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US 7934091 B2 Abstract A technique for establishing a perimeter of accountability for usage of digital assets such as data files. The accountability model not only tracks authorized users' access to files, but monitors passage of such files to uncontrollable removable storage media or through network connections and the like which may indicate possible abuse of access. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, an autonomous independent agent process running at a point of use, such as in the background of a client operating system kernel, interrupts requests for access to resources. The agent process senses low level system events, filters, aggregates them, and makes reports to a journaling server. The journaling server analyzes sequences of low level events to detect when aggregate events of interest occur, such as "FileEdit", network file transfers and the like. Reports can be generated to provide an understanding of how digital assets have been accessed, used or communicated by individuals in an enterprise.
Claims(20) 1. A system for providing usage accountability of a digital asset in a data processing system, comprising:
a client device having (i) a sensor located within an operating system kernel of the client device and configured to sense atomic-level events relating to authorized access to the digital asset by an end user of the client device, and (ii) a coalescing aggregator configured to aggregate multiple atomic-level events relating to a single end-user's action into a coalesced atomic-level event, the coalesced atomic-level event being a single atomic-level event selected from the multiple atomic-level events; and
a journaling server in communication with the client device and having (i) a high-level aggregator configured to generate a high-level aggregate event by aggregating multiple atomic-level events, including at least one coalesced atomic-level event, based on a predetermined sequence of atomic-level events, and (ii) a reporter configured to generate an audit trail from one or more aggregate events, the audit trail representing usage of the digital asset by the end user.
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sensing atomic-level events within an operating system kernel of a client device, the atomic-level events relating to authorized access to the digital asset by an end user of the client device;
aggregating multiple atomic-level events relating to a single end-user's action into a coalesced atomic-level event, the coalesced atomic-level event being a single atomic-level event selected from the multiple atomic-level events;
forwarding the coalesced atomic-level event to a journaling server;
generating a high-level aggregate event at the journaling server by aggregating multiple atomic-level events, including at least one coalesced atomic-level event, based on a predetermined sequence of atomic-level events; and
generating an audit trail from one or more aggregate events, the audit trail representing usage of the digital asset by the end user.
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Description This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/716,336 filed on Nov. 18, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,474,272, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/655,573 filed on Sep. 4, 2003, now abandoned which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/442,464 entitled "Method and System for Adaptive Identification and Protection of Proprietary Electronic Information," filed on Jan. 23, 2003. The entire teachings of the above-referenced applications are hereby incorporated by reference. Data security has been a significant issue facing system administrators since almost the inception of the data processing industry. Most computer users recognize the possibility of theft or misuse of data by unauthorized outsiders. The terms "hackers" or "crackers" are often used to describe such outsiders who attempt to gain access to a system, and who are typically not involved in any way with an organization's operations, its internal employees or systems. Many different solutions already exist to protect an organization's data processing infrastructure from this kind of threat. These include physical access control, firewalls, sniffers and other network monitors, data encryption, intrusion detection systems and other solutions. These solutions are generally recognized as being adequate for their intended purpose most of the time. However, there is a second class of computer users that also pose a security threat. Protection from these unauthorized insiders requires a different approach, but one that is also well known. Almost since the inception of disk-based storage systems, the concept of access control has been applied to limit the ability of certain users to access certain important files. Using these techniques, now a universal feature of in any Operating System (OS), a desktop and/or network file server can provide for limited read, write, public, private and other types of access to files, directory structures and the like, depending upon permissions granted to particular users. Permissions can be attached to user accounts by a system administrator, based on their need to know, departments in the organization of which a user is a member, and so forth. Even when users obtain access to only a portion of a system, however, they can still use a variety of techniques to steal and/or damage information. These can include simple browsing for unsecured information in a network, and/or removal or deletion of information made available as a result of poor security practices. More sophisticated rogue users will employ network packet sniffers and/or spying software. Fortunately, a variety of approaches, such as centralized document and digital rights management systems, network auditing, and file management tools, are effective tools against unauthorized use by insiders. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,510,513 issued to Danieli and assigned to Microsoft Corporation describes a security and policy enforcement system that utilizes a series of transactions between a server and a client using electronic security certificates. A first client generates a request for access to data by submitting a security certificate containing a digest to a trusted arbitrator server. The trusted arbitrator authenticates the first client's credentials and returns the security certificate. The data and security certificate are then combined to create a distribution, which, in turn, is acquired by a second client. The second client extracts the security certificate and generates a digest from the data in the distribution. If the digest from the second client matches the digest from the first client, then data is considered to be valid. Depending upon the certificate type and a policy level, the trusted arbitrator server can provide services such as notification of improper usage. U.S. Pat. No. 6,427,140 assigned to Intertrust Technologies is another type of digital rights management system. A system such as this is intended, for the most part, to protect the rights of various participants in a transferring sensitive data, such as in an electronic commerce or other electronic facilitated transactions. Neither of these solutions do much to protect misuse of information by authorized insiders. This class of users has a trusted status, as they are supposed to have access to important data files to carry out their assigned tasks. Thus, they are routinely granted permission to use such information on a daily basis, and their use is not normally suspect. The problem comes when a class of trusted users abuse that trust by copying and/or distributing sensitive information to outsiders or other unauthorized people. Such events can happen quite easily and with increasing frequency when a disgruntled or departing employee wishes to damage an organization. What prior art security systems fails to account for is the fact that once granted access to sensitive information, it is quite easy for authorized users to distribute it in many different ways. The proliferation of Internet connections, e-mail, instant messaging, removable media storage devices, such as Compact Disk-Read Write (CD-RW) drives, Universal Serial Bus (USB) type memory and storage devices, and the like, it makes it a trivial task to copy vast amounts of information almost instantaneously. Other peripheral devices, such as wireless modems, wireless local network cards, portable computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), network