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The things not stated in this news report:

1. the number of bores under pressure at the drill pad,
2. the total volume of drilling fluid in each bore under pressure,
3. the physics of the failure,
4. the volume of drill fluid in the bore(s) affected,
5. the volume/time release of drilling fluid,
6. the contour and drainage model of the release location and downstream, including pre-release soil saturation,
7. the plan of record of the drill site,
8. the primary contractor (possibly not Chesapeak Energy),
9. the order of response assets and their efficacy implementing the plan of record,
10. the after action reporting responsibilities.

Other than that, it was "news".

The search terms "iphone tracking" brings up 1,028 hits in Google News this morning, a quarter of what the search terms "hetherington misrata" yields, so its getting significant journo / blogo sphere coverage.

I recommend reading something a lot more informed, and accessible, Alex Levinson's blog entry 3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery”. In addition to being art, it is prior art.

The subject line was "Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com"

The body of the message read "President Obama Announces Re-Election Bid for 2012. [5:55 a.m. ET]"

Here I was expecting something along the lines of
"President Obama Announces end of Bush era military mistakes" or
"President Obama Announces closure of Gitmo" or
"President Obama Announces criminal charges against Bush Administration officials" or
"President Obama Announces criminal charges against Bank of America" or
"President Obama Announces new WPA program" or ...

Any Dem with skirt enough to do more than front for the old GOP would do in this pinch.

Juan Cole has posted Questions for Glenn Greenwald on Libya and the end of NATO, in which he argues that the United States has "a moral responsibility to support our allies, especially given what they have been doing for us?"

That isn't an argument that interests me.

Originally published in the Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 38/Friday, 2011 / Notices, pages 10569 to 10571.

Prefatory Remarks: We are grateful that the NTIA has undertaken a comprehensive review of the IANA Functions contract, the first since the expiry of the DARPA/USC contract.

As several of the questions address the issues of performance and entities within the Internet technical community we wish to declare that one of the authors of this comment was retained by the IANA in 2007 to implement the ICANN / IANA - IETF MoU Supplemental Agreement, and this informs our comments which relate to the issues of performance and entities within the Internet technical community.

Juan Cole writes An Open Letter to the Left on Libya, which I'm not surprised to find reflects an analysis and point of view similar to my own, and also Uri Avnery, who wrote A Dirty Word.

For opposing points of view see Lambert's piece at Corrente: The case for neo-liberal humanitarian intervention in Libya, Heather's piece Crooks and Liars:NYT's Kristof Admits US Hypocrisy in Protecting Humanitarian Interests in a Country With Oil, and the Medium Lobster's piece at Fafblog!: Humanitarians of the Year.

In today's NYTimes Thomas Friedman argues that the United States cannot afford another war. A reasonable position, even if the Rehnquist Court had not created the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Abrams-Libby-Bolton-Perle-Deith-Wurmser war-making powers executive, and even if the first general election post-2000 not carried by election fraud had not replicated that war-making powers executive.

Maria writes The hollowing out of ICANN must stop at Crooked Timber. It is a post worth reading.

The draft language is:

Some believe that dot-brands are not in the public interest. Others believe that allocation is acceptable for unique coined brand names (ie, .exxon or .persil) but not for brands that are also generic words (ie, .shell or .tide).

The first clause is me. Alone. The second clause is every member of the ALAC executive. If a private actor has $185,000 and can hire a registry services operator and put up a three year performance bond, hey! their string, if a "unique coined brand name", has a private right of access to the IANA root. Compare, the Appalachian Regional Commission, created by the Appalachian Redevelopment Act of 1965, consisting of 420 counties in 13 states, extending more than 1,000 miles, from southern New York to northeastern Mississippi, and home to 24.8 million people. No private or public right of access to the IANA root. Similarly, the Navajo Nation, ...

The conception of "public interest" held by the current ALAC executive is so private, its as if George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton privatized thought itself, not just the Network Information Center, the ARPANET and NSFNET, and the public oversight function of these privatized institutions.