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December 21, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on MITO Corp. to Supply Prodigy One to OEMs
DIRECTUS, a Tatmar Technologies company based in Linden, Mich., and industry leader in 12-volt automotive and mobile electronics, has announced the appointment of MITO Corp. as the exclusive partner for the award winning Prodigy One system for the RV, marine, school bus, transit bus, tour bus, specialty vehicle, custom golf cart, van conversion and linousine industries.
With this appointment, MITO will begin supplying DIRECTUS Prodigy One systems to several RV manufactures and OEM specialty customizers throughout North America, according to a news release.
The Prodigy Series of systems is the first multifunctional automotive grade plug and play device that brings navigation, safety, connectivity and entertainment into one device, utilizing the capable Windows CE operating system. The Prodigy One allows users to have a single navigation, media and information source within a small, compact unit that integrates easily into many OEM and entertainment aftermarket radio or mirror display systems that are standard equipment on recreational vehicles.
"Joining forces with MITO Corp. is another huge strategic partnership for DIRECTUS," said DIRECTUS CEO Brad Chapple. "This is a whole new industry vertical for DIRECTUS and having a partner like MITO who has been a leading supplier and has a long standing history in this market is a great move for all."
DIRECTUS released the Prodigy One Series at the 2010 SEMA show, winning the coveted "SEMA Best New Mobile Electronics Product" award for 2011.
"Prodigy One will bring a whole new level of functionality to RV customers that want to add features and functionality that have not been available within the RV industry in the past," stated Chapple.
"We are proud to be aligned with such an innovative product line for our industry," said Dan Maloney, vice president of sales at MITO. "DIRECTUS will provide many sought after solutions including multiple touch screen monitors allowing the copilot full control of the navigation system."
MITO Corp. is a 35-year-old company that supplies high-quality electronic products and accessories to the OEM RV, marine and specialty vehicle industries.
They can be contacted by phone (888-433-6486) or over the Internet at http://www.mito-OEM.com.


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Yes, Getting The US Government Out Of 'Managing' Internet Domain Governance Is A Good Thing
from the moving-on dept
A key part of the Commerce Department's "transition" plan was that it would basically erase the almost entirely imaginary link between IANA and the Commerce Department, but only if a plan was created that kept IANA independent and not as a part of the UN or any organization that would lead to mostly government control, as opposed to what everyone (unfortunately) likes to call a "multistakeholder process" (which just means not just government in the room). And with that plan in place, the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) has now come out in support of this plan.
The U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today that the proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder community meets the criteria NTIA outlined in March 2014 when it stated its intent to transition the U.S. Government's stewardship role for the Internet domain name system (DNS) technical functions, known as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.Now, you would think that "small government" types would be happy about the US government completing its "privatization" of internet governance. But, that's because many "small government" types are only small government types when it suits them. Senate Ted Cruz and Rep. Sean Duffy have rushed out a bill, called the "Protecting Internet Freedom Act" that would block the Commerce Department from completing the privatization of the internet. This is both silly and counterproductive.
The announcement marks an important milestone in the U.S. Government's effort to complete the transition of the Internet's domain name system and ensure that the Internet remains a platform for innovation, economic growth, and free speech.
For the last 18 years, the United States has worked with businesses, technical experts, governments, and civil society groups to establish a multistakeholder, private-sector led system for the global coordination of the DNS. To accomplish this goal, in 1998, NTIA partnered with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based nonprofit, to transition technical DNS coordination and management functions to the private sector. In 2014, NTIA initiated the final step in the privatization process by asking ICANN to convene global stakeholders to develop a plan to complete the transition away from NTIA's remaining legacy role.
The Commerce Department's flimsy and never really used "control" over NTIA is basically meaningless yet it's frequently used by foreign governments and the ITU/UN as a reason for taking complete control over the IANA process. And that's only ramped up in recent years due to concerns about the NSA and surveillance. In other words, the US having any official control over internet governance is actually helping authoritarian governments by making the argument that US "control" over the internet is only helping the NSA. By separating IANA from the US government, but keeping the overall process as one that is not controlled by any government, you actually have a better chance of keeping the internet functioning in an open manner. Leaving it under the US government control, no matter how flimsy that link really is, only gives foreign governments useful fodder for a more complete move to take over control themselves.
Eli Dourado, who has spent a ton of time digging into and being involved in internet governance issues, has a great and detailed post about why this transition is a good thing and should be supported. It has all of the relevant history here (including my favorite point about how prior to ICANN, the IANA functions were controlled one dude, Jon Postel, who more or less declared himself the czar over how the domain name system was managed). But he also gets directly to the point: Congress forcing the US government to keep this "control" over IANA would do much more harm than good:
In truth, authoritarian regimes would love nothing more than to see the IANA transition fail. It would give them another shot at taking the issue to the ITU, this time with the added ammunition of pointing out that the United States does not keep its word regarding Internet governance. Oddly, this places Cruz and Duffy on the same side as Russia and China, against the world's democracies, the Obama administration, sober Republicans, virtually every US tech company, the Internet Society, and virtually every freedom-loving intellectual or activist I have met who has participated on a US delegation to the ITU.Separately, he also points out that for all the hype over this, the IANA function is actually not nearly as important as some make it out to be. The US government losing whatever sense of "control" it had over it is unlikely to have a huge impact on the internet itself. So the "costs" to this transition are basically nil. The cost to keeping the paper control in place, however, may be very large, in that it provides tremendous ammunition to foreign authoritarian regimes to push for much more extreme changes to internet governance that would be much, much worse.


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PORTLAND, Ore. — Yani Tseng moved into position to end a long victory drought, shooting a 9-under 63 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the Safeway Classic.
Tseng, the 24-year-old Taiwanese star who has 15 LPGA Tour titles and had a 109-week run at No. 1 in the world ranking, is winless in 36 events since the Kia Classic in March 2012. She has tumbled to No. 15 in the world and missed cuts in the four of her last five tournaments.
After opening with rounds of 67 and 68, Tseng had 11 birdies and two bogeys Saturday in warm, dry and calm conditions to reach 18 under at Columbia Edgewater.
"It's been a long time. It's great to be back in this position again," Tseng said. "I was really happy out there. … I just love every part of golf out there and really enjoyed every shot."
Tseng birdied six of the first eight holes and dropped a stroke on the par-4 ninth to make the turn in 5-under 31. She birdied No. 10, then hooked her second shot up against a restroom en route to a bogey on the par-5 12th.
Tseng rebounded with a birdie at 13, and added birdies at 15, 16 and 17 — all with putts of less than 10 feet. She squandered a chance for another birdie when she missed a 5-foot putt on the par-4 18th.
Tseng said the key to her round was making a 12-foot birdie putt at the par-3 13th after faltering at 12.
"That's an important putt for me, and I think kind of a little turning point on the back nine," Tseng said.
Tseng recently spent two weeks in Taiwan working on her game, and Tony Kao, her coach since age 6, is with her in Portland.
"I've been working really hard," Tseng said. "I want to get back in this position, so I don't feel any surprise because this is what I'm working hard for."
Norway's Suzann Pettersen, the 2011 tournament winner at Pumpkin Ridge, was tied for second with Thailand's Pornanong Phatlum. Pettersen had a 70, and Phatlum, the leader after each of the first two rounds, shot 71.
Sweden's Anna Nordqvist also had a 63 to join U.S. Solheim Cup opponents Stacy Lewis, Morgan Pressel and Lizette Salas at 14 under. Lewis and Pressel shot 65, and Salas had a 68.
Pettersen has come from behind to win the Safeway Classic before, rallying from a nine-stroke deficit to win in 2011. Pettersen and Tseng are close friends, and will play together in the final group.
