_B}(m_2)$.
- Bob sends $m_3$ to Alice.
- Alice decrypts this with her key: $m_4 = D_{K_A}(m_3)$.
You can now read my original decrypted cipher text and we didn't need to exchange keys. A 'man in the middle' attack will not work if the algorithm is not a simple XOR-ing of plain text and key. The cipher used in this example has a complex, commutative algorithm.
Here is an example:
- starting with notepad text file containing one character, an
- bob's encryption key is an
- alice's encryption key is an
mis hex 6d 01101101.
Âis hex c2 11000010 which is 'm' encrypted by bob and then sent to alice.
$is hex 24 00100100 is Alice's encryption of
Âwhich bob decrypts to
Ïand sends to alice.
Ïis hex CF 11001111 which alice decrypts to 'm' with her key.
mis Alice's decrypt result.
MITM sees
Â, alice's message before her encryption.
MITM sees
$, Alice's message after her encryption.
MITM XORs
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00100100 $
11100110 æ
So, MITM's XOR result is the symbol
æ (E6 in hex). If MITM attack would have worked, he would have found
x (hex 78, binary 01111000) which is first letter of Alice's key.
This protocol seems much simpler than things like a Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
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Alexander Masters
Photo: © Andrew Grove
About the Author
Alexander Masters was born in New York in 1965 and studied physics and mathematics in London and Cambridge. For the last five years he has worked in hostels for the homeless and run a street newspaper. He has also been an agony aunt, a travel writer, an illustrator, and a bedspread salesman.


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FCC Publicly Backs Net Neutrality
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski reiterated his support of Net neutrality this week, pledging to go after anyone who violated its principles.
"One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is that this FCC will support Net neutrality and will enforce any violation of net neutrality principles," Genachowski told The Hill newspaper.
Net neutrality refers to the idea that the Internet should remain free and open--a company should not be able to get quicker or easier access to the Web just because it can afford to do so. The current debate is whether Congress should step in and legislate this principle or industry should self-regulate.
The article pointed to the FCC's ongoing battle with Comcast over network management. Under former chairman Kevin Martin, Comcast was hit with an enforcement action over its alleged blocking of P2P sites. The cable company is currently appealing the case.
Genachowski's backing of Net neutrality is not exactly new.
He issued support for the policy during his confirmation hearing, and examining Internet-related complaints is essentially his job. When the FCC talks about enforcement of "net neutrality principles," it's usually talking about its Internet Policy Principles, a set of four principles released by the agency in 2005 that serve as a framework for broadband Internet access. One of those principles seeks to "preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of the public Internet."
What's interesting is that Genachowski said that the FCC's general counsel is "working on the best legal strategy to defend its open Internet principles." During the Comcast inquiry, the cable company argued that since the Internet principles are not actual FCC rules, they carry no weight and cannot be enforced.
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yup only 4s max on my esc. If i get more cash later on this year i guess i'll pick up the 150a esc its a little bigger but not waterproof but that doesnt matter. I wont ever run 6s atleast i hope i dont lol.
its looks like you are going to build your self a XO-1 speed monster. gonna try out 6s with that?
Living life.
i'm going to transfer most of what i have on my rally GT8 that way i dont have to spend a whole lot, lol. so far i have spend $70 on parts and still need few more parts like the full under tray, rear bulkhead, reciever box/steering servo mount and center driveshaft assembly. probably looking at another $50-60 if i get lucky bidding off ebay. and not to mention the corvette body, thats another $63, oh darn!! hahahaha.
If i get a good deal i might try the MMM2 esc, cost comparsion right now is the HW 150a though of course i am seeing that HPI has the MMM cheaper than the castle and traxxas models i might give that a look.
good idea to transfer what you have i would do the same thing. 70 on parts is not bad, 50-60 is not bad either for those parts if you get lucky. now that corvette body on the other hand is pricey 63??? wow and you have to paint it as well?
If i get extra cash which more than likely i will after some issues here should be a bit of extra cash i get to spend after more lipos, psu's, charger additional maybe but more than likely and perhaps rpm a arms for emaxx and wheels for both merv and emaxx, ill get a rally maybe if it does good for a little offroading/onroading or i know one a SUMMIT always wanted it, ill take it with me to Yosemite and climb the hills there take like 4-6 lipos with me or i can run it on my house were getting out in the country maybe 1-3 acres.
Living life.
yeah looks like you get a good deal with buying them from a chop shop than straight from castle lol. i would'nt mind having the WP mamba2 atleast they bump the BEC to 7v from what i've heard.
figure since my rally GT8 is ox-1 ready... i may as well transform it lol. and yes i have to paint the body but i will not spend $120 for a painted one though lol.
if you have to build one which one would you pick, rally or summit?
BEC at 7v is nice mine is at i think 5-6v only and works fine so far the cooling fan is always on humming but its ok i know the esc is staying cool all the time.
Yup i seen that you have some xo-1 parts, heck no i wouldnt pay 120 for a painted one either even if money grew on trees lol.
well if i had to build one it would be for the purpose i would use it for so perhaps a summit since our house is going to be out in the country side right under the yosemite forest area. ill have plenty of room for maybe a small track to make ill have to buy a shovel hahaha to build it no tractor here! area has alot of hills and dips so a summit would be nice emaxx is going to be ok but the merv now im not sure maybe.
I'll have to invite you over when we have a house warming party and well take the trucks out and bash.
