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Don't worry about the government making GPLd software illegal. It would only affect you if you lived in a stupid country that made encryption illegal. People who live in free countries would still be able to write and use free software.

A quick trip to whitehouse.gov reveals the following from a speech Bush made concerning energy:

But if we fail to act, this great country could face a darker future, a future that is, unfortunately, being previewed in rising prices at the gas pump and rolling blackouts in the great state of California.

My administration has developed a sane national plan to help meet our energy needs this year and every year. If we fail to act on this plan, energy prices will continue to rise. For two decades, the share of the average family budget spent on energy steadily declined. But since 1998, it has skyrocketed by 25 percent.

If we fail to act, Americans will face more and more widespread blackouts. If we fail to act, our country will become more reliant on foreign crude oil, putting our national energy security into the hands of foreign nations, some of whom do not share our interests.

All that being said, what else has happend in the past year or so which might have precipitated this crisis? California finally felt the brunt of it's flawed deregulation; fuel prices have risin since their historic lows of 97/98, and ... that's it. Oh, and Bush came into office. In short, this 'crisis' - if there even is one - is in the public's mind largely because Bush considers it important.

As for the substance of Bush plan on the environment, read the report yourself, as well as some of the articles I linked to. It is not simply technologies which are 20 years away which have seen funding cut, or been ignored; technologies which currently work, but are not widly used, have had what research funding they have cut. The vast bulk of the energy plan concerns building of new refineries, plants, distribution lines and extraction points, as well as environmental deregulation. (It is important to note, again, that a mere two years ago, energy prices were at historic lows; since then, as prices have risen, the invisible hand of capitalism has moved in and plans for new construction of these very same elements of energy infrastructure have appeared).

Enough long-winded ranting.. I just want to see what technologies we have, twenty years from now, for energy.. so much cool stuff is coming down the line.

Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz

A quick trip to whitehouse.gov reveals the following from a speech Bush made concerning energy:

But if we fail to act, this great country could face a darker future, a future that is, unfortunately, being previewed in rising prices at the gas pump and rolling blackouts in the great state of California.

My administration has developed a sane national plan to help meet our energy needs this year and every year. If we fail to act on this plan, energy prices will continue to rise. For two decades, the share of the average family budget spent on energy steadily declined. But since 1998, it has skyrocketed by 25 percent.

If we fail to act, Americans will face more and more widespread blackouts. If we fail to act, our country will become more reliant on foreign crude oil, putting our national energy security into the hands of foreign nations, some of whom do not share our interests.

All that being said, what else has happend in the past year or so which might have precipitated this crisis? California finally felt the brunt of it's flawed deregulation; fuel prices have risin since their historic lows of 97/98, and ... that's it. Oh, and Bush came into office. In short, this 'crisis' - if there even is one - is in the public's mind largely because Bush considers it important.

As for the substance of Bush plan on the environment, read the report yourself, as well as some of the articles I linked to. It is not simply technologies which are 20 years away which have seen funding cut, or been ignored; technologies which currently work, but are not widly used, have had what research funding they have cut. The vast bulk of the energy plan concerns building of new refineries, plants, distribution lines and extraction points, as well as environmental deregulation. (It is important to note, again, that a mere two years ago, energy prices were at historic lows; since then, as prices have risen, the invisible hand of capitalism has moved in and plans for new construction of these very same elements of energy infrastructure have appeared).

Enough long-winded ranting.. I just want to see what technologies we have, twenty years from now, for energy.. so much cool stuff is coming down the line.

Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz

I can see the pro's and con's for new domains. Obviously the con's have been spoken for by the previous posts so I won't bother posting them again. (waste of time). The Pro's on the other hand is that whenever there is a .com .net .org domain, their easy to find. The average american and others in the world knows those three. You start adding into the mix too many others, you'll never be able to find what you're looking for.

A prime example: a kid in grade school wants to look up the whitehouse for a school project. There's all ready too many domain names, he doesn't know..... he types in http://www.whitehouse.com and WHOA... What do we have here? Little did he/she know that you were supposed to type in http://www.whitehouse.gov. To me, I think that this is wrong. Domains should remain easy and simple to remember.

If they plan on having 118 new domains, then someone out there better find a better way to search then yahoo and google... The web is getting to big to cataloge.
By creating a better searching method, new domains are possible. Until then, keep .com's for commercial, .org's for organizations, .net's for personal, and make one especially for the porn sites... maybe .ooooooh
And then police them. Just because McDonalds is a business and has the rights to a .com name shouldn't mean they should automatically have the rights to a .org name too....

My $.02

What are you talking about? Press releases and press briefings are still available at the White House site; see this link.

Unless we're really, really hungry, that is, and there aren't any frat boys at hand.

I actually would not even grace it that much. Reality check (with statistics from Time/Newsweek etc):

Myth: The poor pay most of the taxes in America
Reality: The lower classes in america do not pay any taxes. As you go up, the tax burden goes up.

Just look at the tax cut. The bottom run of the tax scheme goes from 15%->10%, a 33% cut. The top rung goes from 36%->33% about a 9% cut. Further realize that only about ~120 million american's even pay taxes in the first place. The others actually get money back, even though they never paid anything.

Myth: But they just deduct everything.
Reality: Ever heard of the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax?)The AMT is an amount that you can not deduct under, and as usual, it is a very high number in the higher brackets.

Here is a good argument about the mostly liberal billionairs that spoke up. The wealthy are conservitive, but right now, no changes is a liberal position.

