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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (63507)	4/9/2006 4:19:57 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 362664

George, Please Tell Me, Would You Consider Becoming Religious? by Rabbi Dennis G. Shulman No president of the United States has asserted his religiosity more than George W. Bush. And yet, as a person who takes his own religious tradition seriously, no president has so embarrassed me by acting in such a way as to violate the essential ethical message of religion and the teachings of its most honored founders. As a twenty-first century American, steeped in this ancient literature, I cannot hear the present without also hearing the echoes of the past. I cannot read of what Bush and his administration have done in these five years without hearing the voices of the Torah, the prophets and Jesus reminding him and us that we as individuals and as a society can and should do better. When President Bush makes countless executive decisions in which he sacrifices environmental concerns to the interests of particular industries, I hear the voice of Genesis. It is in the first book of the Bible that, after creating the man and placing him into Eden, God announces to us our species' job description. We are here to tend this global garden. When President Bush pressures Congress to eliminate or limit a whole range of social and legal services designed for those who are in need, I hear the adamant voices of Moses and the prophets. For Moses, walking with God means taking care of the widow, the orphan and even the stranger who live among us. It means opening our hands widely to the poor. It means establishing a legal system and a civil administration which is neither influenced by money nor class. For the biblical prophets, God judges a society, not on the basis of its martial triumphs, influence or wealth, but on how the powerful treat the powerless. For the prophet, a society is known by how the weakest live. For an Isaiah or a Jeremiah, a society's growth or decline is dependent upon the seriousness with which a ruler takes his social responsibility to the poor and the disenfranchised. When President Bush, during this disastrous period of war and of record budget deficits, favors the wealthiest among us with tax decreases, saddling the middle class, the poor, and all our children with heavy fiscal burdens, I hear the voice of the President's "favorite political philosopher." Jesus of Nazareth taught on the mountain that those whom should be blessed and cared for are the poor, the meek and the peacemaker. Like his insistent prophetic predecessors, Jesus had no patience whatsoever for those who would show favor to the powerful over the powerless. Many have argued that President Bush is too religious. On the contrary, I would argue that the President is not religious enough. This president has not yet fully grasped the vast personal and social implications of taking the great wisdom of our ancient religious texts seriously. This president has not yet appreciated his personal and political responsibility to transform the highest ethical values of the Jewish-Christian tradition into a moral society in which all divine images are treated with respect. George, please, for our sake, for God sake, it is time for you to find religion! commondreams.org

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (63507)	4/9/2006 4:52:47 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 362664

Message 22341687 The secret room also included data-mining equipment called a Narus STA 6400, "known to be used particularly by government intelligence agencies because of its ability to sift through large amounts of data looking for preprogrammed targets." Why couldn't they prevent 911 if this stuff is so hot? dailykos.com Specifically, this equipment was the Narus ST-6400, a machine that was capable of monitoring over 622 Mbits/second in real time in May, 2000, and capturing anything that hits its' semantice (i.e. the meaning of the content) triggers. The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second. Follow me over the jump and let's learn some more about the private company Narus, it's founder Ovi Cohen, and board member Bill Crowell. Shall we? news.google.com home.businesswire.com. Narus, Inc. today announced the next generation of NarusInsight(TM), the only carrier-class IP traffic processing system that provides the complete, real-time network visibility essential to secure, manage and deliver Services over IP (SoIP). As the foundation for the industry's most advanced IP security, intercept and traffic classification applications, NarusInsight is unique in its ability to simultaneously provide deep-packet inspection from layer 2 to layer 7 and complete correlation across every link and element on the network -- all at core carrier speeds. NarusInsight 5 now processes full-packet layer 7 traffic at speeds up to OC-48 (2.5Gb/sec) and layer 4 traffic at speeds up to OC-192 (10Gb/sec), providing carriers with the flexibility and superior price performance benefits associated with deploying at both the network edge and the high-speed core. In addition, NarusInsight 5's new security application modules (the NarusInsight Secure Suite) feature the industry's first entropy-based security algorithms, providing telecom carriers with unprecedented early detection of sophisticated new-breed anomalies such as low-volume and polymorphic worms, layer 7 protocol attacks, and application attacks. p2pnet.net Designed with a "mitigation system" from local Chinese partner and system integration from CommVerge Solutions, Shanghai Telecom system uses NarusInsight's VoIP Discovery application module, "to detect and analyze incoming VoIP traffic to correctly determine whether that traffic is authorized or not," says Narus. "Through the use of the ultra high-performance NarusInsight IP traffic processing system, Shanghai Telecom will be able to detect and mitigate rogue VoIP traffic on their network, enhancing the quality of experience for the users of properly configured and authorized VoIP services," it states. If the Net phone traffic traffic "proves to be unauthorized," NarusInsight tells the mitigation system to block the traffic. And the Narus spy system can block eBay's Skype, says the company convergedigest.com Narus noted that its systems have been installed by Tier 1 carriers such as AT&T, KDDI, Vodafone and Korea Telecom. NarusInsight’s extensible application modules include: NarusInsight Discover Suite (NDS), which supports detection of the following services and protocols for the purposes of billing, quality of service, planning and provisioning as well as blocking: VoIP (SIP, H.323, MGCP, RTP, RTCP) Skype Streaming media (RTP, RTSP) Peer-to-peer (Gnutella, BitTorrent, KaZaa, eDonkey, etc.) Web (HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP) Messaging (IM, MMS) Push-to-talk