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i thinThere are any number of messages to emerge from Sunday's grand final and the victory the St George Illawarra Dragons deserved, and secured.
Let me deal with just three - and I will focus on the positive first of all.
Today the debate continues about whether Wayne Bennett is now entitled to replace Jack Gibson as the best ever coach in the game.
It is a futile debate - different eras, different coaching conditions, the impact of the salary cap and so on - make comparisons between one generation and another difficult and probably meaningless.
Bennett's record of seven grand final victories is never going to be equalled. Gibson's teams won five - in a similar time frame. Both have been outstanding coaches - and over long periods...Gibson 20 years, Bennett 23 years (and continuing).
Coaching a second team to a grand final victory puts to rest the claim Bennett was only successful because he coached a star studded team...which at one stage comprised more than half the Maroons side.
The second positive is that the Dragons have a massive fan base that is surely a benchmark for the game in the future. The crowd numbers at the post-match celebrations at Kogarah Jubilee Oval and at WIN Stadium in the Illawarra were outstanding.
The Dragons are a well run club, with an outstanding history - but this premiership was a long time coming, and the patience of fans has been rewarded, and they deserve to celebrate it.
The Dragons have a huge fan base in Brisbane, and right across the nation - largely an historic one that predates the entry of the Broncos into the premiership in 1988.
Their success on Sunday does the game no harm at all.
Now for the negative, and what a negative it is.
The game is in desperate trouble in Melbourne.
The grand final ratings were very poor, some would argue alarming...and the state of the game in Melbourne is principally responsible.
The fact that the Sydney viewing audience was lower than last year even though it was a grand final between two Sydney teams is a concern. The Brisbane audience was up on last year - reflecting the Bennett factor and the popularity of the Dragons in Brisbane.
But what a disaster in Melbourne - a factor which dragged the NRL grand final well below the AFL grand final replay in the all important capital city markets!
The AFL's one sided replay drew a capital city audience of 2.6 million - the NRL grand final drew 2.1 million. Pity about that as the total season viewing figure is good news for the NRL and bad news for the AFL.
In Melbourne just 221,000 tuned in...down from 682,000 last year when of course the Storm "won" the premiership...and barely a quarter of the audience when the Broncos beat the Storm in 2006.
The message for the NRL is simple - the game is not just in crisis on the field in Melbourne, it is in an even bigger crisis off the field.
Whether we like it or not, the game is going to be more dependent than ever on TV revenue flows - and so will be the clubs. I foresee massive problems for NRL teams dependent on their licensed clubs - the anti poker machine mob in Canberra are on the rampage.
And whether we like it or not, Melbourne is a factor when television rights agreements are being negotiated. Melbourne is a black hole for the NRL - and we need to recognise it.
It is partly due to the Storm salary cap fiasco - and how it was handled, or mishandled, by the NRL.
But it was also due to Nine's contempt of Melbourne fans and viewers. How can you get a good grand final audience when you show the whole of the premiership season, and the finals, at midnight or later?
If the grand final had attracted a reasonable audience in Melbourne the NRL would have been able to get close to the AFL's numbers - and have something to crow about.
Australia will play England in Melbourne on 31 October, smack bang in the middle of the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The ARL/NRL will have to hope race goers from Sydney and Brisbane, and country areas, turn up, otherwise the "crowd" will be embarrassing.
The grand final was a fitting culmination to a great NRL season - good crowds, excellent ratings (in the premiership rounds but not the finals), worthy premiers, and fewer off field incidents.
But the debacle that is the consequence of the Storm being sent to the bottom of the table and no chance of rising above it has had greater consequences than the NRL could have anticipated.
The game in Melbourne is in intensive care - perhaps the first task of the "independent commission" is to revive it?


text: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- IBM Corp. IBM, -0.30% on Tuesday, released data showing that online sales on Cyber Monday rose more than 30% from the same day a year ago. The data, from IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark, also showed more use of mobile devices in online commerce, as more than 18% of consumers used a smartphone or tablet to do their Cyber Monday shopping, and mobile-based sales accounted for 13% of all online deals on Monday. IBM said Apple Inc.'s AAPL, +0.23% iPad dominated mobile-device use in online shopping on Monday, accounting for 7% of all online sales on mobile devices, and more than 90% of the purchases made on tablets. IBM shares were off slightly in early trading Tuesday at $192.47.

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Will Bond passed along a note about a PHP library he's been working up over the past few years and wanted to let the PHP community know about - Flourish.
According to the official description, Flourish is:
Flourish is an object-oriented PHP 5 library designed to reduce code and improve security. It's not an MVC framework and it doesn't try to solve every problem. Instead, it focuses on being small, portable, well documented and easy to use.
The project's website includes sample code (right on the front page, nice to see), links to other examples and documentation and, of course, a link to the latest download (version r483 as of the time of this post).
The library includes functionality for things like:
- Graceful error handling
- Simple form validation
- Working with databases (an ORM layer)
- Handling user permissions
- Working with templates
You can also check out their blog for the latest news and updates on where the project stands.


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A couple weekends ago I went to Berkeley to experience the very thing I recently wrote about many of you experiencing as you try to figure out how to actually implement the design principles as you learn them. You know that middle ground where you logically know a concept, like design principles, but the actual implementation part is still difficult?
It doesn't matter that for the past five years I've helped students in school to identify how the greatest masters of art used design in their work. It doesn't matter that I've been using design principles, myself, and teaching them to scrapbookers for almost as long. I felt like many of you when I was at Flora Bowley's art workshop, but it was a beautiful and enriching experience that I'm so excited to share with you!
I've had very little experience with composition and design when it comes painting, where you create every aspect of the piece yourself. With photography, the subjects are already there and it's just a matter of arranging them through your choice of angles. With scrapbooking, the main subjects are almost always the photos themselves, and even the other pieces usually come pre-designed.
It was good to put myself back into a situation of remembering the fears you must ignore when you understand a concept in your head, but don't have experience with the actual implementation. The best opportunities for growth come by trying new things, and Flora Bowley and the girls at the Teahouse Studio made it such an awesome and wonderful experience!
Flora Bowley
Here are a few of Flora's recent paintings…
I love Flora's art. Her art itself is one of the main reasons I wanted to take a class from her. But in reading about her, and in taking her two-day workshop, I found that her painting process and her teaching methods are phenomenal, no matter what your tastes in art are.
Fine Art vs. Folk Art
By definition, folk art has a purpose, whereas fine art is for the sake of the art itself. Scrapbooking is folk art. It's purpose is personal story-telling or memory-keeping. In scrapbooking I emphasize one thing: know your story before you start. That way your design and supply choices can help you tell your story visually. This makes sense for a scrapbooker.
Painting is fine art. The artist doesn't have to have a story or direction at the beginning, or even at the end. So in that way, Flora's process is opposite of how I scrapbook. With Flora's process, the point at the beginning is to get all kinds of color, texture, line-quality, shapes, lots of variation, on the canvas. In this stage there is no unity, no focal point, no visual path, no regard for where you will go with the painting. You don't worry about what your painting is going to look like in the end, or whether you have a point or purpose with the piece. It's very freeing!
In many ways, it's like art journaling over and over again in multiple layers on a canvas — on the same canvas. You just keep playing and layering. As you do so, you discover techniques, textures, designs, and color combinations you like. You let those things be your inspiration for your painting as you continue to layer.
In Flora's words:
- Let go of expectations.
- Focus on the process, not the final piece.
- Allow the painting to emerge naturally through your own process of discovery.
- Trust yourself.
Even though I believe in identifying our stories at the beginning of scrapbooking, Flora's philosophy resonates with my philosophy of focusing on building your foundation before thinking ahead to the detailing of the embellishments: trust your foundation — the placement of your photos and the creation of lines through the anchoring pieces, and then you will have natural homes for the embellishments to come later.
I'm so used to working with my focal point first, though, that I was constantly thinking ahead to how my first stage might effect the end result, and after floundering, I finally found that Flora was right when it came to the painting — with her process, thinking too far ahead is disabling. Once I let go of that desire to plan ahead, it all came together in the most magical way!
Here's the crazy beginning stage I had on one of my canvases, along with my attempts to plan for the end result.
