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CLEVELAND - Even if it took some extra work again, the Toronto Blue Jays aren't complaining about their start.
So they've played 28 innings in two grueling games. So what?
They'd play another 28 more if it meant two more comeback wins.
Rajai Davis hit a two-run double in the 12th inning, Toronto rallied for the second straight game against Cleveland's bullpen and the Blue Jays beat the Indians in extra innings for the second straight game, 7-4 on Saturday.
Davis' hit off Tony Sipp (0-1) gave the Blue Jays a 5-3 lead and they held on to win another extra-inning game between the teams, who set a major league record by playing the longest opening-day game in history — a 16-inning marathon Thursday.
This one was four innings shorter, but ended with an identical 7-4 score and Toronto on top.
"It's definitely a grind, but winning makes it all worth it," said third baseman Brett Lawrie, who had three hits and broke up Ubaldo Jimenez's no-hit bid in the seventh with a two-run single. "You get to extra innings and it was a dogfight. You just have to win it, and we did. People don't understand how tough a grind it is."
Kelly Johnson homered for the Blue Jays and Toronto starter Brandon Morrow allowed one hit in seven innings.
Casey Janssen (1-0) pitched two innings for the win as the Blue Jays recorded their second come-from-behind victory already after getting 39 of them last season.
Jason Kipnis hit a two-run homer and Asdrubal Cabrera a solo shot for Cleveland, which has wasted consecutive strong starts by Justin Masterson and Jimenez.
Jimenez, pitching for the first time since being suspended five games for intentionally throwing at former Colorado teammate Troy Tulowitzki, allowed one hit in seven innings and performed beyond expectations after a shaky spring training.
"No one is saying every five days he's going to pitch like that," Indians manager Manny Acta said. "He gave us some peace of mind today."
Edwin Encarnacion opened the 12th with a double off Sipp and went to third on Lawrie's soft single to right. Davis, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the ninth, then lined his double to centre, scoring Encarnacion and Lawrie, giving the Blue Jays a 5-3 lead. Davis stole third and scored on Colby Rasmus' single and Johnson added an RBI single.
On Davis' hit, Lawrie scored all the way from first, and the energetic 22-year-old never slowed down until he got to the dugout, where he nearly charged over manager John Farrell.
"I was pumped," Lawrie said. "I scored a big run and I was fired up. We ended up getting a big win."
Farrell liked the hustle and knew enough to avoid contact.
"I saw him," Farrell said. "He was on a dead sprint right at the bat rack."
The Blue Jays overcame a three-run deficit in the ninth on Thursday before winning. They only trailed by two runs this time, but evened it in the seventh off Jimenez on Lawrie's two-out, two-run single. Toronto took a 3-2 lead in the ninth on Johnson's homer off Vinnie Pestano.
For seven innings, the teams were locked in a pitcher's duel as Jimenez and Morrow matched each other strike for strike.
Jimenez, who is dropping his appeal for hitting Tulowitzki in an exhibition game, allowed one hit and two runs in seven innings.
Morrow was just as good, giving up just one hit over seven.
The Indians were two outs away from losing in nine innings when Cabrera, rewarded earlier in the week with a new three-year contract, connected off closer Sergio Santos.
It was only Cleveland's second hit, and it came at the perfect time for the Indians, whose bats have been cold even since they arrived from spring training in Arizona, where they also struggled to score. Cleveland is batting just .135 (12 of 89) in two games.
"The offence is going to come someday," Jimenez said. "One of these days the guys will start hitting."
Kipnis' homer in the fifth ended Morrow's no-hit bid and a scoreless drought of 18 2-3 innings for Cleveland.
Jimenez was nearly perfect for six innings and unhittable for almost seven.
He retired the first 17 Blue Jays in order before walking No. 9 hitter Colby Rasmus with two outs in the sixth. However, Jimenez got out of the inning by getting Yunel Escobar on an easy fly to right.
But in the seventh, a pair of walks and a wild pitch came back to haunt Jimenez, who gave up Lawrie's tying single.
Jimenez walked three, struck out three and gave the Indians their second quality start in a row after Masterson dominated the Blue Jays for eight innings in the opener. Cleveland's starters have given up three hits in 15 innings, posted a 1.80 ERA and held the Blue Jays to a .063 average with 13 strikeouts.
"Winning games is all about pitching," Jimenez said. "That's a good sign for the team."
A better sign is Toronto's 2-0 record.
Notes: Cleveland and Toronto are the first teams since 1969 to start the season with consecutive games of 12 innings or more. ... Blue Jays INF Omar Vizquel is wearing No. 17 this season to honour his first manager, former All-Star shortstop Chico Carrasquel, a fellow Venezuelan. Vizquel has worn No. 13 most of his career and No. 11 as a tribute to Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio. "The cycle is complete now," Vizquel said. ... Toronto's Joel Carreno will start the series finale on Sunday against Cleveland's Derek Lowe, making his debut with the Indians.


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North End of the West Coast Highway South Island
From Hokitika to the very tip where the ocean meets the river in a crashing symphony of visual pleasure on the beach. A fabulous coastal scenic drive.
We continue our South Island exploration with our drive north from Hokitika to Westport and then Route 67 to as far north as one can drive on the West Coast.
For those who wish to explore inland east of Hokitika and experience a little more of the region take the road to Lake Kaniere. Here you will discover a beautiful body of water that provides a lot of water recreation for the area. For the visiting camper van there are a couple of great parking spots.
It is a twenty-five kilometre drive from Hokitika north to Kumara Junction where, if you continued east, Route 73 takes you through Arthur's Pass en-route to Christchurch (255 kms). This is a trip all its own and one of the most scenic routes in the South Island but for now let us continue the dramatic route north toward Karamea.
But first perhaps a short detour for explorers. Outside of Kumara Junction on Route 73 a few kilometres east take the Kumara-Inchbonnie partial dirt road north out of Kumara to Lake Brunner the largest lake on the West Coast. On the south shore of the lake there are a couple of small parking spots right on the lake. Fabulous place to do some trout fishing or just relax in the wilderness beauty.