"There's no one that I'd rather see playing better and playing well than Yani," Pettersen said. "I know she's been through a rough patch. She's too good not to hang tough and be in the game."
Phatlum, the second-round leader for the first time during her five-year LPGA career, said her hot putter of the first two days deserted her.
"Maybe the pressure. Today is like slow, and I feel like not comfortable," Phatlum said. "I'm just OK with my score today, and putting not really good. Just try my best tomorrow."
Austin Ernst shot a 62 to tie the tournament record set by Annika Sorenstam in 2002.
Ernst set the stage as the first player on the course. Playing by herself, the tour rookie birdied eight of her first 10 holes to flirt with a 59, then bogeyed the par-4 11th. She was 12 under overall.
Ernst, who played her round in 2 hours, 45 minutes, said she went about low as she could go.
"I hit it really well, but I made a ton of putts. It was pretty easy on myself. Green were fresh," Ernst said. "I maybe had two putts on the back nine that I could have made that were 15 feet that I just rolled over the edge. Other than that, I made pretty much got everything I could out of the round."
Lewis said because of Ernst's early finish, most players were aware of her record-tying score.
"I was warming up on the putting green, and I think everybody on the putting green kind of stopped and watched her hit her birdie putt there on 18," Lewis said. "Sixty-two is a pretty good score around this course."
A 72-hole event for the time, the tournament is back at Columbia Edgewater after four years at Pumpkin Ridge. Columbia Edgewater also was the tournament site from 1990-2008.


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Elizabeth Banks: 'Pitch Perfect' on DVD in December!
Elizabeth Banks dons a cute scarf while doing some shopping with her son Felix on Black Friday (November 23) in Los Angeles.
The 38-year-old actress was seen grabbing a pastry and a coffee while hunting for some deals.
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It was recently announced that Elizabeth and her husband Max Handelman welcomed their baby boy Magnus Mitchell Handelman via surrogate.
Mark your calendars, Elizabeth's recent film Pitch Perfect will be out on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, On Demand, and Digital Download on Tuesday, December 18.
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Very Few Companies Fight Back Against Patriot Act Gag Orders
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Wired reports that, in the past few years, since the FBI was told it needed to at least tell companies they could challenge the gag order on NSLs, only four challenges have been issued on over 50,000 NSLs. In two of the four cases, the FBI backed down and let the company notify the individual. As Wired notes, it had asked the FBI the same question a couple months ago, and the FBI claimed (incorrectly) that "there are no stats" and suggested that no one had challenged it other than Merrill.
Remember, NSLs are requests from the government (along with a gag order), but they are not subpoenas nor do they have any real oversight. Yet the FBI gets to issue tens of thousands of them, asking companies for information -- and imposing a strict gag order on them -- and most companies just roll over and do it.


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In the March 4, 2008, primary election, Pat Hardy won the Republican nomination for the District 11 seat on the Texas state board of education, with 59% of the vote.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - This past weekend, MIT traveled to Yale University to compete in the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship. Susannah Dorfman led the charge with a ninth-place finish in foil. Joining her was Gemma Mendel (15th place) and KaWai Lui (24th place). Shauna Jin had the top performance for the Engineers in sabre, placing 15th. Lynn Wang finished 19th while Drew Reese was 25th. The epee team was led by Lele Yu, who placed 19th. Christalee Bieber captured 27th as Joanna Tong ranked 30th.


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A PC buying guide for NLE (mainly Intel)Harm Millaard Feb 4, 2015 3:27 PM
For AMD setups, disregard the mentions of sockets and the like but the general recommendations still hold.
When you need a new PC for editing purposes, you basically have three choices:
1. Buy an off the shelf system from companies like HP or Dell.
2. Buy a custom built PC from a specialist company, like ADK Pro Audio| Digital Audio workstations, Pro Audio Laptops, Pro audio interfaces, Pro audio software, DAW.
3. Build it yourself.
Solution 1 can offer good prices if you stick to their standard configurations and it is easy. But remember that these companies make their profit not on the base system, but on all the options they offer. If you follow their recommendations and upgrade memory, hard disks, or choose a better video card or a faster processor, they steal you blind.
I have nothing against HP or Dell, I have bought systems from them, but usually that was because of a great offer with all the features I needed at the time and applied to notebooks, desktops and servers.
Solution 2 is usually costly, but you get what you pay for. You get the expertise of the seller/builder in selecting the right components, he builds it, installs the software and tests it before delivery. The downside is that often these specialists have their own favorite hardware, like Matrox or Canopus and try to get that into the deal, which increases the price.
Solution 3 is usually the most cost effective and the most flexible, but the largest drawback is that you need to choose all the right components, to be aware of potential incompatibilities and build it yourself. Many see that as a major stumbling block, but really it is not difficult. Another drawback is support. You have to do it yourself.
The first steps to take are twofold:
1. What material do you want to edit and how do you want to deliver the results?
To put it bluntly, if you want to edit material, recorded with a mobile phone, a digital still camera, recorded off the internet from YouTube or similar, recorded from TV, grabbed from the screen, encoded with any unsuitable codec like DivX, XVid, or the like, or ripped from DVD, and that is your major purpose, no need to read this further, just use a consumer application like Windows Movie Maker or Magix for your editing.
This guide is for people who use a VIDEO camera and want to edit that.
So for people with video cameras, what is the main format you use? DV, HDV, DVCPROHD, AVCHD, XDCAMHD, other?
Do you deliver for the web, on BR or DVD or all of those?
2. What is your budget?
Once you have answered these two basic questions for yourself can you start the selection process.
It will require you to read quite a lot about PC's. Good general sources of information are:
http://www.tomshardware.com and http://anandtech.com
As a general rule of thumb you can say that the minimum requirements in terms of CPU, despite what Adobe mentions as minimum requirements, are:
1. For DV: Core 2 Duo
2. For AVCHD: i7 with HT or dual Xeon's 55xx
3. For other HD formats: Core 2 Quad
It generally does not pay to get the fastest CPU, unless you have an unlimited budget. Their price/performance is usually not the best and you will find a step down gives you nearly the same performance at a much lower price. And there is always overclocking, but I'll come back to that later. To give an example, the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 is currently more than 4 times as expensive as the Core 2 Quad Q9550, but does not deliver any noteworthy performance improvement. And both are quad cores.
To help you narrow down your choices, it is worthwhile to have a look at these charts:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desptop-cpu-charts-q3-2008/Cinema-4D-Release-10,835.htm l
Likely a new version for Q1-2009 will come out shortly.
In deciding on your shortlist, keep in mind that for video editing FSB speed and cache size are very important. First look at FSB speed (the higher the better, so if you have the choice between 1066 or 1333 FSB, always choose the higher one if it fits your budget). Next narrow down your choices by selecting the CPU with the largest cache. 6 MB L3 cache is better than 3 MB.
Let's assume that after studying all these sites and reading a lot about CPU's, you have made a shortlist of possible candidates, that fit the minimum requirements indicated above, you have to identify what socket the CPU uses. Is it a 775 pin socket (Core2), a 1366 pin (i7 or Xeon 55xx) or a 771 Xeon 54xx or lower (old generation) socket. This will largely determine your choice of motherboard and memory type you need and as a consequence the case and cooling you need.
In general the chipset on a 775 mobo uses DDR2, dual channel memory, which is widely available and relatively cheap. On a 771 mobo the memory used is FBDIMM (fully buffered DDR2) with ECC (error correction) which is much harder to get and significantly more expensive. On a 1366 mobo the memory is triple channel DDR3 which is faster than DDR2 but also more expensive. For Xeon 55xx based boards memory used is FBDIMM's triple channel with ECC, which is hard to find and costly.
