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For info on countermeasures for webmasters, visit Dephormationor PhormCheck or Deny Phorm. There's a lot of material out there if you look for it, this is an issue that most of those in the know are not keen to let lie.

As information continues to pile up behind the corporate firewall, companies and executives are fast recognizing that effective findability is more than a nice-to-have -- it's a must-have for their business. In fact, in a recent survey by AIIM, 62% of respondents saw findability as "imperative or significant" to their overall business goals and success, while only 5% reported that it wasn't a factor.Findability is a complex problem, and our goal is to provide businesses with a simple solution. That's why we've put together 'Enterprise Findability Without the Complexity' - a look into our philosophy and approach to search for businesses. We've noticed that approaches to findability can vary dramatically, which can have a significant impact on subsequent results. For instance, a traditional architecture, as demonstrated in this video, might include a plethora of servers, such as front-end web servers, index servers, query servers, database servers, and SAN storage. Not to mention load balancing servers, identity servers, disaster recovery servers, patch deployment servers, and volume license management servers. What a mouthful!On the other hand, there is the appliance based model - i.e., one box that does it all. The Google Search Appliance can search 10 million documents with just one box, and pull information together from across a business - whether it lives in a database, intranet, business application or content management system. Not to mention it looks pretty snazzy too.You can read the full document here. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.

As information continues to pile up behind the corporate firewall, companies and executives are fast recognizing that effective findability is more than a nice-to-have -- it's a must-have for their business. In fact, in a recent survey by AIIM, 62% of respondents saw findability as "imperative or significant" to their overall business goals and success, while only 5% reported that it wasn't a factor.Findability is a complex problem, and our goal is to provide businesses with a simple solution. That's why we've put together 'Enterprise Findability Without the Complexity' - a look into our philosophy and approach to search for businesses. We've noticed that approaches to findability can vary dramatically, which can have a significant impact on subsequent results. For instance, a traditional architecture, as demonstrated in this video, might include a plethora of servers, such as front-end web servers, index servers, query servers, database servers, and SAN storage. Not to mention load balancing servers, identity servers, disaster recovery servers, patch deployment servers, and volume license management servers. What a mouthful!On the other hand, there is the appliance based model - i.e., one box that does it all. The Google Search Appliance can search 10 million documents with just one box, and pull information together from across a business - whether it lives in a database, intranet, business application or content management system. Not to mention it looks pretty snazzy too.You can read the full document here. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.

As information continues to pile up behind the corporate firewall, companies and executives are fast recognizing that effective findability is more than a nice-to-have -- it's a must-have for their business. In fact, in a recent survey by AIIM, 62% of respondents saw findability as "imperative or significant" to their overall business goals and success, while only 5% reported that it wasn't a factor.Findability is a complex problem, and our goal is to provide businesses with a simple solution. That's why we've put together 'Enterprise Findability Without the Complexity' - a look into our philosophy and approach to search for businesses. We've noticed that approaches to findability can vary dramatically, which can have a significant impact on subsequent results. For instance, a traditional architecture, as demonstrated in this video, might include a plethora of servers, such as front-end web servers, index servers, query servers, database servers, and SAN storage. Not to mention load balancing servers, identity servers, disaster recovery servers, patch deployment servers, and volume license management servers. What a mouthful!On the other hand, there is the appliance based model - i.e., one box that does it all. The Google Search Appliance can search 10 million documents with just one box, and pull information together from across a business - whether it lives in a database, intranet, business application or content management system. Not to mention it looks pretty snazzy too.You can read the full document here. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.

