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	<title>shyspeak.net &#187; 2008 &#187; January</title>
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	<description>Speculation and perspective on current events related to politics, society, technology and religion.</description>
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		<title>Lack of Commonsense Restricts Artificial Intelligence Evolution</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/26/lack-of-commonsense-restricts-artificial-intelligence-evolution/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/26/lack-of-commonsense-restricts-artificial-intelligence-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[artificial intelligence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[recognition]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[synthesis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer system to perform functions that generally require intelligent thought.  Although the system can make choices and determinations about problems posed to it, it can only respond to the extent it&#8217;s programming allows.  The computer systems inability to think outside this programming ultimately limits its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theme Change</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/25/theme-change/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/25/theme-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eastaugh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sternal-johnson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tarski]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[theme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve once again changed the shyspeak.net theme.  
The new theme is called &#8220;Tarski&#8221;, an elegant and very flexible theme developed by Ben Eastaugh and Chris Sternal-Johnson.  The theme is named in honor of Alfred Tarski, a 20th-century logician and mathematician.   Tarski is considered a pioneer in the study of formalized logical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Time for Democracy</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/21/more-time-for-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/21/more-time-for-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Musharraf]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan President Pervez Musharaf on the first leg of his &#8220;European Tour&#8221; and speaking to an international assembly in Brussels decried the West&#8217;s &#8220;obsession&#8221; with democracy and pleaded for more time to allow his country to achieve higher standards of human rights and civil liberties.  Musharaf said, 
&#8220;While we believe in democracy and human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Terrorist Gets Life</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/19/a-terrorist-gets-life/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/19/a-terrorist-gets-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Atta]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Raskin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Judge Barbara Jones]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mohammed Mansour Jabarah]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[prison]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[terrorist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a 25-year old Canadian citizen of Iraqi descent, was sentenced to life in prison after planning to kill federal agents and prosecutors.  Jabarah was an al-Qaeda member who admitted to being sent by Osama bin Laden to bomb U.S. embassies in Manila and Singapore.  He pleaded guilty to the foiled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Clean Slate for Network Vulnerabilities?</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/19/a-clean-slate-for-network-vulnerabilities/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/19/a-clean-slate-for-network-vulnerabilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clean slate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[information]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stanford]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[vulnerability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An important aspect of network management and potentially the most unpredictable is information security.  As the name implies, information security is concerned with monitoring and controlling access to data on a network.  This in itself is a daunting task, but companies with a web presence can be even more vulnerable to security breeches. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convenient:  Scotland Yard Thinks al-Qaeda Killed Bhutto</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/13/convenient-scotland-yard-thinks-al-qaeda-killed-bhutto/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/13/convenient-scotland-yard-thinks-al-qaeda-killed-bhutto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[al Qaeda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[assassination]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bhutto]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mehsud]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Musharraf]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Yard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scotland Yard has completed their investigation of the Bhutto murder and have come to the conclusion that al-Qaeda was responsible for her death.  They also concluded there was no government cover-up, simply poor police work.  
Still, they can&#8217;t say exactly who is responsible for the killing.  Scotland Yard disputes the Pakistani government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOFA with Iraq</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/13/sofa-with-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/13/sofa-with-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SOFA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/13/324/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(h/t Snooper at Wake up America).  President Bush, in the middle of a six-nation tour of Middle East states and riding the wave of the troop surge success, is poised to deal a damaging blow to the cut-and-runners in Washington.  In a Newsweek article entitled, Sorry, Barack, You&#8217;ve Lost Iraq, Michael Hirsh reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Throes of an Industry or Just Greed?</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/10/death-throes-of-an-industry-or-just-greed/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/10/death-throes-of-an-industry-or-just-greed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[infringement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[P2P]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RIAA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the &#8220;trade group that represents the recording industry.&#8221;  With member organizations that include the &#8220;Big Four&#8221;, EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.  In addition to certifying gold, platinum and diamond sales awards, the RIAA, 
&#8220;works to protect intellectual property [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Low CIO Tenure</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/07/the-myth-of-low-cio-tenure/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/07/the-myth-of-low-cio-tenure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[CIO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tenure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the business world, the letters &#8220;CIO&#8221; ostensibly stand for &#8220;Chief Information Officer,&#8221; but there is a common misconception that they more realistically mean one&#8217;s &#8220;career is over.&#8221;  At one time the CIO may have indeed faced a short lifespan within a company, but the fact is today&#8217;s CIOs are holding-on to their jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fallen Fellow Milblogger, Maj Andrew Olmsted</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/05/fallen-fellow-milblogger-maj-andrew-olmsted/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/05/fallen-fellow-milblogger-maj-andrew-olmsted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Irag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Olmsted]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shyspeak.net/2008/01/05/fallen-fellow-milblogger-maj-andrew-olmsted/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(h/t Spree at Wake up America) Army Major Andrew Olmsted was killed in Iraq on January 3rd and leaves to a friend the task of putting up his FINAL POST 
I didn&#8217;t know Major Olmsted before I read Spree&#8217;s blog post this morning, and feel that I have missed a great opportunity.  I wish [...]]]></description>
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