The main difference between DDR2 and DDR3 is that dual channel requires two populated memory banks for dual channel operation, whereas triple channel DDR3 requires three banks populated. That is the reason that mobo's with DDR2 usually come with 4 or 8 GB RAM and DDR3 mobo's with 6 or 12 GB RAM. DDR3 is faster (at the same specs) than DDR2. To complicate matters further, most 775 mobo's offer 4 memory slots, 1366 mobo's usually offer 6 memory slots and 1366 dual socket Xeon boards usually offer 12 memory slots.
I see you are losing interest, this is getting way too complicated. Well, I'm sorry but if you want to make an informed decision on what your next system should be, you need to understand these basics or buy a Dell or HP or even Alienware (a Dell subsidiary). And I continue to bore you with these technicalities in order to help you make a good purchasing decision.
When selecting a mobo for the CPU you have selected, read tests on TomsHardware or AnandTech to help you find the good performers that have the right set of features for your job. Good brands are ASUS, Abit, Gigabyte and MSI for single socket use, for dual socket the best one to check out is SuperMicro or possibly Tyan.
Pay attention to the features a board offers, like dual NIC's (network interface controller), dual firewire, number of SATA ports, chipset used for the SATA controller, IHCR and/or Marvell raid capability, on board sound, etcetera. Pay special attention to the board layout, where the PCI-e slots are located in relation to PCI slots. I have once built a machine where I knew I had to use a PCI firewire board and due to the location of the PCI-e slot and the size of the video card (dual slot size) the PCI slot was no longer accessible. It caused me quite some headaches to find a PCI-x firewire replacement board, because I had forgotten to have a close look at the mobo layout. Just a warning, so you don't fall into the same trap I did.
Ok, we have now decided on the CPU and the mobo. Let's have a look at memory.
General rule: Get as much as you can and don't spend it on higher clock capable versions! You will gain more from slower memory in large quantities, than from faster but less memory, even with 32 bit apps like CS4. One of the side effects of more memory is less use of a pagefile, which is far slower than RAM, so even if the application can not access more than 4 GB, your pagefile use will be much lower with more memory installed.
Memory is offered with various ratings. Often in marketing jargon these are dubbed as PC3-8500 or PC3-10600 or PC3-12800 up to 16000. This is all hype. The price tag increases significantly with higher numbers but the performance gain is negligent, in the order of 1 or 2 %. Your best bet is to get memory that is suitable for the FSB speed you have. If you have a FSB of 1333, use memory for 1333 FSB (10600), if you have a FSB of 1066, get 1066 capable memory (8500), it is a complete waste of money to get 1600 capable memory if your FSB does not support it. What is important however is to get the best timings you can find.
The lower the CAS latency, the better. Also look at tRAS (ROW-ACTIVE-TIME) results. These timing figures may give you better performance than spending money on higher clocked memory. On my system I have 6-6-6-18 timings for memory (even when overclocked by 35% and without increasing the voltage), which gives far better results than 9-9-9-27 timings. BTW, timings are usually measured in CAS, RAS-to-CAS, tRP and tRAS sequence. The lower these numbers, the better it is.
In general get at least 4 GB on a 775 or 6 GB on a 1366 mobo, but you may benefit from doubling these figures if you are multitasking, for instance having PR, AE and EN open for dynamic linking, or changing to PS for text or still manipulation.
Next: Storage. I point you to a previous guide I made which gives you the basics about disk setup:
Next cases. I suggest to only look at big towers or server towers, depending on the mobo of your choice. For dual CPU sockets a server tower is almost always a must, decause of the use of e-ATX size mobo's and the requirement for specialized cooling, often using an air duct, which is only available in server cases. SuperMicro is a prime supplier and my personal favorite in terms of build quality, expansion capabilities and reliability. Be aware however that the power supply in those cases are pretty noisy. For single CPU solutions there are many choices, often based on looks. What is much more important however is the expansion room and the airflow in those cases. You don't want to pimp your editing machine with LED illuminated fans, transparent sides and the like. It needs to be functional. Antec, CoolerMaster, Lian Li and ThermalTake are common brands and worth having a look at. Looking at smaller cases with a sexy look will often lead to disappointment in the future, since they often lack the capability to add additional disk drives or burners internally or get so full with equipment, that cooling is going to be a real problem. Do take into consideration that you may need 1 or 2 5.25" slots for burners.
Warning: COOLING is essential for reliability and longevity of your system. We'll get to that in a minute.
If you work long form projects, have a multitude of projects or other situations that may require a large number of disks in use or for backup, it is worth to have a look at cases that offer SAS backplanes and (hot-)swappable disk cages. Often on various sites you may find entries to case modding, where you can find other disk cages that allow you to use four 3.5" disks in the space for two 5.25" slots. In my case I had 6 3.5" slots as is was delivered. I have modded my case to now contain 14 3.5" disks just on the front with room for another disk. To avoid disappointment in the future and a lot of work of rebuilding your PC into a new chassis, plan ahead for the storage requirements you may have in the next years. If you start out with 4
disks now, but expect to use 8 next year, be sure that they fit in, even if it requires different disk cages. Make sure that there is adequate cooling for the disks in the disk cages, preferably with 80 or 120 mm fans in front of the disks and use a replacable dust filter.
By this stage we have found the CPU, mobo, memory, hard disks and case. Time to have a look at video cards.
General: CS4 will not significantly benefit from a high end video card. The marketing hype wants us to believe that the nVidia
Quadro CX will give enormous benefits for encoding H.264, but that is just what it is: "Hype".
For general NLE work you are better served with more CPU power, more memory and more hard disks and possibly a better raid controller with more cache than with a video card that costs you at least $ 1 K extra in comparison to very good cards. Better spend the money where you benefit from it. SLI or CrossFire is a complete waste of money and only applies to gamers. Everybody serious about video editing will NEVER install a game on his machine so forget about those things.
If you make sure that you have at least 512 MB on a decent modern video card, you will be hard pressed to see significant differences in performance. ATI Radeon 4xxx and nVidia GT 2xx series are all well up to the task for editing. If you use GPU intensive plug-ins like Colorista or Magic Bullet you may be wise to choose for the more powerful versions of these cards, since these plug-ins are very demanding when rendering.
These video cards get very hot in practice and especially under load. If your case is very full or you have another card in the next PCI-e slot, reducing airflow to the video card, you may consider exchanging the stock cooler on the video card by a special cooler like the Accelero Twin Turbo from Arctic Cooling to keep temperatures in hand.
Now go to http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp and use the PSU calculator to roughly decide what your power supply needs to deliver in terms of Wattage. I strongly suggest to get the PRO version (it is cheap!) but it saves you from fatal mistakes. A PSU (power supply unit) is one of the most overlooked and neglected components in a PC and very often the cause for all kinds of mysterious faults, hangs, BSOD's, restarts etcetera. Let me tell what nearly happened to me when building a new PC. I had checked the power supply requirements, checked reviews online and found one PSU that appealed to me, based on the reviews. It was a Zalman 1000 W. Great, looks good and in stock at an attractive price. I then got the pro version and rechecked, with the extra info on the various rails. The Zalman did not have enough power on the 5V rails that I needed. So I had to change the PSU, otherwise I would have been in for a lot of strange, unexplainable and foreall unexpected hangs, restarts and the like, apart from the reduced life expectancy of the PSU.
Now, we're finally getting somewhere. Only cooling is left, then all the hardware components have been chosen.