As information continues to pile up behind the corporate firewall, companies and executives are fast recognizing that effective findability is more than a nice-to-have -- it's a must-have for their business. In fact, in a recent survey by AIIM, 62% of respondents saw findability as "imperative or significant" to their overall business goals and success, while only 5% reported that it wasn't a factor.Findability is a complex problem, and our goal is to provide businesses with a simple solution. That's why we've put together 'Enterprise Findability Without the Complexity' - a look into our philosophy and approach to search for businesses. We've noticed that approaches to findability can vary dramatically, which can have a significant impact on subsequent results. For instance, a traditional architecture, as demonstrated in this video, might include a plethora of servers, such as front-end web servers, index servers, query servers, database servers, and SAN storage. Not to mention load balancing servers, identity servers, disaster recovery servers, patch deployment servers, and volume license management servers. What a mouthful!On the other hand, there is the appliance based model - i.e., one box that does it all. The Google Search Appliance can search 10 million documents with just one box, and pull information together from across a business - whether it lives in a database, intranet, business application or content management system. Not to mention it looks pretty snazzy too.You can read the full document here. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Hi, I'm Oliver Oxenham, posting about the National University of Singapore (NUS) Library 3D interior mapping. After investigating a few other development options, we decided to go forward with Google Earth Plugin especially because of its API's ease of use -- there was no need for us to reinvent the wheel in the area of 3D display in the browser and camera movements in a 3D environment. The NUS library features a few innovative uses of GE plugin as well as Google App Engine. App Engine is the platform that controls all the information you see in this 3D application . We offer our customer an administrative interface to allow them to create their own placemarks (landmarks) within the 3D library as well as choose to make them visible or invisible. The contents of the landmarks are editable. It can display formatted text or even videos. Additionally, customized orientation tours can be created on the fly by the user who only has to select a list of landmarks and arrange them in the order they want the tour to play. The GE plugin displays a 3D model of the NUS library with the earth covered with a black layer so as to make the model stand out more and avoid distracting the user with unnecessary features. The navigation on the right is automatically generated based on the landmarks created by the user. It allows the viewer to navigate through the library from landmark to landmark. The application also allows 3D book search . Google App Engine datastore keeps a catalogue of book call numbers and shelf references. When the viewer enters a call number in the search box, the latitude and longitude of the appropriate shelf is retrieved and located in 3D. All these adds to the fact that we are using the GE plugin for an interior 3D of a building instead of the usual outdoor of an area. We believe that a lot of our implemented features can still be improved and we're working hard to improve them and make them more generic and reusable in the future. We believe 3D interiors can be attractive to some customers.

Hi, I'm Oliver Oxenham, posting about the National University of Singapore (NUS) Library 3D interior mapping. After investigating a few other development options, we decided to go forward with Google Earth Plugin especially because of its API's ease of use -- there was no need for us to reinvent the wheel in the area of 3D display in the browser and camera movements in a 3D environment. The NUS library features a few innovative uses of GE plugin as well as Google App Engine. App Engine is the platform that controls all the information you see in this 3D application . We offer our customer an administrative interface to allow them to create their own placemarks (landmarks) within the 3D library as well as choose to make them visible or invisible. The contents of the landmarks are editable. It can display formatted text or even videos. Additionally, customized orientation tours can be created on the fly by the user who only has to select a list of landmarks and arrange them in the order they want the tour to play. The GE plugin displays a 3D model of the NUS library with the earth covered with a black layer so as to make the model stand out more and avoid distracting the user with unnecessary features. The navigation on the right is automatically generated based on the landmarks created by the user. It allows the viewer to navigate through the library from landmark to landmark. The application also allows 3D book search . Google App Engine datastore keeps a catalogue of book call numbers and shelf references. When the viewer enters a call number in the search box, the latitude and longitude of the appropriate shelf is retrieved and located in 3D. All these adds to the fact that we are using the GE plugin for an interior 3D of a building instead of the usual outdoor of an area. We believe that a lot of our implemented features can still be improved and we're working hard to improve them and make them more generic and reusable in the future. We believe 3D interiors can be attractive to some customers.

I have not looked into it but can you be certain that the top teams are not using additional metadata on the movies?

Pretty sure. IAITTT = I Am In The Top Ten ;)

The winning progress prize entry from 2007 had to publish the full details of their algorithm, and they don't use anything. I don't use anything. PragmaticTheory even wrote a blog post about how they don't use anything. Others have said the same thing. It's impossible to say that no one will ever come up with a useful way to use metadata, but so far the "metadata" produced by the algorithms themselves is far more accurate than that generated by human observers on the same data.

It may wind up being something not intuitive (like release month/year, production company, gap score of economic state during release year vs current, or something like that)

Well, that's beyond just counterintuitive to actually demonstrably unhelpful -- it seems a priori unlikely that someone's rating would depend on the production company, for example, but even if it was, that would be much more easily detected by the actual movie average (i.e. if a particular production company gets good ratings, then we will know that just because the movie has a lot of good ratings, and the company becomes superfluous). On the other hand, if you're suggesting that specific people have varying opinions of particular companies, well that again seems odd, but again it's irrelevant -- if such a correlation exists, SVD will find it, and so some of the dimensions of user-movie vectors will correlate to production company.

