I agree. As a woman in tech and sometime gamer, I prefer the Myst/7th Guest type games over shoot-em-ups any day. And I never really cared for the gigantic breasts in Tomb Raider - once again we get to be measured up against Barbie. Even with the Quake style games, I'm best at finding the secrets, and enjoy getting to new levels, but leave the killing to hubby. Today's games have gotten so extremely violent (grand theft, etc) that I have completely lost interest and stick with the older, tamer styles.
An interesting note is that I also work in the public school system and can say that something has happened in the last few years to push girls further and further away from tech. We run Lego robotics and have to beg to get 2 girls out of 30 kids to join. Visual basic classes are lucky to have 1 girl and it is beginning to look like the old 'wood shop' - it's for boys and if a girl takes that class it's just because she is just trying to meet boys. When you do get the rare girl to join VB, she will usually write a calculator program or some type of game that would appeal to a small child. The boys will always include a gun and something to shoot, and the cooler the blood the better. For robotics we noticed that once we made a demo bird robot and glued brightly colored feathers to it, all of a sudden many girls took notice of the legos.
eSchool News (free reg required) has an interesting article about how the DoE is investigating sexual discrimination in tech-ed throughout the country.
The labels that the RIAA support already have all of the means and methods for collecting $$$ and distributing. That's what they do. Seems like another sneaky way to put some of their in-house expenses back onto the artists shoulders, where it least needs to be.
No company or organization (including the mob) has ever brought such a vision of sharks circling the injured as the RIAA/MPAA.
It's always the simplest things. Like security, there are so many things you can do to tighten things up, but people will still tape their passwords to their monitors. I can see it now - the next wave of "innovative" copy protection will be issuing new keyboards with the Print Screen key conveniently missing.
But which point of view?
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Curious to see what type of spin they will put on this - either the RIAA will come out looking like justified heros, or Fanning will look like the media scapegoat.
Young Mr. Fanning is obviously the kind of person who is going to be just fine, and be successful at whatever he does. He did not achieve fortune, but he did receive the fame of being a true inventor. It's appalling how he was treated after he created something so new that it literally rocked the entire world. We should herald and praise our young inventors, even when their craft appears witchy at first glance. Instead our countrymen repeated the mistake they have made over and over - they saw something new, like a tribe or a lion. It looked scary to them so they killed it.
Software is deployed from the network (regular admin install). We don't put everything Office-wise in a ghost image (yes we image) because we have a lot of smaller hard drives, and other apps like AutoCad or ARC maps take priority over office. The first version of Win2K DID ask for admin password if a user clicked on an option that wasn't previously installed. Outlook, even pre-configured, asked too. A lot of this was fixed after SP2, but we had moved on by then. And interestingly, these things are now fixed in WinXP.
I know about the profile thing, but I still don't like the fact that I need to write a script to control everything. To take an app like Norton that ran just fine then require you to add it to group policy to get it work again is just crazy. Great option, if it were just an option, but that is the only way to get things working right. On the CRTL-ALT-DEL, we knew we could take it out, but decided if that was they way things were going, why sugar coat it? (Still think it's dumb)
For Kazza, etc., - the only thing we found successful here was blocking it on the firewall. Somehow 2K or XP hasn't stopped the kids from finding something somewhere on the net they can install.
On printing, I would really like to know a way around the profile thing (for XP). In 2k there was a convoluted way of installing it, adding it to All User, then giving it full access. Who needs extra steps? It's just a printer - one of the simplest functions a computer can perform. In XP, that seems to have changed and now a little script does the job instead (run at the cmd prompt), but again - why? Why can't it just ask on install 'Is this printer for everyone who sits here, or just for you?' Third party apps have been able to do that since NT 3.5, why can't Microsoft do it for themselves?
Overall the security flaws found in either Win2K or XP really don't affect us. We are not some secret lab that needs to keep things that locked down. Keeping kids from tearing up the desktops, and away from DOS is all we really need, and group policy handles that ok enough. A college of course has to worry about IIS and such.
Rant over (so much for being brief). But thanks for all of the good tips.