Living life.
i kinda know your going for the summit, i just have to ask lol. must be nice if you can go up there and have a blast all day with a summit, dont forget to get it on video, we dont wanna miss the action
thanks in advance for inviting me, i dont know if i have a truck to bash with you though lol.
i would go for rally if i was staying flat land mostly like in town but out there you need a truck higher off ground like the summit, i would go for e revo but nah i always liked the summit for the size.
ooh now i wont forget about the vids i might have to upload from phone dont know if i will have u verse out there maybe i hope i have wireless though its the only way we watch tv now on the tablet lol.
if i get the summit in time or if not you can use the emaxx its the only truck i have besides the merv which i can use ill make sure the grass is cut for the merv.
I plan to have alot of Bar B Q's will have to buy a new grill to i cant stand gas grills but i sure like the way they look.
Come to think about it you really enjoy building these and them either selling them or tearing them down and using the parts for a different chassis build you have went through 3 builds this last year alone that i can count maybe 4 now. and now there is going to be 5 whoa.
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i like them both the same. the rounded one is more of a shelf look but, i can tell you one thing they both dont rub the tires lol.
i tried it again, strapping 6s in there but, before that...... i did some changes to the car like, change to stiffier springs and cut half of the wing off for less drag. what a difference....... i manage to run it full throttle with ease. guess the Jato springs too soft for a heavy load my phone was set to record but i guess i did'nt press the button hard enough to record the run lol.
Lets see some pics of the trimmed wing....
I'm thinking I want to run mine on 6s at times but keep it mainly 4s.
Rock n Rolla !
What springs and shock oil you running now mate?? You have your car set up as a speedster...
Rock n Rolla !
i did'nt change the shock oil, just the springs from slayer.
That is 50W oil and Yellow F and Green R.... What wait diff oil...50K??
I can't wait to get a go on this build...your Rally build has made me excited and I've kinda lost interest in my eRevo at the moment.
I think your splitter/defuser has also made a difference to you running 6s .
Rock n Rolla !
i know 50K sounds thick to put on your diffs in a lighter car but it seems to work fine with me lol.
that indeed probably helps too, flowing air thru but i still think that their are still trap air at the rear side being open so i'm going to attemp the XO-1 GT8.
since i'm turning this into a XO-1 GT8...what's left over will be build back into a stock rally form with ford focus body, that way i can run it at the park near by while my boys playing at the playground having fun.
hey guys, i got bored and nothing to do so, i'm like why not take pictures of it hanging to see what i get with it lol. just to give you an idea of how well balance rally is with MMM/2200 with 4s lipo........here it is.
sorry for the not so clear pics i'm using my phone
yep, i'm slowly turning this back to its original form a Rally 1/10. so far i got the rear end put together and installed my revo slipper clutch along with the aluminum bearing adapter. my power plant is what i have in here before (losi Sct MMP/2800kv).
Is that a graphite center shaft?
Everything overpowered...
yeah mate, i got my rally GT8 into a stock form now and did'nt really like the soft suspension, body was scraping the ground so, i put back my revo GTR suspension.
i never noticed this but, when i bought my rally roller from ebay chop shop....i took it apart and never pay attention about the differencials.....one seems like it has lighter diff oil while the other one have a thicker oil to it. reason why i took it out.... is because i swap that out with my XO-1 diffs. anyway i'm just curious....is one of them with a lighter diff oil and one with thicker diff oil? and which diff goes where (front and rear). as of now, i have the lighter diff up front, seems to turn sharper too.
Yeah mate...lighter lube in the front increases steering into corners.
Stocks front 30K and rear 10K
Rock n Rolla !
took some pics also:
stock suspension with t-maxx upgraded springs at the rear
^^run it that night and the body were scraping the road. change it with my revo 3.3 suspension.
Nice...what foam bumper you running there mate??
Rock n Rolla !
Tell her you put it to good use...I've got my eye on a cutting board for $5 at the Big W store...I may just order an XO-1 foam bumper .
Rock n Rolla !
little update:
well, it has nothing to do with my rally but, hope it will help with others, anyway i bought this 2.4ghz reciever (2218) from here with damage antenna, i took my chances to get the signal back by doing what i did before with my other reciever peeling off the black skin about the same lenght as the exposed wire. underneath the black skin is a braided loom/wire and behind that is the actual wire.
here are the pics,
this is how i got it
peeled off but turns out the actual wire was severely damage so.......,
...cut it even shorter and do it over again...all done
heres how much wire taken out
heres my other reciever that i did before, thats what i have in my rally
both together
now binded to transmitter
Nice little bit of info there...thanks .
Rock n Rolla !
i miss my very first set-up. its just not the same as how it was, so i'm back to hunt parts for it. i want to compare the very first set-up to my XO-1, handling wise.
I like the bodies on your rally humayrayakongkinaon. Dude... Your name.... Killer! I'm guessing Samoan?
Awesome bodies on the rally. I know you get compliments all the time on them. By the way, if I had to choose a body for the Rally, I'd like to see an Audi body. Maybe an A3, since its a hatchback? Or we could go all the way and request an R8 body
"Incoming rounds always have the right of way!"
something like this,
its not mine
its an awesome body except its a 360mm wheelbase
Oh. Dannnng! NICE! I'd love to have a body designed for the Rally. Anyone in these forums know someone who's able to make bodies? I'm thinking an Audi RS3 Body? Something that would fit without the need to change out body posts.
The R 8 is sweet! But no way it's going offroad. But an RS3 body "Rallied" up a bit... Now we're talking
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Scott to succeed DeMint in Senate
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appointed tea party Rep. Tim Scott Monday to succeed resigning Sen. Jim DeMint, making him the first African-American Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate in more than three decades and the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction.
