Propaganda in the Spanish-American War As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation NSA späht Kanzlerin-Handy aus: Deutsche Politiker fordern Konsequenzen Hamburg/Berlin - Ausgespäht, belauscht, und das offenbar seit Jahren: Deutsche Politiker fordern nun ernsthafte Konsequenzen aus der NSA-Spähaffäre. Die CSU plädiert für einen Stopp der Verhandlungen mit den USA über das geplante transatlantische Freihandelsabkommen. "Wir sollten die Verhandlungen für ein Freihandelsabkommen mit den USA auf Eis legen, bis die Vorwürfe gegen die NSA geklärt sind", sagte die bayerische Wirtschaftsministerin Ilse Aigner (CSU) dem SPIEGEL. Ähnlich hatte sich bereits am vergangenen Donnerstag SPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel geäußert. Hintergrund sind massive Vorwürfe gegen US-Geheimdienste, die derzeit das deutsch-amerikanische Verhältnis belasten: So späht die NSA offenbar bereits seit mehr als zehn Jahren das Handy von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel aus. Mehrheit der Deutschen befürworten scharfe Reaktion Merkel hatte Obama am vergangenen Mittwoch per Telefon mit den Vorwürfen konfrontiert. Der CSU-Politiker verlangte eine lückenlose Aufklärung zu allen Vorwürfen.
La NSA à la sauce française En temps de crise et pour savoir ce que le contribuable paie à l’Etat français, un voile se lève depuis l’affaire Snowden, ceci afin que de petits informaticiens malins de l’Hexagone ne révèlent point au grand jour ce que la DSGE (Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure) a construit depuis longtemps (?) l’ombre: son super NSF. Un super NSF ou «Gros Frère» installé depuis des lustres dans les sous-sols de la DSGE précitée récemment dans cet article, au Boulevard Mortier (ça ne s’invente pas!) à Paris et qui n’est autre qu’un super calculateur qui surveille la totalité des échanges téléphoniques, ou numériques, ou encore électroniques des citoyenNEs françaisES pour les stocker bruts de coffrage dans des bases de données et ce, pendant des années, on ne sait jamais ! Sans compter le fric dépensé pour une telle institution afin d’écouter Madame Bidochon demander à son mari, via son iPhone5 : «Chéri…ton rosbeef, tu le veux à la sauce parisienne??», «Mmmh, chè pas!» Like this:
President Obama’s Dragnet Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability. The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. Based on an article in The Guardian published Wednesday night , we now know the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency used the Patriot Act to obtain a secret warrant to compel Verizon’s business services division to turn over data on every single call that went through its system. A senior administration official quoted in The Times offered the lame observation that the information does not include the name of any caller, as though there would be the slightest difficulty in matching numbers to names.
Manhattan Project Two types of atomic bomb were developed during the war. A relatively simple gun-type fission weapon was made using uranium-235, an isotope that makes up only 0.7 percent of natural uranium. Since it is chemically identical to the most common isotope, uranium-238, and has almost the same mass, it proved difficult to separate. Three methods were employed for uranium enrichment: electromagnetic, gaseous and thermal. Most of this work was performed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In parallel with the work on uranium was an effort to produce plutonium. The project was also charged with gathering intelligence on the German nuclear energy project. The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb at the Trinity test, conducted at New Mexico's Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on 16 July 1945. The Manhattan Project operated under a blanket of tight security, but Soviet atomic spies still penetrated the program. Origins Feasibility Proposals Bomb design concepts Organization
New Utah NSA center requires 1.7M gallons of water daily to operate More secrets, more water? The NSA data center in Bluffdale could require as many as 1.7 million gallons of water per day to operate and keep computers cool. Initial reported estimates suggested the center would use 1,200 gallons per minute, but more recent estimates suggest the usage could be closer to half that amount. "Our planning is anywhere from 1,000 acre-feet per year to 2,000 acre-feet per year, and that represents - if it was 1,000 acre-feet per year, that would be about 1 percent of our total demand," said Jordan Valley River Conservancy District assistant general manager and chief engineer Alan Packard. Packard said that amount of water - while large - could be easily accommodated and was on par with industrial operations such as soft drink bottling plants. "At build-out, it will be several years before the data center uses that amount of water, so we have the opportunity to prepare for that through both conservation and developing new supplies," Packard said.
Netflix ou le beau piège à cons! / Fuck Netflix in english too in english after the image Ben c’est un système qui n’est pas encore en Europe, mais qui ne saurait tarder, et qui a pour but de verrouiller les tablettes et autres ordinateurs avec le système DRM ou, si cela ne vous parle pas, c’est facile de le comprendre, même en anglais : Digital Restrictions Management Et ce n’est que le début d’un long processus qui a pour but de verrouiller les programmes écrits en HTML5 et qui sont principalement présents sur les navigateurs que l’on dit avec «Premium Extensions vidéo», soit les deux géants du web : Google et Microsoft dont les navigateurs sont Google-Chrome et Internet Explorer. Si la proposition finale du Netflix, qui n’est autre qu’une manipulation du World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), est adoptée, il y a un moyen de sortir de ce système. Envoyer un message Netflix: Annuler votre abonnement (Ceci ne fonctionne que si vous êtes connecté à votre compte.) Utilisez le hashtag # CancelNetflix à dire @ Netflix pourquoi tu te barres!. PS. Like this:
Beyond "Soda, Pop, or Coke": Regional Dialect Variation in the Continental US Using data from Bert Vaux's dialect survey , we examine regional dialect variation in the continental United States. Each observation can be thought of as a realization of a categorical random variable with a particular parameter vector that is a function of location—our goal was to interpolate among these points in order to estimate these parameter vectors at a given location, making use of a combination of kernel density estimation and non-parametric smoothing techniques. Results in a smooth field of parameter estimates over the prediction region. Using these results, a method for mapping aggregate dialect distance is developed. Please see the FAQ below. Thank you to everyone who has emailed over the past few days—the response these maps have been getting has been absolutely incredible. Please direct all media requests to Tracey Peake (tracey_peake@ncsu.edu) at the NCSU press office. Right now, the maps only take into account the four most popular answers for a given survey question.