BTW, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are about to loose the JSF. GE did make a bonaza on the air market a few years back, but that's clinton's territory, the defense industry is getting ready for another round of base cuts, and budget cuts (Bush's new money goes to get our millitary people off of food stamps... yes you read that right).

BTW, the Economist has a pretty good write up.

BTW, one of the things that Bush is trying to do is get rid of the hump in the tax code between 20k and 27k where there is strangly a 31% tax, surrounding two 16-16% ranges. Oh... yes.. now I remember why that is there, so the poor stay poor.

As for the rest and the entire argument about "payroll taxes" thoose taxes are social security and medicare, programs that are completly seperate. If you don't like that tax, repeal Social Security ;-) (C'mon... I dare ya).

Why should there be a tax cut? The percent of the GDP that is being eaten is the highest it has ever been.

If you take a look at the budget for NASA, they do cut some aspects of the ISS.

The cost growth is offset in part by redirecting funding from remaining U.S. elements (particularly high-risk elements including the Habitation Module, Crew Return Vehicle, and Propulsion Module).

That's right... we don't want those astronauts (whose education and training also cost a pretty penny) in a safe place to live, and in case there's something wrong with it, we don't want to give them a safe ride home.

p.s. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/usbudget/blueprint/ budtoc.html is the location of the index of the budget documents. George W must be afraid of those evil index.htm(l) files...

If you take a look at the budget for NASA, they do cut some aspects of the ISS.

The cost growth is offset in part by redirecting funding from remaining U.S. elements (particularly high-risk elements including the Habitation Module, Crew Return Vehicle, and Propulsion Module).

That's right... we don't want those astronauts (whose education and training also cost a pretty penny) in a safe place to live, and in case there's something wrong with it, we don't want to give them a safe ride home.

p.s. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/usbudget/blueprint/ budtoc.html is the location of the index of the budget documents. George W must be afraid of those evil index.htm(l) files...

I think that THIS is the reason Microsoft wants into the console market. They see future consoles as limited home computers with a tv for a monitor. If they were to ignore it and sony's ps2 took off it could cut into their sales. Now with the X-Box they have the best of both worlds, they still dominate the traditional 'computer' OS market, AND they have a large chunk of both hardware and software sales for the console market. Its a blatant attempt to extend their monopoly and because of something that happended about an hour ago The government wont do anything about it.

By the name of this bill (HR 46), this means that the bill ready for consideration within the House of Representatives. Given that the "Christmas break" is almost upon us, it is very possible that our congressional representatives may never see an e-mail before a vote takes place.

But that doesn't mean it will become law.

Any bill going though Congress needs to ultimately end up on the President's desk. You can contact him here.

The judge is calling a legitimate and fair usage of the Internet and its resources a crime because it may impair other's ability to use the same resources. In all actuality, normal Internet traffic does precisely what this judge says port scanning does.

So I should be held accountable for the cost of the bandwidth of a public server? Hell, no. Of course not.

So, in effect, the senario which this Anonymous Coward puts forth is quite possible. With rulings like this, one could likely be sued for accessing legitimate resources.

nmap www.whitehouse.gov -sS -O -T Normal -vv

Allthough the search is somewhat confusing I've always found www.congress.gov to be indespensible for obtaining useful information in a minimum of time. On the opposite end of the spectrum I've always been annoyed with www.whitehouse.gov because it has more flash than function. Irvu.

My view of the vetoed law is simply that I think it was not a good idea as a matter of public policy to have a General Secrets Act in this country. They do have a General Secrets Act in Britain, but then in Britain the rights of free speech and free press are very different. At present there are many administrative penalties, and there is the possibility of criminal prosecution under certain circumstances, but only under those certain circumstances. Leaking info to the press may in certain circumstances be criminal presently (e.g., there was a man who went to prison for giving a magazine a spy photo of a Russian aircraft carrier in the mid 80s) but in many cases it may not be (because the disclosure of the info in question would not be prejudicial to the interests or safety of the US), although of course the leaker could lose his job or his clearance.

Take a look at the statutes, executive orders and regulations relating to national security for yourself. Executive Order 12958 is informative as it defines the framework of the classification system, and to look at it go here and search for 12958. Another very informative source of information is a booklet published by the Information Security Oversight Office that explains the classification scheme; especially enlightening is the FAQ at the end of the booklet.

All of these statutes and regs require more than the simple fact that information has been administratively classified as confidential as a predicate for the imposition of criminal liability. For example, some of these statutes require that the disclosure be harmful to the safety or interests of the United States or beneficial to the interests of a foreign government to the detriment of the U.S. And there is criminal liability for misappropriation of government property, such as physical documents. Others provide penalties for any unauthorized disclosure in any circumstances of certain categories: such as diplomatic codes, such as nuclear weapon designs, and the identity of American agents. One law certainly does allows the government to administratively classify as criminal the unauthorized disclosure of certain categories of information relating national security to people known to represent foreign governments or Communist organizations. Of course I am generalizing about these laws and a lawyer would need to dig into the language of the laws and the relevant caselaw and regulations to apply the law to a specific fact situation, but if you look at the various statutes, I think you'll see what I mean.