By the end of the two days, I was nowhere near finished and I didn't have a clue where I was going with this painting. Flora gave us a few last seconds to do something big on the canvas so I grabbed a brush, put some blue color on it and swiped it back and forth about five times. And then I thought, "Uggh!"
But I did what Flora teaches: I put it away for the night and the next morning I pulled it out so I could find something — even if it was just one thing — that I liked.
Identify What You Like. Find the Image In the Clouds
And I did find something I liked. It was the top few inches of part the canvas!
When you identify something you like on the canvas, your task is to do more of that. So I knew that would be my direction as I continued to add and layer.
Flora also says to step back and look for accidental images — much like how we see images in the clouds. As I was looking at my painting, I found this…
Doesn't that look like a dove? It did to me.
After I got my painting home I worked with those two things: the top three inches and the dove, and started working with them to bring them out around my painting. I was timid at first, afraid to touch the dove. In fact, I toyed with letting it become a tropical fish, because I was afraid to give her a beak or change her coloring to bring more of her out! You can probably see how thinking of her as a fish influenced the other things on my painting. Do you see any octopi that grew out of my subconscious…?
But ultimately I knew I wanted a dove and not a fish. So I stepped up and added darker blue + white to bring her out. I'm so glad I did!
I also thought back to some crazy awesome flowers I found walking around town in Berkley. I took a picture on my iPhone for future inspiration, but didn't actually refer back to the picture when making my own. I didn't need them to be exact replicas.
I'm not quite done with the painting, though it's getting closer. I will be "spiraling in," as Flora teaches, to work with abandon to achieve more of that accidental goodness that results, and I'll be "spiraling out" to work more thoughtfully to bring balance and more unity to the painting so the eye moves around it in a more purposeful way until it feels finished.
Experiment To Find the Painting
So basically, Flora's process is to experiment (and she teaches lots of techniques to try as you experiment) on your canvas, all the while identifying what you like and finding the images that show up by accident (or adding your own in if you don't come across any accidental ones). As you continue to add layers, you can leave windows into the earlier layers.
The awesome thing about this workshop is that it works for any level of painter. I think there were more beginners in our class than there were experienced ones. I'm a beginner and I loved this free-form process! I plan to take her workshop again, and if you have any interest in art and paint I recommend you try it! She is such a great teacher and her paint process is accessible and so much fun! She travels around, so here is her schedule.
Teahouse Studio
I can't leave out the experience of taking a workshop at the Teahuse Studio, itself. Steph, Mati, and Tiffany of the studio were awesome hosts. They made us all feel comfortable and welcome, like friends. They accommodated my vegan diet and provided us with amazing catered lunches that were fresh and delicious! They made it easy to find a hotel within walking distance. There is a Dick Blick brick-and-mortar just down the street!
Teahouse Studio hosts regular artful workshops on writing, crafting, photography, and other topics. So if you can see yourself venturing into Berkeley (it's a fun place to visit) you should check out the schedule! There are some fun workshops coming up!
Have you ventured out of your comfort zone recently? I can't think of a better way to enhance your creativity and enliven your soul than to try something new!


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2006 Softball
Transy 5, Bluffton 4; Transy 14, Bluffton 5
Beavers drop twinbill at Transylvania
By Bill Hanefeld Jr., sports information director
April 1, 2006
LEXINGTON, Ky - The Bluffton University softball team (7-10, 0-2 HCAC) traveled to Lexington and dropped a pair of contests to the Pioneers on Saturday, April 1, 2006. Bluffton fell 5-4 in the opener and came up short 14-5 in game two.
Game One - Transylvania 5, Bluffton 4
Transylvania used a walk and two Bluffton errors in the first to take the early 1-0 lead over the Beavers.
The Bluffton bats came to life in the third inning as Gretchen Handley (Ashland/Ashland) opened the frame with a single to left field. Starting pitcher Sarah Betts (Bryan/Bryan) moved her to second with a sacrifice bunt before a Sarah Nusbaum (Fairview/Fairview) single left runners on the corners with one out. Randi Yeager (Harrison/Harrison) doubled to center field scoring Handley and moving Nusbaum to third. Lindsay Miller (Haviland/Wayne Trace) reached on a fielder's choice as Nusbaum scored and Yaeger advanced to third. A Carrie Weisbecker (Okeana/Ross) single plated Miller and the Beavers led 4-1 midway throught the third inning.
Transylvania responded with a pair of runs on three hits and an error in the bottom of the third to move to within one run of the Beavers.
With two outs in the fourth, Fitzpatrick doubled to left field and crossed the plate when Gibson singled to left.
Both teams struggled to find baserunners until the bottom of the seventh when Gibson led off the inning with an infield single. Skelton, inserted as a pinch runner, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and motored home when Leach reached on a Bluffton error which gave Transylvania the 5-4 victory in its final at bat.
Tonya Dean (Kettering/Kettering) took the loss although she gave up only one unearned run in 2.2 innings of work.
The Beavers finished with six hits, including the Yaeger double.
Game Two - Transylvania 14, Bluffton 5
Transylvania jumped on top 3-0 in the bottom of the first thanks to four hits and an error.
Bluffton rallied to score five runs on four hits and two errors in the top of the second; unfortunately it was the only inning that the Beavers would cross the plate. Weisbecker reached on an error to open the inning. Lindsey Miller (Wapakoneta/Wapakoneta) moved her to second with a single up the middle. With two outs, the Beavers did their damage. Kellie Kenney (Toledo/Emmanuel Baptist) ripped a single up the middle loading the bases before Nusbaum drew a bases loaded walk. Yaeger and Miller followed with singles and an error allowed the Beavers to take a short lived 5-3 lead.
Transylvania put three more runs on the board in the bottom of the second before the floodgates opened for the Pioneers in the third inning. Bluffton committed an error in the third and Transy put together five singles to plate seven runs and put the game out of reach.
Catie Richman (Upper Sandusky/Upper Sandusky) picked up the Beavers only base hit in the fourth and fifth innings as Transylvania picked up the 14-5 win in five innings to improve to 13-5 and 2-0 in the HCAC.
The Beavers picked up eight hits while the Pioneers pounded out 14 hits. Yaeger finished with two RBI's to lead the Beavers.
Fitzpatrick and Gibson both tallied three hits for the victorious Pioneers.
Bluffton returns to action on Sunday, April 2, 2006 when it takes on Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati at 12 p.m.


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Submission + - Laser scribing promises more efficient solar cells (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: A new manufacturing method that incorporates laser technology may result in thin film solar panels that are less expensive and more efficient than anything presently on the market. Currently, a stylus is used to mechanically etch microchannels into such panels, which electrically connect the individual solar cells and allow them to form an array. Researchers from Indiana's Purdue University, however, are developing a technique in which an ultrafast pulsing laser is used to do the etching. Not only will it hopefully be quicker and cheaper than mechanical "scribing," but it should also produce cleaner, sharper microchannels that offer superior performance.


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If Hurricane Isaac affected your property, business or income in a negative way, help may be available.
If Hurricane Isaac affected your property, business or income in a negative way, help may be available.
Permit fees for storm-repair repairs are being waived in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes through month's end. The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering loans. FEMA is offering several kinds of assistance, disaster food stamps are available and the state Bar Association is offering free legal advice.
Lafourche residents can apply for food stamps from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Tuesday at the Cut Off Library, 16241 E. Main St., and Thibodaux's Peltier Park.
Although Terrebonne has been added to the list of parishes qualified for disaster food stamps, details on where and when a local office will open had not been released as of Saturday afternoon.
Lafourche applicants whose last names begin with the letter S through Z are asked to go to these sites today — those whose last names start with A through R were assigned days that have already passed. Anyone can go to the sites Monday and Tuesday.
You should be prepared to provide:
-- Names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth for each household member.
-- Physical address.
-- Monthly income.
-- How much money you have in cash, checking and savings accounts.
Those who already participate in the state's food-stamp program do not need to apply. Benefits will automatically be added to EBT cards.
You can go to a site on someone else's behalf, but you must bring your own photo ID, photo ID of the person you are representing and a signed statement authorizing you to act on that person's behalf.