XP printing script:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry/ga/c\\%1/n\\%2
At cmd:
scriptname targetcomputername printerservername\printersharename (done at every workstation)
From a public school perspective, Win2k was a nightmare. Forget security, we didn't even get that far. If someone so much as tried to 'install on first use' the equation editor, administrator password was required. Or configuring their own Outlook (after they had been doing it themselves for years)- impossible - and they called that zero-admin? Sure, make everyone else the administrator and you won't have to do anything anymore.
Norton corporate script wouldn't run (admin pass again); trying to install one single lab printer so every student who sat at that computer would always see the same printer, impossible without scripts or pushing profiles. This increases the amount of training required for students to use the equipment, or takes a net admin away from LAN/WAN support and puts them in script/profile land. An english teacher just wants to bring a class in without any hassle or setup. Our legacy or propriety software apps - most wouldn't run without admin pass. And why the hell would we want to teach a bunch of students about CTRL-ALT-DEL to logon? I remember when Microsoft used to brag that was a great security feature. Do they really think everyone is ready to handle their own server? Just crazy. We stayed with 98 on desktops and used Win2K on servers. We are finally moving into XP, which is much easier to handle, and much easier to train 5000 users on.
Typical govt answer - 'let's throw more $$ at the problem and see if it will go away.' Of course the $$ comes out of the people. Let's hope they plan on improving the way software patents are issued, or if certain elements of software should be issued at all, before someone patents CTRL-ALT-DEL.
After using it for my regular news bites, I decided to type in the names of some of my favorite bands who are touring right now. Pretty cool that it scours the globe and comes up with even a slight mention of them. Often when a band goes to a town the local paper, which I would have no way of knowing the name without hunting for it, may do a write-up or an interview, and now those are easily found. I even found little things like a slight mention of a birthday, or an interview with another person, who might mention the name of someone else. Pretty darn cool.
There's no link to the actual law, so without having read it, I can only think it probably follows the same path of many ill-written laws in regards to software/technology. They are usually just too extreme.
Define 'violence' in video games. If a law is too generally written, it could end up including Mario Kart because you can shoot bombs at the other players. Or how about the new Harry Potter (pretty cool game) where he goes around with a magic wand bopping bad monsters to make them disappear.
I have a serious problem with 15 year-old boys playing Grand Theft Auto (the whole prostitute/murder thing) and I do think storeowners need to be more responsible about selling 'Mature' games to young kids. But therein lies the problem, the Mature rating is so vague, it leaves a parent, who will probably never even glance at the game (or know to look for the rating in the first place), to decide whether their 8, 12, or 15 year-old is 'mature' enough to handle the game.
With that in mind its easy to see why those in control think there is a need for such a law. Parents really need to wake up and pay attention and be responsible for their own children. It's too much to keep passing bad laws because people refuse to watch their own turf.
Meanwhile, the RIAA doesn't feel the same logic applies to record sales in the U.S., and has started an ad campaign to convince the public that sharing music hurts artists.
It's about the time the RIAA begins educating the public about this instead of bashing them over the head and calling everyone a thief. The concern remains though if they will truly educate and not bash them over the head and call everyone a thief.
Quotes like Britney's Spears "Too many people don't realise that when you download a song you like from a peer-to-peer network or some other unauthorised internet service, you're stealing music", " calling P2P an unauthorised internet service when it has dozens of perfectly legitimate and legal uses, just puts a negative spin on an incredible software tool and really doesn't educate after all.
I have been wondering why it so hard to find this information in one place. If possible, some way of allowing others to submit from their own state the views of those in office or running. Coming up with a form letter, maybe a standardized list of questions would be helpful for anyone willing to submit the letter to the candidates in their state.
One thought though, would you need permission from the various politicians before posting their views?
"As long as consumers spend their money on "DRM enhanced" products, they will be viable in the marketplace."
The problem is that there are many customers out there who may be purchasing their very first CD. They could be teenagers, or maybe not. But as new customers they will simply accept this as the-way-things-are, because they will never anything different. I don't know statistics here, but I'm guessing there are probably less than 20% of music/tech types who even follow this stuff. I've asked dozens of people about DRM and the DMCA, and have even managed to get a few to understand, but basically most folks don't realize this is happening and don't know what it is. Microsoft and the other DRM camps are counting on this customer ignorance to push this through quickly before the rest of the world figures how badly they are getting screwed. People that are new to the market will never know of a free net, of a time when you purchased it and it was yours to keep, and they may never find out there was a time when it was different.