Similar with the other properties you mention: since SVD is already finding *all* of the (linear) correlations in the data, it's not very helpful to try to come up with a huge list of farfetched ones yourself hoping one of them will work out...

To me, it is so obvious the doctored photo (bright, beautiful, shiny, crisp flag in background) is not the original, that this event is not a big deal. The photo feels like a public relations baseball card, with the poetic license normally granted for PR fluff. Still, to prevent arguments about manipulation, one way to preserve a file, such as a jpeg and its metadata, is to sign it with a voice signature. --Ben

Slightly offtopic but you don't happen to have a clone down here in Australia? - The *AA's are going after a small ISP called iiNet in Perth, they hope to test provisions in the recent AU-US free trade agreement that (they claim) makes ISP caching equivalent to copying (I knew the FTA would bite us on the bum). The AA's have brought in the same counsel that nutered Kazza, APC has an href="http://apcmag.com/why_iinet_will_probably_lose_the_piracy_lawsuit.htm">interesting article in which they debunk iiNet's 3 main arguments as common misconceptions of the law and predict iiNet will lose.

Yeah, I heard about that. Don't worry, there are some really cool internet copyright lawyers down under; I've met some of them. Nobody neutered Kazaa, Kazaa neutered itself. The case was settled.

Great, now they've got to deal with the same sort of things we do. Archiving every bit of email that comes into the system, and making sure it's available online for searching and retrieval.

I'm interested in how they're going to be doing it. I've been looking at Global Relay for my own mail archiving. I wonder what they'll end up going with. I asked this a while ago on my blog, too.

Oops, sorry, this one - http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/08/bundle-me-this.html

Reminds me of this post - http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/08/flash-me-clue.html

Others have noticed, too:

There'll be challenges on all fronts. Climate changes from global warming will lead to shortages of food and water in dozens of countries. That, coupled with a projected population spike of 1.2 billion people worldwide could lead to wars over increasingly scarce resources.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/20/world/main4622166.shtml

And from a commentator:

There are other factors: aging baby boomers, changing demographics, weakened economy, massive debt and greater internal chaos.

http://penetrate.blogspot.com/2008/11/us-power-fading-by-2025.html

I'm sure I'll get called unpatriotic(tm) for this, but it's politics in that land disillusioned underachievers never see, called "reality."

OK cliffski, let's bury the hatchet. I looked you up, I see that you're not anonymous, and I respect that. I also understand why you have this point of view. I see that you're a small independent guy who designs games, and makes them DRM-free... and is then no doubt betrayed by people who make unauthorized copies instead of paying you the probably modest price to which you are entitled and which you have earned. Someone like you should be protected. And I have never at any time expressed any opposition to copyright law. I have been working in copyright law for more than 34 years. What I am opposed to is the RIAA/MPAA cartel's collusion, violation of antitrust laws, bullying of mostly innocent people, frivolously litigating, making extortionate settlement demands, violating the procedural laws, making false legal arguments, misrepresenting the facts, etc. I have nothing whatsoever against a person like you, or a person like you being protected by the copyright law.

And I can tell you that I have done nothing to deserve the venom you spew at me. When I have a client who actually did commit copyright infringement, we put in an answer fully admitting the copyright infringement, and challenge only the exorbitant damages the RIAA is seeking, which run from 2,600 to 450,000 times the record companies' actual damages.

And if you think the RIAA, MPAA, and other mega corporations are friends of independent guys like yourself, think again. They would squash you in a second, like they have squeezed the life blood out of musicians for so many years. You have much more in common with me, and with the victims of their over-the-top aggression, than you do with them.

I do not believe there is any legal standing for the idea that the account holder is responsible, in any way, for the actions that take place on the connection.

And the United States Supreme Court shares your belief.

This is without a doubt a protection racket.

You mean like the RIAA telling Ohio University that if the university pays $76,000 to the RIAA's expert witness's company, the letters will stop, and then the university pays, and then the letters suddenly stop?

... but there are plenty of times I do feel that way. It seems like Gameday and Gameday Audio break every damn year; this sometimes includes the Mac platform as well. MLBAM has almost no concern for minority platforms.

... but there are plenty of times I do feel that way. It seems like Gameday and Gameday Audio break every damn year; this sometimes includes the Mac platform as well. MLBAM has almost no concern for minority platforms.

