Last July, a hacker broke into Yellowstone County, Mont.'s website, prompting the county to disable the site. In September 2011, two men with alleged ties to the online activist group Anonymous were indicted for hacking into Santa Cruz County, Calif., computers in December 2010, causing the county website to go offline. And last November, the Gregg County, Texas, Tax Office was hacked by the Zeus Trojan, which uses a keystroke logging scheme to steal information. In that incident, bank routing numbers were hijacked to redirect $200,000 into a foreign bank account.
Even law enforcement sites are being targeted. Sheriff John Montgomery of Baxter County, Ark., said in August 2011 his office's website was attacked by hackers and is among more than 70 law enforcement websites in several states that have been hacked.
At the age of 15, Calce completely shut down Yahoo, the Web's top search engine at the time, for almost an hour with a project he named Rivolta ("riot" in Italian). Rivolta was a denial of service attack, designed to overload servers to the point at which they completely shut down. He also brought down websites for CNN, Amazon, eBay and Dell.
Twelve years later, Calce has reformed, and works to educate and bring awareness to companies whose infrastructure is insecure. And everyone, he says, is at risk.
In a 2008 interview, you said you now work to protect the Internet from vulnerabilities — what are you doing these days?
As of right now, I find it of great importance to use my notoriety to help raise awareness with companies. I've been doing a lot of keynotes for IT conferences such as IT360 and Hitachi Data Systems.
I feel as though awareness is the key component to help win the battle with insecure infrastructures. A lot of these companies are completely unaware that they are at risk, so I feel an obligation to educate them. I also do some practical work from word of mouth to help secure companies. I haven't gone public yet, but plan to do so in the upcoming year.
Why do you think hackers choose to exploit local government websites?
I think they choose to hack them, because information is power. There is no telling what kind of information you can obtain from government networks. It's also a great starting point for a hacker to infiltrate one government network and use something called a sniffer (a tool that collects all incoming and outgoing information on the compromised network) to obtain access to more government sites. Sometimes they get lucky and sniff a high-profile site, other times it can be coordinated.
What do you mean by "coordinated"?
What I mean is they might have a specific target government site they want to access, but for whatever reason they can't breach it using their arsenal of tools. They will then attempt to hack a subnet or a site they think is affiliated to the target so they can sniff and hope that someone from the hacked terminal logs into the site they cannot gain remote access to.
When looking at local government websites, what are the biggest vulnerabilities you see?
The biggest problem I see is that it's accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. It's almost as if the government should have its own private network. On another note, a big problem is that a lot of government sites use operating systems that are open to the public. If they want to narrow down the amount of infiltrations, they should only use custom operating systems with stripped kernels. Everything should be custom and never default. I remember when I was hacking I would run some scans on random IP blocks and came across some government sites that were vulnerable to public code. This, to me, is unacceptable and needs to be looked at. All government networks and systems should go through an intense screening process before being put online.
Can you explain what it means to use only custom operating systems with stripped kernels?
I mean that most operating system source code is available on the Internet so that a professional hacker can sift through the original source code and find vulnerabilities and write code to execute them.
Can you also elaborate on government sites being vulnerable to public code? What does that mean and how can that vulnerability affect governments?
Plenty of government sites use these operating systems, so it's actually quite easy to gain access. Stripped kernel means that when you press power on the computer and it initializes your operating system, it won't start the default kernel. By default, the kernel will run plenty of services the government site might not even use yet they might fall victim to an exploit for a service running from the default kernel. An example would be on boot up, the operating system will initialize an email Daemon, yet the government site might not permit or use emails from the system whatsoever, yet they get exploited through it because it's running.
For lack of a better way to state this, how easy is it to hack into most local government sites?
Can you elaborate on Zero-day exploits? How long does it typically take for them to be discovered or reported?
There are two types of exploits: public or private, a.k.a. Zero day. Basically public exploits are available in the wild and very easy to obtain with very little networking within hacking communities. You could easily Google "BackTrack" an incredibly powerful modified operating system specifically catering to hackers (system penetration software), a preset desktop with tools and exploits ready to go. The fact is a lot of government systems are vulnerable to public exploits. Zero-day exploits are really an unknown variable. Sometimes they leak and eventually get patched. The scary part is some Zero-day [exploits] go unnoticed forever.
Who/what are the likeliest targets and why?