You can return the way you arrived or an interesting route from that area is to continue around the lake and through the small community of Moana. From there you can circle back to Greymouth. A few kilometres north from Moana you will reach Route Seven where you turn left and follow the Grey River back to Route Six.
Greymouth, built on the Grey River, is the largest town on the West Coast. Near the mouth of the Grey River is a favourite overnight stop for campers. When in town visit the Jade Boulder Gallery, 1 Guinness Street, for the ultimate in jade work plus their cafe for the best coffee in town. Ten kilometres south is Shantytown, a restored 1800's pioneer town based upon the West Coast gold rushes of the mid 1800's. It is more than just a tourist trap and well worth a look around.
Behind the Caltex station on Tainui Street is a place for showers and washing/drying plus a dumpsite. Two miles north of Greymouth over the bridge and turn left past Cobden just past Jellystone Park is a great spot to overnight on the ocean and one of the best locations to experience a West Coast sunset.
From Greymouth to Westport it is a 102 kilometre drive along a world class scenic view one of them being the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks forty-six kilometres along from Greymouth. A tourist stop but one not to miss. Usually plenty of parking space. The next portion of the coastline is our favourite in New Zealand. You twist and turn along the coastal highway as the fabulous scenery along the way provides the dramatic confirmation that identifies New Zealand as a wild and wonderful place. Plenty of parking spots for a better look and photo opportunities along the route.
We enjoy stopping at the Punakaiki Canoes just north of the Rocks to chat with the owners. You will get a real surprise at the quality of the local artwork by the owner/artist and he can even create a good espresso. Over the bridge you can also stop for the night.
There is also a very nice stay over is the Punakaiki Holiday Park with a great pub in walking distance.
At Westport Route 6 joins with Route 67. Six kilometres from the start of route 67 take a left on Route 67A to Cape Foulwind. A walk up the hill to the lighthouse provides you with the scenery Cook must have witnessed as he passed by. You might want to visit the seal colony also when out there. Just follow the signs.
The town of Westport is eleven kilometres to the north. Be sure to stop by the Information Centre in the centre of the town on Brougham Street. Pick up the finer details of information and meet the friendly staff of helpful people.
For a special, right on the beach freedom campsite, continue on Brougham Street four streets on the left after the Information Site (Derby Street) turn left and go to the edge of town turning left on Coates Street. You can go out to the mouth of the Buller River from here but just before you pull up on the causeway there is a dirt road to the right that will take you to a well kept private open area just for freedom camping. Have fun!
Two interesting places to visit in Westport, the Miners Brewing Company (Lyndhurst St) and the Coaltown Museum on Queen Street. There is a dump station at the Fresh Choice grocery at the corner of Fonblnaque and Russels Streets. The store is also the best place to pick up essentials in Westport.
Now it is off north toward Karamea..............This is one of our favourite regions in the country north of Westport. We recommend a side drive up to Denniston. Turn off to the right at Waimangaroa on well sign posted roads.
The Denniston Rose , written by Jenny Pattrick, is your introduction to Denniston and perhaps the West Coast of New Zealand and soon to be a movie is the rumour. It is the story of a pioneering mother and daughter struggling in 1880s in Denniston and reveals how life must have been in those early pioneer days. One of the best books we have ever read and there is a sequel!
High up on the mountain of coal at 600 metres above sea level you can take your vehicle to the very top by a good road. Sometimes as you go along you are looking down at aircraft. The sea is far below as seen along the way. A dramatic and most scenic outlook. The story of one of the world's greatest engineering feats with the building of the incline to bring the coal down. From 1880 to 1967 12 1/2 million tons of coal were brought down this incline so steep it was unbelievable as you look at it even today. Be sure to go on the side road that takes you to the bottom of the incline to see some of the items still remaining. What a history!
Returning to Highway Six at Waimangaroa directly across the road there is a dirt road beside the pub that leads to the beach. Great spot to spend the night and the opportunity to have a walk around the old graveyard close by where many of the early residents of Denniston were buried. They couldn't be buried on the mountain, as the ground was too hard. Many residents never came down from there after arriving except to be buried.
Continuing north of Westport along a twenty-eight kilometre drive you will come to the small town of Granity one of our favourites in the country. Two good places to stop in the town, Steve Terry's "Drifter's Cafe" in the centre on the right. On the ocean side going north out of town "The Big Fish" be sure to stop and say hello to Kevin and Pauline.
Continuing north on route 67 you pass through the town of Hector. There is a country/western music museum worth stopping to see if that's your thing. What an amazing collection of music and photos by the owner who is definitely into his country music.
The next stop we recommend is on the north side of the Mokihinui River on the left. A narrow dirt road takes you to Gentle Annie's Campground. No electricity (showers good though) to the campsites but do have one of the best locations where river, ocean and bush join. They also have the Cowshed Cafe on site. Off the beaten path. You'll love it!
From here it is a seventy kilometre drive north to Karamea and the end of the road at the Kohaihai Bluff. Here is the location of the south end of the Heaphy Track. One of the most exciting meetings of river and ocean punctuate the beauty of the DOC camp on the Karamea River. If you are the tramping kind you may wish to take the trip through the Kahurangi National Park to Golden Bay via the Heaphy Track or maybe just a short excursion along the path while you are there.
Thus you will experience the northern half of the West Coast and all its glory. Be sure to stop and chat with the locals. They are a great bunch to have a drink with.


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Specializing in Indian food as I do, I am rather ashamed to admit that I do not have a recipe for samosas on my blog. I certainly have made this staple Indian appetizer in the past with homemade pastry and filling, but so far my variations have not been showcased on Lisa's Kitchen. When the weather finally gets cooler, that omission will be rectified.
In the meantime, after browsing through some of my cookbooks for light dinner ideas, I was inspired to make a samosa-style dish that used hollowed out potato skins instead of a pastry to enclose the spicy filling. More of a light meal than an appetizer because these potato halves are really rather filling, especially when served with a side salad and grain dish or Indian flatbread, such as besan roti. A most impressive presentation, it is the next best thing to traditional samosas — and healthier besides.
I served them with my tried and tested mushroom curry and topped the potatoes with velvety tomato chutney. This is one fine healthy meal for a warm summer day and to be enjoyed anytime of year for that matter.