Terrebonne and Lafourche residents can request payments from FEMA to help with costs associated with Hurricane Isaac, including home repairs or temporary housing. The program does not reimburse previously incurred hotel expenses.
Applicants can register online at www.disasterassistance.gov or on a smartphone at m.fema.gov. They can also register by calling 1-800-621-3362 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. any day.
There is a FEMA office in Mathews, 4876 La. 1, where residents can ask questions and file paperwork, but officials ask that people apply online or by phone first. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
FEMA has not opened an office to serve Terrebonne Parish residents, though officials are scouting a location, and an office should be open early this week, Holman said.
FEMA officials will ask applicants to provide:
-- Social Security numbers.
-- Address of the damaged property.
-- Description of the damage.
-- Information about insurance coverage.
-- Contact number.
-- Bank account and routing numbers.
FEMA has also set up a hotline, 1-866-331-1679, to answer questions about filing flood-insurance claims. Policyholders should first file claims with their insurance agents.
It also isn't necessary to wait for an inspector before cleaning up flooded homes and businesses, FEMA officials said. If possible, take photos of damage and keep receipts for costs associated with cleanup.
That hotline is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Spanish-speakers are available.
The state Bar Association is offering free legal counseling over a toll-free hotline, 1-800-310-7029, for people with low incomes who were affected by the storm.
The line is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and its staff returns voice mails on Fridays. Legal assistance will also be offered in Spanish.
Legal issues can involve FEMA assistance, insurance claims, landlord-tenant issues, home-repair contracts and consumer-protection matters.
Callers should indicate they are seeking legal advice related to Hurricane Isaac.
small business loans
The U.S. Small Business Administration offers low-interest disaster loans to homeowners, renters, businesses of all sizes and nonprofit organizations.
Those interested should first register with FEMA.
Businesses can borrow money to cover property damage or economic injury, renters can borrow money to replace personal property and homeowners can borrow money for repairs, a new home or replacing property.
After registering with FEMA, you can apply for these loans at www.disasterloan.sba.gov/ela or at a FEMA office. Applications must be filed by Oct. 30 for physical damage and by May 29 for economic injury.
Capitol Correspondent Jeremy Alford contributed to this story. Staff Writer Katie Urbaszewski can be reached at 448-7617 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I've been using linux at home and then work for about 6 years, now. I have recently finished doing a great linux sys admin job in London, to move with my employer to Wiltshire.
My question is, linux is everywhere these days, which is great, so where are all the vacancies? They all seem to be in London. Having commuted 6 hours a day for the last 3 years, is there nothing West of London, preferably Wilts/ Glos/ Avon+ Somerset?
My new Wiltshire job is a pen pushing one, and I need to get back to linux, before I go mad.
Any help/ advice welcomed.


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Used elements and papers from Kathy Winters Chasing the Wind and Precious Bundle of Girl and Precious Bundle of Girl Alpha
Journaling Reads:
We found out we were expecting you on June 6, 2008. We were so excited to find out we were having a little girl. There were so many times I almost lost you. The doctor kept
telling us to not expect you to make it past the first trimester. Then in early December, I went into pre-term labor. Once again, I was told that you may not make it. However, I was able to carry you full term. You
have been such a blessing to us and you make my days worth living.


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Just in case you haven't heard, Robert J. Shiller, a professor at Yale University, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics along with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen. Both Shiller and Hansen have published books with Princeton University Press before, so we are specially excited about this news!
To read a little more about these authors and this incredible accomplishment, click here.
In honor of these amazing gentlemen, we've put together a list of all 48 of the Nobel Prize winners that the Press has published. Some of the highlights include Woodrow Wilson, former President of Princeton University and the 28th President of the United States, and Albert Einstein, who published more than 300 scientific papers throughout his astounding academic career.
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George Akerlof
Philip W. Anderson
Kenneth Arrow
Robert J. Aumann
Baruch S.Blumberg
Robert Coetzee
Peter A. Diamond
Manfred Eigen
Albert Einstein
Robert Engle
Richard Feynman
Val L. Fitch
Milton Friedman
Clive W. J. Granger
Günter Grass
David J. Gross
François Jacob
Lars Peter Hansen
J. J. Heckman
William Arthur Lewis
Mario Llosa
Maurice Maeterlinck
Daniel L. McFadden
Hervé Moulin
John Nash
Douglass C. North
Elinor Ostrom
Luigi Pirandello
Christopher A. Pissarides
Edmund S. Phelps
Alvin E. Roth
Thomas J. Sargent
George Seferis
Amartya Sen
Lloyd S. Shapley
William F. Sharpe
Robert Shiller
Vernon Smith
Robert Solow
Michael Spence
Joseph Stiglitz
Wislawa Szymborksa
Hermann Wey
Eugene P. Wigner
Frank Wilczek
Woodrow Wilson
In the past three years alone, five authors published with the Press have won the Nobel Prize, all of which were for the Economic Sciences:
1) Robert J. Shiller is the best-selling author of Irrational Exuberance and The New Financial Order (both Princeton University Press titles), among other books. He is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and a 2013 Nobel Prize winner.
2) Lars Peter Hansen is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also the research director of the Becker Friedman Institute. He is a 2013 Nobel Prize winner. His most recent book, Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies, was co-authored with Thomas J. Sargent, another Nobel laureate on this list.
3) Alvin E. Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School and the the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He won the Nobel Prize in 2012 and is the author of The Handbook of Experimental Economics.
4) Lloyd Stowell Shapley is a Professor Emeritus at UCLA, affiliated with departments of Mathematics and Economics. He won the Nobel Prize in 2012 "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."
5) Thomas J. Sargent is professor of economics at New York University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His books include Rational Expectations and Inflation and The Conquest of American Inflation. Hansen and Sargent are the coauthors of Robustness. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2011.


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U.S. Emissions Reach 20-Year Low, But We Still Have Work To Do
Climate scientists are getting their fair share of surprises this year, from the record-breaking ice melt in the Arctic to the fact that first-quarter U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have hit their lowest point since 1992. CO2 emissions from energy consumption for the January-March period fell to 1.34 billion metric tons, down 8 percent from a year ago. While the depressed economy and rising renewable energy generation have contributed to emissions reductions in the past few years, the early 2012 low-point is due mainly to a combination of three factors: the relatively warm winter, reduced gasoline demand, and the continued decline in coal-fired electricity.
|Carbon emissions from energy consumption fell to 1.34 billion metric tons. (EIA)
The declining demand for coal power is especially significant. Although emissions from natural gas and petroleum each dropped nearly 3 percent from the same period in 2011 (mainly because of lower heating demands in the mild winter), coal emissions fell 18 percent, to their lowest point since 1986.
The first half of 2012 also saw significant additions of new renewable energy capacity, although natural gas plants accounted for the vast majority of new capacity in states that traditionally rely on coal power. The low price of natural gas, bolstered by the U.S. shale gas boom, has driven many power producers to shift from dirtier coal generation to cleaner natural gas-fired power plants. When burned, natural gas emits around half of the CO2emissions as coal combustion.
But it's not time to sit back on our "we-just-solved-climate-change" laurels just yet. A recent article in Yale Environment 360 cautions strongly against getting caught up in a frenzy of U.S. natural gas development. The authors, researchers at the Colorado-based Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, argue that throwing all of the nation's weight behind a natural gas-centric power sector could risk price increases for gas, and that banking heavily on high estimates of recoverable gas reserves links U.S. fuel security to very uncertain assumptions.
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While replacing coal-fired generation with natural gas-fired power is certainly a first step toward climate change mitigation, it is important to ensure that natural gas and renewable energy generation becomecooperative, not competitive, as both sectors grow.
It's also important to consider the decline in U.S. CO2 emissions in a global context. Even though U.S. emissions may have dropped significantly, China's energy demand and emissions continue to grow. Declines in 2011 emissions in both the United States and Europe were negated as global emissions rose 3 percent to an all-time high of 34 billion tons. And while total U.S. CO2 emissions may be at a low, U.S. emissions per capita are still well above most of the rest of the world. In 2011, the United States produced 17.3 tons of CO2per capita, compared to China's 7.2 tons.