I'd say everyone is a target, simply because hackers can. Where there is a will, there is a way. Some hackers might come across a government site by sheer luck in an IP scan for an exploit, or there are hackers who specifically target government sites.
What relatively inexpensive things can local governments do to deter, prevent and/or protect against attacks?
Like I said earlier, they must keep it custom and not fall victim to default. It wouldn't be too cost heavy to come up with an operating system that isn't open source. Keep in mind this will only narrow it down — we will never completely resolve hacking issues. You have to realize why the Internet was created to understand that it's impossible to fully secure it. Its intended purpose wasn't meant to be used by the masses like it is today.
If the Internet's original purpose was to exchange raw data among researchers, is it safe to say that the process by which information is exchanged is almost a welcome mat for hackers? And now that so much data is out there, the potential for breaches is limitless — once an exploit is discovered and fixed, new ones are created and it's a never-ending cycle?
The Internet was actually created by two separate entities. CERN Laboratories (Tim Berners-Lee) created the World Wide Web, which was built for exchanging raw data among researchers. Then you have the networking aspect that was created by DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency created the actual Internet. The thing is, it was meant to be kept as a private government network in the event that all other communications failed, they would have a means of contacting each other through some secret network known as the Internet. They never really incorporated many security protocols into the fundamental architecture because it was meant to be private and not a tool of mass commerce like it's being used for today.


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SKEMA Business School - Associate or Full Professor Position in Strategy
1. SKEMA Business School - Associate or Full Professor Position in Strategy
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SKEMA is looking for outstanding candidates with proven expertise in one of the following fields: Strategy, Organization, Innovation, and Management for its Paris Campus
Rank: associate or full Professor.
Starting date: September 2021.
Permanent full-time contract.
Salary and conditions are competitive, in line with international standards
Hold a PhD in innovation, strategic management, entrepreneurship, organization or a related field, from a world class institution
Present strong evidence of published research in top tier journals, preferably in areas consistent with the specializations of current Faculty
Strong evidence of teaching experience in the relevant disciplinary area, at different levels (doctoral, master, and undergraduate)
Committed to service and outreach activities. Show strong evidence of leadership and contribution to institutional activities
The level of work and instruction is English. Knowledge of French, is not required and we will not use it as a criterion for selection. SKEMA offers support in learning French
Publish peer-reviewed publications in top journals
Teach and develop new courses at different levels in the fields of management and strategy
Supervise students at different levels (doctoral and master)
Participate in the student selection process
Be a good academic citizen / Commit to the life of the institution and contribute to projects related to school strategy
If appropriate, take on a leadership role
ABOUT SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL
SKEMA Business School is a global school that educates the 21st century business talents through research, 50 teaching programmes, and its international multi-site structure. The school is present on 7 locations: 3 campuses in France (Lille, Sophia Antipolis, Paris), 1 in China (Suzhou), 1 in the United States (Raleigh), 1 in Brazil (Belo Horizonte) and 1 in South Africa (Stellenbosch - Cape Town). Since 2019, the school has also launched many initiatives around artificial intelligence, including the creation of a research laboratory based in Montreal.
In pursuing its ambitious global project, SKEMA seeks to stay at the forefront of innovation and education. We are therefore looking for women and men who reflect the school's values: academic excellence, humanism and multiculturalism. SKEMA's Faculty comprises more than 170 Professors.
SKEMA is multi-accredited - Equis, AACSB and EFMD Accredited EMBA. Its programmes are recognised in France (Visa, Master Degree, RNCP, CGE label), as well as in the United States (licensing), Brazil (certificação) and China. For further information: https://www.skema.edu/
The successful candidate will be a member of KTO (Knowledge Technology and Organization research center). KTO comprises more than 30 members in innovation-related fields (economics, organization, strategy, entrepreneurship) and 10 PhD students from the management PhD programme. KTO members collaborate across the French campuses of Lille, Paris, and Sophia Antipolis, and the Brazilian campus of Belo Horizonte. KTO aims at the highest standards of academic excellence and its members have published in top-tier journals, such as Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, The American Economic Review, Econometrica, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. KTO organizes regular research seminars on the three French campuses, and hosts international workshops. SKEMA offers its faculty publication bonuses for peer-reviewed publications, following the French CNRS Journals Ranking list.
