I am neither teaching nor advising an AP class in CS this year. I do volunteer science work with several small school districts. One method for teaching AP classes (when they cannot afford a truly qualified dedicated teacher) is to have outside experts with Masters or Ph.D.s come in and advise students on a volunteer basis. This has worked very well in the past.
This year, however, more than one instructor has had difficulty with the example program because College Board did not include the link file with all the C++ files. Result? Program doesn't compile.
It is beyond the scope of the class to ask the students to construct a link file, and any overworked instructor needs only to go to the instructor's listserve to get the file, right???
In order to be on the instructor's listserve, you must be manually added by one specific person at College Board. (This, they believe, prevents cheating.) Unfortunately, the listed person does not respond to their mail, and has not for the past 6 weeks!
Java, Perl, and Python all are languages that don't need the !@#$&%*# link files in order to compile. Since Perl and Python are scripting languages, they work just fine w/ no compile as such.
As more small schools add AP classes with outside community advisors, the mechanics of teaching the class become even more important. Unless the College Board recognizes this, AP students will suffer in the end.
Carlos V, the Emperor, declared that English was the language for speaking with birds, German with horses, French with men, Italian with women, and Spanish was for speaking with God.
Hmmmph!
"Pater noster, qui es in caelis..."
Seems to me that the entire thing is blown up. I speak Latin only when I wish, my French is poor, my Spanish is corrupted with false cognates from French and English, and my German is very small. (Small as in nursery-language; my Grossmutter spoke it to me then, but only then.)
I am sorry for those who protest against the pollution of the pure language. I would rather have an adaptable language than a pure one.
When I worked my way through college, I spent part of my time as an administrative assistant. Many of you may not remember the Wang word processors with the 8" drives.
The firm I worked for switched from Wangs to PCs without warning. Suddenly, the previous two years' work was inaccessible. I got together with a friend, and we jury rigged a Wang drive to the PC. (This took cursing and more cable than I ever want to see again.) Then we figured out a way to transfer the Wang stuff as RTF.
What we did to save the department's work would now be illegal under the DCMA, because we circumvented both hardware and software to read our obsolete information.
I also have obsolete images on CD-Rom that were processed over 12 years ago. These images are not in JPG, or even in GIF, which existed 12 years ago. They are on a proprietary format, created by a company which has since gone out of business. By the provisions of the DCMA, I am breaking the law when I try to reverse engineer the format to veiw the information.
The librarian of congress granted two short-term exceptions to the DCMA, but one is library related, while the other is related to obsolete hardware. My hardware can see the CD-ROM, and can see the fact that the files exist, and that they take up size. No software exists to let me see the pictures my husband took. The actual negatives were destroyed in a flood. The company which created this monstrosity no longer exists.
Lest anyone think that only small companies go out of business, please read Business Week for 1984 through 1986, and then discuss Wang computing.
I agree with the principle, but one of your examples is flawed. I listen to my CD of the Carl Stalling Project (ASIN: B000002LJE) as frequently as I can.
These guys are going to snoop. One might even argue that they have to. Actively work to keep encryption
and anonymization legal and to stay one step ahead of them.
Someday, look at the history of John Wilkes, (opposition m.p. in Britain. and learn why we have a fourth ammendment.
Just because law enforcement wants to search in an unrestricted manner does not mean that we should let them. Furthermore, I have not seen a method of encryption which is easy enough for my mother-in-law to use.
Protection of freedom by nerdly end-runs is no protection at all. My ability to talk on clearspeech phones has been preserved- so must my ability to send messages unintercepted. Yes, as a stopgap, we must keep anonymization and encryption legal. However, we should enforce the laws we have which protect our freedoms.
In 1928, in his dissent from Olmstead vs. the United States, Louis Brandeis wrote,
"The makers of the Constitution... conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men."
Nowadays, the protection of the fourth ammendment as protection against search and seizure without a specific warrant is extended to wiretapping.
By gum, that standard should be used today! My traffic in e-mail or anything else is not and should not be seen by anybody without a search warrant. If a warrant is obtained to intercept and read all of my email, the traffic of my neighbors should still be inviolate.
In practice, this means that something needs to look at the headers, but all that needs is a filter. The storage of unfiltered traffic is not only dangerous, it smells illegal as all get out to me.
