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WASHINGTON (AP)— Read Barack Obama's lips: no new promises.
Not now, at least.
It's a long way from May to November, but so far the president's campaign speeches have been strikingly free of new pledges.
The president's early pitch to voters is heavy on promises kept and promises still in the works. (Never mind about those pesky promises broken.)
A typical Obama campaign speech includes a "change is..." refrain that showcases the greatest hits of his first term:
—Change is rescuing the auto industry.
—Change is health care reform.
—Change is raising fuel-efficiency standards for cars.
—Change is ending the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military.
—Change is the Lilly Ledbetter law to ensure women get pay equal to men.
And so on.
What does it say that one of Obama's biggest applause lines is still his reference to the Ledbetter law — signed on his ninth day in office?
"His issue is performance, not promises," says Darrell West, a government scholar at the Brookings Institution. "His message is that he's done a lot to help people, and he doesn't want to over-promise for the second term."
Obama's springtime script is a big change from his campaign of four years ago. But it fits the playbook for incumbent presidents seeking re-election.
Job One, particularly in the age of attack ads, is to define your opponent. Obama is largely leaving that chore to campaign surrogates and early advertising for now.
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Many sceptics were convinced that as free software spread out beyond hackers into the general computing sector the rigorous GNU GPL licence would gradually be replaced by more accommodating – meaning weaker – forms, since it was "obvious" that its unbending rules were too strict for widespread use. In fact, the GPL has grown in importance, until today it is probably fair to say that it underpins most of the free software world, including enterprise applications. This makes any violation of its terms particularly worrying, because if left unchallenged, it threatens to undermine the entire ecosystem.
And yet, surprisingly, the Free Software Foundation has been very reluctant to take those who violate the licence's terms to court, preferring, instead, to adopt a softly-softly approach. As Eben Moglen, the main architect of the FSF's legal policy, told me back in 2000, when I interviewed him for Rebel Code:
"About a dozen times a year," Moglen says, "somebody does something [that] violates the GPL. Most of the time, they're doing so inadvertently, they haven't thought through what the requirements are. And I call them them and I say, 'Look, you're violating the GPL. What you need to do is this. Would you help us?'" The answer is invariably yes, he says.
"What is true," Moglen admits, "is that no large American software company has engaged in a public controversy with us over the enforcement of the GPL." And although some might conclude "that means...there's something about the GPL [that] is not enforceable, I would turn that proposition around," Moglen says. "There have been no such controversies because nobody thinks they're going to in them."
But Moglen was well aware that a time would come when a "large American software company" *would* engage in just such a public controversy:
"I think that sometime it's probably going to become necessary, in order to dispel a little FUD on these subjects, for us to choose to take the judicial enforcement route with a case [that] we would otherwise feel comfortable working out in our traditional way."
That time, it seems, has just arrived:
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF's complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library. In doing so, Cisco has denied its users their right to share and modify the software.
Most of these programs are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the rest are under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Both these licenses encourage everyone, including companies like Cisco, to modify the software as they see fit and then share it with others, under certain conditions. One of those conditions says that anyone who redistributes the software must also provide their recipients with the source code to that program. The FSF has documented many instances where Cisco has distributed licensed software but failed to provide its customers with the corresponding source code.
Harald Welte, who has done so much good work on GNU GPL violations with his gpl-violations.org project, provides some interesting background:
At gpl-violations.org, we had our fair share of dealing with Cisco (and particularly Linksys, a Cisco division). Never we have received any entirely satisfactory response. Sure, when you notify them of some GPL infringement, they will take some steps here and there. But in all those years, I have not seen a case where there was a thorough response. Whatever was disclosed as 'GPL source' was incomplete, didn't compile, and with the next firmware release there was again no source code for that new release. And then came the next product, sourced-in from a different OEM, and the entire process had to re-start from scratch.
Yes, they have gone and hired some engineer[s] to explicitly deal with the GPL related issues, like they have taken other steps in the right direction. But it was always superficial. Never addressing the problem at the root, i.e. have a proper in-house business process and supply chain license management to ensure the next product is not yet again a copyright infringement on GPL licensed software. It is so easy to resolve at the source, and so hard to fix later.
This consistent sloppiness suggests something close to contempt for the licence terms. That's curious given the fact that Cisco has recently made some positive moves to boost its GNU/Linux-based Application eXtension Platform (AXP):
Cisco is asking developers to instead think "inside the box" to create applications that will run on the Linux based Cisco AXP module. It's tossing in $100,000 in prize money just to keep it interesting.