What these statutes do not do is criminalize as a general matter the unauthorized disclosure of classified information simply because it is classified. Rather, there have to be some added circumstances. Leaking information (as long as they are not codes or nuclear secrets or the names of covert agents) to the American press or to Congress in most circumstances (i.e. when it does not harm the interests of the United States)will usually not be a criminal act under present law

I certainly would never encourage people who have signed a Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement to violate their oaths lightly, as I think that there are many activities that our government engages in that would be best left unknown to our nation's adversaries. National security is not a light matter. However, there have been too many instances, the chief one being that of the Pentagon Papers case, where information classification has been used to try to keep essential or controversial information from other branches of government and from the American people for reasons other than that of national security. I would be very uncomfortable with a General Secrets Act, and think it would contrary to the spirit of our kind of democracy.

Ed

in 1814, according to none other than The Whitehouse itself.

The link
http://www.w hit ehouse.gov/library/hot_releases/November_4_2000.ht ml
no longer goes to the President's statement.
Perhaps the link generated too much traffic.
Perhaps the Secret Service is now closely monitoring the threat of this "slashdot.org" which seems to be attempting a DoS attack on whitehouse.gov. ;-)

why do executive orders reference previous executive orders about the "emergency," extend it

Because any "national emergency" (not any executive order) automatically expire after a year, so they have to be "extended" every year to stay in effect. Every extension has to go to Congress, and congress can feel free to say "no" to the president if they want to.

and also reference section 5b of Title 50? The 1976 law did not repeal Title 50, or end all of the "emergencies" declared under its aegis, or nullify the executive orders that are based on it.

It didn't repeal title 50 (why would it need to?) Title 50 is a huge group of laws, and they amended it in places so that the existing emergencies would expire in '76, and any new ones had to be renewed annually to stay in effect.

The powers that militias claim a state of "national emergeny" gives the president are much more limited than they claim. It doesn't let him order FEMA into your neighborhood in black helicoptors -- but it does allow him to say (for example) that for the next year all transfers of assets between Afghanistan and the US have to be declared to the State department, and may be blocked at the departments's discretion.

Congress is still congress -- the president cannot unilaterally declare himself dictator (well, he could, but it wouldn't mean anything). If they want to vote down an executive order (including any one that declares a state of emergency) they can certainly do so.

The White House even has a searchable online listing of all executive orders. Most of them are boring things like "from now on the president will have a council of watchmakers to advise him, and they will be appointed by him on an annual basis."

Granted that congress requires renewal of the emergencies now, but it's always renewed. The end result if the same -- sweeping power for the President

It's renewed if the president wants to, but the congress has the authority to say "no". Go to the link you included on Title 50, and look around in it. It states pretty clearly all the checks and balances Congress added that restrict possible abuse by the President. Also remember that Congress is the only body that can spend money -- they make all the budgets, it's one of their exclusive checks over the other branches of government. If the president does something they don't like (even if he has the legal authority), they can just cut his budget. Just as they've threatened several times to Clinton over military engagements overseas -- even though the President can commit forces unilaterally, he can't pay the bills without Congress' approval.

Seriously, 5 minutes of reading the actual US Code will tell you more than 5 hours of tax-dodgers who claim that FEMA is shipping "road closed" signs to huge warehouses for the Y2k takeover (oops, that one didn't happen, either!)...

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The biggest blow up in govn't size is during the 8 years Regan administration. That's Republican for you.

The biggest increase in government size and power over individual liberties occurred at the hands of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat.

US...? rest of the world...?? Please elucidate...

Hmmm The only mention of Algore in Hobbes internet timeline is the one in 1993 when whitehouse.gov went on-line.

It was with dismay that I learned tonight of the White House's decision to support Big Business in the question of the whole Napster/RIAA issue. Granted, I'm not a lawyer (although recent events have nearly convinced me that I should become one if I wish my country to remain free). So maybe the letter of the Home Recording Act isn't a valid defense -- but to maintain that that Act applies only to hardware means of copying, and that software is excluded from that protection? That's sophistry.

We're headed down a very dangerous path, whereby decision after decision is made, law after law passed, telling us that the time-tested principles of American freedom don't apply to new technology. I am frankly worried for an America in which law can be bought so easily, and I'm worried about a future in which an America become an Old World has no New World to which its innovators can turn.

Tonight, I'm more scared than I have ever been.

Michael Roberts
Proprietor
Vivtek

This is a hot topic because it deals with two of the three most important things in most peoples lives, intelligence, money and ...ya' know..., wink, wink, nudge, nudge. I have had the oportunity to work in government at the MTA, and also in industry at Actiant. Now, I have spent a year RIT. I can honestly say that I have learned a great deal more in school that anywhere else. Is it worth the money? Probably not.

Living in a dorm, drinking beer and joining a frat all while supposedly "growing up" didn't make sense for me.
Hehe, you are aparently misinformed about college life. Please disregard what you see on tv and in movies. As for the stren, cold, set-in-his-ways professor that is put across in the media simply isnt true, they would love for a student to challenge them.

College is great for people who can study and apply what they remember.
I think you just described every healthy human on this planet...

College to me adds biggotry to the soul.
Oooo... Big words from someone living in an evil empire.

There are two ways to stop this. One is for everyone to comply. The other is for DeCSS to show up EVERYWHERE - on a much more massive scale than ever before. The MPAA would be spending so much in the way of time and resources that they might even have to stop judging movies.

Actually, we can do BOTH. The solution is to distribute deCSS widely, but not link to it - but make it understood how to acquire it easily.

Everyone with a domain should put deCSS in webroot. Don't link to it, but make it standard - you should be able to go to any website you want and type in http://www.domainname.com/deCSS.zip and bingo! you download the file. But nary an <a href=""> anywhere!