IANAL, but I'd be happy to help pay for some good ones to argue this in front of the Supremes.
I have just gotten back from another contract training session where I teach people to use MS MS Outlook.
From a "politically sensitive" corporate point of view, e-mail enabled calendaring, including task and meeting assignment, is the reason that so many people want to switch. Check out the freshmeat section on Calendaring Programs. Being able to have everybody on the same calendar, and knowing that the calendar names are exactly the same as the email names is a non-trivial item for anybody who has to schedule more than one meeting a month.
I have worked with shops that went away from other solutions, simply because they wanted e-mail enabled calendaring.
Things to mention when considering migration:
Cost of training users.
Outlook installs with a default of MS Rich text format. Most users are so tickled by this feature that they forget that anything that goes out of the outlook/exchange environment can't read this.
Users *must* be trained to create *.pst files on their own machines, and to create rules that move things to those separate files. The largest disadvantage of Outlook/Exchange is that all of the e-mail and attachments are stored in a single file, encoded and encrypted by outlook standards. Kiss goodbye to searches by anybody but Perl demigods.
Users must be trained to use the calendaring feature effeciently.
The cost of the user training, at 4 hours per user, is left as an exercise to the IT person who needs to makes sure that is included in the budget.
Also included in the budget must be extensive training for IT, at least two dedicated boxen (one for Exchange, one to make copies and backups of the server-side giant file), more cabling, upgrades to client machines, and several small factors.
This does not include the cost from Outlook/Exchange security holes. MS Outlook is the soft target of choice. AnyCost estimate must also include the cost of obtaining and maintaining virus protection hardware and software. It must also include an hour of e-security training for each user. Are you WinX users used to right-clicking to run the virus software? Can't do that in Outlook. Look for information on lost time to virii! Multiply that by the users in your network, by department, and give a cost estimate, by job description.
This may be so far down that you don't get a chance to view it. I hope this helps.
I write this from my laptop, which was returned 2 hours ago (along with all the other stuff the FBI confiscated). I have not
checked the condition of my other computers, but judging by my laptop, they should be fine (data AND hardware). Needless
to say, I'm quite happy about this turn of events, as I had been preparing myself to never see my data again.:)
Apologies, please. Explanations, please! Elucidations, please! Goldarnit, a student was just going about his business, and he's robbed of his work. I did not notice any information about detailed receipts for his stuff - I thought that was illegal.
If anything of yours is seized by means of search warrant, request a detailed receipt!
Take a look at the Seven International Cooperative Principles, and you will see that this is very much in the spirit of either Free Software or Open Source Software - argumentitive, members contribute to the whole both in money and in work, and the whole darned thing is about process.
I buy my outdoor stuff at a national cooperative, REI, I bank at a Credit Union, I buy groceries at a wonderful food cooperative, New Pioneer, and I am a member of Consumers Union.
This is not any political or hippy thing. I've just found that I get the best service from a business where I am part owner, part worker, part consumer. Likewise, I get my best investment from boxen about which I have knowledge.
If this works, I hope there is an option for national membership. I would be willing to pay a slightly higher fee as a non-working member, or would be willing to do writing, etc. to help it fly.
If you have not tried coops, give 'em a shot. It's amazing what happens when you participate in a business. Likewise, it's depressing to go to the monthly/annual meetings and find people who are driven by their egos, rather than the vision, or the day-to-day concerns. But somehow, coops still get the job done, and often at a better price and with better service than non-coops engaged in the same business.
OSHA will not conduct inspections of employees' home offices.
OSHA will not hold employers liable for employees' home offices, and does not
expect employers to inspect the home offices of their employees.
Thanks for the Pointer. I am still concerned that some eedjot in HR at my place-o-work will decide that it is simpler to stop telecommuting. Already, one is supposed to have a dedicated room cannot used for other purposes during business hours. I understand the distress at possible slackers, but it would be simpler if they laid out expectations about productivity during business hours.
Likewise, RSI is not just an employee issue. It is also an employer issue. Compliance may not end up being as costly as expected, and could ave in employee retention.
I have tried those. Since I have the hand size of an average ten-year-old, it was physically painful.
The most important thing to recognize about ergonomics is that one-size-fits-all will actively harm many. Adjustability and flexibility need to be watchwords, but are difficult to implement when employee tenure is > 1.5 yrs.