I've been hearing this for twenty years. While the introduction of electronic computing has affected many positions along the way by automating various tasks, those behind the wheel will always be the last to go. They may make cars that fly one day, but someone will still have to build it, and someone else needs to drive it. And by the time the average homeowner loses their fear of flying around like the Jetsons, they will invent something else. Savvy admins will always keep their eye on the next big thing and be ready to jump.
I loved Microsoft's take on a 'zero-administration' environment. This from a company that cannot easily allow you to import a thousand accounts from a another database, like payroll. And I have never had to write so many damn scripts since I was writing batch files in the DOS days. Zero-admin..yeah.
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It's ok, but I liked the old news page better. This is more like yahoo or msnbc. The old one just listed all the various links to online newspapers, along with a few govt links, all on just one page. I used that page a lot. Google always provided the short and sweet option, which I prefer. When I click on categories/newspapers/international I can't even find BBC which was always listed. Or the Internet News link. It must be in there somewhere, but now I have to browse around to find it.
When they aired the Babylon tour on PBS a couple of years back, I noticed they had let people online pick the next song in the setlist by voting on their web page. I thought that was pretty progressive for a bunch of rockin'old guys.
Well, this is a good point. Is EFF the way to go? Or is it about time the/.ers start really pulling together? Plenty here pay dues to EFF, yet feel lost in the crowd. We write and write, and wonder if we even make a dent. I am about to send $$ to a woman in another state on the slight gamble that she might be able shout louder than us. Should we focus on one area or spread ourselves around? This is a political battle and I am not a political person, so I will listen to all theorys on the best approach out there.
now didn't we? Maybe instead of flooding congress now we need to start a paper-war with the chip makers.
Buy a great machine right now, and hang on to it for as long as possible. For the future maybe there are smaller chip makers that are not planning on going this route. I predict a big surge in home-made PCs again, just so tech types can get what they really want. It's possible someone at the Mac front may see the opportunity here. After all, their motto is "Think different"
"Security through obscurity" applies here. That term has also been trampled on time and again because it just doesn't work.
Well, it's better than spoon-feeding it to them isn't it? I'm sure any threat to our govt sites already has that information anyway. The only way to really make this even half work is for every govt agency to associate new IP address to their sites.
But whatever! Give them a break folks (not just this poster, but there is a lot of bashing going on here with this). Be glad they are doing something. We would all be bitching if they just sat around and did nothing. We are all well aware that the govt is trying to tighten up electronic security on every front. This is probably just a very tiny puzzle piece to homeland security. If all the techo-geeks here know better, then go ahead and right them your idea for a more digitally secure govt. They love white papers and case studies.
Once again the Internet proves its power with regards to public communication and information. When the subject is right, peoples voices will be heard. She is getting much more publicity than my congressman, for that I am certain. How intriguing that through a simple electronic payment that was not easily conceived only a few years ago, that I can now offer support for someone who is not even in my district. The more she gets noticed, the more everyone standing up for our freedom of speech, online and off, gets noticed. A win for her, or at least a very public loss for her there, seems like it could benefit us all. The more her status gets raised, congress in every state will take notice. She seems somewhat of a net newbie, but many are voted into political office with little experience other than the desire to listen and act for the people.
Do you WANT to sue? Is there a real reason? It seems silly to fret about losing your right to sue if you weren't going to do it anyway. Were you discriminated against? Do you think your employer has stolen an idea of yours, and just wants you gone so they can run with it themselves? Is something else suspicious? If this is really just a standard layoff because a company is going under, then take the money and run. If you ever did end up in court (doubtful unless there is a real reason to), you could probably claim you signed under duress because you needed the money. Human Resources often want to collect stupid papers to fill their files because it makes them feel they covered everything. As so many posters have noted, contacting your labor board will let you know what your real rights are, as far as carry over health benefits, minimum severence, re-training, etc.
It says over 200 sites have been shut down since April, which finally led them to WorldCom. How are they doing this search? There must be PCs somewhere in the govt of Penn with tons of child porn on them.
cool site, thanks. In one of the PDF files it leads you to www.delphion.com (the old IBM patent search site) where you search for prior art, a little for free and $75.00 a month for access to everything.