... but there are plenty of times I do feel that way. It seems like Gameday and Gameday Audio break every damn year; this sometimes includes the Mac platform as well. MLBAM has almost no concern for minority platforms.

Dave Richards, the administrator of the Largo, Florida computer network, came up against this problem. He made the system mount USB disks as FTP shares, and made the file browser hide any executable files on the share so they couldn't be transferred.http://davelargo.blogspot.com/2008/02/hp-thin-clients-and-usb-access-for.html

I'm not surprised the DoD just completely shut the door on these things, but I think that for most admins, a solution like Dave's would be a really good compromise.

Isn't one who buys the connection responsible for their endpoint?

Not according to these guys (MGM v. Grokster).

What the RIAA is doing is in effect the same as a Mob boss shaking down businesses in an area for "Protection" money.

Indeed, and she agrees with that sentiment.

There already many cases where this has occurred. Lindor, Anderson, Foster to name a few. However these people that actually persevered in court had to spend years and tens of thousands in legal fees to clear their name. Add to that the documented cases where the RIAA sued people who didn't have computers, dead people, etc. Most people I suspected just paid the fine instead going through the whole ordeal. While it may not be successful, the discovery process may unearth what we have long suspected: The RIAA does not adequately investigates someone before suing them, does not dismiss lawsuits when it appears that they may have erred, and will continue to abuse the legal system in this way.

Well according to this guy their investigative methods are untested, have never been accepted in the scientific community, have never been published, were not subjected to peer review, are completely secret, and ... he invented them himself, out of his own head. And according to this guy the "instructions and parameters" for the investigations were given to the investigators by the lawyers.

So why wouldn't you think the RIAA's investigation is reliable, UnknowingFool?

Well AROS developers broke off and are now developing AnubisOS based on GNU/Linux with the AROS/Amiga GUI. It was unveiled at the AROS show and It is being kept a secret so who knows what it will be like in a few years when it is finished?

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Yet changing a stock head shot background from an office to a flag, and touching up skin is a hideous travesty of judgment. Glad to know the AP has standards!

Actually the AFP has absolutely no problems publishing faked pictures. It just depends on who fakes them. If you're killing Jews, you can fake pictures all you want for the AFP. Feels like 1935 all over again :

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html

Strange how they don't have any issues at all publishing altered photos from Hezbollah :

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/01/hezbollah-busted-re-faking-fake-photos.html

I guess for AFP you can fake pictures all you want, as long as it's politically correct. If you're a palestinian shooting on your fellow countrymen, then shooting at the ambulance with an AK-47, then claiming "Israel did it" and AFP will fake the pictures for you.

If you kill people, you can get away with anything. If the genocide in Sudan succeeds in killing all blacks there, the AFP will personally go down and congratulate the sudanese government on a jihad well done (after that some guy named Zawahiri wants to kill a certain "house nigger" that goes by the name of Obama, google it).

But the message of the press is clear : genocide is okay, it is even great (allahu akbar to be exact) ! If you actually do it. You'll only get accused of genocide if you're NOT actually comitting genocide.

BTW you can fake "chemical" pictures too (google "optical printer" for one of many devices used to do that).

It's good that they're taking a firm stance and everything, but are they absolutely confident that none of their other pictures are photoshopped? Not everybody who doctors image is a clueless muppet.

My daughter wanted to find English words containing letters in an alphetical order such as "biopsy" (monotonically increasing sequence of letters) and I thought she would be impressed if I showed her the UNIX solution using grep. Unfortunately it only confirmed her opinion of me as a nerd - see http://palamau.blogspot.com/2006/05/words-containing-letters-in.html

Get a grip. It's attitudes like yours which make everyone who opposes the RIAA look like a criminal jerk.

Are you sure you meant to say that? That is tantamount to saying that the large majority of people in this country 'look like criminal jerks'. I have never met anyone who ever heard of the RIAA who does not oppose it, except for people who are on its payroll. And I have never met anyone who thinks that 'everyone who opposes the RIAA looks like a criminal jerk'.

A lot of people think it's the RIAA and their aiders and abettors that are 'criminal jerks', such as these attorneys in St. Louis, who just filed RICO counterclaims pointing out the RIAA's extortion, mail fraud, and wire fraud, and these government officials in North Carolina who have summoned the RIAA's investigators to a "probable cause hearing", and these state troopers in Massachusetts who have ordered them to "cease and desist" from their illegal "investigations".

