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us. somebody tell michele. [laughter] because we want to go. >> i have to tell you the black women's network is something because black women talk to one another "go, tell michelle" blogsño bought.com, facebook, and people who are writing us to say what is this a facebook thing? you know, it is a thing. we say go for itxd because if peggy brooks-bertram can do it to anybody will do it. they went to our web page "uncrowned queens".com but we still did not understand or appreciate the brat and the scope of their network. beginning with the black churches and we just left today publishers say it is listed it will take two monthsxd before you can get a read the -- weedy nor presentation set up. don't believe it because when one black woman calls the minister of her church, you have got to read it. and you have a reading saturday morning and if you go to a black church on sunday you have the reading money and tuesday and wednesday and it is fantastic because we're working and selling a bookñr telling by a virtue of people and them understanding what it is and it is important to see the importance of the historical mo

. >> you were very involved in the obama campaign, and early helps them develop ways to use social networking. are there one or two things that the obama campaign should have or could have done to use social media? do you have any suggestions for the 2012 campaign? >> regarding the past campaign, i just don't know. i am out of my depth there. the use of the technology was pretty effective, it worked well. i would have liked to see more non partisan efforts, figuring out how to get the youth vote out more. for 2012, i do not know. in my dream life, what i am hoping to see -- i think at some point, social media will supplant the use of tv as means of getting the word out. i would like to see that tipping point. more precisely, where cheap media supplants expensive media. i am hoping that tipping point comes faster rather than later. and maybe it is our patriotic duty to make that happen. if you get rid of the need for expensive media buys, maybe that gets rid of a lot of the role of money in politics. and that ain't bad. >> these will be r two last questions. >> thank you for bringing what you

the national security agency has the responsibility to protect intelligence networks that we use. as many in the audience know better than i do the intertwining of private and public and government networks is a reality in the way that we run our communications these days. we use a lot of the same tables, the same internet service provider, same switches so what we are finding it increasingly is we are working closely with the semantics, the microsoft, in order to protect this common structure that we use. and, that all sounds fine. this audience understands that and realize is that it works pretty well, however, there is a deep suspicion by many about the government particularly the intelligence community been involved in private networks, being that close to these forms of indications that americans are using all of the time for the part of it is the fundamental american stay out of my business attitude. another part of it is what was portrayed by some as illegal wiretapping than in 2003 and 2004 as part of the global war on terror. in fact it wasn't illegal but the idea big orga

we need to plan for public safety broadband network using some air waves that were freed up by the switch. we are still needing to make more of our communications system work with the residents of new jersey. is the only state without its own media market. it is the only commercial high- powered state wwor has failed to meet its obligation to our state. we will talk to you about that. we will make sure that you have the time to ask questions and still meet other obligations. the sec is drastic -- trapping in other plan -- the fcc is drafting another plan. to help people learn and get better jobs and keep america competitive. i look forward to our contact in the future knowing full well that we have an able skipper at the helm and i congratulate you. >> thank you, senator. senator dorgan. >> thank you. i'm going to support both nominees. mr. mcsdou el, of course, is nominated for a second term, and i'm pleased to support him. and let me associate myself with remarks from the senator of nebraska. you have a perfect background to assume the chairmanship and i would be happy to vote for you.

and a social networking it is a brave new world and we are trying to get used to it. >> with the walker's recognize the publish the company? >> san passed away but beth follows them. i think he would have had trouble in this world. it is a very different world than the one he inhabited but beth is fluent in the new technologies so i think she enjoys it. >> peter miller, peter ginna, george gibson from the bloomsbury family of books. >> amy argetsinger a columnist from "the washington post", a lot of people think this summer is the time of light reading but i think that is the time to read the big bucks last year i tackled the fountainhead comments this year i am looking forward to read -- i tried 15 years ago and could not do it i started a new translation i have been chipping away but i am halfway through and probably on vacation i can finish most of it. when new pulitzer prize winning book high book talk about one, i will finally read manhunt, the lincoln history which has been out for a few years now. and a couple of other things. the story of edgar saw tell everyone in my

