Santorum wants to rewrite the federal funding formula under Title IX of the Higher Education Act to include “ideological diversity” as well as sexual equality in education as a perquisite for federal funding. Ideological diversity seems to be some sort of double think. In other words, if you don’t buy the mainstream orthodoxy you need more ‘ideological diversity’.
Among the more benign approaches being developed is one program, considered a Trojan horse rather than a virus, that simply redirects users to Web sites where they can legitimately buy the song they tried to download.
A more malicious program, dubbed “freeze,” locks up a computer system for a certain duration — minutes or possibly even hours — risking the loss of data that was unsaved if the computer is restarted. It also displays a warning about downloading pirated music. Another program under development, called “silence,” scans a computer’s hard drive for pirated music files and attempts to delete them. One of the executives briefed on the silence program said that it did not work properly and was being reworked because it was deleting legitimate music files, too.
Other approaches that are being tested include launching an attack on personal Internet connections, often called “interdiction,” to prevent a person from using a network while attempting to download pirated music or offer it to others. It’s an arm’s race. Luckily there’s more of us than them.
Israeli Tourism Minister Benny Elon left last night for the United States, where he will present the U.S. officials with the plan based on naturalizing the Palestinians in Jordan and that a Palestinian state in the spirit of President George Bush’s vision will only feed terrorism and that Jordan is Palestine, Israeli daily Haaretz said.
