Category — General

the abstinence campaigns in sexual education in the u.s., which stopped pretty much prevent young people from being educated about their sexuality, have caused, over time, and increase in sexually transmitted diseases….

Death for Cursing Parents
All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. Ê (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)

God Kills the Curious
Ê And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, `and' fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.Ê And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?ÊÊ (1Samuel 6:19-20 ASV)

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many, many christian's don't know exactly what they are to believe about the world they live in and how they should live…. the bible is very clear on this, go read it. this page exemplifies some of its core tenet's, which in our modern world might seem 'evil' but surely are not.

Presentations on interoperability and repositories. The presentations from the conference, Breaking Boundaries: Integration and Interoperability (Melbourne, February 3-5, 2004), are now online. [Open Access News]

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some nice presentations here, i still have to download a few.

Critical Information Infrastructure Protection.

The Center for Security Studies of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has published the 2004 Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) Handbook entitled An Inventory and Analysis of Protection Policies in Fourteen Countries, 2004 (pdf).

[ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]

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interesting report, well worth reading.

or how not to be happy without caring. or something like that

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Hands Off! That Fact Is Mine. Congress is considering a bill that would allow companies to copyright databases and other sets of information. Critics say the bill would circumvent the core of copyright law, which says no one can own a fact. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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it is unclear to me that they own the fact, which could be reproduced outside of the media… what they own is the fact that held in the media. sort of like a secret, you own it if you don't tell anyone, but if you tell then you can't control it or own it.

Blocking w32.beagle.j with postfix. This new worm is particularly annoying, since an AV scanner may not catch it at the server level, the infected… [kasia in a nutshell]

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handy instructions…..

More on the embargo of scientific editing. John Dudley Miller, Publishers steamed by US ban, The Scientist, March 2, 2004. Excerpt: “Most scientific societies are defying or ignoring the rule, which applies to all US publications. Theoretically, their refusal exposes their editors and officers to fines of up to $50,000 and 10 years or more in jail, should the government decide to prosecute, which so far it has not done. A number of technical and general publishers are considering suing to overturn the long-overlooked federal regulation behind the ruling, and many scientific groups are considering donating substantially to that cause. But a Treasury Department official in the center of the fracas told The Scientist that he favors a new reinterpretation that would please all sides.” [Open Access News]

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Do other people find the treasury stance to be completely backward on this?

Useit.Com: Risks of Quantitative Studies. When I read reports from other people's research, I usually find that their qualitative study results are more credible and trustworthy than their quantitative results. It's a dangerous mistake to believe that statistical research is somehow more scientific or credible than insight-based observational research. [Tomalak's Realm]

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be aware of number fetishism….. i agree, but don't discount it. it has its uses and very often can be enlightening, but it does help that it can be informed with more personal accounts and well thought out arguments.