use the same types of information for the same purposes and do not have anywhere near the same volume of information about the prospective consumer. for example, search engines in internet advertising networks may use a consumer's visit to a particular web site to create profiles for purpose -- for purposes not directly related to the reason for the visit. other entities like web push letterers collect information only to provide the very service the consumer has come for. our approach should recognize. that. second, any legislation in this area should hold only for that which they know and control. we should be wary of efforts to make any one party responsible for the actions of others. consumers online activities provide advertisers with valuable information upon which to market their products and their services. collecting this type of information for targeted advertising is very important because it simply allows many of these products and services to remain free to consume information, websites would either have to cut back on their free information and services would have to start charging a fee. neither result is good for the consumers. overreaching privacy regulation could have a si

we need a plan that broadband network, using some airways freed up by the switch to digital. and we still need to make more of our communication system work for the residents in new jersey. new rs

others are advising on of the vote -- on optimal use of social networking. women who succeed in information technology have a clear purpose and a strong sense of self- worth. i imagine many viewed in this room sure many of those same qualities. i know are two keenan speakers do. as we begin at this conference, i encourage you to talk to other in -- talk to other attendees and share your personal experiences, how you overcome challenges, and how an inspiring mentor encourage you to follow your path. less engaged in a dialogue as we, women in the technology, can shake the technology and -- technology industry with our focus on innovation. we should work together to set the course by becoming role models and mentors for the inspiration of the future generations. by doing so, we will harness the true power of women in technology. now, i would like to introduce this morning's keynote speaker. katherine weymoth is the publisher of the "the post." in fact, she recently talked about how technology is changing the newspaper business "the wall street journal" conferen

secretary, i am sure both of you this week have watched the use of social networking unfold on the streets of iran. i want to ask about that. not from the standpoint of politics in iran, but social networking as a tool, given some of your previous government jobs in the information business, what do you think of this? it certainly does strike you that social networking, regardless of the mechanism, impact decision making, speed, national security, a lot of people said. it is something to be considered it these days. >> i think one of the more -- one of them may be more significant developments -- one of the may be more significant developments in the last 20 years or so has been the advance of communications technology in the hands of average citizens around the world. there is no question that the easy availability or the easy access to western communications and media played a part in the collapse of the soviet union. and the liberation of eastern europe. it is increasingly difficult for an authoritarian government to maintain control of all the means of communication that are available

we all have to use each other's networks to provide seamless coverage. cricket's experience is the rates that carriers charge for roaming minutes is directly correlated to their size and market power. one particular the anti- competitive practice we face is that one large carrier prohibits customers from running at all. with all the consolidation, such as altel being purchased by verizon , cricket has fewer running available as -- credit has to work romaiaming adel abilities. there are currently three proceedings on roaming pending in the sec. i would be happy to go into more detail. cricket believes roaming policies are the basis of competition. everyone should have access to affordable options such as these services cricket provides. thank you. i will be happy to answer questions. >> thank you very much. mr. kelsey. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of consumers union. i plan to cover four areas. i would like to give the consumer perspective on text messaging and then i will talk about the consolidated market structure. i would like

the right to assemble in other countries is banned so they get around that using the social media networks because they can organize and the government cannot stop them. it is a big leap to jump from their to a regime change. i do not think that is what the young people want. people do not want that kind of upheaval. they just want the system to work. host: madison, florida. caller: you have touched on the question to some degree. to what extent the other arab countries fear iranian power. and whether the level of education rises and weather it portends a desire for more individual freedoms. guest: there is always a mistrust of the iranians. they are the ancient enemy. the whole kind of persian enemy is still alive in people's minds. after iran converted to islam, they became shiites. a lot of cities look down on the shiites and -- a lot of sunnis looks down on the shiites. saddam was afraid his shiite population would change sides. they did not. their arab identity was much stronger. i think the iranians and the government there have managed to create a certain appeal by criticizing the u