Double the recipe if you are serving more than 2 or 3 diners.
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Cuisine: Indian
Published on August 14, 2012
Spicy vegetable "samosas" baked in potato skins instead of deep-fried pastry
More potato recipes you are sure to enjoy from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:
Scalloped Potatoes with Best-Ever Mushroom Sauce
Scalloped Potatoes with Coconut Milk and Mushrooms
Tamarind Potatoes
Bengali-Style Potatoes in a Seasoned Yogurt-Pistachio Crust
On the top of the reading stack: Indian cookbooks
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"Our veterans are dying at a rate of 1,600 a day. Because of the war on terrorism, our active and reserve forces are committed to preserving our democratic free society. As a result, 90 percent of America's finest are buried without final military honors." — Lt. Gen. Allen Baumann, National Commanding General of the U.S. Volunteers Joint Services Command
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Rejecting Arizona: States Say No to Anti-Immigrant Bills
Two weeks ago, a federal judge in Arizona halted implementation of many of the most draconian elements of Arizona's controversial anti-immigrant law, Senate Bill 1070, just hours before these provisions were set to take effect. In doing so, the court echoed a conclusion reached in several other recent court decisions, public opinion polls, and ballot measures on immigration policy around the country: States cannot enact broad and regressive laws that violate the Constitutional rights of residents, regardless of their immigration status.
Many of the copycat bills proposed in states around the country following the passage of Arizona's law have met, or are poised to meet, similar fates.
Legislators in 22 states have so far announced plans to introduce anti-immigration legislation based upon SB 1070—though many are now revising their proposals in the wake of the recent federal court ruling that questions the law's constitutionality—and others may do so in the weeks and months ahead.
Yet many of these copycat proposals have already failed. The legislatures of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Kansas rejected broad anti-immigrant bills or amendments. In Arkansas and Nevada, proponents of anti-immigrant ballot measures couldn't secure enough signatures to get their proposals on the ballot this fall. Meanwhile, conservative governors in several states, including Florida, Texas, and California, have all made it clear they would veto broad anti-immigrant legislation, and business leaders and law enforcement groups have spoken out against adopting the Arizona approach in their states.
Why is the anti-immigrant movement failing so overwhelmingly? Contrary to the current media narrative, the anti-immigrant sentiments reflected in bills such as Arizona's are only held by a select few. Polls consistently show that voters want action on immigration, but that they favor comprehensive immigration reform over enforcement-only laws. A full 84 percent of voters who supported the Arizona law in a June 2010 national poll also supported comprehensive immigration reform. State legislators and elected officials are listening to this voter sentiment rather than allowing the voices of a few anti-immigrant political opportunists to shape the debate.
They also know these are simply bad public policy proposals that promise to decimate state economies and communities. Arizona's economy has certainly suffered: It has one of the nation's highest foreclosure rates, high budget deficits, and Latino business owners and consumers are leaving the state in droves. Boycotts in response to SB 1070's passage are projected to cost the state at least $95 million in lost tourism and convention revenue alone over the next five years.
The Better Angels of Our Nature Arizona's immigration law offers us a choice between two long-standing traditions in U.S. history: fighting for human rights or looking away while they're eroded.
Rather than pursuing draconian policies that seek to exclude immigrants and fragment society, legislators are in fact championing policies that foster integration and a sense of community. They are ending the five-year waiting period for immigrant children and pregnant immigrant women to access state Medicaid and State Child Health Plus programs. They are extending in-state tuition rates at state universities to undocumented students—a policy currently in place in ten states. They are tightening enforcement of wage and hour protections, which apply to all workers regardless of their immigration status but are often exploited by unscrupulous employers who force undocumented workers to accept unsafe working conditions and unfair wage levels. And they are welcoming immigrant-owned small-business ventures—and their infusion of economic growth—into their communities as much as possible.
In fact, most of the nation's police chiefs are rejecting Arizona's ineffective approach to immigration enforcement and instead supporting measures like community policing legislation, which allow law enforcement professionals to build trust with residents to help solve crimes. Such bills allow state and local law enforcement to focus on the safety of their communities, leaving federal immigration agents, who are expressly trained to do so, to focus on immigration enforcement.
Policies that seek to exclude, segregate, and stigmatize foreign-born residents might be politically helpful to a small group of extremists, but they are also an assault on America's values as a nation of immigrants committed to "liberty and justice for all." Thankfully, as the Arizona approach fails in state after state, we are seeing that elected officials and voters across the nation already recognize this fact.
- : Arizona's new law has awakened a sleeping giant.
- : A racially just, inclusive, and even loving society is still possible.


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The NATO-Treaty on Wheels?
October 26, 2016
In this ILDC article, Christian Djeffal examines the rise of treaty making since 1945, the increasing importance of treaties, and discusses the issues of static and evolutive treaty interpretation before the German Federal Constitutional Court, in The NATO-Treaty on Wheels?
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text: Redmond, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. has launched a click-to-call service for search ads appearing on its Bing search engine, using the Skype phone service the company acquired in 2011. The company's Call Extensions service, also available with Yahoo Inc. search ads, provides a phone number alongside search ads on PCs, tablets and smartphones, Microsoft said in a statement. Customers can click the phone number to place a call, with advertisers charged on a cost-per-click basis. The service provides reports, including length of time on the calls, impressions and resulting revenue. Marketers can provide values to these leads to optimize their search-ad budgets, Microsoft said.


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blowfishhootie wrote:TheBauhausCure wrote:After all this, it'd be so sad to see it washed away. I know it's inevitable, but I'd rather the roller-coaster of emotions this comic has been to end on a happy note.
Every person obviously interprets it differently, but for me, I don't think the castle being washed away (or eroded, or otherwise destroyed through natural processes) is necessarily sad. It's kind of peaceful really, and in some ways romantic. Here's this thing these two (presumed) lovers built together, and only time and mother earth can break it down again - but it's not destroyed, it just kind of disassembles it for the next happy builders to come along and repeat the sequence. Without the destruction there can be no new creation - eventually we'd just run out of material. Nothing humans make is endless, but this is about as nice an end as any human creation could wish for. Better than if it were a real castle, pretty much designed to be invaded by hostile forces looking to tear it down.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Small financial incentives aimed at getting physicians to make sure their diabetic patients receive recommended routine exams may not lead to changes in doctors' behavior, according to a new study from Canada.
