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But suppose you would really like to be nobody?
The same day I read the Wired story, I noticed an article written by Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein last September. He was looking for a filmmaker who had made some "webisode" documentaries for then-presidential candidate John Edwards. Smith wrote: "A search for the filmmaker, Rielle Hunter, proved that Google does, in fact, have its limitations. No hits. The same held true with Facebook and MySpace - a bizarre level of anonymity for someone in the movie business."
Ms. Hunter, then and now, had ample reason not to be found. Websites had begun reporting rumors that she had more than a business relationship with Edwards. Last week, the National Enquirer ambushed her and Edwards in the early hours at the Beverly Hills Hilton. Her erstwhile Internet anonymity is now gone forever.
But the question remains: Could a successful professional like Hunter have managed to hide on the Internet? Could you?
"The answer is yes and no," says MIT's network manager Jeffrey Schiller. "You can't completely erase your presence, but you can make yourself hard to find." Far from all public records have been put on the Web in searchable databases, for instance. And the most basic records - IRS and Social Security data - are theoretically private. The Internet has even engineered what I call a "Passover program," called robots.txt. You can ask search engines to skate over your entire website, or specific directories in your website, and most will comply.
For the moment, Google is the 800-pound gorilla bestriding the Net. "Google doesn't really forget," says Ethan Zuckerman of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. One could say the Internet itself doesn't forget: Since 1996, the Internet Archive (archive.org) has been trying to preserve the billions of websites that have passed through the world's keyboards. So-called "reputation cleaners" like ziggs.com can change the order in which Google refers to you, but that's not the same as becoming invisible. The Silicon Valley-based monolith is not entirely inflexible. If you ask nicely, using a help menu it provides, Google may remove its picture of your house from its new Street View product.
Responding to allegations of copyright infringement, Google will often remove material, and then file the takedown request at a website called chillingeffects.org. But if there are nasty postings about you on the Internet, Chillingeffects founder Wendy Seltzer explains that service providers like Google and Yahoo! don't have to remove them; they have legal immunity under the Communications Decency Act. "My impression is that they don't respond to legal bullying," Seltzer says.
A Google spokeswoman confirms that "Google does not remove allegedly defamatory material from our search results," except pursuant to a court order.
So can you throw a Harry Potter-like cloak of invisibility around your Internet activities? " 'Don't look for me' is technically a very hard order to define," says Schiller's colleague, Daniel Weitzner, a research scientist at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence lab. "What would you even ask? 'Don't look for pages that are mean to me?' It's hard to define what you would mean by being invisible - can you prevent people from talking about you? The Web puts everyone in this public figure status."
I told Weitzner about one of my recent forays into privacy invasion, stalking reclusive Cambridge resident David Rockefeller Jr. on the Internet for a story. Call me old-fashioned, but parachuting onto the website of his singing group felt a little icky. "That's a fundamental change in the way our identities are constructed," Weitzner responded. "The practical obscurity that we all had is necessarily disappearing. Efforts to put the genie back in the bottle and create ways for people to hide again are not likely to work."
Unknown on the Web? "There are vanishingly few people who fall into that category," he says. For most of us, it may be too late to hide.
President Satish A. Tripathi and Brock University President Jack Lightstone have made official a joint Master of Arts degree in Canadian and American studies to be offered in the fall.
An agreement signed by the two presidents on Feb. 1 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, renews a five-year partnership agreement through which the universities will continue to share research and education initiatives. One of those initiatives is the joint MA degree.
Charles F. Zukoski, UB provost and vice president for academic affairs, says the new program was significant for the university and its students, noting it will be the first international joint degree to be offered in the SUNY system.
The new 12-month on-campus program is open to students from a range of undergraduate disciplines and was developed by the Canadian Studies Program in the UB Department of Transnational Studies and the Faculty in Humanities at Brock University.
Donald M. Eagles, professor of political science and director of the UB Canadian Studies Program, was instrumental in developing the new degree, which, he says, recognizes the vital need for citizens on both sides of the border to understand one another.
Eagles, a Canadian citizen, says the program “will focus on interdisciplinary research in the area of borders and boundaries, a field whose relevance is evidenced by the geographical location of the institutions and by the existing cooperation between the two countries.