So, just between you and me, I think you may have overstated things a bit. If it's you who thinks that everyone who opposes the RIAA looks like a criminal jerk, well, that's you, and you alone, and maybe this guy.

Get a grip. It's attitudes like yours which make everyone who opposes the RIAA look like a criminal jerk.

Are you sure you meant to say that? That is tantamount to saying that the large majority of people in this country 'look like criminal jerks'. I have never met anyone who ever heard of the RIAA who does not oppose it, except for people who are on its payroll. And I have never met anyone who thinks that 'everyone who opposes the RIAA looks like a criminal jerk'.

A lot of people think it's the RIAA and their aiders and abettors that are 'criminal jerks', such as these attorneys in St. Louis, who just filed RICO counterclaims pointing out the RIAA's extortion, mail fraud, and wire fraud, and these government officials in North Carolina who have summoned the RIAA's investigators to a "probable cause hearing", and these state troopers in Massachusetts who have ordered them to "cease and desist" from their illegal "investigations".

So, just between you and me, I think you may have overstated things a bit. If it's you who thinks that everyone who opposes the RIAA looks like a criminal jerk, well, that's you, and you alone, and maybe this guy.

Get a grip. It's attitudes like yours which make everyone who opposes the RIAA look like a criminal jerk.

Are you sure you meant to say that? That is tantamount to saying that the large majority of people in this country 'look like criminal jerks'. I have never met anyone who ever heard of the RIAA who does not oppose it, except for people who are on its payroll. And I have never met anyone who thinks that 'everyone who opposes the RIAA looks like a criminal jerk'.

A lot of people think it's the RIAA and their aiders and abettors that are 'criminal jerks', such as these attorneys in St. Louis, who just filed RICO counterclaims pointing out the RIAA's extortion, mail fraud, and wire fraud, and these government officials in North Carolina who have summoned the RIAA's investigators to a "probable cause hearing", and these state troopers in Massachusetts who have ordered them to "cease and desist" from their illegal "investigations".

So, just between you and me, I think you may have overstated things a bit. If it's you who thinks that everyone who opposes the RIAA looks like a criminal jerk, well, that's you, and you alone, and maybe this guy.

Get a grip. It's attitudes like yours which make everyone who opposes the RIAA look like a criminal jerk.

Are you sure you meant to say that? That is tantamount to saying that the large majority of people in this country 'look like criminal jerks'. I have never met anyone who ever heard of the RIAA who does not oppose it, except for people who are on its payroll. And I have never met anyone who thinks that 'everyone who opposes the RIAA looks like a criminal jerk'.

A lot of people think it's the RIAA and their aiders and abettors that are 'criminal jerks', such as these attorneys in St. Louis, who just filed RICO counterclaims pointing out the RIAA's extortion, mail fraud, and wire fraud, and these government officials in North Carolina who have summoned the RIAA's investigators to a "probable cause hearing", and these state troopers in Massachusetts who have ordered them to "cease and desist" from their illegal "investigations".

So, just between you and me, I think you may have overstated things a bit. If it's you who thinks that everyone who opposes the RIAA looks like a criminal jerk, well, that's you, and you alone, and maybe this guy.

"I guess when congress sells you a few new laws every year, delaying is a pretty smart business tactic."

I'm not so sure the Obama administration is going to be rubber stamping MAFIAA legislation.

Is this pro-bono or not? Anyone know?

My guess is yes. The Judge specifically asked Prof. Nesson to take the case. It's in this transcript, where she asks Mr. Tenenbaum if he'd been contacted by Prof. Nesson yet.

I just spotted it here, so it looks like it's made it up now.

My bad, sorry! I should have proofread my submission more carefully.

Oddly, this announcement does not appear on the front page of the Google Blog. Maybe they want a quiet exit, or is it just a cache problem on my side?

Yes you can -- just not with cmd-shift-3 or 4..

Try this: (it's posted all over the place, this one came up first in google) http://highschoolblows.blogspot.com/2005/11/take-screenshot-of-dvd-player-in-os-x.html

I think you might appreciate this then: neuron-galaxy.jpg sorry if you've already seen it but it's a picture of a mouse brain neuron next to a simulation of the universe. They look strikingly similar. This probably means nothing but it's startling to think it just might mean *something* ... all evidence so far points to comedic meaninglessness. It is probably the kind of apophenia that causes people to see religious figures in toast.

