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Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- Businesses have been significantly impacted by the storm.
John Skeesbold a plow driver for the North Dakota DOT started work at 4 this morning.
John: "Wasn't a lot going on, the wind was picking up, but got caught off guard when that system moved a little bit farther south."
Not only are all hands on deck in his district of Casselton, but all over North Dakota. There are 5 trucks in his section alone.
John: "Just this section got about 200 lane miles that we cover, interstate is a priority, then the secondary."
You may think Skeesbold would be happy about hitting the road after our un winter like winter...think again.
John: "It has been a nice break since the last couple of years, we have definitely had a lot of over time in the last few years, this year it has been we have called it around to it winter, we have been working on all of those projects we said we'd do when we got around to it."
The weather didn't only make for a busy day for snow plow drivers, it also caused some local businesses to close their doors.
Lisa Valnes: "A lot of staff couldn't make it in, due to the weather."
Country Kitchen Manager Lisa Valnes closed her restaurant at 10 A-M. Sunday is normally the restaurant's busiest day.
Lisa: "Usually by now we'd have 7 servers and a full restaurant, so it is too quiet."
And when considering making a profit over safety, Valnes says there is no question.
Lisa: "I don't want them to sliding off the interstate or getting hurt trying to get here."
As plow drivers work around the clock keeping people safe, Valnes is happy knowing her staff is safe.
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A gathering of United Nations diplomats overseas has some in the U.S. worried about a potential takeover of the Internet by foreign powers – with others claiming such fears are wildly overhyped.
The obscure branch of the U.N. at issue is the International Telecommunication Union, whose 193 member states include the U.S. and which was convening this week in Geneva. The ostensible purpose of the conference is to seek consensus for an updating of the last set of international telecom regulations, known as ITRs, which were issued in 1988.
“There is general agreement that the ITRs need to be updated to reflect the significant changes that have taken place in the information and communication technology sector in the past 24 years," International Telecommunication Union spokesman Gary Fowlie said in an email to Fox News.
But Robert McDowell, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, has been warning that the conference is a moment of great peril for industrialized and Third World countries alike. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and a subsequent interview with Fox Business, McDowell accused the so-called “BRIC” countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – and their allies among developing nations of trying to seize the moment to strengthen international regulation of the Internet. Such a development, McDowell claimed, would imperil the Web’s historic role as an outlet for free expression and economic growth.
“It's everything from economic regulation of the Internet to the administration of domain names, like .com and .org,” McDowell told Fox Business last week, as well as “engineering standards, cyber-security, and privacy, among many other ideas. ... There are a variety of motivations, I think, driving this, including wanting local phone companies, sometimes owned by local governments, to be able to charge on a per-click basis for certain websites.”
An appointee of President George W. Bush, McDowell suggested the forces aligned behind such goals are more organized and pro-active than opponents of such measures, like the U.S. “That is very troublesome,” he said.
Fowlie disputed such claims. “(International Telecommunication Union) members do not want heavy-handed regulation,” he told Fox News, adding, “There are no proposals on the table that would impact access to or freedom of the Internet."
The Geneva conference is part of a series of meetings to be held in advance of a conference in Dubai in December, known as the World Conference on International Telecommunications. Fowlie cited an unsigned memorandum, said to be have been prepared by Obama administration officials, that cast doubt on the conference producing the ominous scenarios McDowell envisioned.
The memo, dated Jan. 23, states that in January 2011, U.S. officials harbored “great and widespread concern" that the conference "would be a battle over investing the (International Telecommunication Union) with explicit Internet governance authority.”
However, American diplomats, the memo maintains, succeeded in “narrowing the focus" of the conference by emphasizing the administration’s "deregulatory position at every opportunity.” The memo concludes that the likelihood of the conference posing any “foundational” threats to the freedom of the Internet “seems low at this time.”
At a symposium on Internet governance sponsored by the Brookings Institution in January, various Obama administration officials – while not addressing the conference directly – nonetheless declared their opposition to tougher international regulation of the Internet.
“An Internet constrained by international treaty will stifle the innovators and entrepreneurs who have been, and will continue to be, responsible for its growth,” warned Larry Strickling, an official with the Department of Commerce. “If there's a heavy-handed approach that's taken to regulate (the Internet), it reduces the value for everyone,” agreed Karen Kornbluh, U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Danny Weitzner, deputy chief technology officer at the White House, spoke about foreign efforts to regulate the Internet in the most sardonic terms.
“This multi-stakeholder process -- the process that the Internet community has pioneered in many ways -- I think works based on the fact that people have things they need to do together,” he told the Brookings audience. “It doesn't really work when one people tells someone else what to do. That's kind of the Marx command-and-control model.”
“If we've agreed on one thing," he went on to say, “it's that we don't actually have any other model. We might like to think we do. People who want, you know, to build larger buildings in Geneva, or fill existing ones, you know, might, might like to do something else, for those reasons.”
A request by Fox News to speak with Weitzner, or someone else in the White House technology office, was declined by the White House, which responded with an automated email containing a phone number which, when dialed, led the caller to an automated welcome message for the Department of State.
