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Lynne Olson is best known for "Citizens of London," her 2010 bestseller about Americans who lived in London during the early days of World War II – and their valor and ingenuity in advancing a US role in England's success against the Nazis. She is also the author of "Troublesome Young Men," a 2007 chronicle of the upstart Tories who propelled Winston Churchill to the leadership of wartime Britain.
In Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, as in her earlier projects, Olson focuses on a handful of key figures to plumb the broader historical currents sweeping events toward a dramatic milestone. "Those Angry Days" also invites comparison to Olson's other work in revisiting one of her abiding preoccupations: the intersection between politics and war.
"Those Angry Days" takes its title from Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a New Deal Democrat and aide to John F. Kennedy who noted that the intensity of feeling regarding early US involvement in World War II has been largely forgotten. In the days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when American interests in the widening global conflagration seemed less clear, the rift between isolationists and interventionists in the United States was wide and deep, said Schlesinger, who called the division "the most savage political debate of my lifetime." He added this observation: "There have been a number of fierce national quarrels – over communism in the later Forties, over McCarthyism in the Fifties, over Vietnam in the Sixties – but none so tore apart families and friendships as this fight."
As Olson notes in this absorbing chronicle, the bitterness of that debate has been obscured in postwar histories that focus on American unity and resolve after Dec. 7, 1941. In "Those Angry Days," she assigns herself the task of recreating the splintered political climate of 1939-1941, when American policy toward the war was very much in a state of flux.
"Those Angry Days" promises to benefit from some good timing, coming as it does on the heels of "Lincoln," the widely discussed Steven Spielberg film in which a compelling moral ideal – in this case, racial equality – operates against a backdrop of political expedience and sordid compromises. In Olson's story, the evolution of America's role in World War II, a conflict now remembered as "The Good War" fought by "The Greatest Generation," reveals equally imperfect political realities.
Some of the most unflattering episodes in "Those Angry Days" involve Charles Lindbergh, the celebrated American aviator who used his international stature to argue against early American participation in the war. The book's period photos include a snapshot of Lindbergh and wife Anne visiting Nazi Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering, one of numerous occasions in "Those Angry Days" when the reader winces at the thought of global terrors to come – and Lindbergh's apparent blindness to the full implications of the Nazi regime. Even more unsettling is Olson's detailed account of Lindbergh's casual anti-Semitism, as when he blamed fledgling American pro-war sentiment at least partly on a Jewish media cabal.
But rather than demonizing Lindbergh, Olson parses the nuances of his early isolationism, noting that his reluctance to fight the Germans grew from several factors, including his conclusion that Nazi air power made diplomacy, rather than confrontation, the most practical way for Americans to address the European conflict before Pearl Harbor.
While not excusing Lindbergh's racial views, Olson also notes that anti-Semitism was very much a part of his era, extending even to the White House, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt was known to make eye-rolling references to "Hebrew" culture. Roosevelt takes some other lumps in "Those Angry Days" for his lack of clarity concerning global questions when Europe began to unravel. As a president elected for his command of domestic policy during the Great Depression, FDR had to dramatically sharpen his foreign policy skills on the job, an evolution in which his inexperience often showed, Olson contends. In the early days of Nazi expansion into Czechoslovakia, with "the president making little or no attempt to persuade Americans that it was in the country's best interests to help stop the dictators, the increasingly dire events in Europe only confirmed their determination to stay as far away from that hornet's nest as possible," she writes.
Olson, a former journalist, proves especially resourceful at combing through newspaper archives to flesh out her narrative with evocative detail. She doesn't so much revisit a historical period as inhabit it; her scenes flicker as urgently as a newsreel. While highlighting Lindbergh and FDR as its stars, "Those Angry Days" embraces a cast of characters far beyond the book's title characters. The story expands to include everyone from William Stephenson, an American-based operative for the British who partially inspired fictional spy James Bond, to young Theodor Geisel, whose cartoon spoof of Lindbergh's isolationism helped hone the talents he'd bring to Dr Seuss.
About the end of this policy debate, we already know. The Japanese bombing of Hawaii brought America fully into World War II, fulfilling a famous Churchill quote that appears at the beginning of "Those Angry Days."
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing," he declared, "after they've tried everything else."
Danny Heitman, an author and a columnist for The Baton Rouge Advocate, is an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication.


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Marlon Brando Gill may have taken AT&T's "reach out and touch someone" slogan too far, according to officials. Police have charged the Missouri man with felony assault, suspecting that Gill crammed a cell phone down his girlfriend's throat during an argument.
Last week, we reported that 24-year-old Melinda Abell had been taken to the hospital because a cell phone had blocked her breathing. At the time, police presented the idea that the woman had swallowed the phone on purpose in an effort to keep it away from her boyfriend.
Now, however, the authorities see the matter as an assault instead.
"Our initial press release was that she had swallowed a cell phone," Police Sgt. Allen Kintz told the AP. "Subsequent investigation found that she didn't swallow the cell phone voluntarily. That was what we were told initially."
Abell apparently told detectives that Gill screamed at her during an argument and then shoved the phone down her throat. Doctors removed it at the hospital.
Jackson County Prosecutor Michael Sanders is seeking a $100,000 bond, and police are pursuing Gill. ®

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As a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Alcira Forero-Peña, Department of Anthropology, conducted anthropological research about the "Maya Movement" in Guatemala. Her research analyzed how indigenous women of Guatemala were articulated into the movement in terms of their history, cultural and gender identities. She assessed the extent to which contemporary Guatemalan society actually had opened spaces for them to live a life with dignity in respect to their particularities as women, as indigenous citizens of the Guatemalan State.
Forero-Peña taught two undergraduate courses at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala on Social Change and Anthropology of Education. She also conducted workshops on multiculturalism and gender at one of the University's branches, the UVG Altiplano to students of indigenous descent.
Forero-Peña continues to use her Guatemalan Fulbright experience in all of her courses. As a Visiting Professor to CU Denver, she gave a presenation based on her research at the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, November 2008. She also delivered talks about Guatemalan indigenous women in Denver and in Evergreen. Very importantly, "thanks to the Fulbright", she belongs to a community that is vibrant and enriching. She became a member of the Colorado Fulbright Chapter where she continues to exchange valuable information with friends and scholars back in Guatemala and many other countries. These activities provide her with opportunities to follow up on the latest developments in Guatemala - hopes to revisit yet another time in the near future.