It depends who is more important really, doesn't it? Microsoft goes through the pain because supporting binaries is something they have to do in a new OS otherwise people won't upgrade to it. Actually the whole OS is architected so that most 32 bit stuff just thunks through to 64 bit code so the amount of duplication is probably quite small.

The Linux world makes acid comments about closed binaries and does not. Users don't pay for uprades, so it doesn't matter how inconvenient the upgrade to 64 bit is. Of course that means they end up blaming Adobe for not porting to 64 bit whereas the Windows world doesn't much care, but then again flash is an evil closed binary too so Adobe deserve it.

Linux Hater ranted about this, in his inimitable style.
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-browser-needs-16-exabytes.html

What's funny about this is that even now they've done it people are complaining that flash is still a closed binary, they haven't released a debug version and don't support Sparc64 or Itanium and what they really should do is to release the source code.

Check that. I should have said "I recently found that references..."

Mozilla.org decided to use both. That means that you can not create any image derived from the Firefox logo. So for example all these iconsets and wallpapers are illegal

Linus, and Debian have trademarks on their names and logos, but the artwork is free-software so, derived works are allowed.

It's necessary for there to be an economic incentive to develop software. Nobody is going to donate millions of man-hours to write the software for the F-22 out of the goodness of their heart. Nobody is going to donate the man-hours to write the software for my insurance agency or hospital.

Nobody is asking them to. The developers that wrote the F22/insurance/hospital software would still get paid, because the software has to actually be written, and they'll get paid for modifications and support too. What they can't do is get their customer reliant on some bit of closed software, and then jack up the cost of that software a couple of years down the line when replacing it with something else is almost impossible.

What's the worst that could happen if hospitals actually used open source systems? That open standards would be developed and utilised, and that information interchange between systems would be many times easier? That patients might have some degree of control over their own data? That vendor lock-in, the type leading to the failure of the "£50 billion, largest civilian IT programme in the entire history of the world" might be avoided? I could support that.

No. The software would probably suck just as much as it does today - just having a different license glued to a piece of software doesn't make it instantly better.

What it would do is allow the hospital to hire another, unrelated software developer dude to fix it/add a new feature if they so wished, even if the company that wrote it in the first place went under or wants the hospital to buy the newer improved X instead of fixing the old one.

Waiting for it for over a decade now...

Keep an eye on MarketSaw. It is a blog about 3D movies.
Whenever there is something new on Avatar or Battle Angel, it is very likely it will turn up there.

Waiting for it for over a decade now...

Keep an eye on MarketSaw. It is a blog about 3D movies.
Whenever there is something new on Avatar or Battle Angel, it is very likely it will turn up there.

It's necessary for there to be an economic incentive to develop software. Nobody is going to donate millions of man-hours to write the software for the F-22 out of the goodness of their heart. Nobody is going to donate the man-hours to write the software for my insurance agency or hospital.

Nobody is asking them to. The developers that wrote the F22/insurance/hospital software would still get paid, because the software has to actually be written, and they'll get paid for modifications and support too. What they can't do is get their customer reliant on some bit of closed software, and then jack up the cost of that software a couple of years down the line when replacing it with something else is almost impossible.

What's the worst that could happen if hospitals actually used open source systems? That open standards would be developed and utilised, and that information interchange between systems would be many times easier? That patients might have some degree of control over their own data? That vendor lock-in, the type leading to the failure of the "£50 billion, largest civilian IT programme in the entire history of the world" might be avoided? I could support that.

Yep, that's pretty much it! Here's a photo of what the protesters were hanging up (JPEG, 300KB)

There's a lot of information on the web.

You can get a couple of chapters of an eBook here about buying American: http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/index.php

You can buy online a lot of places -- though I suppose it's not too easy to tell whether the place is being honest:
http://www.buydirectusa.com/
http://www.usstuff.com/
http://www.madeinusa.com/
http://www.americanapparel.net/

Shopping at Walmart should really be the absolute last option (below not buying whatever thing at all).

And here's a blog where a guy appears to be attempting to make a list:
http://madeintheusabyamericans.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-new-blog.html

Actually, alumni preferences take up way more slots than affirmative action. More likely some asshole from Long Island is taking your daughter's spot.

http://rationalitate.blogspot.com/2008/03/rigged-college-admissions.html