Because a search warrant involves getting permission from a judge, which adds another layer of bureaucracy for no apparent protection. Searching your house is quite different from asking the DoE if you've applied for a student loan.
Ms. Mitchelson said the information sharing was possible under a law that permits a federal agency to release personal information to another agency "for a civil or criminal law enforcement activity."
Let me spell it out, Elliott waited until the document was finalized precisely because she didn't want it going to a vote. In the process showing contempt for due process and her fellow commisioners.
Let me spell this out: you have no idea what Elliott's intentions were, you're just voicing your suspicions. Her response to the timing of response was as follows...
And to Vedder's comments on her tardy response to the commission's report -- she was traveling during the August 10 meeting, and did not join via teleconference as did several other panel members, including Robert Zemsky from Singapore -- Elliott said in her e-mail reply that she was "completely offended by this personal attack." "This has nothing to do with my 'corporate responsibilities,' and [Miller] was well aware of my availability and access in August." (In Thursday's interview, she added that she had given Miller her proxy at the August 10 meeting based on her sense of the report at the "macro" level, but had not had a chance to review the final document until recently.)
This stuff happens. Huge documents with implications lurking in all corners, of which this particular issue was a mere speck. Consider some of the other contentious issues:
a national database of student academic records, the call for consolidating the number of federal financial aid programs, and its inclination to push a common yardstick for all institutions in measuring student learning.
Those are Big Time issues in comparison. It's not surprising that Elliott would have missed the reference to open source.
Mr. Miller said the Education Department had been asked to "run names of subjects already material to counterterrorism investigations" to look for evidence of student loan fraud or identity theft.
"No records of people other than those already under investigation were called for," he said. "This was not a sweeping program, in that it involved only a few hundred names. This is part of our mission, which is to take the leads we have and investigate them."
This wasn't trolling through student data at random, it was for specific names that were already part of an FBI investigation. That point is being entirely missed in the comments here. The FBI has a list of people they're investigating, and are asking the DoE to check if any of them are applying for financial aid anywhere. That sounds like basic police work to me. Perhaps it's newsworthy because it's surprising that two branches of the federal government can coordinate on anything.
But let's give it up for a fine effort by James Duderstadt, a past President of the University of Michigan, and a leader in the realm of applying developing technology to higher education.
Here are the final two paragraphs of the article:
Monday morning, Miller said the commission would go with Duderstadt's compromise language, which he called "an improvement in the draft" that "does not require and will not be put to a vote."
Later that morning, Elliott gave in, writing: "I support Jim's paragraph as well."
That sounds like a huge overreaction - if a few people are going out after work*, and you invite her along, that's hardly "sexual harrassment." It doesn't matter if she looks like Marilyn Monroe or Merle Haggard. I'm sensing more of a lack of social skills.
*unless, of course, "going out after work" means heading off to a swingers club.
"The secret program accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to archives records, the paper said."
A good example of this came when I was involved in a systems installation that was a major portion of an initiative that ended with the elimination of our local IT department. I negotiated a deal to stay through the implementation (thus helping to ensure project success) and find a new job afterwards, in exchange for some items that were of value to me, but of low cost to the company. I walked away with a nice PC and monitor, fully loaded with productivity apps, Visual Studio and ongoing access to MSDN through the company license. At the time I was looking to build skills in that area, and they weren't going to use that stuff locally anymore anyway. It worked out for both ends of the bargain...
They're incomptently destructive assholes, as well - and you can bet that if the Molotov they left on the old lady's door did ignite, none of them would have come forward to accept responsbility for the murder of an innocent person (despite the obvious contradiction with their so-called moral imperative).
Heck, many of the customer service organizations aren't any better. For many functions, voice-response systems work just fine for me, and it's the live operators who have the scripted formalities they need to read through, wasting both of our time.
And it ain't just books! My kids (4, 4, and 3) have gone solar-system crazy over the last couple months, especially my youngest. He's been singing the names of the 9 planets as he goes to sleep each night, and their favorite show just had an episode about the nine of them.
Tonight, as I was hanging a glow-in-the-dark solar system in the boys' room, I broke the news. Pluto was now a Minor Planet, which I spun as being like a kid amongst grown-ups. That hit home somewhat for them, but even now, Little Guy is sitting across the room telling me, "but Daddy, Pluto is a planet!"
Come on, people! It's an Irish company - storytelling isn't just an art form to them, it's a way of life! Bottom line is, I'm guessing it's powered by Lucky Charms.
DISCLAIMER: I've got a good amount of Irish blood in me, no need to flame.