to get through the financing issues versus the structural issues facing the industry, how the networks are used by each of the companies in the chain. there has been the feeling from years before that the supply chain was a bit larger than needed for the sales and production base they were looking at. it is going to be smaller for sure. throughout this entire economic and financial time of this progress, we a been thinking about spillover -- time of distress, we have beenabout spillover effects. -- we have been thinking about a spillover effect. -- effects. we have been looking at things in a transitory fashion. >> this goes back to the national forum. ben bernanke recently made a statement to congress about the role the deficits could place in the future in terms of spurring inflation. and what people to think beyond the current situation. they are wondering how the current deficit problems could lead to inflationary pressures and how it might complicate your job and the federal reserve in having fiscal discipline. what is your sense about inflation and the issue of monetary versus fiscal stim

would allow school districts to use federal funds to educate their students about appropriate, online behavior. including interacting with individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms. they could also use fund to protect students against online predators, cyber bullying and unwanted exposure to inappropriate materials or promote involvement by parents in the use of the internet by their children. the internet is a technological advancement that can be extremely useful for students, educators and parents. today almost every public school in the united states has internet access. and 79% of high school students use the internet on a daily basis, including looking for information to assist them with their schoolwork. these statistics are impressive and would have been unheard of a decade ago. but they demonstrate the changing nature of technology in our nation's schools. today's youngest generation is the first generation to be born no a world proliferated by the internet. these students use the internet almost everyday, from email to social networking sites to online interaction, teaching forums, online encyclopedias. the internet provides

something what this experience has meant to them and what motivated them to write to us what we have found we develop day networkor a sisterhood that is comprised of women who contributed to this outstanding work and historic work as was mentioned. we want you to know them a little better as well so we will have them say something as we go through the program. we want to tell you a little bit about what motivated us to write this book and how we got started. we will talk about the uncrowned queen soleil tours in the question-and-answer because this has been a passion for the uncrowned queen is a two the missionxd is to identify collected preserve and disseminate the histories of african-american women we call community builders.ñr actually this work the underground queens is a two set the foundation for this book. the institute's call is not only to reclaim the african-american community builders to share them andÑi primarily at the website of uncrowned queen the.com that has those of thousands of african-american women from buffalo new york as well as the state of oklahoma. we primarily and conservatively invit

network. what is used by each of the companies, in the chain. and the feeling from years before, that the chain was a bit larger, this was needed for the sales in the production base. going through what needed to take place in the absence of this, on top of the financing difficulties. this will be smaller. throughout the entire time of distress, we have been thinking about the spillover effect, where the state and local governments are impacted not through the fault of their own, but because of financing that puts them at unnecessary risk, to the extent of something -- that something more orderly could be engineered, through a transition period this has been the goal. >> this goes back to the national forum. bernanke made a statement about fiscal discipline. and the role that the deficits may play in the future in terms of inflation. a warning shot to congress to thing beyond the current recession. there are many questions about how badly the current deficit problems could influence the inflation pressure, how much will they complicate the job a

uses wide search, email -- >> maybe social network services. >> exactly. hen a user opts out, we opt them of the delivery of targeted advertising but we also recognize that users may not want us to have that much information about them so we take great pains to deidentify the data as soon as we can. we spent over a year looking at every single product, every single data system at yahoo! to try to minimize the amount of time we hold data about users. >> right. and i know we got limited time so miss wong and then mr. kelly. >> sure. i think it's roughly the same answer that i gave earlier which is we really collect very little data from users when they're searching the ip address and the cookie and the opt out for our interspace advertising is an opt out for those targeted ads and what it means is that the cookie you're getting is not uniquely identified. it just drops query that you sent us or the data that we've gotten into a bucket of all opt-out cookies. >> because our service is based on sharing personal information with others, we inevitably end up coll

