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Jon Lester will take the ball as the starting pitcher. Jacoby Ellsbury will lead off. Dustin Pedroia will be the on-field embodiment of determination for a championship.
That trio will stand in a shared spotlight in the middle of the field for the Red Sox as they arrive at Game 1 of the World Series against the Cardinals on Wednesday. If those cornerstones of a championship ambition sound familiar, they should. After all, six years ago, all of those same players were homegrown anchors of the team's last appearance (and triumph) in the 2007 Fall Classic.
The images of that time remain vivid. Ellsbury and Pedroia stormed Coors Field in memorable fashion, wreaking havoc in historic fashion. Lester took the mound in the Game 4 World Series clincher and carved up Colorado's hitters to earn the Series-clinching victory.
That the three of them are now once again competing for a title together merits some appreciation, given the very real possibility that this run will represent the last hurrah for a group that seemed to offer the basis for enormous aspirations those six autumns ago. The Red Sox were in a remarkable position at the time, having just won one World Series with a wave of young players -- led by Pedroia, Lester and Ellsbury -- that seemed capable of reinforcing title hopes for years to come.
"You think, 'This is easy. Why can't we do this every year?' " Lester recalled of the conclusions he drew after 2007. "You get on that run and it seems easy when you're going through it -- got here, did it, we swept them, party, Duck Boats, the whole gig, and it was like, 'Oh, man -- let's do this every year.' "
The exuberance was not limited to players. The baseball world at large thought that the Sox were primed for a run of remarkable success, as did the team's front office -- a fact that was underscored by a fascinating and stark choice the winter following that 2007 World Series.
The Sox had just won. Pedroia, the 2007 Rookie of the Year, had already assumed an unalterable place in the Sox organization. But Ellsbury and Lester were in a slightly less well-defined position.
Ellsbury was a force in his cups of coffee that year, hitting .353/.394/.509 with three homers and nine steals in 127 regular-season plate appearances, then emerging as a difference-maker in the playoff lineup. Still, the Sox enjoyed some outfield depth at the major league level (where Manny Ramirez, Coco Crisp and J.D. Drew all represented returning starters) and in the minors (where players like Brandon Moss had shown considerable promise).
Lester, who was continuing to rebuild strength as he moved further from his treatment for and recovery from cancer, was a career 11-2 in 27 regular-season games but with a 4.68 ERA. As impressive and aggressive as he'd been in the World Series clincher, there remained questions about whether he would emerge as an efficient pitcher, capable of attacking the strike zone with enough frequency to dominate opponents with his stuff.
Both Lester and Ellsbury were, to be sure, elite prospects. But they were prospects rather than sure things. Johan Santana? He was another story, and presented the Sox with a choice about how to construct a team capable of making a run at more titles.
The Twins were dangling the left-hander with a pair of Cy Young awards on his resume. In talks with the Sox, Minnesota asked for both Ellsbury and Lester as part of the return package, along with Jed Lowrie and Justin Masterson. There were some in the Sox organization who believed strongly that the team should pull the trigger.
A message was written down by one member of the baseball ops team: "Santana = dynasty."
But there was a rebuttal from other members of the baseball ops team: "Not doing this deal = dynasty."
The Sox engaged the Twins throughout the winter meetings. Much of their dialogue related to an effort to see if Minnesota would be open to striking a deal centered around just Ellsbury or just Lester, but not both. The Twins would not consider such a package.
The Sox debated the matter internally, but the organization tended to side heavily with the "not doing this deal = dynasty" perspective. While they continued to engage the Twins -- both to keep their options open, and in hopes of ensuring that the cost of a potential deal for the Yankees would remain high -- one person familiar with the talks said that the Sox never had any intention of striking a deal for Santana, instead viewing their conversations with the Twins as an exercise in walking to the end of the diving board to get a sense for its true height, but without plans to jump in the water.
The team ran through long-term projections for each player. Ellsbury seemed like a Kenny Lofton type with more power. There was a feeling that Lester could have Andy Pettitte's career. Though his statistical track record did not yet suggest as much, team officials -- including John Farrell, then the pitching coach, who believed Lester was a front-of-the-rotation starter in waiting -- thought he had elite stuff.
Masterson (back-end starter or very good reliever) and Lowrie (offensive middle infielder who could get on base) also both projected to be valuable contributors, but the decision about Santana was really about the feeling that the combination of Pedroia, Ellsbury and Lester, along with the veterans already on the roster, gave the Sox as good a chance as any team in baseball over a five- to seven-year period to sustain a great run.
"It felt like we were in position to be good for a while," said current Sox GM Ben Cherington, who was the team's VP of player personnel in 2007. "It's one of the great things about baseball that things can change quickly. It's hard to write anything in pen more than about a week out. But yes, we felt good about the direction of the organization at that time, definitely."
The optimism that prevailed after the 2007 championship was left, in many ways, unfulfilled. The Sox had a championship-caliber team in 2008 but fell to the Rays in the ALCS that season in seven games, a fact that Lester recalls vividly with still-fresh disappointment.
"We were right there -- one pitch away. Pitch to [Willy] Aybar -- two-run homer," Lester recalled of the unlikely blast that represented the Sox' margin of defeat in their 3-1 Game 7 loss. "Seven innings, three runs, [Matt] Garza pitches better than me, it is what it is. Did I have my plan? Yeah. Did I execute it? All but one pitch. Left a hanging cutter, and that's his bat speed, bat path and he hits a home run. I can't take it back."
The team still thought it was well-positioned for 2009, but even after the trade deadline move for Victor Martinez, the Sox got swept out of the playoffs by the Angels in the ALDS. In 2010, the team -- after adding more than $100 million in commitments to John Lackey, Adrian Beltre and Mike Cameron -- was ravaged beyond repair by injuries. In 2011, the Sox added Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford, had the best team in baseball for five months and then blew apart in September. Last season, of course, represented a colossal shipwreck.
Over that span, youthful exuberance was replaced by dawning reality. Championships -- or even the opportunity to compete for them -- were something other than a birthright.