tunnels, and the like, provide further vehicles by which an authorized user may distribute copies of files outside of the trusted system environment. Even an act of printing the contents of a file is a potentially damaging event. This is the case even when sophisticated file management and access control systems are employed to control access to and even monitor usage of files. The root of the problem stems from the fact that once an authorized user opens a file, its contents are no longer controllable. Specifically, copies of the file contents may be taken "out of" the controlled environment of a network or file management system. The present invention is intended to address security problems that originate with authorized users abusing their authority, by providing a usage accountability model for data security. In particular, an autonomous, independent agent process, such as running in the background of a client Operating System (OS) kernel, interrupts requests for access to resources. Such resource access requests may include, for example, requests to read a file, open a network connection, mount a removable media device, and the like). Since access is detected at the OS kernel level, tracking of resource utilization will occur regardless of whether the original access request originated from an application program that is being executed by an end user, indirectly by applications on behalf of users, or even by system requests made independently of application software. The autonomous independent agent process contains sensors that capture low level system events. These may include, for example, operations such as file read, file write, file copy, clipboard cut, clipboard copy, CD-RW access, TCP/IP network message inbound, TCP/IP network message outbound and the like. Low level events are then associated with one or more file names (handles) and filtered against an approved list. Thus, the raw events are filtered to remove references to files such as operating system files (.EXE, .DLL, etc.) and the like that do not contain sensitive application data. Only events relating to application files that may contain sensitive data are thus further tracked. The filtered results are then bundled together and sent securely to a journaling server. The journaling server unbundles the list of events and stores them in an event database. The journaling server also periodically looks at a series of events in order to recognize an aggregate event as a possible abuse of trust situation. Such aggregate events are also then typically also added to the database. For example, an aggregate "FileEdit" event might be reported by the journaling server when a user has opened and modified a sensitive financial document, with that user then printing the document before renaming it and saving a it to a newly attached USB hard drive. A set of reports can then be generated from journaled aggregate events to provide a comprehensive understanding of how files were accessed, used and communicated by individual users in an enterprise. Summary and trend reporting, for example, can show the volume and type of information that flows, and possible links between aggregate events for particular suspect users based on a variety of criteria. Activity journals can also be sorted by user, a file, application, network connection, storage media, and the like. The result is an audit trail that can be used for a variety of purposes to determine, for example, which files have been attached to emails sent through a personal email server, which users have access specific client files and which documents have a recently departed employee burned to a CD-RW or printed to a home printer in the last month, or other possible abuses of authority. The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of preferred embodiments of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views. The drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention. A traditional security model is used to prevent access by an untrusted outsider 110 to devices 102 and/or file servers 104 within the protected network 100. A network perimeter 120 is thus associated with network points of access, such as through router 106 and specifically at a firewall 107. The firewall 107 can thus prevent attempts by unauthorized users of outside computers 110 to access information stored in the server 104 or otherwise manipulate the local computers 102. Firewalls 107 can also establish a perimeter 120 for outgoing access such as, for example, by users attempting to access certain undesirable outside computers 110 that contain restricted or harmful websites, game servers, and the like. Rather than establishing a perimeter at external points of physical access to a network, the present invention establishes a perimeter of accountability for file usage. The accountability model can not only track authorized users of the computer 102 accessing files stored on a local server 104, but more importantly also monitors passage of such files to peripherals that distribute or record information, or other possible abuse events. Such possible abuse events may occur whenever a user accesses devices which are not visible to or controllable by a local file server 104 or firewall 107. These events may include writing files to uncontrolled media such as CD-RWs 204, PDAs 206, USB storage devices 208, wireless devices 212, digital video recorders 214, or even printing of files. Other suspect events can include running external Peer to Peer (P2P) applications 201, sending files via external e-mail applications 202, uploading files to web sites via the Internet 108, and the like. Thus, the invention can provide an enterprise-wide journal of all file, application and network use. As will be understood shortly, the heart of this journaling approach consists of a high level contextual stream that characterizes user activity as it occurs at the point of use, such as the desktop 102 or file server 104. Turning attention to While the clients normally include desktops 102-1 which have a direct wired (or wireless) connection 109 to the local network 101, the agent 300 may also run on disconnected client computers such as laptops 102-2, making a report of events once a connection is eventually made to the network 100. In a manner that will be described shortly, the agent 300 reports atomic events 350 to an activity journaling process typically running on an activity journaling server 104-2. The journaling server 104-2 processes atomic event data and coalesces it into what are called aggregate events 360. Aggregate events 360 are detected when a certain predetermined sequence of atomic events occurs. Each aggregate event 360 is thus composed of one or more atomic events 350 that conform to some predetermined pattern indicative of activity that should be monitored. Specific types and/or sequences of atomic events 350 that lead to aggregate events 360 will be described in detail later. It should be appreciated here, however, that the particular events reported and their aggregation types depend upon the specific activities sought to be monitored. To protect the network completely, typically the agent process 300 would reside on all desktops 102 and file servers 104 associated with an enterprise's networks. The activity journaling server 104 and agent process 300 may communicate through secure, networking based applications such as the Microsoft ".NET" infrastructure or other secure networking systems. A management console 102-5 permits access to the database stored in the journaling server 104-2, and is used specifically to provide risk compliance, forensic reporting, and similar reports 310 to administrative users of the system. The journaling server 104-2 may typically run within a Windows 2000 Server environment having a secure .NET framework. The journaling server 104-2 also has access to a database, such as Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for example, to provide record storage and retrieval functions. It is to be understood, of course, that the processes described herein can be implemented on other types of operating systems, server platforms, database systems, and secure networking environments. As already mentioned, the agent 300 typically runs as a kernel process in a client Operating System (OS). For example, the agent 300 may run within the kernel of Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Autonomous operation of the agent 300 provides for detection of atomic events 350 even when client 102 is disconnected from the network 100. Any such events are reported when the client 102 is reconnected and can communicate with the journaling server 104-2. In a preferred embodiment, the agent 300 will run multiple services under Windows so that if one service is stopped by a malicious user, the other one may restart the other process. The process is also hid from a task manager or similar processes in the operating system and will be able to work with safe mode boot features in order to guarantee full protection. Turning attention to the agent 300, atomic event sensors 500 provide atomic events as output when action typically associated with Input/Output (I/O) drivers are intercepted at the OS kernel. The agent process 300 is therefore transparent to the end user and tamper resistant. The intercept may, for example, occur during an I/O Request Packet (IRP) in an interruptible kernel. The sensors 500 may include, for example, file operation sensor 502, network operation sensor 504, print queue sensor 505, clipboard sensor 506, Application Programming Interface (API) spy sensor 508 and other sensors. Events may be provided for example, by Windows services and kernel level drivers. Data collected with an event depends on the event type, but can include:
An approved file filter 520 operates to automatically filter the dozens of inconsequential events generated by standard calls to system files. For example, it is quite common for many different .EXE and .DLL operating system files to be opened and accessed repeatedly in a typical executing Windows application. In order to reduce the data flow to the journaling server 104-2, the file filter 520 uses an approved file list 522 to filter atomic (raw) sensor events 510. The approved file list 522 may be implemented by a list of file names associated with events. However, in a preferred embodiment, the well known MD5 algorithm is used to generate a hash code for each file name. The MD5 hash code for a filename associated with an event is then matched against the approved list 522, rather than the complete file handle, to speed up the filtering process. Thus, only events associated with unapproved files are passed down to the coalescing stage 530. The next stage is an atomic event coalescing stage 530 that attempts to aggregate atomic events 510. The coalescing function further filters atomic events 510 associated with or related to a single user action between the agent 300 and the journaling server 104. In general, applications frequently read small chunks of a file and not the entire file at the same time. For example, a user may open a 2 MegaByte (MB) spreadsheet file. However the OS may at a given time actually only access chunks of the spreadsheet file that are much smaller than that, such as 5 or 10 KiloBytes (KB) at a time. Thus, a typical pattern of access is to see a file open atomic event, followed by multiple read atomic events to the same file. If this sequence of atomic events is seen from the same process and the same executable with the same thread ID and the same file handle, event coalescing 530 will thus count only a single "FileOpen" event. In a preferred embodiment, there is a time attribute associated with event coalescing 530 such that if a time limit typically measuring in minutes of time is exceeded, at least one event will be reported between raw level events. The coalesced events are then grouped together in bundles 540-1, 540-2 . . . , 540-n. A bundle 540 consists of a number of events that are grouped together for the convenience of transmission from the client 300 to the server 104-2. Communication between the agent 300 and journaling server 104-2 preferably takes place over a fault tolerant, encrypted, asynchronous communication channel 550, such as a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) channel. For example, the Public Key Infrastructure (RSA/PKI) available from RSA Security, Inc. can be used for symmetric encryption. The agent 300 holds a service certificate (server public key) that it uses to encrypt one time session keys, on a per packet basis, to implement symmetric cryptography. Compression and other data reduction techniques can also be applied to the bundles prior to their transmission over the network connection 550. With file filtering 522 and atomic event coalescing 530, it is expected that the size of the activity journal to be communicated to the server 104-2 typically is on the order of only about 150 Kb per user per day. On arriving at the journaling server 104-2, bundles 540 are decompressed and decrypted, returned to their original state, and placed in the database 560 as the atomic event table. This table holds a de-multiplexed version of low level coalesced events so that they may be processed as a single stream. A high level event aggregation process 570 then periodically reads events from the database table 560 as a stream and determines if high level aggregate events have occurred. This can be done by running queries on the database 560 to determine if a sequence of atomic events has occurred in patterns than are defined in advance. A comprehensive list of typical high level event patterns is shown in Event categories are associated with each event type. For example, in an event category "file", event names include file read, file write, file rewrite, file copy, file rename, file delete, file move, file recycle, file restore. Similarly, network related events are TCP/IP inbound, TCP/IP outbound, USB inbound and so forth. A scope is also associated with each event type. A scope is defined as either being a thread, process, login, machine, or all type scope. For example, "process" scope is an event that is consolidated into a high level event in the same process but not necessarily executing the same thread. "Machine" means that a reboot could occur between two events that occurred on the same machine. Attributes commonly recorded for all high level events include an action type, an event count, bytes read count, bytes written count, event start, event end, and other possible actions. Source and destination hold numerous other attributes including the file, path, process, thread, and application identifying information that performed the event. Other types of system events may include print events, CD events, clipboard, user and machine events. The final type of low level event may be process events including process start and process end. The database 560 will eventually include a series of various events, such as file events, network events, print events, CD events, user events, machine event, process, machine device and other events. High level aggregate events are created by detecting a combination of the occurrence of low level events. More particularly, a high level aggregate event (action types 26-42) is determined after seeing a specific sequence of lower level events (action types 1-25). For example, action type 26 is a high level event called "FileEdited". This is an aggregate event that determines when a file has been edited. As the table indicates, the high level event aggregated process 570 may detect that a particular process, thread, and file has performed one or more reads to a particular file handle, followed by a write operation to the same process, thread and file handle. The event is then defined as an aggregate "File Edited" event. Aggregate events are defined in greater detail in Similarly, a "BurnFile" event is associated with detecting a CD write atomic event followed by a file read atomic event. Thus, if a series of file reads are detected from one file handle, followed by a series of CD write events with the same process, the application is recognized as having written a file to a CD-RW. Numerous other aggregate events are possible; the list in Further detail such as arranged by a particular user can be provided in a report as shown in While this invention has been particularly shown and described with references to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention encompassed by the appended claims. Patent Citations
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Of course no American will buy a Ford Fiesta for US$24,700, or even US$20,000, because fuel is cheap (by international standard) and a fully equipped Toyota Camry sells for US$20,000.
But the price comparison is misleading. The US$24,700 price includes about 17% to 19% VAT applicable in Europe, and there is no VAT in the US.
A fully equipped Honda Fit is priced at about US$16,000, and is selling well in the US. The Big-3 need to produce a small car as good as a Honda Fit, priced at US$16,000, and make a decent profit at the same time.