The findings echo much of what has been shown in other so-called pay-for-performance arrangements, said Meredith Rosenthal, a health policy researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston who wasn't involved in the study.
Those systems offer money to physicians who achieve certain goals that are known to improve patients' health, reduce errors or save money.
Rosenthal said financial incentives can affect medical care if they are accompanied by efforts to help doctors meet the goals. "I think there's a limited amount one can do just changing the fee structure around these things," she told Reuters Health.
Researchers and policymakers have been looking to pay-for-performance as one strategy to improve health outcomes.
"There's a big gap between what we're doing in practice and what the evidence tells us we should be doing," said Dr. Tara Kiran, the lead author of the study from St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.
"One way of potentially addressing this is, if we pay physicians to try and meet some quality targets, is that one way to close this knowledge-practice gap?"
Beginning in 2002, the government of Ontario offered to pay doctors $37 (Canadian — about $38 U.S.) for each visit with a diabetes patient that demonstrated the patient was getting the recommended routine exams.
Those included eye exams, blood sugar monitoring and cholesterol measurements.
To see if this incentive program was working, Kiran and her colleagues examined the medical bills of more than 700,000 diabetic patients in Ontario.
The researchers found that between 2006 and 2008, only a quarter of patients had medical bills that included a charge for the incentive payment.
During that time, 37 percent of patients received the recommended number of blood sugar tests and 59 percent got the appropriate number of cholesterol tests, they reported in Diabetes Care.
"Rates of recommended testing increased gradually from 2006 to 2008, but it was not really associated with the incentive code," Kiran told Reuters Health.
Her results showed that the number of people who met the guidelines for all routine exams rose from 16 percent in 2000 to 27 percent in 2008, but the annual increase after the incentive became available was similar to what it was before doctors could earn the bonus.
Kiran said one possible explanation for the low uptake of the bonus is that doctors might not have been aware of it. Other incentives were introduced at the same time, and perhaps the diabetes incentive didn't get their attention — or wasn't enough money, she suggested.
Earning the incentive also involved administrative work that some doctors might not have felt was worth the effort, researchers said. And not having electronic medical records or staff dedicated to managing chronic diseases could have made it too difficult to for doctors to meet the goals of the incentive.
Pay-for-performance programs have not shown much success in other settings, either.
For example, an incentive program involving 252 hospitals in the United States had no impact on patients' health (see Reuters report of March 28, 2012).
Dr. Michael Parchman, the director of the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, said there have been examples of pay-for-performance programs working, but they involved much larger impacts on doctors' incomes.
He said there's growing evidence that primary care practices benefit more from a complete redesign than from small, targeted incentives.
Shifting doctors' offices to a "medical home," which attempts to be more comprehensive and accessible in providing care for patients, seems to make a bigger difference, Parchman, who wasn't part of the new research team, told Reuters Health.
"We're nibbling around the edges with these kinds of small incentive payments when it comes to improving primary care delivery," he said. "We're not addressing the issue of: how do we redesign the way we provide primary care?"
SOURCE: bit.ly/HeFSn2 Diabetes Care, online March 28, 2012.


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Hanging out on the planet Hoth all day can be boring. It's basically a white desert with nothing but snow, robots, giant yeti monsters, and a half-finished movie theater. Troops stationed on Hoth get to see one, maybe two epic battles tops, otherwise they throw snowballs at each other and drink lots of cocoa. Yup, cocoa.
This all changed with the invention of the Death Star Ice Sphere Tray. Not only could they have fancy ice for cold beverages, they could make Death Star chocolate truffles, and even Death Star soap! And as a bonus, playing baseball on the planet Hoth has never been easier! It only takes a few minutes to create an irresponsibly dangerous baseball and, when the guns become useless from freezing, you've got a baseball bat!
Create ice spheres that look like the Death Star
Creates 1 Death star (how many Death stars do you need?)
Made of heat and cold resistant food-safe silicone
Also great for molding chocolates or soap
Freezer and dishwasher safe
Dimensions: 2.4" in diameter
1 x Death Star Silicone Ice Mold
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RDP Exploit Confirmed: Patch Windows Now!
Less than three days after Microsoft warned of a critical flaw in the Remote Desktop Protocol in all versions of Windows, several security researchers have confirmed a legitimate working exploit is now available.
The MS12-020 RDP exploit is capable of crashing the target computer on Windows 7 or causing a distributed denial of service condition on Windows XP, several researchers reported on Twitter March 16. The Python script first surfaced on a Chinese download site a few hours after Microsoft disclosed the vulnerability and fix as part of its March Patch Tuesday release on Mar. 13.
Microsoft warned users to apply the patch immediately, and security vendors echoed the advice. The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center raised its "Infocon" threat level alert to yellow to "call administrators to action," Swa Frantzen wrote on the ISC Diary.
"If the system can't be patched right away, it should be taken offline," Nicholas Percoco, head of Trustwave SpiderLabs, said in an interview. At the very least, RDP should be disabled, he said.
The Risks
The vulnerability has the potential to wreak havoc on businesses, government organizations and individual users because it allows remote attackers to walk right in to the network without authentication, said Percoco. While RDP is disabled by default on most Windows systems, SMB users and administrators often turn it on for remote tech support. Many forget to turn it off. In fact, Trustwave SpiderLabs conducted a survey of 2 million computers accessible on the Internet in 2011 and found 14 percent had RDP enabled, Percoco said.
"And there are more than 2 million computers on the Internet," he added.
With the working exploit, attackers can scan the Internet looking for vulnerable machines, according to Percoco. He predicted the exploit will be used as part of targeted attacks against specific businesses and organizations to steal information, infiltrate the network, and cause damage. The nature of the vulnerability means it can potentially be exploited by a large-scale Internet worm, moving from one vulnerable computer to another, he added. Over time, the worm can be used to build up botnets and spam relays.
Did Someone Compromise MAPP?
