2012-11-29, 19:53 | Link #24881 | |
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The others, probably expecting a big handout form either the US or Israel. Canada, no idea.
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2012-11-29, 20:03 | Link #24883 | ||
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a hell of a lot more complicated than the simple black and white perspectives people seem to think about it nowadays.
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2012-11-29, 20:49 | Link #24886 |
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I don't find this silly nor odd so I post this here..
NYPD officer photographed giving boots to barefoot homeless man melts icy hearts online Cheers for the Christmas Spirit |
2012-11-29, 22:39 | Link #24887 | |
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Judge urges new independent regulator for UK press
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2012-11-30, 07:57 | Link #24888 | |
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The issue i keep hearing discussed is whether this will enable the Palestinians to bring a "war crimes" complaint against Israel and its practices in Gaza and the West Bank before the International Criminal Court.
Many in the United States, especially our military, hate the whole notion of the ICC. Quote:
I'm not saying I agree with these views; most of the strenuous civilian opposition to the Court comes from unreconstructed neo-cons like John Bolton. Still ratifying the ICC treaty isn't high on the Obama Administration's agenda these days either, and any attempts to do so would be filibustered by the Senate Republicans. As for the Susan Rice nonsense, Rachel Maddow is hardly alone in having the view that most of this relentless persecution is an attempt to pressure the President into naming my Senator, John Kerry, as Secretary of State. Scott Brown would almost certainly run again, and this time there are few obvious Democrats to run against him. I could see Governor Deval Patrick deciding to run. He has only two more years left in his second term and this might be the best opportunity for him to move up the ladder. He also has an existing state-wide campaign apparatus. Congresswoman Nikki Tsongas might be a possibility; her late husband was also a Massachusetts senator until he died from cancer. Other than name recognition, though, she has had little exposure outside her district north of Boston. Otherwise we might be seeing a "parachute" candidate. When Brown ran in the special election after Ted Kennedy died, there was a lot of talk about bringing in Caroline Kennedy to run for her uncle's seat. Barney Frank would probably win if he ran, but I take him at his word that he is looking forward to retirement. That's too bad because a debate between Frank and Brown would be great political theater (Barney would mop the floor with Brown). McCain may also have some personal grudge against Rice. She was a fairly vocal critic of his during the 2008 election, when Rice was Obama's chief foreign policy advisor. Lindsey Graham wants to succeed the outgoing Joe Lieberman as McCain's best buddy. As for Kelly Ayotte, the fact that I live in the next-door state and have heard nothing about her work as Senator says a lot. She got elected in the 2010 Republican surge having burnished her right-wing credentials when, as NH Attorney General, she argued the state's appeal of an abortion ruling before the US Supreme Court.
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2012-11-30, 11:59 | Link #24889 | ||
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Japan’s Space Agency Says Rocket Information Was Stolen by Computer Virus
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Japan seems remarkably clueless about computer security at times for such an advanced nation. Look at this recent story where an anime technical director was arrested for allegedly sending "massacre threats" that were actually being sent through his malware-infected computer which had been joined to a botnet. Quote:
This wasn't even all that sophisticated; he installed a piece of malware that arrived via email or perhaps off a BBS or website. Don't Japanese IT directors know how to install virus scanning software on their mail servers? Believe me, that was the first thing I did when I started providing mail services for clients. More recently I've installed software on one of my client's firewalls that scans every inbound object from the web to protect against crap like this. Users are entirely untrustworthy when it comes to computer security. You have to nab this stuff at the doorstep before it can get in.
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2012-11-30, 12:31 | Link #24890 |
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The japanese lack malice (or drive, take your pick) to extensively use malware but seem to forget that the internet is a global network. The real question is if really was the chinese stoling misile secrets or the iranian making it look like it was the chinese, or the israeli making it look like it was the iranian making it look like it was the chinese ...
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2012-11-30, 12:40 | Link #24891 |
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Koreans have a similar problem ... for a while I refused to use Korean games because they were all using ActiveX launchers that had enough security holes to drive cruise missiles through. Fine in an INTRAnet, completely insane to use in an INTERnet.
A large part of the problem is that the decision makers in Japan are almost always "over 60" and most are latent Luddites in many ways. Fax machines are still required for many functions. Bank ATMs are inside the lobby (which close at 5 or 6). Most places use cash, even for thousands of dollars in purchases. Whereas smartphones are pervasive, using them for business is still iffy (few/none have business apps). Records are still paper file cabinets more often than not. Its like those odd science fiction stories where a few technologies are super-sophisticated but everything else is stuck in the 19th Century.
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2012-11-30, 13:25 | Link #24892 |
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UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact
Failing to teach evolution by natural selection in science lessons could lead to new free schools losing their funding under government changes. I wish certain communist nazi jew black and white president would learn from this example |
2012-11-30, 16:52 | Link #24893 | ||
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That would most certainly get him a call for impeachment. Well, more calls for it at least.
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2012-11-30, 17:42 | Link #24894 | |
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2012-11-30, 17:48 | Link #24895 | |
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Hillary Clinton on Iran, Syria, the drug war, and why she went to Togo
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2012-11-30, 18:10 | Link #24896 |
books-eater youkai
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Fatal shooting over music compared to Martin case
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT Another incident because of that ''stand your ground'' laws. Of course the real question is more how much incident happen because of that law thanwe never hear about.
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2012-11-30, 21:22 | Link #24897 | |
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There are few businesses here who still use the ancient POS-systems with completely open access issues (3 DIGIT passwords that are open to simple guessing and brute-force), and they are usually government or government related. I don't think Japan is the only one having issues with moving forward into the future.
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2012-12-01, 08:38 | Link #24898 |
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Um, no.
This is a blatant case of someone trying to use the stand your ground law after the fact to cover his ass. There was no standing of anyone's ground in this case, it's just plain old murder. I'd love to see him trying to go with stand-your-ground in court, his case would get eviscerated in a second. He might as well try to plead insanity, might have a better chance that way. |
2012-12-01, 13:04 | Link #24899 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Exactly (unless the "stand your ground" law in that state is a grammatical piece of shit ... I've gotten very cynical about politicians with degrees in literature/english/history/whatever who don't seem to be able to compose clear law language).
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2012-12-01, 13:41 | Link #24900 | |
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