"Talking and getting to know the people, the indigenous Maya women, there was indeed a great thing happening in my academic life. Talking with anthropologists and other academics, with activists, artists, and "common people" was a precious experience. Observing and participating in activities that Maya women undertake on a daily basis taught me many lessons that go beyond the intellectual domain. All this was exactly what the Fulbright scholar grant allowed me to do."
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Arguments for U.S. military action in Iran feel like a case of deja vu all over again.
The dangers of war erupting this year with Iran are the greatest they've been since the hostage rescue misadventure in 1980 left eight soldiers dead in the Persian desert. Goaded by warhawks in Congress and Israel, and with emotions and political posturing unnaturally heightened by the presidential election season, the Obama administration is coming under fierce pressure to either resolve the Iranian "problem" or offer the Israelis a green light and U.S. assistance to take care of Iran on their own.
As tensions rise, Israel and Iran continue a covert war that could easily spiral beyond either nation's intentions, while U.S. forces run dangerous navy patrols in the flashpoint of the Straits of Hormuz.
Having just emerged from nearly a decade of war in Iraq and still struggling to shake off what is beginning to look like a hopeless effort in Afghanistan, and with the economy still fragile and the entire region a tinderbox of political turmoil and resentment, the notion of yet another U.S. conflict in the Middle East seems absurd. Yet pundits and politicians, ably assisted by the powerful voices of the Israel lobby in Washington, are at it again, attempting to soften U.S. public opinion with fresh rationalizations for a new and, according to international laws, illegal elective war.
As costly and devastating as the Iraq adventure turned out to be, a conflict with Iran offers the potential to be a thousand times worse. A U.S.-Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities seems certain to cause a wider regional war. Some on the Israeli right are openly proposing the use of tactical nuclear weapons. A preemptive assault would probably provoke an explosion of terrorism against U.S. targets around the nation and the world as well as attacks on Israel from Iranian surrogates Hezbollah and Hamas. It would also likely cause a crippling spike in worldwide oil prices and an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.
The risks seem grossly out of balance with the possible gains, especially as U.S. intelligence sources report that Iran has not committed its "research" to weapons production and remains open to a negotiated settlement and the return of nuclear inspectors. Ultimately even Israeli defense analysts allow that Iran would not be willing to come to body blows with Israel, an undeclared nuclear power.
The U.S. bishops have been distracted by a rhetorical war over religious liberty and contraception, sadly, because the clarity of their voice on this actual war with Iran is notable. In a March 2 letter from Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, chair of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the bishops expressed their concern over "an alarming escalation in rhetoric and tensions."
As they did before the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, the U.S. bishops repeated their misgivings about the concept of preemptive war. "In Catholic teaching, the use of force must always be a last resort," Pates wrote. "Iran's bellicose statements, its failure to be transparent about its nuclear program, and its possible acquisition of nuclear weapons are serious matters, but in themselves they do not justify military action. Discussing or promoting military options at this time is unwise and may be counterproductive. "
Opinion polls in both the United States and Israel run strongly against an attack on Iran, but if this confrontation is to be avoided, the people of both nations need to speak up to their leaders—loudly—now. Before the Iraq war the U.S. bishops and the Vatican challenged the moral legitimacy of pre-emptive war-making, charging that the concept fails both the precepts of the just war tradition and, when the many risks and hazards of such an adventure are calculated, common sense.
That is a message that the bishops and the people of God must persist in taking to Washington until they are heard and this completely foreseeable disaster is prevented from occurring—again.
This article appeared in the May 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 5, page 39).
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Stockbridge Valley students soar in 'Peter Pan' production
MUNNSVILLE -- Stockbridge Valley Central School will be bringing a world of fantasy, fun and flight on Nov. 9 and 10 with the help of an effects company from Louisville, Ky.
Director Kirsten Meyer and the SVCS drama club have brought in zfx flying effects to help them fly in this fall's rendition of "Peter Pan."
"We do a number of productions for schools, church groups, Christmas and Easter," said Cody Beseda, a flying director who has been with zfx for two years. Beseda has done other plays in the past including "The Wizard of Oz," "Dracula" and "Aladdin."
Peter Pan, portrayed by sophomore Sabrina Becker, will take to the air with Wendy, portrayed by SVCS senior Carolynn Werthmann, and her two brothers John and Michael, portrayed by eighth grader Seth Cousino and seventh grader Andrew Renner. Pan will of course be facing up against the villainous Captain Hook, played by community member Sean Pearson.
The students are flown using a system of pulleys guided by seven operators backstage. SVCS parents and community members Dave Vineall, Dave Bartlett, Mike Thorna, Rich Collins, Rob Renner, Patrick Becker and Assistant Principal William Petrilli will be operating the pulleys. Peter's wire is on a track allowing her to glide back and forth above the stage.
"The cast is a hardworking group and we're all doing really good with where we're at in rehearsals," said Becker. "Peter Pan" will be her second performance at SVCS. "I think it's going to be a really good performance.
"Peter is just a fun character to play because he is so youthful and energetic," Becker continued. "He will remind a lot of people of childhood."
Becker said it took her some time to get used to flying and that it was unnerving at first. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Becker said. "It would be silly to pass it up."
SVCS students Stephanie Dodge and Savanna Roark were lucky enough to take flight after Oct. 28's rehearsal after winning the school's flight lesson drawing. The drawing entry helped fund the project, which is paid for entirely by the Drama Club's budget.
The show will take place on Nov. 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. in the SVCS auditorium. Adult tickets will be $7 at the door; tickets for students and children under 10 will be $5.


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St. Lawrence has a director and an assistant director who serve as facilitators and advocates for students with disabilities (learning, attentional, physical, or psychological). Students who identify themselves as having a disability and provide documentation of the disability are assisted in finding the academic help or assistance they need. We will work with students to develop an Individual Educational Accommodation Plan (IEAP). This is similar to the IEP they may have had in high school, but our stress is on accommodation. Technology resources are available to eligible students.
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Software is just the beginning … open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation.
Cholera is one of those 19th-century ills that, like consumption or gout, at first seems almost quaint, a malady from an age when people suffered from maladies. But in the developing world, the disease is still widespread and can be gruesomely lethal. When cholera strikes an unprepared community, people get violently sick immediately. On day two, severe dehydration sets in. By day seven, half of a village might be dead.
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Since cholera kills by driving fluids from the body, the treatment is to pump liquid back in, as fast as possible. The one proven technology, an intravenous saline drip, has a few drawbacks. An easy-to-use, computer-regulated IV can cost $2,000 – far too expensive to deploy against a large outbreak. Other systems cost as little as 35 cents, but they're too complicated for unskilled caregivers. The result: People die unnecessarily.
