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Strauss-Kahn. Again.
by chthonic 5/4/2012 - 10:51 am
In other news, reports that another hotel burned down around Strauss-Kahn were met with surprise from Kahn, who alleges he had no idea those were flames consuming his bedroom: "Ze hotel burned down? Mon Dieu! I had no idea the smoke was from fire! This is terreeble! Was anyone hurt?"
Prosecutors, investigators, and other authorities during a press conference in front the latest pile of smoldering rubble at which Strauss-Kahn stayed defended their inability: "We do not have a "smoking gun" linking Kahn to this latest conflagration." [Read more]
In local news....
by chthonic 3/22/2012 - 10:05 am
John Edwards and the ''Millionaire Madam':
By Murray Weiss, DNAinfo Criminal Justice Editor / Columnist
MANHATTAN
A call girl working for alleged "Millionaire Madam" Anna Gristina told investigators she was paid to have sex with former U.S. Sen. John Edwards when he was in New York raising money for his failed presidential bid, DNAinfo has learned.
The last word on Limbaugh
by chthonic 3/5/2012 - 10:02 pm
His latest, about a double standard, is revelatory.
Limbaugh, having never before encountered a standard, is seeing double after self-propelling headlong into his first ever.
Limbaugh, Clear Channel, Bain & Romney, and finally...the Clear Channel decency initiative
by chthonic 3/4/2012 - 10:35 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/7th-advertiser-pulls-limbaughs-show-194641280.html:
"Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks Inc. hosts Limbaugh's program, one of the country's most popular talk radio shows. "
"Clear Channel's parent company was taken private in 2008 by private equity firms Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications:
Indecency zero tolerance [Read more]
CIQ, FOSS, Speech
by chthonic 12/11/2011 - 12:32 pm
Over here KGB999 talks about the CIQ issue. I just noticed that the day after his post that the Software Freedom Law Center submitted comments "...to the U.S. Copyright Office proposing an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention provisions."
This is an article worth reading, since the issue covered in the comments is one of speech, among other things.
This is the relevant form of speech; perhaps some sort of discussion will ensue about free software:
# make [Read more]
Followup to: In truly scary news...
by chthonic 11/21/2011 - 8:55 pm
It looks like some agency hit a water supply SCADA. A SCADA, sort of like the ones on planes.
In this water supply issue, a pump was damaged by turning it on and off an excessive number of times.
In truly scary news that you probably don't want to know....
by chthonic 11/14/2011 - 9:27 pm
...but already know:
Saturday, September 24, 2011
[snip]
"A while back now, but many of the same systems are in place in the same way, I was contracted to test the systems on a Boeing 747. They had added a new video system that ran over IP. They segregated this from the control systems using layer 2 - VLANs. We managed to break the VLANs and access other systems and with source routing could access the Engine management systems. [Read more]
A troubled mind
by chthonic 11/8/2011 - 9:40 pm
As most of you know, Cain has mentioned "...a troubled woman...".
And, as most of you know, women who are almost raped in a parking lot find that experience to be troubling.
I wonder how long it will take before this turns into some sort of seriously unworthy blaxploitation. Seriously: I can almost hear Trouble Man as it is.
The soundtrack to this Caindawg production is gonna suck, though.
Just saying.
Scott Olsen's website
by chthonic 11/3/2011 - 9:58 am
Correction to the post: the link comprised of the words "This link" and the strikethrough will NOT, as indicated, direct your browser to the site started by Scott Olsen but it will direct your browser to a similar (I suspect) site populated by Marines.
Scott Olsen's site, as of 8:10 Eastern U.S. time, is unavailable.
This link will take you to the site started by Scott Olsen. It is interesting reading, if you are interested in what these Marines have to say.
NB: Scott Olsen's domain is ihatethemarinecorps.com.
The site to which I linked is ihatetheusmc.com.
My apologies for the error.
In the News
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Conversations with suicide bombers
By Elizabeth Weingarten, ForeignPolicy.com, May 23, 2012
It was 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Mossarat Qadeem was sitting on the floor of a house with about a dozen young Pakistani men -- some of whom had nearly become suicide bombers. Qadeem's goal: to undo the destructive brainwashing of the al-Qaeda and Taliban teachers who trained them in extremism, in part by asking the students to narrate their life stories.
"We were handling one of the boys, and he just came, put his head here in my lap, and he started crying and weeping," Qadeem recalls. "I was taken aback. It is very unnatural in my country that a man that tall can just sit at your feet and put his head here. [The other men] were all crying with him, and I was looking at him, and thinking, ‘my God.'"
All in a day's work for Qadeem. She's the national coordinator of Aman-o-Nisa, a coalition of Pakistani women that convened in October 2011 to combat violent extremism in Pakistan at the grassroots level. [....]
Read the article at http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/23/conversations_with_suicide_bombers- Add new comment
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For Native American Women, Scourge of Rape, Rare Justice
The issue of sexual assaults on American Indian women has become one of the major sources of discord in the current debate between the White House and the House of Representatives over the latest reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
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“We should never have a woman come into the office saying, ‘I need to learn more about Plan B for when my daughter gets raped,’ ” said Charon Asetoyer, a women’s health advocate on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, referring to the morning-after pill. “That’s what’s so frightening — that it’s more expected than unexpected. It has become a norm for young women.”
The difficulties facing American Indian women who have been raped are myriad, and include a shortage of sexual assault kits at Indian Health Service hospitals, where there is also a lack of access to birth control and sexually transmitted disease testing. There are also too few nurses trained to perform rape examinations, which are generally necessary to bring cases to trial.
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Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden Given Jail Term (for...
By Ismail Kahn, New York Times, May 23/24, 2012
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency pin down Osama bin Laden's location under cover of a vaccination drive was convicted on Wednesday of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a senior official in Pakistan said.
A tribal court here in northwestern Pakistan found the doctor, Shakil Afridi, guilty of acting against the state, said Mutahir Zeb Khan, the administrator for the Khyber tribal region [....]
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Russia lawmakers advance bill on penalties for protesters
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2012
MOSCOW — Stiff new penalties aimed at opposition protesters were given preliminary approval Tuesday by Russian lawmakers loyal to President Vladimir Putin, the target of mass rallies and demonstrations before his March election victory.
The bill, which opposition parliament members termed draconian and protested by threatening to file out of a legislative session, calls for fines of up to $50,000 and up to 200 hours of community service for organizers of rallies and demonstrations that grow violent or exceed the approved number of participants.
The sanctions were approved on first reading by parliament's lower house, which is controlled by Putin's United Russia party. They mark a return by the Kremlin to a tough stance against critics after concessions during the recent election campaign [...]
Also see:
Russians back Putin, strong leadership
Washington Post, May 22, 2012A Pew survey of 1,000 Russians found that President Vladimir Putin is well-liked by more than 70 percent of citizens, especially older adults.
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In Cuba, Mystery Shrouds the Fate of an Undersea Internet...
Associated Press, May 21, 2012
HAVANA — It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba's Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had hailed the dawn of a new cyber-age on the island.
More than a year after the February 2011 ceremony on Siboney Beach in eastern Cuba, and 10 months after the system was supposed to have gone online, the government never mentions the cable anymore, and Internet here remains the slowest in the hemisphere. People talk quietly about embezzlement torpedoing the project and the arrest of more than a half-dozen senior telecom officials.
Perhaps most maddening, nobody has explained what happened to the much-ballyhooed $70 million project....
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