us. >> they are saying they got costs associated with this large dealer network. and you guys are saying they're not a penny associated with us. why not then bifurcate the structure on it so you have the network out here that is important to many communities and very important to rural communities, but you see costs associated with it. why not look at it that way? >> maybe i can start, sir. i appreciate the question. it is not a cost issue. that's not the basis. in our situation, the dealer body we're working with, the 3100 dealers was established roughly at a time -- >> i'm going cut on time here, but it is not a cost issue, then why are you even messing around with it? >> if i could -- i'll get to that very quickly. this dealer body number was established when we were selling over 2 million a year. the new company coming out of bankruptcy will sell 700,000 a year. if we try to take 700,000 units of revenue and spread it over the dealer body necessary for 2 million revenue, the dealer body isn't -- >> wouldn't they atrophy themselves over time, then, and why would

part of the speech -- from now on, the networks and computers we depend on every day will be treated as they should be, a strategic national asset. protecting us and the structure will be a national security priority and want to ensure these networks are secure, trustworthy and resilience. we will deter, prevent, and protect against the tax that would incurred damages. that is an incredible state for a u.s. president to make and it makes a difference not just to the community that has been playing in this area, but to the public and international partners. that's a significant accomplishment of this study. you mentioned was a lot about reached a different communities and i think that's another thing from the study. they reached out to the private sector communities, civil liberties communities, which we talked to robustly during that time, to almost every other group you can think of. we have 40 meetings in the space of a 60 day time frame and the submissions for more than 100 groups published on the white house website. as far as what comes out of the poor -- that was what -- as far as what comes out of the report, will be interested in that

network of websites. whether an user touches us as a first party publisher or third-party network we want them to have a choice. we also didn't want users to have to redo their opt outs again and again and took the further step of making our opt out persistent for users who registered for a yahoo! account. this means that these user whose clear chair advertently clear their privacy choices at the same time. the final aspect of the front end of privacy protection is user education. for over a year yahoo! has displayed on average 200 million ads per month that explain our approach to privacy. all of these front end steps are complimented by back end protections. we focus on security and data retention as core aspects of protecting back end privacy. we recently announced the industry's leading data retention policy. under this policy we will retain the vast majority of our web logged data in identifiable form for only 90 days. this dramatically reduces the forward of time we will hold log file data in identifiable form and vastly increases the scope of data covered by the policy. the limited exceptions to this po

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was something that ralph nader said to a group of students, he talked about your use of the internet and social networking technologies. and that this is such a great opportunity for you because the age and stage or at, you're creative powers and energy will never be higher. do not waste it on what he turned internet narcissism. do something meaningful. i have been twittering during the program, and i have missed some of frank's questions. [laughter] things like, i have a -- i was at a party last night and i got so drunk. please come on, stop sending those messages. [laughter] it is a fine -- we try to find a way to do something meaningful, did not just amused ourselves to death. p -- >> people have to bear up and get to the end. this was an 18 year-old high school kid from chicago. it was a nice moment, it really was. during the past 13 years, the close-up foundation and the newseum created programming regarding the first amendment. our next clip highlights that. we had a show called "religion and the first amendment." >> it is another remarkable thing. the chief of the ac l.j. talked about freedom of re

he talked about "you are used to the internet and social networking technologies and this is a great opportunity because the agents take your hat, you are -- your credit powers will never be higher than a will for the next decade or so." he was saying not to waste it on what he termed internet narcissism. do something meaningful. i have been twittering during the program and missed some of the questions. [laughter] i will see messages about people talking about them drinking too much. mom, stop sending those messages. [laughter] and i ran, we see twitter being used to organize a protest that could lead to a revolution. that is the challenge for you. that is closeup's challenge. find out how to do something meaningful >> gues>> a student talked-about hearing about people bearing up until we get to the end. i have been struggling all of my life. he said he'd give up with not a question but they comment. he said struggle was what life was all about. this was an 18-year-old kid. for the past 13 years, the close-up foundation and a newseum partner to create programming to guard the first