"It's a health problem, but it's also a design problem," says Timothy Prestero, a onetime Peace Corps volunteer who cofounded a group called Design That Matters. Leading a team of MIT engineering students, Prestero, who has master's degrees in mechanical and oceanographic engineering, focused on the drip chamber and pinch valve controlling the saline flow rate.
But the team needed more medical expertise. So Prestero turned to ThinkCycle, a Web-based industrial-design project that brings together engineers, designers, academics, and professionals from a variety of disciplines. Soon, some physicians and engineers were pitching in – vetting designs and recommending new paths. Within a few months, Prestero's team had turned the suggestions into an ingenious solution. Taking inspiration from a tool called a rotameter used in chemical engineering, the group crafted a new IV system that's intuitive to use, even for untrained workers. Remarkably, it costs about $1.25 to manufacture, making it ideal for mass deployment. Prestero is now in talks with a medical devices company; the new IV could be in the field a year from now.
ThinkCycle's collaborative approach is modeled on a method that for more than a decade has been closely associated with software development: open source. It's called that because the collaboration is open to all and the source code is freely shared. Open source harnesses the distributive powers of the Internet, parcels the work out to thousands, and uses their piecework to build a better whole – putting informal networks of volunteer coders in direct competition with big corporations. It works like an ant colony, where the collective intelligence of the network supersedes any single contributor.
Open source, of course, is the magic behind Linux, the operating system that is transforming the software industry. Linux commands a growing share of the server market worldwide and even has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer warning of its "competitive challenge for us and for our entire industry." And open source software transcends Linux. Altogether, more than 65,000 collaborative software projects click along at Sourceforge.net, a clearinghouse for the open source community. The success of Linux alone has stunned the business world.
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But software is just the beginning. Open source has spread to other disciplines, from the hard sciences to the liberal arts. Biologists have embraced open source methods in genomics and informatics, building massive databases to genetically sequence E. coli, yeast, and other workhorses of lab research. NASA has adopted open source principles as part of its Mars mission, calling on volunteer "clickworkers" to identify millions of craters and help draw a map of the Red Planet. There is open source publishing: With Bruce Perens, who helped define open source software in the '90s, Prentice Hall is publishing a series of computer books open to any use, modification, or redistribution, with readers' improvements considered for succeeding editions. There are library efforts like Project Gutenberg, which has already digitized more than 6,000 books, with hundreds of volunteers typing in, page by page, classics from Shakespeare to Stendhal; at the same time, a related project, Distributed Proofreading, deploys legions of copy editors to make sure the Gutenberg texts are correct. There are open source projects in law and religion. There's even an open source cookbook.
In 2003, the method is proving to be as broadly effective – and, yes, as revolutionary – a means of production as the assembly line was a century ago.
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Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Hello everybody out there using minix-I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them 🙂
Thousands of coders, hackers, and developers answered Linus Torvalds' call – and helped him build a robust system that continues to pick up steam. Yet what's amazing about Linux isn't its success in the market. The revolution is in the method, not the result. Open source involves a broad body of collaborators, typically volunteers, whose every contribution builds on those before. Just as important, the product of this collaboration is freely available to all comers. Of course, there are plenty of things that are collaborative and free but aren't really open source (Amazon.com's book reviews, for instance). And many projects aren't widely collaborative, or are somewhat proprietary, yet still in the spirit of open source (such as the music available from Opsound, an online record label). Not to mention that, as with any term newly in vogue, open source is often invoked on tenuous grounds. So think of it as a spectrum or – better still – a rising diagonal line on a graph, where openness lies on one axis and collaboration on the other. The higher an effort registers both concepts, the more fully it can be considered open source.
Of course, for all its novelty, open source isn't new. Dust off your Isaac Newton and you'll recognize the same ideals of sharing scientific methods and results in the late 1600s (dig deeper and you can follow the vein all the way back to Ptolemy, circa AD 150). Or roll up your sleeves and see the same ethic in Amish barn raising, a tradition that dates to the early 18th century. Or read its roots, as many have, in the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the 19th-century project where a network of far-flung etymologists built the world's greatest dictionary by mail. Or trace its outline in the Human Genome Project, the distributed gene-mapping effort that began just a year before Torvalds planted the seeds of his OS.
If the ideas behind it are so familiar and simple, why has open source only now become such a powerful force? Two reasons: the rise of the Internet and the excesses of intellectual property. The Internet is open source's great enabler, the communications tool that makes massive decentralized projects possible. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is open source's nemesis: a legal regime that has become so stifling and restrictive that thousands of free-thinking programmers, scientists, designers, engineers, and scholars are desperate to find new ways to create.
We are at a convergent moment, when a philosophy, a strategy, and a technology have aligned to unleash great innovation. Open source is powerful because it's an alternative to the status quo, another way to produce things or solve problems. And in many cases, it's a better way. Better because current methods are not fast enough, not ambitious enough, or don't take advantage of our collective creative potential.
Open source has flourished in software because programming, for all the romance of guerrilla geeks and hacker ethics, is a fairly precise discipline; you're only as good as your code. It's relatively easy to run an open source software project as a meritocracy, a level playing field that encourages participation. But those virtues aren't exclusive to software. Coders, it could be argued, got to open source first only because they were closest to the tool that made it a feasible means of production: the Internet.
The Internet excels at facilitating the exchange of large chunks of information, fast. From distributed computation projects such as SETI@home to file-swapping systems like Grokster and Kazaa, many efforts have exploited the Internet's knack for networking. Open source does those one better: It's not only peer-to-peer sharing – it's P2P production. With open source, you've got the first real industrial model that stems from the technology itself, rather than simply incorporating it.
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"There's a reason we love barn raising scenes in movies. They make us feel great. We think, 'Wow! That would be amazing!'" says Yochai Benkler, a law professor at Yale studying the economic impact of open source. "But it doesn't have to be just a romanticized notion of how to live. Now technology allows it. Technology can unleash tremendous human creativity and tremendous productivity. This is basically barn raising through a decentralized communication network."
An Experiment in Open Source
At 37, Jimmy Wales has already established his legacy on the Internet. Seven years ago, Wales, then a futures and options trader on the Chicago Board of Trade, turned the homepages of hobbyists into Bomis.com, an Internet directory that lets visitors catalog related sites into webrings. The result unified the disparate efforts of millions of Internet users. It wasn't open source, a strategy still percolating in software. But it came close.
Wales wanted something even closer. Long an admirer of Torvalds and free software pioneer Richard Stallman, he had a more deliberate experiment in mind: using volunteer contributors to create an Internet encyclopedia. As in software, perhaps open source could could turn consumers into producers.