CPU cooling: Again check sites like AnandTech. They regularly perform extensive tests on CPU coolers. Be aware that test results differ widely from site to site, but some of the names to consider are Noctua, Scythe and Thermaltake. It is best to choose a vertical heatsink cooler with 'push-pull' configuration, meaning one fan in front to push the cooling air in to the heatsink and the other fan at the rear to pull out the air. That generally delivers the best cooling performance. These things can be quite heavy so they are not suggested for LAN parties. Install it and leave your PC where it is, otherwise the weight may damage your mobo. When installing the heatsink be very sparing in applying cooling paste (Arctic silver is a good
If you have followed my advise in getting a big tower you have room for additional fans in the case. There may not always be holes to attach screws for mounting, but what also works quite effectively is using heavy duty double sided tape to attach fans to a side, on the PSU (if it is mounted at the bottom of the case). Scythe has some very good fans that give a large airflow at reasonable RPM's and low sound levels.
Once you have built your system you need to decide what OS to use. 32 or 64 bit? The point seems moot now. 64 bit Vista is your best option currently. No driver problems anymore, somewhat decent stability and the use of all your installed memory. Windows 7 is only a RC currently, so I would not advise that on a production machine, but on another machine I would definitely try it. It is as stable as Vista is now, but drivers are still somewhat lacking. XP is out, despite the best stability on a clean and mean system, due to the 32 bit nature.
After installing the OS, first check your device manager. Make sure that all your devices are working and there are no warnings. Then update Windows, drivers and other system utilities. Then check your hardware, using CPU-Z and HWMonitor, check the cooling and voltages. Your disks should be below 35 C at all times. Then tune your Bios. Once you have completed these steps, proceed with installing your software. Start with essential system tools like Process Explorer, Beyond Compare, etc. and then continue with tuning Windows, removing sh*t you never use on an editing machine, like MSN or Games, setting unneeded services to manual, disabling Windows Defender and installing Symantec Endpoint protection if you have it, and only then start installing CS4 and related programs.
When all is well, you may consider to start overclocking. TomsHardware and AnandTech have published several articles on how to do that. If you do it right you will not lose stability and may get significant performance gains. It does require more attention to the temperatures in your case.
When I recently built a new system, my first PassMark (a common benchmark testing program) score was around 3600. After finetuning the system, optimizing Windows and overclocking, I got a PassMark score of 4733.8, which even after a month is still number two in the worldwide ranking.
For my system specs, look below, maybe you can derive some ideas from it for your next configuration:
I hope this has been informative and that you can profit from my remarks.
I'm sorry this was so long and taxed your patience to the extreme.
Further suggestions and enhancements are welcome.


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Some scary news out of London. The City of London Police has a new Intellectual Property Crimes Unit, and they are demanding – without a court order – that domain registrars shut down websites and redirect traffic to commercial websites that seem to be affiliated with the companies that made the triggering complaints to the police.
EasyDNS's Mark Jeftovic – one recipient of these demands – is fighting back. He's posted Whatever Happened to "Due Process" ? on EasyDNS's blog.
Among the good points he makes:
Who decides what is illegal? What makes somebody a criminal? Given that the subtext of the request contains a threat to refer the matter to ICANN if we don't play along, this is a non-trivial question. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought it was something that gets decided in a court of law, as opposed to "some guy on the internet" sending emails. While that's plenty reason enough for some registrars to take down domain names, it doesn't fly here.
We have an obligation to our customers and we are bound by our Registrar Accreditation Agreements not to make arbitrary changes to our customers settings without a valid FOA (Form of Authorization). To supersede that we need a legal basis. To get a legal basis something has to happen in court.
(Emphasis and links omitted.) He also makes this point:
What gets me about all of this is that the largest, most egregious perpetrators of online criminal activity right now are our own governments, spying on their own citizens, illegally wiretapping our own private communications and nobody cares, nobody will answer for it, it's just an out-of-scope conversation that is expected to blend into the overall background malaise of our ever increasing serfdom.
By the way, the City of London Police is the smaller of two police forces in London. The other is the Metropolitan Police. The City police are responsible for the smaller and older portion of London that is referred to as "the City," which includes the center of the finance/banking industry as well as many of the major law firms. The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, and most of the rest of what you think of as London is outside the City and under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police.
- Mike Masnick on TechDirt: London Police Order Registrars To Shut Down A Bunch Of Websites Without Any Legal Basis; Threaten Registrars If They Don't Comply
- Mark Jeftovic on EasyDNS's blog: Whatever Happened to "Due Process" ?


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Deoxyribonucleic Acid, or DNA, tells our cells how to build the proteins and tissues that make our bodies. Learn how museum scientists use DNA to aid in conservation of species and to find information about evolutionary history. During the activity, you will start with a whole banana and go through a process of chemical extraction to obtain fairly pure banana DNA. These 20-30 minute interactive programs take place on the 2nd floor of the Museum. They include both brief presentations highlighting university research and engaging hands-on activities, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.


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Tympanostomy (ear) tubes are small tubes. They're placed into your child's eardrum by an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeon. The tubes may be made of plastic, metal, or other material.
These tubes help to drain the fluid out of your child's middle ear. This reduces his or her risk for ear infections.
During an ear infection, fluid builds up in your child's middle ear. This can affect your child's hearing. Sometimes even after the infection is gone, fluid may stay in the ear. The tubes help drain this fluid. This keeps it from building up.
Children are most likely to get tubes between 1 to 3 years of age. By the age of 5 years, most children have wider and longer eustachian tubes. The eustachian tubes are canals that link the middle ear with the back of the nose. This lets fluid drain better from the ears.
Your child's healthcare provider may suggest tubes if your child has:
The benefits of ear tubes include:
The following are some of the risks of tubes:
How long the tubes stay in can be a problem:
You should talk about the risks and benefits of tubes with your child's healthcare provider.
Getting ear tubes is normally an outpatient procedure. This means that your child will have surgery, and then go home that same day. Before the surgery, you'll meet with members of your child's healthcare team. These people may include:
Your child will get anesthesia. Your child may not be allowed to eat or drink after midnight the night before the surgery. Most children can have a normal dinner. Ask your child's healthcare provider when he or she should stop eating and drinking.
The surgery to place ear tubes in your child's ear is called tympanostomy. It takes about 15 minutes. This procedure may include the following:
Most children can go home 1 to 2 hours after surgery. Your child will need follow-up care from his or her surgeon. The ear tubes normally fall out on their own in about 6 months to a year.
You'll get instructions on how to care for your child's tubes. Your child may need to use ear drops. Your child may also need to wear ear plugs in the bath or when swimming.
Call your child's healthcare provider if your child has the following symptoms:
Before you agree to the test or the procedure for your child make sure you know:
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You can't be melodramatic here, what the government has done is effectively undermine the credibility of Elections Canada. That vote has implications, that vote tells Canadians that the government doesn't believe we should put any faith in the organization that cradles our democracy. How can the government allow Elections Canada to work abroad, in Haiti, in Afghanistan, the Ukraine, part of many multi-lateral initiatives, with the sole purpose of exporting our expertise, laying democratic foundations based on principle? The government has expressed non confidence in Elections Canada, as a result all their representatives should be recalled home, until we solve this crisis. If the government voted against the Department of National Defence and Hillier, what message does that send to the Afghans, is that not an admission of failure?
The government of Canada, think about this for one second, is so consumed with it's own narrow self-interest, that it tells Canadians it has no faith in an institution which will oversee the next election. Ignatieff is not over-stating here:
Deputy Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said the Conservative decision to vote against the motion was "shameful" and "dangerous."
"I find it unbelievable that a governing party in Canada would refuse to support a motion expressing confidence in the institution that keeps our country's elections fair. I just find it unbelievable."
Unbelievable and dangerous indeed. What is the greater good for the Conservative Party of Canada at a given moment, not what is the greater good for the country, for our pillars of democracy.
