Report: Plea talks in HP case, new director named
Five execs will meet with the judge Dec. 4 to discuss possible plea bargains in HP spying case
By Robert Mullins, IDG News Service November 20, 2006
Defense and prosecution attorneys in the Hewlett-Packard spying case are scheduled to meet with the presiding judge Dec. 4 to discuss possible plea bargains, the San Jose Mercury News reported Saturday.
California Deputy Attorney General Robert Morgester requested the meeting with defense counsel for five defendants charged in the case, although he cautioned that plea bargains will not necessarily be agreed upon in the meeting, the Mercury News reported.
... Also, HP announced Nov. 17 that G. Kennedy Thompson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of financial services firm Wachovia, has been elected to the company's board of directors. The HP board approved Thompson's appointment Nov. 16.
When you give someone all the power of a “Meter Maid” you risk abuses like this...
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4689392?source=rss
Random act of kindness begets meter madness
by Jim Spencer Denver Post Staff Columnist DenverPost.com Article Last Updated:11/20/2006 12:33:04 AM MST
Stanley Yaffe thought he was committing a random act of kindness Wednesday when he put a quarter in a stranger's expired parking meter.
Not so, a Denver "vehicle control agent" informed Yaffe. The "VCA" - as they say in the bureaucratic heaven of puffed-up titles and silly acronyms - told Yaffe that he had committed a crime:
... City Attorney Cole Finegan could find no crime described as "interfering in the collection of city revenue" in the muni code. Finegan also couldn't find a law that makes it illegal to feed a stranger's parking meter.
What Finegan and the folks at Public Works did find was a code section that says if you've parked more than the allotted time at a meter, you can still get a parking ticket, even if you put in more money. But, Finegan emphasized, a parking ticket is all you can get.
... Not only did Denver's mayor have a campaign commercial where he fed an expired meter, he had a commercial in which he fed an expired meter as an actor playing a VCA started to write a ticket. The evidence is still available at HickenlooperforMayor.com.
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2006/11/19/search-engine-for-legal-blogs-only/
November 19, 2006
Search Engine for Legal Blogs Only
Filed under: Net-Tech-Blogs, Government-Law
There’s a new search engine that searches for legal blogs only (or as legal blogs are sometimes called, “blawgs”). If you didn’t think there were many out there, check this out: Blawgsearch.com is currently indexing around 600 blogs with plans to add “many more”.
The front page of the site provides several tools for a quick overview: a tag cloud (both of post tags and recent search terms), a list of the most popular blogs, and a directory of blogs indexed sorted by category, from “Admiralty Law” to “Trials and Litigation”. (The most populated categories seemed to be Intellectual Property Law, Business Law, and Criminal Law.) A list at the bottom of the page shows the most recent posts.
Searching is by simple keyword. A search for litigation at this moment provides 988 results. Though the results are defaulted by relevance instead of date (grr) they have plenty of information, including summary, title, date of post, and name and URL of the blog. There’s also a keyword-based RSS feed available.
If you’re more interested in finding law blogs, you can browse the directory at http://blawgsearch.justia.com/category.aspx, which breaks out the blogs by category as well as by state and country, with a pointer to a few other legal blog directories. Legal bloggers interested in participating in the search engine are invited to suggest a blawg. For those interested in legal blogging in general, there’s a brief and general resource list available.
Nicely done.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/013062.html
November 20, 2006
New on LLRX.com for November 2006 - Part 2
Leveraging Blogs, RSS, News Alerts and Different Search Engines to Expand Your Research, by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets!, by Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina I. Pacifici and Aaron Schmidt
The Directorate of Legal Research at the Library of Congress: A Treasure Hidden Under a Bushel Basket, by Michael Ravnitzky
The Government Domain: A Cornucopia of Government Search Engines, by Peggy Garvin
Commentary: Mountaintop Removal Sites - "Strip Mining on Steroids", by Beth Wellington
Burney's Gadgets for Legal Pros - Reviews: Dragon Speaking Naturally 9 and Adobe Acrobat 8, by Brett Burney
It's Time for a Global Privacy Agreement
Jay Cline Today’s Top Stories or Other Security Stories
November 20, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Whenever I’ve mentioned to chief privacy officers the idea of having a single set of privacy rules for their companies to abide by worldwide, their response has been unanimous: Bring it on. Why? The legal and technical costs of complying with an expanding patchwork of state, federal and foreign privacy laws are mounting for multinationals . One set of rules, in their view, would improve the bottom line.
Graphic 1
Europe’s Eight Privacy Principles
In Europe, personal information is considered legally private if it is:
| 1. Fairly and lawfully processed |
| 2. Processed for limited purposes |
| 3. Adequate, relevant and not excessive |
| 4. Accurate and up to date |
| 5. Not kept for longer than is necessary |
| 6. Processed in line with individuals' rights |
| 7. Secure |
| 8. Not transferred to other countries without adequate protection |
Source: U.K. Information Commissioner’s Data Protection Guide.
Graphic 2
Global Privacy Principles?
These seven principles, which reflect the essential principles of the world’s various privacy laws, could form the basis of a global agreement on privacy:
| 1. Notice. Provide individuals a privacy policy at or near the time of collecting their data. |
| 2. Relevance and Retention. Require individuals to provide only those data fields that are needed for the business at hand, and retain it only as long as needed for that business. |
| 3. Access and Accuracy. Provide individuals a way to securely access and correct their information. |
| 4. Security. Protect individuals' information from unauthorized access within the collecting organization and any other organization or country to which it is transferred. |
| 5. Choice – Third-Party Sharing. Provide individuals a choice for whether third parties may access their information for analytical or marketing purposes. |
| 6. Choice – Direct Marketing. Provide individuals a choice for whether they may be contacted for marketing purposes. |
| 7. Enforcement. Appoint a senior executive to be responsible for annually assessing the organization's compliance with these principles. |
Source: Jay Cline
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001489.php
The Cook's Thesaurus
Ingredient substitutions
Although it has been online for years, I only recently discovered this incredibly handy resource. Use this simple website to to find substitutes for cooking ingredients. Say a recipe calls for buckwheat flour, which you most likely don't have on hand; what do you use? Type in the term and presto, the links take you to an entry which will suggest alternatives. I also find the site helpful in quickly introducing myself to new ingredients. While not exhaustive, it lists about 90% of the ingredients you'll probably encounter, including many exotics, usually with a helpful photo and a short summary of its origin. (For the best on ingredients see below). This thesaurus of ingredients is fast, simple, and just right.
-- KK The Cook's Thesaurus
[I looked up turkey: Substitutes: chicken OR goose (not as tender, higher in fat) OR pheasant (smaller) OR ostrich OR UnTurkey (a seitan-based turkey substitute) OR tofurky (a tofu and seitan substitute) Bob]
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