“We have developed as nations in different ways, with unique sensibilities, loyalties and cultures,” he says, “and it is imperative that we understand our differences, as well as our shared interests as best we can.
The program’s initial cohort will comprise six students from each university in different fields of study. In addition to graduate courses in their specific disciplines, they will be required to undertake comparative analyses of social, economic, political and cultural issues in the two nations through courses taught by faculty members in the humanities and social sciences at both universities. Additional electives covering other aspects of the Canadian-American relationship also will be encouraged.
Colchester United’s Brennan Dickenson insists that it is time “to dig in” and “to keep believing in ourselves” ahead of the final five fixtures of the season.
The U’s suffered a big blow, in terms of their play-off hopes, when slumping to a 2-0 home defeat to Oldham Athletic on Saturday, their third home loss on the trot.
As a result, John McGreal’s men have slipped to two points and two places adrift of the League Two play-off zone, and that gap will be extended to four points if seventh-placed Exeter win at relegation-haunted Macclesfield tonight.
“We just have to dig in and do what we can,” explained Dickenson.
“We have got to believe in ourselves, everyone of us, from the players right through the rest of the back-room staff, and especially the fans – we want them to keep believing in us.
“We keep bouncing back, and now we have got to do that again.
“We need the fans to stick behind us as much as possible. It’s frustrating for them, but it’s also frustrating for us,” added left-sided specialist Dickenson.
On a personal level as well, it has been a frustrating last few weeks for Dickenson, who has largely been employed as a substitute rather than getting a chance in the starting line-up.
The 26-year-old was introduced as a 71st minute substitute against Oldham, and made a favourable impact as the U’s tried in vain to mount a late rally.
“I hope to get more game-time. I just have to keep working hard, keep my head down and do all the right things,” said Dickenson.
“If the manager (McGreal) decides to pick me, then I think I am ready for the task. We will just have to wait and see.
“The start wasn’t great (against Oldham), to go 2-0 down so quickly, but the boys came out well in the second half and, when the subs came on, I feel they did really well.
“You could see that we put a lot of effort into the second half, but unfortunately it just wasn’t our day. You get those days sometimes when chances just don’t fall for you. As well as that, it’s also about us not being clinical enough in the final third.
“We have to try and take some positives, and push onto next week,” added Dickenson.
The U’s are way at fourth-placed Bury this Saturday.
If you are overloaded with traditional, sweet and sappy love songs, tune in to Sound Opinions for a remedy. Jim and Greg celebrate Valentine’s Day with songs that honor Unconventional Love. Because it doesn’t matter who or what you love, as long as it rocks.
This is NGC 604, a colossal star-forming region located millions of light-years away in the neighboring galaxy M33. It's a rollicking, roiling cauldron of star creation and (occasionally) destruction, and it's only going to get more impressive as eons pass.
About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. NGC 604 was so large, however, it could form enough stars to make a globular cluster. Many young stars from this cloud are visible in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope, along with what is left of the initial gas cloud. Some stars were so massive they have already evolved and exploded in a supernova. The brightest stars that are left emit light so energetic that they create one of the largest clouds of ionized hydrogen gas known, comparable to the Tarantula Nebula in our Milky Way's close neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Via NASA APOD. Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Donald Waid.
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Former Clinton Independent Counsel Ken Starr on Friday penned an opinion piece in The Atlantic about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's next steps in the Russia investigation. According to Starr, Mueller can't indict President Donald Trump if wrong-doing was found and he must "remain silent."
The nation should have risen, as one, in righteous indignation in the aftermath of the Comey press conference. In a single misadventure, Comey both seized power that was not his—the power to seek an indictment, a prerogative that was entrusted to the attorney general—and then violated one of the fundamental principles of public prosecution: Thou shalt not drag a subject or target of the investigation through the mud via public criticism. Prosecutors either seek an indictment, or remain quiet.
Robert Mueller is not your everyday prosecutor, however. Under Department of Justice policy, a sitting president cannot be indicted. This prosecutor, unlike other prosecutors, cannot indict if he finds an indictable offense. And in contrast to the practices and policies that govern thousands of federal prosecutors around the country, this former FBI director—now a special counsel—has a specific reporting obligation. That solemn obligation is not to produce a public report. He cannot seek an indictment. And he must remain quiet.