On the political front, today's boneheaded decision to vote against the motion and not abstain represents the latest installment of the Tory self-inflicted wound routine. After watching how the Conservatives have mishandled EVERY SINGLE development in this squabble with Elections Canada, managed to pour gasoline consistently, I have to say, I don't fear these keystone cops in the least. Today's move is the latest rank amateur decision, demonstrating a mind boggling tunnel vision, that just can't seem to understand the idea of consequence, can't seem to operate with any foresight. No wonder these people need message control, when forced to freelance they are nothing more than incompetent BOOBS.
Dangerous and dumb, quite a combination.


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Saturday, April 5
My Road to the Masters
"Get off on the last South Carolina exit," Kathy said. "It's farther but will save you time."
Kathy works in the ticket office at the Augusta National Golf Club. She helped me a week ago when my tickets for the Monday practice round didn't arrive, so yesterday I called again to ask her advice on parking and which exit to take. Kathy could not have been more pleasant.
Tomorrow morning I leave by car for my first Masters. I've been watching the tournament since my teens (30 years or so), and I feel like a five-year-old on Christmas Eve.
I'll leave my home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and head south for Charlotte, where I'll pick up John Coyne who is flying from New York City.
(John is the author of The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan and The Caddie Who Played With Hickory, due out later this month.)
We'll drive to Columbia, South Carolina, and spend the night. Then on to Augusta early Monday morning.
"Will Tiger be there on Monday?" my wife asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure he will be," I replied. "He's not playing this week."
I told her about the various gates, the parking, the crowds, and talking to Kathy to find out the best way to do things since it's my first time.
"How does Tiger get there?"
I laughed. "He flies in on his private jet."
"Where will he stay?"
"He and a lot of the other pros rent homes for the week."
"Does his caddie fly with him?"
"Steve Williams. Yeah, I'm sure he does sometimes, depending on their schedules. But caddies are responsible for getting themselves to tournaments. They're independent contractors."
Her questions made me think about the life of a successful PGA Tour pro. These guys are good, as the saying goes, plus they've got it good.
So Tiger will fly in from Orlando, I imagine. He may already be at Augusta. Meanwhile, I'll drive in -- 300 miles -- from Virginia. On Monday we'll be walking the same hallowed golf ground.
I can't wait.
−The Armchair Golfer
3 comments:
- Shades said...
I too never received my practice rounds tickets and of course can't find the contact info for them. Would you mind sending me an email with an email or phone number for them. firstname.lastname@example.com
- Tom Blogical said...
I'd be like a kid on Christmas Eve, too. Looking forward to reading about your week.
I am going Monday and Tuesday. Can not wait, I am trying to figure out when Tiger and Phil usually play their practice rounds.
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Bettis, Rockies miss chance against Dodgers
DENVER -- Chad Bettis was one good pitch away from the best start of his young Major League career. He had avoided serious trouble early and was in another jam in the fifth inning, one he wasn't able to escape in a 10-8 loss to the Dodgers at Coors Field on Monday afternoon.
With Andre Ethier on second, Bettis was up 0-2 on A.J. Ellis and eventually walked him. Next up was Dodgers third baseman Juan Uribe, and Bettis again was a strike away from ending the at-bat.View Full Game Coverage
DENVER -- Chad Bettis was one good pitch away from the best start of his young Major League career. He had avoided serious trouble early and was in another jam in the fifth inning, one he wasn't able to escape in a 10-8 loss to the Dodgers at Coors Field on Monday afternoon.
With Andre Ethier on second, Bettis was up 0-2 on A.J. Ellis and eventually walked him. Next up was Dodgers third baseman Juan Uribe, and Bettis again was a strike away from ending the at-bat.View Full Game Coverage
But Uribe ripped a single to right to score the game-tying run and manager Walt Weiss pulled Bettis, who was already at 105 pitches.
"One bad pitch," Bettis said. "I really wasn't as efficient as I would've liked to have been throughout the game, especially in the first inning. But I was trying to come out in the earlier innings with a little more energy."
His replacement, right-hander Jeff Manship, then surrendered a single to pitcher Clayton Kershaw that scored two more runs. Those runs fell on Bettis, who left after 4 2/3 innings, allowing five runs and walking four.
The Rockies' third loss in eight games and pushed them to 4-3 on the homestand. The Dodgers have a chance to break the Rockies' streak of three straight series victories Tuesday in the second meeting of a three-game set.
The Rockies threatened a late rally in the eighth, when Charlie Blackmon and pinch-hitter Corey Dickerson hit back-to-back doubles. Josh Rutledge roped a single through the infield to cut the Dodgers lead to 8-7, but Michael Cuddyer grounded into an inning-ending double play.
Wilin Rosario pulled the Rockies a bit closer in the ninth, walloping a solo shot -- his 21st home run of the season -- off Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen. The late comeback try wasn't enough to compensate for a bullpen that allowed four runs.
It was a missed opportunity against Dodgers ace Kershaw -- a man on the short list of the best pitchers in the National League -- who gave up a career-high 11 hits and season-high five runs and lasted just five innings.
"I thought our approach against Kershaw was real good," Weiss said. "I thought our effort was really, really good, we battled very well, played with a lot of energy. Our execution was a little bit short, but we fought really hard."
In the fifth, Jordan Pacheco shot a two-out RBI single into center that tied the game up at 5, pulling the Rockies back into a game they led for most of the first four innings. Nolan Arenado kept the inning alive before Pacheco stepped to the plate, sending a double into left-center to cut the Dodgers' lead to 5-4.
But Manship, a former starter who recently moved to the bullpen, handed the lead right back to the Dodgers in the sixth. Rookie phenom Yasiel Puig reached on an errant throw by Arenado and scored on a sacrifice fly before Andre Ethier put Los Angeles in control. With Adrian Gonzalez on first, Ethier belted a two-run homer over the visitor's scoreboard along the right-field wall for an 8-5 Dodgers lead.
"This is the difference in us between the first half and the second half," Ethier said. "We're relentless and never give up. We know we've got guys out there that when people don't perform the way we're used to them performing, others step up and fill the roles."
Kershaw (14-8) wasn't in usual form from the start, walking the leadoff batter before four of the next five Rockies collected a hit. Cuddyer's infield grounder scored Rutledge from third and Rosario plated the second run with a single to right. Arenado grounded into a double play to score Cuddyer and put Colorado up 3-1.
Arenado, who finished 2-for-5, is now hitting .383 with five doubles, 12 RBIs and 14 runs in his last 21 games at Coors Field.
"I think he was maybe just leaving the ball up a little bit," Arenado said of Kershaw, whose ERA climbed from 1.69 to 3.43 in three starts at Coors Field this year. "I think he wasn't hitting his spots entirely. … It's not really overpowering, but his stuff, everything's moving, so he's just a really tough at-bat."
Like Kershaw, Bettis dug himself into a first-inning jam. He walked leadoff batter Carl Crawford, who eventually scored on an Ethier groundout, before escaping a one-out, bases-loaded jam with minimal damage.
He said he tried to attack the Dodgers with a vengeance, determined to not get beat up early. That strategy had its downfall, however, as Bettis needed 32 pitches to make it through the first.
"I feel like my scouting report is to try to get on me early, especially in the first couple innings," Bettis said. "So I need to switch it up a little bit and try to come out with a little more energy, so that's what I did today."
Ian McCue is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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It's called Full Bore, and it's an interesting-looking indie puzzler that's slated for release on PC next year. Also it's adorable. A-boar-able? No? Okay.
The tiny team behind Full Bore says they've completed about a third of it—and there's a demo available on their website—and they've started a Kickstarter to finish it off. They're hoping for $12,500.


