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Apple, Are You Sure We Don’t Need Any More Fart Apps?
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“We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don’t need any more Fart apps”, Steve/Apple says in its App Guidelines. “Above all else, join us in trying to surprise and delight users,” they say. Well, watch this.
“We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don’t need any more Fart apps”, Steve/Apple says in its Tony Blair awarded a medal by Bill Clinton for his ‘resolution of conflicts’ around the world
He took Britain into the ill-fated conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But last night Tony Blair was honoured in America with a medal, £64,000 prize and a banquet - for his services to peace.
The former Prime Minister was given the prestigious Liberty Medal in Philadelphia for his role in ‘bringing liberty to people around the world’.
He joins the likes of Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Mikhail Gorbachev and former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who have all been awarded the medal, which has been given out every year since 1989.
Adobe – Security Advisories: APSA10-03
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A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.92.10 for Android. This vulnerability also affects Adobe Reader 9.3.4 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-2884) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against Adobe Flash Player on Windows. Adobe is not aware of any attacks exploiting this vulnerability against Adobe Reader or Acrobat to date.
Flash for iOS is not affected.
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Oil From the BP Spill Found at Bottom of Gulf
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Oil from the BP spill has not been completely cleared, but miles of it is sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study currently under way.
Professor Samantha Joye of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, who is conducting a study on a research vessel just two miles from the spill zone, said the oil has not disappeared, but is on the sea floor in a layer of scum.
“We’re finding it everywhere that we’ve looked. The oil is not gone,” Joye said. “It’s in places where nobody has looked for it.”
All 13 of the core samples Joye and her UGA team have collected from the bottom of the gulf are showing oil from the spill, she said.
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This oil remaining underwater has large implications for the state of sea life at the bottom of the gulf.
Joye said she spent hours studying the core samples and was unable to find anything other than bacteria and microorganisms living within.
“There is nothing living in these cores other than bacteria,” she said. “I’ve yet to see a living shrimp, a living worm, nothing.”
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Bollywood hiring cyber hitmen to combat piracy
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Wary of the efforts being made by anti-piracy agencies, Bollywood has decided to take matters into its own hands by employing tech firms to take down websites offering illegal movie downloads — hook or by crook.
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He added, “The problem is with torrent sites, which usually do not oblige. In such cases, we flood the website with lakhs of requests, which results in database error, causing denial of service as each server has a fixed bandwidth capacity. At times, we have to go an extra mile and attack the site and destroy the data to stop the movie from circulating further.” Charges per movie range between Rs2 lakh and Rs4 lakh for a four-week period.
So these companies don’t give a fuck about the law because they are upset that people break the law.
HDCP ‘master key’ supposedly released, unlocks HDTV copy protection permanently
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Just as the MPAA is preparing to offer movies to customers at home while they’re still in theaters by limiting playback to DRM-protected digital outputs only, the HDCP protocol they rely on may have been cracked wide open. All devices that support HDCP, like Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and displays with HDMI inputs, have their own set of keys to encrypt and decrypt protected data and if keys for a particular device are compromised, they can be revoked by content released in the future which will then refuse to play. Now, posts have been floating around on Twitter about a supposed "master key" which renders that protection unusable since it allows anyone to create their own source and sink keys.
The Pope and the Axis of Terror
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This is the story of the man who tried to kill the previous Pope in 1981 and how in doing so he unwittingly helped create one of the great religious beliefs of our modern age.
It is the belief in a global network of terror – and the conviction among its believers that anyone who questions it is a heretic.
An arrogant elite, detached from reality, is celebrating itself.
In the former eastern bloc, the top party elite awarded themselves tons of ‘heroes of work’ medals in pompous ceremonies, while the populace was struggling with shortages and suppression.
It’s always the same.
Then there are those, selling this look into the arrogant elite to the moronic masses, calling it ‘news’. To quote Boris Yellnikoff: “the horror”. I too think it is doubtful this sort of behaviour will ever change, given the track record humans have.
Gawsh, don’t they look sincere
I wonder if any of the will ever get the Heroic Mother Medal…
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(explanation: Leonid Breznev had every medal the eastern block could offer. The only medals he never got was the Heroic Mother of the Soviet Union, and the Heroic City. see image: http://medals.extra.hu/uploads/photos/1155.jpg