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http://www.inatoday.com/campusoppression120705.htm
"CAMPUS OPPRESSION"

DECEMBER 7, 2005
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2005 International News Analysis Today
www.inatoday.com

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Recent reports of threats issued by a leftist professor at a New Jersey community college against one of his young students attracted national press attention. The conservative press rallied to the cause of 19-year-old Rebecca Beach. Conservative commentators and journalists presented the incident as an example of "indoctrination" and "left-wing propaganda," but gave no indication as to how widespread the situation is.

Academia's dirty little secret is that intimidation of students over political, social, and religious views is common, and has been common for decades."

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"Israeli-developed viral cure could 'immunize' the Internet"
Israel21c ^ | December 06, 2005

Posted on 12/07/2005 12:23:28 AM PST by nickcarraway

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Tel Aviv University doctoral student and his colleagues are proposing an innovative way to beat computer viruses by spreading a specially designed antidote that knocks out the viruses before they can infect others on-line.

Eran Shir, 31, of Kfar Saba, along with TAU's Dr. Yuval Shavit and Hebrew University professors Sorin Solomon and Jacob Goldenberg, published their theoretical model - which operates much like a biological virus spreads in nature - in the December 1 on-line edition of the prestigious journal Nature Physics.

Most conventional anti-virus programs use 'signatures' to identify and block viruses. But experts must first analyze a virus before sending out the fix. This means that rapidly spreading viruses can cause widespread damage before being stopped. Some researchers have developed artificial 'immune systems' that automatically analyze a virus meaning a fix can be sent out more rapidly. In practise, however, computer viruses still tend to spread too quickly.

Shir, and colleagues at Tel-Aviv University in Israeli, have applied network theory to the problem, and believe they have come up with a more effective solution. Part of the problem, the researchers say, is that countermeasures sent from a central server over the same network as the virus it is pursuing will always be playing catch-up.

They propose developing a network of 'honeypot' computers, distributed across the internet and dedicated to the task of combating viruses. To a virus, these machines would seem like ordinary vulnerable computers. But the honeypots would attract a virus, analyze it automatically, and then distribute a countermeasure.

But the honeypots would be linked to one another via a dedicated and secure network. This way, once one has captured a virus, all the others will quickly know about the infection immediately. Each honeypot then acts as a hub of healing code which is disseminated to computers connected to it. The countermeasure then spreads out across the broader network."

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47767

Holy family, Magi nixed from nativity
Library says figures would be 'inappropriate,' action leaves just farm animals, shepherd boy"
Posted: December 7, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Away from the manger?

Saying it would be "inappropriate" to include them, Memphis, Tenn., library officials have banned Mary, Joseph, Jesus and the wise men from a promotional nativity scene – leaving only the stable animals and a shepherd boy.

Attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund say they are working to "educate" the officials about their action, saying the exclusion of the figurines is blatantly unconstitutional.

ADF confirmed to WND that the "nativity" scene is up at the library but includes just three palm-sized farm animals and a boy with a sheep over his shoulders.

According to a statement from ADF, the controversy arose when Brandi Chambless, a member of the music ministry at Broadmoor Memphis Church, submitted an announcement for display on the library's community shelves regarding the church's upcoming Christmas show. Library officials accepted the announcement but told Chambless that she would have to remove the "inappropriate" figures of the baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary, and the wise men from an accompanying nativity scene and limit it to farm animals alone."