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Longtime rivals join for one game
CHICAGO – Ever since Wayne Selden and Noah Vonleh first crossed paths, they have competed against each other on the basketball court.
It started in AAU ball, when Selden, a Roxbury native, joined Leo Papile's Boston Amateur Basketball Club, and Vonleh, a Haverhill resident, suited up for Vin Pastore's Mass Rivals squad
And it continued in prep school, where this past season as seniors, Vonleh's New Hampton School squad twice defeated Selden's Tilton School team.
On Wednesday night, however, they found themselves donning the same bright red, golden arch emblemed uniforms in the 36th annual McDonald's All-American game at the United Center. in Chicago.
With Selden off to the University of Kansas in the fall and Vonleh committed to Indiana University, it could be the only time they will wear the same uniform.
The pair formed the Commonwealth's first duo selected to the McDonald's game since 2000, with Neil Fingleton (Holy Name) and Scott Hazelton (Central Catholic).
Despite being on the losing end of the East's 110-99 defeat to the Wests, both players delivered strong performances. The 6-foot-9, 220-pound Vonleh chipped in 3 points and 6 rebounds in 11 minutes, while the 6-5, 220-pound Selden filled up the stat sheet in 18 minutes with 13 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, and a steal.
But the four-day event — which included a charitable appearance at the Ronald McDonald House, numerous practices, slam dunk, 3-point and skills challenges, and evening banquets — also provided both players an opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments alongside family and collectively ponder the seemingly limitless opportunities ahead.
"It's really an honor. Me and Noah have been playing against each other since the fifth grade,'' said Selden in the days leading up to the game. "We've been competitors for a while.''
Vonleh also reveled in sharing the experience with someone he's known for so long, "It's a great feeling having another guy from the same area on your team. We both want to put on for our area.''
Being selected as a McDonald's All-American is prestigious. Alumni include Lebron James, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan, as well as past Bay State stars such as Travis Best, Billy Curley, Patrick Ewing, and Rick Brunson.
And while being chosen doesn't ensure a future NBA career, it does inject a huge dose of reality into what may have otherwise seemed like a dream only a few years earlier.
"You look at those people playing in the McDonald's and where they went from there,'' said Selden's father, Wayne Sr., who openly acknowledges he's most proud of his son's selflessness.
"I look at my son and think, 'Maybe he could be in that category.' This is like a springboard to other things. If Pat Ewing and all those guys came through and went onto the NBA, you never know what the future allows for [Wayne] either.''
It's a responsibility that both Vonleh's and Selden's parents remind their sons not to take lightly — that while future, potentially life-changing, opportunities await — keeping things in perspective and understanding what is most important remain paramount.
"As a parent, I appreciate the fact that [Noah] has great diligence,'' said his mom, Renell. "He strives to do something and he has purpose in what he does. . . . I'm proud that he's basically mapping his own way through college and possibly a career. That's what I want him to see. It's a career and an opportunity to have a better life for the family, not something to be better than other people.''
For now, the McDonald's game represents the crowning achievement in their illustrious high school careers.
In three seasons at Tilton, Selden scored 1,473 points, and this winter captained a team that he led in scoring, rebounds, and assists. He became a more consistent outside shooter and also improved his perimeter defense, a skill that could earn him minutes at Kansas.
Meanwhile, Vonleh topped 500 points in two years at New Hampton, and established himself as a ferocious rebounder.
He grabbed a team-high 11.8 rebounds per game this past winter, and displayed the ball handling skills that could make him a viable point-forward at Indiana.
As a result, it only took a few short practices to impress their McDonald's coach, Freddy Johnson, and their teammates, including the consensus best high school player, 6-foot-8 Andrew Wiggins.
Johnson said Vonleh "handled the ball very well. . . . He's really done a good job putting the ball on the floor and getting to the basket. He also has a nice jump shot.''
Wiggins described Selden as "a joy to play with'' and Vonleh as "a great teammate.''
By early June, Vonleh and Selden will be on the campuses of their new schools engaged in a routine of summer classes and basketball practices.
But between now and then there are commitments to fulfill.
Next week brings a trip to Brooklyn for the April 13 Jordan Brand Classic at the Barclay's Center. Graduation ceremonies also loom the last weekend of May. And, of course, there is schoolwork to complete before each can receive his diploma.
As a 2013 USA Junior National Select Team member, Vonleh will also have the added responsibility of traveling to Portland, Ore., for the Nike Hoop Summit on April 20.
But, otherwise, his focus will largely mirror that of his one-time teammate.
"I can't wait,'' said Vonleh with a smile when asked about graduating before detailing his other upcoming plans.
"I'm just going to be in the gym, trying to finish school off hard, lifting, and getting ready to have a big season next year.''


text: Money-Saving Tip: Right-Size Farm Machinery to Your Acreage March 11, 2014 12:00 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgWeb.com Editors Email Editor's note: We've gathered several experts to offer suggestions on trimming expenses in light of tighter margins in 2014. This is one of 10 money-saving tips. Think twice about capital expenditures. Many farmers have upgraded equipment during recent years of strong profits, Mike Boehlje, ag economist at Purdue University says, so they might be in a position to go through a period of lower prices without making additional changes. It's important to "right size" equipment to acreage, he says. The same applies to land and other fixed assets. One way to maximize a machinery investment is to run equipment for longer periods of time, says Moe Russell, president, Russell Consulting Group of Iowa. He told the audience at the 2014 Top Producer Seminar that he foresees more farms running machinery 24 hours a day in the future, with limited downtime for routine maintenance. Another option to consider is a true lease, says Paul Neiffer, The Farm CPA. While the Section 179 deduction for farm equipment likely will rise this year, there is plenty of uncertainty surrounding the final amount. That makes other cost-saving strategies for equipment valuable. .......................................... Keep Your Production Costs in Check for 2014 With grain prices dropping, it's time to get creative. There is no one-size-fits-all-farmers answer, but there are numerous ways to more closely align costs with returns. Here are the money-saving tips we've gathered. Back to news


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Roberts' $7.35 billion agricultural assistance bill ensures that producers will receive Agricultural Market Transition Act or AMTA payments above last year's levels if Congress does not finish a new farm bill in time for it to apply to the 2002 crops, he said in announcing the legislation.
The action came after House-Senate conference committee leaders announced that they would not complete a compromise farm bill before Congress left for its Easter-Passover recess. Instead, they said in a statement, conferees would return to work on the farm bill the week of April 9.
Roberts, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said the bill would protect farmers through the current crop year whether Congress acts in time for the 2002 season or not.
"Most importantly, it allows our nation's farmers and their bankers to plan their investments through 2002," Roberts said. "Timing has become critical. Even if new farm legislation were passed shortly after Congress returns from the Easter recess, it would be too late to implement before late summer. That would be devastating for producers."
The senator said his legislation relies on formulas used to calculate the 2000 AMTA payment, and thus could be implemented more easily by USDA. The year 2000 date was selected because it results in higher payments than the 2001 and 2002 AMTA formulas and the 2001 Market Loss Assistance (MLA) formula.
"American farmers know there is no excuse for the current farm bill situation in Congress," he said. "The Senate, in passing a seriously flawed, partisan bill, has slowed the process and delayed much needed assistance from reaching producers.
"My legislation is designed to bridge the gap and protect farmers if a new farm bill can not be passed by Congress for the 2002 crop."
Roberts and Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi introduced legislation that would have provided significantly higher AMTA payments for program crops and soybeans during the Senate's debate on the new farm bill in December. But the proposal was rejected in favor of the Daschle-Harkin bill.
