Prostitution to be legalized in Berkeley?

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Berkeley Weighs Legalizing Prostitution
(AP)

Berkeley Weighs Legalizing Prostitution
(AP) 06/23/2004 08:53 PM
AP - Residents of this left-leaning city will have a chance to vote in November on whether they think prostitution should be a crime.

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..."

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..." 08/27/2004 01:45 PM

Legalized extortion by any other name

Legalized extortion by any other name 09/27/2004 06:35 AM
CNET News.com's Washington watcher, Declan McCullagh, gets behind the Senate Commerce Committee's approval of an controversial bill.

Should torture be legalized?

Should torture be legalized? 05/24/2004 09:20 AM
Alan Dershowitz, an American Civil Rights and Criminal Defense lawyer, argues that America should recognize that torture has its place in investigations, and should legislate to make the practice accountable.

Wis. Backs Legalized Hunting of Wild
Cats (AP)

Wis. Backs Legalized Hunting of Wild
Cats (AP) 04/12/2005 11:14 PM
AP - Wisconsin residents support a plan to legalize wild cat hunting, according to voting results released Tuesday.

Dutch Gov't Wants to Shutdown Pirate
Radio Before It Can be Legalized

Dutch Gov't Wants to Shutdown Pirate
Radio Before It Can be Legalized 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
On May 23, The Dutch government auctioned off radio frequencies to the highest bidders as part of their new Zerobase Radio Frequency Policy. As a result only the biggest, most commercially and mainstream oriented stations are able to exploit Dutch radio frequencies for the eight year term of the licenses. The auction was preceded by "Project Etherflits" in March -- a crackdown on pirate radio stations which are technically illegal but were previously tolerated. Studio equipment was confiscated and large fines imposed on the operators. Most stations have now been forced off the air. The ZeroBase Policy acknowledges only two kinds of radio: public and commercial. Any radio formats that don't fit within either of these categories have in effect become criminal organizations and can never be granted a legal broadcasting permit. And even the most successful pirate stations don't have the financial or legal resources required to apply for a legal permit if they were allowed to do so under the current policy.

""Legalized abortion was the single
biggest factor in bringing the crime
wave of the 1980s to a screeching
halt.""

""Legalized abortion was the single
biggest factor in bringing the crime
wave of the 1980s to a screeching
halt."" 04/14/2005 08:33 PM

Official Hit by Prostitution Scandal
(Reuters)

Official Hit by Prostitution Scandal
(Reuters) 06/08/2004 09:05 AM
Reuters - Peru's opposition called on Monday for Agriculture Minister Jose Leon to quit and Congress opened an investigation after reports a hotel owned by the minister's family procured teenage prostitutes for guests.

Online prostitution difficult to police

Online prostitution difficult to police 08/20/2004 06:35 AM
Dfw.com - Fri Aug 20, 09:44 am GMT

School Board VP Charged With
Prostitution (AP)

School Board VP Charged With
Prostitution (AP) 03/25/2005 07:33 PM
AP - A school board member and prominent lawyer has been charged with prostitution, accused of offering legal services in exchange for sexual favors. Steven C. Copenhaver, 56, was released from jail Thursday on a $750 bond.

Octogenarian Nabbed in Prostitution Ring
(AP)

Octogenarian Nabbed in Prostitution Ring
(AP) 06/05/2005 11:46 PM
AP - Police made a surprising discovery when they busted the alleged madam of a prostitution ring called "August Playmates": The woman running the show was an 80-year-old grandmother.

Prostitution laws face overhaul

Prostitution laws face overhaul 07/15/2004 11:43 PM
The first consultation in generations on prostitution in England and Wales will be announced by ministers.

Chinese police shut down prostitution
website

Chinese police shut down prostitution
website 02/05/2005 09:10 PM
Article.wn.com - Sat Feb 5, 07:08 am GMT

Police probe online prostitution ring

Police probe online prostitution ring 01/05/2005 01:57 AM
Big News Network Jan 5 2005 5:41AM GMT

Caste in Nepal Inherits Destiny of
Prostitution

Caste in Nepal Inherits Destiny of
Prostitution 04/18/2004 12:22 PM
Caste has become destiny for many communities, but few have inherited so vexed a destiny as the Badis of Nepal--their profession is prostitution.

Women Accused of 'Hot Dog' Prostitution
(AP)

Women Accused of 'Hot Dog' Prostitution
(AP) 12/30/2004 07:30 PM
AP - Two Long Island women who sold hot dogs and sodas from a truck were arrested on charges that their menu also featured sexual acts in exchange for money.

Numbers, prostitution, drug trafficking,
spamming

Numbers, prostitution, drug trafficking,
spamming 12/09/2003 01:15 PM
Will Mafia 'tax' spammers?