Every webmaster on every site, commercial, private, personal, educational - should put deCSS in webroot. Imagine:

• http://www.mit.edu/deCSS.zip
• http://www.nytimes.com/deCSS.zip
• http://www.whitehouse.gov/deCSS.zip

webmasters, unite! Civil Obedience on a grand scale! !Link !

let's show the MPAA it isn't linking per se they should fear, but the power of people to resist in an organized way when their rights are taken away for corporate gain. or, more colloquially...

The First Rule of Link Club is: you don't talk about !Link Club

The Second Rule of !Link Club is: YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT !LINK CLUB.

The Third Rule of !Link Club is: if this is your first night, you WILL put deCSS in webroot!

JOIN !LINK CLUB! spread the word...

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Governor William Janklow State Capitol, 500 East Capitol Ave Pierre, South Dakota 57501-5070 United States of America phone 1-605-773-3212, fax 1-605-773-5844 e-mail sdgov@gov.state.sd.us webpage http://www.state.sd.us /state/executive/governor/governor.htm

Governor Don Sundquist State Capitol Nashville, Tennessee 37243 United States of America phone 1-615-741-2001, fax 1-615-532-9711 e-mail dsundquist@mail.state.tn.us webpage http://www.state.tn.us/governor/

Governor George W. Bush State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711 United States of America phone 1-512-463-2000, fax 1-512-463-1849 webpage http://www.governor.state.tx.us/

Governor Michael Leavitt 210 State Capitol Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 United States of America phone 1-801-538-1000, fax 1-801-538-1528 e-mail governor@state.ut.us webpage http://www.governor.state.ut.us/

Governor Howard Dean 109 State St. Montpelier, Vermont 05609 United States of America phone 1-802-828-3333, fax 1-802-828-3339 e-mail governor@state.vt.us webpage http://www.state.vt.us/

Governor Jim Gilmore State Capitol Richmond, Virginia 23219 United States of America phone 1-804-786-2211, fax 1-804-371-6351 e-mail page http://www.state.va.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.va.us/governor/

Governor Gary Locke State Capitol, P.O. Box 40002 Olympia, Washington 98504-0002 United States of America phone 1-360-902-4111, fax 1-360-753-4110 e-mail governor.locke@governor.wa.gov webpage http://www.wa.gov/governor

Governor Cecil Underwood State Capitol Charleston, West Virginia 25305 United States of America phone 1-304-558-2000, fax 1-304-342-7025 e-mail governor@state.wv.us webpage http://www.state.wi.us/governor/default .htm

Governor Tommy Thompson State Capitol, Room 115 East Madison, Wisconsin 53707 United States of America phone 1-608-266-1212, fax 1-608-267-8983 e-mail wisgov@mail.state.wi.us webpage http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/

Governor Jim Geringer State Capitol Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 United States of America phone 1-307-777-7434, fax 1-307-632-3909 e-mail governor@missc.state.wy.us webpage http://www.state.wy.us/gove rnor/text_governor_home.html

William Clinton President The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, District of Columbia 20500 United States of America phone 1-202-456-1414 fax 1-202-456-2886 or 1-202-456-2461 (busy, keep trying) e-mail president@whitehouse.gov webpage http://www.whitehouse.gov/

House Majority Leader House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

House Minority Leader House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

Speaker, House of Representatives House of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia 20515 United States of America webpage http://www.house.gov/

Senate Majority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, District of Columbia 20510 United States of America webpage http://www.senate.gov/

Senate Minority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, District of Columbia 20510 United States of America webpage http://www.senate.gov/

Governor Don Seigelman State Capitol, 600 Dexter Ave. Montgomery, Alabama 36130 United States of America phone 1-334-242-7100, fax 1-334-242-4541 webpage http://www.state.al.us/

Governor Tony Knowles P.O. Box A Juneau, Alaska 99811 United States of America phone 1-907-465-3500, fax 1-907-465-3532 e-mail office_of_the_governor@gov.state.ak.u s webpage http://www.gov.state.ak.us/

Governor Jane Dee Hull State House Phoenix, Arizona 85007 United States of America phone 1-602-542-4331, fax 1-602-542-7601 webpage http://www.state.az.us/

Governor Mike Huckabee 250 State Capitol Bldg. Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 United States of America phone 1-501-682-2345, fax 1-501-682-1382 e-mail mike.huckabee@state.ar.us webpage http://www.state.ar.us/governor/gover nor.html

Governor Gray Davis State Capitol Sacramento, California 95814 United States of America phone 1-916-445-2841, fax 1-916-445-4633 e-mail hometeam@ca.gov webpage http://www.ca.gov/s/

Governor Bill Owens 136 State Capitol Denver, Colorado 80203-1792 United States of America phone 1-303-866-2471, fax 1-303-866-2003 webpage http://www.state.co.us/

Governor John Rowland State Capitol, 210 Capitol Ave Hartford, Connecticut 06106 United States of America phone 1-860-566-4840, fax 1-203-524-7396 e-mail governor.rowland@po.state.ct.us webpage http://www.state.ct.us/governor/

Governor Thomas Carper Legislative Hall Dover, Delaware 19901 United States of America phone 1-302-739-4101, fax 1-302-577-3118 e-mail ssnyder@state.de.us webpage http://www.state.de.us/governor/index.htm

Governor Jeb Bush State Capitol Tallahassee, Florida 32399 United States of America phone 1-850-488-4441, fax 1-850-487-0801 e-mail page http://www.state.fl.us/eog/govmailform. html webpage http://fcn.state.fl.us/gsd/