Applicants should send:
a curriculum vitae
a cover letter
a selection of three representative publications
a teaching statement and teaching assessments
The complete application package should be submitted in English and sent by email to: recruitmentfaculty2021@skema.edu
With object: Application position in strategy - France
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The global television market shrank last year for the second year in a row after total shipments declined by 6 per cent from already soft 2012 levels, accompanied this time by a rare deceleration in the liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV space in China, Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
Shipments worldwide of televisions in 2013 amounted to 225.1 million units, down sharply from 238.3 million in 2012. It was the second straight year of contraction after a 7 per cent loss in 2012, contrasting with the market's big 11 per cent surge in 2010 and a more modest 1 per cent uptick in 2011, as shown in the attached figure.
Adding to the market's woes, Hong added, cash-strapped consumers in North America and Western Europe showed little appetite to buy new TVs, especially as these territories are nearly saturated from flat-panel sets during the last major upgrade of the growth years.
These findings can be found in the report, Worldwide TV Tracker – Q1 2014,from the Consumer Electronics service and Consumer Devices research area of IHS.
China suffered a noteworthy reversal during the third and fourth quarters of 2013 as the country's LCD TV market declined in those quarters compared to the same three-month periods a year before in 2012 — the first time this has happened. New growth in the China TV market is increasingly hard to come by, and an expired subsidy program provided by Beijing for new appliances has removed a previously powerful incentive for consumers to make new TV purchases.
All told, LCD TV shipments in China during the third quarter of 2013 fell to 13.0 million units, down from 14.0 million a year earlier. Fourth-quarter LCD TV volume declined similarly to 14.4 million, compared to 14.5 million from a year earlier. Still, overall LCD TV shipments to China for last year rose from 2012, thanks mainly to a strong first half.
For Asia-Pacific, LCD TV shipments last year amounted to 23.8 million, down from 25.4 million in 2012, with choices for cheaper-priced sets fast disappearing from the region's market. Not only have manufacturers ended production of Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) televisions that had been the most affordable for consumers in the area, but brands have also pulled back from older-generation LCD TVs and plasmas because of vanishing profit margins. With light-emitting-diode (LED) sets still beyond the reach of many, TV demand in Asia-Pacific plummeted last year and continues to remain on a holding pattern, even as consumers hope for prices to come down, Hong noted.
For North America and Western Europe, once the most powerful engines of the global television industry, the weak state of the market renewed disappointment. Overall TV shipments in 2013 for North America fell 9 per cent on the year, while Western Europe showed an annual loss of 4 per cent.
The TV market for both regions now consists entirely of LCD TVs and plasma sets, absent the analogue, tube-type televisions that can still be found in other territorial markets, including the Middle-East-Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
Meanwhile in Eastern Europe, LCD TV shipments were off last year by 14 per cent, echoing financial troubles in the European continent. Also, TV vendors had been less enthusiastic with their promotions in the region after suffering lower profits, due in part to the high exchange rates between the Euro and Asian currencies like the Japanese yen and the South Korean won.
Despite the sobering numbers for last year, worldwide TV shipments are projected to improve. The developed markets of North America, Western Europe and Japan will stabilise in the coming years, and no large yearly decreases like those of last year are forecast for the time being, Hong said. At the same time, significant growth can be expected from China, the rest of Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East-Africa markets.
Latin America, in particular, will enjoy a surge for many reasons, including projected economic growth, the FIFA World Cup football championship later this year, the analogue-to-digital changeover in 2015, and the Summer Olympics in 2016.
Worldwide television shipment totals will also start climbing this year because of the new active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) sets entering the market, making their appearance at retail in perceptible volume for the first time. Featuring thinner profiles and higher contrast ratios than the current crop of LED-backlit LCD TVs, OLED TVs will see shipments grow from an initial low starting base to some 8.1 million units by 2018.


