] Fuel Cell Store.com is the nexus of the fuel cell
] industry. We provide the market place where fuel cell
] stack, component, and hydrogen storage manufacturers come
] together with consumers.
]
] Within our site you will find the widest array of fuel
] cell products from around the globe. If your fuel cell
] requirements are for demonstration, portable, or
] stationary fuel cells, the FuelCellStore can help you
] determine the best system to meet your needs.
]
] Consumers will find a variety of fuel cells,
] electrolysers and hydrogen storage products, allowing
] them to choose a system that best meets their
] requirements and budget.

Fuel Cell Store.com offers fuel cells and related products

] President Bush has approved the White House's
] long-awaited national cybersecurity strategy, a landmark
] document intended to guide government and industry
] efforts to protect the nation's most critical information
] systems from cyberattack.
]
] In an e-mail sent Thursday to White House officials,
] cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke said that the
] National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace has received
] Bush's signature and will be released to the public in
] the next few weeks. The strategy has been in development
] since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
] attacks.
]
] Schmidt, formerly chief security officer for Microsoft
] Corp., brings to the job a deep understanding of the
] need for industry and government to work together on
] cybersecurity, said Alan Paller, research director for
] the SANS Institute, a non-profit security research and
] training group.

This leaves a bad taste in my mouth at a time when I'm feeling that strange urge to be overly sarcastic for no particular reason.

Microsoft is not _not_ a good place to pull your security people from, IMHO. Granted, I know know jack about Schmidt, but Microsoft is the source of most of the security problems that threaten our network infrastructure. For Jah's sake, you'd be better off getting computer security people from the RIAA, they have been hacked a few times less then the average MS product..

Also, while I'm out of control bitching, I'm not sure what SANS actually does other then produce commentary thats obvious to any skilled security expert (I can't remember reading any 'eye openers' from them), or flattering entities that funds them. Oh yeah, they send me shitloads (at least one thing every week) of snail-mail SPAM for their training, which always appears to be very novice level. Am I not paying attention, or missing something? They have a reading room, with some stuff in it, I think.. Maybe I'm just predisposed to have a bad opinion of a _network_ security org that can only seem to communicate with me via the snail mail system.. Shrug..

Well, at least I can sleep good tonight knowing that George Bush has taken steps to thwart the cyber-villains. Damn 16 year olds, always causing trouble..

Ok. Phew! Worked through that need to be a bitch. Back to your regularly scheduled blogging..

Bush Approves Cybersecurity Strategy (TechNews.com)

I would like to see lots of public discussion about this.

The Privacy Policy is very important. It means a lot to everyone involved in the development and operation of MemeStreams that we protect and honor the rights of the system's users. We take your rights very seriously. Whenever we make any changes or do anything that we can see having an effect on your privacy rights, we want you involved and we want your feedback. Every step of the way.

Decius and I both feel that all discussion in relation to privacy and users rights should be out in the open, and everyone in the community should have the ability to voice any of their concerns.

MemeStreams is about the users. You. All of you. You make the system. You are the social network. You should be involved in our policy making.

We think the technology we are creating here will be very important and powerful as it grows and matures. A number of things we are doing open up very interesting issues in regard to privacy. These are not cut and dry issues.

The primary reason this has come up, as Decius has said, is because we have realised we have already made a mistake. In this case, we made a promise that we know there is no way we can keep.. Not because of new features we are creating, but rather oversight. We said we would protect information that we have already thought of several means and methods to attain that we cannot prevent. In short, we made a promise that we really can't keep.

As we move forward with projects like the Visual Navigation of MemeStreams, the oversight we made is going to be more and more obvious to everyone. Your reputation data is _not_ entirely private. It can be derived via a number of methods, already. When you make a recommendation, who you got it from can be figured out. Thats where we are in error. Simple thing, not really that bad of a thing either. When you make a recommendation, its public.

One thing I would like to make clear.. This is not us getting lax about our privacy policy, this is us getting serious about our privacy policy. This is us trying make it a public issue, and keep it a public issue.

We are trying to create something special here. The Uber Communication Tool. The Social Network thats aware of itsself, its nature, and its architecture. The smartest of the smart mobs. Its all about empowerment of the users, you. We are only the tool makers. The tools we create will be crafted based upon your feedback and our capabilities.

We want to be good bartenders, so be sure to tell us how our drinks taste.