"All the chips have to fall into place. It's not easy to do," said Lester. "You've got to have that special group to do it. Every spring training, you think you do. Then you get into June and you hate each other or you're not playing well or you're playing great but everybody's hurt. All the stars have to align."
For five years, from 2008-12, that alignment proved elusive. There were lessons in the fact that the Red Sox of Lester, Pedroia and Ellsbury hadn't sniffed baseball's pinnacle since 2008.
"You never take for granted what your supposed strengths are because they can change. Things can happen. Never take for granted a team's position of strength because you always have to be fortifying that to give yourself the best chance to remain successful," said Cherington. "And you need to appreciate it when things are going well. Obviously a lot of hard work goes into it, but there's an element of luck, too, so you need to appreciate it when it's going well."
This time represents just such a moment. Lester and Pedroia and Ellsbury are together once again as the Sox prepare for the World Series, in what may be their final days as teammates.
Their division isn't inevitable, of course. Ellsbury had a dazzling regular season, hitting .298 with a .355 OBP, .426 slugging mark, nine homers and an AL-leading 52 steals while playing elite center field defense. He's been a dynamo during the postseason, hitting .400/.467/.525 with six steals in seven attempts. Based on that performance, the Red Sox could make a run at re-signing Ellsbury to keep the trio together.
"I've played with him my whole career. Just because he's going to be a free agent at the end of the year, it doesn't mean that will stop," said Pedroia. "I'm pretty sure we're going to try to sign Jacoby. I'm sure every team wants one of the best center fielders in baseball."
Even so, so long as Ellsbury remains slated to arrive at free agency, there is at least uncertainty about whether this core group -- the one on whom championship visions were based back in 2007 but that is just now playing for a second title together -- will remain intact.
"I feel like I'll be back [in 2014] -- I hope. I think I'm naive to that notion of not coming back. Obviously Pedey will be here till he's dead," Lester said with a laugh, noting that Pedroia is signed through 2021. "With Jacoby, there's that 'what if.'
"You can't get emotionally attached to it just yet. I think you still have to look at it as, this is our goal right now, and then when that gets to that point, worry about it then," Lester continued in thinking about the possibility that the rising core of which he was a part could change this winter. "It's on [Ellsbury's] mind, but at the same time, when he puts his spikes and uniform on, it's, 'Hey, this is the task at hand and this is what I need to do.' It's tough. It's a tough deal. You can't get emotional about it right now."
Ellsbury is perhaps more acutely aware of that than anyone. Shortly after the World Series concludes, he will, for the first time, not be under the contractual control of the Red Sox. Instead, he will have the freedom to examine the market among 30 teams for his services.
On the one hand, he is permitting himself a degree of perspective that he did not possess back in 2007.
"In 2007, everything happened so quick. I got called up, got put on the postseason roster and won a World Series," he recounted. "Everything happened so fast. This year, I think, it's so hard. No matter how quality of a team you have, it is tough to get to this point. I think this year, I'm definitely enjoying it, slowing it down a little bit and definitely enjoying the whole process a little bit."
At media day at Fenway Park on Tuesday, the center fielder reflected upon what it has meant to spend every day of his professional life in a Red Sox uniform, the deep attachment between the region's fans and himself thanks to a minor league upbringing that took him through Lowell, Portland and Pawtucket en route to Boston.
"I'm definitely very fortunate to have been drafted by the Red Sox and played my whole career here. I think that's pretty special," he said.
Yet he is not allowing himself to think in terms of the possibility that these are his final games with the Red Sox. He remains goal-oriented, focused on what is immediately at hand.
"I'm thinking about getting a ring. I'm thinking about going out there, competing, playing as hard as I can, competing with the fellas and getting a ring," he said. "To be on top of your game, you've got to focus on the task at hand, and that's winning a World Series. That's pretty much what everybody's goal, everybody's focus is on, is right now. I think that's what it has to be. It has to be on this team. It has to be on these next maybe seven games. It could be four games. But it's laying it all on the line right now."
There is something familiar in that determination. It carried the Red Sox to a title against the Rockies in 2007, and now the team hopes that it will once again prove worthy of a championship in 2013 against the Cardinals.
The path has been unexpected, but the broader view is nonetheless remarkable. Six years after a bold, precocious statement in Denver, Lester, Pedroia and Ellsbury -- now veterans who are aware and appreciative of what they are trying to accomplish -- still remain at the core of a team competing for a title.
Finally, the wildly talented trio is ready to return to the sport's ultimate stage, seeking to validate that sense of promise and possibility that formed those six Octobers ago.
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Offering a range of senior living options, Adante is a premium retirement community located in San Antonio. Whether seeking the convenience of independent living or the helpful services of assisted living and memory care, our community provides a comfortable setting for retirement living. Our convenient location is just minutes away from golf courses, parks, shopping destination and medical services.
At Adante, we provide residents with a number of accommodation options to choose from. These include studio, one- and two-bedroom floor plans in a wide variety of layouts. Independent living apartments include full-kitchens, spacious closets, and even private balconies in select units while assisted living apartments are outfitted with kitchenettes. All accommodations are equipped with individually controlled thermostats and emergency call systems for added peace of mind.
Whether seeking a more active lifestyle, or one that is more relaxed, we have something for everyone. Residents who enjoy exercising can take advantage of our on-site fitness center or heated swimming pool. Our library is a great place to relax while enjoying a favorite book, and residents can catch both new and classic films in our private theater.
As a part of our complete package of services here at Adante, we provide all residences with weekly housekeeping services and routine home maintenance. To reach a medical appointment or simply run an errand, residents need look no further than our convenient scheduled transportation service. Getting a perm or trim is easy and convenient with our on-site beauty salon and barber shop.
If a helping hand is ever needed, our skilled staff members are available around the clock to provide assistance. This may include help with medication management, personal hygiene, ambulation or other activities of daily living. As a community that provides memory care, individuals facing the daily challenge of dementia receive individually tailored services designed to meet their ever changing needs.