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I agree. As a woman in tech and sometime gamer, I prefer the Myst/7th Guest type games over shoot-em-ups any day. And I never really cared for the gigantic breasts in Tomb Raider - once again we get to be measured up against Barbie. Even with the Quake style games, I'm best at finding the secrets, and enjoy getting to new levels, but leave the killing to hubby. Today's games have gotten so extremely violent (grand theft, etc) that I have completely lost interest and stick with the older, tamer styles.
An interesting note is that I also work in the public school system and can say that something has happened in the last few years to push girls further and further away from tech. We run Lego robotics and have to beg to get 2 girls out of 30 kids to join. Visual basic classes are lucky to have 1 girl and it is beginning to look like the old 'wood shop' - it's for boys and if a girl takes that class it's just because she is just trying to meet boys. When you do get the rare girl to join VB, she will usually write a calculator program or some type of game that would appeal to a small child. The boys will always include a gun and something to shoot, and the cooler the blood the better. For robotics we noticed that once we made a demo bird robot and glued brightly colored feathers to it, all of a sudden many girls took notice of the legos.
eSchool News (free reg required) has an interesting article about how the DoE is investigating sexual discrimination in tech-ed throughout the country.
The labels that the RIAA support already have all of the means and methods for collecting $$$ and distributing. That's what they do. Seems like another sneaky way to put some of their in-house expenses back onto the artists shoulders, where it least needs to be.
No company or organization (including the mob) has ever brought such a vision of sharks circling the injured as the RIAA/MPAA.
It's always the simplest things. Like security, there are so many things you can do to tighten things up, but people will still tape their passwords to their monitors. I can see it now - the next wave of "innovative" copy protection will be issuing new keyboards with the Print Screen key conveniently missing.
Curious to see what type of spin they will put on this - either the RIAA will come out looking like justified heros, or Fanning will look like the media scapegoat.
Young Mr. Fanning is obviously the kind of person who is going to be just fine, and be successful at whatever he does. He did not achieve fortune, but he did receive the fame of being a true inventor. It's appalling how he was treated after he created something so new that it literally rocked the entire world. We should herald and praise our young inventors, even when their craft appears witchy at first glance. Instead our countrymen repeated the mistake they have made over and over - they saw something new, like a tribe or a lion. It looked scary to them so they killed it.
Well, their motto is 'Think Different'. Guess they really mean it.
So many points, I'll try to be brief:
/ga /c\\%1 /n\\%2
Software is deployed from the network (regular admin install). We don't put everything Office-wise in a ghost image (yes we image) because we have a lot of smaller hard drives, and other apps like AutoCad or ARC maps take priority over office. The first version of Win2K DID ask for admin password if a user clicked on an option that wasn't previously installed. Outlook, even pre-configured, asked too. A lot of this was fixed after SP2, but we had moved on by then. And interestingly, these things are now fixed in WinXP.
I know about the profile thing, but I still don't like the fact that I need to write a script to control everything. To take an app like Norton that ran just fine then require you to add it to group policy to get it work again is just crazy. Great option, if it were just an option, but that is the only way to get things working right. On the CRTL-ALT-DEL, we knew we could take it out, but decided if that was they way things were going, why sugar coat it? (Still think it's dumb) For Kazza, etc., - the only thing we found successful here was blocking it on the firewall. Somehow 2K or XP hasn't stopped the kids from finding something somewhere on the net they can install.
On printing, I would really like to know a way around the profile thing (for XP). In 2k there was a convoluted way of installing it, adding it to All User, then giving it full access. Who needs extra steps? It's just a printer - one of the simplest functions a computer can perform. In XP, that seems to have changed and now a little script does the job instead (run at the cmd prompt), but again - why? Why can't it just ask on install 'Is this printer for everyone who sits here, or just for you?' Third party apps have been able to do that since NT 3.5, why can't Microsoft do it for themselves? Overall the security flaws found in either Win2K or XP really don't affect us. We are not some secret lab that needs to keep things that locked down. Keeping kids from tearing up the desktops, and away from DOS is all we really need, and group policy handles that ok enough. A college of course has to worry about IIS and such.
Rant over (so much for being brief). But thanks for all of the good tips.
