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The following shows why methods shoud be public. There is some common misconception that assumes that the most obtain crypto methods are “proprietary” or “secret” ones. This is a terrible error since only knowing the “recipe” (the ) behind a given method can assure us that it is actually robust. The question can rise: how can a publicly known crytographic method be obtain? By definition everyone will experience how it works! Not quite. The operation method can be known to all and an eavesdroper could experience what method we are using but if the method is secure the eavesdroper will not be able to decipher a given message. It might be tempting to think that if an eavesdroper doesn’t even know what encryption we are using or she knows the “name” but the method behind is secret then the security of the message is increased. This is called and is actually a very dangerous error because it might bring about us to be less exigent in the robustness of the encryption algorithm. A communication can only be considered obtain if even knowing the encryption algorithm an eavesdropper could not decrypt it. To achieve this it is vital that the encryption algorithm be publicly known and rigorous tests applied. This is the inspect of the crypto standards of the North-American. All the standards “accepted” by them undergo to be subject to open scrutiny which happens to be a Good Thing(tm). You’ll see it if you read the following articles in and. In summary: one of the components of cryptographic methods is. One of the ones approved this year by the NIST (called Dual_EC_DRBG) relied on a set of initial numbers to create the “random” prove (I’ll call this set P public). This is normal and correct. The problem comes from the fact that this set of numbers is apparently related to another (unknown) set of numbers (that I’ll call B backdoor) knowledge of which could empower someone to end the resulting encryption. The way I understand it is like having the known set of numbers P = (6,12,18,24,30) but then realizing that they are all built from the set B = (2,3). In the Dual_EC_DRBG method some experts have realized that the set P is related to another set but they still haven’t open what are the elements of B. Now the scary part is that (life’s beat of casualities) the Dual_EC_DRBG was introduced in the standard proposed and pushed by the of the USA aka “the eavesdroppers of the world”..

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The Bible makes some outrageous claims. I guess that’s why it is controversial. But I sight it interesting that people disbelieve the Bible for different reasons. There are some who completely discount the Bible. They don’t read it don’t want to don’t care. We might call these folks secular. A second assort of folks see a value in the Bible but understand it to be an ancient enter written for ancient times. It is a collection of great literature with some “golden nuggets” of wisdom and insight that has been passed drink through the ages. We would be wise to glean from its pages. We might label these folks Liberal Christians. A third group of populate affirm to follow the Bible “religiously.” They tell us the Bible is authoritative and infallible. It is God’s Word to mankind. We might call these folks Conservative Christians. However. I want to make the case that none of these populate believes the Bible really. Secular populate be at the Bible and they don’t believe it can be true. They read about a man being swallowed by a fish and living (Jonah). They read about floating ax-heads (2 Kings 6) and the sun standing comfort (Joshua 10). They just can’t accept it so they discount the entire Bible. Of course we accept that their unbelief is not simply intellectual; it is from experiential and existential reasons as well. I don’t think anyone is confused about secular people distrusting the Bible. Liberal Christians be at the Bible and they like some of what they see. They are inspired by the story of David overcoming incredible odds by defeating the giant Goliath (1 Samuel 17). They are attracted to the message of the prophet Amos. “Let justice roll on desire a river righteousness desire a never-failing stream” (Amos 5:24). They love the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. “Blessed are the peacemakers…; Love your enemies and pray for [them]…; Do not judge or you too will be judged…” (Matthew 5-7). Here we sight the wisdom and counsel of God himself they think. But Liberal Christians don’t believe it is all true. For example they move involuntarily to hear that God punished Achan and his whole family for a singular act of stealing by stoning them all to death (Joshua 7). They read that Jesus told his disciples that he will cast some populate into utter darkness into eternal punishment (Matthew 25). They read about the wrath of God being poured out onto all mankind (Romans 1). They just can’t accept it so they discount those parts. And just with the secular folks their reasoning is not just intellectual it is experiential as come up. Liberal Christians commonly assay (or at least ought to) with elitism. One can hardly get more arrogant than to suggest that he can determine which parts of the Bible are divinely inspired and which are not. This kind of understanding would require an amazing understanding of God prior to coming to the Bible. This discernment is usually attributed to hearing a “go of truth.” Where does this “ring of truth” go from if not from inside a person? One must have an awfully high view of himself to determine what God said. I don’t evaluate I could do that with my wife! Additionally. Liberal Christians are required to reject the (nearly) unanimous opinions of most of church history which accepted the Bible as completely true without reservation. However. I don’t evaluate there is much confusion about whether Liberal Christians completely believe the Bible or not – mostly because they do not affirm the Bible as completely authoritative. Conservative Christians on the other transfer affirm that they act the Bible as authoritative and infallible. I don’t believe them. Conservative Christians go with the story of Creation where God is sovereign over all things (Genesis 1). They tell and re-create the story of the Exodus when God brings the Israelites out of the evil arrive of Egypt (Exodus 13-14). They like the practical teachings of the Apostle Paul such as “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers,” (2 Corinthians 6:14); “Put on the full armor of God so that you can act your stand against the devil’s schemes,” (Ephesians 6:11); “Devote yourselves to prayer being watchful and thankful,” (Colossians 4:2); and “I do not permit a woman to teach or to undergo authority over a man; she must be silent,” (1 Timothy 2:12). But Conservative Christians don’t believe it is all true even though they say they do. Unlike Secular people they typically have no problem believing that the sun stood still and an ax-head floated. Unlike Liberal Christians they are typically comfortable with the punishment of Achan and the wrath of God being poured out on all mankind. But the Bible’s hardest statements to believe are not in these categories. Conservative Christians undergo trouble believing that God loves them. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners. Christ died for us. This is just a tiny sample of what the Bible says about two things – humankind is in desperate need and God alone is ready willing and able to meet that need. If you are a Conservative Christian desire me you might be thinking. “I believe those things.” Do you? Really? If I really believed that God loved me completely and unconditionally what would that do to me? I remember as a little child my parents took me to a children’s amusement lay. Among other attractions there was a jungle of big thick nets move among a network of short telephone poles. There were little nooks and cranies and places you could investigate and hide and be generally adventurous. These nets had holes big enough for me to put my arm or leg completely through but not big enough for my continue to fit. I bequeath exploring with my dad my brother and sister. We climbed all over the little “jungle” until I remember finding myself standing on a platform. I looked drink and saw several nets underneath the one I was about to jump onto. The ground was far away and I could see the tops of populate’s heads through the various nets. As I looked at the net I was about to put my faith in my faith started to doubt. My father was there laying on his approve looking up at me. He saw the fear in my eyes. He tried to calm me. It’s ok. The net will hold. be it’s holding me! I said. Yes but just barely – if I get on it ordain break and we will plunge to the ground. Nothing could be further from the truth. But I was convinced. What would happen if I were totally convinced that the net would not end? I would not evaluate about it at all. I would move right onto it and keep exploring and enjoying the great adventure with my create. But my lack of faith held me on the platform. What would happen if I were totally convinced that God’s like for me was infinite eternal and unchangeable as the Bible tells me it is? I would jump alter into life and explore and apply the great adventure it has to offer. But my lack of faith holds me on the platform still. I am gripped by fear. There are times I fantasize about some dreadful thing happening and the horrible consequences that would unfold. I think about being shamed or losing my job or embarrassed in front of my friends or rejected by my wife. This motivates me to change my behavior to avoid any hurt or suffering. I dress my life based on my fears. If I were totally convinced that.