Race and history aside, Haley hailed Scott as a unique political talent with a keen understanding of business and "the value of a dollar."
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"What I will also tell you, and it is very important to me as a minority female, is that Congressman Scott earned this seat," Haley said at the state Capitol in Columbus, flanked by Scott, DeMint and other members of the congressional delegation. Haley is Indian-American.
"He earned this seat for the person that he is. He earned this seat for the results he has shown. He earned this seat for what I know he is going to do in making South Carolina and making our country proud."
The news conference was part welcome party for Scott, part send off for conservative icon DeMint, who is stepping down in January to become president of The Heritage Foundation.
"There is no one who can fill his shoes, there is no one who can carry on that torch," Haley said. "But I also think this is a new day."
( PHOTOS: Jim DeMint's career)
Haley's pick is a historic one. Scott, 47, who grew up poor in North Charleston, S.C., will become the first African-American senator from the South since the 1880s, as well as the only African-American in the chamber. Illinois Democrat Roland Burris, who was appointed to replace Barack Obama in the Senate, last served in the chamber in November 2010.
Scott's selection also gives the GOP a prominent African-American voice in the Senate just a month after the party suffered a drubbing at the polls among minority voters. Exit polls showed that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Obama.
"This is truly an historic moment for the Palmetto State from a governor who's broken more than a few barriers in her own career," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement.
Upon being introduced by Haley, Scott asked for a moment of silence for the victims of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., and praised his "Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ." He acknowledged his mother, Frances Scott, who was sitting in the audience and taught him that sometimes "love has to come at the end of a switch."
"My mother did not quit on me," he said.
As talks to avert the "fiscal cliff" continue, Scott signaled he would continue in the tradition of DeMint, drawing attention to the nation's $16 trillion debt.


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WALTHAM, Mass. — The Brandeis University baseball team sent 12 hitters to the plate in the bottom of the fourth inning, scoring eight runs in the process, and the Judges hung on for a 9-7 win over visiting Western New England University. Brandeis improves to 11-13 overall, 4-0 at home. WNE falls to 8-14.
The Judges strung together seven hits in the decisive inning, while also taking advantage of a costly error and a passed ball as well. Trailing 2-1 headed into the fourth, the first two Brandeis hitters singled and were bunted into scoring position. Junior shortstop Brian Allen (Concord, N.H./Central Catholic) followed with a two-run double just inside the third-base line that put the home team ahead, 3-2.
Golden Bear rookie pitcher Andrew Mulvey (Bristol, R.I./LaSalle Acad.) retired the next hitter, but Brandeis rookie catcher Connor Doyle (Avon, Conn./Avon Old Farms) reached on a miscue at third base, allowing the floodgates to open. Judge junior DH Tom McCarthy (Yonkers, N.Y./Fieldston School) singled to right to bring home Doyle. McCarthy advanced to third on successive wild pitches from Mulvey, when scored when reliever Brian Mazella (Windsor, Conn./Windsor) saw his first pitch get by for a passed ball.
After Mazella issued a walk, the next three Brandeis hitters singled, with senior 2B Dominic Schwartz (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell) bouncing one up the middle for an RBI and his second hit of the inning. Sophomore Sam Miller (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln-Sudbury) followed with a two-run pinch single to chase Mazella. WNE sophomore Matt Fedor (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) came on to end the inning with a strikeout, but the Golden Bears trailed 9-2.
The rest of the visitors' bullpen allowed them to climb back into the game, as Fedor, senior Brendan Nugent (Milford, Conn./St. Joseph) and sophomore Tom Mahoney (Granville, Mass./Southwick-Tolland Regional) held Brandeis to just two base-runners over the final four-and-a-third innings.
The Golden Bears cut the deficit to four runs by scoring three times in the sixth, highlighted by a two-run double to left by sophomore DH Doug Milne (Nesconset, N.Y./Smithtown East). Brandeis sophomore reliever Liam Coughlin (Townsend, Mass./Lowell Catholic) came in to get out of the inning with a strikeout. WNE scored single runs in the seventh and eighth, but could climb out of the big hole.
Brandeis had a pair of multiple hitters. Schwartz went 3-4 with two runs scored and an RBI, while McCarthy was 3-5 with a run and an RBI. Allen's two-run double was the only extra-base hit for the Judges. Senior Brian Ing (Sandwich, Mass./Sandwich) earned the win with 5.2 innings of work, allowing five runs (two earned) on seven hits. He moves to 2-1 on the season. Coughlin went 3.1 innings and allowed two earned runs on just three hits, striking out four. He did hit four batters in his outing.
WNE had four players with two hits each, led by Milne, who was 2-5 with two doubles, two runs scored and two RBI. Sophomore shortstop Kevin Marciano (Pepperell, Mass./North Middlesex Regional) was 2-5 with two RBI and a double.
Brandeis returns to action tomorrow against Bridgewater State University at 3 p.m. Western New England takes on Curry in a doubleheader Saturday at noon.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – UMBC track and field sophomore Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) has been named the America East All-Academic Team, the conference office announced on Wednesday.
This season, the Retriever distance runner placed fourth in the 800m run at the America East Championship finishing in a personal-best time of 1:52.98. His time places second on UMBC's all-time list for the 800m.
In the classroom, Smith has compiled a 3.57 during his first three semesters at UMBC, while working towards a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. He has earned a spot on the President's List once for having a 4.0 grade-point-average during the semester.
