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These guides were created in the spirit of The Hydra Bay. In ancient Greek mythology, the Hydra was a serpent that possessed many heads. Herakles was sent to destroy it as one of his twelve labours, but for each of the heads that he decapitated, two more grew. In a sense this is what we are trying to achive; ISPs block The Pirate Bay, and many more proxies appear.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-slaps-pathetic-proxies-and-scammy-copies-120507/
Presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in London, England, the findings revealed that young macaque monkeys given the typical CDC-recommended vaccination schedule from the 1990s, and in appropriate doses for the monkeys’ sizes and ages, tended to develop autism symptoms. Their unvaccinated counterparts, on the other hand, developed no such symptoms, which points to a strong connection between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders.
Included in the mix were several vaccines containing the toxic additive Thimerosal, a mercury-based compound that has been phased out of some vaccines, but is still present in batch-size influenza vaccines and a few others. Also administered was the controversial measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which has been linked time and time again to causing autism and various other serious, and often irreversible, health problems in children (http://www.greenhealthwatch.com)
“This research underscores the critical need for more investigation into immunizations, mercury, and the alterations seen in autistic children,” said Lyn Redwood, director of SafeMinds, a public safety group working to expose the truth about vaccines and autism. “SafeMinds calls for large scale, unbiased studies that look at autism medical conditions and the effects of vaccines given as a regimen.”
See also:
Guess what else the ASD monkeys came up with, and Dr Wakefield is gonna like this one: Gastrointestinal problems manifested in vaccinated macaques such as “many significant differences in the GI tissue gene expression profiles between vaccinated and unvaccinated animals.” [3] It’s been a deeply debated topic within medicine that vaccinated children who contract ASD also have GI tract issues.
Perhaps the most on-point quote regarding the monkey study came from Scott Bono, the National Autism Association chairman, i.e., something those who are accused of being against vaccinations have been questioning and demanding:
“To date, the CDC has conducted no safety testing on the possible harmful effects of simultaneously administering multiple vaccines to infants, and has steadfastly refused to state a preference for mercury-free vaccines to be given to children and pregnant women. It’s time for HHS and Congress to step in and take vaccine safety away from the CDC.”
As more and more high-tech systems are integrated into the Internet, the list of targets potentially vulnerable to cyber-attack likewise grows. Richard Clarke, who advised President Bill Clinton and tried to advise both presidents Bush on counter-terrorism and cyber-security, points out that “Sophisticated cyber attackers could do things like derail trains across the country…They could cause power blackouts – not just by shutting off the power but by permanently damaging generators that would take months to replace. They could do things like cause [oil or gas] pipelines to explode. They could ground aircraft.”
We have now exhaustively proven in a series of articles that the U.S. Army is training its personnel, through the policies outlined in a manual entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations (PDF), to “indoctrinate” “political activists” incarcerated in detention camps into developing an “understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.”
The story has been blacklisted.
A federal court ordered that Cate Jenkins, a chemist at the Environmental Protection Agency, be reinstated to her job with back pay.
Her lawyer said the decision, although based on matters of legal process, amounted to vindication for Jenkins’s claims that the EPA had covered up the danger posed to first responders and others in lower Manhattan from the asbestos and highly corrosive dust that rose from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
http://gizmodo.com/5908244/this-simple-test-can-tell-if-youre-a-facebook-addict
In what could be a major blow to Android, Google’s mobile operating system, a San Francisco jury issued a verdict today that the company broke copyright laws when it used Java APIs to design the system. The ruling is a partial victory for Oracle, which accused Google of violating copyright law.
But the jury couldn’t reach agreement on a second issue—whether Google had a valid “fair use” defense when it used the APIs. Google has asked for a mistrial based on the incomplete verdict, and that issue will be briefed later this week.
The results aren’t clear going forward. Both sides are going to write briefs arguing how to proceed from here, with Google likely arguing the verdict needs to be thrown out, while Oracle somehow tries to hang on to its win on question 1A, the fundamental question about whether Google infringed copyright.
Moviegoers and comic fans know that S.H.I.E.L.D., led by Samuel L. Jackson’s super-spy Nick Fury, is an international peacekeeping/global surveillance/crisis response/quasi-military organization. But its relationship with the United States is murky. And that basically stopped the U.S. military, which is normally eager to cooperate with the film industry on blockbuster movies, from teaming up with the Avengers.
“We couldn’t reconcile the unreality of this international organization and our place in it,” Phil Strub, the Defense Department’s Hollywood liaison, tells Danger Room. “To whom did S.H.I.E.L.D. answer? Did we work for S.H.I.E.L.D.? We hit that roadblock and decided we couldn’t do anything” with the film.
More:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/avengers-military/
The tactic under investigation is one known in Japan as compugacha, or “complete gacha,” named after the sound made by toy vending machines. As with many mobile and social games around the world, players can spend real currency to buy in-game items. The difference in these games is that the players don’t know what items they’ll receive. If they collect complete sets of rare items, they’ll receive even more rare ones as a reward. This has led some players to spend thousands of dollars on the games in an effort to complete sets of virtual trinkets.
Sources close to Japan’s Consumer Affairs Agency told Yomiuri Shimbun that the compugacha sales method violates a law prohibiting so-called “cards combination” lottery prizes. Businesses using that forbidden process sell cards to a consumer who is unaware of their value. Collecting a set of particular cards allows the consumer to trade them in for a prize.
“This raises questions about whether the sector’s growth in Japan is sustainable,” Tokai Tokyo Research Center analyst Yusuke Tsunoda said to the Nikkei Shimbun on Monday, noting that much of the rapid growth of social gamemakers Gree and DeNA has been through compugacha.
More:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/05/japanese-mobile-games-gree-dena/
2012 seems to be the year of the major network outages for The Netherlands
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2804828/omvangrijke-landelijke-storing-upc.html
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2804944/gemeente-koopt-domeinnaam-amsterdam.html
On Sunday May 6 2012, the results out of Nevada and Maine marked a historical event in the history of presidential elections. He won overall 43 delegates in the two states, who he will be bringing to Tampa, Florida for the national convention. Ron Paul, who has run for president three times altogether, continues to de facto shape national debate and the coming presidential election.
Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn warned rivals and reformers Sunday that “the time for fear has come” after exit polls showed them securing their entry in parliament for the first time in nearly 40 years.
“The time for fear has come for those who betrayed this homeland,” Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos told a news conference at an Athens hotel, flanked by menacing shaven-headed young men.
“We are coming,” the 55-year-old said as supporters threw firecrackers outside.
According to updated exit polls, the once-marginal party will end up winning over six percent of the vote and sending 19 deputies to the 300-seat parliament on a wave of immigration and crime fears, as well as anti-austerity anger.
See also:
http://rt.com/news/golden-dawn-parliament-greece-715/
Similar measures have decreased skimming levels in neighbouring country Belgium by 95%
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/110418/ook-abn-amro-komt-met-pinpasblokkade-buiten-eu.html
Previously:
RABO Bank To Block Dutch Debit Cards In Foreign Countries By Default To Prevent Skimming
http://vrritti.com/2012/05/05/rabo-bank-to-block-dutch-debit-cards-in-foreign-countries-by-default-to-prevent-skimming/
During the investigation, entire Facebook predator communities were easily spotted. Child pornographers use groups as meet-up points to find others with similar interests. Many of the offenders would list similar interests on their profile pages, including terms such as “Thirteen,” “Lolita,” “Justin Bieber,” “incest” and “PTHC (preteen hard-core pornography).” Their activities might include “Receiving nude pics,” and they subscribe to explicit Facebook fan pages posted in plain sight.
In most cases, child-pornography traders and pedophiles have two kinds of friends: 1) sexual deviants who have similar interests and 2) unsuspecting children they’ve found and “friended” on Facebook. Many predators will establish a virtual relationship with a child, convince him or her to send provocative photos and even persuade the child to meet with them in person.
This specific exposé looks at graphic photos of children, including infants and toddlers. As you can see in the screenshot above, a Facebook user by the name of “Kidsex Young” had a slew of approved friend requests with users whom he or she allegedly traded abuse photos and videos. Here are the titles of discovered Facebook Groups, Facebook Pages, and Facebook profiles:
Most of the content is shared to earn bragging rights from thousands of others interested in exchanging content of molested boys and girls, typically taken on the spot by perpetrators with cell phones. There are entire albums dedicated to showing children forced into acts by pedophiles, including children told to show their genitals to the camera, raped by adults, and even forced to perform sexual acts on each other.
This disturbing problem is not a new one for Facebook. Until last year, the company mainly relied on reports from its users about illegal activity. In March 2011, however, Facebook adopted Microsoft’s PhotoDNA technology to help fight child pornography.
More:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/child-porn-photos-traded-on-facebook-in-plain-sight-report/12632
The process works something like this: your boss has an important document he or she wants to share with you and the rest of your team. Your boss uploads the document to DocTrackr, and sends each of you an invite over e-mail to view the file. Using what Cazalot calls “cryptography applied to document management,” Microsoft Word or Adobe Reader checks with DocTrackr’s authentication server to confirm whether access is allowed.
And the type of access can vary too. Your boss might decide that no one should be able to print the file, or that the file should be read-only, and inaccessible offline. These permissions can be applied to everyone on your team, or just certain people. Or, if your boss has a new version of the document to distribute, access to the old file can be revoked. Meanwhile, the number of users who access the file, and for how long, are tracked and measured using a series of graphs online.