Although Attorney General William Barr faces bipartisan pressure to publicly release Mueller's report, Starr argued that's not in the rules and regulations guiding the Special Counsel.
Under the regulations that governed his appointment and now guide his final acts, Mueller is to provide a confidential report to one person only: the attorney general. The regulations, which were promulgated 20 years ago during the final months of the Clinton administration, do not contemplate any sort of report sent directly from the special counsel to Congress or the general public. To the contrary, the regulations call upon the attorney general, William Barr, to receive the confidential report and then do two things: First, to notify Congress of the investigation’s completion and, second, to provide an explanation for certain specifically enumerated actions. There is no requirement for a Barr-edited version of the Mueller report.
Starr reprimanded members of Congress who want Barr to hand over the Mueller report in order to attempt to impeach President Trump for alleged wrong-doing.
The former Independent Counsel's take on the situation is simple: if Congress wants to attempt an impeachment proceeding, they need to do their own research and evidence gathering, not rely solely on Mueller's findings.
If the House wants to consider impeachment, it needs to do its own work. It would be odd in the extreme to ask, in effect, the executive branch to become a tool of the legislative branch in a death-struggle with the only individual identified in the Constitution as the possessor and wielder of executive power: the president. That was the old way, under the old statute. Congress did away with that approach, and wisely so.
The current system Mueller runs under was meant to remedy issues that took place during Starr's investigation during the Clinton administration, specifically the "low threshold" of evidence that was needed to implement impeachment proceedings.
Most provocatively, the statute [Ethics in Government Act of 1978] required an independent counsel to refer matters to the House of Representatives for possible impeachment when a surprisingly low threshold of evidence was in hand—“substantial and credible information that an impeachable offense may have been committed.” I followed that requirement when I produced the so-called Starr Report, which then took on a controversial life of its own in the House in the dramatic months of 1998.
According to Starr, then-Attorney General Janet Reno implemented the new special counsel rules that Mueller operated under because she saw the way the Starr investigation unfolded. The goal was to allow the special counsel to investigate and provide the Attorney General with reasoning why to prosecute and determinations not to seek a prosecution.
But Starr did point out one important bit of information: Barr has greater discretion to determine what's released to Congress and, ultimately, the public. Barr has said he would provide as much public transparency as possible. Now we have to wait and see what that looks like.
Happy Birthday, Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia!
On Thursday, Anne Hathaway shared a clip from The Princess Diaries on her Instagram to celebrate the movie's 16th anniversary. In her post, she wrote, "Happy Birthday Princess (Thanks Garry) #sweetsixteen #mia4evah."
The 2001 movie -- which helped launch Hathaway's Hollywood career -- became an instant classic, spawning one sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement, and endless talk of a third.
Julie Andrews, who starred as Hathaway's grandmother, Queen Clarisse, in both films, added fuel to the idea earlier this year when she told The Today Show, "There's always been talk about it. It's a 'yes' if they ask me, only if it happens of course."
Diaries director and Hollywood legend Garry Marshall passed away in July of 2016, but had often discussed the possibility of a third film, according to his longtime friend (and Diaries franchise star) Hector Elizondo.
"[Anne] was talking to Garry about doing a Princess Diaries 3. He was looking forward to being involved in that one way or another" Elizondo said. "He had another movie, our eighteenth. He said, 'Hector we're gonna do our 18th.'"
Even author Meg Cabot, who wrote the original Princess Diaries novel (and its 14 sequels), has heard rumors of a third film. Cabot recently told Entertainment Weekly there's interest in doing a Princess Diaries 3 "kind of as a tribute" to Marshall and said she has heard that a script for the film already exists. "So, who knows? [It] could happen, as we say," she added.
There may be no official word on more Princess Diaries, but Andrews has spoken out about the upcoming Mary Poppins sequel starring Emily Blunt.
The 81-year-old icon told ET, "Emily Blunt is going to play Mary Poppins and I am a great fan... I think she is terrific and a perfect pick."
For more on Mary Poppins Returns, watch the video below.
