A week after NASA's top climate scientist complained that the space agency's public-affairs office was trying to silence his statements on global warming, the agency's administrator, Michael D. Griffin, issued a sharply worded statement yesterday calling for "scientific openness" throughout the agency.
Not His Own Words
Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him (January 29, 2006)
"It is not the job of public-affairs officers," Dr. Griffin wrote in an e-mail message to the agency's 19,000 employees, "to alter, filter or adjust engineering or scientific material produced by NASA's technical staff."
The statement came six days after The New York Times quoted the scientist, James E. Hansen, as saying he was threatened with "dire consequences" if he continued to call for prompt action to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming. He and intermediaries in the agency's 350-member public-affairs staff said the warnings came from White House appointees in NASA headquarters.
Other National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists and public-affairs employees came forward this week to say that beyond Dr. Hansen's case, there were several other instances in which political appointees had sought to control the flow of scientific information from the agency.
They called or e-mailed The Times and sent documents showing that news releases were delayed or altered to mesh with Bush administration policies.
In October, for example, George Deutsch, a presidential appointee in NASA headquarters, told a Web designer working for the agency to add the word "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang, according to an e-mail message from Mr. Deutsch that another NASA employee forwarded to The Times.
And in December 2004, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory complained to the agency that he had been pressured to say in a news release that his oceanic research would help advance the administration's goal of space exploration.
On Thursday night and Friday, The Times sent some of the documents to Dr. Griffin and senior public-affairs officials requesting a response.
While Dr. Griffin did not respond directly, he issued the "statement of scientific openness" to agency employees, saying, "NASA has always been, is and will continue to be committed to open scientific and technical inquiry and dialogue with the public."
Because NASA encompasses a nationwide network of research centers on everything from cosmology to climate, Dr. Griffin said, some central coordination was necessary. But he added that changes in the public-affairs office's procedures "can and will be made," and that a revised policy would "be disseminated throughout the agency."
Asked if the statement came in response to the new documents and the furor over Dr. Hansen's complaints, Dr. Griffin's press secretary, Dean Acosta, replied by e-mail:
"From time to time, the administrator communicates with NASA employees on policy and issues. Today was one of those days. I hope this helps. Have a good weekend."
Climate science has been a thorny issue for the administration since 2001, when Mr. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to restrict power plant emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas linked to global warming, and said the United States would not join the Kyoto Protocol, the first climate treaty requiring reductions.
But the accusations of political interference with the language of news releases and other public information on science go beyond climate change.
In interviews this week, more than a dozen public-affairs officials, along with half a dozen agency scientists, spoke of growing efforts by political appointees to control the flow of scientific information.
In the months before the 2004 election, according to interviews and some documents, these appointees sought to review news releases and to approve or deny news media requests to interview NASA scientists.
Which is why Im personally fine with the whole idea. Why track me? I go to college and do collegey type things, then on weekends I work in a shop doing shoppy things. Not exactly a global terror ring.
As for tracking us with this, as far as Im concerned, those that need to hide are exactly those that need monitoring.
I have an Archos AV420, the model before the 500 mentioned in the article. I love it dearly, and use it every day from listening to music on the bus to ripping old VHS tapes from the BBCs archives (I have a friend there - anything I want delivered to me on VHS for the win!). It currently houses my porn collection, backups of all my college work and a good 5 gig or so of my music.
I would fucking kill for it to have iTunes support. Finder is a great file-browser, but a shitty music management tool.
"1up.com seems to be pretty awful in general though, so I suppose it's par for the course; the real question is why do they get referred to so often on Slashdot?"
Slashdot Mirror
Fair enough.
*hangs up Grammar Nazi uniform and heads to nearest pub*
Ah yes, but this is an example of cue as in the way a stage director might cue someone in. "cue Romeo", etc.
To use one of the very links you posted:
"To give a cue to; signal or prompt."
Damnit! Its "Cue"! Not "Queue"!
Sorry, I don't know why it makes me so angry, it just does.
http://www.apple.com/education/emac/
I think it is you that is clueless, my friend. Not them.If only there was a "-1, tragically dorky" mod.....
As long as the lid doesn't fold back on itself you should be okay.
A week after NASA's top climate scientist complained that the space agency's public-affairs office was trying to silence his statements on global warming, the agency's administrator, Michael D. Griffin, issued a sharply worded statement yesterday calling for "scientific openness" throughout the agency.
Not His Own Words
Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him (January 29, 2006)
"It is not the job of public-affairs officers," Dr. Griffin wrote in an e-mail message to the agency's 19,000 employees, "to alter, filter or adjust engineering or scientific material produced by NASA's technical staff."
