SoundExchange

If you want a lesson in how never to provide CONTENT (I am no guru on visual design) on a website, you need and try to read the flash-only, non-zoomable text web site of SoundExhange. I need say nothing more.

they have re-designed it since I last posted by this date, and yet they still insist on crap-coding - look how their flash-only scroll bar shoves 5% of the left AND right of the whole page out of the window frame! Part of their logo is chopped off on the left, and their contact info to the right.

Morons - and they want even more money from small internet broadcasters! They don't deserve the regulations they have "fought" for.

The Little prince

http://wwww.princefansunited.com/

Go there, and multiply. Prince, How Dare You?

O Ye of Little Faith!



Prince, Pal, Bud....what in the HellBoy is wrong with ye? R U "Crazy"? Oar R U jus B Inge re-COCK-u-LOUS ?

It's a damned good thing that publishing to blogs and bloggers who publish are covered by U.S. Supreme Court Ruling regarding blogs and bloggers' FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. Ya, they are kind of covered as far as US law is concerned.

The first time I thought U might B a wee bit outta WHACK, was after hearing Kevin Smith's anecdotal evidence on his College Lecture Tour (also available on YouTube and DVD) - and with this latest spate of crit of your fans critting you, you done stepped over the line with this law suit crap.

B a part of the solution.

In support:






OK, that is the fun side of the issue. Now, for the serious side.
F.U.N.K. , How Dare You?
Kudos to your group in looking to quell anger or consternation among the Prince Nation of Fans, but frankly, if I want to start a blog (fan site), I will start one - whether it is for the P or against the P, I don't care all that much. I like Prince's music. As a person, Prince is a little cry-baby bitch. No, make that Bitch. I am not the problem nor the solution, nor should I be either. Prince is both the problem and the solution when it comes to fan sites (official or unofficial). Fan sites will exist or coexist with or without Prince's help. But, if Prince decides to interfere with the business of fan sites, he should best stay in the Dove World of Music and out the World of Law.
I mean COME ON, who in their right mind thinks an assistant can run out at 3am in the morning for some smokes, when all the damn stores are closed?
Prince, just stay here on Earth with the rest of the dove poop. Quit trying to fly around so high there, bud!

Rights of Excercising your rights. (, and your lefts ?)

Yep, thems are fightin' words! So, here is yet another in a series of plagiarized articles for you to peruse - and I mean peruse!

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How to resolve the dispute over the Daily 49er's future

(Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Reprinted with permission of the author.)

Commentary By William A. Babcock

Faculty members at California State University, Long Beach's Department of Journalism have a two-fold task: to help students understand the mass media and prepare them to survive and thrive in their chosen media field.

One of the best ways journalism instructors can foster the respect for a free and ethical press to both journalism majors and students from all academic disciplines is to provide them with opportunities for publication, be it in traditional print or photojournalism or online writing or graphics or streaming video. Nearly all comparably sized universities in America thus have hefty print and online daily campus newspapers.

Since coming here as department chair six years ago I have seen the number of majors in CSULB's Department of Journalism nearly double as the department has implemented a new student-friendly curriculum, brought in outstanding faculty with professional experience and doctoral degrees and recently become the home for the Southern California News Council. Earlier this year the Department of Journalism received a strong vote of endorsement by an Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications pre-accreditation team that came to Long Beach to assess Journalism's program.

The ACEJMC team, however, was critical of CSULB's lack of support for the campus newspaper, the Daily 49er, saying, "The University needs to face up to the challenge of sustaining a first-rate, independent campus newspaper." The ACEJMC report added, "Virtually no such independent campus papers can and do survive in U.S. universities on advertising revenue alone."

Unfortunately, the Daily 49er now survives almost exclusively on ad revenues, which lately have totaled about $300,000 per year. Thus, the print campus daily newspaper often consists of only a few pages of tabloid-sized newsprint. The Daily 49er generates nearly all of this advertising revenue. By comparison, the online version of the newspaper attracts about $500 in advertising dollars.

CSULB's Department of Journalism is one of nearly two-dozen departments in the College of Liberal Arts, which at one time paid the salary packages of two full-time professional Daily 49er employees and, more recently, made up for any red ink the paper incurred - a figure that often was between $20,000 and $30,000 per year, according to Daily 49er financial records.

Recently, CLA Dean Gerry Riposa said he is considering eliminating the daily print campus newspaper or reducing it to a weekly print paper, and plans to conduct a study to see if this might be feasible.

When he came to the Friday, Sept. 14, departmental meeting in Journalism's conference room to discuss such a study, three student journalists from the Daily 49er newsroom across the hall entered the conference room. A reporter from Long Beach's Grunion Gazette weekly also came into the conference room.

After a few minutes Riposa left the conference room, and was widely overheard in the hallway saying he did not want to discuss a feasibility study with student journalists present, and left the building. Two hours later a Sept. 12-dated memo from Riposa was hand delivered to the Department of Journalism announcing that as of September 2007 CLA would no longer cover cost overruns for the paper from its general funds.

The next working day Riposa said he was removing me as chairman of the Department of Journalism at the end of the week, even though I had been re-elected in May by Journalism faculty to another three-year term. I requested that he retain me as chair until the end of the 2007/08 academic year to avoid disruption to the Department of Journalism. He denied this request.