With the indoor season now complete, Smith and the track and field team now head outside. The Retrievers first spring competition will be Maryland Invitational held on Mar. 31, in College Park, Md.


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GREAT Britain Men made good use of their matches in the qualifying group of the 2014 European Championship, putting on three good performances against strong opposition as their preparations for this summer's Olympic Games continued.
The team, who travelled to Italy for the three matches straight from a three-week training camp in Serbia, got stronger as they went on, and only narrowly lost their last two matches, against Greece and Italy.
Steven Larsson once again proved Great Britain's top scorer with 18 goals over the three games, while Chris Mohr and Gawain Vincent both scored 13.
GB opened the tournament with a tough clash against eventual group winners Switzerland, and after a good first half which ended with GB only four goals behind at 12-16, they went down 21-38.
Against Greece the following day, GB proved stronger in the second half. But having been 13-21 down at the break they couldn't quite claw their way back, but did win the second period 17-14 to narrow the deficit to 30-35.
Finally, GB took on Italy, the team they beat during their tournament in Loughborough last year. But on home turf the Italians proved a tough opponent.
Nevertheless, GB battled well and were not overawed. 11-14 down at half time, they matched their hosts goal for goal in the second half and ended up losing narrowly 26-29.
* GB men now enter a vital phase of their Olympic preparations.
Players have now returned home to their families for a short break where they will also focus on individual fitness programmes.
They return to Serbia on June 25 for more intensive training and will take on the Serbian Under-21 side on June 30, as well as playing the Hungarian national side on July 12.
From Serbia the team will head to the Team GB holding camp at Loughborough University on July 16 where they will join up with the GB Women's team and athletes from other sports before heading to the Olympic Village on July 23. They will then have one last friendly match against Serbia on July 26 before the Olympic tournament begins.
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Not All Screen Time is Wasted Time...Even in the Summer
Ah, summer. The beach, sunscreen, kickball in the street, plenty of time to wander the neighborhood with a best friend. Oh, wait. That was my childhood. My own teens seem to see summer as a time to stay in and stare at a screen. And that means I'm working from home to see that they don't do that. But not all screen-staring is bad. In fact, here are a couple of sites I'm encouraging my teens to stare at.
My daughter Ava took guitar lessons for a couple of years. She enjoys music but the lessons were a hassle. We drove across town at the end of the day at a time when she was tired and I needed to make dinner so we could spend 30 minutes in a lesson. Getting there and back took longer than the lesson. When she wanted to quit, I didn't put up much of a fight. But she likes music and needs a teacher. So when TakeLessons.com sent me a note to explain that this service would help me find a local teacher, I checked it out -- hoping for one she could walk to. Takelessons.com didn't have a teacher near me. But it did have a better option: virtual music lessons. I quickly roped Ava into trying it. She loved the idea and sat down in front of her laptop with her guitar at the scheduled hour. She met up with her teacher, Gordie, on Skype. He asked a few questions about her ability, tested her answers by asking her to play. And when he'd judged her level, asked her what she wanted to learn. She immediately named her two favorite songs "Therapy" and "Lullabies" by All Time Low. Gordie, unfazed by this not-a-classic request, impressed us both by Googling the songs, listening to a few bars, determining which of the two she might be able to play, and breaking it down into cords for her -- all in just a few minutes. He threw some fingering cords up on her screen and walked her through the easier of the two songs until she could play it passably well. He told her she would have to learn a new cord, which he showed her, to master the other song. And the two said goodbye and signed off. I didn't have to drive anywhere! I didn't even put on shoes. It was cheaper than our in-town lessons and the instructor was better. And the lesson took only as long as the lesson, no traffic jams. But it had another benefit beyond those obvious ones. Ava didn't have to jump up, pack her stuff, and get in the car when the lesson was over. So she kept right on playing for another hour until she had mastered that cord. Now she wants another lessons so she can learn her other favorite song. That's screen time I will gladly pony up for -- once a week. TakeLessons.com, 30 min: $20
Google Maker Camp
Summer camp can be expensive and require a lot of driving to and from. I just can't do that every week in the summer, much as I like that it when my kids get out and do something productive. But if they stay in and do something productive, I don't have to worry about the heat, transportation, or paying for camp. To that end, Google and MAKE magazine launched Maker Camp, a free virtual summer camp for teens aged 13-18 years. It started Monday and runs through August 16 on Google+. It's bound to appeal to this age set: Aside from it involving their favorite screen-staring activity, it's just a bit geeky and will have them building DIY projects to trick out their bike, build a rocket-propelled toy car, or play with computers. Every week they post new projects so, it's a great, ongoing answer to that idle lament of summer, "I'm bored!" And it's not just canned videos. It's led by a team of DIY obsessed counselors. Kids follow along at home using Google Hangout's video chat feature. All they need is a computer with an Internet connection. Every week ends with Field Trip Friday -- a virtual field trip conducted via Google+ Hangout (past trips include NASA and Ford's Innovation Lab).
Maker Camp, free
Christina Tynan-Wood writes the Family Tech column for Family Circle, and is the author of "How to Be a Geek Goddess." You can find her at GeekGirlfriends.com.


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Sandy Hook is made for an idyllic childhood
SANDY HOOK, Conn.
- This town is made for children with its sledding hills, expansive parks and sprawling backyards. A toy shop and two children's clothing stores front the main street, sharing a parking lot with a children's music school. An orthodontist bedecks his office in Christmas lights and places a red "Letters to Santa" mailbox on his front lawn.