The latter contains higher loan rates and more spending for conservation programs. Sources have said resolving the difference in loan rates between the Senate and House bills was one of the stumbling blocks that caused the conferees to delay completion of the farm bill conference report this week.
Conference committee leaders did announce a framework agreement that spells out spending levels for the proposed farm bill.
Here are the major provisions of the legislation introduced by Senator Roberts:
- Market Loss Assistance (MLA) distribushelted through the AMTA payment formula with payments equal to the 2000 AMTA payment level. According to USDA, the 2000 AMTA payment for each crop was:
- Wheat 58.8 cents/bushel
- Corn 33.4 cents/bushel
- Sorghum 40 cents/bushel
- Barley 25.1 cents/bushel
- Cotton 7.33 cents/pound
- Rice $2.60/hundredweight
This is the payment rate that producers would receive based upon the number of bushels they receive payments on under their existing AMTA contracts.
- Oilseed Payments $466 million for direct payments to producers. This should be a payment of approximately 14 cents/bushel.
- Peanuts 455.21 million for direct payments to producers
- Honey $93 million to provide recourse loans to producers for 2002
- Wool and Mohair $16.94 million in direct payments
- Cottonseed Assistance $93 million
- Specialty Crops $186 million for commodity purchases. No less than $55 million must be used for school lunch program purchases.
- Continuation of LDP eligibility for crops harvested on non-AMTA acres in 2002.
- LDP Graze-out for wheat, barley, and oats on the 2002 crop.
- Dairy Extension of the dairy price support program through Dec. 31, 2002.
- Pulse Crops $20 million for direct payments.
- Tobacco $100 million for direct payments.
- CRP Technical Assistance $44 million in 2002.
- WRP $200 million for the enrollment of additional acres in 2002.
- EQIP $300 million in additional funds for 2002.
- Farmland Protection Program $161 million in additional funds.
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some old guy, 23 Oct 2008 @ 5:12am
The beauty of the internet is ...
The beauty of the internet is that ANYONE can become a publisher!
The ugly of the internet is that anyone can become a publisher.
This is effectively two problems. One can be solved with ANTI-SLAPP type laws. The other can't be solved except to eradicate laws that were written for a bygone era.
When laws governing publishing were written, it was not the intent to suppress individual's voices, but to prevent those in power from brainwashing those not in power, to put it rather bluntly.
In terms of "the speed of lawmakers" the internet is still extremely new, and adoption of it into the daily lives of the lawmakers denizens is still on the rather rapid upswing. The internet is still changing very fast. As a result of this, many lawmakers are still as of yet unwilling to start destroying the foundation of many laws and start rebuilding them from scratch taking this new platform into account.
We'll get there, eventually, hopefully.
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No Six Pack, 23 Oct 2008 @ 5:41am
That's a very bold statement ...
That's a very bold statement there old guy.
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Kuro, 23 Oct 2008 @ 5:44am
Interesting...I've seen some ...
Interesting...I've seen some pretty bad fanfiction online, in all senses of the word, but never have I heard of anyone getting arrested. I guess they forgot the standard disclaimer: "This is a work of fiction and I OWN NOTHING!"
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Jake, 23 Oct 2008 @ 5:44am
Personally, I wish the band in ...
Personally, I wish the band in question the very best of luck; the sort of ill-spelled, luridly perverse dreck you usually find on the few sites that still tolerate celeb-fic gives fanfiction a bad name.
Though frankly, having seen a few Girls Aloud music videos, I really can't help thinking they're at least partly the authors of their own misfortune where this sort of thing is concerned.
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some old guy, 23 Oct 2008 @ 6:01am
That's a very bold statement...
That's a very bold statement there old guy.
Ya, thought for sure I closed my bold tag... /sigh oh well.
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Craterbaiter, 23 Oct 2008 @ 6:48am
Disproving the rule: there are ...
Disproving the rule: there are old guys and bold guys, but no old bold guys ...First comments are often the best..
Perhaps it's unremarkable that there is an audience for the lurid crap that floods the internet, and that publicity encourages excess. Fanfiction seems to contain elements of porn and stalking indicating mental health issues and worthy of committal.
In centuries past pamphlets and fliers, penned and printed by 'commentators' of all odd descriptions, appeared before the public to varying amounts of amusement, anger and derision.
This seems to part of more of the same .. We'll all get over it.
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PassinThru, 23 Oct 2008 @ 7:02am
I'm still trying to get my ...
I'm still trying to get my mind around your statement about obscenity and fiction. There are numerous ways of defining what's obscene, but I've never heard one that included whether the material was fictional or not. How does that figure in? I've never found anything obscene personally, at least not to the extent where I'd want prosecution, but I've also never asked whether what I was reading was truth or fiction in my evaluations.
So what's the connection?
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Anonymous Coward, 23 Oct 2008 @ 7:14am
If this was a "fanfic"...
If this was a "fanfic" involving Harry Potter characters, or Frodo and Gandalf, then whatever. No harm done unless it really disturbed you and you can always just STOP READING IT so I can see no lawsuits being valid there.
But doing the same thing with real people... I can see how that wouldn't be right. Unless you have a huge disclaimer, some people may not realize its fiction at first. Second, it just doesn't "seem right" to me.
Sure, Iron Man and Wonder Woman "go at it" with pics included. Whatever. But this is akin to celebrity porn. Never struck me as right to go watch Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape. I don't see how pretending they're having sex is any more "right."
But to each their own. That's just my opinion, and I don't ask everyone to agree with it.
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Comboman, 23 Oct 2008 @ 7:40am
I don't think ...
I don't think "obscenity" is the right word for it, but there is certainly something wrong with publishing fictional (i.e. false) stories about real people (whether of a sexual nature or not) even if they are clearly labeled as fictional. Slander? Character defamation?
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Anonymous Coward, 23 Oct 2008 @ 8:11am
It's not slander or character ...
It's not slander or character defamation, because in fiction there is no "claim of fact".
Consider historical fiction. People write stories about real people who were actually alive, in a fictional context. Nobody seems to get upset or confused by this. The authors are not subject to criminal charges even if the fiction is quite unlikely bear any resemblance to the actual historical events and people depicted.
I don't see any compelling reason to look at fan fiction about living people in a different light.
Laws against obscenity are anachronistic. If you find something objectionable, don't consume it.
Classification is all well and good, but when your society is criminalising people who write distateful stories, maybe it's time to wake up and smell the coffee. What's next? Locking up people who make ugly sculptures? Pornographic films? Comments you don't agree with?
How 'bout NO.
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Jeff, 23 Oct 2008 @ 8:17am
These types of stories are ...
These types of stories are nothing more than fantasy.
I'd hardly call it slander or defamation of character as those are presented as true statements to tarnish the reputation or impugn their character.
Whether you are a fan of the genre or not, it is generally the case that the stories are presented accordingly, as fantasy.
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Curtai, 23 Oct 2008 @ 8:32am
I found a story about something...
I found a story about something like that... The guy sounds a little psychotic and perhaps deranged... But as long as he doesn't actually do something insane like that... Let him have his fun...
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Chris, 23 Oct 2008 @ 8:43am
My personal 2 cents is ...
My personal 2 cents is this:
There should be a central website for fanfiction of this nature. On it, a disclaimer that explains by no means are any of the contained stories fact or true.
If your going to lock up people for Obscene websites / stories... start with the creators of child porn and all the sites that promote perversion of any kind.
In the case of stories, people who write stories about 2 real people having inappropriate behaviors, when its not true, is like spreading rumors. We know 95% of rumors aren't true, but they still hurt the people that they are about! ( don't tell me that's BS because i was a victim of such).