Adante in San Antonio is an inviting and warm senior living community.
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Adante is perfection at its best. This place is not just clean, it is pristine both inside and out. The design of the entire property is completely functional with style, character, and breathtaking charm. This neighborhood is serene, and there are no disturbances around the area.
When you first arrive at the facility, you will be mesmerized. I received assistance immediately. Most of the staff were attentive and friendly, and the activity coordinator was awesome. The amenities are not just above average, they are perfection.
This is more of a retirement resort than an assisted living facility. Many of the residents are also independent. According to a few residents, the caregivers assist those who need help, and they are like family to these residents. I have never seen a facility quite so grand. Everything here is larger than life, and when you are walking around, there is a comfort that allows one to feel safe and secure.
The food is gourmet restaurant-style. The chicken breasts I ate was so tender and juicy, I wanted seconds. Seasoned just right and garnished with parsley, this is definitely not cafeteria food. Menu options allow the residents to choose their meals according to preferences and diet plan.
There is a saying that you get what you pay for. That is not always the case: However, at Adante, you get more than what you pay for. The cost of this facility is in the upper price range, but the resort-style living experienced is well worth the price.
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Since visiting Adante, I can't wait to retire and maybe make this community my home. This community is the retirement community of the future; far more home like than the hospital style assisted living facilities. There is something for everyone here, so this community should be on everyone's list to view and possibly become their new dream home.
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Adante is clean, modern, and nicely decorated for a comfortable feeling like home. Most of the staff seems attentive, while others seemed preoccupied. This facility seems to be peaceful, organized, well kept, maintained and the staff for the most part seems to be knowledgeable, caring, respectful, and kind. All of these characteristics work well in providing a positive senior community.
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According to a complaint filed in court today by the Federal Trade Commission, Lifelock has failed to adhere to a 2010 order and settlement that required the company to establish and maintain a comprehensive security program to protect sensitive personal data users entrust to the company as part of its identity-theft protection service.
This is ironic, of course, because Lifelock promotes its services to companies that experience data breaches and urges them to offer a complimentary Lifelock subscription to people whose data has been compromised in a breach. To properly monitor victims' credit accounts to protect them against ID theft, Lifelock requires a wealth of sensitive data, including names and addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, and bank card information.
Protecting that data should be a primary concern to Lifelock, particularly in light of the fact that many of its customers have already been victims of a breach. But the FTC found in 2010 that the company had failed to provide "reasonable and appropriate security to prevent unauthorized access to personal information stored on its corporate network," either in transit through its network, stored in a database, or transmitted over the internet.
Lifelock had been ordered to remedy that situation, but according to the complaint filed today, it has failed to do so. The complaint is currently sealed, but the previous finding from 2010 provides insight into the company's security failures.
The CEO OF Lifelock, Todd Davis, became famous for advertising his Social Security number on television ads and billboards, offering a $1 million guarantee to compensate customers for losses incurred if they became a victim of identity theft after signing up for the company's services.
For an annual subscription fee, Lifelock promised customers that it would place fraud alerts on their credit accounts with the three credit reporting agencies. As a result, the company said, thieves would not be able to open unauthorized credit or bank accounts in their name.
"In truth, the protection they provided left such a large hole … that you could drive that truck through it," FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said in 2010, referring to a Lifelock TV ad showing a truck painted with the CEO's Social Security number driving around city streets.
Leibowitz said the promises were deceptive because thieves could still rack up unauthorized charges on existing accounts—the most common type of identity theft. It also couldn't prevent thieves from obtaining a loan in a Lifelock customer's name.
In fact, Lifelock CEO Davis was the victim of identity theft in 2007 when a thief used his widely advertised Social Security number to obtain a $500 loan in Davis' name.
Lifelock also promised customers that sensitive data they provided the company to perform its protection services would be encrypted and protected in other ways on Lifelock's servers and accessed only by authorized employees on a need-to-know basis.
"Your documents, while in our care, will be treated as if they were cash," the company promised.
But it turned out that none of that data was encrypted. The company also had poor password management practices for employees and vendors who accessed the information, and Lifelock failed to limit access to sensitive data to only people who needed access.
What's more, the company failed to apply critical security patches and updates to its network and "failed to employ sufficient measures" to detect and prevent unauthorized access to its network, "such as by installing antivirus or antispyware programs on computers used by employees to remotely access the network or regularly recording and reviewing activity on the network," the FTC found.
"As a result of these practices, an unauthorized person could obtain access to personal information stored on defendants' corporate network, in transit through defendants' corporate network or over the internet, or maintained in defendants' offices," the FTC said in 2010.
Lifelock's stock price dropped 50 percent, from $16 to $8, following news of the FTC's new complaint against the company.
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Let Cats Guide You Through Art History With This New Chrome Extension
It is a tired maxim that the Internet basically exists to help us find pictures of cats. That particular search just got a lot easier—and a lot classier—thanks to Meow Met, a new Chrome extension. Designed by Emily McAllister for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Media Lab, Meow Met shows you a cat-related picture from the museum's collection every time you open up a new tab. As Hyperallergic's Claire Voon writes, the extension makes ordinary browser usage "into an enjoyable learning experience."
Among other things, Meow Met offers an important reminder that our contemporary passion for depictions of our feline friends has deep historical origins. Most of the pictures it presents derive from the 19th century, but a few are much, much older. Those of more recent provenance vary delightfully in style and approach, from a charming Qing dynasty scroll of a cat pawing at butterflies to a more sinister oil painting by Gwen John.
As Voon notes, the extension doesn't resize the artworks to fit within the browser window. It does, however, crop them in a way that almost always spotlights the cat (or cats! or kittens!), ensuring that users never come away from a new tab disappointed. What's more, clicking on the work's title pulls up its entry in the Met's digital catalog, offering a fuller view for those unsatisfied with adorable fragments.