Governor Roy Barnes State Capitol Building, Room 203 Atlanta, Georgia 30334 United States of America phone 1-404-656-1776, fax 1-404-657-7332 e-mail governor@gov.state.ga.us webpage http://www.state.ga.us/

Governor Benjamin Cayetano State Capitol, Executive Chambers Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 United States of America phone 1-808-586-0034, fax 1-808-586-0006 e-mail gov@gov.state.hi.us webpage http://gov.state.hi.us

Governor Dirk Kempthorne State Capitol PO Box 83720, 700 West Jefferson, Fl. 2 Boise, Idaho 83720-0034 United States of America phone 1-208-334-2100, fax 1-208-334-2175 e-mail governor@gov.state.id.us webpage http://www.state.id.us/gov/govhmpg.htm

Governor George Ryan 207 Statehouse Springfield, Illinois 62706 United States of America phone 1-217-782-0244, fax 1-217-524-4049 e-mail governor@state.il.us webpage http://www.state.il.us/gov/

Governor Frank O'Bannon Statehouse, Rm. 206 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 United States of America phone 1-317-232-4567, fax 1-317-232-3443 e-mail page http://www.ai.org/gov/gov_mail.html webpage http://www.ai.org/gov/index.html

Governor Thomas Vilsack State Capitol Des Moines, Iowa 50319 United States of America phone 1-515-281-5211, fax 1-515-281-6611 e-mail general.office@igov.state.ia.us webpage http://www.iowaccess.org/

Governor Bill Graves State House Topeka, Kansas 66612 United States of America phone 1-913-296-6240, fax 1-913-296-7973 e-mail page http://www.state.ks.us/public/g overnor/comment.html webpage http://www.state.ks.us/public/governor/

Governor Paul Patton State Capitol, 700 Capitol Ave. Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 United States of America phone 1-502-564-2611, fax 1-502-564-2517 e-mail governor@mail.state.ky.us webpage http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/go v/govmenu6.htm

Governor Murphy Foster, Jr. State Capitol, P.O. Box 94004 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804 United States of America phone 1-504-342-7015, fax 1-504-342-7099 e-mail page http://www.gov.state.la.us/governo r/contact2.htm webpage http://www.gov.state.la.us/

Governor Angus King, Jr. State House Station 1 Augusta, Maine 04333 United States of America phone 1-207-287-3531, fax 1-207-287-1034 e-mail page http://janus.state.me.us/govoffice/ gov_form.htm webpage http://janus.state.me.us/govoffice/ homepage.htm

Governor Parris Glendening State House Annapolis, Maryland 21401 United States of America phone 1-410-974-3901, fax 1-410-974-3275 e-mail governor@gov.state.md.us webpage http://www.gov.state.md.us/

Governor Paul Cellucci State House, Room 360 Boston, Massachusetts 02133 United States of America phone 1-617-727-6250, fax 1-617-727-9725 e-mail goffice@state.ma.us webpage http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/gov/gov.htm

Governor John Engler State Capitol, PO Box 30013 Lansing, Michigan 48909 United States of America phone 1-517-335-7858, fax 1-517-335-6863 email page http://www.state.mi.us/MIGOV/ gov/ContactGovernor.shtm webpage http://www.state.mi.us/migov/

Governor Jesse Ventura 130 State Capitol, 75 Constitution Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55155 United States of America phone 1-651-296-3391, fax 1-651-296-2089 e-mail Governor.JesseVentura@state.mn.us webpage http://www.mainserver.state.mn.us/gover nor/

Governor Kirk Fordice P.O. Box 139 Jackson, Mississippi 39205 United States of America phone 1-601-737-9540, fax 1-601-737-9507 e-mail governor@govoff.state.ms.us webpage http://www.state.ms.us/

Governor Mel Carnahan Missouri Capitol Building, P.O. Box 720 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0720 United States of America phone 1-573-751-3222, fax 1-573-751-1495 e-mail page http://www.gov.state.mo.us/guest.htm webpage http://www.gov.state.mo.us/

Governor Marc Racicot State Capitol Helena, Montana 59620 United States of America webpage http://www.mt.gov/governor/governor.htm

Governor Mike Johanns State Capitol, Executive Suite, PO Box 94848 Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-4848 United States of America phone 1-402-471-2244, fax 1-402-471-6031 e-mail jodee@mail.state.ne.us webpage http://www.state.ne.us/

Governor Kenny Guinn State Capitol Carson City, Nevada 89710 United States of America phone 1-702-687-5670, fax 1-702-687-4486 webpage http://www.state.nv.us/

Governor Jeanne Shaheen State House Concord, New Hampshire 03301-4990 United States of America phone 1-603-271-2121, fax 1-603-271-2130 e-mail nhgov@nh.com webpage http://www.state.nh.us/

Governor Christine Todd Whitman Office of the Governor State House, 125 West State St., CN-001 Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0001 United States of America phone 1-609-292-6000, fax 1-609-292-5212 e-mail page http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.nj.us/governor/officeo .htm

Governor Gary Johnson State Capitol Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503 United States of America phone 1-505-827-3000, fax 1-505-827-3026 e-mail gov@gov.state.nm.us webpage http://www.state.nm.us/

Governor George Pataki State Capitol Albany, New York 12224 United States of America phone 1-518-474-8390, fax 1-518-474-1513 e-mail gov.pataki@chamber.state.ny.us webpage http://www.state.ny.us/governor

Governor James Hunt, Jr. State Capitol Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 United States of America phone 1-919-733-4240, fax 1-919-733-2120 webpage http://www.sips.state.nc.us/