This might be a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing, but that seems unlikely, since licensing is a fundamental issue that proprietary software companies certainly think about. It's significant that the competition mentioned above isn't about open source as such, just apps that run on GNU/Linux:
Though open source applications are welcomed by the Cisco contest, Kiran noted that it doesn't matter for the contest. "Cisco doesn't want to own the IP (intellectual property). As long as people can come up with an original idea, open source or otherwise we're OK with that."
This suggests that it sees open source as a handy and cheap source of materials that it can use, but not something that it explicitly wants to support, or indeed cares much about. That's a view that has already been voiced well before the current FSF action.
Against that background, I don't think the current alleged violations are an intentional attack on the GNU GPL – the "Big One" that everyone is waiting for to settle definitively its legal validity - but spring rather from a fundamental misunderstanding of what free software is about. Since it doesn't understand why people really care about being able to see the up-to-date source code, Cisco probably didn't think it would matter if it didn't comply fully with the GNU GPL licence. Once it realises that its ignorance and indifference is seriously damaging its reputation among a key constituency – that of developers – I predict it will soon comply with the licence, not least because it will cost a trivial amount of money and effort to do so.
The issue is not whether it will change its mind about fulfilling the terms of the licence to the letter in this case, but whether it will change its entire attitude to free software, and start giving it the respect it deserves. The best result from the current FSF action would not be a victory in the courts – welcome though that would be – but if Cisco became a permanent and serious contributor to the free software world. That would not be not just a win for the FSF, but a win-win for everyone.
Glyn Moody writes about free software at opendotdotdot.
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FSF is coming full circle on this. FSF was inspired partly by the innaccessibility of a printer driver in the old days. Now the matter is software inside small boxes. This time, there is a clear, legal remedy because the software is licensed under the GPL.
Unfortunately, it *has* to be done
Sadly, the only language many companies seem to understand is the loss of lots of money. Like Microsoft, Cisco doesn't care a whit about "embarrassment", but rather, "how much ahead can we come out if we cheat, even if we get caught?"
This lawsuit needs to happen, and it needs to cost Cisco a quite substantial amount of money, for the same reason that even peaceful nations still maintain armies and even some hippie mothers purchase handguns for home defense. It's a deterrent to those who would attack you and/or your stuff. In this case, the "attack" is at the copyright of the GNU-licensed software, the "defensive handgun" is the lawsuit, and the "deterrent" is loss of lots of money. This will signal other companies, large or small, that you *MUST* obey the license for software that you choose to use...INCLUDING when that license is the GNU GPL.
For this reason, now that the lawsuit has been filed, I hope that it costs Cisco many, many millions of dollars. Maybe then they'll wake up and either not use the software (thus obeying the license), or use the software in accordance with the license's terms.
Open Source Pie
I think Cisco just wants part of the "Open Source Pie". And the lawsuit is embarrassing. It's a case of biting the hand that feeds it, I don't think they'll fight it, but more like "Oops, we goofed, sorry about that."
I'm a longtime Cisco/Linux advocate. The thought process behind Cisco's products are aligned with the thought process for many Linux/OSS projects. I think they'll get the egg off of their face and life will continue on.
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FSF is coming full circle on this. FSF was inspired partly by the innaccessibility of a printer driver in the old days. Now the matter is software inside small boxes. This time, there is a clear, legal remedy because the software is licensed under the GPL.
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NEVER do what this guy does if you ever find a gun!! probably my WORST animation yet. i have no idea on what to do so i made this crappy animation. at least i aggree that this animation is crap.
Rated 2 / 5 stars April 2, 2010
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For being honest ill be nice and give you a 4.
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Its kinda slow and pretty pointless.. besides the words; paly and cencurd are misspelled
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yea thought that once i uploaded it
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The American dancer J'aime Crandall, who was trained at the Kirov Academy in Washington, was promoted to Solodanser (Principal) of the RDB after her performance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Balanchine's Nutcracker last night.
It's less than a year that she was promoted from the corps de ballet to soloist, so this is a fast rise - but she's been doing principal roles and from what I've seen of her she's come a long way since her Aurora last Christmas.
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Flowers In The Attic did not deliver on Saturday night.
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Drake & Zoe are wearing me down
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Justin Bieber and his Frankenstein
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Robert Pattinson in Rob Ford's afterglow
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It is a new day. And Mayor Rob Ford is at City Hall in Toronto. The morning is full of possibilities. Yesterday morning Ford talked about eating pussy and how much pussy he gets at home with his wife. Right now, as I write this post, I'm listening to him speak live on television about his executive committee. Full Story
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Riggins and his hockey stick
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Baby sleeps …after sex?