The purpose of this op-ed piece is not to argue with a dean's ability to dismiss a departmental chair, as chairs serve at the "pleasure" of deans. Rather, the hope is that:

1. Dean Riposa will once again decide that CLA has a stake in having a strong, vibrant, informative daily print and online campus newspaper, and that the college will help fund this daily newspaper accordingly.

2. Provost Karen Gould realizes that a strong, well-funded campus daily newspaper provides an invaluable service to and for all students in a way that is impossible for a journalism class- or lab-newspaper produced as the result of a course assignment for journalism majors.

3. President F. King Alexander exercises his ability to have students pay a modest $4 per semester "circulation" fee for receiving the print Daily 49er, and also provides university funds to offset the salary package (about $75,000) each year of one professional daily campus newspaper employee.

With a campus faculty and student body as large and diverse as that of CSULB, we can't afford to close this vital avenue of dialogue within our community. Riposa, Gould and Alexander are relatively new in their respective positions. The hope is that they all will understand the benefits of fiscally supporting a strong, non-lab print and online daily campus newspaper to which all 35,500 students have been welcome to contribute and of which everyone at CSULB will be proud.

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William A. Babcock is a professor in CSULB's Department of Journalism and executive director of the newly formed Southern California News Council. In a former life he directed the University of Minnesota's Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, served as senior international news editor and writing coach for the Christian Science Monitor and was on the faculty of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

***

If you're concerned about what's happening at CSU Long Beach and want to do something, write a letter to:

William A. Babcock
Professor, Department of Journalism
& Executive Director, Southern California News Council
1250 Bellflower Blvd., SS/PA 024
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90840-4601
E-mail: wbabcock@csulb.edu

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What pisses me off about this, isn't the call for help proposed here by Babcock, but that the writer/publisher feels that much will be righted if we contact Babcock. No, I say. Much comfort might come to Babcock by writing to him. But, as with Congress, if you want it done, you complain about the top to the top - that would be Risoto, Roposa, whoever, you know who I mean. You put the journalistic pressure on that guy, and then you will get change. If a community college can get a butt load of plants removed from a lobby, a Fonte off their backs, and have a Chairman change his mind before we change his eating, drinking, & private "clubbing" arrangements, all by direct confrontation and commentary, then so can Babcock get his word to the wise-ass, I mean WISE MAN, Rizzo, Riposa, wh...you know who I mean.

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So now you ask, "Who cares, and why are they all in one list?". The Answer: Because their Backup & Restore policies are IDENTICAL - which is fine, but unless they are violating copyright laws through rampant plagiarizing - unlikely - then they are (and in fact are) all one corporate umbrella. But the policy?

Answer:

"
Backup / Restore

1. WhomeverIsInTheAboveList.com does not maintain backup copies of Customer Web sites or e-mail.
2. WhomeverIsInTheAboveList.com cannot guarantee that the contents of a Web site will never be deleted or corrupted, or that a backup of a Web site will always be available.
3. We ALWAYS recommend that Customers copy all content of a Web site to a local computer and strongly suggest that Customers make an additional copy (on tape, CD, multiple floppies, another desktop, or elsewhere) to ensure the availability of the files."

Identical, as in all other parts of any one of these companies' agreements. Also identical is engineering, Level 1 2 and 3 Tier support personnel and companies - all shifts. 1st shift is outsourced to India (what a surprise), 2nd shift is outsourced to a company in California, and 3rd shift happens to be handled by Purehost.com itself - for all of these companies - the corporate alliances have changed a bit from whence cam PureHost via SprintHost via DellHost (remember that nightmare?)

iPhone Unlocked + Apple's iPhone update 1.1.1 = APPLE is a MORON

iPhone Unlocked + Apple's iPhone update 1.1.1 = iDoorstop or the iBrick (there has to be more) and a damned illegal thing for Apple to have done to its iPhone users! Yes, it is actually illegal (it's punitive).

DO NOT UPDATE YOUR iPHONE with 1.1.1 if you have "unlocked" your iPhone* and installed any 3rd party apps on it, which is, by the way, legal for OWNERS of iPhones to do - the Supreme Court said 3rd party apps installed on devices is exempt.

UN-INSTALL all 3rd party apps

RE-LOCK your iPhone to "day one" status (if you unlocked it properly, you WILL be able to do this!)

THEN update with iPhone update v1.1.1

THEN RE-UN-LOCK your iPhone.

THEN Re-Install your favorite 3rd party apps.

WARNING = this is LIKELY to work and still leave your iPhone usable and with your added 3rd party apps re-installable.

The method above will HAVE to be re-done for EVERY future iPhone update.
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You WILL have to update it anyway, just do it right. If you do it wrong, or if you do not update, then parts of your iPhone will stop working before your very eyes.

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Ah, and Speaking of French Apple Pie Waste:
(were we?)

It seems the French company Vivendi is complaining of Apple's iStore charging too much for songs.....give it up, Frenchie, you know you can - you are experts in surrendering. So, surrender to your Bitch-master, Vivendi, and wine no more.

I am not french.

CDT-05 released from the factory too soon!

As the scratchworx website image verification NEVER works, here is what I tried to let everyone there know:

Just opened up 2 CDT-05's, shipped only 9 weeks late of promise (from the dealer) and the table on one of the units just will not spin. It's as if someone on the assembly line forgot to plug something. What a joke. Way to go, Gemini!