Hmmm... a group of scientists in Stockholm... and look at this company is right nearby, and has a booming business in water desalination and purification... coincidence? I think not!
Perhaps this is more about steering UN and IMF project money towards localized water purification solutions rather than big infrastructure projects like damns, etc.
You're absolutely right about encouraging people not to deal with companies like this if they really care that much about the issue. Bottom line is, most people don't.
It's insightful to remember the Scott McNealy quote: "You have zero privacy. Get over it."
Wouldn't it make sense to go for a more basic application as a first run, to at least provide a unified collaborative work environment, and use the working experience therein to define a more strategic, long term technology plan for the FBI? As I understand it, today's world involves many separate stores of information, electronic and not. Simply bringing those together in the crudest of fashions could provide significant gains in a relatively short time frame.
There are other old-school keys that should be removed long before CAPS LOCK, like Scroll Lock and Pause/Break. Actually, the most annoying thing I see on newer keyboards are keys for Sleep and Power. After the first time I accidentally hit the Power button and watched my PC shut down in the middle of a WebEx, I tore the damn thing right out of the keyboard...
1) exhibited juvenile name calling, 2) used an ignorant black/white worldview of "you're accepting the word of authorites, therefore you're a stooge of the government," 3) overplayed an irrelevant (and misstated) comparison with the risk of death by "overdose" of pain relievers.
You're not adding anything to the discussion here. Go spark up another bowl and switch over to the Cartoon Network...
I wonder how long before they require that everyone travelling goes under a general anaesthetic? You sit in your seat, have a thing strapped to your head, and you pass out, waking up after landing.
They're way ahead of you - why else do you think they show Gigli as the inflight entertainment?
No $hit - my dog could beat that little toy. Let's see it throw 200 while smoking, eating some greasy grill food (with the off-hand, of course) and ponying up for beer frames when all but one guy on the team strike, and I'll believe it.
The base charger has a cable though, so you haven't eliminated the cable, just removed it from the everyday usage as with a wired mouse. I don't see ever needing a wireless keyboard - if I'm using the computer I want to be sitting at it, not across the room on the couch...
MIT's Technology Review magazine used to run a great set of market contests, called Innovation Futures. They had great prizes, of which I won a few (Sony DVD burner, HP Tablet PC, oodles of gift certificates, etc.).
That was important because if you want people to really make these markets work, there has to be some incentive for them to do so.
Another aspect I don't see being discussed is the ability of supply chain systems to integrate the procurement side of things so that a given online retailer (say, Amazon) can present inventory in a unified fashion, regardless of whether it's theirs or not. Sure, they've got lots of stuff in their warehouses ready to ship, but it's the relationships with other suppliers that allows Amazon to offer a mind-boggling array of goods through a single storefront. There's a good chance that your purchase from Amazon didn't ship from an Amazon inventory - but they make the sale, pay a third party for the product and a fee for shipping it, and keep the rest as margin. This allows a company like Amazon to have a staggeringly long tail, without building up a $hitload of inventory to support it.
Let's give it up for all the Cobol & RPG ERP's of the world which help bring this together!
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You sound like Al Capone's lawyer!
Let me spell this out: you have no idea what Elliott's intentions were, you're just voicing your suspicions. Her response to the timing of response was as follows...
This stuff happens. Huge documents with implications lurking in all corners, of which this particular issue was a mere speck. Consider some of the other contentious issues:
Those are Big Time issues in comparison. It's not surprising that Elliott would have missed the reference to open source.
This wasn't trolling through student data at random, it was for specific names that were already part of an FBI investigation. That point is being entirely missed in the comments here. The FBI has a list of people they're investigating, and are asking the DoE to check if any of them are applying for financial aid anywhere. That sounds like basic police work to me. Perhaps it's newsworthy because it's surprising that two branches of the federal government can coordinate on anything.
Here are the final two paragraphs of the article:
That sounds like a huge overreaction - if a few people are going out after work*, and you invite her along, that's hardly "sexual harrassment." It doesn't matter if she looks like Marilyn Monroe or Merle Haggard. I'm sensing more of a lack of social skills.
*unless, of course, "going out after work" means heading off to a swingers club.
But, also according to the article...
"The secret program accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to archives records, the paper said."
A good example of this came when I was involved in a systems installation that was a major portion of an initiative that ended with the elimination of our local IT department. I negotiated a deal to stay through the implementation (thus helping to ensure project success) and find a new job afterwards, in exchange for some items that were of value to me, but of low cost to the company. I walked away with a nice PC and monitor, fully loaded with productivity apps, Visual Studio and ongoing access to MSDN through the company license. At the time I was looking to build skills in that area, and they weren't going to use that stuff locally anymore anyway. It worked out for both ends of the bargain...