In the Lanzas' neighborhood, the devotion to idyllic childhood is even more apparent. Lushly landscaped yards make room for child-sized basketball hoops, soccer nets and swing sets. On Yogananda Street, where Adam Lanza lived with his mother and brother, the children gather in groups each morning to wait for the school bus -- the high-schoolers at 6:30 a.m., the middle-schoolers at 7:30 a.m. and the littlest ones at 8:30 a.m.
So it is puzzling to the neighbors that so few of them knew Adam Lanza or had ever seen him.
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When the Strocchia family picked what father Len calls "the quintessential New England town" for his family, it was precisely for the schools and the tight-knit community. When the Strocchias moved onto Yogananda six years ago, the neighbors threw a barbecue to welcome them. Their daughter, Samantha, 12, went to Sandy Hook Elementary and remains friends with children who were in her class then.
Yet they never met the Lanzas who lived just down the street.
"It's a mystery. Nobody knows them, which is odd for this neighborhood," Len Strocchia said. "Everyone knows each other through the children, the school bus. The community here is kids."
That's why mother Jo Jo Strocchia said she was bracing herself for the names to come. She said she knows she'll know someone.
"I can see all the little kids waiting for their bus with the little tiny backpacks," she said. "It's just heartbreaking. I don't know how the parents will find any comfort. There are fates worse than death, and this is one of them."
Signs of death have mushroomed through the picturesque town of white clapboard houses and wide front porches. State trooper cars mark the driveways of the victims' homes, and flags are flying at half staff. Memorials of stuffed animals and balloons have multiplied.
Still, though, children walk dogs past towering pines and low stone walls adorned with red velvet bows and pine cones.
"It's inconceivable that in such a scenic and serene place that someone could conceive of something like this," said Magda Szabo, who lives around the corner from the Lanzas but never met them. "It's safe here, very family-oriented, friendly."
Dave Lapp moved with his family to the neighborhood 12 years ago from the West Coast. His children, now in high school, attended Sandy Hook Elementary. The school, he said, had "terrific teachers and a healthy environment."
"We selected the community because of the school system and what it offered," he said. "We never worried about safety. We've had one homicide in a decade."
The FBI and Connecticut State Police talked to the neighbors Friday night, he said. He had little to tell them.
"We walked by their house with the dog every day, and we don't know them. We've never even seen them and they are literally around the corner," Lapp said.
He hopes the community will be able to recapture the childhood joy it embodied for decades before Dec. 14. He hopes when the snow comes, the children will return to sled on their hill.
"We don't want to be remembered like a Columbine," he said.


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What Draft Horses Teach College Students
The students at Sterling College learn from demanding teachers—like a stubborn, 2,000-pound draft horse or the campus cows, which need water even on a 20-below-zero Vermont morning when the trough is frozen solid.
Sterling is part of a seven-school consortium that requires students to take practical jobs, such as working on the college's farm, in its kitchen or offices, or as a mentor to children or seniors.
The students gain a connection to the community, feel an investment in the school, and approach their education as equals with the college staff.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jawbone acquired BodyMedia Inc, the maker of weight-monitoring arm bands, for more than $100 million, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The deal will help Jawbone's efforts to bolster its position in the wearable technology market, with nearly 300 pending and issued patents, the company said on Tuesday. Pittsburgh-based BodyMedia's 60 employees will join Jawbone as part of the deal.
Jawbone, which is based in San Francisco, did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction, but a person close to the company said the deal was for "north of $100 million."
Jawbone also announced a program on Tuesday to allow third-party software developers to create apps for its UP wristband, which tracks daily activity such as steps taken or hours slept. Jawbone will initially allow a limited group of 10 developers to create applications that enhance the wristband with features such as logging a bike ride or delivering workout reminders.
Jawbone, which also makes wireless headsets for mobile phones, has raised more than $210 million in funding to date. In its most recent funding round, in December 2011, the company raised $40 million from Deutsche Telekom, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and private investor Yuri Milner.
Wearable computing is increasingly attracting the attention of large and small technology companies. Google Inc is preparing to release Google Glass, a small screen attached to a pair of eyeglass frames that offers various smartphone-like features. Apple Inc is widely reported to be working on a wristwatch with a variety of high-tech features.
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|September 20, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Dear Mr. McBride,
Recently you wrote an "open letter to the open source community" published September 9, 2003 by LinuxWorld. This reply is from a group within the open source / free software community. Because you addressed your letter to our community-at-large, we thought we should answer you ourselves.
Our community isn't organized hierarchically like a corporation, so it has no CEO or overall leader in that sense, except that Linus Torvalds leads Linux kernel development and Richard Stallman leads the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF). We have written this letter together on the website Groklaw, which is a research and news site currently dedicated to covering developments in the news about your company.
Quite a number in the group are software engineers, including contributors to the Linux kernel. Others are proprietors of Linux-based businesses or executives or employees of Linux-related businesses. A few of us are lawyers, one is a paralegal, one a stockbroker, at least one is a physicist, a couple are journalists, one is a retired policeman, another a retired truck driver, others are in or have been in the military, and some work or have worked in government. We also have experienced UNIX programmers among us who personally witnessed the history of UNIX since its inception, participated in its development, and know the software well. One of us is a non-technical grandmother who installed GNU/Linux herself recently and fell in love with the software. We are a large, international and varied group of people, which is appropriate because GNU/Linux is developed and used worldwide and the open source community to which you directed your letter is both global and diverse.