As Olivia B. Waxman notes in an article on Meow Met for Time, "The plug-in is the latest example of how museums have taken to curating cat art to attract snake person visitors." Wait, snake person? That can't be right. I think I may have too many Chrome extensions installed.
This Computer Program Says It Can Decode Your Emotions by Reading Your Emails. Is It Right?
IBM Watson—AI extraordinaire, Jeopardy world champion, student of hedonic psychophysics—may not have the warm corporality of his crime-solving namesake, but he's working to acquire the social intuition. Last week the computing company rolled out its Tone Analyzer tool, which harnesses "cloud-based linguistic analysis" to decode the feels roiling beneath your email correspondence or any other text you want to input. The program interprets the writing sample on three levels: emotional tone (angry, cheerful, or negative); social tone (agreeable, conscientious, or open); and writing tone (analytical, confident, or tentative). It assigns to every word it recognizes a color based on that word's affective tenor. If you click on a particular word, Watson offers up synonyms that might increase agreeability, openness, conscientiousness, or cheer. Meanwhile, a rainbow-hued bar at the top of the page tells you what percentage of the sample language contributes to the overall emotion, social persona, or writerly disposition.
I can't predict how useful the Tone Analyzer will prove in a business setting—I'd guess that only a small number of managers don't realize whence the vitriol comes in a sentence like Your presentation was a disaster—but it's fun to play with. You can reverse-engineer Watson's color-coded verdicts, using words like punish or stupid to envelop your text in an angry red, or opting for super-duper exciting to sound pink and cheerful. Unpleasant words—worry, fail, decay—boost your negativity score, while neutral nouns and adjectives (project, lunch, timely) weirdly get an "agreeable" label, "conscientiousness" is mostly measured in conjunctions and other syntactical helpmates, and "open" words are … to be honest, I'm not sure. (They include this, away, and murdered.) There's the "analytical" category, which latches onto thinking verbs like wonder and decide, and the "confident" one, which encompasses emphatic descriptors like any and exactly, and the "tentative" one, which hedges with terms like some and maybe. It all seems a bit scattershot—either Watson's cloud-based exegesis has a few kinks to work out, or it runs on logical rails too baroque and ethereal for this lowly meat sack. Oh well. I was pleased, at least, to feed the program some work emails and learn that my colleagues and I are all, in Watson's estimation, agreeable mensches. "You're no Sherlock, but I like you," I typed into the feedbox afterward. It replied that I was cheerful and conscientious.
The Tone Analyzer's a tool, not an English professor, so unsurprisingly it feels less suited to revealing all the emotional subtleties in a piece of writing and more helpful as a kind of spellcheck for being an asshole. Wondering how to make your memo to staff sound less angry? Watson will trace that nebulous rage vibe to a few problem words and suggest gentler replacements. Hoping to strike the perfect chord of confidence and humility in your cover letter? Watson will ferret out your overweening nevers, your diffident sort ofs. True, homographs occasionally baffle the supercomputer. I served it one of the ghastliest passages I could think of from Cormac McCarthy's The Road—"People sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate smoking in their clothes. Like failed sectarian suicides … The screams of the murdered. By day the dead impaled on spikes"—and it approved of the happy word like. So too context: I told it I was "obsessed" with hound dogs and it chided me for negativity (probably picturing an anguished Bassett-stalking scenario). Also, I submitted the last page of The Great Gatsby, one of the most emotionally soaring blocks of prose-poetry ever written in English, and Watson gave it a 0 percent emotion tone. "Let's agree to disagree!" I wrote. "Differ," the computer corrected gently.
Watson-baiting will only get you so far. By the time I was inputting, at various co-workers' suggestions, passages from Fifty Shades of Grey and Naked Lunch, the novelty of the exercise had worn off. (Fun fact: Watson prefers peter to penis.) Agreeability, conscientiousness, and anger are just not very revelatory dimensions along which to assess most pieces of writing, it turns out. That's because, in an ideal world, all office communications sound vaguely alike: congenial, competent, engaged, and helpful. But beyond the cubicle, so much of our language use expresses singularity rather than convention, treading into other affective realms entirely.
That's obvious, as is the maxim that there's no science—no specific goals, no rules, and certainly no shortcuts—to conjuring emotions out of articulated noise. Yet sentiment analysis continues to entrance linguists and computer developers. In the early aughts, Eudora's email service came with an automated function that assessed the various feelings reflected in each message. Like the Tone Analyzer, the software was rudimentary and easily misled. (Jokes circulated about a math teaching assistant who got dinged for negativity after repeatedly referencing his students' "problems.") Academic studies also make use of "opinion mining" computer programs to "identify and extract subjective information from source materials." The Cyberemotions project, from 2013, for instance, tried to understand how angry-, happy-, or sadness-tinged language drove the formation of online communities. The new iteration of sentiment analysis with IBM raises the question: Why do we keep tilting at this particular windmill?
I'd argue that people interested in artificial intelligence might also be interested in the proposition that the consciousness embedded in and delivered by a passage of writing can be broken down into discrete, understandable parts. Sentiment analysis enacts the mind-body problem, but for texts. Is the tone of a sentence some eerie, soul-like emergent property, or just a sum of processes you can ask a computer to model? I actually posed that question to Watson and was unsurprised when he told me I sounded "tentative." The human race gets the last laugh, however. He didn't even recognize the word "computer."
Lindsey Graham Uses a Flip Phone and Memorizes Phone Numbers. That's a Great Way to Live.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump gratuitously revealed Sen. Lindsey Graham's cell phone number to an audience in South Carolina. He did this hours after Graham implored Trump to "stop being a jackass"; Graham, himself a Republican candidate for president, responded to the campaign-trail doxing by tweeting, "Probably getting a new phone. iPhone or Android?" I thought this was sort of funny, but when I read that Graham still uses a flip phone—and, moreover, that he chooses to memorize phone numbers rather than store them in his phone—I was shocked. I still use a flip phone, too—and, what's more, I also choose to memorize key phone numbers rather than store them in my phone. Am I actually Lindsey Graham? It's very possible. What I can say for sure is that flip phones and memorized phone numbers are the best, and unless the day comes when I literally have no choice but to do so, I will never, ever change my ways. I hope Graham doesn't, either.
