The Washington Diplomat

2005-10-15 Thread Cauliflowers F. Headlined


In a lengthy interview with The Washington Diplomat, Joseph said the HERO Act—sponsored in the House by Rep.
Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)—would create 100,000 to 150,000 jobs in Haiti’s once vibrant manufacturing sector.

“From 80,000 jobs at one time, the manufacturing sector has dwindled to 25,000 jobs,” Joseph says.
“My priority is to help get this HERO Act passed in Congress in order to entice U.S. companies to come back to
Haiti, especially in textiles. We think it would be a good thing, especially when China is gobbling up the whole
market.”

The ambassador suggests that “passage of this act would go a long way to alleviate the problem of would-be
economic refugees who desperately try to make it to Florida in search of a better life. Obviously, HERO will also
benefit the United States, which won’t need to spend valuable resources in its interdiction of boat people, and in
the incarceration of those who manage to get through the Coast Guard net. It will also mean less foreign aid going
out from the United States to Haiti.”

But even non-protectionist members of Congress are likely to oppose HERO, given Haiti’s particularly volatile
recent history.

At present, about 7,000 U.N. peacekeepers—mainly Brazilians, Argentines and Chileans—are maintaining law and order
in a country that has suffered from anarchy ever since the overthrow of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier in 1986.


“I think 7,000 is not enough,” the ambassador says. “We need 12,000 to 15,000 troops, and they should be
concentrated in Port-au-Prince, because the rest of the country is now quiet.”
Joseph, 74, is Haiti’s first full-fledged ambassador in Washington since 1997. He represents the interim prime
minister, Gerard Latortue, who took over following the February 2004 ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
National elections to replace the current transitional government in Port-au-Prince are scheduled for Dec. 11, with
a runoff set for Jan. 3.

Yet chaos and violence is nothing new for Haiti, which in 1804 became the world’s first independent black republic
following a violent struggle against French colonizers.
The ambassador, who looks considerably younger than his age suggests, has been around long enough to know that 200
years of poverty and bloodshed won’t be erased overnight.
He was born in 1931 in the Dominican town of San Pedro de Macoris, which is famous for producing more professional
baseball players than anywhere else on earth.

“My father left Haiti when he was 17, my mother when she was 20,” Joseph recalls. “I spent the first seven years of
my life in the Dominican Republic. Spanish was my first language.”
Like his father, a Baptist minister, Joseph devoted much of his life to religious studies. He attended the Moody
Bible Institute in Chicago, and in 1960 translated the New Testament and psalms into Haitian Creole under the
auspices of the American Bible Society.

Joseph later spent 19 years in New York under a death sentence imposed in absentia by the murderous regime of
Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, who was enraged by his broadcasts and writings against the dictatorship. During
that time, Joseph got a job as a financial reporter for the Wall Street Journal. From 1970 to 1984, he covered
everything from the Manville asbestos trials to the advent of the Sony Walkman.
In 1984, Joseph resigned from the Journal to edit the Brooklyn community newspaper he owned with his brother,
Haiti L’Observateur.

According to a recent column in the New York Sun, “After the Duvaliers were ousted, Mr. Joseph served as charge
d’affaires in Washington, but in 1991 he returned to the paper in Brooklyn. Although Mr. Joseph recognized the
work against the Duvaliers of Jean-Bertand Aristide, he issued early warnings against Mr. Aristide’s penchant for
dictatorship. In the past two years, he kept readers of both the Observateur and the Sun well ahead of the curve of
Mr. Aristide’s descent.”
Joseph returned as charge d’affaires of the Haitian Embassy in April 2004, and officially became ambassador in
August 2005.

“When I presented my credentials, I had to bring in the letter of recall of the last ambassador, Jean Casimir,
who left here in 1997,” he says. “There had been no Haitian ambassador for eight years, which means the former
government didn’t give the United States the recognition it deserves. Mind you, this is the most powerful nation
on earth, the biggest neighbor of Haiti, the one that did more to help the former government return to power than
anyone else, and we didn’t even have diplomatic representation at the level of ambassador.”
In his new capacity, Joseph oversees 40 staffers. The Haitian Embassy, fronting Massachusetts Avenue, operates on
a monthly budget of $150,000, the bulk of that money coming from passport and visa fees. It maintains close ties
with the Haitian-American community, estimated at 1.5 million.
Joseph also supervises four Haitian consulates in New York, Miami, Chicago and Boston. A fifth consulate will be
opening

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2005-10-15 Thread Eugen Leitl

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/0640206
Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-10-15 12:39:00

   jangobongo writes "Researchers at the [1]VTT Technical Research Centre
   of Finland have come up with a unique way to secure your cell phone if
   it should get lost or stolen: 'Gait code'. Motion sensors in the phone
   would [2]monitor the walking pattern (or gait) of whoever is in
   possession of the phone, and if the 'gait' doesn't match a
   pre-established biometric the phone would require a password to
   operate. The prototype cell phone correctly identified when it was
   being carried by someone other than its owner 98% of the time. The
   research team [3]points out (powerpoint document) that this method
   could also work for PDAs, laptops, USB tokens, smart cards, wallets,
   suitcases, and guns."

References

   1. http://www.vtt.fi/indexe.htm
   2. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8161
   3. http://www.vtt.fi/vtt/uutta/2005/img/wsbr/tiedoteeng.doc

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RE: TEMPEST PC for sale on ebay

2005-10-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...it's SAIC. I used to work for a subsidiary so I wouldn't touch this POS 
with a ten-foot tempest pole.


-TD



From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TEMPEST PC for sale on ebay
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:39:02 +1300

http://cgi.ebay.com/SAIC-V2-Military-Portable-Computer-With-Accessories_W0QQitemZ8707782870QQcategoryZ177QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

May possibly run a very cut-down version of Linux, otherwise you'd be stuck
with DOS.

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