The first attempt came in 1999 with Nupedia, an encyclopedia project with great ambitions and what proved to be fatally onerous oversight. Aspiring contributors had to apply for access; each article was peer-reviewed and professionally edited. An entry had to make it past seven or eight hurdles before being posted onto the Nupedia site. "After two years and an amazing amount of money," Wales shrugs, "we had 12 articles."
So in 2001, he tried again. Wales and his team eliminated most of Nupedia's barriers to participation and invented Wikipedia using Wiki, the open source Web-design software. Wikipedia isn't much to look at. The site resembles cutting-edge Web design circa 1994. But like a lowly Pontiac Sunfire with a modified computer chip, most of the action is under the hood. A grassroots encyclopedia, Wikipedia has amassed more than 150,000 entries, using strict open source principles: Anybody can write an article, and anybody else can improve it. Revisions are posted on a Recent Changes page where suggestions are pored over by a dedicated group of Wikipedians. "There's a simple way to tell if it's any good," says Wales. "Find an entry on something you know something about. Odds are it'll hold up pretty well – you'll probably even learn something new."
So what motivates Wikipedia contributors? Pretty much the same things behind any open source project: a dash of altruism, a dose of obsessive compulsiveness, and a good chunk of egotism. It lets users have a hand not just in shaping the debate, but in designing the product. Some are genuinely motivated by the greater good, or find it satisfying to apply their professional knowledge to a broader audience, pro-bono style. And some get to prove how smart they are.
Not to say mischief-makers don't lurk out there. Wikipedia has banned several ne'er-do-wells from the site, and some areas have been locked down – the front page, for instance, because, Wales says, "people kept putting giant penis pictures on there." But in general, the system works surprisingly well, and the traffic bears that out. This summer, Wikipedia surpassed Britannica.com in daily hits, according to Web traffic monitor Alexa.com. Wikipedia's popularity is all the more extraordinary because, like Linux, it started as a small-scale experiment. But the result challenged Britannica, a 235-year-old institution.
There's some satisfaction in the fact that the technology behind Wikipedia is the same one that's baffled Britannica for years. The old-guard encyclopedia has never figured out how to adapt to the digital era. In 1998, Britannica stopped updating its print version and focused on its CD-ROM, then last year revived the print version. In 1999, it launched a free site online; two years later, switched to a paid version. The struggles aren't unique, but they illustrate how a proprietary model built on traditional notions of intellectual property can be undone by irresistible forces.
Now Wales is thinking big. He wants to square off with Britannica not just online but in print and on CD-ROM. Next year, he hopes to release Wikipedia 1.0, a peer-reviewed and peer-edited compendium of 75,000 entries, available to anyone, for commercial or noncommercial purposes. He's even considered pulling a Red Hat – releasing an affordable paid version – before anybody else does. "Things like textbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference works – they lend themselves very well to collaboration," says Wales. "In fact, that's how they're done in the proprietary context, too. But it costs Britannica money to pay people to write articles; it costs to edit them. Those are all things we do for free. So how can they compete? Our cost model is just better than theirs."
Harnessing the Means of Innovation
Business gurus have a term for what drove Wikipedia: innovation! It's a flaccid buzzword these days, deflated by a decade of leadership seminars and management bibles. But when you look at what's innovative about open source, think Tom Paine, not Tom Peters.
Open source embodies an ethos as fruitful and resilient as the closed capitalism Bill Gates represents: the spirit of democratic solutions to daunting problems. It's the creed of Emerson, who preached independent initiative and advocated a "creative economy." It's the philosophy of William James, whose pragmatism dictated that "ideals ought to aim at the transformation of reality." It's the science of Frederick Taylor, who proved that distributing work could exponentially boost productivity and replace "suspicious watchfulness" with "mutual confidence." It's the logic of Adam Smith, whose notion of "enlightened self-interest" among workers neatly presages the primary motivation for many open source collaborators.
Finding the roots of open source in Taylor and Smith is especially significant because the approach isn't, as some insist, anticommercial or anticorporate. Rather, it is a return to basic free-market principles. The open source process fosters competition, creativity, and enterprise. And just as Taylor and Smith provided the intellectual grounding for the revolution in mass production, open source offers the mechanism to mass innovation.
While the assembly line accelerated the pace of production, it also embedded workers more deeply into the corporate manufacturing machine. Indeed, that was the big innovation of the 20th-century factory: The machines, rather than the workers, drove production. With open source, the people are back in charge. Through distributed collaboration, a multitude of workers can tackle a problem, all at once. The speed is even greater – but so is the freedom. It's a cottage industry on Internet time.
Just as the assembly line served the manufacturing economy, open source serves a knowledge-based economy. Facilitating intellectual collaboration is open source's great advantage, but it also makes the method a threat. It's a direct challenge to old-school R&D: a closed system, where innovations are quickly patented and tightly guarded. And it's an explicit reaction to the intellectual property industry, that machine of proprietary creation and idea appropriation that grew up during the past century and out of control in the past 30 years – now often impeding the same efforts it was designed to protect.
Copyright and patents have an admirable purpose: They give creators the right to exploit their creations for a limited time. Then these innovations enter the public domain. If it made sense that copyrights and patents protected products, it makes sense that, in today's economy, they protect ideas and concepts, too.
But the balance and fair-mindedness that made the American system hum like a well-tuned Briggs & Stratton is now clogged up with opportunism. Copyright protections that originally lasted 14 years now drag on for nearly a century, leaving the public domain a barren ground. Particularly since the mid-1990s, when the US Patent and Trademark Office began recognizing business methods, intellectual property has become more than just guarding what you've made. Trademark, copyright, and patents are now offensive weapons. The result often impedes, rather than encourages, innovation. Intellectual property has grown infuriating in its excesses, such as Netflix's recent patenting of something as simple as a subscription model for DVD rentals.
Perversely, this is just how the law wants it. The courts and the patent and trademark offices exist to protect property, be it physical or intellectual – slap on "All Rights Reserved" and reap the rewards. But it's annoyingly difficult to share something – to open intellectual property to a wide audience. The conventional legal system simply isn't built to handle "Some Rights Reserved."
Open source flips this paradigm around. Now there are dozens of licenses, from Stallman's General Public License to Creative Commons' ShareAlike agreement, that let open products exist in a proprietary world. Under these licenses, to use political scientist Steven Weber's terms, property is something to be distributed rather than protected. The owners are more guardians than guards.