Governor Edward Schafer 600 E. Blvd, State Capitol, Fl. 1 Bismark, North Dakota 58505 United States of America phone 1-701-328-2200, fax 1-701-328-2205 webpage http://www.ehs.health.stat e.nd.us/gov/governor/index.htm

Governor Bob Taft State House Columbus, Ohio 43215 United States of America phone 1-614-466-3555, 1-614-466-9354 webpage http://www.state.oh.us/gov/

Governor Frank Keating State Capitol Bldg., Rm. 212 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 United States of America phone 1-405-521-2342, fax 1-405-521-3353 e-mail governor@oklaosf.state.ok.us webpage http://www.state.ok.us/

Governor John Kitzhaber State Capitol Salem, Oregon 97310 United States of America phone 1-503-378-4582, fax 1-503-378-4863 webpage http://www.governor.state.or.us/

Governor Tom Ridge 225 Main Capitol Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 United States of America phone 1-717-787-2500, fax 1-717-772-8284 e-mail governor@state.pa.us webpage http://www.state.pa.us/PA_Exe c/Governor/overview.html

Governor of the Commonwealth Commonwealth of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936 United States of America webpage http://fortaleza.govpr.org

Governor Lincoln Almond State House Providence, Rhode Island 02903 United States of America phone 1-401-277-2080, fax 1-401-273-5729 webpage http://www.doa.state.ri.us/info/exec.htm

Governor James Hodges State House, PO Box 11369 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 United States of America phone 1-803-737-9540, fax 1-803-737-9507 webpage http://www.state.sc.us/

Governor William Janklow State Capitol, 500 East Capitol Ave Pierre, South Dakota 57501-5070 United States of America phone 1-605-773-3212, fax 1-605-773-5844 e-mail sdgov@gov.state.sd.us webpage http://www.state.sd.us /state/executive/governor/governor.htm

Governor Don Sundquist State Capitol Nashville, Tennessee 37243 United States of America phone 1-615-741-2001, fax 1-615-532-9711 e-mail dsundquist@mail.state.tn.us webpage http://www.state.tn.us/governor/

Governor George W. Bush State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711 United States of America phone 1-512-463-2000, fax 1-512-463-1849 webpage http://www.governor.state.tx.us/

Governor Michael Leavitt 210 State Capitol Salt Lake City, Utah 84114 United States of America phone 1-801-538-1000, fax 1-801-538-1528 e-mail governor@state.ut.us webpage http://www.governor.state.ut.us/

Governor Howard Dean 109 State St. Montpelier, Vermont 05609 United States of America phone 1-802-828-3333, fax 1-802-828-3339 e-mail governor@state.vt.us webpage http://www.state.vt.us/

Governor Jim Gilmore State Capitol Richmond, Virginia 23219 United States of America phone 1-804-786-2211, fax 1-804-371-6351 e-mail page http://www.state.va.us/governor/govmail .htm webpage http://www.state.va.us/governor/

Governor Gary Locke State Capitol, P.O. Box 40002 Olympia, Washington 98504-0002 United States of America phone 1-360-902-4111, fax 1-360-753-4110 e-mail governor.locke@governor.wa.gov webpage http://www.wa.gov/governor

Governor Cecil Underwood State Capitol Charleston, West Virginia 25305 United States of America phone 1-304-558-2000, fax 1-304-342-7025 e-mail governor@state.wv.us webpage http://www.state.wi.us/governor/default .htm

Governor Tommy Thompson State Capitol, Room 115 East Madison, Wisconsin 53707 United States of America phone 1-608-266-1212, fax 1-608-267-8983 e-mail wisgov@mail.state.wi.us webpage http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/

Governor Jim Geringer State Capitol Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 United States of America phone 1-307-777-7434, fax 1-307-632-3909 e-mail governor@missc.state.wy.us webpage http://www.state.wy.us/gove rnor/text_governor_home.html

PGP and GPG are a great technical solution, and I demand -- not recommend -- that you start encrypting your email. Set PGP up for your friends on their Windows boxen. Show them how to use it. Tell everyone to make it a habit to encrypt everything, but also do it yourself.

But also WRITE TO YOUR CONGRESSMEN and elected officials!! Tell them how you feel!
http://www.house.gov/
http://www.senate.goov/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Do it! Get off your butt and do it now! Now! It can't get too much easier, anyway. Just fax or email or snailmail or call -- your choice. "Hi, could you relay a message to Mr. Gore about an issue that's important to me." Then be short, concise, to the point. Just do it!

I heard somewhere that politicians believe for every person who writes to them about an issue, there are 20 others who feel the same way but didn't write.

MAKE YOURSELF COUNT -- RIGHT NOW!!

What Rosen (Heidi Rosen, RIAA head bitch)

No, no, no.

Heidi Roizen is the SOFTBANK head bitch.

You're thinking of Hilary Rosen, similar to the U.S. First Bitch.

I know, I know, this sounds a lot like a Don Henley song, but excuse me, I'll pass thankyouverymuch. It's easy to say "Oh, we'll make mistakes. People will die." It's unfortunate that 1) this is true and 2) we even take this attitude. Certainly there are ways to avoid these doomsday scenarios. But this requires people thinking about the situation first, then acting. Quickly. These are hard problems that demand quite a bit from the general population, but nonetheless have to be addressed. If our history is any indication of the future, someone else will do the acting before the thinking. That's all that Katz is trying to say.

