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La filosofía es.....

La filosofía es, en términos generales, una reflexión metódica que expresa la articulación del conocimiento, las posibilidades y límites de la existencia y modos de ser.





Cual es la filosofía politica del Partido Nuevo Progresista?.

Sarah Palin Interview with Sean Hannity Part 3

Sarah Palin Interview with Sean Hannity Part 2

Sarah Palin Interview with Sean Hannity Part 1

MIT Coders' Free Speech At Stake

from EFF.org Updates by hugh

As regular Deeplinks readers know, EFF's Coders' Rights Project is defending the rights of three MIT students who were prevented from presenting their research on security vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system. The students were hit with a temporary restraining order that silenced their planned presentation at DEFCON.

Why this is Important

At first glance, the issues at play may appear obscure, and of interest only to technical researchers and lawyers. But as we noted in a post last week, the right to publish without pre-publication review is part of the purpose of the 1st amendment, and one of the reasons Americans fought the Revolutionary War. (The MBTA's stance is all the more ironic, considering Boston's role in that war.)

Beyond this core constitutional principle, EFF is defending the ability to conduct security research in the digital age. As we note in our Vulnerability Reporting FAQ, security researchers by definition raise questions that corporations and government agencies would prefer to keep quiet. But by investigating flaws in security, and alerting the public to vulnerabilities, researchers play an important role in keeping private and public institutions accountable.

The MIT students were behaving as good citizens within this culture of security research. They met with the MBTA before the presentation. They never planned to expose the full details of their successful expose of the vulnerability of the MBTA's fare system, and MBTA officials admit that students had provided them with "a written summary of every vulnerability that they claimed to have discovered and how to fix these vulnerabilities." As promised, the students provided a detailed 31 page analysis of the security vulnerability, and the MBTA has finally admitted that a vulnerability exists.

The free speech implications are even more important because showing faults with a government agency's systems is core political speech. The Boston Herald reports that an MBTA Advisory Council Member was concerned with the fare card payment systems (in light of this controversy), and noted that the "T gave a no-bid contract for CharlieCard services to a former government employee." This makes the public interest in this matter even stronger.

The MBTA is Seeking a Dangerous Precedent

Moreover, if the MBTA's unprecedented expansion of the federal computer intrusion law (considering a talk to people the same as transmission of a program to a computer, considering a piece of paper with a magnetic stripe to be a computer, etc.) is adopted by the federal court in Boston, it would also have the unintended consequence of chilling future academic research and discussion. An anti-virus researcher, for example, presenting virus code on the PowerPoint screen at an anti-virus software conference, could be charged with a similar offense. Releasing a computer security textbook which describes attacks and defenses to networks would become a crime. The court and the MBTA should think about the consequences beyond the scope of this lawsuit.

The MBTA is also misguided with its notion that anytime a security researcher dares looks at a vulnerability, he suddenly has an obligation to provide the vendor of the faulty code with all of the research materials and to stay silent until the vendor decides he can speak. They seem to believe that they have right to all of any such academic researchers' notes, drafts, tools, and anything else, because they did them a favor and told them about a vulnerability the vendor didn't know about previously. The MBTA not only asserts that the researchers have this as a moral obligation, but a legal obligation to allow the vendor pre-publication review.

The MBTA's strategy of shooting the messenger is not only counter-productive and shortsighted, it is dangerous. The vulnerability existed long before the students discovered it, and it could be (and may have been) discovered by others. The MBTA and its vendors are the one who adopted a faulty system for its payment cards, not the students. The MBTA's priority should be fixing the problem, not continuing needless litigation.

A Reasonable Way Forward

The only thing stopping the students and the MBTA from working together cooperatively to resolve the fare payment card security issues is the lawsuit itself. The students have offered to meet with the MBTA and voluntarily walk the transit agency through the security vulnerability and the student's suggestions for improvement--for no charge--if only the MBTA would drop this lawsuit. It appears that the MBTA, a public transit agency supported with billions in public money, would rather spend these taxpayer dollars on litigation in a misguided attempt to keep the vulnerability quiet than work with the students to resolve the situation.

On Tuesday morning, the federal court with either lift the restraining order, or convert the order to a preliminary injunction. EFF's Coders' Rights Project will be there, arguing for the First Amendment rights of the students, and for the right of researchers to investigate security flaws in the public interest.