Rob Ford didn't admit to anything else yesterday. The Iron Sheik however did challenge him to a wrestling match and promised to f-ck him up. So, there's that. It wasn't totally a bust for Canadian pride on Wednesday though. When Rob Ford doesn't deliver, Justin Bieber will. Full Story
Lunged me back to life
Here are the Canadians who've been representing Canada on the world stage lately: Rob Ford and Justin Bieber Is it our finest moment? Or our lowest moment? Debatable. There is however a Canadian whose representation of Canada is never debatable. Celine Dion is ALWAYS AMAZING. Full Story


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I'm trying to feed my husband and three kids healthier food at home, but they prefer eating restaurant food. Does it contain something that would make them dislike the meals I make?
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It might. If they are used to the taste of foods prepared with trans fats, they may lack enthusiasm for olive oil or canola oil, far more healthful alternatives. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is notoriously common in Chinese food, but it's also used in other types of restaurants and in processed foods. It enhances flavor, so your family may miss it in the food you cook, along with the high amounts of sugar and salt typically found in restaurant food.
You can adjust their tastes, though. Talk to your family about the importance of food to good health, but acknowledge that it's a source of pleasure as well. Engage their help to find healthy recipes that sound appealing (you can get some ideas at DavidKatzMD.com/Recipes.) If you can show them that healthy foods include flavorful foods, they'll turn into allies in a flash. And if you make a habit of eating well, they may even come to dislike the high-salt, high-sugar, high-fat foods they used to prefer.
You can also meet them halfway: A study from the Netherlands found that kids who ate a few servings of a sweetened vegetable came to accept the unsweetened version. It's called flavor-flavor learning: Mix a little sugar or butter with a vegetable the first five to ten times you serve it, and then phase it out; your family will end up preferring the natural taste.
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Geology- Relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption in which a narrow stream of gas and ash is violently ejected from a vent to a height of several miles.More example sentences
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Re: Prayer requestDusty, as we discussed a couple weeks ago in email, Rosie and I will be thinking of you. I'm sure everything will be fine tomorrow. Take care my friend!
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Re: Prayer requestDusty We pray for your success. I talked to friend last evening. Agnes had 3 heart valves replaced and she is back to work as a nurse. I wish you success similsr to that Agnes has.
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Thomson attempted to measure the charge of individual electrons, but his method could determine its charge only to the order of magnitude expected.
Since Faraday's experiments with electroplating in the 1830s, it had been known that about 100,000 C per mole was needed to plate singly ionized ions. Dividing this by the number of ions per mole (that is, by Avogadro's number), which was approximately known, the charge per ion was calculated to be about
An American physicist, Robert Millikan (1868–1953) (see Figure 5), decided to improve upon Thomson's experiment for measuring
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where the round-off errors have been corrected. The mass of the electron has been verified in many subsequent experiments and is now known to an accuracy of better than one part in one million. It is an incredibly small mass and remains the smallest known mass of any particle that has mass. (Some particles, such as photons, are massless and cannot be brought to rest, but travel at the speed of light.) A similar calculation gives the masses of other particles, including the proton. To three digits, the mass of the proton is now known to be
which is nearly identical to the mass of a hydrogen atom. What Thomson and Millikan had done was to prove the existence of one substructure of atoms, the electron, and further to show that it had only a tiny fraction of the mass of an atom. The nucleus of an atom contains most of its mass, and the nature of the nucleus was completely unanticipated.
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TWO teenagers will appear in court next month accused of garage burglaries in York and causing criminal damage.
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Genre: Uplifting Fact-based Drama
Directed by: Ben Lewin (The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish)
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The Sessions is almost certainly going to be one of the more successful — possibly the most successful — "art" titles of the year. It comes with a raft of good — even great — reviews. It fetched an unusually high price at Sundance, which translated into a strong campaign from purchaser Fox Searchlight. It has Oscar buzz (mostly for star John Hawkes). And it won the Audience Award at Sundance. (It's that last recognition that might give you some cause for pause because Audience Award winners are often pretty dire.) The truth is, it's almost exactly what you've been led to believe — an uplifting, mildly comedic, fact-based story with an attention-getting premise and central performance. It's competently made in every possible capacity — and that may be its biggest drawback. Take away the nudity and the frank sex talk and you'd pretty much be left with a high-minded TV movie — with unusually good actors. As for the filmmaking...well, let's just say that it's no great surprise that writer-director Ben Lewin's last job was an episode of Touched by an Angel.
