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The origin of all hate
Type (Saturday, 17 Dec 2011) Reply There are more kinds of hate than just fueled by ignorance.. One might hate someone just because they did something unforgivable. And they did the unforgivable (albeit I believe everything is forgivable) because of their own ignorance :). And maybe that hatred essentially is fear of them doing the same thing again...
Inside North Korea; A Lesson for Christians
A quite amazing television programme is currently 'doing the rounds' on cable television. I viewed it on the National Geographic Channel , in fact I have now watched it twice within about eight months. If you get the chance to view it, drop everything else you were thinking of doing and just sit and watch it!
A government digital forensic expert examing the computer of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning retrieved communications between Manning and an online chat user identified on Manning’s computer as “Julian Assange,” the name of the founder of the secret-spilling site that published hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables. Investigators also found an Icelandic phone number for Assange, and a chat with a hacker located in the U.S., in which Manning says he’s responsible for the leaking of the “Collateral Murder” Apache helicopter video released by WikiLeaks in spring 2010. Until Monday’s revelation, there have been no reports that the government had evidence linking Manning and Assange, other than chat logs provided to the FBI by hacker Adrian Lamo last year. Assange is being investigated by a federal grand jury, but has not been charged with any crime, since publishing classified information is not generally considered a crime in the U.S.
Jolt in WikiLeaks Case: Feds Found Manning-Assange Chat Logs on Laptop | Threat Level | Wired.com
Don't Break the Internet - Stanford Law Review
Two bills now pending in Congress—the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement. Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internet’s extraordinary growth, and for free expression. To begin with, the bills represent an unprecedented, legally sanctioned assault on the Internet’s critical technical infrastructure. Based upon nothing more than an application by a federal prosecutor alleging that a foreign website is “dedicated to infringing activities,” Protect IP authorizes courts to order all U.S.
Image via Wikipedia You know you’re getting old when you start using the same sort of “kids these days” rants with your children that your parents threw your way long ago. I caught myself doing this recently when I was lecturing my kids about how lucky they were to not have to get off their duffs every time they wanted to change the channel on TV.
10 Things Our Kids Will Never Worry About Thanks to the Information Revolution - Forbes
Every month Elanor Kellie makes a very secret assignation. It’s been going on for more than two years now and while the exact date and time vary, one thing never changes — the fact that her husband is totally in the dark. But Elanor certainly hasn’t got a lover, and it’s not even that she’s undergoing secret cosmetic treatments. Instead, with a few clicks of her computer mouse she logs into her bank account and diverts money from her current account into a savings fund her husband, Alistair, is unaware of.
Should every wife have a secret bank account? How some women use it for little treats or as security in case of divorce | Mail Online
Republicans members of a House subcommittee have approved a bill that would modify the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requirement that whistle-blowers to report potential misconduct to their company before going to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Despite vigorous company lobbying before its passage, Dodd-Frank permits workers to go to the SEC first rather than their own firms. The primary sponsor of H.R. 2483, the Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011, is Rep. Michael G. Grimm, R-N.Y.
House subcommittee approves amendment modifying whistle-blower reporting rules | Compliancex
It´s a fact that education, of any nation, benefits in short, medium and long term social, cultural and health services, which is why there is no doubt that education is the future, that is why Governments seek that education systems have the level of development that achieves that students get the best scores, although it should be to examine whether this is achieved to ensure the usefulness of what is learned. I mention this, because schools seek students with better qualifications and usually those who are not at least two points above the average, simply does not deserve much attention, although a common thought is about those who achieve excellence, though desirable, do not require much support.
Talking about neurocognition
Alcona County
October of 1994, my skeletal remains were found located in Curtis Township, Alcona County, Michigan. It appears my remains had been there for about one to four years prior to discovery. It is estimated that I was somewhere between 30 to 50 years old, 5'0 to 5'4, and about 102, with Blond or Light Brown hair.
Universal Music Group was dealt a heavy loss today in its long-running copyright lawsuit against Veoh, a now-defunct video hosting site, with a federal judge upholding a previous ruling that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's safe harbor provision protected Veoh from liability when users uploaded videos that infringed on UMG's intellectual property. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of Veoh, called it "a bittersweet and crucial victory" for the Internet as a whole. Veoh went out of business from the cost of defending the case, but the ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco rejects UMG's reasoning for filing takedown notices. The question of whether user-generated content on video hosting sites qualify for DMCA safe harbor protection was also crucial in Viacom's similar $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, in which a judge ruled against Viacom last year.
Appeals Court reaffirms DMCA protection for user-generated content
High Scalability - High Scalability - How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets a Day Using MySQL
Jeremy Cole , a DBA Team Lead/Database Architect at Twitter, gave a really good talk at the O'Reilly MySQL conference: Big and Small Data at @Twitter , where the topic was thinking of Twitter from the data perspective. One of the interesting stories he told was of the transition from Twitter's old way of storing tweets using temporal sharding , to a more distributed approach using a new tweet store called T-bird, which is built on top of Gizzard , which is built using MySQL. Twitter's original tweet store:Romania's National Registry Office for Classified Information (ORNISS) headquarters building is seen in the background of this image taken in Bucharest, December 9, 2011. International media has reported that between 2003 and 2006, the CIA operated a secret prison from the building's basement, bringing in high-value terror suspects for interrogation and detention. ORNISS has denied hosting a CIA prison and the CIA has refused to comment.
European Countries Refuse to Release Information on CIA Rendition Flights | Public Intelligence
Capture d’écran de la page d’accueil de Rue89 le jour de sa naissance, le 6 mai 2007 Rue89 et le groupe Nouvel Observateur annoncent mercredi leur alliance. Cet accord, qui sera effectif le 31 décembre, se matérialise par le rachat du capital de Rue89 par Claude Perdriel , le fondateur et patron du Nouvel Observateur. Il pérennise l’aventure de notre site en lui garantissant son indépendance éditoriale totale.