The statement came six days after The New York Times quoted the scientist, James E. Hansen, as saying he was threatened with "dire consequences" if he continued to call for prompt action to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming. He and intermediaries in the agency's 350-member public-affairs staff said the warnings came from White House appointees in NASA headquarters.
Other National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists and public-affairs employees came forward this week to say that beyond Dr. Hansen's case, there were several other instances in which political appointees had sought to control the flow of scientific information from the agency.
They called or e-mailed The Times and sent documents showing that news releases were delayed or altered to mesh with Bush administration policies.
In October, for example, George Deutsch, a presidential appointee in NASA headquarters, told a Web designer working for the agency to add the word "theory" after every mention of the Big Bang, according to an e-mail message from Mr. Deutsch that another NASA employee forwarded to The Times.
And in December 2004, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory complained to the agency that he had been pressured to say in a news release that his oceanic research would help advance the administration's goal of space exploration.
On Thursday night and Friday, The Times sent some of the documents to Dr. Griffin and senior public-affairs officials requesting a response.
While Dr. Griffin did not respond directly, he issued the "statement of scientific openness" to agency employees, saying, "NASA has always been, is and will continue to be committed to open scientific and technical inquiry and dialogue with the public."
Because NASA encompasses a nationwide network of research centers on everything from cosmology to climate, Dr. Griffin said, some central coordination was necessary. But he added that changes in the public-affairs office's procedures "can and will be made," and that a revised policy would "be disseminated throughout the agency."
Asked if the statement came in response to the new documents and the furor over Dr. Hansen's complaints, Dr. Griffin's press secretary, Dean Acosta, replied by e-mail:
"From time to time, the administrator communicates with NASA employees on policy and issues. Today was one of those days. I hope this helps. Have a good weekend."
Climate science has been a thorny issue for the administration since 2001, when Mr. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to restrict power plant emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas linked to global warming, and said the United States would not join the Kyoto Protocol, the first climate treaty requiring reductions.
But the accusations of political interference with the language of news releases and other public information on science go beyond climate change.
In interviews this week, more than a dozen public-affairs officials, along with half a dozen agency scientists, spoke of growing efforts by political appointees to control the flow of scientific information.
In the months before the 2004 election, according to interviews and some documents, these appointees sought to review news releases and to approve or deny news media requests to interview NASA scientists.
Repeatedly that year, public-affairs directo
"All of the GTAs have had a buggy multi-player mode included but locked away."
Source? Seeing as that, err, isn't true. At all.
San Marino has a Grand Prix too.
...have made some of my most loved games ever, I wish them the best of luck. Even if the plan does lack even one iota of business sense.
Actually you've handed some Russian dude $400, not the music industry. You really think the artists get a cut from something like AllOfMP3?
You would have done more good for everyone involved* if you'd just given $400 to charity and pirated that music.
*Except the aforementioned Russian dude.
Only for those that commit crime.
Which is why Im personally fine with the whole idea. Why track me? I go to college and do collegey type things, then on weekends I work in a shop doing shoppy things. Not exactly a global terror ring.
As for tracking us with this, as far as Im concerned, those that need to hide are exactly those that need monitoring.
I have an Archos AV420, the model before the 500 mentioned in the article. I love it dearly, and use it every day from listening to music on the bus to ripping old VHS tapes from the BBCs archives (I have a friend there - anything I want delivered to me on VHS for the win!). It currently houses my porn collection, backups of all my college work and a good 5 gig or so of my music.
I would fucking kill for it to have iTunes support. Finder is a great file-browser, but a shitty music management tool.
"1up.com seems to be pretty awful in general though, so I suppose it's par for the course; the real question is why do they get referred to so often on Slashdot?"
"Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 13, @12:39PM"
Bingo.
And maybe not linking to a site that has "noisy" banner ads might be nice too.
Still, pretty good article.
Nintendon't what Sony do?
In pretty much every phone made since the 80s the phone numbers etc are stored on the SIM card, which is non-volatile.
Even in phones where they are stored internally, it's on a ROM chip.
Linguini's a pasta though. They're different.
Unless for my whole student life I was living a lie, and the times I treated myself to Italian I was just eating repackaged noodles.
It means my physics paper is proper fucked, for one.
Not true. MS have said their games will cost the same as they currently do in all markets, and everyone assumes 3rd parties will follow suit.
It's still too much, but "too much + nothing" sounds a lot better than "too much + an extra $10" to me.
I think anyone that decides to buy 15 to 20 games at launch can probably afford a couple grand. Most people just get like 2 or 3
Although I do agree on buying games a while after they first come out. Saves an absolute fortune.
Dudes, dudes, dudes. Please stop it. Your giving me a headache.
" like they're playing chicken against a cement wall with a tank."
I'm not sure how many metaphors you got there, but it's probably too many.
I'm not rich enough to test if you're being serious or not.
ROFL.