Even more worrisome, it appears the exploit contains details Microsoft sent to developers in the Microsoft Active Protection Program. MAPP sends vulnerability and patch information to a small group of security and anti-malware vendors about a day or two before the updates are released to give them time to work on updating their products.
"rdpclient.exe seems written by Microsoft using the original packet poc [proof-of-concept] I sent to ZDI. MS is the source of the leak," Luigi Auriemma, the researcher who originally discovered the bug in May 2011, wrote on Twitter.
Auriemma sent details about the RDP vulnerability to HP TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative. The ZDI team confirmed the bug and coordinated the disclosure with Microsoft. He questioned why Microsoft was sending MAPP partners executable proof-of-concept code. Auriemma also posted the original advisory with all the details he'd sent ZDI on his site.
Busy Looking for Exploits
There was another Python script posted on text-sharing site Pastebin on Mar. 15. It turned out to be a hoax, as it was just an old exploit code from 2008 targeting a vulnerability in the Apache Web server. The script claimed to be written by someone at "firstname.lastname@example.com."
Fake exploits are fairly common as it gives the malicious developer attention. It's very trivial to create a fake YouTube video that looks like an exploit is working, according to Percoco. With reports of people offering bounties to anyone who came up with a reliable exploit, it was clear there was a lot of interest among the criminal underground. A site offered $1451 for a working exploit on Mar. 15. Percoco said it was likely there were similar offers in the $50,000 to $100,000 range in the criminal underground.


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This is Part I of an update on Isentress. For Part II, an explanation of how Isentress works, please click here.
On Oct. 12, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Isentress, the first member of a new class of meds called integrase inhibitors. Isentress is also known generically as raltegravir, and during its early development was called MK-0518.
To find out more about Isentress and how it might impact treatment for HIV-positive people, I spoke with Dr. David Wohl, an associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the co-director of HIV services for the North Carolina Department of Corrections. I should note that Dr. Wohl has participated in research on Isentress, and has also received research funding from Merck & Company, which developed Isentress.
Isentress: What is this drug all about, and why do HIV doctors seem to be so excited about it?
I think anytime that there is a new HIV medicine, there's certainly a buzz. But especially when there's a new HIV medicine that works completely differently than any of the previous HIV medicines we have. So here we have a new drug that also is in a different class of drugs than we have ever had before. Isentress works in a completely different way than any of the available HIV medicines we've had to date.
Is Isentress meant for people for whom other drugs have failed?
Typically what happens is that new drugs will come along and be tried in people who've failed other medications, or whose medications have failed them. "You might have been on something before; now here's a new medicine. Why don't you try this?" is the approach of studies of new HIV medicines.
It's pretty hard to start out as an HIV medication that would be used in first-line treatment. Part of that is because we have so many really good first-line medications -- those are medications we use initially to treat the virus infection -- that it's really challenging to come up with something that's even better than what we've got now. So the pharmaceutical companies, oftentimes, will try out a new medicine in people who are a little bit more needy for new medicines, people who've been through other medicines and don't have as many choices. That's exactly how Isentress has been studied to date.
How well does it seem to work in those people?
Isentress -- raltegravir -- works really well. That's why there's all the hoopla; that's why it was approved.
The medication has been studied in treatment-experienced patients.1,2 It's also been studied in a smaller way in people who've never been on therapy, so we do have some data on that.3 But the really big news has been how well this drug performed in people who had been on therapies before and did not have a lot of treatment options and that's a really tough group to see success in. The drug was well tolerated, it had great responses, and for people who don't have many choices, that's a tremendous finding, a great result and a boon to HIV therapy.
The study that was done -- there were a couple of really big studies done across the planet, looking at this drug -- what they found was that this drug doesn't work well alone. That's what we've seen with every HIV medication, basically: It could be powerful itself, but alone it's not going to do it. It's like a table with only one leg, instead of three or four to keep it stable. It just can't do all the heavy lifting by itself.
In these studies, it's shown that if you take another active drug -- another drug that should work against the virus that the patient has -- with this new drug, raltegravir, you see better success. Even better success is seen if you have three drugs altogether, i.e., Isentress plus two other drugs that have some activity against the virus. This is what we see with any HIV medicine.
We really need to combine this thoughtfully with other medications, and I think a very important thing -- and the reason why you're seeing this perfect storm of enthusiasm about this drug -- is that we have other new drugs that we can combine with this one to craft a very potent, effective regimen.
Is there any sign yet that specific drugs would be best combined with Isentress?
In the studies that have been done to date, it's really just a matter of the drugs that have been available. Certainly, if someone had never been on, let's say, Kaletra [generic name: lopinavir/ritonavir], and had susceptibility to Kaletra, taking Isentress with Kaletra and possibly another drug that the virus should respond to, that would be a good combo.
In the studies that were done, it was mostly darunavir (Prezista) [also known as TMC114], which was taken with Norvir [generic name: ritonavir], that had a good effect, as did Fuzeon [generic name: enfuvirtide; also known as T-20], an injectable drug that many people are familiar with. Certainly, if people took Fuzeon, Prezista, and also Isentress, they had great, great results. So I think if this drug came out, and there was nothing to combine it with, we'd see some trouble; we would see that it had limited applicability. But now that there are these other drugs that do work against resistant virus, it's exciting.
As you alluded to in your other question about when is it best to use this drug, I think part of the excitement is that this doesn't have to necessarily be a drug we think of as only being used in the salvage situation. That's the situation that we've studied the most -- that is, people who have been through other medications and don't have as many options left, and we "salvage" them with these combinations, these cocktails of potent HIV drugs. I think there's excitement because one could imagine that this could become a therapy that could be used even earlier in HIV care.
How far down the road do you think that might start to be the case?
I think what happens always is that a drug comes down and is used in one niche, and then migrates to another. We saw this with Kaletra. Kaletra came out and people were using it mostly in a salvage situation, in people who really have fewer choices. It was used to rescue them from virus that had become drug resistant. And slowly, but certainly, the drug became -- and really still is -- one of the most popular initial therapies we use. So it doesn't take long for clinicians to play with drugs and start to use them earlier.