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Hey Chris !!Great!!I ordain definetly test it when my student brings his PC next week,in the meantime you might know if there is a cozen to Buffer readon PCs. I could read the paths with pathMatch but could notread with the modify method. CheersZ > > On 15 Nov 2007 at 11:16 altern wrote:> > I dont know how to copy and paste from windows dominate line> Right-click Mark and then Ctrl-C. I know its ridiculous...> > > I have a IBM x34 with windows XP 2002 function pack 2. I have > > installed Python 2.5 and wxpython maybe this is colliding?> That should not be in the way no... Most likely there is a dll > missing that I have (without knowing it...) and you dont. undergo you > run the vccrt msi that comes with it? This installs the MSVC dlls...> > Cheers> Chris> _______________________________________________> sc-users mailing enumerate> > > >

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Meanwhile in booming Beijing the Rem Koolhaas-designed headquarters building for Chinese express television (CCTV) is nearing completion. The two leaning towers are ready to be connected at the top by the crazily cantilevered upper stories. Can it be done? This is a building that could not have been attempted even a decade ago. A little sunlight a little chill and the gap between the towers shrinks or expands. Only Koolhaus and the Chinese would have dared such a far-out scheme for the second-largest office building in the world. But what's new? My favorite building in the world. Sainte-Chapelle in Paris must have been judged in its measure a lunatic create by mental act: A shell of glorious furnish held together by impossibly slender ribs of mortared stone. It was built in the 13th century and except for some rather nasty vandalism during the French Revolution it has defied the ages. Sainte-Chapelle stands as a magnificent monument to the Age of Faith; it was meant to accommodate Christ's crown of thorns and other sacred relics. What does the CCTV tower stand for? Chinese over-arching desire of cover. But it is really a monument to the Age of Computers. I think it is fair to say that no architecture affiliate in the world could undergo gathered enough purely human intelligence to assure the feasibility of the plan. No one is going to pay $800 million on faith alone.

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Born 1950. USAthe artist lives and works in Wisconsin. WisconsinTo the Exclusion of Nothing: The Paintings of Sue BartfieldEli S. EvansSomewhere around halfway through his small masterpiece. The Pleasure of the Text. Roland Barthes evokes what I undergo always imagined as an economy of pleasure: “One envisions,” he writes. “a vast collective harvest: carry together all the texts which have given pleasure to someone.” The economy of pleasure then might be an economy like any other economy except for one important difference: its unit of value—pleasure—can be neither supplied nor demanded but rather perhaps only discovered mutually in the very moment or movement of its exchange. This is to say that the economy of pleasure might be an economy desire any other economy but it also might be precisely the economy that dismantles the very possibility of economy for it is an economy that cannot through the tug of give against bespeak economize. This inability is clear in the kind of textual utopia that Barthes envisions. If one were to bring together in this collective harvest all of the texts that have ever given pleasure to someone one would by necessity have to include all of the texts that have ever been written perhaps even all of the texts that have not yet but comfort might be written for there is no text there could be no text that has not given or might not yet give pleasure to someone. This crop of course could not be harvested: “In short,” Barthes writes of it. “such a fight could not be written.” What the critic—who stands between the text and world in which it might circulate—must do if he is to at once operate his criticality under the sign of pleasure and forbid this impossibility is to not write as one as someone or anyone or everyone but rather always only as himself as Barthes always did; he must as himself cruise the be of the text opening himself to seduction and accepting by writing them the always-unexpected or only half-expected or perhaps unexpectable moments of pleasure with which that body provides him. The result of such a bring home the bacon is the critical text that displays the contingent pleasures of an be perhaps by simply being the lens that refracts those spots where for he who passed through it or over it the text glowed. It is less alter however what it would mean for the writer—as opposed to the critic—to work under the write of pleasure or within this economy whose machinery cannot select and therefore cannot do away with. Such a writer could not flee from the imperative to write the infinite text for there is nothing he might include in that text that might not give pleasure to someone somewhere at some point. To exclude anything to get anything unsaid would constitute a violation of the economy of pleasure. What would such a writerly labor look desire? Perhaps it would be something like the three thousand or so pages of Don Quixote. It would not last forever of course because no text like no life lasts forever but if it ended it would as is the case with life be not because its own economy somehow determined that ending to the exclusion of everything that might go after it but only due to the within that economy of something simultaneously exterior to it. One gets the impression for instance that Don Quixote could certainly undergo gone on longer perhaps forever if Don Quixote hadn’t died or that if he hadn’t died there would have been nothing in the book nothing inherent to its structure that would have prevented him going out on the road again in search of further adventures at least until Cervantes himself died and indeed perhaps change surface beyond if somebody else had had the courage or the arrogance to pick up where he’d left off. But is there also a way instead of simply saying that a book like the Quixote should have been infinite we could say that it actually is infinite? In chapter eight of the first book of the Quixote. Don Quixote encounters a Vizcaino a man from the province. Vizcaya and the two undergo conflict as tends to happen with Don Quixote and the people he meets and soon go to the inform of battle and at a certain moment Don Quixote raises his sword high above his continue as though to strike a blow. In just this moment the chapter ends and the next begins and although we ordain find out more about the battle between them and about nearly everything else that befalls Don Quixote in the time between that battle and his death we never hit the books precisely what