Gemini includes no right-angled plugs - power or audio - but should be an industry standard, this caused me to cut back the foam AND go to Radio Shack for yet more electronic parts & adaptors that should always be thought through and included.

The Vinyl controller locking disc (the label-sized fastener disc) is now PLASTIC, and not metal as I had previously seen from early show pics. The body is a charcoal gray, and is indeed plastic, not metal - what a surprise. The tonearm counter weight is strange, hanging back out almost completely off of the tonearm for an Ortofon? Whoa! Also, zero instructions on what gets attached first: The control vinyl? The slipmat? The other mat? The control disc that locks the vinyl (?) down is pretty easy to figure, but come on! At least pictures if not SOME narrative. I guessed with success.

Odyssey does not yet make a foam-lined case big enough for these CDT-05's for battle (but who does, really, make a case deep enough for permanent battle setups?), but, they should start. This really doesn't matter as almost all the new Numarks and Gemini TT's are at least 17+3/4" wide, and with only 17" of clearance after adding the typical 1" foam on all sides of the TT compartments in Odysseys largest (widest)...get it?

The other case design consideration? The front-RIGHT slot loading CD hole makes for an interesting re-design of the popularly asked for - bit rarely built - drop-down sectioning of the front lip of a DJ coffin (this would be ideal, of course). The CDT-05 came out in March 07, so one would think that Odyssey could have built a case with such in mind by August! Nope.

CDT-05? Gemini? Good idea, but Gemini is not improving their rep sending out TTs that have not ALL been at least plugged in and run to see if the basics work. They are also not improving their rep by insisting - after 20 years+ in the business - that all repair work be done in NJ. Ridiculous.

Odyssey? Can you say "Retrofit", that's what I am doing - cutting out foam pockets and getting the saws-all out of its new box to cut me some drop-down flaps for easy slot access!


Damn you, Gemini!

Alec Baldwin is a Big Baby Cop

So, uh, Baldwin.

How Dare You?

Shut up, already.

I may actually be, by the way, a better actor than you, also.


HA HA HA.


Imbicile.

Go, you Lesbians, GO!

Lesbians Rule !

http://digg.com/tech_news/LiveJournal_deletes_hundreds_of_illegal_rape_survivor_LGBTQ_communities "Responding to a query from a pedophilia-watchdog group, LiveJournal deleted all journals containing "illegal" key-words in the journal or community interests. Rape-survivor and incest-survivor groups, BSDM groups, and Lolita (the book) literary groups disappeared, along with hundreds of personal journals. Users are (predictably) outraged." from digg.com Wow. I wonder how long it will take LJ to kill my LJ account? Tags: digg, fun, gay, lebsians, morons, oops Current Location: My Lesbian Bed Chamber Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: L7

Job Security?

This is the good stuff. The first person in this video belongs. The second person is on probation.

Imus in the mourning

Cops vs. Real Life

Just something you need to see.

talk-show-hosts-in-hiding-after-police-threat

ustream.tv

How dare you, ustream.tv ? How DARE you?

Using java (just to have a chat) is stupid.

Your signup page does not work.

Your servers suck (only 650 simultaneous users and then CRASH ? Come on!)

You advertise "

• ZERO tolarence for Inappropriate Behaviour

Huh? If I PAY for a service, I will be the judge.

How DARE you?

(BTW, learn how to spell please - you'll do muh better. Almost every page on your site has horrible spelling errors)

iTunes be strokin' it!

Yep. first time! iTunes is now in the Big Leagues with the Big Boys - their latest update (7.1.1.5 - the ".5" is another in a long line of AAC-crack buster algos) - iTunes is now installing a KEY LOGGER.

I use ZA Pro, so I just DENIED iTunes from ever being able to LOG KEY STROKES.

What Bullshit, Apple?

Just say no to iTunes needing to record your keystrokes, as it would never have to.

RIAA p0wns NIU?

RIAA? How DARE You? Obviously, enough said. Just boycott the RIAA as much as would be practical.

Anyway, that "said", I am ashamed (I used to be proud) of NIU and their recent stance (legal?) on the 23 NIU students recently under charges brought by the RIAA, NIU's recent OFFICIAL stance that the NIU lawyers have recently contacted each of the students and have told them to get their OWN LEGAL REPRESENTATION!

When I attended NIU, NIU provided an Ombudsman for students. Yes, to use the Ombudsman was a lengthy and ridiculously onerous process, BUT we had an Ombudsman. Apparently, the Ombudsman is no longer available for students.

Speaking of legal issues: The local cable company having carried NIU's student-run TV station on its channel 73 (or 83?) have CUT THEM OUT and OFF the system. Why?

How DARE You?

NIU? How DARE You?

Ana Rincon is an idiot.

Her info on how to handle copyright violators is laughable if it weren't so scary and if it weren't for the fact that every body does this when confronted with SOME ONE ELSE'S Copyrights being violated!

Stupid. You do not - and according to the Act CAN NOT - take ALLEGED Copyright violators to court UNTIL you have at least followed the grievance procedures set out BY THE ACT. The Act supersedes any and all other sanctions IMAGINED yet still printed, publicised, adhered to by Colleges, High Schools, Libraries, companies, etc, all blindly thinking they know Copyright Law. The Copyright Act is not huge and nor hard to read. The DMCA bullshit, however, is complicated and is hard to read, but what of it?

