We speak often with congressional staffers and members as well as advocates for industry, consumers, privacy, and civil rights. The two of us have been deeply involved in the public discussion of privacy legislation for more than a decade. At this hearing, Senators and business witnesses publicly softened their differences on the fractious issue of private lawsuits. Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS) both affirmed their interest in working together on comprehensive legislation. The Senate Commerce Committee held its first privacy hearing this year in September. Now the Facebook files have rekindled the privacy debate. As privacy work slowed, Congress’ attention has turned to the many other concerns about Facebook and tech platforms, including their impact on children, free speech and disinformation, competition, and jobs. There is ample room for compromise on these issues, but little sense of urgency to do so. Ideological red lines that have frozen progress include whether a federal law should preempt state privacy laws in part or altogether, and whether to allow lawsuits by individuals for violations of privacy rights. Even though flagship bills from the leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee had encouraging areas of overlap, bipartisan agreement stalled. When it came to the hard bargaining, however, the early promise waned. Leading members called for legislation, several introduced bills, and multiple committees and working groups got to work toward bipartisan legislation. Galvanized by Facebook’s sharing of data with Cambridge Analytica, Congress made a promising start on comprehensive privacy legislation. Since then, Facebook has been a subject of some 70 hearings on privacy, competition, content moderation, misinformation, security, and diversity and inclusion, with 17 Facebook-affiliated witnesses. Every major democracy in the world has passed legislation to set boundaries on business data collection – and this month a new commercial privacy law took effect in China.Īfter the Cambridge Analytica stories in 2018, several congressional committees hauled in Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for back-to-back hearings carried live on cable news. ![]() It is past time for the United States to require businesses to use data responsibly and give individuals rights in data about them, safeguard that have been absent and that would protect everyone in America. This volume will soon explode even further as data-intensive technologies power augmented and virtual reality environments (the “metaverse” to which Facebook’s new corporate name refers), and autonomous vehicles in the streets communicate with sensors that monitor traffic and pedestrian safety. IBM estimates that the world generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day – that’s 2.5 followed by 18 zeroes. ![]() Every day that passes without a baseline privacy protection law in effect is another day that not just Facebook, but a multitude of businesses, collect and use data generated from billions of devices. ![]() Congress should not let this latest “Facebook moment” pass without meaningful action.
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![]() The two of them grill him and Colin eats half a sandwich, offering the other half to Richard (who takes a bite without issue) and then offering it to the city planner who is terrified to even touch it because of Colin's illness. In the course of the weekend, Sinclair infers Natalie is having an affair because she was not in Nuneaton where she claimed to be (he tries to call her when the dishwasher floods the kitchen), but she still claims that this was where she was on her return.Īt Richard's job, Colin is dying but Richard takes him out of hospital one last time to confront an unpleasant city planner with facts they intend to publish in their magazine. Natalie and Richard meet again in Sinclair's parents' apartment and have sex, although afterwards, Natalie is quite firm that their relationship must end because, after all, they are brother and sister. After this revelation, Richard and Colin find it hard to interact with each other because they are both pretending nothing is wrong. Meanwhile, at work, which Richard has proven to be good at, Colin has developed AIDS and informs the office. Eventually, they succumb to their desires and have sex.Īfterwards, they try to avoid each other this proves difficult as Sinclair invites Richard round to a social gathering and the two, still attracted to each other, agree to meet again to sort things through. He stops her and wanders to the other side of the room. Natalie tries to make Richard stop her from making love. While attempting to prevent their attraction for each other from spilling over, they end up naked on the floor. Shortly after Richard's visit to her home, she visits his apartment. However, Natalie is not fully happy with her life because she feels insignificant compared to Sinclair. He is introduced to Sinclair and the two get along extremely well as they are both highly intelligent and seem to have similar interests in literature ( Marcel Proust) and a similar outlook on life. Richard, who does not go to the wedding, finally visits Natalie in her palatial home in Petersham and is surprised by her changed, more "posh" mannerisms. She does not get the job but later marries Sinclair. Meanwhile, Natalie applies for a job as secretary to a very powerful and rich stock analyst named Sinclair Bryant ( Alan Rickman). The editor, Colin ( Karl Johnson), is somewhat skeptical of Richard's intentions but takes him on anyway to work with his deputy, Jessica ( Lesley Sharp). ![]() Richard, committed to the environment and sustainable town planning, is interviewed for a job with the magazine Urban Alert, formed to put pressure on the planners of Docklands to consider the needs of the local residents. During this time, Richard becomes an extremely successful town planner and something of a lothario while Natalie's career stagnates in a succession of low-level administrative jobs she hates. Richard does not seem to have a reaction. Richard's attempts to lighten the mood are ended when Natalie pulls him into a somewhat passionate embrace, although she immediately apologizes and makes the excuse she just wanted someone to hug. ![]() ![]() On Richard's insistence, they go for a late-night walk and Natalie seems to cheer up, but on waking in the middle of the night, due to loud music from the neighboring apartment, Richard finds Natalie still awake and still extremely depressed. She is also unhappy in her job as a buyer. Natalie has recently bought a fairly noisy apartment with her lover only to have him leave her within two months. Town planning student Richard Gillespie ( Clive Owen) walks through a scene of tower-blocks en-route to visit his older sister Natalie ( Saskia Reeves), whom he is not very close to since they each grew up with a different parent after their parents divorced. There are probably safer ways to do this without periodically killing wfica32 processes. There are better ways to do what I've done. This script is not a clean, finished, completely working product. If it waits for longer than the timeout period, it'll assume failure and alert in Nagios. If it logs in successfully, a file is updated on a central share, and the monitoring script moves onto the next server in the queue. The script runs on one VM, contacts the controllers for my XenApp 6.5 and XenApp 7.6 farms, gathers a list of current XenApp nodes, then iterates through each one and attempts to log in. almost stable enough to add it to our after-hours alerting group (not while I'm on call - just the other engineers, of course!) The Overview It's taken months of working on this on and off, but I finally have something in a reasonably stable state. Since then, I've wanted to be able to have my monitoring system (in this case, Nagios) log into all of my XenApp servers, and report back whenever there was an issue getting into one. This has been an ambition of mine ever since I started playing with some of the ICA Client DLLs in PowerShell and watching Citrix sessions launch by magic (if you could get it to work, it was magic, plain and simple). ![]() ![]() Update: I'd recommend using one of the many free tools available to do this now, like ControlUp Scoutbees free edition, or just using the ControlUp Logon Simulator, or using Desktop/Application Probing in Citrix itself (if you're licensed for it!) ![]() It was in 610, during one of these retreats, that Muhammad is said to have received his first divine revelation. Muhammad would often retreat to the hills surrounding Mecca in order to contemplate life. Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was the first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Impressed by Muhammad, Khadijah offered her hand in marriage, which the future prophet accepted. Thereafter, care of the future prophet fell on the shoulders of his uncle, Abu Talib.Īt the age of 25, Muhammad was employed by a wealthy merchant by the name of Khadijah, who was 15 years older than him. Muhammad’s mother died when he was merely six years old, and two years later, Abd al-Muttalib died as well. ( Public Domain )Īs Muhammad’s father died before he was born, the future prophet’s paternal grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, assumed responsibility for raising the child. ![]() Muhammad belonged to the clan of Hashim, which in turn was part of the Quraysh, the most powerful tribe in Mecca.Įngraving of Mecca, circa 1778. His father was a merchant by the name of Abdullah and his mother was Aminah. According to tradition, he was born in 570 AD in the city of Mecca, in the Arabian Peninsula. Prior to becoming a prophet, Muhammad may have led a rather ordinary life.
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