Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will lose next week’s confidence vote triggering fresh political crisis, his former ally Gianfranco Fini said today, as thousands of his supporters took to the streets. “I don’t have a crystal ball, but I believe Berlusconi will not have the…
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WELLINGTON: Five fishermen were dead and 17 missing after a South Korean trawler sank in icy waters off Antarctica Monday, Maritime New Zealand said. A nearby ship plucked 20 survivors from the ocean shortly after the deep-sea fishing boat sank about 6:30am (1730 Sunday GMT), but…
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The US military has officially solidified its reputation as a flake, by banning the use of all removable media including thumb drives, CDs and DVDs again after relaxing the same policy in February. To prove they meant business this time, Senior officers in each branch relayed the orders and reaffirmed personnel would risk of court-martial if they failed to comply. This seems silly to us considering Uncle Sam feels comfortable giving some cell phones access to secure data, and we all know how much damage losing one can cause . But then again, if history and Transformers are any indication, sometimes it’s these little things that cause bigger breaches than anything Cyber Command focuses on stopping. US Military bans removable media again, this time probably for good originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Lionel Richie’s daughter,NICOLE Richie and long time boyfriend Joel Madden entered the realm of conjugal bliss as they tied the knot in a lavish ceremony last night. The newlyweds,who started seeing each other for four years,rear two children, Harlow, two, and 15-month-old Sparrow, vowed to spend their lives together in front of 130 close friends Nicole Richie and Joel Madden Said,”I do” is a post from: Daily World Buzz
Continue reading …Apple mysteriously kills jailbreak detection API while hacker boosts iOS security, irony restored
December 13, 2010 No Comment
It’s no secret that Apple’s been keen to monitor the lot of naughty jailbreakers, but it turns out the company has recently shelved iOS 4.0′s jailbreak detection API with no explanation given. While this has little effect on the average user, Network World explains that this is bad news for enterprise IT and MDM (mobile device management) vendors, who will now have one fewer channel for checking whether a user’s iOS device has been jailbroken and thus become vulnerable to attacks. That said, apparently this isn’t a huge loss for the MDM vendors, anyway; but the real question is why drop the API now? Could its presence alone be a threat? We’ll probably never know. Fear not, though, as some folks have put jailbreaking to good use. The Register reports that come Tuesday, Stefan Esser of Sektion Eins will demonstrate a tool called antid0te, which reportedly adds ASLR (address space layout randomization) onto jailbroken iOS devices. In a nutshell, ASLR randomizes key memory locations to make it more difficult for certain attacks to locate their target data. According to the famed white hat hacker Charlie Miller , this technique is already present on Windows Phone 7 and desktop Windows since Vista, but Apple’s only dabbled with it on OS X and not on iOS. Now, this doesn’t mean that jailbroken devices will be fully safeguarded, but some protection is better than no protection, right? [Thanks, wooba] Apple mysteriously kills jailbreak detection API while hacker boosts iOS security, irony restored originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Ed Schultz Indifferent to Westboro Baptist Protests – Until Elizabeth Edwards’s Funeral Targeted
December 13, 2010 No CommentNow they've really gone and done it as far as Ed Schultz is concerned. Speaking with Schultz on his radio show Thursday, Schultz's producer James Holm described plans by members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., notorious for their protests outside funerals of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, to stage a similar protest during the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards. read more
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Photo: Kim Ream Tom Weis is not the kind of guy to back down a challenge. In fact, just last week he finished the type of feat few would ever attempt — riding a recumbent tricycle , called the ‘Rocket Trike’, some 2,500 miles across the United States, from Boulder, Colorado to Washington D.C., without consuming a drop of fossil fuels . For Weis, the biggest challenge facing America is to get everyone on board with a 100 percent
Continue reading …Study Claim: Up To 20% Of US Coal-Fired Generating Capacity May Be "Retired" Over Coming Decade
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Boardman 550 megawatt, coal-fired power plant at Carty Reservoir, Oregon USA. Constructed in 1977, the Boardman plant is slated to be closed down by 2020 (43 year operating life). Image credit: Wikipedia A recently published study by the Brattle Group makes the claim that USEPA promulgated final regulations for controlling air emissions of SO2, NOx, particulates, and mercury, plus requirements for better control of therm… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …CE-Oh no he didn’t!: GM’s Dan Akerson says he ‘wouldn’t be caught dead in a Prius’
December 13, 2010 No Comment
Think GM’s CEO sees the Toyota Prius as a worthy competitor that, in many ways, paved the the way for the Chevy Volt ? Think again. Speaking to the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. this week, GM CEO Dan Akerson described Toyota’s hybrid as a “geek-mobile,” and flatly declared that he “wouldn’t be caught dead in a Prius.” Not surprisingly, it didn’t long for Toyota to respond to that slam, with a company spokesman telling The New York Times that “Toyota has sold more than two million Prius hybrids worldwide, and counting. Those buyers can’t all be geeks.” What’s most troubling to us about all of this, however, is the implication that a “geek-mobile” is somehow a bad thing — it sounds pretty awesome to us… geeks. CE-Oh no he didn’t!: GM’s Dan Akerson says he ‘wouldn’t be caught dead in a Prius’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A powerful storm has dumped mounds of snow across the upper Midwest, closing highways, canceling flights and collapsing the roof of the Minnesota Vikings’ stadium. The NY Giants-Minnesota Vikings game will be played in Detroit Monday. (Dec. 12)
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