The ONLY course of action for you to take when you feel violated is to report the violation to the PEOPLE THAT CAN AND WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT LEGALLY! That would be the US Copyright Office for ALLEGED Copyright infringement. Your College has NO BUSINESS accusing anyone nor imagining anyone of violating copyright law - how can they? No college employee nor student anywhere in the US can legally enforce ANY violation of the Act. Enforcement of the Act is the sole territory of the US Treasury Department. A college employee certainly can not enforce any ALLEGATIONS of same. And yet most schools print in their Policy Manuals words to that detrimental effect. I can not wait to get into the court system over Person A accusing Person B (me, in this case) of violating Person C's copyright, I live for this shit.

If you see a customer copying something at Kinko's, say of a picture taken by a photographer that you know Personally, and you some how, some way, find out that this customer does NOT have the Copyright Holder's permission to copy that picture, is there anything that you can do on behalf of your photographer friend?

Well, yes, there is something we can do to help the friend - one thing, and one thing only: You can call him on the phone and ask him to get his ass down quick to the Local Kinko's, because , "Dude, someone is copying one of your photographs from one of your published books! You better get down here and kick this guy's ass! I talked with a Kinko's employee about it and they said they only refuse to copy the works themselves, unless THE CUSTOMER gives a copy of signed permission form FROM the original Copyright Holder".

And that, my friends, is all that anyone can and is allowed to do under the Copyright Act. In this case, since I am not the copyright holder, I can not accuse nor report this Kinko's customer to anyone except the original copyright holder - period. I cannot complain to the Office of Copyright, the cops, the Kinko's store managers, no one except the original copyright holder. And if the original copyright holder does not care (about this one-time infringement) then I still can not do anything more. That is all.

Look it up: In your State, there are a list of crimes that can be reported and to whom they can be reported. Unfortunately there is no list of alleged crimes that CAN NOT be reported.

The Kinko's case is brought in here because Kinko's the company was once involved in a Copyright infringement case, that ultimately put ALL copy stores and libraries with copy machines "On Notice". The settlement specific to Kinko's was that they must FOREVER and ALWAYS (this now includes FedEx's ownership interest in Kinko's) must refuse all customer requests to make copies of customer's work unless the Kinko's Mange or employee attempting to do the work is ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the CUSTOMER owns or holds ALL copyright to all the work that the customer wishes the Kinko's employee to copy.

ANY and ALL COPYRIGHT infringement can only be PROVED, DISPROVED and SETTLED first with the Office of Copyright, and if not there, then appealed to a COURT of actual LAW. Why do we not know this in America?

How hard is that, really?

Factoring out the fear.

Joe Rogan, you are the MAN.

What the FUCK is going on here people?

Mitzi? If I EVER thought of doing standup again, it would have to be when you fire your sons from running the Comedy Whore (I meant Store). That you should even have to HEAR Joe's "side" of things is laughable - the mere thought of it is damned funnier than Mencia.

And what about Paul Rodriguez? He is one funny brown man. goddam! And fuck you Wikipedia for not listing Rodriguez at the top of the (at least Menstealia is near the bottom).

You know, we had Calos Mencia here at our school, the College of Lake County*, and yes, he was funny. But, not funnier than George Lopez (George must cringe everytime he hears one of his jokes come out of Ned) whom we have not had here, yet. At least George's fist in Mencia's face is funny.


* Yah, the same College of Lake County that Edward James Olmos cancelled TWO (2) appearances. (He has now the nickname of Edward James Almost because of it, too).


On the other hand, I don't care who handed Joe the microphone: because KUDOS to you my man or woman, KUDOS TO YOU!


Forgive me Joe

Joe Rogan VS Carlos Mencia ONSTAGE VIDEO.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FX17EJDD

http://media.putfile.com/rogan-pwns-menica

So you see how pissed off I am about Mencia - I have to steal Joe's links for the video!

By the way: my use of the word FUCK is of course covered by the 1st ammendment (go, you ACLU, go!)

Where the hell did that tuition go?

Well, now Carder apparently did it this time, according to the blog, Bad Cop News
the girl in McHenry was 12 years old when the two first "fell in love".

Obviously, the CLC Radio Really Local News Bed Team is at a real loss for words here.
(This story has been expanded upon at that blog)

In light of the old story where she was "15" when the young lovers were "introduced", Campus Safety Director Kevin Lowry has taken his cause (in the long, slow wake of Allen's comments to the Faculty Senate last year) recently to the Student Government Association Senate in asking their endorsment in renaming and outfitting the Campus Safety Department as a Campus Police Department.

We say the timing couldn't be better to request such a thing what with reputations the way they are.

Yeah.

And we're not being sarcastic, either! Pehaps Mr. Lowry's best "Direction" is teaching, after all.

We sure aren't leaving. Wild horses couldn't drag us away.

HOW DARE YOU?

Should I pick Modeling, Campus Safety, or User Support Tech for my new career?

Should I pick Modeling, Campus Safety, or User Support Tech for my new career?

OK, putting a computer in my hands is like putting a loaded gun in Barney Fife's hand, I know how to walk a runway, and I don't go for ladies much under 25 years old.