Our first purpose in writing to you is to draw to your attention that there are consequences to violating the GNU General Public License, the GPL.
You have continued to distribute the Linux kernel, despite alleging that it contains infringing source code. Simultaneously, you are attempting to compel purchase of "Linux Intellectual Property" licenses for binary-only use, the terms of which are incompatible with freedoms granted under the GPL.
According to the GPL, any violation of its license terms automatically and immediately terminates your permission to modify or distribute the software or derivative works. Note the wording of the GPL:
"4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
"5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it."
Releasing software under the GPL is not the same as releasing it into the public domain. Authors retain their copyrights to software licensed under the GPL. Even when authors assign their copyrights to someone else, such as to the Free Software Foundation, the copyrights remain valid, but with the new owner. Therefore, subsequent to termination of your permissions under the GPL, you are in the unhappy position of violating the copyrights of the software authors, if you continue to distribute their software. Under copyright law, you are not allowed to distribute at all without their permission -- and they have chosen to grant that permission only by means of the GPL.
With regard to the invoices you have said you will mail out by October 15, we caution you that we believe that any such action will expose you to civil lawsuits under both federal and state consumer protection laws, as well as to possible criminal prosecution and penalties should state and federal agencies, attorneys general, and district attorneys decide to get involved, which we fully intend to ask them to do upon receipt of any invoice from you.
For just one example of state consumer protection laws, we suggest that you read Article 22-A of New York's General Business Law, Sections 349 and 350. Similar laws are on the books in other states. The Linux kernel developers also have copyright law to rely upon to protect their rights. Linux-based businesses may also avail themselves of other commercial laws, such as trade libel law.
Should we receive invoices from you, we will initiate civil actions under the anti-fraud and consumer protection statutes wherever we live, according to our respective circumstances. We also intend to contact our state attorneys general to request that they seek criminal as well as civil penalties against you, in addition to injunctive relief. In addition, we will file complaints with the FTC and other federal and state agencies, as appropriate. Some individuals have already sent letters to legislators in their respective states and in Washington, DC.
We purchased GNU/Linux software in good faith, and we chose it precisely because it is released under the GPL. We will not accept your attempt to charge us a second time for a product that we have already bought and paid for, most of us from vendors other than yourself. Furthermore, we accept no license other than the GPL for GNU/Linux software. For one reason, it is the permission to modify our software that we treasure. Here is how the GPL FAQ explains the value of being able to modify software:
"A crucial aspect of free software is that users are free to cooperate. It is absolutely essential to permit users who wish to help each other to share their bug fixes and improvements with other users."
This is one key to the justly renowned stability and security of GNU/Linux software, and we have no intention of reverting back to the Dark Ages of binary-only software permissions, having already made the conscious and informed decision to escape from and avoid such like the plague.
Despite the false impression you attempt to paint in your letter -- that we are a lawless community that doesn't respect copyright law -- we wish to inform you that we do believe in copyright law. It is the legal foundation upon which the GPL is built, and we rely upon it to protect our rights. If the Linux kernel developers didn't believe in copyright, they would have released their software into the public domain instead of choosing to license it under the GPL.
You are required by law to respect the Linux kernel authors' copyrights, as well as the license they chose to use, the GPL. It is hypocritical to complain of alleged violations of your copyrights and licenses while at the same time disregarding the equivalent legal rights of others.
You have refused to show us, much less prove, any infringing source code. If you showed source code that proved to be infringing, it would be immediately removed. Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and the FSF's attorney, Eben Moglen, have each told you so repeatedly as men of honor. You refuse to let that happen. Why? It appears to us it is because you have no infringing source code to show.
Your most recently filed 10Q shows your UNIX business declining, even as Linux continues to grow in market acceptance. If you are refusing to show the source code to prevent its removal because you wish to charge a perpetual toll, in effect riding on the coattails of the more successful GNU/Linux software, that is a shameful tactic. You cannot compel Linux developers to retain your source code, even if any infringing code existed. An alleged infringement is curable by removing the infringing source code. If you can identify any infringing source code, please do so, prove it is infringing, and let us remove it, because we surely do not want it.
Even more shameful would be to try to destroy, co-opt, or make proprietary, the labor of thousands of good-hearted volunteers who did not volunteer to work for you, do not wish to be exploited by you for your monetary gain, and have already chosen to release their creative work under the GPL.
If your concern is that evidence will be removed before your claims against IBM and its counterclaims against you can be heard in court, that is a baseless concern, because the Linux source code is and always will be publicly available for review by any court. Secrecy is not an option under copyright law. If you make allegations of copyright infringement, you must offer proof.
We do not need or want your legacy UNIX source code. It would be a violation of the GPL to accept proprietary source code into the Linux kernel. If there is proprietary source code in the kernel, we want it removed just as badly as you do, perhaps more so, because we believe in the GPL. Just because people will not walk through your front door to buy your software, you have no right to compel them to pay you through the back door for what they did not voluntarily choose to buy. You must, therefore, try to find a viable business model without our compelled participation.
Any claims you may have against IBM are between you and IBM. It is a contractual dispute to which we are not parties. If you have any valid contractual claims, they will be settled in a court of law, but your remedies in that dispute lie with IBM and IBM alone, not with Linux users. Even if some misappropriation were to be established, you cannot collect twice for the same transgression. Further, we note that to date you have filed no copyright claims against either IBM or Red Hat.