The New Zealand squad were greeted by more than 100 armed policemen when they arrived in Lahore for a five-match one-day series against Pakistan.
The New Zealand cricket squad were greeted by more than 100 armed policemen when they arrived in Lahore for a five-match one-day series against Pakistan on Friday morning.
"We are taking no chances with their security and safety," Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) cricket operations manager Zakir Khan told Reuters.
The squad is missing several top players through injury or withdrawals and includes seven who have not played one-day Internationals.
New Zealand Cricket's chief executive Martin Snedden, who negotiated the tour with Pakistan after expressing concerns over the safety and security of his players, also arrived with the squad.
New Zealand cut short their last visit to Pakistan in 2002 after 14 people died in a bomb blast outside their hotel in Karachi.
Four leading players withdrew from this tour, which was delayed after an anonymous threat was made against the New Zealanders.
Captain Stephen Fleming, batsman Nathan Astle and fast bowler Shane Bond are out with injury. Seven of the 14-man squad have not played international one-day cricket.
Vice-captain and spinner Daniel Vettori was not with the squad after remaining at home to be with his sick grandmother, but is expected to join the squad later.
The first one-dayer is on Saturday in Lahore.
The Clarets haven’t ruled out bringing in signings from abroad during this transfer window.
Burnley recently became the first club since Blackpool in 2011 to field an entirely British side in the Premier League - although manager Sean Dyche has pointed out that was not by design, but merely the scope of the club’s scouting network.
However, having appointed former Manchester United and Everton scout Robbie Cooke as UK and International Scout in November, Burnley have broadened their horizons, and Chief Executive Lee Hoos said: “Some of the players we are in for include overseas players - our plans don’t preclude them.
“It’s about the right type, rather than where they come from.
“It takes time for the new scouting network to work things through the system, but we are looking at players from abroad.
“Due diligence is tougher, as it’s okay knowing what a player is like on the pitch, but not as easy off the pitch, and you have to know everything about players, how they interact with teammates - it only takes one bad apple.
With just over a week to go until the deadline passes, at 11 p.m. on February 2nd, Burnley are out to add to their permanent capture of Michael Keane from Manchester United, and Hoos added: “We have a few irons in the fire, one or two we’d like to get over the line before the end of the window.
“Hopefully it won’t go to the wire, but it seems to be how things work out!
Author and speaker Willie Jolley shares how to overcome disappointment and achieve a new life!
Willie took a job at a junior college as a counselor. His job was to talk to students who were not doing well academically and convince them to stay in school. This is where Willie started learning about the power of motivation. He was then offered a job with the Washington, D.C. Public Schools as a drug prevention coordinator. Willie started speaking and found that people seemed to be inspired and motivated. He received invitations to speak at association meetings, churches, and ultimately major corporations. Willie used his public platform to pursue his mission of empowering and encouraging people to rise above their circumstances and maximize their God given potential.
Ford Motors called him in 2006 when they were on the brink of bankruptcy. Ford needed 25,000 employees to accept a buyout, but very few people were accepting the buyout. Willie was called upon to motivate the employees and move them to action. He went on a speaking tour to their factories and offices with a goal of converting 25,000 employees to take the buyout. By the end of his tour, 38,000 employees accepted the buyout. In 2009, Ford was the only one of the big three auto makers to reject a government bailout and go on to billion dollar profits.
Willie says everyone experiences setbacks. The key to long-term success is not talent or ability but the way you view and handle setbacks and adversity. When writing his latest book, Willie recalls how he was almost to the end of his first draft when his computer crashed. Although he wanted to panic Willie remained calm. After several attempts to recover the data Willie’s prayers were answered when he found an old disk that had almost his entire book. “We must learn to see adversity as strength developers and setbacks as comeback creatures,” shares Willie.