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Not to be confused with an identically titled 1966 Jack Jones album (Kapp KL-1486/KS-3486), MCA Special Products' 1985 budget compilation The Impossible Dream presents ten Jones tracks drawn from his '60s Kapp recordings, including five of his more successful chart singles: the title song "Call Me Irresponsible," "Dear Heart," "Lady," and "Wives and Lovers." The collection also includes five LP tracks: "She Loves Me" from the album of the same name, "Alfie" from the original The Impossible Dream album, "Michelle" from Our Song, "And I Love Her" from There's Love & There's Love & There's Love, and "Angel Eyes" from the Wives and Lovers album. Together, the songs demonstrate Jones's diverse sources of material -- he draws upon contemporary film themes ("Alfie," "Dear Heart," "Wives and Lovers") and stage musical songs ("She Loves Me," "Call Me Irresponsible," "The Impossible Dream"), covers the Beatles ("Michelle," "And I Love Her"), and reaches back to old standards ("Angel Eyes"). He handles all of the material well, and while this brief selection can't be called "Jack Jones's Greatest Hits" or even "The Best of Jack Jones," it is a good, representative sampling of music from his most commercially successful period.


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The distractions and false gods
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As I said yesterday, if you're on the Left, don't play this Soros v Bannon Culture Wars game. Bannon is not your friend, but neither is Soros, a billionaire hedge fund trader. Just because Bannonites don't like him, doesn't make him a hero: https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201810311069381378-britain-bus-services/ … via @SputnikInt
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We can accurately talk about the George Sorosification of the liberal-left and the Steve Bannonisation of the Right in both the US and UK.
The pressure to join one side or the other and play the nationalist v globalist, liberal v conservative culture wars game is enormous. Nevertheless, it should be resisted.
Because if you do 'play the game', you'll be serving the interests of capital. Don't be fooled by the rhetoric.
The disciples of Steve Bannon want us to believe they're standing up for 'the masses' against the likes of George Soros. But genuine populists prioritise public ownership, not obsessing about race and religion and promoting ideas about a 'clash of civilisations'. In any, event the idea that Steve Bannon- like George Soros- is a tribune of the people is absurd. After all the man is a former Goldman Sachs investment banker and Hollywood producer, and you don't get much more 'insider' than that, do you?
The political battles we need to be fighting are the ones that Wall Street financiers and hedge fund billionaires don't want us to fight.
There are so many distractions that are used to keep us from calling for an end to war, from calling for Medicare For All, from calling for fair wages. So much matters and yet it's all about turning us into passive spectators who root for false gods.
There are real issues. These false gods aren't going to address them, they're just going to lock up even more people and pretend like they've done something.
We need to take ownership of our lives and we can't do that while we play the 'let's worship' whatever politician and pretend we aren't worthy of being near them. Those asses work for us, they should fear us, they should fear how we might vote.
Friday, November 2, 2018. Actions in DC this weekend as the never-ending wars continue.
On this week's BLACK AGENDA RADIO, hosts Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey spoke with Omali Yeshitela about a number of topics including the actions in DC this weekend which include the march Saturday on the White House.
Nellie Bailey: This year, the theme is US Out Of Africa. Omali Yeshitela is chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition. He says the US Command in Africa (AFRICOM) is there to prop up foreign, economic and social control over the continent. But Yeshitela says American global rule is in disarray.
Omali Yeshitela: Things are falling apart but it's an extremely dangerous moment as well -- which is one of those things that makes our mobilization so important and even how we've characterized our mobilization: There is no peace, Africa and Africans are at war, US to the world "Comply or Die."
I think it's quite appropriate, looking at what we see, that this chaos -- and some of it even maybe planned chaos -- this false debate that's going on between different sectors of the ruling class who are calling themselves Republicans and Democrats as part of a shell game that they play against the masses of people, with some of them using impoverished and desperate people, in order to make their political point while others are using the same phenomenon to make a point that speaks to reaction and calling on the whole reactionary history of the United States government and the White population of this country. So you've got one sector with a very cynical and callous way of using the poverty, the oppression, even the actions of repressive sector of the bourgeois -- right now Trump represents the public face of that -- so you've got them using those actions to mobilize people, or attempt to mobilize people, for their own benefit which serves capital and not the people. Then you've got people like Trump and the social base that he represents in terms of reaction. All of them, again, using the people. And that's why the Black is Back mobilization is so critical at this moment because it calls on African people to get organized. It calls on Black people to get organized. It calls on us to come to terms with the fact that even when we look at this crisis of imperialism, that there's an escalated aggression that's being made against our people, against the people of the world, and even against the ability of the people to protest against the things that are happening to us. So it's a splendid moment but it's also, like I said, a very dangerous moment. A wounded animal, as you know, as has often been described correctly so, is most dangerous and that's what we're looking at here with the United States government, US imperialism and, in many ways, imperialism in general. But, of course, the hegemon is wounded and that creates an interesting sort of dynamics because everyone who is the friend of the hegemon is not a friend. They're a friend because it's the hegemon, it's got the guns, it's got all the money, it's got all the influence or appears to have but as you see US imperialism showing any signs of weakness in that case you will see -- and we are seeing -- the emergence of other forces who are willing -- even if timidly -- to challenge the hegemon for its own space and for its own interest. It's a very interesting and critical moment in history and the Black is Back is right on time, I think, to be pushing this mobilization.