XP printing script:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry
At cmd:
scriptname targetcomputername printerservername\printersharename (done at every workstation)
From a public school perspective, Win2k was a nightmare. Forget security, we didn't even get that far. If someone so much as tried to 'install on first use' the equation editor, administrator password was required. Or configuring their own Outlook (after they had been doing it themselves for years)- impossible - and they called that zero-admin? Sure, make everyone else the administrator and you won't have to do anything anymore.
Norton corporate script wouldn't run (admin pass again); trying to install one single lab printer so every student who sat at that computer would always see the same printer, impossible without scripts or pushing profiles. This increases the amount of training required for students to use the equipment, or takes a net admin away from LAN/WAN support and puts them in script/profile land. An english teacher just wants to bring a class in without any hassle or setup. Our legacy or propriety software apps - most wouldn't run without admin pass. And why the hell would we want to teach a bunch of students about CTRL-ALT-DEL to logon? I remember when Microsoft used to brag that was a great security feature. Do they really think everyone is ready to handle their own server? Just crazy. We stayed with 98 on desktops and used Win2K on servers. We are finally moving into XP, which is much easier to handle, and much easier to train 5000 users on.
Typical govt answer - 'let's throw more $$ at the problem and see if it will go away.' Of course the $$ comes out of the people. Let's hope they plan on improving the way software patents are issued, or if certain elements of software should be issued at all, before someone patents CTRL-ALT-DEL.
After using it for my regular news bites, I decided to type in the names of some of my favorite bands who are touring right now. Pretty cool that it scours the globe and comes up with even a slight mention of them. Often when a band goes to a town the local paper, which I would have no way of knowing the name without hunting for it, may do a write-up or an interview, and now those are easily found. I even found little things like a slight mention of a birthday, or an interview with another person, who might mention the name of someone else. Pretty darn cool.
There's no link to the actual law, so without having read it, I can only think it probably follows the same path of many ill-written laws in regards to software/technology. They are usually just too extreme.
Define 'violence' in video games. If a law is too generally written, it could end up including Mario Kart because you can shoot bombs at the other players. Or how about the new Harry Potter (pretty cool game) where he goes around with a magic wand bopping bad monsters to make them disappear.
I have a serious problem with 15 year-old boys playing Grand Theft Auto (the whole prostitute/murder thing) and I do think storeowners need to be more responsible about selling 'Mature' games to young kids. But therein lies the problem, the Mature rating is so vague, it leaves a parent, who will probably never even glance at the game (or know to look for the rating in the first place), to decide whether their 8, 12, or 15 year-old is 'mature' enough to handle the game.
With that in mind its easy to see why those in control think there is a need for such a law. Parents really need to wake up and pay attention and be responsible for their own children. It's too much to keep passing bad laws because people refuse to watch their own turf.
Meanwhile, the RIAA doesn't feel the same logic applies to record sales in the U.S., and has started an ad campaign to convince the public that sharing music hurts artists.
It's about the time the RIAA begins educating the public about this instead of bashing them over the head and calling everyone a thief. The concern remains though if they will truly educate and not bash them over the head and call everyone a thief.
Quotes like Britney's Spears "Too many people don't realise that when you download a song you like from a peer-to-peer network or some other unauthorised internet service, you're stealing music", " calling P2P an unauthorised internet service when it has dozens of perfectly legitimate and legal uses, just puts a negative spin on an incredible software tool and really doesn't educate after all.
I have been wondering why it so hard to find this information in one place. If possible, some way of allowing others to submit from their own state the views of those in office or running. Coming up with a form letter, maybe a standardized list of questions would be helpful for anyone willing to submit the letter to the candidates in their state.
One thought though, would you need permission from the various politicians before posting their views?
"As long as consumers spend their money on "DRM enhanced" products, they will be viable in the marketplace."
The problem is that there are many customers out there who may be purchasing their very first CD. They could be teenagers, or maybe not. But as new customers they will simply accept this as the-way-things-are, because they will never anything different. I don't know statistics here, but I'm guessing there are probably less than 20% of music/tech types who even follow this stuff. I've asked dozens of people about DRM and the DMCA, and have even managed to get a few to understand, but basically most folks don't realize this is happening and don't know what it is. Microsoft and the other DRM camps are counting on this customer ignorance to push this through quickly before the rest of the world figures how badly they are getting screwed. People that are new to the market will never know of a free net, of a time when you purchased it and it was yours to keep, and they may never find out there was a time when it was different.