Since the beginning of this year, you have claimed that there is infringing source code taken from your version of UNIX and illegally donated to Linux. But when two examples were shown at SCOForum, neither supported your allegations. For six months, we have listened to analysts say that some source code appeared similar, if not identical. Yet what both they and you failed to investigate and determine is where that source code originated, how and by whom it was added to the software at issue, to whom it now belongs, and who is allowed to use it.
There is BSD source code in Linux which is legally there, and it will, of course, be identical to or similar to BSD source code in your software. The BSDi lawsuit revealed that the AT&T source codebase includes a great deal of BSD source code. Caldera itself also later released "Ancient UNIX" source code under a BSD-like license. Consequently SysV contains substantial amounts of source code that SCO and others have already licensed for use and that the open source / free software community may legally use.
It took only a day or so for the source code shown at SCOForum to begin to be identified by members of the open source community. If we do not police source code effectively, as you claim, why were they able to so quickly identify the code? You, in contrast, had no idea where that source code came from, or to whom it belonged, or you surely would not have used it to attempt to prove "infringement" of "your" source code. The evidence indicates it is your due diligence system that is broken, not ours.
If the legal departments of corporations represent to Linus Torvalds that they have ownership rights to source code they donate, what more can reasonably be expected? Do you have methods in place to prevent GPL source code from being improperly inserted into your proprietary software? Would you be willing to allow us to check for such violations? We particularly wish to check your Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) source code. We suspect that there may be GPL source code taken from the Linux kernel and used in LKP without authorization, and we challenge you to prove this has not happened by showing us your LKP source code, throughout its complete development history to date.
Any proprietary software company can police its own source code in Linux by checking the Linux source code. The Linux kernel is open to the public. If you see any source code that you believe is yours, you have only to speak up, and it will be immediately removed, upon confirmation that it is infringing. That is what you should have done. It's a superior feature in the open source method that all you need to do is your own due diligence. Any interested party can verify that no copyright infringements are taking place, simply by looking at the published source code. This creates strong incentives for honesty and provides far greater protection for copyright holders than your proprietary system, where source code can be misappropriated and hidden and no one can check for it, short of a lawsuit. Perhaps that is why proprietary software companies are so often locked in legal battles, something you rarely see in the open source / free software community.
With regard to broken systems, how could it happen that while working with the Linux kernel source code for years -- and your company did -- you never noticed any infringing source code? And how do you explain that you released the allegedly infringing source code in your own distributions of Linux for years without noticing it was in there?
If Linux did contain infringing UNIX source code that you failed to notice for years, or noticed but did nothing to prevent, despite the fact that the Linux source code was freely available at any time for your review, it raises questions about your internal processes and procedures for protecting your copyrights rather than demonstrating any purported "breakdown" in the open source methodology.
Anyone considering surreptitiously inserting proprietary software source code into Linux knows they would be quickly discovered and identified by name. That is your indemnification and your protection. We believe our system for policing source code is far more exacting and successful than your own.
On the subject of indemnification, we note that the software license which you propose to sell does not offer indemnification from lawsuits brought by other companies. And we think we should inform you that warranties are permitted under the GPL:
"1. . . .You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."
We do not feel we need it; the open source method protects us sufficiently, but it is certainly negotiable if we wish to pay for it.
Proprietary software companies regularly file lawsuits against each other for copyright infringement, patent and trademark violations. Microsoft has been found guilty recently in several cases, but despite the fact that the GNU Project was begun in 1984 and Linus Torvalds began the Linux kernel in 1991, there has never been a claim of copyright infringement that we know of in all those years, let alone a finding of guilt. The record shows which method has done a better job of policing source code, which reveals that your call for indemnification is, to put it bluntly, FUD.
With regard to your talk of having experienced a DDoS attack and your request that we aggessively police the community, your request is like us asking you to police Microsoft to ensure it never again breaks antitrust law or never again violates anyone's patents, trademarks, or copyrights.
Just because you are both proprietary software companies, it doesn't follow that you can control what Microsoft does or should be criticized as if you condoned their actions just because you are in the same proprietary camp. Whether it is individuals or companies that break a law, it is wrong, but it reflects only on the individual perpetrator. We expect you to make that distinction for us, as we do for you.
There is a legal process for such matters. Not everyone accepts as established fact that there was an attack. The doubt is based on the fact that your employees were quoted as saying that reports of an attack were untrue and that you took your servers down for maintenance yourself and then had trouble getting them back up again. We observed that the "attack" kept business hours, Utah time, for much of that week. If the information your employees provided was false and there was in fact a network denial of service attack on your servers, we naturally abhor such behavior. Your implication that we would feel otherwise is deeply insulting and offensive.
We would think, however, that a capable information technology company that sells web services software would have the technical know-how to handle a DDoS attack, if that is really what happened. Most such companies do handle them without being brought to their knees for a week. We are glad that you say you have since learned technical steps you can take to protect yourself in the future.
Kindly bring up-to-date your concept of the people and organizations that make up the open source community. Your letter attempted to portray us as a counter-cultural fringe element. On the contrary, the truth is that our community is very much in the mainstream already and includes many of the largest and most successful businesses today, including IBM, Red Hat, Merrill Lynch, Lucent Technologies, Unilever, Verisign, Dell, Amazon, Google, Dreamworks, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the US Department of Defense, the US military, and many other federal, state, and local governments and governmental agencies, including, by the way, the town of St. George, Utah.
You can read a list of companies and governmental agencies that use GNU/Linux at Linux International's "Linux Success Stories" webpage. The Linux Documentation Project also has such a webpage, called "Powered by Linux!", as does the Linux in Business website. The Linux Counter calculates there are currently 18 million users of GNU/Linux software.