The first and most likely places for open source to flourish are at the extremes of IP. The method can craft better, more open versions of bad business models and inefficient markets. But the imitative projects, the ones that replicate proprietary products using better means, are just the gimmes. In the long term, open source will apply outside IP-dominated industries. Weber suggests corporate R&D as a natural starting point; the oil industry, for instance, could enlist outside chemists to collaborate on better oil refining techniques.
As technology reduces the costs of replication and distribution to nearly nothing, the open source approach could catalyze stagnant sectors of the economy – or, better yet, create new economic sectors. "Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill," says Mitch Kapor, who founded Lotus in 1982, cofounded the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990, and now heads the Open Source Applications Foundation. (See Mitch Kapor Reinvents Your Inbox.) "In an economy where more and more value is in information – is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free – any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology."
Open Source as a Weapon
A decade ago, Michael Eisen slogged through swamps in Costa Rica studying the mating behavior of frogs. That's what biologists did, he figured – and if he had to fight off a few leeches along the way, so be it. Now he's all about coding, crafting blocks of genetic data and churning them through his computer. "It's a great time to be a biologist," says Eisen, a computational scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Origin of Species is the best thing ever written in biology. But you just wish Darwin knew about genomics."
Yet if biology is in a renaissance, there are still relics of a medieval age. Most aggravating to Eisen is the state of scientific publishing. It affronts him. And he wants to destroy it.
His weapon is open source. Unlike Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, who didn't set out to take down Britannica, Eisen has the publishing community squarely in his sights. Open source, says Eisen, who dabbles in Perl programming, can give rise to a new distribution model for scientific research.
"The guiding principle of science has been that freely available material is more useful; it's more likely to generate better science," Eisen says. But freely available is not the same as free of charge. Science journals, with their historically narrow readerships, often charge thousands for a subscription. One of the biggest disseminators is Elsevier, the science publishing unit of an Anglo-Dutch media conglomerate, which distributes some 1,700 academic journals, from Advances in Enzyme Regulation to Veterinary Parasitology.
"The whole premise for that model just evaporated with the Internet," Eisen continues. "Technology now makes openness possible; it's maximum openness. The rules of the game have changed, but the system has failed to respond." So Eisen and two colleagues – Stanford biochemist Pat Brown and Harold E. Varmus, a Nobel laureate in medicine and president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York – have devised an alternative: the Public Library of Science. To Eisen, PLOS is "the optimal system" for publishing scientific research: Where the old model limited access to maximize subscription fees, this library is all about open access – meaning any user can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to an article.
Instead of charging universities thousands to subscribe to PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine, as the library's two peer-reviewed journals will be called, PLOS instead will charge contributing authors a $1,500 fee to cover costs. (Harvard and other universities typically pay on behalf of their faculties, and the library will waive the fee in special cases.) In addition to hiring editorial staffs, PLOS will distribute the work among a pool of fellow academics. In time, the library will become a storehouse of publicly available scientific research, a resource that, like Linux, will only improve with time. And whereas the old model traditionally had scientists signing away their copyright to the journal, the library will use a license that leaves copyright with the author but allows for unlimited use by third parties, provided credit is given to the author.
"The openness will make the data more useful," says Eisen, pointing to the annual $57 billion in taxpayer-funded scientific and medical research that isn't available to the public. And then there's the irony that academic institutions get charged for work they did in the first place. "How does it make sense for the universities to give away the copyright to their research and then pay to get access to it again?"
The library follows in the steps of efforts such as BioMed Central, a London-based open-access publisher of online scientific journals. Though BioMed is a valuable repository of all sorts of research – everything from proteomics to psychiatry – it has yet to make a significant dent in the major journals' hold on big research. That's the obstacle PLOS faces, too: convincing scientists that the new publication will have authority. Publishing in Science or Nature means your paper matters, and it provides a yardstick for tenure and promotion decisions. PLOS has already earned credibility by hiring the former editor in chief of Cell and lining up contributors from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the National Institutes of Health for the first issues of PLOS Biology, set to debut October 13. The team hopes such star power will help put any issues of credibility to rest.
And to those who label PLOS something only a league of anticommercial academics could dream up, Eisen has a swift retort. "It's the ultimate free market – the free market of ideas," he says. "We don't prohibit commercial use, we encourage it. If you want to gather our articles about a particular topic and sell it as a book, great, go ahead. As far as we're concerned, that's a good way of getting information out there. The problem with scientific publishing right now is that it's a monopoly. This is an attack on a specific business model that is not serving science well."
Building a Hybrid
At any given time, odds are Monsanto is in court over intellectual property. The agriculture and biotech giant is suing rival companies for infringing on technology. It's suing researchers for unlicensed use. And it's suing farmers for stealing seeds – filing 75 or so lawsuits in the past five years alone, most notably against Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian cause célèbre accused of using Monsanto grain without a license; his case goes before the Canadian Supreme Court in January. This constant litigation is a necessary cost of doing business; patents, after all, must be protected, or their value can be lost. But it also reflects a demanding way of doing business, one that's expensive, time-consuming, and – as the Schmeiser case attests – not always good for PR.
For a different approach, consider Cambia, the Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture, a biotech nonprofit based in Australia. Founded in 1994 by Richard Jefferson, a mandolinist turned geneticist from Santa Cruz, California, Cambia has emerged as a force in agriculture technology over the past decade. The group pioneered research into transgenomics, where plants are tweaked using their own genetic stock rather than foreign genes. But Jefferson finds Cambia increasingly hamstrung by the biotech industry's reliance on patents, cross-license agreements, and trade secrets. "So much of what we want to do is all tied up in somebody's intellectual property," he says. "It's a complete sclerotic mess, where nobody has any freedom of movement. Everything that open source has been fighting in software is exactly where we find ourselves now with biotechnology."
So Jefferson tapped open source methods to skirt the restrictive licenses of companies like Monsanto. On a broad scale, Cambia built an exhaustive collaborative database, open to all, of 300,000 patents covering agricultural technologies – an essential resource for researchers navigating through proprietary waters. And as a more precise effort, Cambia is developing a gene-transfer technology that will, Jefferson hopes, work better than the proprietary methods currently available. The group is following Torvalds' model, incubating the core technique before turning it over to a network of users – both nonprofit and corporate – with a liberal licensing arrangement. "Anybody can tweak it, learn from it, twiddle with it," Jefferson says. "We want to invent a better way but bind everybody to share the improvements. Some might call them work-arounds; we call them work-beyonds."
Corporations have been part of the problem for Jefferson, but they're also part of the solution. Open source offers biotech companies a cheaper way to do research. "The corporations have been locked in a zero-sum game," Jefferson says. "It costs them a fortune to buy and lock up a product or a technology. And if they don't, a competitor will get it and they'll have no access to it. So it's a real change in the status quo we're proposing. We're reducing the obstacles for everybody so big companies won't view this as antithetical to their own progress."