The Reichstag Fire, 68 years on Book Review Alexander Bahar, Wilfried Kugel: Der Reichstagbrand - Wie Geschichte gemacht wird (The Reichstag Fire - How History is Created), edition q, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86124-523-2, 864 pages, price: 68.00 DM 5 July 2001 On February 27, 1933—more than 68 years ago—the Berlin Reichstag, the seat of Germany’s parliament, was set on fire. Even before his identity was established, the Nazi leaders accused the German Communist Party (KPD) of having committed arson. For the Nazis, who had been in power less than a month, since January 30, 1933, the Reichstag fire was the excuse for a hitherto unparalleled persecution of Communist and Social Democratic workers, intellectuals and party leaders. All left-wing newspapers, including the Social Democratic daily Vorwärts, the Communist Party press and the German Trotskyists’ newspaper Permanente Revolution, were confiscated and banned. "The front must now be directed against fascism. Who were the arsonists? References
NSA-Affäre: Jimmy Carter kritisiert USA Der ehemalige US-Präsident Jimmy Carter hat im Nachgang des NSA-Spähskandals das amerikanische politische System heftig kritisiert. "Amerika hat derzeit keine funktionierende Demokratie", sagte Carter am Dienstag bei einer Veranstaltung der "Atlantik-Brücke" in Atlanta. Bereits zuvor hatte sich der Demokrat sehr kritisch über die Praktiken der US-Geheimdienste geäußert. "Ich glaube, die Invasion der Privatsphäre ist zu weit gegangen", sagte Carter zu CNN. Carter hat wiederholt gewarnt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten durch zu starke Beschränkung von Bürgerrechten ihre moralische Autorität einbüßten. Carter war der 39. In Atlanta äußerte er sich außerdem insgesamt pessimistisch über die globale Lage. Als Lichtblick nannte Carter hingegen den Siegeszug moderner Technologie, die etwa in den Ländern des Arabischen Frühlings für demokratische Fortschritte gesorgt hätten. Lesen Sie hier die Chronologie der NSA-Affäre Verschlüsseln Sie Ihre E-Mails? Deutsche Geheimdienste außer Kontrolle
La privatisation du domaine public à la BnF, symptôme d’un désarroi stratégique Vendredi, une déclaration commune a été publiée par La Quadrature du Net, SavoirsCom1, Creative Commons France, L’Open Knowledge Foundation France et Communia pour s’opposer aux partenariats de numérisation envisagés par la Bibliothèque nationale de France et validés par le Ministère de la Culture en début de semaine. Depuis, plusieurs organisations ont souhaité se rallier à ce texte : Framasoft ; Regards Citoyens ; Veni, Vivi, Libri ; Libre Accès, le Parti Pirate Français et Vecam. La déclaration sur le site de SavoirsCom1 Un large front se dessine pour refuser cette dérive vers une privatisation du domaine public en France, comme l’a dénoncée Philippe Aigrain sur son blog. Il explique également sa position dans cet article sur Actualitté, de même qu’Hervé Le Crosnier le fait sous un angle différent d’après son expérience d’éditeur. Ou encore cette Déclaration d’amour au domaine public, rédigée par l’enseignante de Lettres C. Les profs disent le domaine public. La page Facebook de Gallica
Download Nyquist Plug-ins Plug-in authors These plug-ins have been contributed by: Steve Daulton Edgar Franke Steven Jones David R.Sky Jvo Studer Installing Plug-ins Nyquist plug-ins may be available as plain text files with the file extension .NY , or as a ZIP archive file. To install Nyquist plug-ins, place the NY file in the Plug-Ins folder inside the Audacity installation folder. On Windows computers, this is usually at C:\Program Files\Audacity ( or C:\Program Files\Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode) in legacy 1.3 versions ) . Restart Audacity, then the plug-ins will appear underneath the divider in the "Effect", "Generate" or "Analyze" menus. Plug-in Lists In the lists below, click a "Downloads" link to go to the page for Generate, Effect or Analyze plug-ins, or click the individual links to go directly to the description of that plug-in. Left-clicking the View link displays the plug-in code in your browser. Generate Plug-in Downloads These plug-ins usually appear towards the bottom of the Generate menu in Audacity.
Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq Illustration: John Ueland At A congressional hearing examining the march to war in Iraq, Republican congressman Walter Jones posed "a very simple question" about the administration's manipulation of intelligence: "How could the professionals see what was happening and nobody speak out?" Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, responded with an equally simple answer: "The vice president." But the blame for Iraq does not end with Cheney, Bush, or Rumsfeld. The first drafts of history are, by their nature, fragmentary.
NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran Conflict | The Diary of my Insomnia One of the dirty little secrets of the 1980s is that the U.S. regularly provided Iraq’s Saddam Hussein with top-secret communication intercepts by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Consider the evidence. When in 1991 the government of Kuwait paid the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton ten million dollars to drum up American war fever against the evil dictator Hussein, it brought about the end of a long legacy of cooperation between the U.S. and Iraq. Hill & Knowlton resurrected the World War I propaganda story about German soldiers roasting Belgian babies on bayonets, updated in the form of a confidential witness (actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.) who told Congress a tearful story of Iraqi soldiers taking Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and leaving them on the cold floor to die. What is remarkable about this staged turn of events is that, until then, Hussein had operated largely with U.S. approval. First, U.S. So it would seem. [Source] Mr. Mr.