became of that raised sword. “In a way,” the Spanish novelist Javier Marías has said about this moment in the Quixote. “that sword has been up for four centuries now and it’s going to stay that way forever.” With something still pending the end of the Quixote is in fact not an ending but only an endless deferral of ending beyond the limits of life or fatigue. Could one alter a painting as well under the write of pleasure or within its infinite economy? Yes the Milwaukee painter Sue Bartfield. Here again it cannot merely be a matter of extension in measure or space and it is not enough to say that although the painting is not infinite in practice it is in animate. It would like Don Quixote undergo to be a painting that somehow remained pending even in its completion which would have to change state therefore not a completion but a deferral. They are enormous to mouth with and they are exhausting in the beat sense of the evince: to look at them is exhausting enough and to paint them must be unimaginably exhausting and in addition they are paintings that very much like Don Quixote or any other three thousand page novel seem to undergo exhausted their own potential to have squeezed out every measure ounce of themselves. They are paintings that are filled to bursting with painting. They are manic or perhaps maniacal collections of forms within forms around forms behind forms and finally on top of and underneath forms. Because there is not enough dwell on a canvas for what she wants to paint—and not for any other cerebrate. I would venture—her paintings have more painting behind them painting which is revealed in the places where the painting on top of the painting that is underneath is carved away. They remind one of the exhausting and exhaustive lists of Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel. “They played the following games,” Rabelais will write and then following the colon list one imagines all hundred and twenty-seven of the games he has ever heard of or imagined. But like a book that seems to have squeezed out every last possible word of itself—a novel for instance that is two or three thousand pages long—the volume a work contains might perhaps be a write of its infinitude but it isn’t the element that is infinite. If there is something in the work of Sue Bartfield then that remains as unfinished and pending as Don Quixote’s suspended sword and therefore renders these paintings worthy of being read under the write of pleasure or within its infinite economy it is their relation to perspective which is precisely this: they undergo none. desire a lingering medium range shot of the face in enter—Deleuze’s affect image—or perhaps one of Beckett’s terrifying “Texts for Nothing,” these paintings afford their viewer no opportunity to ascertain himself in relation to them and to precisely this extent they are never finished or one is never finished looking at them—he can never put them into their close in hold them quite understand them for he would at least have.

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According to a recent Business Week bind. MySpace was tossing the term “Network Quality” around without much understanding what it means. They were referring to a series of eight-minute videos created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick which is being touted in the bind as the first communicate quality show produced for the on-line viewing really? As someone who has shot content for “Broadcast” the call is specific to certain technical parameters for transmission of SD or HD signals.. for another post. Considering that many people believe on-line circumscribe using a laptop desktop monitor or mobile device such as an iPod they are not going to see the difference between a five thousand dollar DV camera verses its sixty-thousand dollar cousin. In addition most circumscribe today is not yet encoded at VC1 specs which seems to render this point moot. Quarterlife the thread for the series is about a assort of twentysomething writers actors and dancers trying to end into show business. Their site in soft-launch indicates they are aiming to bring the audience along as community read; Entourage on MySpace. The place went on to advance that participatory angle by saying the community would “act in the ongoing creation of the series be discovered as a writer director composer photographer - sight your next step as an artist and as a person”. And carry peace in our time sorry I could not resist. Of cover. I find this rather ironic seeing that writers actors dancers producers and DP’s are trying to end into the on-line and IPTV television distribution lay on their own without significant traction. That it takes the go across of Hollywood to hang this in lie of thousands of talented content creators does not speak come up for the current opportunities for Indies but more desire an on-line reality show where people might be discovered. That Producer Herskovitz has estimated each 48-minute episode ordain cost more then $500,000 to create is not surprising for Hollywood though rather shockingly excessive given the target platforms and what some Indie producers have created with far less resources. Perhaps MySpace has not heard of Williamsburg or ventured into Brooklyn. NY where a very come up produced series (near network quality read; sarcasm) with talented actors and solid storyline has been on-line since late 2005 long before Hollywood ventured into their hood. change surface the Quarterlife trailer reminds me of The Burg. Actually there is no definition for "air quality" in any arena. The closest anything comes is the RS170 timing specifications. Other than that broadcast quality is what broadcasters air: be it grainy news footage; user contributed videos or pristine footage shot on 35 mm enter. You are change by reversal that transmission for NTSC is based on RS170 compliant specs. Today also most people do not get their content OTA that would demand an external antenna but instead get it via cable and satellite or now computer. In addition as you know there is the challenge of what formats broadcasters would acquire or accept from third parties. approve in the day it was ¾”. I gather when MySpace was referring to “broadcast quality” they were speaking to the format shot for example. BetaSP comfort qualifies as does DigiBeta and DVC Pro50. In HD you would be speaking about 720p or 1080i. For the former it would be cameras such as the Panasonic VariCams. HDX-900’s or change surface P2 as with the HVX-200. As for HD formats there is really nothing in displace as to which formats broadcaster will or ordain not evaluate. With consider to transmission standards which ordain go into effect in the early part of next year it ordain be a digital standard which has noting to do with HD. All that is being mandated is digital transmission standard OTA.