Jefferson is onto something. Open source is often framed as an attack on the corporate world at large. But in fact, the open source approach can be a boon for companies. Licensing from a trusted collaborative project saves money and leaves the technology open to further development. By showing corporations that a closed, defensive approach to intellectual property can be less efficient than liberal licensing, Cambia and a few other open source efforts are leading the way to the mainstream.
In this light, where corporations are part of the model, open source suddenly becomes something less marginal and more ingenious. It forces industry to reckon with openness rather than hide behind intellectual property. In driving down the cost of software or encyclopedias or biotechnology, open source is unleashing billions in capital otherwise put to woefully inefficient ends. Just because it's not about making money first doesn't mean it won't make money second (just ask the folks who bought their mansions with Red Hat shares).
"Open source can build around the blockages of the industrial producers of the 20th century," says Yale's Benkler. "It can provide a potential source of knowledge materials from which we can build the culture and economy of the 21st century."
If that sounds melodramatic, consider how far things have come in the past decade. Torvalds' hobbyists have become an army. Britannica's woes are Wikipedia's gains. In genetics and biotech, open source promises a sure path to breakthroughs. These early efforts are mere trial runs for what open source might do out in the world at large. The real test, the real potential, lies not in the margins. It lies in making something new, in finding a better way. Open source isn't just about better software. It's about better everything.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Sadness: Californication star Natascha McElhone's husband, plastic surgeon Martin Kelly, was found dead on the couple's doorstep this morning. Did we mention she's pregnant with the couple's third child? So, so tragic. • Apparently all of "NYC clubland is Team Lohan" in the hubbub over Masha Markova's stolen fur coat. • Former Backstreet Boys and NSYNC manager Lou Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in jail for defrauding investors and banks out of hundreds of millions of dollars. [Daily Mail, TMZ,Dlisted]
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MADRID — Marion Cotillard and Rachel McAdams are in final negotiations to star in Woody Allen's untitled pic that rolls this summer in Paris.
With Cotillard ("Nine") and McAdams ("Sherlock Holmes") on board, the pieces are falling into place for the Woody Allen Summer Project, as the production is known.
Owen Wilson is already set. France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been talked up for a cameo role for months, but still hasn't confirmed.
Pic, which rolls early July, is a part-period, part-contempo comedy that Allen attempted to shoot in Paris in 2006, but abandoned as the city is too expensive.
Since then Allen has come into money thanks to a three-pic financing deal between his Gravier Prods. and Spanish media conglom Mediapro, which co-produced his "Vicky, Cristina Barcelona" in 2006.
The pact kicked off with "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" and follows on with the Paris pic.
Sweetening the deal, France's Centre National du Cinema film introduced a tax break offering foreign shoots 20% reimbursement on most of their Gallic spend in December.
"WASP" received an award in February's funding round. That, according to producer Letty Aronson, was the Paris-shoot clincher.
Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger," starring Anthony Hopkins, Brolin, Naomi Watts and Antonio Banderas, has been discussed as a possible entry in the Cannes Film Fest, but Sony Pictures Classics described those reports as "speculative."


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There's a new app out called ClassicMap that offers a half decent fix for anyone who's looking for an alternative to Apple's maligned Maps app, but really just wants things back the way they were.
ClassicMap is built as basically the exact same app as Apple's new Maps, but you can switch over to a Classic mode, which pulls in Google Maps information, and overlays it on tiles that look like the old iOS 5 maps. But there's a catch. A few of them, actually.
First, the tiles are sloooow. Searching for things by name seems out of whack, too. And the big killer is that it doesn't do directions. On the bright side, addresses seem a lot more accurate, and the compass is actually more accurate (a small but important detail).
The app isn't perfect, obviously, and most of you will probably want to wait for it to pick up some kind of directions utility, but it's up on GitHub to be tinkered with now. [iTunes via CultofMac]


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1- make/model/?
Pioneer DV-353
2- Software to split/process TyStream?
3- Software to create DVD fileset?
Haven't converted to DVD but this would play okay if I did.
4- DVD success or failure?
This model will play DVD+/- R/RW
5- Description of the DVD failure if there was one?
6- Software to create SVCD fileset?
7- SVCD sucess or failure?
8- Description of the SVCD failure if there was one?
9- Short comment on report.
I used DVDLab a few times to make SVCD on a DVD. Worked great if you don't want to worry about converting. Typically, I use DVDMaestro for mastering DVDs and PrimoDVD & Nero for burning DVDs.
For SVCD, I author with VCDEasy and burn with VCDEasy or Nero.
The best place for SVCD & DVD info is VideoHelp and Doom9


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Grand Jury
What is the Solano County Grand Jury?
The Grand Jury is an investigative body and part of the judicial branch of government. Both the United States and the California Constitutions call for grand juries.
Unlike a Trial Jury, which exists only to try an individual case, the Solano County Grand Jury is a permanent body with members serving one year terms.
The three primary functions of the Grand Jury are:
- to be a watchdog over local government
- to investigate citizen complaints about public agencies and officials
- to occasionally investigate criminal matter when requested by the District Attorney
In the course of its investigations, the Grand Jury may hire independent auditors and subpoena witnesses and documents. The Jury may ask advice of Legal Counsel on civil matters, confer with the District Attorney on criminal matters, and discuss problems with the Judges of the Superior Court.
To learn more about the Solano County Grand Jury click on the following parts to view videos:
Part 1
Serving on the Grand Jury is a civic duty Solano citizens take seriously and proudly. In Part 1 of this series, learn what Grand Jury is and hear first hand from a few grand jurists.
Part 2:
City of Fairfield Mayor Harry Price explains the privileges of serving on the Grand Jury. Also, former grand juror explains the role of the Grand Jury Foreperson.
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Superior Court of Solano County, Executive Officer Brian Taylor, explains the application process, time commitment and how to apply for service. Also, retired Solano County Sheriff Gary Stanton talks about the importance of the Grand Jury.
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Superior Court of Solano County, Presiding Judge Paul Beeman, explains the purpose of the Grand Jury. Also, former grand juror speaks of the California Grand Jury Association (CGJA).
Civil Responsibilities
The Grand Jury may examine all aspects of county and city government and special districts to ensure that the best interest of the citizens are being served. The Grand Jury reviews and evaluates procedures, methods, and systems used by the county government for efficiency and economy.