The genius here is that authentication is handled by security mechanisms already built into Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader, saving Cazalot from having to “reinvent the wheel.” Instead, DocTrackr provides a simple, unified front-end interface to manage these permissions online—something a business would have previously had to handle itself.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/12076252/___We_overleven_zo_niet_als_soort___.html
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May 7: Launch of major new Report to the Club of Rome : 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. by Jorgen Randers
Rotterdam, the Netherlands: 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, by Jorgen Randers, launched by the Club of Rome on May 7, raises the possibility that humankind might not survive on the planet if it continues on its path of over-consumption and short-termism.
In the Report author Jorgen Randers raises essential questions: How many people will the planet be able to support? Will the belief in endless growth crumble? Will runaway climate change take hold? Where will quality of life improve, and where will it decline? Using painstaking research, and drawing on contributions from more than 30 thinkers in the field, he concludes that:
The Report says the main cause of future problems is the excessively short-term predominant political and economic model. “We need a system of governance that takes a more long-term view”, said Professor Randers, speaking in Rotterdam. “It is unlikely that governments will pass necessary regulation to force the markets to allocate more money into climate friendly solutions, and must not assume that markets will work for the benefit of humankind”.
“We already live in a manner that cannot be continued for generations without major change. Humanity has overshot the earth’s resources, and in some cases we will see local collapse before 2052 – we are emitting twice as much greenhouse gas every year as can be absorbed by the world’s forests and oceans.”
The launch was organised by the Club of Rome, the international think-tank that focuses on stimulating debate on achieving a sustainable future. The Club is continuing its tradition of supporting work that raises fundamental questions and promotes far-sighted solutions. The launch takes place on the eve of an international meeting of WWF, the international environmental organisation.
Published in the run-up to the Rio Summit, this Report to the Club of Rome: 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years(published by US publishers Chelsea Green) looks at issues first raised in The Limits to Growth, 40 years ago. This earlier Report, also to the Club of Rome, of which Randers was a co-author, created shock waves by questioning the ideal of permanent growth.
Commenting on the findings of 2052, Ian Johnson, Club of Rome Secretary General said: “Professor Randers’ analysis of where the world could be in 40 years has demonstrated that ‘Business as usual’ is not an option if we want our grand-children to live in a sustainable and equitable planet. It took 40 years before the full message of The Limits to Growth was properly understood. We cannot afford any more lost decades.”
Milner’s prior awareness of the privacy and legal issues in lifting data from open WiFi networks implicates him, in one sense: he created tools to do something that was, at best, an ethically gray area for the community out of which he came. But he did first raise questions and seek out advice from his superiors; when it was not forthcoming, he apparently decided to forge ahead. His decision to raise the issue at least partly exonerates him from Google’s initial suggestion that he acted alone and failed to make his superiors aware of what he was doing.
Previously:
Google engineer in Street View probe identifies as a Palo Alto hacker Marius Milner
http://vrritti.com/2012/05/02/google-engineer-in-street-view-probe-identifies-as-a-palo-alto-hacker-marius-milner/
The tender suggests that the job is not just about technology as culture change will need to be undertaken to move ABC personnel on from a mindset that views content as something stored on tapes to assets stored in digital media.
“The implications of content digitalisation for capture, ingest, access and browse, edit, production, post-production and play-out are significant not only in terms of how audio visual content is captured, but also in terms of how these files are moved around the ABC,” the tender says.
The tender therefore says the broadcaster needs “ … a comprehensive set of recommendations that will be used to drive and implement a Program of Works (comprising of multiple projects and activities) that will provide end-to-end digital file based work-flows across the ABC.”
More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/07/abc_wants_digital_workflows/
The visa-free, start-up friendly concept launched late last year aims to create a fully commercial technology incubator where global entrepreneurs can live and work in close proximity to the Valley, accessing VC dosh and talent as required.
A new research report released by Blueseed reveals that the bulk of registered demand germinated from the US at 20.3%, Indian start-ups rank second at 10.5% and Australians third at 6%.
More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/06/floating_geek_cruiser_recruits_aussies/
Hackers and rules…
As well as money, Facebook promises not to land them in trouble with the police, if they have complied with the program’s golden rules.
“If you give us reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public, and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you.”
One British hacker has earned more than $2400 from Facebook, and the most prolific White Hat contributors are now given their own Facebook “bug bounty” credit cards.
Facebook’s chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, says he would much rather the hackers worked with the company, rather than against it. In time, he hopes the hackers will be able to find legitimate ways of expressing themselves within schools and universities.
“There is a real lack of practical academic programs for cyber-security not only in the US but also internationally,” he said. “Cyber-security is a skill best learned by doing, and unfortunately many of the current academic programs place little emphasis on real-world practical experience such as that gained in competition or via bug-bounty programs.
“This dearth of the right educational opportunities has a real impact on companies like ours who are searching far and wide for cyber-security experts to protect the networks and sites that people rely on and use every day.
Much more:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/please-hack-us-says-facebook-20120504-1y41a.html