It also helps a lot if there are more studies, well-powered studies, looking at the drug in those circumstances. Certainly the makers of Isentress appreciate this, and they have designed, and have already started presenting data from studies that look at the use of the drug in people who have limited or no HIV treatment experience. I think that once another nice, big study comes out, we'll be very tempted to use this earlier on.
You had mentioned a little bit earlier that in the studies on Isentress so far, it seemed to be very well tolerated. Can you talk a little about the side effects associated with it?
It's hard sometimes to tease out the side effects of the drug, especially in the kind of studies that it has been engaged in, because people are taking a bunch of other medicines at the same time. In the case of this particular drug and where it's been mostly studied, you have people who are involved in the study who have more advanced HIV and have more problems with their health.
There could be some nausea and diarrhea associated with this medication; again, there is the question of how much of that is the combined medication that people are taking in this situation. There could also be some elevations of some of the blood tests, including a muscle enzyme that people can have measured in their blood.
But generally, it was really well tolerated, and I think that's important. There have been reports of cancers developing in people on the drug; again, that's often hard to tease out from the background, because people living with HIV are more susceptible to cancers.
I think there's going to be a lot more investigation looking at what happens to people on the medication. This is fairly typical; I think it's this post-marketing surveillance that's very important in all drugs, especially HIV drugs. There's a big rush to get medications approved, and I think that's a good thing, but we may not have all the long-term safety data we need, so there's a real emphasis on trying to make sure we capture the safety data once the drug hits the proving ground after approval.
So I don't think we have the complete story, and I think once we see more data from treatment studies that involve people who have not been on HIV medicines before, you'll get a cleaner sense of what the side effects of the drug are. But so far, it seems to be remarkably well tolerated.
An important aspect of this drug is that it does not require Norvir to be coadministered. So many of our drugs, the protease inhibitors in particular, require Norvir to boost the level of the medication in the blood. Norvir is a protease inhibitor itself, but at low doses it can raise the level of other drugs in the blood, make those other drugs more potent, and make it so you don't have to take them as frequently. The problem is that even low doses of Norvir can be associated with intolerance, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and even some changes in cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood sugars in people's bodies. So it's not the most ideal HIV medicine that we have, and being free from Norvir, I think, is a positive aspect of Isentress.
Isentress is the first integrase inhibitor to be approved in the United States, but it's not the only one in development, right?
No, hot on its heels is another medication, elvitegravir [also known as TMC125]. This is another drug that does a similar sort of job of preventing the virus from integrating into our DNA. That drug is a little bit further behind in development; there have been some data regarding that drug, and again, it looks promising. That drug does need to be taken with Norvir, so that will be a little bit of a deficit with that particular compound.
I think it will be very important to see how these two drugs do head-to-head. I'm a big fan of comparative studies -- that is, studies that compare one drug versus another, rather than having to try to make some assumptions or inferences based on studies that were done separately. So you study drug A, and you study drug B, but not against each other, and you try to judge them against each other. It's really just best to put drug A and B in the same study and see how they do head-to-head. I think we'll see those kinds of studies in the not too-too distant future, but it's going to take a while. I think for a while it's going to be Isentress alone in this class of medications.
Is there any indication yet that, if a person takes Isentress and if Isentress doesn't work out, they have ruined their chances of taking elvitegravir or another integrase inhibitor down the line?
I can firmly say: maybe. We don't know. There is cross resistance between Isentress and this other integrase inhibitor drug being developed, elvitegravir, and there are different pathways of resistance. It's still very early in the game of trying to understand resistance, and understanding how much the resistance that is cultivated during treatment impacts other drugs. But yes, it's likely that if you have trouble with resistance to raltegravir, you may very well compromise other drugs in the class.
That's not unique to this class; we see that with all the classes of HIV medicines. You become resistant to one, you're basically going to knock out one or more of the other drugs in that class. The virus mutates and gets around the mechanism of one drug; if another drug shares that mechanism, it's not too surprising that you'd see some decreased activity of the other drug.
If a person wants to get their hands on Isentress, how easy will it be for them to do that, now that it's been approved?
I think it won't be too long before people will be popping Isentress. First, of course, your clinician would have to decide that it's the best approach for you. Again, generally crafting a new regimen around this medication is a good idea. We have a good sense that Isentress has some resistance to resistance, meaning it's not too easy to get resistant to it, but it's also not the most bulletproof of the HIV medicines we have, meaning that resistance can develop to this drug.
I think there has to be a good regimen, a good combination of medicines that are prescribed along with this medicine to increase its chance of working well and for a long time. Once that occurs, it's just a matter of when does it get to the stores. After FDA approval, there's usually a lag time before a drug can get transported to the various pharmacies. AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, or ADAPs, have to include the drug on the formulary and then get stocked. So it can take a few weeks from approval to availability in stores and on formularies and on insurance plans, but I would say within the next few weeks, certainly people will be able to get it. I hear that the drug is expected in stores within a week or so.
Stepping back and looking at the approval of Isentress from a larger perspective, what do you feel the overall impact of this drug's approval is, especially given that we have Selzentry [also known by the brand name: Celsentri; generic name: maraviroc], which came in a couple months ago. Is the approval of Isentress one small step for HIV treatment, or is it a giant leap?
I think it's a big hop. I really am encouraged by this. I like that this is a medication that works in a completely different way. I like that it's a medication that doesn't need pharmacological boosting with another drug -- meaning it doesn't require another drug to be as effective as it could be. It's likely that this drug will mix well with others. I think that, generally, this is a very, very exciting step.
We are bound historically by what drugs came out first. We use a lot of AZT [brand name: Retrovir; generic name: zidovudine] and like drugs, because they were the initial drugs. If they were to come out now, we might not be using them as much as we do. It's historic. That this drug comes out, it's in a new class -- were this to have come out 10 years ago, this might be something we'd be using all the time. We would be.
I think that this is a real, big advance and I am very encouraged by it. I think this is a bigger advance than having maraviroc, the new CCR5 inhibitor, come out. I think this is a novel, new class of drugs. This is going to be a workhorse of a drug in various situations. There's some exciting data, and some theories about how this integrase inhibitor Isentress works and what it can do to decrease the virus in different parts of the body. I think there's going to be a lot more work done with that.