The Big-3 only have themselves to blame if they cannot sell a Fit/Fiesta equivalent for US$16,000 at a profit.
there is a simple way to get america to love small cars, tax gasoline like europeans do. the auto industry should be unleashing their lobbyist to promote just such an idea.
The sub-title of this article - "Can Americans learn to love small cars? The industry's future depends on it" - couldn't be more wrong. Should the American consumer "learn to love" cars that are popular in Europe and Asia, this would only open the American market up to more imported product.
The reason that European, Korean and Japanese carmakers moved to the US to build plants to service those markets is because most of the vehicles that are built in those plants fundamentally sell only in North America.
Carmakers make their money on scale and running their plants at high rates of capacity. A US market that loves Fits and Yarises and so forth would be a market that would see about 30% of its production capacity close as the production of those vehicles is consolidated in lower cost locations. It would also invite entry to the large US markets to makers such as Renault, PSA, Tata and the flavour-of-the-month Chinese maker who cannot sell anything there.
No, you're quite wrong Economist, the future of the American auto industry depends, as it always has, on the uniqueness of the American consumer. A nice rebound in demand from pent-up replacement needs and the emerging Boomer Echo cohort would help, too.
A 2 ton car needs 2x as much energy to move as a 1 ton car. Simple physics.
Cars are used differently in the U.S. than overseas. Also, how is it that introducing cheaper to operate hybrid and electric cars causes cars to be used less?
I would love to drive a small car that comfortably seats my family of five on trips that last for eight hours. It needs to be able to last for a decade and be comfortable for everyone over that entire period of time. Also it needs to be able to carry a weeks worth of luggage for those five people on trips, and the occasional 4 x 8 peice of plywood - not at the same time of course. It should also acclerate and handle well under most driving conditions. It should have an extra couple of seats to accomodate visitors. Please identify the small car that meats my needs.
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BMW drivers say they have ??? on average 2,2 times each week while Porsche drivers have sex 1,4 times per week. Well, that was in Germany...
Well, yes, tri400, it would be simple physics if the car were in fact a rock being dragged along the ground. Because a car rides on tires and roller bearings, the energy necessary to move it does not rise linearly with weight. The energy necessary is a function of tires, bearings, aerodynamics, various choices one makes with the engine, the speed one drives, and, finally, weight. Physics is simple to those who know very little about it.
fuel is not much cheaper considered the population density of us in coparison to europe. or to put it another way, the average american drives longer distances.
"Smaller are more fun, more economic and can be as comfortable and just as reliable, and you had better get use to them, for the time will be that there will be no choice."
That may be your opinion, Aussie, but it certainly isn't mine, nor is it the view of the majority of Americans. Your view of wallowing American cars is sorely out of date, I am afraid. With perhaps a little bias against America showing, methinks. It is really the fashion these days. Fortunately we have broad shoulders.
Australia is called the "lucky" country. Lucky to have found all those resources under its soil. If not for that, it would have been quite unlucky as I haven't noticed too much innovation or ground breaking technology coming out from down under
To those touting the use of natural gas to fuel our big cars I must agree natural gas is a great way to reduce our need for importing oil. But a better idea is using natural gas to fuel our "new smaller cars".
America should start to rethink it love affair with large vehicles. In the long run it is not an affair with the promise of continued happiness and sustainability. Other alternatives do exist that can fulfill the emotional needs of the animal known as man.
Sean Notheard may be correct in a country where gas goes as cheaply as it does in the U.S., but that is bound to change both for fiscal and environmental reasons. Consider Brasil, pioneer of biofuels, where a gallon of gas costs from $5.70 up, and is diluted with at least 20 % cane based ethanol, which translates into a gasoline component at $7.13 per equivalent gallon. Once Americans face shelling out over $97 to fill up a 17 gallon tank (at even relatively low Brasilian-level prices), enough rationality is bound to set in to keep the SUV for a pet and give it an occasional Sunday outing.
Many people fail to appreciate the massive support system automobiles demand. The bigger the cars the bigger the support. After the recent bailout of the auto industry GM has given indications that they still fail to get it. Recent news releases from GM show they intend to invest over one billion dollars in their truck line.
This makes me think that GM has little desire to compete in the small vehicle arena. Small cars can preform very well on motors that produce less then 100 horsepower while getting very high mileage. Other then the volt which may never achieve critical mass GM shows little interest in this sector.
The Focus is actually not all that small. I'm now 60 but as a student in the 60s my first car was a VW Beetle. It was big enough to haul me and my girlfriend any where we needed to go and cheap enough to be able to afford it. Think of the Focus or smaller Fiesta as modern replacements for economical cars. As the standard of living falls in the USA, the Focus may even be seen as a luxury car.
Must say that have drive some of the, what we call them "Yank Tanks" from the 70's, cant see the excitement of driving something with a boot and a bonnet big enough to land aircraft on them, then they wallow and lean and sway all over the place, as being fun cars to drive, little own economical. By the way, these Yank tanks were driven on Australian roads between 60 to 100+ mph, have put other cars from else where plus motor bikes at the same speeds same roads or similar.
The US car manufacturing companies has been behind the game for many years in how well their cars handle, quality of finish, even though they have interests in European motoring, and manufacturing.The shape of some sedans has started to become more European in style. And speaking of Europe, the upper and mid market cars from the BMW, Mercedes,Jaguars to the Euro super sports cars with the 5 to 6+ litre engines, as are some of the US cars have, are going to disappear through lack of enough consumer support, eventually, well soon.
Utes or as known your way SUVs will be around for years, minus the sport part of the utility vehicle.
Smaller are more fun, more economic and can be as comfortable and just as reliable, and you had better get use to them, for the time will be that there will be no choice.
"I'm sorry to say I'd rather buy a used Toyota for $10,000 than a new Gm product at most any price."
Wow, there's an enlightened view. This article is about new D3 cars, not 6 or 7 year old cars for $10,000. Quality has improved dramatically.