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UN seeks to quell fears of global Internet takeover
While they couldn't agree on how it should be done, all of the speakers at Monday's 2012 Canadian Internet Forum agreed that government needs to take a more active role in Internet governance.
The Ottawa event, held annually by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), brought together more than 250 people from government, law enforcement agencies and the technical sector to discuss a smorgasbord of issues affecting Canadians' access to the Internet.
The keynote speaker, Dragons' Den star Robert Herjavec, spoke about escalating data theft, an ever-evolving Internet and the need for government to begin setting some serious ground rules about people's conduct online.
"Ultimately, governments will be the saviour of the Internet," said Herjavec. "Some of the bills today are rocky and ambitious. But, I'm OK with that. You have to try and we'll get there."
Herjavec compared current developments with the emergence of the automobile at the start of the 20th century. Only a select handful of individuals owned cars and as a result, road work and signage was funded by private organizations such as the Canadian Automobile Association, founded in 1900. Aside from lobbying on behalf of automobile owners, the CAA was responsible for getting urban speed limits lifted to 10 m.p.h. from eight m.p.h. and pushing the federal government to begin construction on the Trans-Canada Highway in 1922. Governments didn't become active in regulating automobiles in Canada until a significant number of citizens owned cars.
"Some element of that has to happen with regards to the Internet," said Herjavec.
Bertrand de La Chapelle, a member of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), called on governments to sit together and set global ground rules for Internet governance.
Now, La Chapelle said, govern-Now, La Chapelle said, governments around the world are trying to set rules and regulations governing Internet practices within their own countries. Those go-it-alone policies are largely useless.
"If I am a French guy travelling in Brazil and post something defamatory about a British guy over Twitter, what is the process for handling that?" he asked. "The Internet is being governed by geographical boundaries. The more the Internet grows, the more it is successful, the more we need common rules."
Last year the United States government seized a number of Internet domain names it believed were being used to stream copyrighted video over the Internet. One of those sites was Spain's Rojadirecta.com. Despite it not breaking any Spanish laws, the U.S. was able to seize the website's address because all Inter-net addresses ending with .com, .net and .org are administered from U.S.based servers. Since they are based on American soil, the U.S. believes those websites should be accountable to U.S. laws.
"The legislation of one country can expand and become applicable in other territories," said La Chapelle. "Welcome to the great debate about what is the geography of cyber space?"
La Chapelle, Herjavec and others warned that while governments must initiate the talks, they can't dominate them without input from the public. Speakers pointed to backlash around legislation such as the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. and the recent uproar in Canada against Bill C-30, which would give police increased powers of surveillance, both created with minimal public discussion. They also pointed to the highly contentious Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that was spurred by the Office of the United States Trade Representative and negotiated behind closed doors. The treaty has sparked riots by opponents in numerous countries.
Byron Holland, president and chief executive of CIRA, said governments no longer can operate on an issueby-issue basis in which they legislate from behind closed doors. The Internet has become too all-encompassing to forgo public discussion.
"Legislatures are used to legislating on a single issue or a single industry," he said. "They can't do that anymore. If you pull a lever on copyright or child endangerment you have no idea what the effect will be (elsewhere)."
Holland said CIRA created the annual Canadian Internet Forum to bring together the country's top minds to discuss issues and potential roadblocks that may affect Internet adoption in Canada.
He admitted CIRA's reach is limited - the organization administers only administers the .ca Internet domain name - but said it can help by providing a forum where Canadians can openly speak about In-
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Dealing with Internet evolution
MINNETONKA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII - News) today released the iDigi Connector, a free software download that allows any device, regardless of manufacturer or operating system, to seamlessly connect to the iDigi Device Cloud™. This means any device, anywhere, can now connect to any Internet application.
“The iDigi Connector makes the iDigi Device Cloud a completely open platform and extends the benefits of cloud connectivity to any device in the world,” said Larry Kraft, senior vice president of global sales and marketing, Digi International. “It enables easy access and control of devices over the Internet making the ‘Internet of ANYthing’ a reality.”
The iDigi Connector features an extremely small memory footprint that will fit even in low-cost microcontrollers. It supports two-way messaging for full cloud-to-device messaging and control and works on any device operating system. By enabling access to the device from the application, new device types can be added to a network without changing the application. This allows organizations to maximize their investment in their applications. Additionally, any derivative works created with the iDigi Connector are the property of the developer.
The iDigi Device Cloud provides the infrastructure required to access, control, configure and upgrade devices securely over the Internet. It is a secure and scalable platform that meets the highest standards of reliability. With the iDigi Connector, the iDigi Device Cloud provides instant connectivity to any type of device from any manufacturer. This allows software developers to access the rich features of the iDigi Device Cloud, including device management tools and robust security capabilities.
For more information about the iDigi Device Cloud, visit http://www.idigi.com.
About Digi International
Digi International is making wireless M2M easy by developing reliable products and solutions to connect and securely manage local or remote electronic devices over the network or via the Web. Digi offers the highest levels of performance, flexibility and quality, and markets its products through a global network of distributors and resellers, systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). For more information, visit Digi's Web site at http://www.digi.com, or call 877-912-3444. All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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Digi Enables Internet of ANYthing with iDigi Connector