My willful Luddism may not come as a surprise, given that I've previously blogged about how I still use Winamp, and how I like to write out my blog posts longhand in a notebook. My insistence on using a 12-year-old flip phone might be the apotheosis this antediluvian tendency. I use a Motorola v60s flip phone that dates back to at least 2003. It's a great phone: It both sends and receives phone calls and text messages, and it makes a very satisfying "click" when I shut it. (Seriously, you can't put a price on that click.) Like cockroaches, plastic six-pack rings, and the Canyonero, my phone is virtually indestructible. You cannot break it—and I have tried. What's more, it's a conversation starter nonpareil. The following scenario plays out about once a week: I'll be sitting at a bar, fiddling with my phone, and some talkative lush will see me and say something like, "Wow, I had that phone back in 2004." And then I say something like, "Ha ha, yeah, I still do," and inevitably there's a weird pause as my interlocutor tries to decide whether my telephonic primitivism is interesting or just plain weird.
As an icebreaker, my phone is great. As a telephone, the v60s leaves much to be desired. It doesn't really get reception indoors, which means I have to stand on the street outside my apartment if I want to talk on the phone. It only stores 200 text messages at a time, and tends to freeze up whenever I receive several texts in rapid succession. Sending texts is a chore, too; for one thing, I have to press the number 1 exactly 17 times in order to get an apostrophe. My phone doesn't have any games. It can't connect to the Internet. It loses its charge after like 45 minutes of use—and now that RadioShack is out of business I can't easily buy a replacement battery.
And yet it's among my most cherished possessions. I am an easily distracted person who spends about 12 hours per day in front of his computer, and usually wastes about 10 of those hours frantically refreshing his email or looking up meaningless baseball statistics —Did you know that 36-year-old Eric Davis had a surprisingly good year for the Orioles in 1998? Neither did I until this morning!—or otherwise drowning in the digital deluge. I love the Internet very much, but I'm well aware that 20 years of prolonged exposure to it has decimated my attention span and my capacity for sustained contemplation. The only opportunities that I actually have to think are when I'm walking around in public or taking a shower, and if I could bring my laptop into the shower with me, I probably would.
Having an extremely dumb phone allows me to walk around in public and think without feeling compelled to check my email or keep up with sports scores that I don't actually care about. If I had a smartphone, I'd lose that built-in respite from the state of perpetual connectivity in which we are all encouraged to live. Sticking with my old-ass flip phone is a means of mental self-preservation. The same goes for my insistence on memorizing important phone numbers. I've got about 15 or 20 of my most-called phone numbers committed to memory, which isn't very many in absolute terms, but which makes me a regular Kevin Trudeau compared to most of you chumps. Doing so isn't hard, and it makes me feel slightly less reliant on technology, and slightly more able to manage and control my daily life.
In a very minor way, it also makes me feel good about myself, much like figuring out directions based on instinct and memory rather than relying on GPS does the same. Figuring out street directions isn't hard, people! Most street systems are grids! And don't get me started on Venmo. Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned checkbooks?
I don't know what Lindsey Graham thinks about street grids or checkbooks. (The Lindsey Graham for President 2016 website is surprisingly devoid of information about his policies on those issues—and definitely does not accept Bitcoin donations.) But I truly hope he doesn't actually upgrade to an iPhone or Android. Being a senator and presidential candidate is probably even more stressful than being an online journalist—and even more so than I am, Graham is probably overwhelmed by the myriad pieces of information competing for his attention. If anything, more public servants ought to create opportunities for themselves to take periodic mental breaks. Plus, I'm just saying, Graham's flip phone will make a really great conversation starter on the ol' campaign trail.
Are Current Cybersecurity Measures Enough? Professionals Can't Agree.
With all the high-profile hacks being disclosed lately, it certainly seems like both public and private cybersecurity protections are lacking. But two surveys of security professionals reveal widely varied views on whether companies and networks are prepared to deal with digital attacks.
In the "Critical Infrastructure Readiness Report" from McAfee, the Aspen Institute, and Intel, almost 75 percent of the 625 respondents said they were confident or extremely confident in their organization's framework for identifying intrusions. Sixty-eight percent said they were confident that they could deal with attacks. Sounds great, let's all go home.
Seventy percent of the same survey respondents, though, said that there were more and more threats out there. And a vast majority reported at least one cyberattack on their organization's system, with the median number of attacks at 20 per year. Respondents said that these hacks resulted in service interruptions, data breaches, and even physical damage.
The survey notes:
Those who have endured a higher number of successful attacks and confirmed damage feel more vulnerable than the rest; this suggests that as the number of attacks on all organizations continues to increase, the confidence levels reported in the survey may erode.
The most incredible and concerning stat from the report is probably that 48 percent of the cybersecurity professionals surveyed said that they think it's likely that a hack will compromise critical infrastructure "with potential loss of life." These are the same people who feel confident that their organizations are secure!
Released last week, the 2015 Black Hat Attendee Survey polled a more pessimistic group of 460 security professionals. Seventy-three percent said they thought their organizations would suffer a data breach at some point in the next 12 months, but only 27 percent said that the group would be able to handle it. Similarly, just 27 percent said they had enough people working on security to address everything. "The survey indicates that most enterprises are not spending their time, budget, and staffing resources on the problems that most security-savvy professionals consider to be the greatest threats," the report said.
Senators Introduce Legislation to Protect Your Car From Being Hacked
A few years ago, the notion of hacking a car or truck over the Internet to control steering and brakes seemed like a bad plot point from CSI: Cyber. Today, the security research community has proven it to be a real possibility, and it's one that at least two U.S. senators won't wait to see play out with real victims.