First 2008 Presidential Debate (Full Video)

McCain Statement

Foundation

A 58 dias de las elecciones

Enough Is Enough

Crisis

Subject: Presidential Candidate Comparisons

Subject: Presidential Candidate Comparisons

ISSUE JOHN MCCAIN BARAK OBAMA


Favors new drilling offshore US - John McCain -Yes, Obama -No

Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it - John McCain - Yes, Obama -No

Served in the US Armed Forces - John McCain - Yes, Obama - No

Amount of time served in the US Senate John McCain - 22 YEARS, Obama - 173 DAYS

Will institute a socialized national health care plan John McCain - No, Obama -Yes

Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy John McCain - No, Obama -Yes

Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately John McCain -No, Obama-Yes

Supports gun ownership rights John McCain -Yes, Obama -No

Supports homosexual marriage John McCain -No, Obama -Yes

Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase John McCain -No, Obama -Yes

Voted against making English the official language John McCain -No, Obama -Yes

Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegals John McCain - No, Obama -Yes


CAPITAL GAINS TAX
MCCAIN
0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.

OBAMA
28% on profit from ALL home sales.

DIVIDEND TAX
MCCAIN
15% (no change)

OBAMA
39.6% -If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will pay nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes.

INCOME TAX
MCCAIN (no changes)
Single making 30K - tax $4,500Single making 50K - tax $12,500Single making 75K - tax $18,750Married making 60K- tax $9,000Married making 75K - tax $18,750Married making 125K - tax $31,250

OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400Single making 50K - tax $14,000Single making 75K - tax $23,250Married making 60K - tax $16,800Married making 75K - tax $21,000Married making 125K - tax $38,750

INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN
0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)

OBAMA
Restore the inheritance tax

NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA
New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet. New gasoline taxes. New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity) New taxes on retirement accounts. New taxes to pay for socialized medicine.



You can verify the above at the following web sites:
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/election/2008/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.taxes.htmlhttp://elections.foxnews.com/?s=proposed+taxes

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/john_mccain/

Santini 2008

Original Mavericks

Senator John McCain: Nomination Acceptance Speech

Boston: van las papeletas bilingües

Boston: van las papeletas bilingües
Por (AP)

SAN JUAN - El Tribunal de Apelaciones del Primer Circuito de Boston desestimó el jueves la solicitud presentada por el Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) que cuestionaba una orden del juez de distrito José Fusté para imprimir en inglés y español las papeletas electorales.Según la orden, el demandante, el comisionado electoral del PPD, Gerardo Cruz, no tiene legitimación activa (“standing”) para hacer el reclamo.“Cruz... no tiene daños y no arriesga nada personal con esta decisión”, dice la escueta orden de una página, en la que, entre otros, intervino el juez puertorriqueño Juan Torruella.El juez Fusté ordenó a la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones el jueves pasado, a 69 días de las elecciones, imprimir las papeletas en español e inglés.

Fusté falló así a favor de los estadounidenses Sylvia Diffenderfer y Robert McCarroll, que reclamaron las boletas bilingJues.Datos del Censo de 2000 establecen que el 85.4% de la población en la isla habla español, 14.4%, inglés y el 0.2%, otro idioma distinto.El último día para hacer cambios en las papeletas es este viernes.El presidente de la CEE, Ramón Gómez, ha advertido que es imposible a esta fecha tener papeletas bilingJues listas para el día de las elecciones.

En Puerto Rico, el asunto del idioma se ha mantenido como un tema de la política, con los anexionistas impulsando el uso del inglés y los no anexionistas rechazándolo, ambos por razones políticas.En 1992, Puerto Rico recibió el premio Príncipe de Asturias de España por legislar que el español era el idioma oficial de Puerto Rico.Cuando vino el gobierno de Pedro Rosselló, en 1993, eso cambió y se legisló para que tanto el inglés como el español fueran declarados idiomas oficiales.

Sarah Palin Speech Highlights

McCain eyes Gustav

McCain eyes Gustav as curtailed convention planned

By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. - As anxious Republican delegates stood in wait, GOP presidential candidate John McCain and party officials kept a watchful eye on Hurricane Gustav Monday and weighed next steps for their shortened convention. McCain said defenses against Gustav were better than when Katrina slammed into New Orleans but still "not perfect."