The Black is Back coalition notes:
Hundreds of black people from throughout the U.S. and from every town, city and state, will descend on Washington, D.C.—capital of imperialist white power—on November 3 and 4.
This is a Call for you to take your place in the rally, march and conference with the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations under the banner: "There is no Peace: Africa and Africans are at War!"
For nine years in a row the Black is Back Coalition has been leading the charge to unite our people against the growing, desperate white nationalist attacks by the U.S. and other imperialist countries against our people and the colonized peoples and countries of the U.S. and the world.
The Coalition is calling on everyone to join with our brothers and sisters at Malcolm X Park on Saturday, November 3 at 12 noon. Numerous speakers that represent our community's demand for self-determination and our historical opposition to imperialist white power will expose the relentless war being waged against Africa, African people and the peoples of the world.
At 2 P.M. there will be a black people's march on the White House. Then there will be another rally at Lafayette Park across the street from the White House.
On Sunday at 12 noon the people will gather for a conference at the Stuart Center, 821 Varnum Street NE for a full discussion of all these issues and resolutions of how we should move to defend ourselves against the war on our people in a process that will build a new world without black oppression and human exploitation.
Every day the blood-stained list of African people within the U.S. who are shot or killed by U.S. white citizens or police grows grotesquely long. In 47 of the cities with the largest police departments, police shot at least 3,649 African people from 2010 through 2016.
These same domestic military occupation forces are the primary instruments leading to the prisons within the U.S. bursting at the seams with African people who are now organizing within the prison concentration camps for an end to this colonial slavery that is justified by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. constitution.
Regular white citizens are also assaulting our people with sometimes deadly consequences—in churches, on college campuses, at public transportation stations and in fast food restaurants, to name just a few places.
In St. Louis-Ferguson, Missouri, with one of the highest incidences of police shootings in the U.S., the U.S. government, through the weapon of eminent domain, has confiscated nearly 100 acres of land previously owned by African people, to build a massive, $2 billion super-secret international spy station known as the National Geo-spatial Intelligence Station (NGA).
This spy agency, to have its own police force in our community, is also part of an ever-expanding gentrification process in St. Louis that is daily driving our people into deeper poverty and despair.
The Black is Back Coalition is also calling on you to join your brothers and sisters protesting the growing U.S. military secret wars in Africa.
Hundreds of U.S. Special Operation forces are violently destroying villages and supporting thuggish African governments to prevent African workers from coming to power and gaining control of our own resources for Africa's benefit instead of the benefit of white power.
U.S. Special Operations forces are also in Africa to contend with China for economic influence. In addition, they are there to protect the interests of its junior imperialist partners on the Continent that contains at least a third of the world's known mineral assets.
The U.S. has created a vast war project called the Africa Command or AFRICOM, a command center solely dedicated to keeping Africa under white power control and our people in a permanent state of violently impoverished exploitation and indirect colonial domination.
The Black is Back Coalition is calling on African people to join in our protest of U.S. initiated or actual armed and economic warfare against and political destabilization of other countries like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, China and Russia—countries that have refused to comply with U.S. imperialist demands.
The Coalition's 19-point National Black Political Agenda for Self-determination calls for an end to AFRICOM. It also demands that the U.S. get out of Africa, Asia and Latin America and pay reparations to Africa and Africans everywhere.
We demand the upliftment of African women and the African family as well as black community control of police and the immediate withdrawal of U.S. domestic military forces from the African community.
Come out to join with your brothers and sisters in the demand for the release of all our political prisoners and the end to the mass incarceration of our people and the release of African people from the colonial concentration camps called prison.
The escalated attack by the U.S. on Africa and African people worldwide is evidence of the growing crisis of imperialist white power. The Black is Back Coalition is calling on all African people and friends of peace to join with us in a great celebration of resistance.
We can win!
We will win!
We are winning!
Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Glen Ford, Kamm Howard, Ajamu Baraka and Lisa Davis.
Black Alliance for PeaceVerified account @Blacks4Peace Oct 2
BREAKING: BAP has launched its #USoutofAfrica campaign to shut down @USAfricaCommand and end the U.S. occupation of Africa! Read our statement and find out how you can get involved blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/…
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Why the need to mobilize?
Because of idiots like this.
Debra MessingVerified account @DebraMessing 7h7 hours ago
Debra Messing Retweeted ian bremmer
This is who Trump is afraid of. The reason more troops are on the border now than currently in Iraq. LOOK.
Debra Messing 'discovers' Iraq. How very Columbus of her. She discovers it to complain that more US troops are on the US border than in Iraq. She's upset that there are not more US troops in Iraq. 15 years and counting of ongoing war and Debra is upset that more US troops are not in Iraq.
To Debra, this passes for 'logic.' Because, to Debra, continued and never-ending war -- hell, war period -- is a-okay and normal. War period? Debra Messing didn't speak out about the Iraq War. It was even a joke on WILL & GRACE. Debra's character protested not getting free noodles. That she protested. She said good people have to care and it was all a joke that she didn't care about war.
That's what the world is up against, selfish bitches who don't give a damn about people dying. The only time people matter to the Debra Messings is when they can be used for political football. So, to attack Donald Trump, Debra suddenly 'discovers' the Iraq War. She's fine with it. She doesn't protest it. She doesn't even call for an end to it. She's glad it's there because it allows her to use it for political football.
Shame on anyone who buys into her crap.
You can call out what Donald Trump is doing without seeking to justify war.
Otherwise, you're just the ridiculous Jim Sciuotto who only mentions Iraq to either endorse it so he can whine about the march or to endorse it so he can whine about the fact that, in two years of being president, Donald Trump has not visited Iraq. (For those who've forgotten, in eight years as president, Barack Obama only visited Iraq once.)
The wars are nothing but political props that the Jims and Debras grab on to repeatedly to try to political football. The fact that people are dying doesn't matter to them. Like the late Barbara Bush, they don't bother their 'beautiful minds' with such things.
Oh, look, here's another stupid bitch.
Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen 8h8 hours ago
As Trump plays golf & holds rallies at the expense of taxpayers, he has the nerve to tell our servicemen and women that he can't visit them in Iraq or Afghanistan because he's "very busy". These people are fighting for us! Trump is not! Trump doesn't care!
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The US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't fighting "for us." They're fighting because the US government sent them there. Why are they there? Why are they still there?
Those are questions the world is asking but not questions that bother Tiny Ed because he's all about using war as a political football. He's a con artist who defrauded people and the fact that he's part of the 'resistance' should scare any honest participant of that group.
They don't care what happens in Iraq. They don't care about the people of Basra.
Al Arabiya EnglishVerified account @AlArabiya_Eng 21h21 hours ago
Political and civil authorities in #Iraq's oil-rich region of #Basra revealed that activists are planning demonstrations again, in light of the suspension of parliamentary membership of a number of their lawmakers.
The protests are starting again. Already, there's been a sit-in. They were put on hold for the religious pilgrimage but they are returning. Why? Oil rich Basra produces so much wealth for the government of Iraq yet the people in Basra need jobs (the multi-nationals stealing oil from Iraq don't even try to pretend to employ a significant number of locals). The people can't drink the water unless they want to be part of the over 100,000 so far that have been hospitalized for drinking the water. They don't have regular electricity which was a nightmare in the oppressive heat of summer but will also be bad as winter arrives and temperatures drop.
Not only have these issues not been addressed, there's also the appearance -- on the part of Prime Minister Adel Abdul al-Mahdi -- that these issues are not pressing.
This appearance is upsetting politicians in Basra.
Dr.Zana K.Gulmohamad @ZanaGul1 26m26 minutes ago
4 Iraq MPs protest government failure to honour Basra, Basra has 25 seats in Iraqi parliament "Four Iraqi lawmakers have suspended their membership in the government after no ministers were chosen to represent Basra in the government" middleeastmonitor.com/20181102-4-ira… via @MiddleEastMnt
Again, this is the politicians. The protesters are not making this their fight at present.
Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac 21h21 hours ago
Despite walk-outs from Basra MPs over the lack of places in the new Iraqi government cabinet, protesters told BasraPress24 that this is not one of the focuses of their protests:
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Protests set to resume in Basra on Friday, the first under the new government of Adel Abdul Mahdi: nrttv.com/EN/News.aspx?i…
"We are now organizing a new demonstration in Basra in order not to lose our rights and in make sure that the current government is paying attention to us and our demands that we have [been voicing] for the past months"
Kazem al-Sahlani says that "in the previous government there were three ministers from Basra" and they "did not provide anything."
Alex MacDonald @AlexJayMac
He says that "water is not drinkable, unemployment is the same proportions, and the calamities and corruption are still the same, and those responsible for the killing of demonstrators are still present in the province."
8:54 AM - 1 Nov 2018
Former European Parliament member Struan Stevenson offers:
Iraq is now the world's fourth-largest oil producer, with an output of over 4.78 million barrels a day and forecasts that this will rise to 7.5 million barrels by 2024. But industrial-scale corruption by successive Iraqi political leaders has left the country with little to show for its vast oil wealth. Sporadic power cuts, crumbling infrastructure, poor healthcare, wrecked sewerage systems and even water shortages are still the order of the day, as petro-dollars find their way into Swiss bank accounts and the divide between rich and poor escalates dramatically, even in Basra, where most of the oil is extracted.
al-Mahdi reduced the Cabinet to 22 posts and yet still couldn't fill them. He has 14 members of his Cabinet currently. The lie was that he'd make more nominations this week but this week is over and he made no new nominations. Next week?
Arab NewsVerified account @arabnews 16h16 hours ago
#EXCLUSIVE: #Iran-backed political forces in #Iraq are preparing to launch mass demonstrations in #Basra to pressure the new prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to choose their candidates for the key security ministries. bit.ly/2qodPfb
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The Baghdad Post @TheBaghdadPostE 16h16 hours ago
The #parliament announced that PM Adil Abdul Mahdi will not introduce candidates for the remaining #ministerial portfolios during the #parliament|ary session scheduled for the middle of next week. #BaghdadPost #Iraq #IraqCabinet
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Like many prestige brands, Italian superbike outfit Ducati trades heavily on "heritage." Their website includes this nice timeline of their heroic motorcycles and riders through history. That history has just been tweaked a little to fit a modern commercial narrative.
One image in particular has been most blatantly altered.
In the 1950's Florence-born Giuliano Maoggi was rising to motorcycle stardom racing Ducatis and generally being a badass. This image of him, mounted on a 125cc Ducati at the start of a 1956 "Gran Fondo" endurance race, became one of those famous pictures you can't help but run into if you spend any time researching old motorcycles.
That's probably why Mark Rechtin, who writes for Consumer Reports, noticed the version of the image on Ducati's site was missing something: the cigarette hanging out of Maoggi's mouth.
Whoever doctored the picture for Ducati's site did such a damn fine job cleaning it up that for a moment I wondered if the sans-cigarette image was actually the original. Especially since the "clean" version appears on other sites too.
I'm guessing whoever wrote that didn't get the memo that the "cigarette between his teeth" was not appropriate for marketing material. Otherwise it seems real weird to bullet-point it on Maoggi's little resume of badassity there while making sure nobody actually sees it.
"...our colleagues in Bologna have Dr'd the photo in an effort to portray a healthier lifestyle.
One doesn't have to search very hard to find images of racing "heroes" and legends from only a few generations ago that indulged in vices that would now... at least [result in] the loss of big money corporate sponsorship and at the worst expulsion from the actioning body itself.
So there you go. Nothing says "healthy lifestyle" like racing motorcycles in the 1950's, right? Who knows what hell would break loose if the Ducati-buying public were to know the men racing their motorcycles' predecessors smoked on the job. Wouldn't want anyone to think they'd be doing anything remotely dangerous, like smoking a cigarette.
And heaven forbid someone who races motorcycles for a living engages in risky behavior, like cigarette smoking, lest they be expelled from an actioning body!
I guess I'm not really "offended" that Ducati felt the need to sterilize this image, more just annoyed. Why use such a famous a picture so prominently featuring a cigarette if you want to portray a healthy lifestyle? Why reference the original in the caption?