The Grand Jury is divided into committees which concentrate on certain departments or functions of local government. Committees may include:
- Audit, Finance and County Administration
- Criminal Justice
- Environmental and Land Planning
- Library and Education
- Health and Social Services
- Special Districts and Legislative Review
- Transportation and Public Buildings
- Ad Hoc (various)
The Grand Jury is authorized to:
- Inspect and audit books and records to ensure legal expenditures and accounting of public funds.
- Inquire into the conditions of prisons, jails, and detention centers in Solano County
- Inquire into charges of willful misconduct in office by public officials or employees
- Subpoena witnesses and documents in the course of an investigation.
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Demographics of the Civil Grand Jury
The Standards of Judicial Administration encourages courts to employ various methods of soliciting prospective candidates that reflect a representative cross-section of the community.
This chart of demographics for all applicants for the civil grand jury as well as those randomly selected to serve from the pool of volunteers assists the court in monitoring the extent to which we achieve our goal of seating representative grand juries.
Click below to see the demographics associated with civil grand juries.
Grand Jury Reports
Grand Jury investigations are contained in early release reports and in the annual Final Report. The Report contains all findings and recommendations made as a result of the investigation and is distributed to public officials, libraries, and the general public through the news media.
Reports of Grand Jury investigations contain all findings and recommendations made as a result of the investigation.
Each year the reports are compiled into the annual Final Report which is distributed to public officials, libraries, and the general public through the news media.
Public Agencies that are named in the Grand Jury report are required to respond in writing.
Click below to access Grand Jury Reports and Responses.
|2008-2009 Reports and Responses
Earlier reports may be requested from:
Grand Jury Office
Superior Court of California
County of Solano
600 Union Avenue
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707) 435-2575
Citizen Complaints
As part of its civil function, the Grand Jury receives written complaints from citizens alleging inefficiencies and misconduct in government, or mistreatment by public officials.
Complaints received from citizens are investigated for their validity. Such complaints are kept confidential and members of the Grand Jury frequently rely on information from concerned citizens who are aware of problems, and who are willing to pursue corrective action.
If the situation warrants, and the matter is under the jurisdiction of the Grand Jury, appropriate action is taken. That action may be a report or a recommendation for civil action.
The official complaint form is available from the Grand Jury office or you may download it by clicking on the link below. To obtain a form in the mail, telephone the office at (707) 435-2575 and ask that one be sent to you.
Fill out the form completely, sign, and mail or deliver it to:
Grand Jury Office
Superior Court of California
County of Solano
600 Union Avenue
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707) 435-2575
Click here for the Complaint Form .
How can I become a Grand Juror?
Each year the Solano County Superior Court Judges identify qualified citizens who might serve on the Grand Jury. Nominations for prospective jurors are made by the Judges themselves and other public elected officials.Back to Top
How are Grand Jurors Selected?
Each year the Solano County Superior Court Judges identify qualified citizens who might serve on the Grand Jury. Nominations for prospective jurors are made by the judges themselves and other public elected officials.
Solano County residents are urged to volunteer for service on the Grand Jury. Those recommended are interviewed by a Superior Court Judge, Court Executive Officer and the Grand Jury Foreperson. Based on the results of interviews, a pool of qualified jury candidates is created and these citizens are invited to appear in the Superior Court of the Presiding Judge. Names are then drawn randomly by the Clerk of the Court.
The new Grand Jury will consist of second-term jurors, plus new members, to make a total of nineteen jurors. All nineteen are sworn and given a description of their duties and responsibilities by the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court. These citizens begin their one year term on July 1st.Back to Top
What are the qualifications to be a Grand Juror?
Prospective Grand Jurors must possess the following qualifications (California Penal Code §893):
- Be a citizen of the United States, 18 years of age or older who has resided in the county for one year immediately before being sworn.
- Be in possession of natural faculties, of ordinary intelligence and sound judgment, and fair character.
- Possess sufficient knowledge of the English language.
Any prospective jurors are also required to have reliable transportation.
Desirable qualifications for a Grand Juror include:
- Have sufficient time and commitment.
- Be in good health.
- Be open-minded with concern for views of others.
- Have the ability to work with others.
- Have a genuine interest in community affairs.
- Have investigative skill and an ability to write reports.
A person is not able to be a Grand Juror if any of the following apply:
- The person is serving as a trial juror in any court of this state.
- The person has been discharged as a Grand Juror in any court of this state within one year.
- The person has been convicted of malfeasance in office or any felony or other high crime.
- The person is serving as an elected public official.
What is the time commitment?
Persons selected for the Grand Jury must make a commitment to a minimum of six (6) days per month for their one year term. During major investigations, Grand Jury members may need to serve three (3) or more days per week.Back to Top
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David Byrne's album American Utopia fits hand-in-hand with the vision for his series "Reasons To Be Cheerful" (named for the Ian Dury song), for which he has been collecting stories, news, ideas, and other items that inspire optimism. "American Utopia is an album full of pulsating beats and rich textures," says Stereogum. "The new album isn't a throwback; it feels like it could only exist right now." Q says: "Byrne remains as playful and brilliant as ever."
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Gerald Wallace feels 'betrayed' by Charlotte Bobcats and Michael Jordan
"Basically, you feel betrayed by somebody you love,'' Wallace told the Observer before Saturday's Blazers-Bobcats game. "I totally didn't see it coming. I'd been there seven long years and then you feel like you're not wanted anymore. That's a bad situation to be in, especially for me, who committed so much to the organization.
"I understand the situation – it's a business and they're looking to start all over. They wanted cap room, and I guess I was the logical answer for them trying to get draft picks.''
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Gerald Wallace is right.
On the one hand, he should feel disappointed and, perhaps, 'betrayed' by the Charlotte Bobcats, who dealt him at the trade deadline for draft picks.
After all, Wallace was their heart and soul. The three-man was one of the Bobcats' original players, and in Charlotte he matured from a raw athlete man into an established professional.
Best of all, Wallace was blue-collar. He never took a night off. He always played hard. Night-in, night-out, he left it all on the floor. No matter how bad his team and the talent around him were.
On the other hand, the NBA, like Wallace mentions, is a 'business'. The Bobcats are bidding their time until the new Collective Bargaining Agreement levels the playing field, which means swapping expensive salaries for draft picks, prospects, and expiring contracts.
Team Jordan couldn't afford the two years and $20 million remaining on Wallace's contract. So he was a goner.
There are plenty of positives, though. The Portland Trail Blazers, Wallace's new team, are relevant. They have young talent: LaMarcus Aldridge, Nicolas Batum, Wes Mathews, and Brandon Roy (provided he recovers).