through their vehicle manufacturing and cat us suppliers and a vast dealer network, the automobile industry has created millions of jobs. with the recent global financial collapse, most of the auto industry has been brought to its knees. in 2008, general motors and chrysler lost money. in order to survive, they both filed for bankruptcy. bankruptcy process general motors has announced plans to close at roughly 1200 dealerships and chrysler announced plans to close 789 nationwide. the federal government has loaned billions to gm and chrysler in an effort to help stabilize them. billions more have been committed to assist them while emerging from bankruptcy. today's hearing will focus on several issues associated with general motors and chrysr is decisions to close more than 2,000 dealerships across the country. among the questions to be answered r -- why did the manufacturers believe they need to close so many dealerships? what criteria were used to determine which dealerships to close practice how do gm and chrysler save money by closing these dealerships which are independently owned? why

used heavily to try to restore. worrying about its partnerscñ data was being ex-fill traded from they are network. >> how do you workthat and how does industry respond to that. we don't want this to be used against them. we are proposing some regulation changes. industry folks came back and said fine. we have always shared some practicing. i think we need to grow this model. hoss classified does some of this threat data need to be. can we share it with the banking sector. we think it maybe is a model that can be thrown out to have this broader conference. i think i only answered the first part of your question. the first point is you have to be partnership more generally if something bad happens, the last thing somebody is going to do is reach behind them. that particular model is behind a lot of proposals you see coming out of bodies which some of you were involved in developing. those ideas don't go away. we have to figure out a way to define those i'll call out three things i think are essential. the first is trust. almost everything else will work, without that nothing else will work. or if necessary, provoiding

again the 80 congregations around north america that are joining us via a live internet feed and the horizon radio broadcasting networks as well as the c-span viewers. thank you and welcome and i'm glad you're here with us today. let's say thank you to that. [applause] >> in esther chapter 1, the first few verses we get an interesting picture. now, it took place in the days of those who reigned from india to ethiopia over 127 provinces and in those days the king sat in his royal throne in the citadel in persia. and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for his princes and attendance and the army officers of persia and madea. the nobles and the princes of his provinces in his presence. he was the leader of persia. my father was raised orthodox jewish, some jewish on my father's side and gentile on my mother's side, it's a long story, good story. maybe we'll find it during the q & a side. my father who he was growing up in temple he was in a forum play, a play about these very events and he was supposed -- he was the guard -- one of the soldiers in persian, you know, and he was to take his sphere, ladies and g

financing issues versus the structural issues facing the industry, the disbursed supplier networks, how -- how they are used by each of the companies in that chain. there had been the feeling i know from years before that the supplier chain was a bit larger than needed for the sales and production base that they were looking at. so sort of parsing through probably what needed to take place in the absence of the financing difficulties on top of it with the financing difficulties. i mean there's going to be smaller for sure. but through the this entire economic and financial period of distress, we've been constantly thinking about spillover effects where companies, state and local governments, are impacted not through fault of their own but because of financing that puts them at greater risk, unnecessarily to the extent that something a bit more orderly can be engineered in terms of easing credit pressures through a transition, not permanently but just in a transitory fashion. that's sort of been the goal. so for the auto suppliers it's a sort of similar type of situation. >> it goes back to the national foru

network. so from addressing these challenges and others to maintaining the openness of the internet, which many of us i think you know care about passionately, as well as maintaining a laboratory for invasion, i think you're going to see some of the biggest challenges we face in this field. but i'm confident that this commission is up to the task of implementing the president's technology agenda, so we look forward to a swift confirmation and we particularly look forward to working closely with you. and we hope that you will commit here in the hearings to a strong, candid and, you know, really cooperative relationship with the committee. >> for those of you who may be trying to figure out how to pronounce his name, we've had researchers at work for three days on that. and it's pronounced chow. >> well. we changed our name. it's janikowski. >> all those people are going to be laid off. i hope that you would introduce your family. >> thank you to you for your generous -- i should proceed to introduce my family before we lose my kids. i couldn't be happier that my wife is here and all three of my childr