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Weeks After Self-Driving Collision With a Bus, Google's Granted School Bus Detecting Patent For Autonomous Cars
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Last month, one of Google's fleet of Lexus RX450h autonomous self-driving cars hit the headlines when it had its first autonomous crash, crashing with a public bus along El Camino Real in Mountain View, California. The car, which had been driving in the right-hand lane as it approached the Castro St. intersection, assumed the bus — which was one lane over — would wait for it to drive around sandbags positioned around a storm drain in the right-hand lane.
It didn't, teaching Google's autonomous drive system the lesson that most of us learn very quickly in our driving careers: give vehicles that are larger and heavier than you a wide berth — and expect the unexpected.
Google now has software designed to help its autonomous cars detect school busses.
Since then Chris Urmson, head of Google's self-driving car program, has said Google has been working hard to ensure that its autonomous driving software now understands a little better what to do when they come across a bus. Given the coverage of the incident, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Google hadn't ever thought about how it would interact with a bus on the public highway — but it turns out that Google has been working on the program for many years.
Google's patent uses many different detection methods to achieve its goal.
Last week, nearly two years after it submitted a patent with the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office specifically designed to help it detect and react to busses, Google was granted said patent.
Fate, it seems, has a terrible sense of humor.
As Future of Transportation reports (via Re/Code) Google's just acquired patent was first applied for back in March 2014, and was principally to help a Google autonomous vehicle to correctly identify and react to a school bus. Since every state in the U.S. requires drivers to stop and wait for a school busses to pick up or drop off children and pull back out into the flow of traffic before they can move, it's important that an autonomous car does the same.
Consequently, the patent discussed the ways in which Google's autonomous driving system could identify a school bus, ranging from size comparisons and vehicle behavior analysis to image recognition and of course, color matching the bright yellow paint that every school bus wears.
Sadly, it's not clear if Google had already implemented its (now patented) school bus detection software in its cars at the time the collision occurred between one of its cars and a public transit bus. Either way, we're guessing further patents will be seen in the coming months as Google works hard to implement its latest experience into new software designed to ensure it doesn't happen again.
There's one more thing that Google's new patent reminds us. While the majority of driving duties are relatively straight forward to us humans, teaching artificial intelligence systems to drive is a particularly tough thing to do. While autonomous vehicle may spot things we wouldn't and be generally far safer behind the wheel than humans in most situations, there are a whole lot of subtleties that autonomous cars have yet to learn. From understanding the importance of human eye contact at a crosswalk to dealing with the four-way stop, things that we might think of as easy are anything but for autonomous vehicles.
To that end, we'd like to hear suggestions in the Comments below of things that you think of as easy behind the wheel that autonomous cars will find difficult in the future — and how you think companies like Google, Nissan and Tesla will teach cars to master them.
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Gun runner linked to deadly arsenal of weapons in Harlesden is jailed
Published: 7:31 PM May 12, 2015 Updated: 9:22 PM October 15, 2020
Nathan Marshall has been jailed for eight years - Credit: Archant
A courier who ferried loaded sub-machine guns across the capital for gangsters including an address in Harlesden was jailed for eight years today.
When Nathan Marshall, 25, was caught red-handed by police a photo of him posing with a handgun on his iphone linked him to a cache of weapons found in a garden in Tubbs Road, Harlesden, a month before his arrest
Officers seized a Mac 10 submachine gun and American revolver, both loaded, stashed in holdalls at the address in August 2013.
The Old Bailey heard he was snared by detectives as he travelled in the back of a taxi in Maida Vale, with a Tokarev submachine gun in his lap loaded with 23 rounds of live bullets.
He had been paid £600 to deliver the weapon, which was wrapped in a Sainsbury's bag, to an address in northwest London, in September 2013.
Stuart Stevens, defending, said Marshall was 'stupid' and had ruined his own life.
"For £600 he stands to be sentenced, he has wasted his 25-year-old life," he added.
"How stupid to waste your life taking a risk doing serious matters like these for a paltry payment of £600.
"He is a young man who either has to learn his lesson now or never."
Sentencing Marshall, from Balham, south London, judge Anthony Morris said: "It has been stated time and again by the courts that the unlawful possession of firearms is a grave danger to society.
"They are used to take lives or in the commission of serious crimes.'
He added: "You acted as a courier in the transportation of these firearms for others who no doubt were going to use them to carry out serious crimes."
Marshall was convicted of three counts of possession of prohibited firearms and three charges of possession of ammunition without authority.