Of course, Paul Allen owns the Blazers, so the club has deep pockets and will spend to win.
Change is never easy; however, being 'betrayed' by Charlotte and starting over with Portland may be best for Wallace.
–Oly Sandor.
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The Buttock has successfully sued MySpace for copyright infringement. Late last month, a French High Court ruled that the popular U.S.-based social networking site acts as a publisher as well as a hosting service, making it liable for unauthorized broadcasts of films from the French comedian known as "Lafesse." Yes, that's how it translates.
The Court ordered the site to remove the unauthorized videos or pay 1,000 euros for each day they remain online. According to the ruling, MySpace is also required to pay an additional 61,000 euros for "commercial prejudice," infringement of "moral" and "personal" rights, and plaintiff legal fees. MySpace, which did not send a lawyer to the court hearing, still has an opportunity to appeal.
Jeans-Yves Lafesse is a kind of Gallic Sasha Baron Cohen, well known for filming none-too-serious interviews with people on the street. One famous bit has him approaching a man doing push-ups at Cannes, saying "You can stop now. She's left." Lafesse recently sued MySpace after several users posted copies of his films to the site, and on June 22, the President of the High Court of the First Instance issued a "summary order" that held the site liable for broadcasting the videos.
According to Brad Spitz, a French copyright lawyer and lecturer at the University of Paris whose recent blog post about the case was picked up by French tech law site Juriscom.net, France and other European Union countries have laws similar to the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Typically, these laws protect online hosting services from this sort of suit. But in this case, the court has ruled that MySpace is acting as a publisher because it requires users to post content via very specific online "structures," or frames, and that it serves up advertisements each time a video is viewed.
"Companies that host content usually aren't held liable [in France]," Spitz told The Register. "But this court has said that though MySpace does offer hosting services, it can also be considered a publisher because it does publicity, it offers these structures that users have to use, and it makes money from ads."
The court ruling is part of summary proceeding, a hearing that deals with "urgent matters," says Spitz. With such a proceeding, the president of the court hears arguments from both parties, but MySpace was a no-show. The company must appeal within 15 days of the ruling, according to Spitz.
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Fiscal Cliff Talks: Who Blinks First?
WSJ reporters discuss the major developments in the ongoing fiscal cliff saga but also turn their attention to Syria, and the mounting security and humanitarian threats developing there.
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I think we're the most interesting things this week is that financial markets are Mr. to ignore ... Julie ... mutterings The Sherwood leisurely others to do with others hundred point swings last week now in ... their distorting starting to ignore it ... add years to two schools of thought one is ... that they really things are as ugly as their leaders are making them out to be in your school farmers are doing the sketch initial wash and danced and get closer to each summer I was still ... given that the article this week I at least laid out the possibility that that's the traditional auction again as you like to push her into the answer you show on your ... partisans you've done everything you could and then you have to the battle for the deal border feud with God and the two sides so Doug and along the way that you can kinda pull their stakes in the milk ... is a huge risk ... I think ... things are going to be so happy ... right now my addiction is next week they start to turn around to get jumpy again that that was it was an election to his ... and the question of ... Republicans are acting as is the White House can overplayed ... you know are they ... trying to draw two lines in the sand or they will really willing to go to the edge of the class and maybe enter can ... get this caucus together to the deal ... and the ... dentist interest in national security wrinkle this week he had Mike Mullen the former chairman joint Chiefs of staff and Zbigniew Kruszewski a bunch of big name say you know ... 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Republicans really wanna make a stink after the selection about having a black cat woman ... Secretary State ... By Steve and probably do um yes my thinking that I think what happens in these situations is that the opposition party tends to pick one ... or two ... nominations to take a stand on in every else gets a free pass and I think they've decided Susan Rice's along with ... this thing doesn't because the fact that you know they would be vulnerable to this well you just against a black woman being Secretary State except to say oh what about the Khona Liza writes Republican senators that so many that may be wrong but I think you do wanna have this but not much or ... that ill wind that I think they do ... whenever I what's the ... point that ... I think he'll I think ill take it you know I think all the essential bits I think that that that act in a corner ... but I'd I a suspected present will entitle to the mine has been by the European again they could be wrong about the politics of this that's that's my view ... amazing on the week after the election news is good cry for bipartisanship ... it was released evaporated yet taken last week or two ... although immigration of what's old can be a minister but people were talk about all this J the other thing that I thought was going on was really interesting this week was that that ... this serious situation seems to get uglier and uglier know how much ... more dangerous it is but you had the president warning the Syrians ... don't use chemical weapons which has to be because they saw something that made them think chemical weapons might actually be used in the Syrian conflict when twenty think they saw ... or picking up from the Pentagon spy satellites in him and Intel are picking up ... the movement of sand gas ... from some of the ... previous to this stock was an avid had ... to ... new areas with a kid in a procession on getting is that ... 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Sunni extremist al Qaeda elements that are ... part of this opposition The and that this or did you feel intimate organs were were heading for the worst of both worlds uncertainty gonna have an opposition that is getting stronger but that is made up of people who are either resentful of the fact that the US didn't help him or earlier ... and has a growing contingent of the bad guys and you know that view there's your bad outcome you know not a great opposition from the ... US is in position to do something about taking over in the world in the Sentinel like this very much an independent who ... are upset too pessimistic note enacting from the end of Israel is or protect the fearful that it had just a perfect storm of everything that you have ... an element of ... the outside regime the Iranians and the andthe Hezbollah still controlling for the coastal areas so they can still ... sit weapons and into Levanon you can have ... sort of its Sunni extremist groups controlling certain parts of central and and ... southern um ... Syria in a beaker is having their own thing and all of them would be lost upwards towards Israel on the western and that's that's a real positive which still only destabilize the entire region ... so stable with each of the rest of ... the injury ... could escalate into an epic poem and watching the situations or months and was up a pic of this can really we were talking to them ... this is the perception as like he really has gotten appointee to wake up in a week and as I was gone and the new I but there is still no unified ... opposition and it could just kind of breakdown in affected areas are real ... these sizes chemical weapons are real fear of ethnic some sort of ... major ethnic ... you know the Ally tram that rule to sew loss ever present it to be no real road fatalities yes and and and this is a very worried too and the new year and that's when you get your call for US troops to Glen not for security reasons but on humanitarian grounds and that's can be hard to resist as everybody else is like the Turks are not exact neutral brokers ... things so ... that could be announced next year for ... for Prague Obama now and just a chemical weapons it still is isn't totally broken down that ... you know that ... we've read investment that so they need seventy five thousand ... 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