networks. in that context, they persuaded us that that was a generally sound business decision. that to do it quickly, relatively quickly was, in fact, appropriate and would get to the good result as quickly as possible. from there it was the company's decision how to do it, which dealers to choose. and that was the decision they made. we believe -- we insisted and i think they did do it using fair and objective criteria of what were the dealers that were selling the most cars, had the best through-put, had the best other metrics that were objective metrics and on that basis, the company has determined that it cannot bring all its dealers forward and be successful. this is, obviously, again a difficult sacrifice for those dealers but without these sorts of difficult changes we're not going to have a successful general motors. >> well, i thank you. i'm still uncomfortable with your willingness to accept in this case dealerships being forced to close who may have been in business, for example, 20, 30, 40 years and are profitable. we're running a business and the point of running b

not by micromanaging but encouraging those to participate in the network and to look seriously at the use of and cost of high end care and without cutting fat too much to look in particular for opportunities or maybe someone can go to a a partial program a few days per week so they could turn the corner without going into a hospital. i think the market place has responded to increases of mental health coverage by turning fifth to management. we don't always have that right because there are some circumstances that are managed to match and it is one of the things to get smarter about. and this environment what should be the obligations of plans with respect to these conditions? its reno it is easy to depress care and as as you indicated also if you don't pay attention to spend way too much money on of the wrong thing. this is an area to where the marketplace has responded but this has to be part of the dialogue post federal action how do we do this smart? >> i don't want to send a message for you not to get integrated in the debate now in certain areas. to build on what you said it is on t

not by micromanaging them butting urging those people who participate in the network and number 2, look seriously at the use of and the costs of high end care. without cutting that too much, to look in particular for opportunities where maybe somebody can be home and go to a partial hospital program a few days a week. i think the market place has responded to increases in mental health coverage by turning to management. i haven't always got that right. there are some circumstancess where we managed it too much and one of the things we have to get smarter about in this environment, what should be the obligation for plans with respect to these conditions. it is easy to depress care. the marketplace has responded. this is hopefully part of the dialogue we have next year post federal action, how do we do this smart? >> i don't want to send the message for you not to get integrated in the debate in certain areas. to build on what you said, on the prevention primary-care infrastructure, and coverage, one might argue we should have some investment in the early years even before coverage takes place. some would arg

. >> he said the capabilities to try to control these networks as an offensive capability that could be used against the u.s. and allies and interests? >> i suppose so, that would be true of all the government's that try to shut down the internet. it is not unique to iran by any means. >> the department is engaged in the defense review, the department-wide review of strategy, weapons systems, and i take it from your public comments that the framework is that the u.s. should be focusing at least right now on the current conflicts of the regular type that could last into the foreseeable future. there are officers in the military to a leased privately express some reservations -- who at least privately expressed some reservations that large conventional forces is the way the united states should be looking at the world in terms of its defense. as you do this review, will this construct itself be under review? will you be analyzing whether this type of operation is what the u.s. should be focused on the next decade? >> those who believe that is what we are trying to do, and that is what i believ

that don't require us to reveal authenticators, yet allow us to authenticate so we have a big public infrastructure on the unclassified networks and we are rolling it out and we have a big one on one of the classified networks and rolling out on the secret network this year. i think those kind of technologies have to become much more ubiquitous. we've got to drive out the anonymity. the other thing we struggle with and it's not just a technology problem, is as you drive on and a mehdi out, you have to figure out how to establish enough to use so that people trust the others that, you know, they've just discovered so now i know it's richard hale, so what. do i want to do business with him, to want to interact with him, so the other structures that need to come are now learning other things about richard gale, you can make a business decision now to richard gale. sallai but say there are technology pieces parts to start to solve the problem. again, we have worried a lot about privacy as a part of doing this. i don't think we've solved all the privacy problems but some of this business not revealing certain information to authent