In the environmental arena, one learns to celebrate the small victories—and this certainly counts. Replacing coal generation with natural gas is arguably a step in the right direction in achieving a clean energy sector, but it will not be the end-all-be-all of climate change solutions. Rather than throwing all of our efforts into natural gas generation, we must focus on developing natural gas resources in conjunction with, and in support of, renewable energy. Cooperation between the two sectors is vital to creating a stable clean energy system and reducing emissions on more than a temporary basis.
Reese Rogers | Re|Volt | September 05, 2012
Homepage image: Thanks in part to reduced demand for gas, U.S. carbon emissions are at a 20-year low. (National Geographic)
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The O's scored twice in the opening 13 minutes to take a firm grip on the game against a beleaguered Plymouth side in administration and forced to name two untried youngsters on the bench.
Victory was far more comfortable than the final scoreline indicates as the home side controlled the match from the first whistle, seldom allowing the visitors a semblance of hope of clawing their way back into the match The game was just four minutes old when midfielder Dean Cox delivered a deep cross which Jimmy Smith headed into the path of Scott McGleish, who in turn headed home from 10 yards for his 17th goal of the season.
Cox turned from architect to scorer nine minutes later when Alex Revell left the Argyle defence trailing before picking the midfielder out on the left, who smashed the ball home through the legs of keeper David Button.
Revell, who had missed a sitter after 10 minutes when he headed wide from 10 yards with the goal at his mercy, suffered further misfortune when he stretched for a ball and fell awkwardly in a heap before being stretchered off seven minutes before the interval.
The second half was a scrappy affair although the O's had a penalty appeal rejected when Stephen Dawson went down in the area under a challenge, while the best the Pilgrims could muster was a header from Rory Fallon which Orient keeper Jamie Jones saved on the line.
Leyton Orient 2-0 Plymouth: Match Report - view commentary, squad, and statictics of the game as it happened.
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* In [[The Ballad of Gay Tony]], the Infernus, along with other rare sports vehicles seems to spawn much more commonly, even if you are driving a completely different vehicle. This is probably because TBoGT focuses on a night club theme.
* In [[The Ballad of Gay Tony]], the Infernus, along with other rare sports vehicles seems to spawn much more commonly, even if you are driving a completely different vehicle. This is probably because TBoGT focuses on a night club theme.
* The Infernus is the most expensive car in the GTA IV era with a price tag of $150,000, followed by the [[Turismo]] with a price tag of $130,000 and the [[Super GT]] with a price tag of $110,000.
* The Infernus is the most expensive car in the GTA IV era with a price tag of $150,000, followed by the [[Turismo]] with a price tag of $130,000 and the [[Super GT]] with a price tag of $110,000.
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An Infernus in GTA III.
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| caption = An Infernus in [[Grand Theft Auto III|GTA III]]
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The Infernus is a sports car that was first introduced in Grand Theft Auto III and has appeared in six additional GTA titles since.
GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories
Between Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the Infernus had appeared in three different forms, each illustrating the car as a sleek, low-profile sports car comparable to the Cheetah.
- In Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, it resembles a Vector M12 with the rear incorporating elements of a Lamborghini Diablo. During development of GTA III, one of the earliest known names given to the car is the "Dyablo", a nod to the Lamborghini Diablo name; contrary to its final form, the car shares an uncanny resemblance to the Lamborghini Diablo and is illustrated without a rear spoiler. The car in its earlier form and with its earlier name is depicted on the Capital Autos website.
- In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, it closely resembles a Lamborghini Countach, but lacks the characteristic scissor doors, and features bulging headlights and round taillights.
- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Infernus nameplate loses the Lamborghini motif, and is based on a Honda/Acura NSX, (most likely the Acura model, as this was exported to North America).
Although the Infernus' design suggests a mid-engined layout in GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, its engine is visible under the front hood, possibly due to limitations of the game engine. The GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories renditions reposition the engine to the back; the front compartment is revealed to be the trunk. The GTA Vice City Infernus, however, still emits smoke from the front if moderately damaged. The GTA San Andreas Infernus is front-engined by design.
In GTA San Andreas, the Infernus can be modded at any TransFender branch.
GTA IV — GTA Chinatown Wars
The Grand Theft Auto IV rendition, manufactured by Pegassi, is largely based on the Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 combined with the rear fascia and venting off the hyper-exotic Pagani Zonda F; making the Infernus the only "exotic" car in GTA IV. The car features a mid engined configuration, allowing the car a favorable structural advantage over front-engine vehicles in frontal collisions. The Infernus may, true to Diablo and Countach, may or may not be equipped with a prominent rear wing. Also, the Infernus is capable of supporting a second body color for a stripe over the side skirts, even though it is not evident on the normally spawned Infernus. The Infernus in GTA IV is also the only car in the entire series to feature scissor doors. This design trait allows the Infernus' doors to be self-closing, relying only on gravity to fall shut from it's opened position. Also featured are small, racing-style wing mirrors. The interior is fully finished in black leather and sports the same Lamborghini-style sport seats as the Pfister Comet. Sections of the dash and transmission tunnel are finished with carbon fiber accents. In GTA IV, after doing enough work for Bernie Crane, Niko Bellic is given an Infernus from Bryce Dawkins.
The Infernus in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is only available without a spoiler, and features conventional doors. In addition, players who pre-ordered GTA Chinatown Wars from Amazon are able to purchase a bulletproof Infernus at the Auto Merchant early in the game.
GTA III — GTA San Andreas
The Infernus' handling remains similar between GTA III and GTA Vice City, but in San Andreas, although it is one of the fastest cars in the game, and its all-wheel drive system means the car has good front grip, but its cornering ability is considerably inferior to its prior renditions due to higher susceptibility to spins, indicating uneven front-to-rear weight distribution. Its suspension in GTA III and GTA Vice City, however, is softer, allowing it to drive over curbs without jolting the car substantially or bottoming out.
The Infernus is extremely fast and the fourth-fastest (with a top speed of 180 km/h) car in this game but is highly susceptible to deformation from high-speed impacts, and even impacts which do little damage can eject the driver through the windshield. It is one of the fastest cars in GTA IV, and accordingly, it's a good racing car; it does, however, suffer from understeer in sharp turns at speed. It is a mid-engined all-wheel drive, like the real Murciélago; the mid-engine configuration makes it unlikely to break down or be set aflame from front-end collisions, another benefit when racing. While reversing, the Infernus can be easily turned 180 degrees with a mere nudge to the steering wheel, which can be useful after losing control of the vehicle. The Infernus has the same engine sound as the Comet and the Super GT.
Variants with unique colors
- White Infernus
In GTA Vice City, Lance Vance is depicted to be driving a uniquely white Infernus, which can be seen and driven during "Back Alley Brawl" and "Guardian Angels". After obtaining Diaz's mansion in "Rub Out", the regular Infernus parked next to the garage will permanently appear white, implying the car belongs to Lance. Given its permanence, the car is easily obtainable from this point on.
- Orange Infernus
In GTA IV, an Infernus previously owned by Bryce Dawkins is given to the player by Bernie Crane after completing his mission "Buoys Ahoy". The car uniquely sports stripes on the sideskirt and one of two bright orange paintjobs which do not appear on any other Infernus.
An orange Infernus is also featured in The Lost and Damned during "Knowing Me, Knowing You", and can be obtained by parking it at a GTA IV or TLAD safehouse, driving away from it and blowing yourself up with a Pipe Bomb or grenade, thereby failing the mission but retaining the car at the safehouse. NOTE: it is not necessary to kill yourself and waste money when you can just take the car to a parking space and wait for the time to run out, Johnny will just simply get out (if you attempt to enter the car it will be locked). Get into another car and go around the block. When you come back, the Infernus will still be there, unlocked for you.
- Golden Infernus
In GTA IV, Stevie will send you a message saying that he requires an Infernus parked near the Soldiers Memorial in Downtown Broker, and can be specifically found parked next to the Pizza Salad Restaurant. After acquiring the car, the player is required to deliver the car to his garage. This Infernus always has a unique gold paintjob. Like all of Stevie's desired cars, it will respawn if taken away, and thus can be "duplicated". Find the Infernus, park it at a safehouse, then return to its original location; a new Infernus will be there, and this can be delivered to Stevie instead.