It would seem that a lot of Slashdot readers don't care of Katz's writing...think it's too sensationalistic. Ya know folks, he's just playing the Devil's advocate. He's trying to get us to think about our frickin' world so that we might take part in it someday more than hooking up X10 modules to our lamps and coffee maker. There are people in the world that know far less about technology than us (and don't care) but have enough power to have a major impact on the course of the human race, both in good and bad ways. If we can't find our way into those kinds of positions, we should at least find a way to clue them into doing the Right Thing with our research/code/hardware.

Okay. I'm a little verklempt. I'll give you a topic. "Third world nation with a hatred for the US gets a hold of genome map and develops a virulent biological weapon. Discretely brought into the country, a distributed attack is made in every major metropolitan area in the US." Next summer's blockbuster or current event in the year 2010? Discuss.

Actually, this isn't entirely new.

The website http://www.fedworld.gov/ offers a single search site for hundreds of federal websites. Originally started as a central BBS that let you look at other government BBS systems, it expanded into offerings via FTP and gopher before there was really a web.

Somebody also mentioned http://www.google.com/unclesam [no trailing slash: bad server config!]. (and get a load of the old glory colors on the Google logo: bet you see something similar on the home page by next weekend ...)

Also, http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Services/ has been around for a long time.

It sounds like http://www.firstgov.gov/ (which IS live, just a placeholder) will be much more citizen-oriented, that is, getting the services to the people (like Social Security or VA records), rather than being a spreadsheets and reports searching site. I just don't think it's a very good name. help.gov? helpdesk.gov? services.gov? something "nineties" like my.gov? (Somebody else said) first.gov? The repeated G-O-V is silly.
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Dude! Here's a few URLs that look very similar but have different content:

www.whitehouse.gov
www.whitehouse.net
www.whitehouse.com
www.whitehouse.org

Wonder what that judge would have to say about these.

What is in [landfills]? Various forms of paper, mostly newspapers and packaging, take up approximately half the space. Another 20 percent or so is made up of yard waste, construction wood, and assorted organic waste, especially food. (Rathje found that 15 percent of all the solid food purchased by Americans ends up in landfills.) An unbelievable conglomeration of odds and ends accounts for the rest, with almost 10 percent made up of plastic, including the so-called biodegradable plastic. (Starch is added to the plastic compound as an appetizer for microorganisms, who will theoretically dissemble the plastic as they consume the starch.) Rathje dryly noted that he was skeptical of such claims: "In our landfill refuse from decades past we have uncovered corncobs with all their kernels still intact. If microorganisms won't eat corn-on-the-cob, I doubt whether they will dig cornstarch out of plastics."

When talking about Microsoft Research, don't give a pointer to Microsoft. This is almost like confusing, say, NASA and U.S. Government (here or here).
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Thank goodness for Tipper Gore and the PMRC! They saved me from getting sued! If I hadn't been shown the evils of the Devil's Music (aka "Rock and Roll") I'd be in court right now!

darren

First off, YOU (yes, YOU) are not interesting enough for them to watch you. Sure, they could, but why would they? Did you e-mail this guy something the secret service didn't like? Do you have a small catchet of U-238 that you keep under your bed "for emergencies"? Arms dealer (no, supercomputers don't count)? Okay then, why are you worried?

Your system administrator should be feared much more than any "global eavesdropping network" - he can read your e-mail, see what pr0n sites you've been looking at, hell.. he can even let the president know what you think of him (using your own e-mail addy, how nice!). Why the hell do you care - as long as they aren't spying on domestic stuff I'm not worried. Let the boys have their toys.

Now, *clickity-click* what was your username?

• bloat
• poor FORMATTING
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  abuses of the WWW and HTML, CGI and other such slashdot propogated nonesense is

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In many ways, this joint statement just states the obvious. The data from the publicly funded Human Genome Project is and always has been intended to be free and publicly available.

Celera is a competing private effort. I really do not believe that governments intend to expropriate Celera's database, which has been privately funded. However, Celera has made extensive use of the public data to augment its own. (The nature of their sequencing methods require many overlapping fragments and redundant coverage to ensure accuracy.) One way to pressure Celera to make its data freely available would be to license the public data under something like the GPL - to demand that any database products that use it or derive from it are made freely available.

Regardless, even if Celera does not share, the HGP will catch up within a few years.

Since you have added a link to whitehouse.com from a highly rated site (slashdot) you are slowly making google think you want the wrong answer here...

http://www.whitehouse.gov

President Bill Clinton US government Washington DC capital executive branch

Thank you.

No I'm wondering why people get all in arms about people complaining about taxpayer money going to subsidize someone's porn surfing habit at a library.

Second, you've are wondering why taxpayers should support "someone's porn surfing habit at a library." Should taxpayers support research at the public library? I am a children's librarian at a public library. No, we do not use filtering software. Yes, we have an Acceptable Use Policy for patrons wishing to use our Internet terminals. Yes, on occasion someone brings up some porn. However, the majority of our Internet users use the Internet to research homework, to find a job, to check their email, to buy airline tickets, etc. Often, we have middle school students doing health projects for school, in which they are required to learn about various sexually transmitted diseases. While we have books on this topic, kids would rather find the same information on the computer. It's cool. Would they be able to fully research gonorrhea if we used filtering software? I don't think so.