God sometimes uses challenging experiences to get our attention. After Willie got fired from his nightclub job he started working with the school system. He received a letter from the Gospel Music Association inviting him to perform at the Annual New Artist Showcase. Willie thought this could be his big break and maybe he would get a recording contract. “I walked into the ballroom that night with a serious attitude. I was cocky and arrogant,” recalls Willie. He says he went up on the stage to impress the audience, when he should have gone on stage to inspire the audience. As a singer, Willie was use to audiences giving him a standing ovation after his performances. This night they didn’t even clap. He was humiliated. Willie went back to his hotel and cried out to God, “What do you want?” The answer came back clear as a bell, “Inspire others!” Do not try to impress them, but rather inspire them. He felt the Lord tell he was going to speak to millions of people, write books, do television and TV. He also felt like God told him to go home and quit his job. The next day he walked into the office of his good paying government job and announced he was going to quit and become a full-time speaker. Some laughed and said he was a fool for leaving his job to follow a dream. In the few years since leaving that job, Willie has spoken to over a million people in America and abroad. He has a syndicated radio and television show. He has written bestselling books and appeared on the stage with some of the greatest speakers and entertainers in the world. Willie says it all started by failing…having a setback. “God got my attention and turned my life around by using a setback,” shares Willie.
Success is a choice. When you have a setback, there are a couple of critical choices you must make. The first choice is your perspective, how you see the setbacks; the second is how you respond to the setback.
Attitude is a choice. It is a decision. Develop a positive attitude so you can think and act in a positive way.
Make a commitment. Refuse to stop until you achieve your goal.
Have faith. To turn your problems around, you must have faith, faith in a God who will never leave you nor forsake you.
Have an attitude of gratitude. Every dark cloud has a silver lining. If you are willing to look for it and learn from it.
Willie serves on the ministry team at his church in Glen Arden, Maryland. During a recent alter call Willie got in position to pray for a man who was at the altar. Another member of the ministry team indicated they would pray for him instead. At first, Willie admits he was offended and struggled with his attitude. What Willie didn’t know was that he had someone else for him to pray for …the next person who stepped up to the altar for prayer was a fourteen year old boy. Willie told the boy about Jesus and walked him through the prayer of salvation. Yet Willie knew this boy would need more…he realized this boy needed to be discipled. The boy and his mom were homeless and moved from place to place frequently. Willie wished he could help disciple this boy, but how could he? Then Willie and the boy discovered something only God could have orchestrated. The boy’s grandmother whom he stayed with on occasion lived 50 yards from Willie in his neighborhood. Willie would be able to help nurture this boy in his walk with the Lord. “I am always amazed at what God does in my life, but not surprised,” shares Willie.
The world went through a state of shock yesterday, when one of life's most essential necessities incurred a minor setback. No, we didn't experience an apocalypse: Gmail went down for the total of one (devastating) hour.
Gmail users the world over panicked for just over an hour at around 12:30 EST (17:30 GMT), after being greeted with the message: "We're sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable." Thankfully, users were then assured when a message arrived 22 minutes later informing them that normal service has resumed: "The problem with Google Mail should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better."
The cause for the outage remains unknown, with Google issuing the following statement: "We've implemented a fix and users should now be able to access their mail. We apologize for the inconvenience."
Whilst approximately two per cent of account holders were unable to access their emails, this tiny statistic represents a much higher figure - roughly 5.25 million Google email users, in fact.
Despite this mishap throwing a spanner in Google's works, at least other sites got to benefit from their misfortune - with a noted increase in user activity across Facebook and Twitter (as well as a significant decrease in worker productivity).
Porsche Experience Center, One Porsche Drive, Atlanta, GA 30354 (rmsothebyscom); auction on Saturday October 27 2018, 1pm. On view Friday, 10am-5pm ($50); private preview for registered bidders ($200) and consignors directly before the sale on Saturday, 10am-1pm.
As any Porsche fan will know, 2018 marks 70 years since Ferdinand Porsche – having already created landmark automobiles such as the Volkswagen Beetle and the Mercedes-Benz SSK – produced the first car to carry his name in the form of the original 356 No 1 Roadster.
The anniversary has been marked with a string of events worldwide, ranging from a magnificent line-up of Porsche models being driven up the hill during this summer’s Goodwood Festival of Speed to official exhibitions in Stuttgart, Berlin and Los Angeles and the Rennsport Reunion on the Monterey Peninsula.
And now Porsche collectors and anyone who aspires to own one will be tempted to part with their cash in a special 70th anniversary auction being staged by RM Sotheby’s at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where more than 60 cars and 60 lots of marque-related automobilia, ephemera and spares will cross the block on October 27.