networks. a senator in no way told us after about a month george gallup came and told him it was only one person in the u.s. but in on the senator and it was president nixon because the whole country was riveted to that set of hearings in this room. in case senator kennedy is listening which i hope he is, i would like to say to him how much we wish you were here because we know how i'm for this bill is two him and he is important to us and we hope he is doing well. out like to express my appreciation to senator dodd for his courtesy is since he suddenly took over this proceeding in the midst of his other responsibilities, he does that as carefully and well as any member of the senate. i appreciate that very much as i appreciate the opportunity to let us see what we have to say in these opening comments. and i appreciate the work of the kennedy's staff and the republican staffs as well but just because i admire senator kennedy and senator dodd and the staffs doesn't mean i have to admire the bill and so i am going to be direct and what i have to say about. i believe that the bill we have been pre

network long term. if and when those agreements are executed, those agreements will allow dealers to stay in business with us until october of 2010, the expiration date of their current dealer agreement, so they can sell down their vehicle inventories and provide warranty service and roll down their parts inventories over time. we want to support our dealers to help them wind down their business in an orderly fashion. and have a structured package of transition incentives that intends to benefit them relative to their alternatives. of the 1380 letters that were sent early this year, 647 have been returned already signed. we have had ten who said they are not able to sign it and the remainder of them, we're working with them every day. we also have an appeal process to consider one by one if we made mistakes because we rightfully recognize we do make mistakes and we deal with each and every one of those individually. yes, consolidations will bring cost savings, a smaller more healthy dealer network reduces gm's cost, primarily related to support we provide for information technology, salesperson incentives, s

what we have is a network of genuine grass-roots democracy which can be used by people to have actual two-way communications with the government, and this realizes in some large part, not completely, but in a big way the dream of democracy that people have had for a long time, so big stuff happening. that is why i am trying to stand up. >> that is a transition to what i think is an interesting discussion of craigslist itself, and you always describe craigslist as a community where the community is in charge. there is also a for-profit business, where there are some constraints you have to deal with, and i am interested in what lessons we can drop from your 10-plus years at craigslist about how communities can be organized in an effective way and sometimes in an ineffective way that might be applicable to the vastly larger question of government korea what were the mistakes that you made in terms of how to empower people on craigslist that you've learned for -- from as you have gotten better? >> there are a whole bunch of questions in that one. the big one is that people are overwhelmi

continue@ @ @ $y@ "'@ @ @ @ h@ p what it allows us to do is sort of almost a bottom up, self forming of analytical networks. instead of going through meetings of collection boards, which you have all been through and which the cia and dia provide in an assay provide four, on a space, we come together and we have found their his men some real analytical breakthroughs in a quite different way than what we have in the past, so i think this business of concentrating on the people, concentrating on information technology to empower them, if we do that good things will happen and we will get better in the future. >> you mentioned north korea and end the sea bed of missiles i think is the way you put it but you have had the missile tests, you have had the nuke test, you had the trial of the journalist. what is your assessment of what they might be up to now? are they testing this new administration? are they trying to risk-- provoke a response of some sort? >> the character of the north korean behavior that we are seeing is a fairly familiar pattern of doing something our wages and then expecting to be paid for s

he turned a question about network neutrality into a question about competition. he actually did not use the term openness, which is a buzzword of the obama campaign. very nicely done. >> she talked about and probability with julius. >> my co-chair of the united caucus, i am a former prosecutor. some of these interoperable in the issues, -- we had a bridge collapse. they had a very good job of and probability. i have seen difficulties in the past and as some of our rural areas with that. it seems like that is one of the areas of our nation's infrastructure that may continue to elude us absence of federal action and federal involvement in terms of making our emergency services in trouble. -- interoperable? is that something that you could work on? >> my wife and i were not very far from the world trade center on 911 -- 9/11. most of my family was in new york or washington. none of us should be satisfied on where we are with public safety. other members of this committee have been leaders on this. as one of your colleagues mentioned earlier, the 9/11 commission urged the country to do some

