18” guns are okay, but no more of that irritating “ping ping ping.”
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004111179
Judge Orders Navy To Temporarily Stop Using Sonar
July 4, 2006 6:49 a.m. EST Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter
San Francisco, CA (AHN) - A federal judge in California has ordered the Navy to temporarily halt using sonar because it could be harmful to whales and other sea mammals.
... On Friday, the Defense Department gave the navy a six-month exemption from the Marine Mammal Protection Act, to allow the use of its sonar, for the first time in six months.
... She noted the Navy should have taken steps to conduct the exercise in a less densely-populated marine environment.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/011693.html
July 04, 2006
All 50 States Linked to DOJ National Sex Offender Public Registry Site
DOJ press release, July 3, 2006: "All 50 states are now participating in the National Sex Offender Public Registry (NSOPR) Web site, the Justice Department announced today. South Dakota and Oregon have now been added to the Web site, which provides real-time access to public sex offender data nationwide with a single Internet search. The Department of Justice-sponsored site allows parents and concerned citizens to search existing public state and territory sex offender registries beyond their own states." [Note: "Information from the various state Web sites is not hosted by the Department, and the Department has neither responsibility for nor control over the information available for public inspection or search from individual state Web sites that are accessible through this Web site."]
Well, we wouldn't want Microsoft to have a monopoly.
http://www.apcstart.com/site/tgaden/2006/07/591/its-not-just-windows-mac-os-x-phones-home-too
It’s not just Windows. OS X phones home too.
4 July 2006 Tim Gaden Mac, X Factor
Daniel Jalkut has discovered that Windows Genuine Advantage is not the only piece of software that phones home to check in. Mac OS X 10.4.7 gets lonely too.
Using Little Snitch, an app that monitors network traffic on your Mac, he caught the home-sick culprit, a new Dashboard process called dashboardadvisoryd.
Every now and then it “phones home” to Apple to check that your Daskboard widgets are up-to-date. At least that’s what Apple says in its 10.4.7 release notes.
The important issue here, Jalkut notes, is one of transparency. While nothing untoward is going on, [prove it! Bob] it is still that process is hidden, operates without telling the user what it is doing and can’t be turned off:
In an era when consumers are being encouraged to take responsibility for their own safety in the interconnected world, Apple and others should respect the boundaries of our “digital house” by at least keeping us in the loop about what is being done on our behalf. I can find no documentation about what Apple is choosing to send and receive on a regular basis from my Mac. Keep me in the loop, Apple. And if I’m not comfortable with it, give me an option (short of Little Snitch) for turning it off. It’s my computer, after all.
Can you see this as a business model?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5145236.stm
BBC to offer 'personalised' radio
The BBC wants to allow audiences to create personal radio stations from its content, its director general has said.
The planned service, provisionally called MyBBCRadio, was revealed by Mark Thompson at the Radio Festival in Cambridge.
It aims to give audiences more control by combining existing services such as podcasts and the BBC Radio Player.
It will be part of the BBC's iPlayer, a free service which will also offer seven days of BBC TV on demand.
Thompson said MyBBCRadio would use peer-to-peer technology [RIAA is going to freak out! Bob] to provide "thousands, ultimately millions, of individual radio services created by audiences themselves".
The BBC hoped to share these ideas with the commercial sector, he added.
Online success
The personalised radio scheme is expected to build on the success of the BBC's online radio services.
In March, the corporation said people had listened to 20 million hours of BBC content online, using everything from live streams to downloaded programmes.
The most requested shows include BBC Radio 4's long-running soap opera The Archers, and Chris Moyles' BBC Radio 1 breakfast show.
In May, audiences downloaded 4.5 million BBC podcasts.
In his speech, Mr Thompson said the corporations' governors would decide on whether podcasting would become a permanent service later this year.
The decision will be based, in part, on a study of how the BBC's podcasts affect the commercial sector.
The governors will also look into the market impact of Radios 1 and 2 following criticism from commercial competitors, said Thompson.
However, he defended the stations, saying they had been successful "not because they've become more like their competitors but because they've become less like them".
"If you've got a problem with a popular BBC, the people you're picking a fight with are the British public," he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5135946.stm
Russia lifts controls on currency
Russia is lifting controls on its currency, the rouble, making it fully convertible.
The move allows Russians to open foreign bank accounts and will ease restrictions on foreign investors.
So everyone can agree on the process...
Online Service for Creating and Sharing Flow Charts or Diagrams
Filed under: Net-Tech-Tools
I am a flow chart nerd. I use them in documenting procedures and figuring out evaluation processes. So I was very happy to see that Gliffy is available. Gliffy ( http://gliffy.com/) is an online service that allows you to create flow charts and other diagrams online. At the moment it’s in beta, and it’s free.
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2006/07/01/search-multiple-information-sources-with-opsdo/
July 1, 2006
Search Multiple Information Sources With Opsdo
Filed under: Search Engines
I wanted to look a bit askance at a search engine which, on its first visit, recommends I visit its “how to use” page. That obscure, that complex, or that different? Whatever, Opsdo’s interesting, though you have to pay attention to how Opsdo is presenting search result pages. Opsdo’s at http://www.opsdo.com/ and is in Alpha 2.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/011697.html
July 04, 2006
Links to Public Wi-Fi Hot Spots Around the Country
ABCNews Wireless America: "As a service to ABCNEWS.com readers, we've compiled a list of public Wi-Fi access points in the nation's 30 most populous cities."
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/011703.html
July 04, 2006
Knight Science Journalism Tracker
"The Knight Science Journalism Tracker is a new Web-based service for journalists who cover science, environment and health... It's a service of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships. Our goal is to provide a broad sampling of the past day's stories in these areas and, where possible, of press releases or other news tips related to generation of news in the general circulation news media. Our goal is to have a new batch of posts up each day by 1 pm Eastern time."
[Note: the archives date back to April 27, 2006]
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