So, I think overall, at this early point in its history, it's an exciting development. I'm looking forward to studies that examine this drug in different circumstances, including people with much less drug exposure in their past.
Dr. David Wohl, thank you very much.
It's my pleasure.
To read more about Isentress, browse through TheBody.com's collection of articles.
- Cooper D, Gatell J, Rockstroh J, et al, for the BENCHMRK-1 Study Group. Results of BENCHMRK-1, a phase III study evaluating the efficacy and safety of MK-0518, a novel HIV-1 integrase inhibitor, in patients with triple-class resistant virus. In: Program and abstracts of the 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections; February 25-28, 2007; Los Angeles, Calif. Oral 105aLB.
- Steigbigel R, Kumar P, Eron J, et al, for the BENCHMRK-2 Study Group. Results of BENCHMRK-2, a phase III study evaluating the efficacy and safety of MK-0518, a novel HIV-1 integrase inhibitor, in patients with triple-class resistant virus. In: Program and abstracts of the 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections; February 25-28, 2007; Los Angeles, Calif. Oral 105bLB.
- Markowitz M, Nguyen B-Y, Gotuzzo E, et al, and the Protocol 004 Part II Study Team. Rapid onset and durable antiretroviral effect of raltegravir (MK-0518), a novel HIV-1 integrase inhibitor, as part of combination ART in treatment HIV-1 infected patients: 48-week data. In: Program and abstracts of the 4th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention; July 22-25, 2007; Sydney, Australia. Abstract TUAB104.
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Iron Man 3 should provide enough fun and excitement for both Iron Man die-hards and newly acquired Avengers fans.
Iron Man 3 continues the story of Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) who, after the Battle of New York in Avengers, is struggling with his place in the steadily expanding superhero community. Unable to sleep, Stark has prioritized tinkering with new suits over his personal relationships - even neglecting the one person he "cannot live without," Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow).
However, when mysterious terrorist The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) kills American citizens and targets Iron Man (as well as his friends), Stark is stripped of his trademark armor, and forced to investigate the threat as an ordinary man. He embarks on a dangerous mission to bring the Mandarin to justice - as well as prove that Tony Stark is more than just his Iron Man suit.
Following on the heels of The Avengers, Marvel Studios had a tough task ahead of them: deliver a batch of standalone character stories set in the Avengers shared universe, without undercutting the excitement and momentum generated by the epic 2012 superhero team-up. The first post-Avengers solo entry, Iron Man 3 is led by first-time Marvel helmer Shane Black - known for blending slick action (and humor) with memorable character stories as both a writer (Lethal Weapon) and director (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang). Does Black's "buddy cop" movie pedigree make him the right man to usher in Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, via a smart Tony Stark story with some exciting Iron Man combat?
Interestingly, while Black succeeds in presenting the most personal and intimate Tony Stark story in the series thus far, it sometimes comes at the expense of iconic Iron Man action that die-hard fans will be expecting. This isn't to say that there aren't plenty of exciting moments featuring the Iron Man armor(s), but Robert Downey Jr. spends a significant amount of time outside of the suit this round (even during several key battles).
That said, the Extremis super-soldier villains are a welcome change of pace from the suit-on-suit brawls of Iron Man and Iron Man 2, and the Mark 42 Armor (which Stark can remotely control) adds plenty of slick new set-pieces that are sure to be memorable for comic lovers and newcomers alike.Still, even though Iron Man 3 includes some of the best moments in the franchise, certain moviegoers will be underwhelmed by the final ratio between Tony Stark and Iron Man armor-centric action.
Like prior entries, the central story examines Stark's relationship to the Iron Man persona - this time making it a point to show the genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist is pretty adept without his armor. As a result, moviegoers spend a lot of time watching Robert Downey Jr. fire off one-liners (with some genuine vulnerability this round) - especially when paired with kid-helper Harley Keener (Ty Simpkins). In general, Downey once again delivers with the charming and self-absorbed Stark - even in scenes where the filmmakers settled for less-subtle comedy gags (an interaction with a cable news technician, for example) or heavy-handed soap box moments (such as a second act conversation about scientific ethics).
Nevertheless, while the film leans heavily on shared universe events from The Avengers as an emotional crutch for the Tony Stark storyline, Iron Man 3 entirely side-steps explaining why none of superhero team (or even S.H.I.E.L.D. members) attempt to provide backup - resulting in an awkward middle-ground where some viewers might have trouble suspending disbelief.
Returning Iron Man series staples Pepper (Paltro), Colonel James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) - as well as former Iron Man series director Jon Favreau (Happy Hogan) - all offer solid turns as their respective characters, and each one is allowed a bit more to do in Iron Man 3. Cheadle especially helps solidify his place in the Marvel movie universe - as the War Machine character is less of a sidekick this round, earning his own superhero spotlight.
Franchise newcomers are a mixed bag, with Ben Kingsley presenting a captivating terrorist persona for the Mandarin. The Mandarin is unsettling, but considering the character's importance in comic book lore (not to mention the totally unexplored ties to the original Iron Man film), longtime comic fans might be underwhelmed by Iron Man 3's use of the fan-favorite villain. Guy Pearce's Aldrich Killian isn't an especially unique (or memorable) addition to the Iron Man series roster, but scene to scene, the character is a satisfying aspect of the primary Iron Man 3 conflict. Unfortunately, Rebecca Hall's Maya Hansen is almost entirely wasted - with an underdeveloped arc that lacks any impactful payoff.
The superfluous Hansen character serves as an example of Iron Man 3's biggest drawback: in an effort to deliver a movie that could follow The Avengers, the film is packed with too many characters and overcomplicated tangents that take away from a relatively straightforward character story. A lot of ideas (and comic book references) are haphazardly thrown into the mix, but few of them develop into worthwhile contributions to the onscreen storyline - and, worse yet, outright distract from the emotionally-charged Stark character journey.