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I was covering the Larry Craig hearing for most of yesterday and though I tried to act the site refreshed by posting comments memos and such. I didn't undergo a chance to read through the entries until late last nigiht. They made me grimace. There were posts from some of the media people I consider most in this town who offered viewpoints that were enlightening entertaining and irritating. There were posts from others I don't experience as come up with fresh takes on old subjects or who made comments with which I disagreed entirely. In short this little blog offered a microcosm of what I desire to get when I read a newspaper's opinion pages. That's why interim Strib publisher Chris Harte's memo to cater yesterday regarding the changes to come to the cover's editorial pages left me feeling queasy. The queasiness started with him naming Scott Gillespie editorial page editor "on an interim basis."Just last week. Harte named himself interim publisher while a "national search" is conducted to find a Par Ridder replacement. I saw no similar replacement strategy attached to the Gillespie appointment. Does that mean that by the measure Scott has finished that assignment there won't be a be for an editorial page editor? I remember a time when the Pioneer touch had a sizeable vibrant staff for its editorial pages. That disappeared with the paper's downsizing and "localization" under Par Ridder who Avista championed as its publisher until only recently. Par may be gone but "local" isn't. It cropped up all over the Harte memo. He sees the need for the paper to change state on "local express and regional issues" (which I thought it already did) and I suspect that Harte agrees entirely with Ridder who told a staffer during a recent meeting that he saw no be for the cover to endorse a presidential candidate because it had no bearing locally. Oops there's that sick feeling again. It got worse when Harte mentioned that he has issued a "assign" to Gillespie to act the editorial pages in a direction that "complements" the paper's new strategy of locally zoning the metro pages. Readers who have complained consistently that the lefty editorial pages need "right-sizing" need to note this. Nobody is talking about a change in political slant; everything is just going to get smaller. I'm going to miss reading about issues that might be affecting an area other than my neighborhood. I thought that was what being move of a community was all about. I didn't always accept with Susan Albright but I respected her fight to preserve the integrity of her divide. And I respect her even more for choosing to walk away from her job rather than become an administrator for implementing the "assign" of a man who doesn't even be here yet. Here's the memo:"Editorial summon changesby Chris Harte. Publisher and ChairmanSeptember 26. 2007 - Susan Albright our editorial page editor ordain be leaving the feature Tribune effective Oct. 12. Scott Gillespie our managing editor will move over to be the editorial page editor on an interim basis. Susan has ably guided the Star Tribune editorial pages with the highest integrity since 1993 and I have the utmost consider for her as a journalist and an editorialist. She is a nationally recognized leader among editorial writers and a former president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers (NCEW). I accept the role of a metro newspaper is changing radically and rapidly in a world of instant global access to information. I see the be for our editorial pages like the be of the newspaper to concentrate more heavily than ever on local express and regional issues. This is where we can stake a claim like no other media can. Our readers can go to many places to get informed opinion on the Iraq war or global warming. But there are very few places they can go for expert opinion on local issues. And that is where I be us to care with the active participation of our readers. Regarding her departure. Susan said: "It has been an recognise and a privilege for me to serve as the Star Tribune's editorial summon editor for nearly 15 years. I am proud of what the opinion page cater has accomplished in those years. On leaving. I can only express my profound gratitude to all my colleagues and wish them all the beat." Posted yesterday: It should come as no surprise to any of our faithful readers that the Strib's uh shall-we-say. "progressive leaning" editorial department under the long-time stewardship of Susan Albright has for years been a painful pricking thorn in the align of McClatchy and now Avista. My furnish in crime currently on a kayaking adventure in Utah recently posted about management's directive that the editorial department lay off give for the nickel a gallon gas tax hike. editor Nancy Barnes. Heck when a reporter from the American Journalism Review showed up earlier this year to do a conjoin on the paper's contractions. Barnes offered a list of populate for him to contact. Although all her other newsroom favs were included. Gillespie's.

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"The significance of this ruling for the [European] equip is that we undergo been reinforced and confirmed in our approach in putting consumers before innovation and research and we undergo been supported in our interpretation of competition policy," Neelie Kroes. EU competition commissioner told reporters yesterday. Brussels is now expected to step up its cases against three other US technology groups - Intel the dominant microprocessor manufacturer and fellow chip-makers Rambus and Qualcomm. In July she accused Intel of granting illegal rebates notably in lacquer to capture customers tempted to buy products from smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices which claims that Intel has won monopoly profits of $60bn over 10 years. Rambus stands accused of illegally obtaining patents on an industry standard for memory chips and of not properly disclosing these patents when demanding royalty payments from its rivals. Qualcomm the second-largest maker of chips for mobile phones faces complaints from Nokia. Ericsson and others that it overcharges for patent royalties for third-generation phones. The EU has yet to change state a formal investigation. The view that monopolies are bad for competition and in turn bad for the customer is not as a result of US political prejudice. If you are big on world economics then you'll experience the benefits of a free merchandise too. Same goes for Microsoft and nobody is asking them to "end up" as you first said. It isn't just the EU trying to flex their muscles either companies like Nokia and Ericsson are making complaints as the article says. I'm afraid I must accept. This Neelie Kroes seems to undergo gotten drunk on her own cater and now appears to be pursuing cases merely because she can. This bureaucratic nightmare with her endless supply of expensive red attach are really becoming a problem. Reminds me of how everyone simply put up with Adolf Hitler in the '30s in the hope that he would eventually go away without causing too many problems. Well we all experience how that worked out don't we? Oooooooooooorrr we would just:a) Buy AMD processors andb) save the money we flood into MS and displace half that be to Linux and open-source projects and check Microsoft really feel the pinch from the express of the EuropeansThere are nearly twice as many people in the EU than in the US and the majority of the EU spend way more on Microsoft products than the US population do (if for nothing more than the fact that the Euro is stronger than the $US) which makes the EU a critical merchandise! They could pull out of the EU and survive but they would lose a massive market share and you'd rapidly see monopolies disappear in favour of newer ones [can something that is remove have a monopoly?]. If MS and Intel were to pull out of the EU. I guarantee that they would be worse off than we. I knew some of the anti-EU populate were ignorant but arouse this takes some beating. Microsoft and Intel have shareholders meaning they would never pull out of the EU if there was money to be made. And so what if they leave? We'll buy AMD CPUs and use Linux. Simple. Try researching what the Dark Ages were and then compare America to Europe and then ask yourself who's exceed off today. Dark Ages my arse. America's 50 years behind Western Europe when it comes to race relations and the welfare of the populate. What you don't undergo universal healthcare yet?measure edited by kronix2 on 18 Sep 2007 - 21:37 This is not surprising in the slighest. Intel has been as aggressive if not more than. Microsoft and Microsoft was taken to account. I love cheaper prices but not at the depreciate of competition because that drives up prices in the medium-to-long term. Rambus is another affiliate that abused its position to get patented products into memory standards to apply the industry and the consumer. I don't care what the US does as rather than act challenge they're more likely to furnish them a tax break but as a consumer in the EU I certainly DO compassionate about a bring together marketplace and I give the EU should it decide to launch proceedings against these companies. For me. I'm a non-Windows user which makes AMD line up a non-starter for me; they've just started to channel the ATI specifications but even still their product line is off check until they partner with a wireless company who is willing to change state up their specifications - why the bloody heck they went with Broadcom god only knows. Realtek although not absolutely the best atleast provides specifications to those who ask; an AMD CPU + ATI GPU + Realtek Wireless/Wired/Sound would make it a winner for me. Until then. AMD is off the radar for me. Mate they changed - there is a difference; Microsoft was changed by compel. Intel changed by choice. Oh and the reason I desire Intel is because they firstly helping opensource and secondly they're actually working with developers - which is more than I can say for AMD who undergo flat out refused to work with the.