'Black book' a window into high-tech
prostitution

'Black book' a window into high-tech
prostitution 02/19/2004 01:22 AM
AP via New Jersey Online Feb 19 2004 5:34AM GMT

MSNBC - Castro responds to Bush€™s
prostitution charges

MSNBC - Castro responds to Bush€™s
prostitution charges 07/28/2004 09:37 AM
Bush plaigarises student paper! .. Only that is not true:

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Slovaks, Czechs Bust Global Prostitution
Ring (Reuters)

Slovaks, Czechs Bust Global Prostitution
Ring (Reuters) 06/23/2004 07:33 AM
Reuters - Czech and Slovak police have charged 25 people with running an internet-based global prostitution ring using 230 women, many of whom were forced into selling their bodies for sex, officials said on Wednesday.

Police in Guangzhou have arrested 29
people in connection with an Internet
prostitution site that documented c

Police in Guangzhou have arrested 29
people in connection with an Internet
prostitution site that documented c 02/06/2005 12:48 AM
Xinhua News Agency Feb 6 2005 2:46AM GMT

Junk faxes to be legalized as
"opt-out?"

Junk faxes to be legalized as
"opt-out?" 08/11/2004 10:31 PM
The Register ran a story on August 6th called 'Phone spam misery looms stateside.' It seems that there's legislative nastiness underway in Washington, DC to essentially gut the existing junk fax law, and replace it with a marketer's wet dream.

How Berkeley Can You Be?

How Berkeley Can You Be? 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
I finally got around to sorting through and captioning the photos I took of the How Berkeley Can You Be? parade and Art Car fest that was held in Berkeley at the end of September. Going through the pictures reminded me of some of the reasons I like living in Berkeley so much. Sure, people regularly overdo political correctness here, and there were a lot of "Only in Berkeley" groups and moments in the parade, but on the whole it was an amazing display of the diversity, creativity and sense of humor that make this a fun place to live. There were also a lot of self-mocking groups poking fun at Berkley. I love it when people retain the ability to laugh at themselves, and it is a highly desirable quality for living in Berkeley. Luckily, it is also a frequently displayed quality. One of the stars of the parade was the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir, an art car from Houston Texas, of all places. 5 miles of wiring that must have taken months of work to put together, all for a bunch of plastic fish and lobsters who sing while being conducted by large crustacean. It sounds silly, but it was wonderful. I could track its progress down University Avenue by the gales of laughter is spawned as it passed by. After the parade, people crowded around for hours and were treated to special performances by the Choir. I got some good photos. If it comes to your town, don't miss it. Or it even has its own website, with a very funny account of its construction, you can check it out at www.sashimitabernaclechoir.org....

Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9

Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
A native XML database with XQuery access.

Berkeley DB 4.3.27

Berkeley DB 4.3.27 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application

Berkeley DB 4.2.52

Berkeley DB 4.2.52 04/13/2004 12:36 PM
Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application

ScienceMatters@Berkeley

ScienceMatters@Berkeley 09/22/2004 06:16 AM
David Pescovitz: In this month's issue of my research digest ScienceMatters@Berkeley...

* Flipping the Switch on Cancer: Improving the effectiveness of Cancer drugs one molecule at a time.
* Think Molecularly, Act Globally: Studying the atmosphere from a converted spy plane.
* Quantum Computing's Magnetic Attraction: A new spin on magnetic atoms.
* The secret history of Vitamin B-12

Link

Discovering Berkeley DB

Discovering Berkeley DB 11/25/2003 10:23 PM

I'm working on a project at the moment which involves exporting a whole bunch of data out of an existing system. The system is written in Perl and uses Berkeley DB files for most of its storage.

I'd never done anything with Berkeley DB before, but luckily Python has a module which seems to do all of the hard work for me:

>>> db = bsddb.btopen('xpand.db')
>>> db.keys()[0:10]
[':archives:index.html', ':art:test.html', ... 
>>> db[':art:test.html']
'template;front.tp\x01\x01'
>>> 

The Berkeley DB libraries are maintained by Sleepycat Software. Unfortunately, their site is completely saturated with marketing jargon. Our customers rely on Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their mission-critical applications. Great - now what does it do exactly?

Some digging around turned up the real information: the Berkeley DB Tutorial and Reference Guide, which contains pretty much everything you could possible want to know about the technology. It turns out that at a basic level Berkeley DB is just a very high performance, reliable way of persisting dictionary style data structures - anything where a piece of data can be stored and looked up using a unique key. The key and the value can each be up to 4 gigabytes in length and can consist of anything that can be crammed in to a string of bytes, so what you do with it is completely up to you. The only operations available are "store this value under this key", "check if this key exists" and "retrieve the value for this key" so conceptually it's pretty simple - the complicated stuff all happens under the hood.

It seems like a great alternative to a full on relational database for simple applications, although I'm slightly confused by the license which allows free use for open source products but requires a license for commercial applications. Does that mean that if I use the bsddb Python module in a commercial app I need to get a license from Sleepycat?

At CFP 2004 in Berkeley

At CFP 2004 in Berkeley 04/21/2004 12:54 PM
This week I'm at the ACM's 14th Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP), at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley (walking distance from my house). There are good sessions on issues such as e-voting and digital rights management, and savvy...