I've been hearing this for twenty years. While the introduction of electronic computing has affected many positions along the way by automating various tasks, those behind the wheel will always be the last to go. They may make cars that fly one day, but someone will still have to build it, and someone else needs to drive it. And by the time the average homeowner loses their fear of flying around like the Jetsons, they will invent something else. Savvy admins will always keep their eye on the next big thing and be ready to jump.
..yeah.
I loved Microsoft's take on a 'zero-administration' environment. This from a company that cannot easily allow you to import a thousand accounts from a another database, like payroll. And I have never had to write so many damn scripts since I was writing batch files in the DOS days. Zero-admin
It's ok, but I liked the old news page better. This is more like yahoo or msnbc. The old one just listed all the various links to online newspapers, along with a few govt links, all on just one page. I used that page a lot. Google always provided the short and sweet option, which I prefer. When I click on categories/newspapers/international I can't even find BBC which was always listed. Or the Internet News link. It must be in there somewhere, but now I have to browse around to find it.
When they aired the Babylon tour on PBS a couple of years back, I noticed they had let people online pick the next song in the setlist by voting on their web page. I thought that was pretty progressive for a bunch of rockin'old guys.
SSIA
Well, this is a good point. Is EFF the way to go? Or is it about time the /.ers start really pulling together? Plenty here pay dues to EFF, yet feel lost in the crowd. We write and write, and wonder if we even make a dent. I am about to send $$ to a woman in another state on the slight gamble that she might be able shout louder than us. Should we focus on one area or spread ourselves around? This is a political battle and I am not a political person, so I will listen to all theorys on the best approach out there.
now didn't we? Maybe instead of flooding congress now we need to start a paper-war with the chip makers.
Buy a great machine right now, and hang on to it for as long as possible. For the future maybe there are smaller chip makers that are not planning on going this route. I predict a big surge in home-made PCs again, just so tech types can get what they really want. It's possible someone at the Mac front may see the opportunity here. After all, their motto is "Think different"
"Security through obscurity" applies here. That term has also been trampled on time and again because it just doesn't work.
Well, it's better than spoon-feeding it to them isn't it? I'm sure any threat to our govt sites already has that information anyway. The only way to really make this even half work is for every govt agency to associate new IP address to their sites.
But whatever! Give them a break folks (not just this poster, but there is a lot of bashing going on here with this). Be glad they are doing something. We would all be bitching if they just sat around and did nothing. We are all well aware that the govt is trying to tighten up electronic security on every front. This is probably just a very tiny puzzle piece to homeland security. If all the techo-geeks here know better, then go ahead and right them your idea for a more digitally secure govt. They love white papers and case studies.
Once again the Internet proves its power with regards to public communication and information. When the subject is right, peoples voices will be heard. She is getting much more publicity than my congressman, for that I am certain. How intriguing that through a simple electronic payment that was not easily conceived only a few years ago, that I can now offer support for someone who is not even in my district. The more she gets noticed, the more everyone standing up for our freedom of speech, online and off, gets noticed. A win for her, or at least a very public loss for her there, seems like it could benefit us all. The more her status gets raised, congress in every state will take notice. She seems somewhat of a net newbie, but many are voted into political office with little experience other than the desire to listen and act for the people.
"Will I regret signing away my ability to sue?"
Do you WANT to sue? Is there a real reason? It seems silly to fret about losing your right to sue if you weren't going to do it anyway. Were you discriminated against? Do you think your employer has stolen an idea of yours, and just wants you gone so they can run with it themselves? Is something else suspicious? If this is really just a standard layoff because a company is going under, then take the money and run. If you ever did end up in court (doubtful unless there is a real reason to), you could probably claim you signed under duress because you needed the money. Human Resources often want to collect stupid papers to fill their files because it makes them feel they covered everything. As so many posters have noted, contacting your labor board will let you know what your real rights are, as far as carry over health benefits, minimum severence, re-training, etc.
It says over 200 sites have been shut down since April, which finally led them to WorldCom. How are they doing this search? There must be PCs somewhere in the govt of Penn with tons of child porn on them.
cool site, thanks. In one of the PDF files it leads you to www.delphion.com (the old IBM patent search site) where you search for prior art, a little for free and $75.00 a month for access to everything.