network and solutions. i hear you are a mother of three. i am wondering how you use technology today to give mothers and the work force more technology to take -- flexibility to take on jobs. to continue work? >> that is a good question. i don't think of technology as a substitute. we cannot use it as a substitute for coming in the office. but those of us have blackberrys and iphones, it allows you to be away from the office to check your phone and e-mail. so it makes it easier for you to be on the road and be available at all times -- in good ways and in bad. you are tethered at all times. i think it just enhances our ability to be connected, but it is not changing @ "washington pos" the way we do our work. -- changing at "the washington post" how we do our work. >> with the elimination of the business section in "the pos" we have two, if we are lucky, three days -- three pages a day for business coverage. what does it say about respect for business in this town that is villa devoted to government and, two, is a expectation that we will not receive business as by an

may be profitable, chances are they are making money selling used cars, competitive vehicles and by our assessment their drag on the network in total. the last page of my presentation is in here but i will paraphrase quickly and that is that this is a very painful process, going through bankruptcy was not our choice. the company is no longer a functioning organization. we've had to make some very difficult decisions in business that would assure by making these tough calls for 789 dealers we've got 2391 dealer is not represented here, in small towns with little leagues and a lot of employees to jobs and business save as long with the full enterprise of our company, the suppliers and the rest of the nation. this was a very difficult decision that we have made, it is one that we want to share with you in terms of transparency. we have taken every step to make this a soft landing for the dealers involved and will find out soon that all of the vehicles and the discontinued dealers have been redistributed along with most of the parts and almost the equipment. we stand ready to answer your questions and respond to any suggestion

us to have authenticators. we have a big public infrastructure on the classified networks. we have a big one on one of the classified networks. we are ruling it out this year. those kinds of technologies have to become much more ubiquitous. the other thing we have struggled with, it is not just a technology problem point, as you drive it out, you still need to figure out how to establish an f q six so that people trust others that they have just discovered to our want to do business with him? do i want to interact with him? the other structures come with learning things about richard hale and a dependable way. it can not be easy to mess with that information. there are technology pieces that start to solve this problem. we have worried a lot about privacy as a part of doing this. i do not think we have solved all of the problems. i think that the pieces are there. we have not have the economic reason to do it except in places like dod. >> one of the reasons you have nancy it is that the business case has not been made to the industry or the government. people are losing the

will help us advance against trafficking, and we are committed to working with all nations, and we have been achieving an approach with prosecution and protection and prevention. the criminal network that enslaved millions of people crosses borders and continence. the response must do the same. we're focused on delivering for the governments across the world, because this is affecting all of us. there are many of you who have been advocates in the fight against trafficking. this is a wonderful piece of work that is beautifully submitted, and i want to thank everyone in the state department, and the others who helped to produce this report. i hope that they studied this for the guidance that this provides so that we can continue to make progress against this terrible scourge. >> online, look at the book tv website and screen the pr ogramming to your computer with the redesigned player. and you can share this with everyone you know. the redesigned booktv.org. >> how is c-span funded? >> i would say donations? >> government grants? >> advertising? >> taxes? >> 30 years ago, c-span was created as a public service. there was no government mandate or money. >> patrick leahy talked about

the planners behind us understand the rural america really understand customers and the world market, the loyalty, let's talk plainly if you want to turn gm and chrysler into a network ever been dealerships then tell me the don't ask me and my constituents to provide the bailout. or is your plan to use the crisis of bankruptcy as a cheap and quick way to get rid of dealers you don't want only to eventually sell or put in place since you don't sell them a new franchise in a market you have laughed? if you plan to reduce dealers can you give me a guarantee was simply get rid of a bob thomas only to turn around and offer a gm franchise to someone else in the coming months? so the goal today mr. chairman is to get straight talk and fax, we need to know the real reasons for the closure decisions and whether they are really justified. we need to know how this is a good deal and the consumer, we need to know whether auto dealers targeted foreclosure in their local communities are getting a fair shake. we recognize tough and painful times for the auto industry especially workers and suppliers, the reverberations of detroit's troubles have reached into every one of our distr