The golden Infernus' color is very similar to the golden colors of a "gold" Ruiner, the Ruiner's color scheme being more easily available as one of its many conventional color schemes.
Modifications (GTA San Andreas)
- Color
- Wheels (ten types)
- Nitro (All)
- Hydraulics
- The radio of the Infernus set those default stations in the following games:
- GTA San Andreas: Radio Los Santos.
- GTA IV: The Vibe 98.8.
- In GTA IV, after collecting all thirty cars for Stevie, he agrees to purchase cars from Niko Bellic, with the Infernus fetching $10,000.
- If the player take a Dukes to a Pay 'n' Spray too many times it will turn a unique, dark green colour. This colour will then be permanent, and no amount of subsequent resprays will change it. This is most likely a glitch, as almost every other car in the game will continually cycle through its available colours each time you visit a Pay N' Spray. The exceptions are the Buffalo from The Ballad of Gay Tony, the Dukes and the PMP 600, which all suffer from similar glitches.
- Infernus in GTA IV has no front turning lights nor a trunk. The absence of trunk is seen after some frontal crashes, but Infernuses with front indicators can be seen on TV commercial of "I'm Rich".
- Under the "Chinatown Wars" section of the Rockstar Games Social Club website, members may download a printable papercraft model of a Infernus. The vehicle's design is more rooted to the GTA IV rendition, and is obviously more detailed than the GTA Chinatown Wars rendition.
- In The Ballad of Gay Tony, the Infernus, along with other rare sports vehicles seems to spawn much more commonly, even if you are driving a completely different vehicle. This is probably because TBoGT focuses on a night club theme.
- The Infernus is the most expensive car in the GTA IV era with a price tag of $150,000, followed by the Turismo with a price tag of $130,000 and the Super GT with a price tag of $110,000.
Notable owners
GTA Vice City/Vice City Stories
- Bryce Dawkins / Bernie Crane (After Buoys Ahoy it belongs to Niko Bellic).
- Stevie.
- Tony McTony
- One can easily be obtained during the mission Grand Theft Auto
- Normally spawned on the streets in Staunton Island and Shoreside Vale, similar to other sports cars.
- Spawns in the Francis International Airport parking lot near the entrance.
- GTA Vice City
- Parked in front of the mansion owned by Ricardo Diaz, and later Tommy Vercetti. Prior to the mansion's change of hand, the Infernus is featured with a conventional range of body colors. Thereafter, the car appears with a unique white body color.
- On a platform in North Point Mall. The car is there as part of a competition, but the competition cannot be entered.
- GTA San Andreas
- Spawns in Downtown, Los Santos.
- Spawns mostly around San Fierro.
- Commonly spawns in Paradiso, San Fierro.
- Seen driving around the Bayside Marina.
- Parked by the most north eastern house in Paradiso, San Fierro. (Only when wanted for export).
- Found around The Strip, Las Venturas.
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- Often spawns on Staunton Island and Shoreside Vale.
- In the parking lot at Francis International Airport close to the entrance.
- In the Newport Multistory Car Park.
- GTA Vice City Stories
- In front of a mansion in the most northwest part of Starfish Island.
- In the parking lot on the east of Forbes's apartment.
- Inside the garage at Lance's apartment in Ocean Beach.
- Parked along Ocean Drive, Ocean Beach.
- An explosionproof one is obtainable from the mission Accidents Will Happen. Fail the mission to obtain it.
- An Infernus can be encountered relatively early on if one spawns as a competitor (or in traffic) during Brucie's street races. These can be stolen, although killing an opponent and stealing their car will forfeit the race, lowering Brucie's approval rating.
- The player will get a special colored Infernus from Bernie Crane for all Niko's help
- In GTA IV Multiplayer it is quite common, and can be seen driving around the streets of Liberty City.
- Riding an NRG 900 around, especially around Star Junction, may cause an Infernus to spawn eventually.
- Can rarely be seen on Union Drive near Middle Park East at night driving another supercar.
- As with most cars, Infernuses will spawn more readily once the player is already driving one. Approaching the South Bohan safehouse from the southern bridge may be a good way to spawn parked Infernuses near a convenient storing place.
- The Ballad of Gay Tony
- In The Ballad of Gay Tony, the Infernus was made more common and tends to spawn around Star Junction, Westminster and other central parts of Algonquin.
- Very common in other parts including The Meat Quarter, Lower Easton, Suffolk.
GTA IV: The Lost and Damned
- Can be seen in the mission "Knowing Me, Knowing You"
GTA: Chinatown Wars
- The car can be obtained from many locations, though seems to be popular in Algonquin


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Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation
Christ, who names this stuff? That's worse than "Boundless Informant." Why don't they call these programs something friendly like "Shamrock" or "Blarney?"
Check wikipedia for project Shamrock
"The Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA)[2] and its successor NSA were given direct access to daily microfilm copies of all incoming, outgoing, and transiting telegrams via the Western Union and its associates RCA and ITT. "
GP knew that. That's why he picked the words "Shamrock" and "Blarney" out of all the many words of the English language. Shamrock was one of the first NSA bulk-collection projects; Blarney is a current project that's said to gather metadata like device location information (you know, like how all your iPhone photos get GPS tagged if you're not careful?). Blarney is PRISM's lesser-known cousin.
i cant believe i didnt know about blarney. thanks
Indeed. "Mastering the Internet" sounds like an evening class that teaches old people how to use email and facebook.
Ladies and gentlemen, history will title this period "1983".
Unfortunately, this does not seem to be excessively hyperbolic.
Well, it's a judgment call. It might also be called 1985.
Reading history, you frequently come across periods where you wonder "How could people put up with this?" or "Why didnâ(TM)t they just do X" where X is the solution which was eventually reached 20 years later.
Looking at the modern world, I realise I'm living in just such a period. A pity I'm not longer "smart" enough to figure out what the current X should be. I guess I may have been a little too hard on all those "stupid" societies in the past.
Then again, maybe it's not wrong to think that they and we are just, actually stupid.
A pity I'm not longer "smart" enough to figure out what the current X should be.
Don't worry. Even if you figured it out, half of the population would be dead set against you.
X should be mandatory end to end encryption on all private communication. That way, if it's not encrypted it's fair game for eavesdropping. If it is, the communication should legally be treated as sealed envelope.
Spy agencies will still surreptitiously intercept the communication and try to break the encryption, but at least they'll have to work for it. If they have to work hard enough blanket screening will become impractical.
That's the whole point of public key cryptography - there's no need to exchange any secrets for the cryptography to happen.
That, and a good does of bleach.
(Yes, I'm aware the parent was an aphorism.)
More ideas: http://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html [pdfernhout.net]
On self-replicating space habitats:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/princeton-graduate-school-plans.html [pdfernhout.net]
The grad plans were about "Elysium" but for all. Contrast:
http://www.itsbetteruphere.com/ [itsbetteruphere.com]
with, from me:
http://www.gardenwithinsight.com/solarius/ [gardenwithinsight.com]
Related attempts, but not very successful so far:
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/ [kurtz-fernhout.com]
http://www.openvirgle.net/ [openvirgle.net]
David Brin on the Transparent society:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_society [wikipedia.org]
I thought something similar.
Maybe the best way is to decentralize the Internet even more. Wi-Fi routers to share neighbourhoods to neighbourhoods. That's what Project Byzantium [project-byzantium.org] is trying to accomplish.
Nah, Orwell wasn't even close. He might have been close to predicting STASI in East Germany, but this would have been far, far into science fiction. In his story they might have had telescreens but it was always humans watching humans. Huge segments of the population were informers, everybody was aware the Party had eyes and ears everywhere. Ask yourself, how many of the US/UK population knew these programs even existed? I'm guessing thousands out of hundreds of millions. And if the power that be take one lesson away from this it's not going to be the one you want, it's that humans are a liability. They suffer from a conscience and believing in the constitution, also called espionage and treason. Which is why more of this is going to be automated with fewer in the "need to know".