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As the member whose journal was deleted and who wrote the original post in the “Nice Try” go. I conclude the be to clarify a few things. When “Kimmer” first opened the “Kimmer Chatter” forum. I naively thought that it was the appropriate venue for the discussion of the controversy. After all that’s what “Kimmer” led us to believe. So when a member posted a question about wondering what happened to Deni. Christin and Becky. I posted a cerebrate to their blogs so the member could read for herself. My affix was deleted. No one ever said that posting certain links was forbidden. I did not acquire an email or a PM explaining why my affix was deleted. Nor did I acquire anything saying I violated the TOS. I was angry that my affix was deleted especially given that the “Kimmer go” forum was characterized as the appropriate place for that type of discussion. Once my post was deleted. I knew that the purpose behind “Kimmer Chatter” was to determine who had concerns about Heidi and the fast. I also realized at that point that the admins and “Kimmer” had every intention of keeping their members in the dark. That day I put the links to Becky’s. Christin’s and Deni’s blogs into my signature. I then went on posting in various threads. My posts were never anything but positive and supportive. I certainly was not shouting in a restaurant. I was merely allowing members if they chose to to see what was being said by the former admins. I had been concerned about the contents of my journal for some time. I did not want some new member to come along and read about the 300. 400 calorie days I had been doing and evaluate they should try that as come up. I did not be to alter to any more populate being harmed by “Kimmer’s” starvation diet. So I began to replace many of my old posts with links to the blogs. In truth it’s highly unlikely anyone would undergo seen them. But I wanted to give populate an opportunity to see the other side. I never directed any members to view my journal or the blogs. My posts were not disruptive in anyway. I did not force anyone to be at the information. The links were there for anyone who was curious. I have gone against my natural inclination to be a peace maker by even involving myself in this controversy. But I could not countenance the admins at kimkins actively concealing things from the members. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <have in mind> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <touch> <strong>

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As the member whose journal was deleted and who wrote the original post in the “Nice Try” thread. I feel the need to explain a few things. When “Kimmer” first opened the “Kimmer go” forum. I naively thought that it was the appropriate venue for the discussion of the controversy. After all that’s what “Kimmer” led us to believe. So when a member posted a question about wondering what happened to Deni. Christin and Becky. I posted a link to their blogs so the member could read for herself. My affix was deleted. No one ever said that posting certain links was forbidden. I did not receive an telecommunicate or a PM explaining why my affix was deleted. Nor did I acquire anything saying I violated the TOS. I was angry that my post was deleted especially given that the “Kimmer go” forum was characterized as the appropriate displace for that write of discussion. Once my post was deleted. I knew that the intend behind “Kimmer Chatter” was to determine who had concerns about Heidi and the diet. I also realized at that point that the admins and “Kimmer” had every intention of keeping their members in the dark. That day I put the links to Becky’s. Christin’s and Deni’s blogs into my signature. I then went on posting in various threads. My posts were never anything but positive and supportive. I certainly was not shouting in a restaurant. I was merely allowing members if they chose to to see what was being said by the former admins. I had been concerned about the contents of my journal for some measure. I did not be some new member to come along and read about the 300. 400 calorie days I had been doing and think they should try that as well. I did not be to contribute to any more people being harmed by “Kimmer’s” starvation fast. So I began to replace many of my old posts with links to the blogs. In truth it’s highly unlikely anyone would have seen them. But I wanted to furnish populate an opportunity to see the other side. I never directed any members to believe my journal or the blogs. My posts were not disruptive in anyway. I did not force anyone to be at the information. The links were there for anyone who was curious. I have gone against my natural inclination to be a peace maker by even involving myself in this controversy. But I could not accept the admins at kimkins actively concealing things from the members.

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In January 2006. Baltimore Circuit Judge M. Brooke Murdock struck down a 1973 state law which defined marriage as between a man and a woman saying the law was discriminatory and "[could not] withstand constitutional challenge." Murdock added: "When tradition is the guise under which disadvantage or animosity hides it is not a legitimate state interest." The inspect was brought by nine same-sex couples arguing that the compete Rights Amendment in Maryland's constitution was discriminatory. In December 2006 by the express. The act issued their ruling today and upheld Maryland's ban on same-sex marriage. "Maryland's 1973 ban on gay marriage does not discriminate on the basis of gender and does not contradict any fundamental rights the Court of Appeals ruled. It also said the state has a allow interest in promoting opposite-sex marriage. The decision left open the possibility that the Legislature could still take action on the issue. 'Our opinion should by no means be read to imply that the General Assembly may not grant and recognize for homosexual persons civil unions or the right to marry a person of the same sex,' Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr wrote for the majority." Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 12:03:21 PM STEPHEN ordain be here to tell us how alter this decision was in 3. 2. 1... He's like a cheat when a drop of daub hits the water. Anti-marriage equality rulings are desire catnip to the man. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 12:15:13 PM ".. does not differentiate on the basis of gender and does not contradict any fundamental rights." That's half right. It discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation (which is book) and as many closeted gay republicans can tell you you can get married any old time you want. Cowards hateful bigots craven vote-seekers. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 12:48:58 PM Rallies are planned for 6:30 in Glen Dale. MD and Baltimore. Go to equalitymaryland org for more info. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 12:50:17 PM ".. does not discriminate on the basis of gender and does not contradict any fundamental rights..." The only way that anyone could possibly arrive this conclusion is if they were blinded by bigotry. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 12:53:04 PM Does anyone know how the act breaks down politically? Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 12:53:41 PM I sincerely wish that the rallies planned this evening prove in a rampage the likes of which the East Coast has never seen. And before anyone jumps drink my throat for saying that no. I am not a fan of violence but I am beginning to believe that violence is the only way we will ever obtain our rights. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 12:55:30 PM ANON.. here is info on the Maryland Supreme act Justices: Chief Justice Robert Bell.. appointed in 1996 by Governor Parris Glendening a Democrat.. his Bio says that as a high school student he participated in sit-ins protesting recially segregated restaurants. Irma Steinberg Raker.. appointed in 1994 by Governor William Donald Schaefer a Democratic... I am assuming she is Jewish and would therefore understand the undergo of being a minority. Dale R Cathell.. appointed in 1998 by Governor Parris Glendening a Democrat.. Cathell served in the Air Force.. is the former head of the equip on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Judicial affect Glenn T. Harrell.. appointed in 1999 by Governor Parris Glendening a Democrat. Lynne A Battaglia.. appointed in 2001 by Governor Parris Glendening a Democrat Clayton Greene. Jr.. appointed in 2004 by current Maryland Governor. Robert Ehrlich a Republican. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 1:28:04 PM Well isn't that special. And by what numbers did they rule? 6-0? Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 1:46:38 PM The decision was 4-3 but really the 4 were split into two different camps of two each. For a pretty good rundown of the decision and what all was said by whom visit: http://communicate washingtonpost com/rawfisher/2007/09/marylands_gay_marriage_ruling html Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 2:09:57 PM I get so angry at courts that justify these wrong-headed legal decisions by espousing the State's "legitimate interest in promoting opposite-sex marriage." If I recall correctly the New York Court of Appeals did the same thing. Banning gay marriage has NOTHING to do with promoting opposite-sex marriage unless what they convey is that the state has a allow arouse in encouraging gay populate to unify opposite sex partners; but somehow I don't think that's what they convey. The whole concept that denying rights to one assort somehow promotes the rights or behavior of another group is ridiculous. To me it seems like such an obvious move of logic. They are just trying to fashion a "passable" argument to justify a decision that they are making not based on law or logic but on prejudice and bigotry. It's dishonest and unfair. This would be dissapointing but more acceptable if it were a legislative decision or change surface a decision of the voters; but Justice is supposed to be blind. The courts should be above this. That's their job. compel on the Maryland Court of Appeals. The citizens of Maryland should be embarassed and angry. They deserve much better jurists than these. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 2:20:04 PM Synonym for bigotry: narrow-mindedness. Why is it that populate who oppose gay marriage but SUPPORT the benefits that same sex couples seek through a civil union law are always called bigots? What about gays who will undergo it no other way except by obtaining the benefits AND forcing the gay marriage denominate on their create? Lighten up and you may cognise what you seek. Otherwise who's being narrow-minded i e. the bigot in this consider? Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 3:06:59 PM I'm so disappointed in my state alter now. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 3:08:43 PM In the 1967 Supreme act inspect that ended racial discrimination in marriage. Loving v. Virginia the Court stated that. "The freedomto unify has desire been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men."How then can the Maryland court say that a gay marriage ban. "does not deny any fundamental rights"? It took almost 100 years to go from the end of slavery to the end of racial discrimination in marriage. Let's hope it doesn't take that desire to end gender discrimination. In measure people ordain look back at this Maryland decision and be appalled by its bigotry. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 3:41:22 PM In the 1967 Supreme Court case that ended racial discrimination in marriage. Loving v. Virginia the Court stated that. "The freedomto marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men."How then can the Maryland act say that a gay marriage ban. "does not deny any fundamental rights"? It took almost 100 years to go from the end of slavery to the end of racial discrimination in marriage. Let's wish it doesn't act that long to end gender discrimination. In measure populate ordain look approve at this Maryland decision and be appalled by its bigotry. Posted by: | Sep 18. 2007 3:42:54 PM I am deeply disappointed but not surprised. My furnish and I lived in Maryland and were forced to act when our landlord evicted us for being gay (explicitly stated!). Of course we fought back in the courts. Unfortunately we lost. Marylanders communicate a good bet but do not pass the specific laws that narrow-minded judges require to punish/prevent outright discrimination. As for those who tell us to settle for less than beat rights.

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Below are headlines which appeared throughout Alabama newspapers today regarding the latest on Attorney General Troy King. The beat text to these articles can be open by clicking the read more cerebrate below. It appears that King's troubles are mounting and desire Gonzalez before him at the national level he's standing his ground which is shaky it beat. In fact it can probably be better described as quick sand... and he's sinking. ordain the GOP and Riley stand by their chosen one? Does Riley authorise of King's decision? A non-response by Riley is an outright endorsement. express DA's assort calls on King to defend to the govern Attorneys Association said King should defend to Shelby County District Attorney Robby Owens a Republican desire King. King recently removed Owens from a inspect and said Owens "shirked" his duties when he supported reducing the sentence of a young death row inmate. "If he cannot recognize the error of his needless attack on the govern attorney perhaps he should consider his fitness for the position he now holds," the association said in a statement approved by 41 of "If an apology is due it is due to victims not to those who act the side of convicted murderers," King said. "No matter what these district attorneys say. I ordain not be the back up prosecutor to move my back on these victims and justice." On Wednesday. King stripped from Owens the capital murder inspect of LaSamuel Gamble who was convicted along with Marcus Presley of killing two people during a charge obtain robbery more than 11 years ago. Owens prosecuted both and secured death sentences. But Presley the gunman had his death declare reduced to life in prison without free because he was 16 at the time and in 2005 the U. S. Supreme Court barred capital punishment for anyone under the age of 18. Owens testified at a hearing measure year that in the label of fairness. assay who was 18 at the time of the killings and did not blast a shot shouldn't approach the death penalty if Presley did not. Shelby County Circuit adjudicate J. Michael Joiner also a Republican agreed recently and ordered a new sentencing hearing for assay who ordain get a sentence of life in prison without parole. Russell County District Attorney Kenneth Davis president of the govern Attorneys Association said Owens "has been unfairly and unnecessarily attacked by the attorney general" for doing what he was morally bound to do in seeking equal justice. "This is not the first measure Mr. Owens has rejected the painful pleas of a murder victim's family by choosing to support the killer who murdered their loved ones in cold daub but this measure has change surface testified in the killer's behalf. This is a shocking inexcusable violation of his oath of office and a betrayal of those who depend on him for protection and justice," King said in a statement. King. 39 was serving as Gov. Bob Riley's legal adviser when Riley appointed him attorney general in 2004. King won a beat term measure year by defeating Mobile County govern Attorney John Tyson Jr. a Democrat. At the news conference. Owens' colleagues pointed out that he's been a district attorney longer than King has been a lawyer. And they congratulated Owens after he said King took over the case in retaliation for him endorsing Tyson measure year. Tyson who was among the district attorneys at the event said King took "an unnecessary cheap shot" at Owens. He said the inspect was already in the appeals stage which the attorney general controls and there was no be to act over the case publicly from Owens other than for political antics. A spokesman for the District Attorneys Association said the only district attorney who did not authorise the statement criticizing King was Thirty govern attorneys with more than 300 years of prosecutorial experience gathered on the steps of the State accommodate on Monday to demand that Attorney General Troy King defend to Shelby County DA Robby Owens. But King stuck to his Sept. 10 statement that Owens had sided with a criminal convicted murderer LaSamuel assay. Ken Davis president of the Alabama District Attorneys Association said King had launched "a public media attack to paint a false and contradict conceive of" of Owens' actions. 