Provide chairs that:
Can be adjusted to different heights, making it possible for
employees of all sizes to rest their feet comfortably on the floor. From the Options in Ergonomics Information release.
When I do that, I cannot reach the keyboard. Those who are more than one standard deviation from normal size still need to cope with normal equipment. Many of us already have viable workarounds that are not mentioned in the rules. Someone could get bureaucratic and decide that I have to give up my child-sized keyboard, footrest, and teeny mouse.
Asking my employer to get a special $1200 adjustable desk strikes me as an undue burden when I can spend $25 for a reasonable footrest.
I telecommute for part of my workweek. I am most concerned about the regulations regarding contractors and work-at-home employeees. One of our boxen has a good chair (adjustable, back support, etc.) but the other does not. Does this mean my employer has an obligation to make sure my home equipment is up to snuff?
This could have a chilling effect on telecommuting, and work by indys working from home offices.
Bastille seems (to me,
anyway) friendly to newbies who read carefully and take the time to understand.
I'm not sure how to really help the others anyway.
We all start as newbies. Goodness knows it is helpful to have stuff out there that explains security in a non-condescending manner. I have recommended Bastille to friends just for the explanatory scripts, whether or not they end up truly hardening their systems.
Silmarillion, Seven Percent Solution, and others!
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The Silmarillion (by the then deceased J.R.R. Tolkein) may be the exception that proves the rule. It is listed as being edited by Christopher Tolkein, following in the pattern of universe-books-as-family-business.
What the listing does not show is that the person who put flesh on the bones was Guy Gavriel Kay. I much prefer his own writing, and the original writing of J.R.R., but the Silmarillion is a worthy contribution.
Perhaps the standard we should use is not "Does this match the best of the original author's writings?", but instead, "Does this further my understanding of this universe, and do I enjoy this time in it?" That said, most continuations don't meet even the lesser criteria.
As a reader, I would gladly accept any truly well written continuations, authorized or not. My favorite example of one that's well written is Nicholas Meyer's The Seven Percent Solution, although his other offerings to the Holmes ouvre are not quite so fine. Yes, I have read the Benford/Bear/Brin works, and I did not enjoy them as I enjoyed Asimov's Foundation.
I read Dune many years ago. I then started reading Herbert's sequels, and I was disappointed. Instead of intricate gems, I got turgid prose and incomprehensible plotlines.
When I was struck by shingles (a disease I do not recommend), the best description of the pain was the initial testing of Paul by the pain box. I have not read Dune in over twenty years, but that leapt to mind.
Although people remember the intricate plotting and fascinating characters, it is the evocative writing that sets Dune apart from all other books in its universe.
So far, nothing else in that universe comes close.
4 PPC per VME card, many VME cards in a
VME rack. This guy did let me run my code on their system. The
performance was close to what I get on my 450Mhz PIII. Try putting a
quad PIII system on a single slot VME card!
My husband works a flextime engineering job. His company pays a little less money, but it means that we can dovetail our schedules - when I work late, he can get the children.
It also means that he can be more responsible, and work the hours he is most fit - some days he goes in very early, while other days he doesn't get in until well over an hour after other employees.
It saves us childcare expenses, tears, and hassles. Our employer saves money, but more to the point, employee retention is high, even though salaries are not top-notch.
We've decided that after a point, time is more important than money.
As a rock-jock turned tech-head
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My response to this book is "Cool! Glad to see someone covered this hot topic." At most, even field geologists spend just one or two seasons a year doing field work, unless they are stuck at a well analyzing drill cores.
I got my start in tech-land many years ago on a VAX 11-780 trying to create models of soil-slump and mudslides. I then had to alter those models to try to predict pyroclastic (volcanic mud)flows. Since this was during the oil bust of the mid-80's, and geologists without a PhD were earning squat, I became a tech.
Every nerd career involves working with a computer, even if it's just checking email to see what the latest response is to your paper. Geologists are lucky enough to be paid to do much of their work outdoors, but we still can't do squat without adequate models. (Models!=legos, although I have done some great examples of flows with maple syrup.)
Modeling is all about the numbers, and the better your box, and your model, the better your prediction. Fieldwork may be measured in cases of beer, but time out of the field uses the same tool everyone else uses.