On Tuesday morning, Sens. Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal plan to introduce new legislation that's designed to require cars sold in the U.S. to meet certain standards of protection against digital attacks and privacy. The legislation, as described to Wired by a Markey staffer, would call on the National Highway Safety and Transportation Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to together create new standards that automakers would be required to meet in terms of both their vehicles' defenses from hackers and how the companies safeguard any personal information such as location records collected from the vehicles they sell.
Until now, car hacking has remained a largely theoretical threat, despite some instances when thieves have disabled cars' door locks with wireless attacks or when a disgruntled dealership employee used a tool designed to enforce timely car payments to remotely brick more than one hundred vehicles.
But the security industry has demonstrated that vehicles' increasing connections to the internet create new avenues for attack. Earlier Tuesday morning, in fact, Wired revealed that two security researchers have developed and plan to partially release a new attack against hundreds of thousands of Chrysler vehicles that could allow hackers to gain access to their internal networks. As part of the same demo, those researchers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, also demonstrated to Wired that they could use the attack to wirelessly control the steering, brakes, and transmission of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee over the Internet. (A Markey spokesperson insists that the bill's release wasn't timed to Wired's story.)
"Drivers shouldn't have to choose between being connected and being protected," Markey wrote in a statement shared with Wired. "Controlled demonstrations show how frightening it would be to have a hacker take over controls of a car. We need clear rules of the road that protect cars from hackers and American families from data trackers."
Markey and Blumenthal's bill will have three major points, according to a spokesperson's description. First, it will require the NHTSA and the FTC to set security standards for cars, including isolating critical software systems from the rest of a vehicle's internal network, penetration testing by security analysts, and the addition of on-board systems to detect and respond to malicious commands on the car's network. Second, it will ask those same agencies to set privacy standards, requiring carmakers to inform people of how they collect data from vehicles they sell, letting drivers opt out of that data collection and restricting how the information can be used for marketing. And finally, it will require manufacturers to display window stickers on new cars that rank their security and privacy protections.
Automakers have gotten hints for months that legislation was in the works. In February, Markey's office released the results of a series of questions it had sent to 20 carmakers, quizzing them on their handling of digital security and privacy. The 16 companies that responded gave answers that weren't reassuring. Nearly all of them said their vehicles now include wireless connections like cellular service, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi–the means by which remote hacking can occur. Only seven said they used independent security testing to check their vehicles' security. Only two said they had tools in place to stop a hacker intrusion. And an "overwhelming majority" collected location information about their customers' vehicles, in many cases offering only ambiguous claims about encrypting the collected data.
In May, members of the House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee followed up with their own set of even more detailed questions for 17 automakers and the National Highway Safety and Transportation Administration. "While threats to vehicle technology currently appear isolated and disparate, as the technology becomes more prevalent, so too will the risks associated with it," read the letter.
Car hacking has emerged as an increasingly crowded field of study for digital security researchers. In 2011, academic researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, published a study in which they remotely hijacked an unnamed sedan via its wireless connections to disable its door locks and brakes. In 2013 the same security researchers Miller and Valasek who hacked the Jeep pulled off a series of similar attacks against a Toyota Prius and a Ford Escape (also with me behind the wheel), though their laptops were wired at the time into the vehicles' dashboards via their OBD2 ports. At the Black Hat hacker conference in August Miller and Valasek plan to reveal the full details of their latest car attack, the over-the-internet compromise of a Jeep Cherokee.
Despite that growing drum beat of warnings about digital attacks on cars, however, not everyone in the security community is so excited about legislation. Josh Corman, one of the co-founders of the security industry group I Am the Cavalry, which is focused on protecting things like medical devices and automobiles, was wary of a possible bill when he spoke with Wired about the possibility earlier this month.
Corman worried that the ensuing law could be comparable to payment card industry rules that are widely seen as outmoded and ineffective. Instead, he said he hoped the auto industry could be nudged into innovating security features on its own in the same sort of competition that currently exists for traditional safety features.
"Laws are ill-suited for a dynamic space like this," Corman said at the time. "If this can catalyze [the industry] standing up straighter and getting a plan in place, that's great. If it makes them less responsive in the face of new adversaries, that could be very bad."
Whether through legislation or industry competition, however, the pressure on carmakers to protect vehicles from hackers is growing. "If consumers don't realize this is an issue, they should, and they should start complaining to carmakers," says Miller. "Cars should be secure."
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Download This Windows Patch Right Now
On Wednesdays we wear pink, and on Tuesdays Microsoft pushes big patch packages to correct problems. But Thursday the company disclosed a vulnerability in its system for displaying custom fonts and Monday the company released a patch in its security bulletin. Since neither of those days were Tuesdays, you know that this is serious. Also, Microsoft is calling the update "critical," so that might also be a tipoff.
Researchers looking through documents leaked in the breach of Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells surveillance technology, discovered a vulnerability in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library. Basically if you open a document or Web page that has custom fonts built to exploit the flaw, a bad actor could run code of their choosing on your computer. That would be bad!
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library improperly handles specially crafted OpenType fonts. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
The patch applies to all supported versions of Windows (Vista on) plus as yet unreleased Windows 10. If you have automatic updates set up on your Windows machine, the patch has probably already been applied without you noticing, especially because it doesn't require a restart. But if you keep automatic updating off or you want to be sure, you can download the patch here. Do it.
Drones Keep Getting in the Way of Firefighting in California. That Seems Bad.
On Monday, two California lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow officials to immobolize drones that get in the way of emergency responses like firefighting. The bill comes in response to multiple incidents this summer and assorted others over the past few years.
Assemblyman Mike Gatto, Democrat of Glendale, and Sen. Ted Gaines, Republican of El Dorado, want Senate Bill 168 to offer protection to emergency responders so they can disable drones that are hindering operations without the possibility of being charged with destruction of property later. Gatto said in a statement, "Drone operators are risking lives when they fly over an emergency situation. Just because you have access to an expensive toy that can fly in a dangerous area doesn't mean you should do it." It's actually a great point—and one some people apparently have trouble grasping.