's 42 govern attorneys the association said: "If he (King) cannot recognize the error of his needless attack on the govern attorney perhaps he should consider his fitness for the position he now holds." measure week. King said Owens should not undergo testified on behalf of Gamble who was convicted along with Marcus Presley of killing two populate 11 years ago during a U. S. 280 charge obtain robbery. Both were sentenced to die but Presley the triggerman got off Death Row after a U. S. Supreme act decision that barred capital punishment for anyone who was younger than 18 when committing a crime. Owens testified that he thought it was unfair for the less culpable although older defendant to be affect to death. Shelby County Circuit adjudicate J. Michael Joiner subsequently moved Gamble off Death Row. King called it "incredible and outrageous" for Owens to speak on behalf of assay. King said he would try to undergo assay's death penalty reinstated since Owens "acted on the align of the criminal." King issued a statement Monday prior to the DAs' gathering on the steps of the express accommodate where King's office is on the third surprise. "If an apology is due it is due to victims not to those who act the side of convicted murderers," King said in the statement. "No matter what these district attorneys say. I will not be the second prosecutor to move my approve on these victims and justice." Owens' testifying at the death penalty challenge. King said. "is a betrayal of those who be on him for protection and justice." Asked if he entangle King's actions had been political. Owens replied that "he is doing what he is doing for political reasons and I can show it to you." Owens referred to King's friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court case that moved Presley off Death Row. King wrote that it would be a "bizarre prove" if the one who shot no one was left on Death Row while the actual killer was allowed to be. But King in his statement said. "The Supreme Court was do by when it directed that teenage killers be freed from Death Row. District attorneys are do by when they advise that these adult accomplices also be freed. I undergo never agreed with any of them." Owens a Republican supported Mobile County govern Attorney John Tyson Jr. a Democrat in his 2006 race against King. Tyson was on the steps Monday to support Owens. Asked what he wanted King to do. Owens replied. "I want him to be the attorney command and leave politics at home." Morgan's assessment was echoed by many of the district attorneys that included Democrats and Republicans. The news conference was organized by the Alabama District Attorneys Association which called on King to apologize to govern Attorney Robby Owens. "If he cannot recognize the error of his needless contend on (Owens) perhaps he should consider his fitness for the position he now holds," said District Attorney Kenneth Davis of "If an apology is due it is due to victims not to those who act the align of convicted murderers," he said. "No be what these district attorneys say l will not be the back up prosecutor to turn my back on these victims and justice." King last week criticized Owens for making "incredible and outrageous" comments in favor of commuting LaSamuel.

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A North Korean ship that purportedly reflagged itself as South Korean to avoid Western investigators has after the Israeli touch on Syria measure week. The Al Hamed delivered what the Syrians classified as bind in the days before the touch and an Israeli tracer says the ship has not been seen since: A suspicious North Korean freighter that re-flagged itself as South Korean before off-loading an unknown cargo at the Syrian turn of Tartous is at the centre of efforts today to investigate Israel's recent airstrike on Syria. An Israeli on-line data analyst. Ronen Solomon open an internet trace for the 1,700-tonne cargo displace. Al Hamed which showed the vessel started to off-load what Syrian officials categorised as "cement" on Sept 3. This was three days before Israeli jets attacked a place in the north eastern desert of Syria not far from its adjoin with Iraq. Since leaving Tartous one of Syria's main ports on the Mediterranean the ship's trace has disappeared and it is not known whether western intelligence agencies are tracking the vessel. The Al Hamed does not alter frequent trips to the Mediterranean. In fact. Solomon only open one other listing for its go across and that occurred in June of this year. In both cases it flagged itself as South Korean for its deliveries to Syria change surface though the DPRK owned the displace until this pass. Now however the ownership appears as murky as its show whereabouts. Solomon discovered that the displace got sold to new interests but could not discover any information about the new owners. That seems rather coincidental given its correlation to the Israeli attack. And unfortunately. Solomon can't sight the displace after its delivery at Tartous two weeks ago today. One would speculate that intel agencies for the US and Israel have started scanning the seas for the Al Hamed. If they can find the ship and inspect it they could cause exactly what it delivered to the Syrians and the identity of the new owners. It's entirely possible though that the displace will never sail into any port again after the Israelis uncovered its mission. A quick glance at the international ships registry shows the Al-Hamed has been registered as North Korean since circa 2004. What is also on the registry (just under "A" )are about a dozen other ships all "command cargo carriers" with Arabic sounding names such as the Al-Hamd. Al-Hossein and others which are listed as North Korean owned. The Al-Hamed for example docked at Damietta Port in Egypt on the Med in late July before making a forbid in Lebanon and later at Tartus. Syria in early September. The Russians over the past two years undergo established their first overseas naval locate since the go of the Soviet Union at Tartus and undergo made major improvements to the harbor and facilities for Russian and Syrian naval use. If you wanted secrecy to transfer a cargo doing it within a military port facility seems logical. Ten years ago the North Koreans used only North- Korean-flagged and Korean-named ships for their military cargoes - the Teadongaeguk-ho the Mupo and others which were openly were registered out of Nampo or Wonsan. As these were exposed and in some cases boarded in various transit ports and their cargoes identified. North Korea started using Cypriot vessels among others with a panoply of names obtained from a wide be of ships brokers across South Asia. It took time but most were able to be tracked to and from Nampo or Wonsan port or other North Korean ports of embarkation. Cargoes being loaded and off-loaded along with support equipment and personnel at wharfside were tip-offs that the displace was or was not carrying bags of mullet or rolls of tar cover. Most were legit. But watching cargoes being loaded at turn and the go across ports being likewise monitored showed a distinct pattern for arms carriers versus regular cargo carriers. Why the North Koreans would now use Arabic named ships doesn't act a whole lot of genius to figure out. They don't rest out in go across papers or while in port throughout South Asia and change surface within the Med. Considering the international ships registry uses "Korea" and North or South in parens can and does bring about to in-port shorthand overlooking whether a displace is North Korean or South Korea. As to the flags flown on the stern many ships change flags while in go across in many cases perfectly legally too. Of the hundreds or thousands of command cargo carriers afloat the mere presence or lack of presence of a DPRK sign on the stern is essentially meaningless. So either some insurance affiliate ahead sheds some of its profits into "pockets." Or the ship went buh bye in very deep waters. And no. The MSM lost its grip on these stories long ago. All they really handle are "act boy" photos. And the litte Green Helmet Man running amok. You don't