I'm quite sure China has just the same kind of systems - if not better - to track dissidents, you say something bad about the regime on any media flags start going up around you. The computers will do what their masters instruct with utter dedication. The only good news for now is that you still need human thugs to do the dirty work of throwing people in jail, but we're making progress towards changing that. We already have bomb disposal robots, I'm guessing a team of SWAT robots isn't that far behind. And if it comes to actual civil war more and more weapons are "smart weapons" that won't work for the rebels, did a tank operator defect to the enemy? Throw the kill switch. The deck is getting more and more stacked against any insurrection against any regime for any reason.
Ladies and gentlemen, history will title this period "1983".
History can be a tricky thing, especially when you are projecting into the future to determine what "the history" will be.
For all we know the current period could in fact be not "1983," but rather "1938." Will one of the many crisis or conflicts be the Sudetenland [japandailypress.com]? Will one of them turn out to be the invasion of Poland [indiatimes.com]? There are plenty of candidates.
Let us hope a shooting war between the major powers doesn't start any time soon.
Lord West: cut foreign aid to defend the Falklands [telegraph.co.uk]
He said: "I am horrified our naval flotilla now comprises only 19 frigates and destroyers.
"In the Falklands, in the first month of fighting, we had four sunk and 14 damaged. That makes you think. We seem to have forgotten that when you fight you lose things.
"Here we are with 19 frigates and destroyers. Are they bonkers? Are they mad? How have they allowed this to happen?"
Yes, our navy is much diminished these days, but it is of a much higher quality than in 1982. Today, we have multiple submarines that could take part in tactical strikes on both the islands and the Argentinian mainland rather than just the one submarine that had to stand off from the fight and could only be assigned to shadowing the Belgrano. Today we have a fleet with air defences that are order of magnitudes better than those of the fleet in 1982 (at least one of the major sinking was due to the recentl
Your points are well made. The Falklands are much better garrisoned and defended today than they were in 1982. And ship for ship, the Royal Navy's warships are much more capable. I still think there is reasonable cause for concern given the size of the cutbacks in MoD. I think Lord West has a point, and it isn't just the Royal Navy that has shrunk. The Vulcans are long gone from the RAF, with no replacement. RAF squadrons are being deactivated. And the British Army is shrinking. Well, hopefully it
Why would it be temporary? Didn't you get the memo about all of Europe going soft?
The UK is not only a member of EU and permanently on the UNSC, but also a member of NATO. I'm hard pressed to create a scenario where it has to defend something, anything, on it own.
It just needs enough military capabilities to maintain a culture of pride in the armed forces and to keep the US complaints of burden sharing at bay.
The purpose of the British submarine nuclear deterrence is a mystery to me.
The purpose of the British submarine nuclear deterrence is a mystery to me.
The British military has an undisputed capability to launch a nuclear strike and has very good special forces. Strictly in terms of national defence, those seem to be the two most valuable capabilities in today's world. One deters attacks by nation states or other similar "large" opponents, and the other takes care of terrorists, kidnappers, and other similar "small" opponents.
This is in no way intended to diminish the other valuable roles that British forces can play in the world, for which obviously just
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Terrorists: Ooga booga booga!
People: Oh, no! The terrorists are going to get us! Let's give away some of our rights to catch them!
Government: Trust us. We definitely won't abuse the power you've given us.
People: Yeah, there's no way you could abuse unchecked power; it's unthinkable.
People: Hey, you're abusing your power!
Government: National security.
People: Oh, okay.
The most innovative theater going these days is not "security theater,' but "civil rights theater." As demonstrated above, the dialog is ever more scintillating and persuasive. The plots ever more colorful. The fiction ever more developed. The distraction from the real world ever more enticing. But every once in a while, ugly reality blows up in your face, with the threat to do so again.
7 July 2005 London bombings [wikipedia.org]
Major terror attack on scale of 7/7 foiled every year in UK, police reveal [telegraph.co.uk]
At Least 4,000 S [washingtonpost.com]
These results are from a poll of Muslim students:
â" 33% claim that killing is justified if done to protect religion.
â" 40 percent support the introduction of sharia for British Muslims.
â" 33 percent support a worldwide Islamic caliphate based on sharia.
Yeah but those numbers are similar to the numbers Christian post in our well developed, secular democracy_
- 33% believe Christianity should be the state religion:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/06/christianity-state-religion_n_3022255.htm [huffingtonpost.com]
In the end, Muslim leaders blame the West for their trouble and western leaders blame Islam for their trouble. The problem isn't a religious one : most people on the planet are inherently well meaning regardless of differences. The problem that the majority of the population on either sides seems to be oblivious to is that our "leaders" blame each other while sitting back and enjoying the show and will come up with some new reason to blame the other camp whenever the time comes to squeeze the people a l
Probably a case of institutional panic. You know, like others are so deathly afraid of child porn on the internet that they're loudly clamouring for (and getting!) nation-wide filtering against "badness" on anyone's internet connection. Nevermind that most actual child abuse happens within families or other obvious relations of trust, like teachers or preachers. Similarly with terrorism on the internet and espionage on the internet and clamouring for "cyber-offensive capabilities" or whatever it's called th
why is there a "need" for all of this. they arent stopping "terrorism" nor are they really using it in a way thats stopping any major crimes.
I don't mean to defend the program, but what makes you so certain it does not (and cannot) detect terrorist plots? That would be the stated purpose, anyway, and when a plot is detected and pre-empted, they wouldn't publicize how they did it, as doing so would give other terrorists information on how to avoid detection.
Binary thinking is an oversimplification -- it's perfectly possible for a program to be both an Orwellian privacy nightmare AND an effective tool for catching terrorists.
Mr. Cummings, I thought you were dead....
i didnt say that cant, im saying they arent. if this program was so effective they would be singing its praises nonstop, by their own admission
Only if they thought they could do so without compromising the program's continued effectiveness.
In any case, the more likely answer to your question is that there simply aren't that many terrorist plots around to foil.
there simply aren't that many terrorist plots around to foil.
Doesn't this then obviate the need for Orwellian monitoring of it's citizens since their stated justification is such a low level threat?
Doesn't this then obviate the need for Orwellian monitoring of it's citizens since their stated justification is such a low level threat?
Probably -- but it would depend on the cost of allowing a terrorist plot to succeed. (e.g. if the plot was using pressure cookers, that's one thing, but if it's using stolen nuclear weapons, the risk/reward calculations are different)
Probably -- but it would depend on the cost of allowing a terrorist plot to succeed.
That argument is assuming that Orwellian monitoring of all citizens is the only way to stop a terrorist plot. A strong argument could be made that a more focused operation would be more effective. It would almost certainly be more cost effective. That is of course if the Orwellian monitoring of all citizens was actually for the purpose of stopping terrorism. Although I guess it is if you class any form of dissent or challenge of the powers that be terrorism [slashdot.org].
I don't mean to defend the program, but what makes you so certain it does not (and cannot) detect terrorist plots? That would be the stated purpose, anyway, and when a plot is detected and pre-empted,
Who cares if it stops a few "terrorists"? normal criminals have proven to be just as capable of killing people and in far far greater and predictable numbers than any terrorist boogieman your state can conjur to scare you into submission.
they wouldn't publicize how they did it, as doing so would give other terrorists information on how to avoid detection.
Law enforcement often gets on TV and brags about how they were able to defeat threats. Entire documentary series give away LEA tactics and methods tought with no classification attached.
When criminals are arrested and tried in courts everything about the case is not kept s
I don't mean to defend the program, but what makes you so certain it does not (and cannot) detect terrorist plots?
Have you seen ANY evidence it does? If it was don't you think the government would be trotting out some credible cases (the ones mentioned so far have been pretty easily debunked) in defense of these programs? You're asking us to have faith that it actually does that in the absence of any supporting evidence. You have the guys caught with their hands in the cookie jar preaching to us about how many terrorist attacks this has prevented and how many lives have been saved yet they haven't produced a credible s
You could probably stop a lot of terrorist plots, or at least illegal acts, if you had sound and video monitoring in all bathrooms public and private. That doesn't make it worth it.