BTW, Linux World had a great article a couple of months back on visual modeling of meteorological datapoints. Can't find the reference.
Now is the time when you can get a commitment from candidates to the state legislature. If you have a candidate who is strongly anti-UCITA, work the phones for them!
You can make a difference at the state level, and it only takes a few hours of your time. Talk to your neighbors. Give rides to the polls. Pollwatch. Work the phones for that candidate from now until election day.
Even if you don't give a darn about the federal elections, you can make a noticable difference in the local elections. Our statehouse race was decided by less than 50 votes in our district. Push against UCITA. Find out your candidates' positions on UCITA. Get commitments from them, and commit to the candidate who takes positions that are closest to yours.
If this is your one single issue for a statehouse race, let candidates know that you are pro-information - and you vote!
Sorry - They have taken it off the air. They must not have enjoyed being slashdotted. I most strongly recommend the Google Cache of the page
Another table at McBride Baker and Cole, but without the cool links.
The Uniform Commisioner's page on UCITA is not as informative. The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility have a page which has not been updated for some time.
As mentioned before on/., Iowa passed an anti-UCITA clause in it's electronic Transactions act.
The relevant portion reads:
A transaction that is subject to a computer information contract which provides that the contract is to be interpreted
pursuant to the laws of a state that has enacted the uniform computer information transactions Act, as proposed by
the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws, or any substantially similar law, is null and void and
the contract shall be interpreted pursuant to the laws of this state if at least one party to the contract is a resident or
has its principal place of business located in this state.
For purposes of this subsection, a "computer information contract" means a contract that would be governed by the
uniform computer information transactions Act or substantially similar law as enacted in the state of residence of
the other person to the contract if that state's law were applied to the contract.
I find it hard to believe that UCITA would get out of committee in the Iowa Legislature, as three of the biggest businesses in the state, in addition to the Universities and the state Attorney General are lined up against it.
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This year, however, more than one instructor has had difficulty with the example program because College Board did not include the link file with all the C++ files. Result? Program doesn't compile.
It is beyond the scope of the class to ask the students to construct a link file, and any overworked instructor needs only to go to the instructor's listserve to get the file, right???
In order to be on the instructor's listserve, you must be manually added by one specific person at College Board. (This, they believe, prevents cheating.) Unfortunately, the listed person does not respond to their mail, and has not for the past 6 weeks!
Java, Perl, and Python all are languages that don't need the !@#$&%*# link files in order to compile. Since Perl and Python are scripting languages, they work just fine w/ no compile as such.
As more small schools add AP classes with outside community advisors, the mechanics of teaching the class become even more important. Unless the College Board recognizes this, AP students will suffer in the end.
In this case, that would have meant releasing this information several million years ago!
Hmmmph!
"Pater noster, qui es in caelis..."
Seems to me that the entire thing is blown up. I speak Latin only when I wish, my French is poor, my Spanish is corrupted with false cognates from French and English, and my German is very small. (Small as in nursery-language; my Grossmutter spoke it to me then, but only then.)
I am sorry for those who protest against the pollution of the pure language. I would rather have an adaptable language than a pure one.
The firm I worked for switched from Wangs to PCs without warning. Suddenly, the previous two years' work was inaccessible. I got together with a friend, and we jury rigged a Wang drive to the PC. (This took cursing and more cable than I ever want to see again.) Then we figured out a way to transfer the Wang stuff as RTF.
What we did to save the department's work would now be illegal under the DCMA, because we circumvented both hardware and software to read our obsolete information.
I also have obsolete images on CD-Rom that were processed over 12 years ago. These images are not in JPG, or even in GIF, which existed 12 years ago. They are on a proprietary format, created by a company which has since gone out of business. By the provisions of the DCMA, I am breaking the law when I try to reverse engineer the format to veiw the information.
The librarian of congress granted two short-term exceptions to the DCMA, but one is library related, while the other is related to obsolete hardware. My hardware can see the CD-ROM, and can see the fact that the files exist, and that they take up size. No software exists to let me see the pictures my husband took. The actual negatives were destroyed in a flood. The company which created this monstrosity no longer exists.
Lest anyone think that only small companies go out of business, please read Business Week for 1984 through 1986, and then discuss Wang computing.