So, what exactly are we using taxpayer money for? To educate. I teach Internet classes to children, teens, and parents to instruct them on how to surf intelligently and safely. You'd be surprised how many people think you can simply type in "www.(your subject).com" and find what you're looking for. It doesn't work like that. You'd be surprise how many people think the address for the Whitehouse website is http://www.whitehouse.com. Most people think that ALL websites end in .com. If you click on the above link, you'll find it has absolutely nothing to do with the US government. Why? Because it's not the Whitehouse website. The Whitehouse website is http://www.whitehouse.gov. Dot gov for government, get it?.

Indeed, when patrons get into porn sites at the library, it's usually by accident because they don't know what they're doing. They take my class, then they know. Hopefully, they also figure out that they make better parents than a computer. Personally, I don't want to put the safety of my child in the hands of a computer. You would let a computer raise your child instead of yourself?

So, what's a better use of taxpayer money? Spending money on filtering software that doesn't work and gives parents a false sense of security? Or educating parents on the dangers of the Internet, educating children and teens how to search intelligently, and encouraging parents to come into the library TOGETHER to surf the web? Personally, I like the idea of parents taking an interest in their child's life and education, don't you? Incidently, while the religious right is in praise of filters, most of the laws dictating that filters must be used in schools and libraries have been written by Democrats (left-wing) who seek to "protect" the masses. The Republicans (right-wing nuts?), who want less government, are generally opposed to them. Me, I'm a Libertarian Librarian, and I damn sure want less government, and I want to be able to make decisions myself, not have them made for me by Bill Clinton, or anyone else. IMHO. One more thing before I go: Yes, there are patrons who purposely look up porn at the library. If I see someone viewing porn, I immediately explain our Acceptable Use Policy, which addresses the issue from a sexual harrassment standpoint. A traditional problem in public libraries has been flashers. Yep, the ones in the trenchcoats that hide in the stacks waiting for some unsuspecting person to come down the aisle looking for a book. If you're viewing porn in a public setting, it's really no different. Often, I don't even have to explain the policy, because the person is usually so embarrassed to be caught by a 29 year-old female, they leave. Oh yeah! The phone companies pay for a good deal of the Internet connections in most public libraries, which means your taxpayer money is NOT being used to support the "bad element."

I heard on the radio that Clinton has requested $9M for cyber security, White House officials and the Internet community say they will band together to make computer security a high-profile issue. Hee hee, what do they really expect to do with only $9M?

The White House Briefing Room at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/html/b riefroom.html will provide links to the fact sheets and such. (Careful, URLs there change regularly.)

Calvin Coolidge has risen from the grave and is posting to Slashdot as an Anonymous Coward. Shudder at his oft-repeated quote, "The business of America is business!"

..how much bandwidth does "educational material" require? If all I needed was educational material I would not have a cable modem. People don't buy broadband because they are having problems with getting to www.whitehouse.gov. They get broadband because they are having problems getting to www.whitehouse.com (i'm assuming everyone knows the difference between those two links). What I'm trying to say here is "What the HELL are you going to use 3MBps on educational material for?" Let people have their bandwidth. Leave us the hell alone.

~Jester

BOTS CLICK HERE. Q MEANS QUEER. WHICH IS YOU.

No, that should be Pizza.

Now, I don't agree with most censorware. But I DO think that children should be supervised when doing all sorts of things, including using the Internet.

Children absorb lots of stuff. Look at how we can see this: children with parents who are racist tend to be racist. Children tought to steal things or to lie tend to think it's OK later on in life. Social norms are leanrned from your surroundings.

And, frankly, as much as I want uncensored speech on the internet, there are lots of sites that I wouldn't want small children watching. I don't think that a young child should watch videos of women being raped like it's a good thing, or a funny thing. I don't think that they should watch 40-year-old men and 9-year-old girls doing naughty things. But there are definitely things that are caught up in over-conservative filters that I think my children should have access to.

I think that the best solution is just what John McCain said -- that the Parents should know what their children are doing. If my son wants to learn fencing, that's great. If he wants to learn how to shoot a gun, that's fine, too. If he wants to kill people, that's bad. And knowing that sort of thing is something that you can know if you spend enough time with your children and have communication with them.

But how can you supervise your children while they are at school? How can a librarian or a teacher look at 40 computers at the same time? I think that censorware provides a useful purpose in these situations -- although it should certainly be easy for a teacher to bypass the product in situations where it has nabbed a site that is important for education.

And I certainly think that John McCain is closer to knowing what is right than many other current political figures

See the following link from the President's web site containing the full executive summary of the plan. Page 28 specifically deals with the scholarship plans.

There is also mention of setting up "meaningful" internship programs for college and promising high school students (I noticed a comment somewhere about the need to start the process earlier in a childs academic career). Please remember that this is a proposal, no details have been made public (i.e. eligible schools, amounts of scholarship, years of service required, etc.). I think this is an admiriable idea, and we should support efforts like these. If you have strong feelings regarding the implementation of this plan, WRITE YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES!!!!!

For those of you outside the United States, if you think this plan would help out technology in your country, WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. For those of you living where your views will not be heard by the powers that be, MOVE/SEEK ASYLUM!!!!
-la

OSHA Contact Directory http://www.osha.gov/oshdir/consult.html

Find and contact your Representative http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

White House Contact Info http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/ EOP/html/principals.html

Contact other elected officials or candidates: http://www.vote-smart.org/

(And did we mention that a policy like this is unconstitutional?) Whatever you choose to do, just do SOMETHING.

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Find and contact your Representative http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

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Contact other elected officials or candidates: http://www.vote-smart.org/

(And did we mention that a policy like this is unconstitutional?) Whatever you choose to do, just do SOMETHING.