So I guess I will pick User Support Technician. I don't know why - it just seems like a good direction. (On the plus side, I can be my own boss. "Be your own boss?", you say, "Yes. Be my own boss", I say back to you - although being your own boss is kind of like being your own uncle - I can be my own boss, because no one is going to tell me I have to "ghost" someones hard drive when I know all I need do is put in a bootable linux device and change one or two registry settings in Windows, Macs are even easier to fix, and then reboot; thereby saving an administrator's hard work saved for years)

Illinois State Agency Web Standards do not work

There is absolutely zero excuse for the following website to be down:

http://www100.state.il.us/iwas/


The page we get:

Server Error

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

JRun closed connection.

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HA! Unbelievabull. Who is their ISP? Idiots anyway - FIX THE LICENSING ISSUES MORONS! GET THE CORRECT VERSION AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THIS ERROR.

The page is supposed to inform us of Illinois Web Accessibility Standards (talk about your handicapped websites)

First of all, IMHO, CLC should have an injunction against Illinois as to our "agency" status, until our "agency" status can be proved or disproved or NOT approved.

NO college should ever be considered a "State Agency". Gavoyabitch, you IDIOT!
(I would be more vocal, but I am not registered again, but will be soon all because Ron Lackey is running for CLC Board of Directors - Lackey and Lumber or Lackey and Barb O,, just say no to Lumber AND Barb O).

If CLC is considered a state agency, then web standards of the state for everybody, but NOT UNTIL THE DAMNED WEBSITE WORKS THAT IS SUPPOSED TO EXPLAIN WHAT THOSE STANDARDS ARE! Sweet, sweet irony, folks!

An Interest of Conflict

After reading this, some of my colleagues will think me a hypocrite (especially the ones who wouldn't know the definition of hypocrite if it hit them in their Achilles), some will be astonished I would "read" in to CLC Governance something so trivial, and some others will think, "How DARE you" think you can lump yourself into "colleague" status - the latter being quite ridiculous. Read on brave, thundering souls!

After reading the well defined CLC Governance Handbook, I recalled a Committee Charter and one of its sections; and how it was worded. Something wasn't accurate. Something about comparing the two "versions" bothered me a bit. It all started with the Charter of an ITC subcommittee - the one that deals with Internet and Intranet things (and how damned appropriate, as you read this on the Internet!)

While searching for an acceptable form in forming a democratic entity from the ground up to be ready for inclusion into parts of the Operations of a college radio station, I came across a variety - too much so - of in-place, real-world constitution and charter examples, either outdated or similar to each other where there should be clear delineations or dissimilar where there should be almost verbatim identicism.

Assumptions: That the CLC Governance Handbook, last updated Oct 2006 (pretty good, considering past update history!), is the sole guide to be used.

Points I found:

There is, in every non-student Senate constitution, a section utilizing the CGH directions, but adding a 3rd party assumption of duty that is non-binding by its nature - this section needs to be dropped and its dropping would not be substantial - on the contrary, its very inclusion causes substantial nonsense in the governmental process as outlined in the CGH.

Although membership in each commission and any ITC standing subcommittees (there are 4 such via the ITC, several in the Faculty Senate, 2 in the classified) delineates the need for student representation - each requesting/requiring 2 student reps per Commission and 1 per subcommittee in fact - there is less. Each Commission has 1 of the requested and each ITC subcommittee has zero.

The Student Senate appoints students to fulfill these requested obligations. There is no distinction as to if a student appointed must, must not, or should be only an SGA voted or appointed senator, only that those 2 chosen be students (presumably of CLC, although also not spelled out).

Although there is no mention in any of the non-student Senate Constitutions as to membership requiring student representation of any kind, the Faculty Senate has verbally requested for many years, some student representation at their meetings (presumably already an appointed or elected SGA Senator, and for this latter concern seems an appropriate distinction, although personally I would prefer 1 student be an SGA member and the other student not be an SGA member - on purpose)

I think there should be not only student repping such as have been allowed/requested in the Fac Sen, but the other Senates should require this in their membership sections (in their respective constitutions). Why Specialist and certainly why in Classified would having student reps be important?
Checks & Balances, more open communication, real-world access to what is really going on "behind the scenes".

Student Media needs to play a much more significant observational role in reporting Employee and student Senate meetings. I attended CLC for a number of years and have personally witnessed Chronicle Staff being present at Student Gov meetings, and then reporting (I should say, trying to report) their observations post-meeting. As, according to the CGH, ALL initial regularly scheduled meetings of Senate and Commission groups are to follow first the Illinois Open Meetings Act, having a News Reported present is no different than having one present at any Board meeting.

The case of Senate or Commission intra-representation has always been a concern of mine. As of January 2007, the Specialist Senate has specialists in the field representing their cause in various committees and commissions, however, the problem is that a Specialist hired and working with ITS should NOT be also a voting member of the Specialist Senate nor any of its subcommittees, as IS now the case. This is a potentially bad practice to continue as the ITC, its subcommittees and all its membership are ADVISORY commissioners with only ADVISORY capacity. Those same advisors should not be allowed to vote on their very recommendations via another conduit - voting should be left up to the non-ITS Specialists within the Specialist Senate

Senates vote and Commissions advise and recommend.

Either group or individuals can bring concerns for discussion to, for example, the ITC Internet/Intranet Subcommittee, but if they realistically feel that the concern is best handled by a redirect from the GCC or by an operating department in place, then that is what should occur as not every idea that comes up in a group needs to be discussed in that group (how long do meetings really need to last?).