I agree with the principle, but one of your examples is flawed. I listen to my CD of the Carl Stalling Project (ASIN: B000002LJE) as frequently as I can.
Someday, look at the history of John Wilkes, (opposition m.p. in Britain. and learn why we have a fourth ammendment.
Just because law enforcement wants to search in an unrestricted manner does not mean that we should let them. Furthermore, I have not seen a method of encryption which is easy enough for my mother-in-law to use.
Protection of freedom by nerdly end-runs is no protection at all. My ability to talk on clearspeech phones has been preserved- so must my ability to send messages unintercepted. Yes, as a stopgap, we must keep anonymization and encryption legal. However, we should enforce the laws we have which protect our freedoms.
By gum, that standard should be used today! My traffic in e-mail or anything else is not and should not be seen by anybody without a search warrant. If a warrant is obtained to intercept and read all of my email, the traffic of my neighbors should still be inviolate.
In practice, this means that something needs to look at the headers, but all that needs is a filter. The storage of unfiltered traffic is not only dangerous, it smells illegal as all get out to me.
IANAL, but I'd be happy to help pay for some good ones to argue this in front of the Supremes.
From a "politically sensitive" corporate point of view, e-mail enabled calendaring, including task and meeting assignment, is the reason that so many people want to switch. Check out the freshmeat section on Calendaring Programs. Being able to have everybody on the same calendar, and knowing that the calendar names are exactly the same as the email names is a non-trivial item for anybody who has to schedule more than one meeting a month. I have worked with shops that went away from other solutions, simply because they wanted e-mail enabled calendaring.
Things to mention when considering migration:
- Cost of training users.
- Outlook installs with a default of MS Rich text format. Most users are so tickled by this feature that they forget that anything that goes out of the outlook/exchange environment can't read this.
- Users *must* be trained to create *.pst files on their own machines, and to create rules that move things to those separate files. The largest disadvantage of Outlook/Exchange is that all of the e-mail and attachments are stored in a single file, encoded and encrypted by outlook standards. Kiss goodbye to searches by anybody but Perl demigods.
- Users must be trained to use the calendaring feature effeciently.
- The cost of the user training, at 4 hours per user, is left as an exercise to the IT person who needs to makes sure that is included in the budget.
- Also included in the budget must be extensive training for IT, at least two dedicated boxen (one for Exchange, one to make copies and backups of the server-side giant file), more cabling, upgrades to client machines, and several small factors.
- This does not include the cost from Outlook/Exchange security holes. MS Outlook is the soft target of choice. Any Cost estimate must also include the cost of obtaining and maintaining virus protection hardware and software. It must also include an hour of e-security training for each user. Are you WinX users used to right-clicking to run the virus software? Can't do that in Outlook. Look for information on lost time to virii! Multiply that by the users in your network, by department, and give a cost estimate, by job description.
This may be so far down that you don't get a chance to view it. I hope this helps.Of course, there is the little matter of how nice guys that don't copyright names could have trouble with infringement...
Apologies, please. Explanations, please! Elucidations, please! Goldarnit, a student was just going about his business, and he's robbed of his work. I did not notice any information about detailed receipts for his stuff - I thought that was illegal.
If anything of yours is seized by means of search warrant, request a detailed receipt!
This is not any political or hippy thing. I've just found that I get the best service from a business where I am part owner, part worker, part consumer. Likewise, I get my best investment from boxen about which I have knowledge.
If this works, I hope there is an option for national membership. I would be willing to pay a slightly higher fee as a non-working member, or would be willing to do writing, etc. to help it fly.
If you have not tried coops, give 'em a shot. It's amazing what happens when you participate in a business. Likewise, it's depressing to go to the monthly/annual meetings and find people who are driven by their egos, rather than the vision, or the day-to-day concerns. But somehow, coops still get the job done, and often at a better price and with better service than non-coops engaged in the same business.
OSHA will not hold employers liable for employees' home offices, and does not expect employers to inspect the home offices of their employees.
Thanks for the Pointer. I am still concerned that some eedjot in HR at my place-o-work will decide that it is simpler to stop telecommuting. Already, one is supposed to have a dedicated room cannot used for other purposes during business hours. I understand the distress at possible slackers, but it would be simpler if they laid out expectations about productivity during business hours.
Likewise, RSI is not just an employee issue. It is also an employer issue. Compliance may not end up being as costly as expected, and could ave in employee retention.