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley 12/11/2003 01:13 PM
In this issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:

* Grabbing waste heat from industry to warm your apartment
* Engineering our water resources against El Nino
* Simulating cyber-attacks on a microscale model of the Net

I hope you enjoy it! Link

Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC

Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC 12/17/2003 11:53 AM
Hunting aliens and beyond

Clueless in Berkeley

Clueless in Berkeley 07/12/2004 04:07 PM
I have written before of my love for my favorite feature in the Berkeley Daily Planet, the Police Blotter. Today while reading it, I ran across this absolute gem which caused me to lose a mouthful of hot Peet's coffee in front of the Cheeseboard. Knife-Wielder Earns Cellular Domicile A 48-year-old Berkeley man found himself with a new and tightly confined residence after police busted him for flashing a knife at a fellow citizen near the corner of Center Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way at 9:37 a.m. Friday. The felon seems to have overlooked that building on the corner and all those blue-clad badge-wearing folks who pass through its portals en route to their black-and-white cars. (For those of you unfamiliar with Berkeley geography, our new police headquarters is at the corner of MLK and Center.) How do you get a job writing stuff like this? I want one. It made my day....

The Berkeley Pit Mascot

The Berkeley Pit Mascot 04/14/2005 06:53 PM
"The Auditor", an amazing dog, lived a long life in one of the harshest environments, the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. The mine site has no vegetation, the water in the pit is full of heavy metals and very acidic (pH 2.5) and yet the Auditor held on long after mining operations halted. He has inspired a web site and even an art project.

Blogon Berkeley Style

Blogon Berkeley Style 07/17/2004 04:10 PM
Join us for a get together for BlogOn conference attendees, local bloggers, techies, media folks, and anyone else who wants...

Judith Miller at UC Berkeley

Judith Miller at UC Berkeley 03/19/2005 03:02 AM
David Pescovitz: Last night at UC Berkeley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Judith Miller discussed journalism and democracy with investigative reporter Lowe ll Bergman (played by Al Pacino in The Insider). In a few weeks, Miller may be behind bars for refusing to reveal confidential sources relating to another reporter's disclosure of a CIA operative's name. Before becoming a possible martyr for the First Amendment though, Miller was known for penning articles in the New York Times supporting claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Whether Miller was tricked by her sources (including members of the Bush administration) or, worse, in cahoots with them is still not clear to her many critics. From Bonnie Powell's coverage of the Berkeley event:

Miller argues that if she was duped by her unnamed sources, so was the Bush administration — and she's not apologizing for believing there were WMDs in Iraq until the president does. "I think I was given information by people who believed the information they were giving the president," she told Bergman. "When the president asked, you know, 'What about this WMD case? Are we sure about this?' [then-CIA director] George Tenet said to him, 'Mr. President, this is a slam dunk.' The people I talked to certainly thought that." Other WMD believers, she said, included the entire U.S. intelligence community as well as French, English, and Israeli agencies. The debate, she claimed, was not over whether Saddam had WMDs, but whether it was worth going to war over them...

Ultimately, Miller said, she "wrote the best assessment that I could based on the information that I had." She attempted to tie the controversy over her WMD reporting to her current struggle by saying that she had heard after the fact — after she returned from being embedded with an infantry division in Iraq — that there had been people who had reservations about the WMD intelligence she was receiving.

"I wish they had come forward at the time to express those reservations," she said. "To me, this case that I am now involved in emphasizes the importance of getting as many people as possible to come forward with a dissenting view, or allegations of wrongdoing."

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BlogOn Blogs Berkeley

BlogOn Blogs Berkeley 07/08/2004 02:01 PM
One of the greatest reasons I love living in the Bay Area is for all the great geeky events that...

Another issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley

Another issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley 07/19/2004 11:47 AM
My latest issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley is now online. While my Lab Notes site highlights interesting engineering research, ScienceMatters explores the physical sciences, biology, and chemistry. Inside this month's issue:

* The Cellular Mechanic
* An Explosive Theory About Volcanoes
* The Mathematics of High-Tech Highways

Link

New: Berkeley Packet Monitor 1.0

New: Berkeley Packet Monitor 1.0 07/27/2004 11:24 AM
Berkeley Packet Monitor is a network traffic monitoring and diagnostic utility that uses the Berkeley Packet Filter devices built into Mac OS X.

Berkeley DB XML 2.1.8 (Default branch)

Berkeley DB XML 2.1.8 (Default branch) 06/22/2005 02:26 AM
Berkeley DB XML is a native XML database engine for use within your product. Made available as a C++ library with language bindings for Java, Perl, Python, PHP, and Tcl, it integrates directly into your application (it is not a standalone database server). It provides XQuery access into a database of document containers. XML documents are stored and indexed in their native format using Berkeley DB as the transactional database engine.

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License: OSI Approved

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Changes:
A few small fixes in the packaging of 2.1.7 and some other minor cleanup.
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