They're incomptently destructive assholes, as well - and you can bet that if the Molotov they left on the old lady's door did ignite, none of them would have come forward to accept responsbility for the murder of an innocent person (despite the obvious contradiction with their so-called moral imperative).
Heck, many of the customer service organizations aren't any better. For many functions, voice-response systems work just fine for me, and it's the live operators who have the scripted formalities they need to read through, wasting both of our time.
This is a service of Slashdot Dupes, which periodically "reminds" you of news stories that happened days, weeks, or months ago.
Next on Slashdot: "Microsoft announces Windows ME"...
And it ain't just books! My kids (4, 4, and 3) have gone solar-system crazy over the last couple months, especially my youngest. He's been singing the names of the 9 planets as he goes to sleep each night, and their favorite show just had an episode about the nine of them.
Tonight, as I was hanging a glow-in-the-dark solar system in the boys' room, I broke the news. Pluto was now a Minor Planet, which I spun as being like a kid amongst grown-ups. That hit home somewhat for them, but even now, Little Guy is sitting across the room telling me, "but Daddy, Pluto is a planet!"
Thanks, astro-nerds.
Come on, people! It's an Irish company - storytelling isn't just an art form to them, it's a way of life! Bottom line is, I'm guessing it's powered by Lucky Charms.
DISCLAIMER: I've got a good amount of Irish blood in me, no need to flame.
Hmmm... a group of scientists in Stockholm... and look at this company is right nearby, and has a booming business in water desalination and purification... coincidence? I think not!
Perhaps this is more about steering UN and IMF project money towards localized water purification solutions rather than big infrastructure projects like damns, etc.
And he's probably drunk, as well...
You're absolutely right about encouraging people not to deal with companies like this if they really care that much about the issue. Bottom line is, most people don't.
It's insightful to remember the Scott McNealy quote: "You have zero privacy. Get over it."
Wouldn't it make sense to go for a more basic application as a first run, to at least provide a unified collaborative work environment, and use the working experience therein to define a more strategic, long term technology plan for the FBI? As I understand it, today's world involves many separate stores of information, electronic and not. Simply bringing those together in the crudest of fashions could provide significant gains in a relatively short time frame.
No wonder IT workers are still under so much stress!
There are other old-school keys that should be removed long before CAPS LOCK, like Scroll Lock and Pause/Break. Actually, the most annoying thing I see on newer keyboards are keys for Sleep and Power. After the first time I accidentally hit the Power button and watched my PC shut down in the middle of a WebEx, I tore the damn thing right out of the keyboard...
Ah, but your posts
1) exhibited juvenile name calling,
2) used an ignorant black/white worldview of "you're accepting the word of authorites, therefore you're a stooge of the government,"
3) overplayed an irrelevant (and misstated) comparison with the risk of death by "overdose" of pain relievers.
You're not adding anything to the discussion here. Go spark up another bowl and switch over to the Cartoon Network...
I wonder how long before they require that everyone travelling goes under a general anaesthetic? You sit in your seat, have a thing strapped to your head, and you pass out, waking up after landing.
They're way ahead of you - why else do you think they show Gigli as the inflight entertainment?
No $hit - my dog could beat that little toy. Let's see it throw 200 while smoking, eating some greasy grill food (with the off-hand, of course) and ponying up for beer frames when all but one guy on the team strike, and I'll believe it.
The base charger has a cable though, so you haven't eliminated the cable, just removed it from the everyday usage as with a wired mouse. I don't see ever needing a wireless keyboard - if I'm using the computer I want to be sitting at it, not across the room on the couch...
MIT's Technology Review magazine used to run a great set of market contests, called Innovation Futures. They had great prizes, of which I won a few (Sony DVD burner, HP Tablet PC, oodles of gift certificates, etc.).
That was important because if you want people to really make these markets work, there has to be some incentive for them to do so.
Another aspect I don't see being discussed is the ability of supply chain systems to integrate the procurement side of things so that a given online retailer (say, Amazon) can present inventory in a unified fashion, regardless of whether it's theirs or not. Sure, they've got lots of stuff in their warehouses ready to ship, but it's the relationships with other suppliers that allows Amazon to offer a mind-boggling array of goods through a single storefront. There's a good chance that your purchase from Amazon didn't ship from an Amazon inventory - but they make the sale, pay a third party for the product and a fee for shipping it, and keep the rest as margin. This allows a company like Amazon to have a staggeringly long tail, without building up a $hitload of inventory to support it.
Let's give it up for all the Cobol & RPG ERP's of the world which help bring this together!