Decius wrote:
] Please read and rerecommend. I want this to get as much
] coverage on the site as possible, and I want feedback.
]
] Currently the privacy policy says that your reputation tables
] are private. This reflects the fact that I think what you read
] ought to be your own business.
]
] However, what you recommend is... [ Read More (0.5k in body) ]

The Smartest of the Smart Mobs

Remember the CLECs? They were the fancy new phone companies that were going to take on the Bell incumbents. New technology, lower prices, better service, and local, long distance and data all on one bill--the Bells didn't stand a chance. The future of telecommunications services for businesses belonged to Allegiance, Time Warner Telecom, WinStar, XO and their CLEC brethren.

This is perhaps the most clued and accurate representation of what happened and what is happening. However, they miss the salient point that telecom services are a rapidly falling commodity still, and it will be difficult to find high margin customers as we move forward.

The changing tide of CLECs

] Now considerably revised and enhanced, the Atlas
] continues its mission of presenting human anatomy using
] color photos of cadavers, thus giving students a much
] more realistic experience of spatial dimensions than
] pleasantly colored drawings could ever accomplish. Each
] of eight chapters consists of two parts, the first
] describing the anatomical structure of the organs under
] consideration; the second depicting the regional anatomy,
] with desciption of the superficial layers followed by the
] deeper and deepest layers--thus gearing the work to
] complement dissection classes in medical and dental
] schools. Schematic drawings of nerves and vessels, the
] course of muscles, and the nomenclature of various
] regions enhance understanding of the details seen in the
] photographs.

No book collection is complete without a good book on human anatomy. This book is the one you want. Its utterly amazing. It shows the mechanics of the human body in gratuitous detail. Not color drawings, but the real deal.

Utterly captivating. Not for the squeamish.

Amazon.com: Books: Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body

] Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) yesterday (Jan. 28)
] reintroduced his Competition in Radio and Concert
] Industries Act, which he says will help consumers, small
] and independent radio station owners, and indie concert
] promoters by prohibiting anti-competitive practices in
] the radio and concert industries, Billboard Bulletin
] reports.
]
] The bill's introduction comes as the Senate Commerce
] Committee prepares to hold a hearing tomorrow on the
] problems of radio consolidation. Insiders say committee
] chairman Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is expected to sign
] on as a co-sponsor of the bill soon.

Billboard.com - Competition in Radio and Concert Industries Act Reintroduced to Congress

] The general who commanded U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf
] War says he hasn't seen enough evidence to convince him
] that his old comrades Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul
] Wolfowitz are correct in moving toward a new war now. He
] thinks U.N. inspections are still the proper course to
] follow. He's worried about the cockiness of the U.S. war
] plan, and even more by the potential human and financial
] costs of occupying Iraq.
]
] And don't get him started on Defense Secretary Donald
] Rumsfeld.
]
] In fact, the hero of the last Gulf War sounds
] surprisingly like the man on the street when he discusses
] his ambivalence about the Bush administration's hawkish
] stance on ousting Saddam Hussein. He worries about the
] Iraqi leader, but would like to see some persuasive
] evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs.
]
] "The thought of Saddam Hussein with a sophisticated
] nuclear capability is a frightening thought, okay?" he
] says. "Now, having said that, I don't know what
] intelligence the U.S. government has. And before I can
] just stand up and say, 'Beyond a shadow of a doubt, we
] need to invade Iraq,' I guess I would like to have better
] information."
]
] He hasn't seen that yet, and so -- in sharp contrast to
] the Bush administration -- he supports letting the U.N.
] weapons inspectors drive the timetable: "I think it is
] very important for us to wait and see what the inspectors
] come up with, and hopefully they come up with something
] conclusive."

Desert Caution (washingtonpost.com)

] You'll be able to buy a humanoid as early as next
] year.

Popular Science | Here Come the Two-Legged Aibos

] As of next Monday I will be on tour. So, in an effort to
] cut myself some slack from the few precious civilian days
] remaining, I'm opting to post the following talk, which
] I gave last year at the Vancouver Art Gallery. VAG had
] mounted an ambitious if oddly titled (The Uncanny) show
] around the theme of "the cyborg". Since this seemed to be
] "the cyborg" as academics understand "the cyborg", and
] not just a cyborg, or cyborgs, as you or I might
] understand cyborg(s) I took it upon myself to lower the
] tone of the proceedings with the following.

Also, Gibson's take on The Matrix.

William Gibson: In the Visegrips of Dr. Satan (w/ Vannevar Bush and Google)

] Iraq will chair the United Nations' most important
] disarmament negotiating forum during the panel's May
] session.
] At the rules-minded United Nations, it's not a country's
] status with international weapons inspectors, but the
] letters in its name that determine which member state
] chairs the Conference on Disarmament.
] "The irony is overwhelming," a U.S. diplomat said.

Iraq to chair U.N. disarmament conference