I agree with Too Ancient. Due to lack of local resources independence on foreign oil has risen dramatically over the last 20 years. Natural Gas is abundant in North America and the conversion would allow local product and use of local human resources. Probably a lot better for the economy in the long run. Smaller cars are more popular in Europe for their ease of maneuverability in the densely packed cities. The U.S. doesn't suffer from that problem yet.
I'm sorry to say I'd rather buy a used Toyota for $10,000 than a new Gm product at most any price.
I've driven cars in New York City, England, and in Oklahoma where I now live. In this part of America it would be dangerous to switch to a small car. Drive around here and you're surrounded by large pick-up trucks and huge semis hauling two large trailers behind them. Our roads and highways are rougher and seem to have larger potholes than what I encountered in England. Besides that, we drive a lot farther in our cars and depend upon them more than my relatives in the eastern U.S.; we don't want to travel long distances crammed into tight spaces.
The solution to pollution and reliance upon others for energy is widely believed here to be found in fueling more vehicles with natural gas, a cheap abundant resource. Many of us are hoping for conversion to natural gas, not to smaller unsafe cars which use less gasoline.
The article makes a good point about small cars being seen as poor man's cars. When I bought my Prius last year, a friend of mine called it an "economy car" even though it cost as much or more as his SUV. I think the problem started when the car industry lowered the price of small cars below cost so they could sell more high profit SUVs and still meet CAFE standards. This time they won't be able to do that.
What if Americans fail to learn to love small cars? Ford et. al will go bust and who will be selling trucks to Americans?
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This is so much a crock of baloney!! More lies put out to capture the ayyention of those ignorant of firearms. I have done reloading for many years, Ive never come across any bullets that explode inside the body!! Where DO they come up with this crap?? ball ammunition is required by countries who adhere to the Geneva Convention policy. Ball ammo is designed to penetrate and go on thru causing the least amount of trauma.. Thats just a fact you can look up. And one more time, assault weapons are ALREADY banned, have been for years. Modern sporting rifles are NOT used by any military, none. No army could survive today with sporting rifles.They are the same gun as used by hunters and shooters nall over the wortld for nearly 100 years but with a different physical appearance. The same types of bullets are used in handguns and rifles and carbines, no matter what the length of the barrel or what caliber or what type be it pump, semi auto, bolt, revolver or pistol.,. This is just so feakin stupid it is a dead lie. But then, what anti gun idiot is interested in the facts anyhow?? The anti crowd can only try to belittle someone who presents facts, they have no desire to know the truth. |
b Sorry but this BS just bothers me. What the hell does a pistol grip, or a forward grip, or an adjustable stock, a barrel shroud or a threaded barrel have to do with anything?? I mean good god, a pistol grip is how ya hold the damned weapon for cryin out loud, a forward grip may or may not assist control, a telescoping stock enables different sized bodies to adjust to the weapon or assiststs in fitting to wear, like winter clothing while persuing coyotes. A bbl shroud helps to cool the bbl if shooting multiple times at say, prairie dogs or targets. A threaded bbl, jeez, I just want to scr4ew on a compensator to assist in holding down muzzle flip while target shooting. This is so assinine, stupid, and unwarranted. No wonder gun nuts dont trust any politician, especially the gun grabbin demos. And you want gun people to cooperate?? get real. |
fancifowl, you are such an angry man about guns that there is no talking to you. It may be that you have never seen a human being blown to bits by an assault rifle. Okay. But why do you trash those who have and who have been traumatized by it? Tiresome tripe about how amazing you are about the science of guns without understanding the consequences. |
Lookie here lady, I am a disabled Nam vet, I survived TET of 1968, the battles of Duc Co, Kontum, Pleasure Range, Bambi Tui, Pleiku and more. Ive seen men blown apart,, their stomachs blown out, their body parts retrieved in sandbags, whats left of soldiers skinned alive; dont give me your sheit. if there is something I've not seen, try to imagine that. you are right, I am angry, the lies are just over the top and they need to be dealt with. Im pretty sure I know the consequences, more than you I'd bet. I know what it looks like, the results of mortars, b22 rockets, and everything else. I know the science of ballistics and weaponry and I do not trivialize what any one has seen, I have seen worse. I feel great compassion for those people, I hurt about it. These gun mass murders tear me up.Your high mindedness is sickening to me. My argument is not with the poor souls who also have witnessed mayhem, I am tired of the lies and deceit, I am tired of those who allow themselves to be brainwashed by the persons who want to disarm people like me who do no harm. I fight on the even keel, the anti gun people lie and lie and lie. I at one time was willing tio give some ground in the name of sanity. No more. People like yourself are sucked in to this whole argument by liars. Are you petioning your congresspeople to hold criminals to their punishment? do you poetition them to obey the laws by not allowing plea downs? do you demand punishment to the fullest extent of the law? Why do you endeavor to punish me? No damn wonder peiople are joining the NRA in record numbers. No wonder we will give no ground. We know what the end results could be. |
Posted by heri_cles "Later in an interview he stated that certain ammunition that is designed to explode inside a victims body should also be banned except for use by the military. He stated that while there is a chance to survive a conventional bullet from a hand gun, the wounds he saw from from assault weapons were so explosive that they shattered an enormous area of bone and tissue and one could not survive from such wounds."--------------------This is about as absolute a bogus lie as is possible. These supposed exploding bullets are BANNED by the |
And I say hes both. Not too hard to figure their agenda, and facts just dont mean anything, winess the post by Pidge. |
At an earlier hearing in Newtown Dr. Begg testified: At the Senate Hearing this week, Dr. Begg testified about the relative severity of injuries sustained from the bullets used by Lanza to those he would expect to see from handguns. "William Begg, an emergency-room doctor who treated injured survivors of the Sandy Hook shooting, told lawmakers that the victims were hit by up to 11 bullets each, citing the state coronerтАЩs report. тАЬWhen a child has three to 11 bullets and itтАЩs an assault-type bullet, it explodes in the body,тАЭ he said. тАЬ.тАЙ.тАЙ. ThatтАЩs not a survivable injury.тАЭ He them showed slides of bullet wounds to demonstrate the severity of injuries from assault type weapons so that legislators could see what those weapons and the ammunition designed for them can do. They are weapons designed for war, not for home defense, not for hunting or for any other legitimate purpose outside the military. |