Similarly, action set-pieces are bigger than prior Iron Man entries, with epic eye-popping effects, but several sequences suffer from CGI-overload, where the Iron Man armor takes a backseat to crumbling buildings and mid-air explosions. The set-pieces are enormous, but instead of highlighting Tony Stark and the various capabilities of his iconic suit, the scope sometimes undercuts would-be blockbuster moments with a muddled blur of armor and explosions.
Iron Man 3 is playing in both 3D as well as an IMAX Experience - and both versions are on-par with premium presentations of The Avengers. The 3D, specifically, relies on subtle (not pop-out) effects, courtesy of a crisp post-conversion from frequent Marvel Studios collaborator, StereoD (Jurassic Park 3D). Neither IMAX or the 3D is essential to enjoying the film, but moviegoers who are willing to spring for the added ticket cost should get their money's worth.
In attempting to maintain the bar set by The Avengers' superhero action, Iron Man 3 at times handcuffs its hero (and story) - throwing too much style and attempted substance at the screen without being mindful of the carefully-paced discovery and wonder that made the first film (and even the flawed second entry) so memorable. Nevertheless, Iron Man 3 is a crowd-pleasing blockbuster that includes a number of unique action beats and antagonists that break up the suit vs. suit monotony that dominated the first two entries.
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The nation's major wireless providers have agreed to a deal with the U.S. government to build a central database of stolen cellphones—part of a broad effort to tame an explosion of thefts nationwide.
The database, which the wireless companies will build and maintain, will be designed to track phones that are reported as lost or stolen and deny them voice and data service. The idea is to reduce crime by making it difficult or impossible to actually use a stolen device, reducing resale value.
Currently, Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. block phones that are reported stolen from being reactivated. AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA don't. All four have agreed to be part of the new database.
"New technologies create new risks," said Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, which negotiated the database proposal. "We wanted to find a way to reduce the value of stolen smartphones."
Cellphone theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the U.S., law-enforcement officials nationwide say. The deal between the FCC and the wireless carriers is partly the result of pressure from frustrated police chiefs. The Major Cities Chiefs Association, an affiliation of 70 police chiefs from large cities across the U.S. and Canada, published a resolution in February calling on the FCC to require telecom companies to implement technology to disable stolen devices.
Behind the increase in crime: A lucrative market for used phones. Thieves can sell pilfered devices to local merchants or street-corner middlemen—or hawk them on sites such as eBay.com, Amazon.com or Craigslist.org, where a used iPhone, for instance, can fetch several hundred dollars.
In New York there were more than 26,000 incidents of electronics theft in the first 10 months of 2011—81% involving mobile phones—according to an internal police-department document reported by the New York Daily News.
The report said electronics are now the most stolen type of property, surpassing cash. In Washington, D.C., cellphone-related robberies jumped 54% from 2007 to 2011 according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Details of the national stolen-phone database have yet to be worked out, but a broad outline has been agreed to.
Wireless phones that have been reported stolen to the carrier will be listed in the database using unique serial numbers associated with mobile gadgets. The carriers will block listed phones from accessing carrier networks for voice and data service.
Carriers will roll out their own individual databases within six months. The individual databases will be integrated and centralized over the 12 months thereafter. Smaller, regional wireless carriers are expected to join the database over two years, according to a person familiar with the plan. As part of the agreement, wireless carriers will also roll out initiatives to encourage mobile-phone users to set up passwords on their devices to deter theft.
Design of the stolen-phone database is complicated by the fact that the carriers use very different cellphone technologies. Verizon and Sprint operate what is known as a CDMA network. A CDMA handset possesses an electronic serial number on the device itself, which enables the two companies to block handsets from being reactivated if they are stolen.
AT&T and T-Mobile, by contrast, use a different technology, GSM, which identifies individual handsets by a tiny, removable SIM card. This makes GSM phones particularly attractive to thieves, since it is easy to install a new SIM card on a stolen device.
Despite the differing network technologies, it is important to have one central database of stolen phones. One reason is because, as carriers switch their networks to the next-generation LTE standard, it could become easier for thieves to transfer stolen phones among them.
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Officials from AT&T and T-Mobile said the carriers are working on technologies to block reuse of stolen phones on their networks. "We are working toward an industrywide solution to address the complexity of blocking stolen devices from being activated on ours or another network with a new SIM card," T-Mobile said in a statement. "This is not a simple problem to solve."
According to an FCC official, the SIM-card problem will likely be solved by the carriers' making an additional check to ensure that the devices themselves are authorized to work on the network, not just the SIM card.
A Sprint official voiced support for the national database plan. An official from Verizon declined to comment late Monday.
Similar stolen-phone databases are already in use abroad, including in the U.K., Germany, France and Australia. The U.K. database was set up in 2002. Australia's was set up in 2004. Crime hasn't stopped, but the number of incidents has declined.
In London, cellphone-related crimes last fiscal year averaged roughly 8,000 per month, a decline from more than 10,000 per month in the fiscal year ending April 2004, according to the U.K.'s National Mobile Phone Crime Unit.
That was despite a near-doubling in the number of handsets in circulation over that time, according to Jack Wraith of the Telecommunications U.K. Fraud Forum, a telecom industry group that helped with the U.K. database.
Mr. Wraith credits the database with the fact that crime hasn't grown alongside the dramatic increase in total number of handsets.
The databases aren't perfect, said David Rogers, a mobile security expert at consulting firm Copper Horse Solutions in London. Phones that are blocked from receiving voice service "still have lots of functions." They can still connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, for instance, as well as play music or games.
As a result, tablets that use only Wi-Fi connections will receive no protection under the proposed plan. Tablets that connect to carriers' cell networks are expected to be covered, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Another problem is that stolen phones often are exported to China and countries in Latin America, Africa and elsewhere for sale. The agreement forged by the FCC calls for U.S. carriers to make their stolen-phone database interoperable with others abroad, though many developing countries don't have stolen-phone databases in place.
Tech-savvy thieves might be able to use software to alter the identity number on stolen devices. In the U.K., altering such numbers without authorization is a crime. It is currently legal in the U.S., though members of Congress are expected to propose legislation to make it a crime, according to a person familiar with the matter at the FCC.
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Carriers will roll out individual databases that will be integrated and centralized over 12 months after their creation. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the move would take 18 months.
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