Regarding needs: The I/I subcommittee of the ITC have "come up" with a few ideas that they clearly talk about in their meeting minutes (available in the Public Folders, but curiously not on the Intranet page):

1. Web standards (to be used in faculty, staff, student web pages/spaces, presumably covering everything from disclaimers to bandwidth usage to storage capacity to database use to content update frequency allowances to publication authority an control)

2. Public Folder Access concerns, mainly, Public Folders should be used for more private communications and the Intranet should be used primarily for Agenda and Meeting Minute publications.

3. change the name of the Governance page on the Intranet to Commissions and Committees.

The first is rife with the members of the "nothing bad has happened in the past, but just in case it does" camp, and those campfire embers are always warm! If your IT department can determine that you have the infrastructure and are supported in the same to provide faculty, staff, and student club & organization web space/pages, then the premise should be one o OFFERING the space. Demanding it, in the example of Student Organization Space, is beyond ludicrous in some respects and Grade-Schoolish in all others. First of all, the notion that student club or org spaces need any type of control or coddling in some half-arsed future preventative effort to "protect" the college's interests or image:

1. is a fantastic waste of in-house resources
2. will be fine with proper or agreed upon (rarely the same) disclaimers holding the college harmless
3. a declaration that the club page is indeed sanctioned but not necessarily endorsed by the college's staff, faculty, or administration
4. club budgets can be temporally frozen during due process initiated from an incident
5. sanctions can be spelled out for each club member contributing to all page content that has been deemed unsuitable for anyone's image, let alone the college's (hence the disclaimers)
6. advisors can be charged with the responsibility of publication controls if needed, and then only on on a per case basis (much as in how some bulletin boards, blogs' comments, and on-line forums are moderated before comments can be posted to a site)
6a. this latter process can be easily automated and already is so on places such as Live Journal and Google Groups, Google Pages, and MSN Live (see Server2003 infrastructure used for remote control capabilities through signatory agreements between CLC ITS and MSN)

I am suggesting an honor approach be applied and reapplied to every club and organization when discussing web publication of anything, including blogs and other forms of public dissemination of club and member info. In other words, forcing clubs & organizations to only use provided internally controllable webspace will merely force clubs to use Live Journal, or Google's Blogger or Blogspot, or MSN Live, or you can see where this would become a "revolution" in a sense. Not so much a revolt, but at least quite revolting to look at! And MySpace is always lurking out there, yuch. All of these mentioned here, these technological alternatives to out-sourced somewhat costly ISP webhosting, are free. But, just because a club spends money to "go outside", the hypocritical nature of this statement blares loudly, "Why should clubs have to spend money?", well, ask anyone in Student Activities: To Learn real-world, hands-on approaches to publication and group interactivity. I said hypocritical due the fact that if clubs are using any of he aforementioned free alternatives, then the issue of spending money is disingenuous and a red herring designed to obfuscate the real concern: one of control from the top.

IT and ITS are to be used as tool boxes for us to get done what we want to do and provide for our stakeholders (and of course I HATE using that word in a sentence). IT should never be in charge of WHAT we say online, only how we can design the font. That's pretty much it, and to also help us become better protectors of our passwords and usernames.

So basically, offer the webspace, but don't force it - not even to faculty in most cases.

Any club or org or advisor that feels forced into only using CLC-controlled webspace will probably already know that CLC would never be able to handle that club's existing bandwidth and current storage requirements with the level of security and efficiency that can be had by even merely godaddy. We must also consider that some webpages cannot be controlled by edict their National or International charter - PTK comes to mind. To be a member of PTK in good standing and as a member you wish your chapter to have a web presence, I believe they require specific guidelines to be followed for this to occur.

Speaking of guidelines, lets say for argument that web space can be accommodated via CLC controlled server technologies matching all of any current club's web requirements for now and the near future; you would still need to allow all of the clubs to have meetings to consider what is fair and appropriate to each of their needs - which vary widely - regarding web standards proposed. These standards would then further need to be refined and then voted on by that ad hoc group. This method is more than just implied in the CLC Governance handbook.

Some clubs would need to be updating content automatically every 60 seconds or less (per DMCA requirements of Internet Streaming Stations such as CLC Radio, not to mention their weekly and daily music charting updates, and lists of new music coming in sometimes twice per day), others would require at least daily content updates, and on down to maybe as little as once or twice per semester for probably the majority of clubs - to start with, as once it becomes piratical and popular to let Mommy (CLC) take "care" of our sites, then you will need at least 1 full time staff in IT just to handle all web concerns, not to mention the help desk nightmares of, "I though you said we could have sub webs, not sub domains?". Not even 3 dedicated IT staff could handle such a load. And yet, such a load is normal for most Microsoft- and Linux-based web sites.

The second point is rife with....well, it just points to some ignorance on the part of the users of public folders, which is ironic in two ways:
1. the ITC committee was first to introduce the functionality of Public Folders and disseminate proper training and usage of same
2. and the subcommittee in question - along with the other 3 of the ITC, have not published one single agenda nor minutes, even though all other governance groups have either attempted at least half-hearted or are extremely timely in their publications


The third point (from far above) regarding the "name change" is quite erroneous since the "Governance" name and its usage are only two years old and, most importantly, broad in scope which is exactly what is necessary in being able to create further delineation in government as in groups like, the Internet/Intranet sub committee!