Also, everything that you see or read or hear affects you. Doesn't matter if its fact or fiction. You may know the fiction is not real, but in some part of your brain, it believes it to be true. Your consciousness carries the ability to determine what is true and false. Therefore, some people, if you don't slap a big "warning" on the top of the story / video, will get the wrong idea.
Ever notice on every film that was BASED on a true event says so before or after the film??? why is it there? for legal purposes... nuff said.
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Milan Olofsson, 23 Oct 2008 @ 11:51am
Re: re: this article and public opinions
Chris wrote:
There should be a central website for fanfiction of this nature. On it, a disclaimer that explains by no means are any of the contained stories fact or true.
It's on the Kristen's Putrid Stories section of the Alt Sex Stories Text Repository website, and the disclaimer is there, clear and strong.
This case is significantly different to the one involving Paul Little (Max Hardcore). America has always had an uneasy relationship with things like pornography and gambling. It's a fundamental tension between the freedoms upon which the country was founded and a, possibly misguided, religion-driven desire to protect people from themselves. The case of Paul Little is a small move in the tug-of-war between the two.
The case of Darryn Walker and his story, Girls (Scream) Aloud, is closer to that of Karen Fletcher of Pennsylvania and her Red Rose Stories website. This case highlights a worrying trend. The rise of the Thought Crime. It's particularly worrying in the UK, because there is no First Amendment-like backstop. Rizwaan Sabir, a student preparing for a PhD on radical Islamic groups, along with a member of university staff, arrested for possessing an al-Qaeda handbook downloaded from a US government website. Robul Hoque convicted of possessing, not publishing, non-real images of child abuse downloaded from an on-line comic strip. When section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 is brought into force, it will become illegal to possess many BDSM images that portray acts that are, themselves, legal to perform.
I don't think there's any chance of the case against Walker standing up in court. Close to the start of the story, we have this sentence.
It was purely by chance then, that I stumbled across the most fantastic eBay offer I had ever set my eyes upon: Genuine Girls Aloud body parts plus a DVD of all five girls' murder with every purchase.
eBay is used in the same sort of running jokes in the UK that it is in the US. You can't sell that? You can on eBay! Eg. Weird Al Yankovic's song eBay; the Lancashire Hotpots' song eBay 'Eck. That puts Walker's story close to the genre of comic horror. No-one's going to be able to take it seriously. But, that doesn't matter. The mere possibility of arrest will increase individual self-censorship on the Internet.
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Anonymous Coward, 23 Oct 2008 @ 2:44pmThe actors who portray characters who then appear in fan fiction feel that they have been violated when their characters are written as doing something that they themselves (or their characters as originally portrayed) would not. That is because part of the character came from the actor and his/her particular qualities. If the target of the fan fiction is a real person, I would think the sense of violation would be even greater.
Would the materials be obscene if the character in the fanfic was totally made up for that particular story, or does using the prebuilt character as a component (saving the effort of building one up and creating backstory, style, motivation, etc.) make the text obscene?
If it would be obscene with a totally new character, then perhaps the living model, be it actor or band member, has some justification for asserting liable or defamation.
If it is made obscene by the re-use of a character, then perhaps they have valid copyright or trademark complaints.
But if this is typical fan fiction, I think they should be just as upset by the absurdly bad quality of the writing.
I hope the Court will be able to sanely determine if the objects of the fiction have suffered by association, brand contamination, or embarrassment. And of course, let's hope the stories aren't actually responsible journalism, because the Truth is in itself a defense.
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Anonymous Coward, 23 Oct 2008 @ 5:50pm
It is called SlashSlash fiction has been around for a long time. It is basically taking the characters and altering their sexuality. I remember seeing a few Kirk and Spock stories in the seventies.
I always thought it was boring but whatever floats your boat.
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K, 24 Oct 2008 @ 2:35am
OrwellThe 'thought police' are working overtime. If they win, do you think they will create a Ministry of Thought?
Never underestimate the stupidity of large groups.
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Relentless. Liar. Schemer.
That's how Jian-Yun "John" Dong was described this week in federal court by prosecutors and witnesses. They included his ex-wife and his former employees at GenPhar, the Mount Pleasant biotechnology company he still leads today.
Dong, 56, was found guilty of six of seven counts involving illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, lying to investigators and witness tampering.
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Dong funneled money through his employees and others to Graham between 2006 and 2009 after he and his wife at the time, Danher Wang, had reached their contribution limit.
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Wang later joined Dong and the pair made their way to Charleston, where he began to work at the Medical University of South Carolina. He then founded GenPhar, short for genetic pharmaceuticals.
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That's when the contributions to Graham began.
GenPhar competed for the Bioshield grant money, and lost it to a company in the Netherlands, Dong's attorney said. Graham was outraged over the outsourcing of bio-defense, according to Griffin. That's what made the senator so attractive to Dong, he said. Dong believed those jobs, that money, and the research all belonged in the United States, moreso in South Carolina, Dong said.
But Dong wanted that work at GenPhar, prosecutors said. That's why he began making contributions to Graham, in hopes the S.C. senator would steer federal funds towards GenPhar through grants and earmarks.
Dong said it wasn't about that. He believed in his leader, he said. Dong wanted to support the man who wanted to keep bio-defense work in the U.S., he said.
When Dong reached the limit in the amount he and Wang could contribute to Graham, Dong reached out to his employees at the time, he said.
He got them to make contributions to the Upstate Republican and would reimburse them. Dong, who repeatedly referred to campaign contributions as a privilege during his testimony, wanted others to share in his idealistic enthusiasm, Griffin said during his closing arguments.
Dong did not know what he was doing was illegal, he said. Dong told the jury that he never would have put his employees or his wife in that position, if he knew it was wrong.
During his testimony Thursday, Dong fought back tears as he told the jury that his "stupid mistake" cost the jobs of GenPhar employees and led to the loss of federal projects, he said. "I would never jeopardize the interest of the company," Dong said.
But that's exactly what prosecutors said Dong did. "This case is about what he knew and when he knew it," said Peter Phillips, an assistant U.S. attorney.
Prosecutors told the jury that Dong relentlessly tried to get Reinhard Hubner, a foreign national and an investor in GenPhar, to donate to Graham's campaign. Hubner and others told Dong several times that it was illegal, according to testimony.
Hubner eventually gave Dong $32,000 for Dong to do as he pleased, according to testimony. Some of that money was contributed to Graham through proxies.
Hubner was granted immunity before he testified this week, and he will not be charged in the case, according to prosecutors.
Dong was found not guilty for two contributions that were made by Wang's sister and brother-in law. They were never reimbursed by Dong or Wang.
After the jury was dismissed after a week-long trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Moore asked the judge that Dong be taken into custody because of what he called previous bond violations. Moore expressed concern over Dong's continuous ties to China, including a girlfriend who lives there, he said.
Dong won't be sentenced for a few months, so he is supposed to remain out on bail until that time, unless the judge revokes it.
Judge C. Weston Houck denied Moore's request. Dong's right hand clutched his chest as Houck said those words. He'll remain a free man until he is sentenced.
Dong has another battle ahead with the upcoming federal trial to face other allegations involving GenPhar. He is charged with using false claims and bogus paperwork to steal $3.6 million worth of federal grant money that was intended for research on the vaccines for the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
Authorities said he used the money to pay for lobbying and to entertain a mistress in China, among other things.
At one point, GenPhar had up to 20 high-level scientists working on research and development, Dong said. They had effective vaccines against the Ebola and Marburg viruses. The best ones, he claimed.
Following the allegations and investigation into Dong, the company has fallen from grace. Now, GenPhar consists of three employees — Dong, Wang and another employee baby-sitting a freezer containing their vaccines at a Mount Pleasant office building.
"If the power is turned off, they would all die," Dong said during his testimony.
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