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No, these weapons are NOT designed for war. Ask any soldier it that would be his choice. Do you understand, these guns are available in over 150 calibers? There is NO typical bullet designed spedcificly for a sporting rifle. There is NO bullet which explodes in the body. try to grasp that, there are NONE. This baloney is pure hocus. If you believe otherwise, show me the proof. In all the years Ive owned guns and reloaded thousands of bullets, never have I heard of or seen exploding bullets. Its bullshoot, plain and simple. |
There is no chance at all that this particular legislation will pass. There are other pieces of legislation covering back ground checks, improved law enforcement, mental health and so on which we haven't seen yet. This may have a chance to pass. But Sen Feinstein's bill won't pass, and I don't see why everybody gets so upset over it. |
Thank you, Fancifowl... I'm not an expert, and I can't even imagine what you might have seen in your lifetime... but I CAN imagine what the future might hold. I sure don't want to live in a nation where the cops and criminals are the only ones armed to the teeth. You're absolutely right... guns are not the real issue. Bans and more laws are not the answer. They solve nothing. Put the criminals where they belong and either rehabilitate them, or keep them there... and ensure accessible health and mental care for those who need it. Put the mentally ill in hospitals where they can get the treatment they need, and where they might be kept on their meds. The lies and fearmongering do need to stop. It's not the sane, reasonable, responsible, safety conscious gun owners that are causing issues... it's those criminals who should be locked down, or the mentally troubled who have no access to care or no one to care for them. We can't cut services to our veterans, close and empty out hospitals for the mental ill, offer nothing in exchange... plea bargain with dangerous criminals, parole them early due to overcrowding... and expect to live in a safe and peaceful society. We have tons of laws on the books right now... let's enforce them properly... for starters. If we never admit to or look at the root causes of society's issues in a rational, reasonable light, and we just keep listening to and recirculating fallacies and fears, we'll never see an end to or a lowering of the problems we DO have! |
- Posted by bill_vincent Central Maine (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Feb 28, 13 at 21:18
mutilated by Lanza's assualt weapon. Right. Lanza had nothing to do with it. It may be that you have never seen a human being blown to bits by an assault rifle. Nor has anyone else. Maybe blown to bits by SOMEONE USING a rifle (as for the assault part, if I had no choice but to be shot, I'd much rather be shot by someone with an AR 15 than someone with a 30/06 hunting rifle. That's how "high powered" those rounds are) тАЬWhen a child has three to 11 bullets and itтАЩs an assault-type bullet, it explodes in the body,тАЭ he said. тАЬ.тАЙ.тАЙ. ThatтАЩs not a survivable injury.тАЭ To say that's an embellishment would be a gross understatement, at best, and at worst (and most probable) an outright lie for effect. He said it did more damage than a handgun round would do. I take great exception to that, too. My .357 used to get loaded with WInchester Silvertip hollow points. I'll guarantee you that hollow point will do a whole LOT more damage than a 5.56 full metal jacketed round. But Sen Feinstein's bill won't pass, and I don't see why everybody gets so upset over it. Because if we DIDN'T get upset, people would figure we didn't care about it, and it WOULD pass. Let me tell you-- if they didn't have atleast SOME support from the pro gun community, none of the other bills would pass, either. |
Why do you endeavor to punish me? No damn wonder peiople are joining the NRA in record numbers. No wonder we will give no ground. We know what the end results could be. * Fancifowl, Amen. And thank you sir, for your service to our country. NO ONE has any place lecturing you about this subject in my opinion. |
well, Im no freakin hero, I aint seen nuthin, but Im damn sick and tired of the bullsooit. |
David, just so ya know it, I appreciate ypour post because they are mostly reasonable. You must be a good man. and so am I. we just see some things differently. I appreciate your service to Africa, I served the peoples of SE asia. I get upset re: feinsteins bill because it serves no honest purpose. It is based purely on politices.people like her, and thiose others on the left seem to think they are above the majority of the citizens, they may have protection but they dont believe the masses are equal. Why do they warrant protection of arms as we, the peopkle do not? They are liars, they deceive the common people. Look whAT THEY SPREAD OVER THE msm, UN TRUTHS out right lies. What would you expect a citizen to say? |
"Private security consultants patrolling the streets of Iraq have a new bullet for their guns: the blended metal 5.66 millimeter round, sold by Le Mas, Ltd., of Arkansas. The bullet is "frangible," meaning that it is able to travel through steel but not a human torso. Instead, it explodes inside the body, creating what an Army Times reporter called "untreatable wounds." " |
Here is a link that might be useful: Looks Like You Were Wrong
The anger and the attitude around this issue will eventually bring about the ban. Maybe not this year but eventually. Because of the anger it will grow and it will only take a few more babies blown away. Watch this hatred will grow and it will send a message to the crazy. They will act and more babies will die. Society will demand something is done. There are a lot of rational gun owners out there. I am happy to stand in the line with the rational gun owners. Discussing gun violence control does not send me into anger. Anger and guns do not mix well. |
- Posted by bill_vincent Central Maine (email@example.com) on Thu, Feb 28, 13 at 23:28
Hey Shaxhome-- try going to a gunshop, and see if you can buy any of those rounds. No, he was NOT wrong. Not about the bullets used in Newtown. |
Sorry, Bill, but sounds like they're available now. You can't tell me that the manufacturers in Arkansas haven't let a few million of these slip out the door and onto the market... And you and FF claimed that no such ammunition exists... Just the facts. |
Show me your data on a 5.66 round. only frangibl, legal would be the Glaser round Would be interesting to see what a .224 of your type might be. Prove it up now.Ill be happy to wait. |
FF...suggest you contact the manufacturers and the users for that information. I've never claimed to be an expert in these matters. Just showing you that you were wrong in denying the existence of this ammunition. You are the one claiming expertise. It can be hard to admit your mistakes, I know. |