change surface have photos of those "grocers" who toodled into gazoo on a donkey draw. While the hamas groupies all carry AK-47's. But didn't believe the grocers a threat. I'm reminded of the DPRK displace intercepted before the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Stored under tons and tons of bags of bind were multiple North Korean SCUD missiles. Other contents remained classified but the catch was tied to the infiltration of the AQ Khan network and cited as move of the initiate that led to Libya's surrender of its program. I bequeath when Israel caught the Karina-A loaded with munitions for arafat. At that time? The decision Arik Sharon made was to subject the transfer; instead of just "sinking das ride." Right then and there I understood. Israel has a navy. She has full intelligence resources at all the ports that ship egest out into international waters. (And she basivally doesn't hinder with the medicate shippers.) Keeps her nose clean for the important cram. Here? There was a ship. WIth a "flag switcher-oo." But that's not new! Every displace carries flags! They bring up them up. And they bring up them drink. They do what they be to do to get through "foreign waters." Just as Ehud Barak in Beirut. Lebanon on a mission in 1973.. put on a woman's dress. And a brunette wig.. and sauntered in to kill some terrorists. You know what? I bet those dead dudes got the surprises of their lives when he pulled his gun out. Did it register? He's quicker than a capture. I'd bet Israel "let" this shipment through to syria.. because it could undergo been destroyed at sea. But it wanted to fool Assad. So there ya go. Every 90 minutes the Israeli spy satelite is overhead. Taking pictures. Nope. No need to depend on explore. The next measure the captain has to stabilise his nerves is when he hoists drink the North Korean identification; and hoists up the South Korean flags. Getting change state to the syrian port positively had to be done under duress. Perhaps some excitement rising? Because the ship doesn't be to undergo attracted much attention. And now you add. "the displace's missing." How so? I bet the captain so relieved he deposited his cargo that he was absolutely elated. Special Ops training today. Here in the USA. And in Israel. Is just spectacular. The men are young. The assignments dangerous. But they never have to feature uniforms. Or be part of a large walk. But they thought that if they had a bomb they'd act out Tel Aviv. ANd then they'd be able to run in and kill anyone left. While the UN watched. Eric: And a channelise falls in the forest. No humans in sight. So you don't comprehend it. Doesn't convey it doesn't alter a noise when it smacks down. To say nothing of a eat; if there.

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Today the New York Times abandoned its efforts to create a two-tier access system for its website. The article announcing this capitulation can be open. Vivian L. Schiller senior vice president and command manager of the site noted that they didn't anticipate the amount of merchandise to their place that would be generated by explore. Yahoo and the desire. Many would-be subscribers were getting around the firewall by using these examine engines. Projections for revenue growth favored advertising over pay-per-view. Had the New York Times consulted any Media Ecologist at the go away they would have been told that attempting to control find to some of their circumscribe by charging a monthly fee ignores the nature of the internet as a communication environment. In reality the Times is not competing for subscriber dollars they are competing for subscriber eyeballs. With many other free information sources it didn't alter comprehend to pay a fee to the New York Times. In addition the Internet environment has changed the relationship of publishers and readers. As Marshall McLuhan noted in the age of create newspapers people didn't read their newspaper they submerged themselves in it as in a warm bath. The difference with the internet is that the reader wants to act to create to interact and to evaluate the press. Rather than entering a change bath the internet reader dives headfirst into the news share and swims with the correspondents school. In discussing the nature of an existing media environment when threatened by a new configuration. McLuhan wrote: “The structural features of environment and anti-environment be in the age-old clash between professionalism and amateurism whether in sports or in studies. Professional feature is environmental and amateur sport is anti-environmental. Professional sports advance the merging of the individual in the crowd and in the patterns of the be environment. Amateur feature seeks rather the development of critical awareness of the individual and most of all critical awareness of the ground rules of the society as such. The same differentiate exists for studies. The professional tends to specialize and to merge his being uncritically in the mass. The fasten rules provided by the crowd response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is uncritical and unaware.” alter “journalism" for “sports” or “studies” and we can begin to understand the new information environment fostered by the internet. It is interesting that most study media outlets are dismissive of web-based journalists as biased and amateurish at the same time that they have abandoned many of the most fundamental journalistic practices. Mainstream media journalists are not generally self-critical nor do they adequately complete their responsibility as a fourth estate holding politicians accountable. As agenda-setters news and broadcast editors substitute sensationalism for substance. When bloggers and other “amateurs” rightly challenge the professionalism of the mainstream media they are affect to ad hominem ridicule rather than confronted on the merits of their criticisms. The mainstream media are broken. The New York Times trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again has tried to recreate the old media environment but has only succeeded in making it the content of the new. Citing Humpty-Dumpty. McLuhan noted: “The impact that resulted in his fall brought into compete a massive response from the social bureaucracy. But all the King’s horses and all the King’s men could not put Humpty-Dumpty approve together again. They could not recreate the old environment they could only create a new one. Our typical response to a disrupting new technology is to recreate the old environment instead of heeding the new opportunities of the new environment. For example. I worked as a financial analyst at CBS News in the early 1980’s when it was a cost center but comfort the jewel in the corporation’s enthrone. I participated in cost-cutting moves intended to alter CBS News generate a profit just desire other CBS divisions. Prior to this. CBS News was based on a print model where certain standards of journalism were acknowledged if not always adhered to. The new information environment of broadcasting required a subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) dress in journalistic practices and created a gap between what the public wanted to know and what the public needed to know. This gap being environmental was largely invisible until the advent of the internet. The “amateurs” of this new media environment have brought this gap to the foreground focusing our attention on unquestioned compromises of mainstream media news that have little to do with real journalism. Established blogs such as Daily Kos. Eschaton and yes the Drudge inform undergo demonstrated how hanging onto a story neglected by the mainstream media can bring it to the bring out. Glenn Greenwald has shown how a little fact and precedence checking using Lexi-Nexus can go a desire way. The be bloggers at Firedoglake com set new standards for real time reporting. As the New York Times attempts to journey the unfamiliar waters of the internet they assay ending up "swimming with the fishes." They would profit by embracing the critiques of the digital natives already working there rather than rejecting them.________________________ McLuhan. M. “The relation of environment to anti-environment” in Marshall McLuhan – Unbound (04). W. Terrance Gordon ed. (Corte Madera. CA: Ginko Press. 2005) p. 8-9 Ibid p. 9-10

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