The film deals with the attempts of poet/journalist Mark O'Brien (Hawkes) — a polio survivor confined to an iron lung for all but a few hours out of the day since the age of 6 — to experience sex. At the time the movie takes place, O'Brien is 38, and fully cognizant of the fact that he's nearing his "use by date," so there's a certain urgency to the situation. His immobility from the neck down and his general situation has effectively scotched his own efforts in the matter, so — after getting the go-ahead from his priest, Father Brendan (William H. Macy) — O'Brien enlists the aid of a sex surrogate, Cheryl (Helen Hunt). She's a thorough professional — but has kind of a hippie vibe (the film is set in the late 1980s) with a guitar-playing philosopher (read: unemployed) husband (Adam Arkin). She quickly lays down the guidelines: There are to be six sessions — and that's it. Of course, in order to make this any good as drama, it doesn't turn out to be as cut and dry as that sounds.
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The Chance of Finding Aliens
Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has long been a hot topic among astronomers, biologists, and the general public. But not many recall how the subject was jump-started more than 50 years ago.
In September 1959, physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published a landmark article in the British weekly journal Nature with the provocative title, "Searching for Interstellar Communications." Cocconi and Morrison argued that radio telescopes had become sensitive enough to pick up transmissions that might be broadcast into space by civilizations orbiting other stars. Such messages, they suggested, might be transmitted at a wavelength of 21 centimeters (1,420.4 megahertz). This is the wavelength of radio emission by neutral hydrogen, the most common element in the universe. Other intelligences might see this as a logical landmark in the radio spectrum where searchers like us would think to look.
Following the Ozma experiment, Drake organized a meeting with a select group of scientists to discuss the prospects and pitfalls of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence nowadays abbreviated SETI. In November 1961, ten radio technicians, astronomers, and biologists convened for two days at Green Bank. Young Carl Sagan was there, as was Berkeley chemist Melvin Calvin, who received news during the meeting that he had won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
It was in preparing for this meeting that Drake came up with what soon became known as the Drake Equation:
N = R x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L
Nowadays this string of letters and symbols can be found on T-shirts, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers. It is simpler than it looks. It expresses the number N of "observable civilizations" that currently exist in our Milky Way galaxy as a simple multiplication of several, more approachable unknowns:
R is the rate at which stars have been born in the Milky Way per year, fp is the fraction of these stars that have solar systems of planets, ne is the average number of "Earthlike" planets (potentially suitable for life) in the typical solar system, fl is the fraction of those planets on which life actually forms, fi is the fraction of life-bearing planets where intelligence evolves, fc is the fraction of intelligent species that produce interstellar radio communications, and L is the average lifetime of a communicating civilization in years.
Astronomers and biologists alike have tried to "solve" the equation ever since. At first sight, coming up with a reasonable estimate for the answer might seem fairly straightforward. But the number of communicating intelligences can't be judged so easily. Several of the variables in the equation have been firmed up since 1961. But at least three remain very unknown.
The rate of star formation in our galaxy is approximately one per year, R = 1. The next factor, fp, is fairly close to 1: most stars have planets, we finally know as of 2012. And the next factor, ne, probably can't be a whole lot less than 1 either.
But from here on, things get much more tricky. Optimists would argue that life will form wherever it can (fl = 1), that the Darwinian process of natural selection eventually favors the evolution of intelligence (fi = 1), and that no intelligent civilization would exist for a very long time without discovering electricity and radio and feeling the urge to communicate (fc = 1). In this most optimistic case, the Drake equation boils down to the simple observation that N = L (the average lifetime of technological civilizations, in years). If L is, say, 100,000 years, there would currently be about 100,000 chatty civilizations in our galaxy. And that's assuming that only one such civilization arises during a given planet's entire multi-billion-year lifetime.
That figure of 100,000 would mean there is one radio-emitting civilization right now per 4 million stars reason enough to tune in on the heavens and start hunting for them. If they were scattered at random throughout the Milky Way, the nearest one would probably be about 500 light-years from us. That means a two-way conversation would require a time equal to a good fraction of recorded human history, but a one-way broadcast might be audible.
However, some 50 years of SETI have failed to find anything, even though radio telescopes, receiver techniques, and computational abilities have improved enormously since the early 1960s. Granted, the "parameter space" of possible radio signals (all the possible frequencies, locations on the sky, signal strengths, frequency drift rates, on-off duty cycles, etc.) is vastly larger than the tiny bit that has yet been searched. But we have discovered, at least, that our galaxy is not teeming with very powerful alien transmitters continuously broadcasting near the 21-centimeter hydrogen frequency. No one could say this in 1961.
Have we overestimated the values of one or more of the Drake parameters? Is the average lifetime of technological civilizations short? Or have astronomers overlooked some other, more subtle aspect?
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