You could probably stop a handful of terrorist attacks by monitoring absolutely everything, though this seems a bit far fetched. Half the world would have to be monitors, but leaving that aside, you could probably solve a lot more of terrorist plots using real police work rather than storing all communications ever made. The o
And it's perfectly possible that my anti-tiger rock really keeps tigers away from my home.
Strong claims require strong proof. I think in this case if the government could prove that its measures were effective, they would trot out some carefully-sanitized examples.
If lots of terrorists were being caught they would be being sent to jail or deported. We have secret courts, the secret evidence could be used against them with no danger of it leaking out into the public.
The fact that there are not large numbers of people being convicted or even charged with terrorism offences suggests that there really are not many such people out there. All we have are the words of assurances of known liars that all this is happening to justify what they are doing.
In fact the terrorists
Them. Governments, or rather people that run Countries (i.e. the government might change, but the people in the background stay there, the money people). The illuminati, (if you like), do not want the hoi polloi to uprise, so monitor every aspect of what we do - it's called 'control'.
this is what i dont understand...why is there a "need" for all of this. they arent stopping "terrorism" nor are they really using it in a way thats stopping any major crimes. dont get me wrong, i am weird and 100% opposed to all of this. but who are they protecting with all of this data mining?
Because that is what leadership does when people lose ability to control them. No matter what they tell you, they always want absolute power. People that don't want some kind of power don't get into politics. It really is simple as that.
For a very long time, I couldn't understand why Americans were supposed to have arms and why it was even in constitution. However, now I really understand why it's there (too late to do anything, though), and I also realize that people that created US constitution were so mu
this is what i dont understand...why is there a "need" for all of this. they arent stopping "terrorism" nor are they really using it in a way thats stopping any major crimes. dont get me wrong, i am weird and 100% opposed to all of this. but who are they protecting with all of this data mining?
They are using it to keep themselves in power. That is all. You know the saying Power Corrupts? Well, this is what they are talking about.
First Google was collecting info on me, but I was cool with it, i used their free services.
Now every company is collecting info on me, but I'm cool with it, after all, it's for business right?
Then the Government request access to the data from the companies, but it's okay, it's for terrorist prevention, right?
Then the Government just starting tapping the source and forgets to tell me about it, and I say, wtf? Who said that was okay?
Then the Government tells me its in the name of terrorism, and I ask them, why you are terrorizing your own citizens?
Then the Government locks me up for questioning them, but you don't know because they don't tell anyone anything.
who are they protecting with all of this data mining?
It's to monitor the enemy and stop them from nefarious activities. Who these enemies are is left as an exercise for the student. (Hint: Who are they monitoring?).
They will want to know everyones friends and contacts so they can systematically deal with any potential leaders of revolution. I expect they think they are going to save lives by preventing or snubbing a flare-up of civil unrest. But what they are really doing is protecting a very corrupt status quo that got us into this mess.
Actually, the real question is this: Against such habits of secrecy, skirting any and all laws and regulations, avoiding public debate, and even not telling their own lords and masters what they're up to, fits only one remedy, that of immediate shutdown of the outfit and never ever letting such people near government anything again. How, as the world's internet population, are we going to manage that?
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Time to bring this back to life...
Interestingly enough, a quick search of the Wayback Machine no longer returns copies of this site. Oh wait, let's look at who funds Internet Archive:
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Enough said.
As usual, the solution is to encrypt as much as possible. Your SSL traffic is safe, and those who use encrypted email are safe. The point is that you really shouldn't have to protect yourself from your own government. It sounds like they're no longer *your* government.
Your SSL traffic is safe
Except sniffers can still tell who you are communicating with, as well as have an indication of the amount of data exchanged.
If the government knows where your encrypted files went, they just go there to that place with a warrant on "National Security Grounds" from a FISA court and strong arm the recipient, who probably just wet his pants when these guys stormed into his office.
The NSA has already said it holds all encrypted traffic for a long time or forever in the assumption you might be doing something against them. That suggests we could overwhelm them with 100% encrypted web traffic. Unfortunately, the government would wan
Your SSL traffic is safe, and those who use encrypted email are safe.
Would the NSA tell us about it, if they had methods to crack SSL and encrypted email . . . ?
Except the NSA keeps all the encrypted stuff, and then will keep it for 5 years after it is decrypted. What is more correct is to say that the encrypted stuff is temporarily safe until a flaw in the encryption scheme is discovered, or computing power is sufficient to make brute force attacks trivial.
This however exposes the lie inherent to the claim that it is to protect us from terrorism. 15 or 20 year old decrypted data will have no relevance to a terrorist attack happening tomorrow. It's only use may be as background material in a post-attack and post-aprehension trial (as if a fair trial would be allowed).
I'll just leave this here:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere [eff.org]
I am willing to bet that if Henry Stimpson knew the consequences of closing down the equivalent of the NSA in 1929, he would have sacrificed his "Gentlemen do not read each others mail" mantra in a heartbeat. In fact, he did just that in WW2 because he came to realize the value of intelligence gathering activities.
I personally hope that GCHQ and the NSA are gathering as much intelligence as possible. What is needed is a boundary on who that intelligence is passed on to and used, not how much is gathered.
What is needed is a boundary on who that intelligence is passed on to and used, not how much is gathered.
When it is all collected in one easy to query database the only "boundary" that prevents misuse is the laws of man.
When it remains distributed across the internet in the possession of only those are concerned with the creation and use of the data the "boundary" that prevents misuse is the laws of physics.
I'll take the laws of physics over the laws of man any day of the week.
Why does everyone think this is bad
Not "everyone" thinks this is bad, but everyone with even a little bit of knowledge about history knows that giving the government such powers so they can catch the scary bogeyman will inevitably result in the government abusing said powers. Everyone else... well, they're under the delusion that government workers are perfect beings, apparently.
Because during WWII, the Allies collected intelligence on "the enemy". Today, it appears that our governments treat their own citizens as the enemy.
I am willing to bet that if Henry Stimpson knew the consequences of closing down the equivalent of the NSA in 1929, he would have sacrificed his "Gentlemen do not read each others mail" mantra in a heartbeat. In fact, he did just that in WW2 because he came to realize the value of intelligence gathering activities.
I personally hope that GCHQ and the NSA are gathering as much intelligence as possible. What is needed is a boundary on who that intelligence is passed on to and used, not how much is gathered.
You reckon that everyone should lose their rights so that "intelligence agencies" could gather as much data as possible? And we should make it as easy as possible for them too?
You are a genuis.
The chance that I'll be killed in a terrorist attack are 1 in 20million.
The chance my government will put me in prison is 1 in 100.
I'll take my chances with the terrorists thank you.
Reminds me of an old joke I read somewhere once:
A statistician worked out that 1 in 20000 aircraft could have a terrorist bomb on board.
The odds of having 2 bombs on board the same aircraft worked out at 1 in 50000000.
So, every time he took a flight, he carried his own bomb.
1. Hoover set up a massive index of FBI files on american citizens in the WWI era, it was later shutdown by congress as a massive affront to American law and history
1.a. Nixon used the security apparatus to damage his political opponents. That is why we had the Church Committee to investigate past abuses of the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc, where gross nazi-style human rights abuses were revealed. That's why we have FISA courts and why USSID 18 was supposed to exist and be respected.
2. World War II was an Actual War
I don't agree. When in history has domestic intelligence not been used in unintended ways? Why do think it will be different this time?
The fact is all the firewalls don't work because nothing stops anyone from changing the rules later on. The only way to prevent a government any government, possible any organization from misusing data is to prevent it from collecting such data in the first place and even that isn't easy. Data gathering is very much a case of you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
No boundaries. Let's say the NSA is prohibited from spying on Americans and the GCHQ is prohibited from spying on Brits (I know, unrealistic assumption but play along). The NSA grabs all the info from the Brits' communications, the GCHQ does the same for Americans' communications. Then, they just trade data. Voila! NSA isn't spying on Americans, and GCHQ isn't spying on Brits, and all those people saying "but of course the NSA spies on foreigners, no story here, move along"
You spy for a foreign power, that's treason and GCHQ are traitors. You're exposing Britain to political spying and commercial spying. You're exposing Europe to commercial and political spying.
CIA/NSA will use that data to ensure UK politicians do their bidding over the bidding of the voters. You made that possible.