With so many businesses, educational institutions, governmental organizations, and individual users switching to our software, we must be doing something right.
Your inability to make your Linux business a success, while unfortunate for you, parallels your company's failure to make your UNIX business a success. Perhaps the problem isn't Linux, the GPL, or the open source business model.
Economist Amy Wohl is of the opinion that "The Open Source Community Has a Business Model" and one that is successful. Ms. Wohl is an analyst who has been covering IT for nearly 30 years and who currently comments on the commercialization of new and emerging technology. Here are her comments, which we include with her kind permission:
"As an economist, let me assure you that Open Source has a business model. It simply isn't one that a traditional company like SCO, which expects to be paid for source code, can figure out. There are still lots of companies that can charge for source code, but only when the source code they are offering is valued by customers because it is unique or convenient or offers other recognized value. Other companies (IBM is a good example) charge for their Linux-compatible middleware source code, but honor the Open Source community by supporting it with technical and financial assistance and by strongly supporting the open standards that permit customers to choose to use Open Source code when they prefer it and purchased source code when they find it, for whatever reason, more valuable. Then, as many posters have noted, IBM extends its business model into the future by providing services to help customers plan, design, implement, and customize whatever combinations of hardware, open source, and proprietary code the customer prefers.
"That is the new business model and it seems to be a very successful one."
We suggest that you ask your attorneys to explain the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) to you. If they are not familiar with the LGPL, contact the Free Software Foundation, and they can help you to resolve your misunderstanding and confusion about the GPL and how it works and can explain to you how the LGPL can help your business to thrive, should you insist on continuing with the old proprietary software business model. Companies such as MySQL distribute software simultaneously under both open source and proprietary licenses, a practice that is acceptable, if not ideal, under the GPL.
It is not a violation of the GPL to sell software released under that license. As the GPL FAQ points out, "The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software." The "free" in free software refers to freedom, not that you can get it gratis. Many of us have paid for our free software, simply because it's more convenient than downloading it or as a way to thank the wonderful folks who developed and shared it with the world. If you're looking for a successful business model, you might consider the tried and true model of satisfied customers.
We have prepared a research document with links to evidence supporting our position and other resources that you may find helpful, including information about the GPL and the LGPL and how they work. The Inquirer is making our research document available online. We hope it will help you understand our position better and prove a useful resource to you and others interested in this controversy. We also believe it demonstrates that we have right on our side and that we will win.
Thank you for writing to us. We appreciate the opportunity to answer your letter. We trust you will give our response due consideration. Thank you for your time.
Members of The Open Source / Free Software Community at Groklaw
Copyright © Groklaw, 2003 Verbatim copying of this letter is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
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One wonders if the Obama public relations team is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, whether Charles Krauthammer is inside their head, or whether Krauthammer has put them on the verge of a nervous breakdown. (Perhaps Dr. Krauthammer can draw on his psychiatric training to opine on that question.)
In his weekly Washington Post column yesterday Krauthammer noted that "Obama started his presidency by returning to the British Embassy the bust of Winston Churchill that had graced the Oval Office." Doesn't everybody know that? It was widely reported at the time. I thought Obama was proud of it.
As Noah Rothman reports at Mediaite, however, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer immediately denied this rather well known fact and disparaged Krauthammer for repeating a "rumor" that was "ridiculous" and "patently false." Pfeiffer posted his purported fact check of Krauthammer on the White House blog:
Now, normally we wouldn't address a rumor that's so patently false, but just this morning the Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer repeated this ridiculous claim in his column. He said President Obama "started his Presidency by returning to the British Embassy the bust of Winston Churchill that had graced the Oval Office."
This is 100% false. The bust still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room.
You can read the rest of the story at Mediaite, but let's cut to Mediaite's admirably concise update: "The British embassy confirms that Krauthammer was correct." Or, as our friends at Twitchy have it, "Busted: Dan Pfeiffer's 'Fact Check' about Winston Churchill bust is 100% false."
STEVE adds: Here's the Newsweek article about this from 2009, entitled "Busted: The Churchill Flap," in which I was quoted somewhat strangely (I told the reporter that this was a clear sign that Obama had no regard for the "special relationship"):
But the British press, as is its wont, smells a snub. The Telegraph speculated that British diplomats' pulse rates would soar, while The Times of London wondered if a shadow had been cast over the special U.S.–U.K. relationship. A spokesperson for the British embassy, though, threw cold tea on the notion, pointing out British politician David Miliband was the first foreign minister to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Maybe it's no surprise that Obama wouldn't want Churchill watching over his shoulder. After all, it was Churchill who, in 1952, ordered a crackdown on the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule in Kenya, Obama's ancestral homeland. Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was labeled a subversive during the uprising and spent months in detention.
Churchill expert Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute thinks the average Briton will be unfazed by the bust's return, saying that folks across the pond have always been puzzled by American fondness for Churchill.
I wonder if there is a bust of someone else outside the Treaty Room–Nelson Mandela perhaps?–that Pfeiffer mistook for Churchill? Given the monumental ignorance of the Obama crowd on so many things, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
STEVE adds more: Oh, good grief! It turns out there are two Churchill busts! Jake Tapper of ABC reports that there's a second Churchill bust that has been in the White House since the Johnson administration. This is the one that is still there. But Krauthammer is right: Obama ostentatiously returned the Oval Office bust to the British embassy (so Pfeiffer is still Pfull of you know what), and did nothing at the time to knock down the interpretation that it was a deliberate slight.