On Friday, a large wildfire burned cars and houses on Interstate 15, but during the firefighting effort five drones delayed air units by 15 to 20 minutes. NBC Los Angeles reported that "two drones actually gave chase to air units." (Seriously?) On July 12, a drone impeded firefighters for about 20 minutes while they were attempting to address a brush fire that was threatening four houses. On June 24, a firefighting aircraft working on controlling a brush fire in the San Bernardino Mountains was grounded to comply with FAA regulations after officials spotted a hobby drone flying in the area. And last summer there was a series of similar incidents.
Gatto and Gaines are also working on another piece of legislation, SB 167, that would raise fines and potentially include jail time as a punishment for drone operators who impede emergency response efforts. "People can replace drones, but we can't replace a life. When our rescuers are risking their own lives to protect us, I want them thinking about safety, not liability," Gaines said.
Drones are supposed to be helping with disaster response, not making things worse.
The New Approach to Fighting Wildfires
Fire season has so far mostly meant Alaska, which has racked up 1.8 million burned acres and counting. But fires are also moving down the West Coast, with a record burn on the Olympic Peninsula and houses again burning in central Washington. Flames are moving into drought-blasted California a couple of months early. The Forest Service estimates it will need an additional $800 million to $1.7 billion to pay for the season's expected costs.
But wildfire statistics are a poor proxy for what is happening. Last year Florida prescribe-burned 2.5 million acres—two-thirds as much acreage as burned by wildfire throughout the country. And this year's largest fire to date in the Lower 48 is actually a managed wildfire. The Whitetail and Sawmill fires on the San Carlos Apache Reservation are being controlled through a confine-and-contain (or box-and-burn) strategy. The complex is 35,000 acres and growing, and doing what neither prescribed fire nor suppressed wildfire could. Last year San Carlos similarly managed two fires that together topped out at 84,000 acres. America's fire scene is more complex than the usual media and political obsession with burned houses, dead people, and celebrity landscapes like Yosemite suggests. So are the strategies to cope with it.
Three strategies are now in play, each the product of a particular era and its peculiar challenges.
Your Very Own Data Privacy Policy
Dear Corporation,
You have expressed an interest in collecting personal information about me. (This interest may have been expressed by implication, in case you were attempting to collect such data without notifying me first.) Since you have told me repeatedly that personalization is a great benefit,\ and that advertising, search results, news, and other services should be tailored to my individual needs and desires, I've decided that I should also have my own personalized, targeted privacy policy. Here it is.
While I am glad that (as you stated) my privacy is very important to you, it's even more important to me. The intent of this policy is to inform you how you may collect, use, and dispose of personal information about me.
By collecting any such information about me, you are agreeing to the terms below. These terms may change from time to time, especially as I find out more about ways in which personal information about me is actually used and I think more about the implications of those uses.
Note: You will be asked to provide some information about yourself. Providing false information will constitute a violation of this agreement.
Scope: This policy covers only me. It does not apply to related entities that I do not own or control, such as my friends, my children, or my husband.
Age restriction and parental participation: Please specify if you are a startup; if so, note how long you've been in business. Please include the ages of the founders/innovators who came up with your product and your business model. Please also include the ages of any investors who have asserted, through their investment in your company, that they thought this product or service was a good idea.
Information about you. For each piece of personal information about me that you wish to collect, analyze, and store, you must first disclose the following: a) Do you need this particular piece of information in order for your product/service to work for me? If not, you are not authorized to collect it. If yes, please explain how this piece of information is necessary for your product to work for me. b) What types of analytics do you intend to do perform with this information? c) Will you share this piece of information with anyone outside your company? If so, list each entity with which you intend to share it, and for what purpose; you must update this disclosure every time you add a new third party with which you'd like to share. d) Will you make efforts to anonymize the personal information that you're collecting? e) Are you aware of the research that shows that anonymization doesn't really work because it's easy to put together information from several categories and/or several databases and so figure out the identity of an "anonymous" source of data? f) How long will you retain this particular piece of information about me? g) If I ask you to delete it, will you, and if so, how quickly? Note: by "delete" I don't mean "make it invisible to others"—I mean "get it out of your system entirely."
Please be advised that, like these terms, the information I've provided to you may change, too: I may switch electronic devices; change my legal name; have more children; move to a different town; experiment with various political or religious affiliations; buy products that I may or may not like, just to try something new or to give to someone else; etc. These terms (as amended as needed) will apply to any new data that you may collect about me in the future: your continued use of personal information about me constitutes your acceptance of this.
And, of course, I reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.


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I wouldn't use the "everyone is different" line because I think that misleads children into thinking some boys were born that way. It isn't like eye color or Down's syndrome, its an alteration.
Although in the REALLY young, this may be the quickest way to change the subject...
I like the PP answer to have the kid ask their mommy. Put the burden on the parents who had their boys cut.
Perpetually breastfeeding or pregnant ENFP mom to a lot of kids...wife to a midwestern nice guy...living in tropical paradise...pink cats and homebirths rock!
I had a conversation with my 3 year old son about this the other day. I didn't expect it becuase it was HIM asking. He had a bath with a 4 year old boy (circumsized) and he exclaimed, 'hey, what kinds of peepee he gots?' I said, 'oh his is just a different kind than yours', not wanting to embarrass the other boy or his mom, but my son asked again later, and I awkwardly explained that that Cameron was missing a part that Axel had, becuase we decided to keep it for him.
I wasn't really prepared for it, but want to teach my son pride and confidance in his body, but not disdain for anyone else. In answering his questions publicly, I didn't want to embarrass the other boy, or his mother, or suggest he was imperfect, but also wanted to be clear that Axel's intact penis was normal and perfect.
It's tricky figuring out what to say- I'm very against circumsicion but I don't want to teach superiority...
I just had a 'moment' this afternoon!!