CIA/NSA will use that data to ensure European politicians do their bidding over the bidding of the voters. You made that possible too. We have examples of it already in Wikileaks, with Holland.
RIPA did not give GCHQ the power to spy for the NSA. That's why they're demanding the snoopers charter. Trying to legalize what they're doing.
"The 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) requires the tapping of defined targets to be authorised by a warrant signed by the home secretary or foreign secretary. However, an obscure clause allows the foreign secretary to sign a certificate for the interception of broad categories of material, as long as one end of the monitored communications is abroad."
So that means the NSA gets all the data it can't legally collect (but tries to anyway) from GCHQ and GCHQ gets all the data it legally can't intercept from NSA.
An illegal reacharound, sustained by secret laws that put a military man in charge.
It also means that GCHQ's loyalty is more aligned with General Keith Alexander, than with David Cameron. Those 40000 search rules the NSA provided? How many of them were against UK interests? How many of them spied on Brits for the benefit of the CIA? How many of them spied on Americans for the benefit of a rogue General?
Makes you proud to be British.
I don't know what all the fuss is about: Naturally, to be able to find any terrorist or child pornography related data you have to sieve through all of it.
It's even more bizarre that people are so surprised that a spying agency has been, well, spying!
Interesting that they chose not to go after any LIBOR fixers or financial criminals don't you think?
It's almost like there's a double standard in which the people who work in the government use the powers they have been given for their own profit rather than the interests of the public, all the while trotting out a couple of extremely rare bogeymen to justify their actions.
No wonder Skynet will go insane and try to kill us all. Imagine listening to million of robo and spam calls daily. That's too much for any machine to handle/
GCHQ provides (for cash per transaction) intelligence including credit card user information and history, recorded phone calls, and all other forms of electronic communication of USA citizens to the NSA.
This is how NSA games the USA Constitution and blackmails Congress, the Executive and the Judiciary.
It also means the NSA (with GCHQ) is the largest holder of online porn in the World. It is a given that the porn NSA holds is sold to southeast Asia countries whereby it ends up in China, after 'goodwill' cash
Well, now we know that all Internet communications are exposed down to the wire or fiber to deep packet inspection systems. Is the IETF working on any counter-measures against this? Like, some new kind of protocol to thwart our friendly feathered government snoop-dooper friends?
I was thinking of something that would leave IP packets alone, so that they could still be routed correctly through the existing Internet. But . . . scramble the IP fragmentation sequence somehow, so that only the sender and rece
The UK has always tapped their cables since the dawn of the telegraph.. This isn't new, and certainly isn't news to anyone who studied history.
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Blue Jays reportedly pull off blockbuster with Marlins
By Gregor Chisholm / MLB.com | 11/13/12 11:14 PM ET
Potential trade shakes things up00:03:52
Analysts take a look at the potential blockbuster trade between the Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays
TORONTO -- Alex Anthopoulos threw caution to the wind on Tuesday night by reportedly pulling the trigger on arguably the biggest trade in franchise history.
Toronto's general manager appears to have orchestrated a 12-player deal with Miami that provides a major boost to the club's chances of reaching the postseason. In one quick strike, the Blue Jays filled their holes in the starting rotation and acquired an elite hitter to place at the top of their lineup.
The blockbuster trade was first reported by Foxsports.com and sees shortstop Jose Reyes, right-hander Josh Johnson, left-hander Mark Buehrle, catcher John Buck and utility player Emilio Bonifacio headed to the Blue Jays.
Going to the Marlins are at least seven players: shortstop Yunel Escobar, right-hander Henderson Alvarez, Cuban prospect Adeiny Hechavarria, outfield prospect Jake Marisnick, pitching prospects Anthony Desclafani and Justin Nicolino and veteran backup catcher Jeff Mathis.
The deal has yet to be made official and likely won't be announced until the players involved pass their physicals. Baseball sources confirmed to MLB.com that Johnson and Marisnick were in fact part of the deal while Nicolino confirmed via Twitter that he was being traded to Miami.
If the deal comes to fruition, the Blue Jays will take on upwards of $165 million in salaries. It's by far the highest guaranteed salary trade the Blue Jays have made during their existence in Major League Baseball.
Toronto first expressed interest in Reyes last offseason before he ultimately signed a six-year contract valued at $106 million with the Marlins. At the time, the major stumbling block was the Blue Jays' policy not to go beyond five years in any contract.
That's no longer a problem for Reyes, who has five years remaining at a total of $96 million. He would give the Blue Jays a traditional leadoff hitter for the first time in recent memory and will allow the club to move third baseman Brett Lawrie down in the order.
Reyes is coming off a season in which he hit .287 with 11 homers and 57 RBIs in 160 games. He is just one season removed from winning the National League batting crown with a .337 average and would now play a pivotal role in Toronto's lineup by attempting to get on base for sluggers Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion.
The presence of Johnson and Buehrle in the deal would fill a couple of glaring holes in Toronto's starting rotation. The two proven arms would join Brandon Morrow and Ricky Romero in the starting five, while J.A. Happ would become the early favorite to win the final spot.
Johnson has just one year and $13.75 million remaining on his contract and is set to hit free agency following the 2013 campaign. Last year, Johnson went 8-14 with a 3.81 ERA during a somewhat inconsistent campaign, but he has the type of potential to be a bonafide front-of-the-rotation starter. From 2009-2011, Johnson went 29-12 with a remarkable 2.64 ERA in 70 starts.
Buehrle was another part of Miami's busy offseason in 2011. He signed a four-year contract worth $58 million, but now finds himself relocating for the second time in just two years. Last season, Buehrle went 13-13 with a 3.74 ERA in 31 starts.
The 33-year-old has pitched at least 200 innings in each of the past 12 seasons and owns a career 3.82 ERA. He also is a proven commodity in the hitter friendly American League after having spent the first 12 years of his career with the White Sox.
The deal was made by Miami to cut salary, but the Blue Jays still had to provide a decent amount of talent in return. Marisnick (No. 2) and Hechavarria (No. 7) were both ranked among the club's top 20 prospects by MLB.com, while DeSclafani would have been a candidate to crack that list in 2013.
Alvarez was once considered one of Toronto's best pitching prospects, but he took a noticeable step back in 2012. He went just 9-14 with a 4.85 ERA and the lack of a consistent third pitch helped offset an otherwise overpowering fastball/changeup combination.
But there's plenty of time for Alvarez to turn his career around. He's still just 22 years old and his upper-90s velocity should secure his spot in the big leagues for years to come, but there are still questions about whether that role will ultimately be in the rotation or bullpen.
The deal also provides a fresh start to Escobar, who received a lot of criticism last season for writing a homophobic slur on his eye-black patches. He received a three-game suspension as punishment, which only added to the disappointment of a frustrating season that saw him hit just .253 in 145 games.
Despite the subpar campaign, Escobar does have the ability to be a well-above-average shortstop. He is only one year removed from a season in which he hit .290 and has proven himself to be more than capable in the field.
Mathis' inclusion in the deal had as much to do with Toronto's catching depth than anything else. The Blue Jays already have J.P. Arencibia entrenched as the club's starting catcher, while top prospect Travis d'Arnaud is waiting in the wings at Triple-A.
Buck could help the Blue Jays remain even more patient with d'Arnaud while backing up Arencibia, but there's an even stronger likelihood that Anthopoulos isn't done dealing and will eventually move another catcher.
For the past couple of years, the Blue Jays front office talked at great length about the upside of Toronto's baseball market. President Paul Beeston envisioned one day of having a payroll around $150 million, but it always came with the caveat that attendance would have to increase first.
That finally happened in 2012, as Toronto increased its ticket sales by more than 3,000 per game. The Blue Jays ranked third in attendance with 2,099,663, which was their highest total since 2008.
At the end of the season, Anthopoulos vowed that payroll was in fact on its way up, but nobody could have envisioned at the time this type of spending spree. By opening their wallet, the Blue Jays potentially have filled almost all of the major holes on their team in just one trade.
It remains to be seen whether the risky move will ultimately pay off, but for the first time in recent memory the club can optimistically hope for a spot in next year's postseason -- something that hasn't happened in Toronto since 1993.


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