President Bush, whose administration was widely accused of a botched handling of the Katrina disaster, traveled to Texas rather than to St. Paul, where he had been scheduled to speak on the opening night of the Republican National Convention. Bush planned visits to Austin and San Antonio to visit staging grounds for hurricane response efforts.

The convention remained in limbo on its first day. At McCain's behest, party leaders called off the usual festivities and planned only a truncated business meeting in the afternoon.

Gustav weakened somewhat to a Category 2 storm as it neared landfall along the mostly evacuated Louisiana coast. The National Hurricane Center said the storm, with 110-mph winds, should hit somewhere southwest of New Orleans by midday.

McCain, who visited Mississippi on Sunday, said that while there is now better coordination among federal, state and local authorities, there are still problems.

"There's still, I think, not as much communications equipment as we want. There's still not enough search-and-rescue capabilities, although they're trying to fix that. It's not perfect, but I think that it's dramatically different than it was in response to Katrina," McCain said in an interview broadcast on NBC's "Today" show. The interview was taped on Sunday. / McCain's wife, Cindy, and his new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, arrived in the convention city Sunday night.

First lady Laura Bush, who had also been scheduled to address the convention's opening session, said the government response to Hurricane Katrina "is going to be a lot better" than it was three years ago for Katrina.

"Lessons learned from Katrina have served the United States very well," she told CNN. She said those lessons extend to other emergencies as well, not just hurricanes.

Mrs. Bush planned to spend the opening day of the convention meeting delegates informally.

"I know they're disappointed they're not going to get to have the program tonight, but everyone understands it, everyone is thinking about everybody all across the Gulf Coast," she told "The Early Show" on CBS. "All their eyes are on the Gulf Coast and everyone is thinking about that."
Party officials were attempting to refocus convention efforts, at least in part, toward raising funds for relief efforts.

The Ohio delegation, for instance, held a riverboat cruise on the Mississippi Sunday night as planned, but turned the event into a relief fundraiser. Kevin DeWine, deputy GOP chairman for Ohio, said some $20,000 was raised.

Concerned about negative images of partying delegates while Gulf Coast residents suffer, the Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign were trying to police activities on the convention sidelines.

That included a warning to Louisiana delegates against traditional alcohol-laced "hurricane parties" — following reports of a late-night celebration on Sunday ahead of the storm's landfall on Monday.

The GOP also is overseeing an effort by the American Red Cross and the Minneapolis-based Target department store chain to assemble comfort packs for Gulf Coast residents at the Minneapolis convention center on Monday.

Republican National Committee Chairman Robert "Mike" Duncan said on Sunday that certain legal requirements had to be met despite the decision to truncate the convention in order to legally place McCain and running mate Sarah Palin's names in nomination.

He said the convention would meet on Monday to establish a quorum, adopt convention rules, elect officers and approve the party platform.

McCain saw his own pre-convention tactics blunted by public focus on the huge storm. He urged delegates to take off their "Republican hats" and put on "American hats," shifting their organizing and fundraising power from party politics to the needs of the evacuees.

"I know you'll agree with me," he said Sunday. "It's time to open our hearts, our efforts and our wallets, our concern, our care, for those American citizens who are now under the shadow and the possibility of a natural disaster."

Protesters planned to go forward with a peace march that had been expected to draw 50,000 people to the state capital.

"Our voices will be front and center, and it will be the main news that is happening," said Jess Sundin, spokeswoman for the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War.

Mindful that Bush and the Republican Party lost credibility after the federal government's flawed response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago, McCain and Palin visited Mississippi on Sunday ahead of the storm and promised swift recovery efforts.

The Arizona senator said the remainder of the convention schedule would be driven by storm developments. He raised the possibility of accepting the nomination on Thursday in a Gulf Coast speech beamed back to the delegates 1,000 miles to the north.

Democratic nominee Barack Obama received a briefing Sunday from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. The Illinois senator, who has smashed all fundraising records during his presidential campaign, also pledged to use his vast supporter e-mail list to raise money and provide goods for those affected by the storm.

He also said he might visit storm-damaged areas once things have "settled down."