I finish with what I earlier mentioned; the honor approach to student group, out-sourced web hosting. The honor is: Student Life and Student Activities are to be the sole controllers of web hosting choices here - thus necessitating the involvement of the SGA, if and only if some operational consensus cannot be reached between the directors, the advisor, and the club officers and membership. Due process must not only be followed in letter as a post-emptive strike, but in spirit in a pre-emptive idea. The action would be the action of the membership's trustworthiness and reasonably perceivable conflict arising out of arbitrary publication - especially of unsubstantiated facts (which is presumably why a concern from a non-student group existed in the first place).

In other words: let Student Life worry about the ethical behaviour and the ITC worry about fully, technically supporting an infrastructure truly ready to handle a wide variety of assumptive web hosting behaviour.

This blog alone should be proving this point. This blog post should not scar anyone - as I my intention is to inform, not to intimidate.

We need more info, so let's vote!

If you are on a board of directors - any board - and you feel that you are voting on an item before you have at least some background info delivered covering the item being voted on, then -
DO NOT VOTE YET.
Ask more questions. Then, still delay the vote until the next regular meeting! What could be simpler? Only breathing.

Oh yeah; Page 11 has the background info I needed in order to vote on this soap-box issue.

The dangers of post-it notes

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS WAAAAY OVER ANALYZED! (big suprise)

I received a post-it note with a message on it paired with a verbal genuine concern from a co-worker today, Tuesday.

The message/note was delivered to my co-worker last "....Friday", by another co-worker of ours, we'll call him "Last Friday". The note contained a simple message conveying a problem that, to me had I received the note last Friday, could have been eliminated. Last Friday. The verbal message accompanying the note handed (today, Tuesday) me I had perhaps - I will concede here - mis-heard, that an administrator had reported an incident indicated in the post it note.

I decided to seek the advice of a wise sage.

My supervisor told me to "...[not] worry", and "...just fix it [the problem].". Well, when I am told to not worry, I generally take that to mean "drop it, don't worry, no further analysis or work is needed". And yet, I ponder the inequity.

On the other hand, I am reminded of the movie starring Demi Moore & Michael Douglas, "Disclosure"; a movie of reverse sexual harassment - girl against guy - in which Douglas' character was anonymously told, almost continually, to "fix the problem" - even after he was sure he need not worry. (no spoiler here). Well I digress, for some odd reason - really odd - I have sexual harassment on my mind today, but it obviously has nothing do with "...what I am just trying to convey the sentiments of everyone here. That's all I was trying to do...."

Immediately after a casual "walk with me" interview of the administrator mentioned earlier in this blog, that administrator had no idea what I was referencing. They were clearly not involved with the delivery of the message, the note, nor its meaning, although they may have been present at the time of "the incident", they were not made aware of it., at its occurrence in time. Last Friday.

I thought to myself, "I could be embarrassed by this, or I could existentially choose not to be and, 'fix the problem'."

Hence, this blog post.

The lesson for everyone is: deliver your concern over an incident on the day it happens, otherwise ignorance will be my watch word. You're on notice, Mr. "Last Friday". OR even I can forget to deliver messages from time to time - unless, of course, I know that delaying such a message (consciously) would cause any turmoil.

Hey, turmoil? None caused. None perceived. The communication problem = Fixed.

On a side note: "So, stop the suspense. Please, tell us what was on the note; what did it say?"
Well, if I answer that question, I would be violating the first rule of working at CLC Radio.
Rules and regulations are within easy reach in their website.

<-- copyright 2007 by Dan Prowse -->

Free Speech?

Recently (1-22-2007), I read a short article in the Waukegan News Sun here in Lake County, IL. reporting what some (actually very few) college employees and students thought of whether or not they thought there was a problem with how free speech is being handled in colleges all across the US, but specifically what they thought about it at their college.

Read it, then come back. The article.

Fine. Read the last quote again. HOW DARE YOU, Ms. Libby?

Somehow Ms. Libby of Lake Forest College, I think that the moment "it" should ever come to restricting free speech on your campus, will be the day you find out you have been fired for considering restricting free speech in any way at this point today. And there is the problem. I just hate it when administrators - or people in general - use the passive voice, especially when they are asked to seriously consider free anything.

And, referring to the article once more, although miss Pirro from CLC makes a good point, I doubt very much that she or any group that would have her as a member would be allowed - by college administrators - to hand out fliers just anywhere they chose to on campus. I would really like to see that happen in the main lobby in front of the information desk. Yep, I would be there just to see how it was "handled". They would be asked to leave by Campus Safety. If the group were to be required to have prior permission to hand out fliers - regardless of the location, that permission in itself is a restriction. Anyone thinking otherwise is not thinking logically.

And no, there are not now problems (and there won't ever be again; not like this...) of free speech at CLC, however as recently as four (4) years ago there was severe problem of possible administration quashing, editing, or publication delay or refusal with one issue of The Chronicle, the CLC student newspaper - they had advertisers way passed pissed off over the incident. That was a big deal, and I blame the lack of follow up squarely on The Waukegan News Sun-don't-shine reporters - the very same paper that reported the herein mentioned egregiousness against a free "student" press. Don't get me wrong here, I wasn't personally pissed off about it, I just felt queasy every time I heard the tale recounted!