The most important thing to recognize about ergonomics is that one-size-fits-all will actively harm many. Adjustability and flexibility need to be watchwords, but are difficult to implement when employee tenure is > 1.5 yrs.
When I do that, I cannot reach the keyboard. Those who are more than one standard deviation from normal size still need to cope with normal equipment. Many of us already have viable workarounds that are not mentioned in the rules. Someone could get bureaucratic and decide that I have to give up my child-sized keyboard, footrest, and teeny mouse.
Asking my employer to get a special $1200 adjustable desk strikes me as an undue burden when I can spend $25 for a reasonable footrest.
I telecommute for part of my workweek. I am most concerned about the regulations regarding contractors and work-at-home employeees. One of our boxen has a good chair (adjustable, back support, etc.) but the other does not. Does this mean my employer has an obligation to make sure my home equipment is up to snuff?
This could have a chilling effect on telecommuting, and work by indys working from home offices.
Maginot Line was what you were thinking of.
We all start as newbies. Goodness knows it is helpful to have stuff out there that explains security in a non-condescending manner. I have recommended Bastille to friends just for the explanatory scripts, whether or not they end up truly hardening their systems.
What the listing does not show is that the person who put flesh on the bones was Guy Gavriel Kay. I much prefer his own writing, and the original writing of J.R.R., but the Silmarillion is a worthy contribution.
Perhaps the standard we should use is not "Does this match the best of the original author's writings?", but instead, "Does this further my understanding of this universe, and do I enjoy this time in it?" That said, most continuations don't meet even the lesser criteria.
As a reader, I would gladly accept any truly well written continuations, authorized or not. My favorite example of one that's well written is Nicholas Meyer's The Seven Percent Solution, although his other offerings to the Holmes ouvre are not quite so fine. Yes, I have read the Benford/Bear/Brin works, and I did not enjoy them as I enjoyed Asimov's Foundation.
I enjoyed them, and that is enough for me.
When I was struck by shingles (a disease I do not recommend), the best description of the pain was the initial testing of Paul by the pain box. I have not read Dune in over twenty years, but that leapt to mind. Although people remember the intricate plotting and fascinating characters, it is the evocative writing that sets Dune apart from all other books in its universe.
So far, nothing else in that universe comes close.
Hot-Cha-Cha!
It also means that he can be more responsible, and work the hours he is most fit - some days he goes in very early, while other days he doesn't get in until well over an hour after other employees.
It saves us childcare expenses, tears, and hassles. Our employer saves money, but more to the point, employee retention is high, even though salaries are not top-notch.
We've decided that after a point, time is more important than money.
I got my start in tech-land many years ago on a VAX 11-780 trying to create models of soil-slump and mudslides. I then had to alter those models to try to predict pyroclastic (volcanic mud)flows. Since this was during the oil bust of the mid-80's, and geologists without a PhD were earning squat, I became a tech.
Every nerd career involves working with a computer, even if it's just checking email to see what the latest response is to your paper. Geologists are lucky enough to be paid to do much of their work outdoors, but we still can't do squat without adequate models. (Models!=legos, although I have done some great examples of flows with maple syrup.)
Modeling is all about the numbers, and the better your box, and your model, the better your prediction. Fieldwork may be measured in cases of beer, but time out of the field uses the same tool everyone else uses. BTW, Linux World had a great article a couple of months back on visual modeling of meteorological datapoints. Can't find the reference.
You can make a difference at the state level, and it only takes a few hours of your time. Talk to your neighbors. Give rides to the polls. Pollwatch. Work the phones for that candidate from now until election day.
Even if you don't give a darn about the federal elections, you can make a noticable difference in the local elections. Our statehouse race was decided by less than 50 votes in our district. Push against UCITA. Find out your candidates' positions on UCITA. Get commitments from them, and commit to the candidate who takes positions that are closest to yours.
If this is your one single issue for a statehouse race, let candidates know that you are pro-information - and you vote!
The Uniform Commisioner's page on UCITA is not as informative. The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility have a page which has not been updated for some time.
Great links!
I find it hard to believe that UCITA would get out of committee in the Iowa Legislature, as three of the biggest businesses in the state, in addition to the Universities and the state Attorney General are lined up against it.