Posted by shaxhome "Private security consultants patrolling the streets of Iraq have a new bullet for their guns: the blended metal 5.66 millimeter round, sold by Le Mas, Ltd., of Arkansas. The bullet is "frangible," meaning that it is able to travel through steel but not a human torso. Instead, it explodes inside the body, creating what an Army Times reporter called "untreatable wounds."-------------------------------"Where do you find this absolute bs. ------------RBCD Performance Plus, Inc. of San Antonio, Texas produces ammunition marketed as blended-metal bullets. The ammunition is distributed by Le Mas Ltd. of Little Rock, Arkansas. However, RBCD's "Blended-Metal Technology" (BMT) is a trademark and not a description of bullet composition. Hollow point bullets which have been available for over a hundred years do EXPAND, not explode. |
I will link to what Dr. Beggs testimony was. I am sure that the shooters here can kill and maim and blow apart a human body to smithereens with any of your weapons.\ Dr. Begg is not a weapons or munitions expert but an emergency room physician that was testifying to the relative severity of injuries from various kinds of bullets....with the obvious hope that there is some sensible limitation on the fire power that you need in your home for self defense. It is stunning how some of you defend the proliferation of useless assault weapons and large ammunition clips instead of participating in and contributing to a sensible, rational debate. We cannot allow gun manufacturers to make and sell any weapon and any type of ammunition. We cannot make it easier for a lone gunman to massacre school children, 20 Kindergarten kids, or scores of people at a mall, a theater or other public place. If you do not recognize that we have to create some sensible limitations on weapons and ammunition sales to the public and refuse to even make any useful suggestions, then I guess the battle lines are drawn. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Dr. Beggs testimony before the Senate
I don't think this ban will happen; in fact I know it won't. But it is a shame how you can't even have a discussion about it for the posturing by those that will do anything to defend that all available weapons continue to be all available. No wonder we will give no ground. We know what the end results could be. Fear that you will lose ANY ground is what that is. But then, what anti gun idiot is interested in the facts anyhow?? The anti crowd can only try to belittle someone who presents facts, they have no desire to know the truth. It obviously goes both ways. |
Maybe we should post some of the fear-mongering distortions and outright lies that come so often from the NRA. Sort of balance out Ms Feinstein's 'going nowhere' legislation stuff. I don't have time to find and post it now, but the latest was something about the need to be heavily armed following Hurricane Sandy, what with all the hordes of swarthy-complexioned folks looting and stuff. Which never happened, but lets not let that get in the way of scaring people into donating money. |
this administration is working over time to frightren people. how about the sequester balonet just for starters. Where has the NRA stated anybody shouldbe heavily armed? I do believe the NRA does tend to overstate at times, not nearly as much as this administration has. No, this ban will not happen, thats no reason not to think they will persist.Being on gautrd is prudent. Now talk about persistant and consistant, how bout the assault weapon lies. These guns simply are NOT assault weapons, have you read anything about what they actually are? obviously not. persisting in calling them such is not factual, it is meant to do one thing only, demonize a perfectly legitimate hunting rifle. Many useful suggestions have been put forth many times. They are unheeded by those with only 1 agenda. To take away weapons from law abiding citizens. |
Many useful suggestions have been put forth many times. They are unheeded by those with only 1 agenda. It is so funny how that goes both ways here. |
Well there is no shortage of extremists (left or right) in this country. There is a video available at the link. Everyone has an agenda, just depends on which side of the aisle you are most comfortable. There will be no significant legislation passed, it is all a dog and pony show by both sides. "we the people" do like our political theater. |
Here is a link that might be useful: source of course
this administration is working over time to frightren people. following in the proud Dem tradition of Yellowcake, terra! Orange Alert! We'll pertekt yeh! Soviet menace, commanists, McCarthy's black lists...oh, wait... Teh comedy is funny here lately. |
how bout the assault weapon lies. These guns simply are NOT assault weapons, have you read anything about what they actually are? obviously not. persisting in calling them such is not factual, it is meant to do one thing only, demonize a perfectly legitimate hunting rifle. Denials, accusations, demonetization, endless qualifications, yet nothing helpful or useful from the riflemen. Bushmaster's version of the AR-15, a civilian firearm modeled after the military M-16 rifle, has a grim history, with links to the D.C.-area sniper shootings. But under Connecticut's firearms laws, considered strong by national standards, the lethal weapon that Lanza employed was perfectly legal to own. "The term 'assault weapon,' as used by the media, is a media invention," said Robert Crook, executive director of the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen. "These are semi-automatic firearms that have military cosmetic characteristics. They look like our military firearms, but they're not." Connecticut's (assault weapons ban) restricts semi-automatic rifles " those capable of firing a bullet with each pull of the trigger " only if they include a detachable magazine as well as at least two of five specific features. Aware of the restrictions in some states, weapons manufacturers have modified some models to stay within the laws. Bushmaster, for example, offers a "state-compliant" model with a telescoping stock that simply has been pinned in the fully open position, making it legal for sale. Beyond the military look of the weapon, Lanza's rifle was equipped with a magazine capable of firing 30 rounds. In 2011, the Connecticut legislature considered a bill that would have banned high-capacity magazines with 10 or more rounds. But hundreds of gun enthusiasts showed up for a hearing on the bill, and thousands more wrote and called legislators. After the hearing, the bill died. The .223-caliber ammunition used in Lanza's Bushmaster rifle is too small to legally be used for deer hunting in Connecticut, and Crook said that weapons like Lanza's are primarily used for target practice and competitions. He said that Bushmaster rifles can be found for less than $500 " at the low end of AR-15-style weapons. Gun-rights advocates note that military-style weapons, and long guns in general, account for a small fraction of firearm homicides in the United States, the vast majority of which are committed with handguns. But they have also been the weapon of choice for a number of high-profile mass shootings, making them the focus of gun-control efforts. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said Monday that he would reintroduce legislation to ban magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. "These high-capacity magazines, which were used in Newtown, Aurora, Tucson, Virginia Tech, and so many other tragedies, were designed for one purpose only " to shoot and kill quickly," Lautenberg said in a statement. And Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a Second Amendment advocate who earned an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association, said that the carnage in Newtown "has changed where we go from here." "Never before have we seen our babies slaughtered. It's never happened in America that I can recall," Manchin told MSNBC. "I don't know anyone in the sporting or hunting arena that goes out with an assault rifle, I don't know anybody who needs 30 rounds in a clip to go hunting." Activists are looking for action closer to home as well. "As we mourn those lost we must also raise our voices and call on our political leaders to finally begin a serious, in-depth discussion on how to prevent the nonstop flow of gun violence that plagues our nation," the group Connecticut Against Gun Violence said in a statement. "Like so many other problems in our country, guns have become a polarizing topic. But if now is not the time to talk about our gun policies, when is?" Crook said that he doesn't have the answer to avoiding another tragedy like the Newtown killings. But he said that the focus on high-capacity magazines is misplaced. "People are concerned that a 30-round magazine versus a 10-round magazine is somehow significant," Crook said. "In order to change a magazine, you push a button, the magazine drops out of the bottom, you immediately slide a new one in. It takes about a second, second and a half, to do it. So there's no real benefit to banning these things." Nevertheless, Crook is bracing for new efforts to put high-capacity magazines off-limits in Connecticut. "The magazine ban might come back" when the legislature is in session next year, Crook said. But he's not overly concerned. "We killed it once," he said. "And I would suspect once things quiet down a little bit, we'll probably do it again." Yes, these NRA folks are so clever at gun propaganda and the gun manufacturers so willing to thwart the intent of gun legislation in order to increases sales of weapons. The problem with the 1994 assault weapons ban and others framed like it are than they attempt to classify weapons by features which the gun manufacturers have been able to work around or NRA shills have been able to argue around. We need to tighten up the language in a new weapons law, one designed to make it more difficult for gun manufacturers to make weapons intended to kill scores of people in a small period of time and illegal for those to be sold. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The assault weapons shell game
- Posted by bill_vincent Central Maine (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Mar 1, 13 at 21:35
Denials, accusations, demonetization, endless qualifications, yet nothing helpful or useful from the riflemen. Funny-- I see people like you in exactly the same light. |
Yeh, explain the denials, accusations, qualifications, blah,blah stuff, please. I mean we hear everyday the lies and misinformation from the anti crowd. Their total lack of know;ledge about weaponry needs to be qualified. |
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Plaintiff alleged that defendants, which were affiliates of each other, held patents that were essential for plaintiff to manufacture and market USB 3.0 connectors that complied with a standard adopted by the industry for such connectors. Defendants assertedly refused to license those patents to plaintiff for certain connectors despite being obligated to do so. Lotes Co., Ltd. v. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., No. 12 Civ. 7465 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y. May 14, 2013) ("Slip Op."). The Court dismissed the claim pursuant to the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act ("FTAIA"), finding that plaintiff had failed to allege a direct, foreseeable effect on domestic U.S. commerce. The Court dismissed the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Rule 12(b)(1), rather than for failure to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6), because it felt bound by Second Circuit precedent to do so. Slip Op. at 18-22.
The patents at issue were part of an industry "standard," which is "basically a common set of technological standards to be used industry-wide with regard to a particular technology." Slip Op. at 2. A private Standard Setting Organization ("SSO") set the standard at issue. As was done here, SSOs typically secure agreements from patent holders contributing technology to the standard that they will license that technology on "reasonable and non-discriminatory ('RAND') terms." Id. at 5.
Defendants signed the SSO agreements as a "Contributor" of intellectual property, and Plaintiff signed them as an "Adoptor" of the SSO's standard. Defendants nonetheless refused to license their subject patents to plaintiff for three of plaintiff's fourteen USB 3.0 connector products, and initiated patent infringement actions against plaintiff in China concerning those three products.
Both plaintiff and defendants were Chinese corporations that made no sales in the United States. They sold to manufacturers outside of the U.S. that incorporated USB connectors into components that they in turn sold to manufacturers of notebooks, desktop computers and servers. Plaintiff alleged that "[d]efendants' anticompetitive behavior," the bringing of the patent infringement suits, raised prices and excluded competition in the USB 3.0 market in the United States, enabling defendant to the "become a monopoly" in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. Slip Op. at 9.
The FTAIA limits the reach of the Sherman Act outside of the United States. The court's focus here was on the requirement that the "conduct in issue . . . sufficiently affects American commerce, i.e., it has a 'direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect' on American domestic, import, or (certain) export commerce . . . ." Lotes Co. at 19, quoting F. Hoffman LaRoche Ltd. v. Empagran S.A., 542 U.S. 155, 162 (2004) (citation omitted).
The court found that there had been no such effects on domestic commerce here. There may have been "ripple effects" in the U.S., but "those effects are simply too attenuated to establish the proximate causation required by the FTAIA." Slip Op. at 24. "Given the multitude of 'intervening developments that simultaneously affect" the marketplace, the asserted anticompetitive effect "could very well have resulted from factors wholly unrelated to the alleged" violation. Lotes Co., Slip Op. at 25; id. at 27 (FTAIA not met by "secondary and indirect effects that are also the by-product of numerous factors relevant to market conditions." [Citation omitted]).
The court noted also that plaintiff had not alleged a price fixing conspiracy; that the USB 3.0 products were just one in a host of minor products that made up the finished products; and that plaintiff did not allege that defendants had a controlling share of the relevant market. Lotes Co., Slip Op. at 30. In addition, defendants had licensed eleven of plaintiff's fourteen USB connector products. Overall, it was impossible to quantify any alleged effect on the price of domestic computer products. Id. at 31.
Subject matter jurisdiction, therefore, was lacking.
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