I was wearing my "circumcision harms babies and the men they become sweatshirt" when I went to pick up my DD at preschool. A mom was there with her son (approx. 10 YO) and he read my shirt and asked me what it meant...I told him (right in front of mama) to ask his mother...she gave me a really dirty look and turned an odd shade of green...
I just had a 'moment' this afternoon!!
I was wearing my "circumcision harms babies and the men they become sweatshirt" when I went to pick up my DD at preschool. A mom was there with her son (approx. 10 YO) and he read my shirt and asked me what it meant...I told him (right in front of mama) to ask his mother...she gave me a really dirty look and turned an odd shade of green...
The original poster is in California - so am I and I have three intact sons. I don't make it a point to preach or flaunt intactness. We're in northern Cal and I know several middle class caucasian families who have gone the intact route. At least around here, it is an increasingly viable option and highly educated folks are often pro-intact.
I'd suggest just chilling out - over time you may find that your son is not alone.
Once I was babysitting two different boys. One was intact, he was two. The other was 4 yrs old. He was circ'd.
I was changing the two yr old intact kid's diaper and the circ'd 4 yr old noticed he was different. He said, "What is that?".
I said, "Thats a foreskin. All boys are born with one, even you."
This was 6 yrs ago. I didn't have an intact ds at the time yet but I knew enough by that time to KNOW for sure it wasn't happening to another ds of mine.
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AMD has hinted for months that it was going to adopt the ARM architecture and last week in the middle of a blackout that turned New York and the stock market dark it disclosed its plans to make ARM's smartphone and tablet widgetry into a server platform for use in the cloud and mighty data centers the likes of Amazon's.
AMD has never veered from its x86 course before but believes its shift will be "seminal."
CEO Rory Read said, "There's no doubt the cloud changes everything. The cloud truly is the killer app that's unlocking the future."
In making the announcement the company recalled the sweeping success of its so-called x64 Opteron server design that sealed the coffin of Intel's Itanium chip nearly a decade ago, forced Intel to copy the junior member of the processor duopoly and briefly gave little AMD server leadership.
It figures what it did once it can do again - provided it lasts long enough to produce the thing.
AMD is suffering a serious shortage of money and is currently slashing about 15% of its workforce to contain costs. Against falling revenues, it's only got $1.48 billion in the bank and debts of $2.04 billion.
It also needs to avoid its usual production problems.
It estimates it will take it until 2014 - figure maybe 18 months if not three to five years - to create a 64-bit version of the ARM, a highly integrated multi-core System-on-a-Chip (SoC) optimized for dense energy-efficient server farms.
AMD says the newfangled Opteron processor will use the SeaMicro Freedom supercompute fabric it acquired when it bought the microserver start-up for $334 million in March.
The SeaMicro interconnect currently supports Intel's x86 Atom and Xeon chips and AMD indicated the fabric will be made to support Opteron-, ARM- and x86-based processors so that hundreds or even thousands of processor clusters can be linked together in the name of energy efficiency and cost consciousness.
Evidently AMD's so-called "ambidextrous architecture" is supposed to span both the x86 and ARM ecosystems.
AMD said it will be strategically collaborating with ARM, which planned to have a 64-bit server design ready by 2014. The widgetry was subsequently identified as the Cortex-A50. AMD will be using ARM's off-the-shelf cores, not designing its own, for roughly 1.8% of sales.
Other A50 licensees include Broadcom, Calxeda, HiSilicon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics.
Amazon, Dell, Facebook and Red Hat turned up at last week's announcement and ARM suggested that AMD would have a "transformational effect."
Dell claimed ARM could be "a serious player in areas like web front-end servers and as a worker node in a Hadoop environment. AMD's opportunity is to deliver serious value in performance-per-dollar and performance-per watt-where low-power server platforms running massively scale-out workloads can shine. The availability of 64-bit ARM solutions is an essential milestone needed to accelerate enterprise adoption of this technology."
Intel is putting its money on trying to match the ARM with the Atom. It's planning to have its own 22nm Avoton microserver SoC ready next year. It will reportedly use two-eight Silvermont Atom cores, dissipate 5W-20W, and integrate SATA, gigabit Ethernet, USB and DDR3/DDR3L support.
So AMD will still be hounded by the Intel goliath along with other ARM rivals and, since microservers are regarded as a niche market, potentially worth maybe 5% of the overall server market in the next few years, one might be skeptical about how much revenue AMD can derive from it. ARM CEO Warren East, however, claims ARM microservers could be 20% of the data center market by 2020.
Worldwide PC sales were down 8% year-over-year in Q3 and AMD doesn't have much of a server footprint anymore or a mobile one.
One can only assume that AMD might ultimately enter the tablet market.
HP, still the biggest of the server vendors for all its agony, is teamed with Calxeda on ARM-based microservers and appears to be backing AMD as well.
Calxeda, which intends to be able to scale up to 100,000 nodes in a single cluster without having to add any external switches and has three 64-bit chips on its roadmap that could produce a million node cluster, is ironically financed by Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), which now owns AMD's old ovens, the Globalfoundries chip fab.
Applied Micro Circuits (AMC) is also in this race.
And it looks like Red Hat has a chief ARM architect on staff, one Jon Masters, who says the company will share its Linux expertise with AMD and support ARM in a future release of Fedora, the freebie version of its distribution.
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According to Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, Red Sox manager Terry Francona said Sunday that he expects catcher Victor Martinez (thumb) to be ready to return from the disabled list on Monday. Like, this Monday. Tomorrow.
Martinez caught a Clay Buchholz bullpen session on Saturday and reported no abnormal pain or discomfort in his once-fractured left thumb. His return to the everyday lineup will be big, as Francona told the Globe.
"You've got your switch-hitter right smack in the middle, that would be good," said the manager.
V-Mart was batting .289/.344/.480 with nine homers and 38 RBI in 246 at-bats at the time that he was placed on the disabled list. The Red Sox have entrusted starting catching duties to Kevin Cash and Dusty Brown while he has been out because veteran backup Jason Varitek is sidelined with an injury of his own. It's safe to say they're about to get an upgrade.
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