If you think this is bad, you'll cry in your Hennessy* after reading about what these students think they can get away with (prep warning on me; I'll fix it later) :

The other article....
"....A decision to freeze funding for the U.C. Santa Barbara student newspaper is stirring up controversy on campus....." Yikes! Zoinks!

Now this is interesting: the issue here is; is an advertisement covered by the 1st amendment and is the right for a newspaper to advertise covered under the 1st? No and No. Does that condo association have a concern over ethical or moral considerations in this case? No. Can the student government at Santa Barbara cut the paper's funding over a controversial advertisement? I do not know. I do know they cannot legally cut funds over a controversial statement made by a reporter or reporting in print as that is illegal.

The last example (Yeeeeah!)
"....According to the school district’s written policy, “Official school publications are free from prior restraint by officials except as provided by law.” ...."; let's just say that this school official goofed and goofed rather ridiculously hard! Note: no flag was harmed in the making of this play. RTFA.

With all my rantings, have I just committed an act of free speech? Be careful in answering me - this is a blog and both it, as blog, and I, as blogger, are protected by the first amendment according to the US Supreme Court as recently as May 2006; protected much more so than even a college newspaper - can you say "Governor State University" - unless that newspaper is designated as a "open forum"? Huh? What? Ya, straight from that "landmark" almost-decision. Basically stated, if you maintain - especially in writing - that you will not interfere with your students media, then you simply can not interfere (unless you spend time re-writing, then voting again in the opposite direction you once held so dear as a school board.)

Go figure. This is "just" a blog, right?

This just in.......
".......Rep. Dave Upthegrove, D-Des Moines, has introduced a bill that would ensure student journalists aren’t censored, and would not allow public schools or universities to discipline or fire a student media adviser for refusing to censor students.........."
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Then again, although my predicting how someone can guarantee their own job loss might sound crude, crass, or something, that ain't nothin' compared to the other crap that happened to the well being and psyche of CLC and its employees and students on this day.

I am really O KOTA! Talk about yinning your yang!

And no I am not going to retract this, edit it, nor delete it, as I just may need it for evidence in case I am fired over it! I don't even want to get called on the carpet for this - just hold it in.
Embarrassed? Good. Now put it in the B-court and shut up about the basement! (inside "joke" that just never gets old)

How DARE you?
My use of commas is exquisite, no?

* Not promoting alcohol here, but wouldn't it be nice sitting in a Hennessy hammock, swaying in the main lobby breeze, sipping the XO? Ya, maybe if a drank! Now go get me my White Chocolate Latte before I have to spank ya! And tell little Jimmy he's not allowed to play tag anymore at school unless he signs that release!

"...and the coach is black!"

On the way to the 007 superbowl (NFC 2006 Champs):

Really? The coach of Dah Bears "...is black!"?

I do not care if a coach is black, blue, green, red, white; he - or she - must be good, not too well liked, and get the team fired up to go at least most of the way to the finals or at least the 1/4 finals.

Or more. Ya.



Go Lancers!

CLC Alumni Association President Elections?

I am running.
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In an unrelated story, the dangers of DHMO !
(suggested by P. Gillette)

Trillian forum support vs. actual support

The amount of ad-hominem heaped on DanKirkD by this amoeba character is not to believed:

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Old 18 Nov 2005, 03:38 PM

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I'd say not dealing with the matter in 5 months is a good indication it has been ignored.

A:
Perception is not an indication.

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Originally posted by DanKirkd
Never supplying an answer as to why the workaround can be implemented is ignoring it.

A:
I'm not violating any of the numerous NDAs I've signed to provide you with any more information than I've already provided. The fact that I've had conversations and I've posted in this thread should indicate (not cause perception ) that this problem isn't being ignored.

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This is not a game, however you wish to turn it into one.

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The bug isn't a game but this thread has turned into one. I can tell that you're the kind of person who'll continue badgering the issue until you get the answer you're looking for as opposed to being satisfied with an answer. I've posted a number of times that your implications are unfounded and I've conveyed the fact that I've spoken with Scott about the problem. The fact that you're continuing to question me is getting old.

Bottom line (and last word) is that the bug has been posted in this forum. I've also made the development team aware of it (and posted that they're working on resolving the problem, which is the answer). As I've said several times now, once a fix is in place, it will be made available.

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Old 17 Jan 2007, 05:59 PM
MSN Reconnect - Why isn't this fixed yet?
Regarding this bug: http://forums.ceruleanstudios.com/sh...threadid=76781

Why isn't this fixed yet?

I'm a developer myself and the fact that a bug like this can exist in a commercial piece of software for a year and a half is totally unacceptable. If this was a bug in a piece of code I'd written, I'd expect to be fired or at least severely bitched out for not resolving it sooner.

Amoeba's answers in the other thread just skirt around the issue at hand instead of providing a solid reason as to why this bug still exists. DanKirkd provided a valid workaround as a temp hack, yet Amoeba ignores that and attacks DanKirkd for bringing the issue up.

So, the question at hand... Why isn't this fixed yet and when can a patch be expected?

If you guy's aren't able to reproduce the problem on your side, let us know! Work with the community instead of providing halfassed "we are working on it" responses. I'll gladly help with debugging as I can guarantee that the time I'll spend on that is less then I've spent manually reconnecting every ****ing time I've moved my laptop for the last year and a half.
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