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Eastwood endorses Romney’s US election bid

Posted on August 4th, 2012 at 19:35 by Sueyourdeveloper in category: Indecision 2012, News

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Clint Eastwood, the Oscar-winning actor and director, has endorsed Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, during a Sun Valley fundraiser.

“I think the country needs a boost,” Eastwood told The Associated Press as he joined other Romney supporters for the private campaign event on Friday…

“I said, ‘God, this guy, he’s too handsome to be governor, but he does look like he could be president’,” Eastwood joked. “As the years have gone by, I began to think even more … about that.”

Eastwood, 82, said he hoped Romney would restore “a decent tax system that we need badly … so that there’s a fairness and people are not pitted against one another as who’s paying taxes and who isn’t.”

Silly old git. Can anyone guess how he defines a decent tax system?

 


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  1. Well, a porn actress endorsing a bible solid, conservative value man. I think that explains it all. Those shared values.

When The Cloud Starts To Rain

Posted on August 4th, 2012 at 16:47 by Paul Jay in category: News

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So maybe you saw my Twitter going nuts tonight. Or you saw Gizmodo’s Twitter account blow up. Or you saw this in AllThingsD. Or this in the DailyDot. Although embarrassing, Twitter was the least of it. In short, someone gained entry to my iCloud account, used it to remote wipe all of my devices, and get entry into other accounts too.

Here’s what happened:

At 4:50 PM, someone got into my iCloud account, reset the password and sent the confirmation message about the reset to the trash. My password was a 7 digit alphanumeric that I didn’t use elsewhere. When I set it up, years and years ago, that seemed pretty secure at the time. But it’s not. Especially given that I’ve been using it for, well, years and years. My guess is they used brute force to get the password, and then reset it to do the damage to my devices.

The backup email address on my Gmail account is that same .mac email address. At 4:52 PM, they sent a Gmail password recovery email to the .mac account. Two minutes later, an email arrived notifying me that my Google Account password had changed.

At 5:00 PM, they remote wiped my iPhone

At 5:01 PM, they remote wiped my iPad

At 5:05, they remote wiped my MacBook Air.

A few minutes after that, they took over my Twitter. Because, a long time ago, I had linked my Twitter to Gizmodo’s they were then able to gain entry to that as well.

Here’s how I experienced it:

This is why i always keep offline local backups of my important data.

 


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  1. A perfect example of why mono-culture ecosystems are so dangerous and fragile! If all you have is the iCulture, or WinStuff, then your exposure to infection/pwning, is increased by magnitudes…

    Me, I have a Linux workstation (home), Win7 laptop (work), Android phone (personal – mostly off these days), Symbian phone (work), and different passwords/pins on each. My wife has an iEverything, and I am somewhat concerned that this could happen to her… :-(

  2. If you are concerned for your wife, then make sure she regularly backups her iPhone locally with iTunes. ( NOT WITH iCLOUD BACKUP )
    Then do a daily ( or weekly, depending on how concerned you are ) TimeMachine or Chronosync backup to an external drive.
    She wouldn’t loose any data if this would happen to her.

    I use iCloud as well for syncing calendars/contacts, and a lot of DropBox, but i always sync both to an external drive once a week.

  3. iCloud account hacked through ‘social engineering’. Doesn’t matter how great a password you pick if they can manage that.

    Great story.

Romney Tells Reid He’s Paid ‘A Lot of Taxes’ Every Year

Posted on August 4th, 2012 at 16:40 by John Sinteur in category: Indecision 2012

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Addressing the issue at a news conference in North Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday, Romney suggested Reid may be doing the White House’s bidding in leading the attack.

“I have paid taxes every year, and a lot of taxes — a lot of taxes,” he said. “So Harry is simply wrong, and that’s why I’m so anxious for him to produce the names of the people who have put this forward. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear the names are people from the White House or the Obama campaign.”

So you’re a Republican politician who could completely destroy the reputation of the Democrat leader by simply releasing your tax returns, and instead you’re claiming you pay “a lot” and trying to reverse the burden of evidence?

Sounds like Reid may have a point.


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  1. I’m sure that every time he buys something, he pays purchase taxes (as long as it’s not for a business, and depending on the jurisdiction). He probably pays property taxes, depending on where he has property. However, we’re talking about income taxes, nothing else…

  2. I wouldn’t be so sure of that Sue. He’s got at least one house in New Hampshire, which doesn’t impose a sales tax.

Good Luck

Posted on August 4th, 2012 at 14:28 by Paul Jay in category: Funny!, Great Picture


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Woz’s $2 bill sheets

Posted on August 4th, 2012 at 9:44 by John Sinteur in category: News


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  1. This is not legal. Why isn’t he arrested?

  2. oh nevermind…

Dangerous experiment in fetal engineering

Posted on August 4th, 2012 at 4:06 by Sueyourdeveloper in category: News

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 A new paper just published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail an extremely troubling off-label medical intervention employed in the U.S. on pregnant women to intentionally engineer the development of their fetuses for sex normalization purposes…

The pregnant women targeted are at risk for having a child born with the condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), an endocrinological condition that can result in female fetuses being born with intersex or more male-typical genitals and brains. Women genetically identified as being at risk are given dexamethasone, a synthetic steroid, off-label starting as early as week five of the first trimester to try to “normalize” the development of those fetuses, which are female and CAH-affected. Because the drug must be administered before doctors can know if the fetus is female or CAH-affected, only one in eight of those exposed are the target type of fetus.

Because not having a “perverted child” is worth risking the health of her brothers and sisters. You absolutely know that custom adjustment of fetuses is happening.


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  1. It’s not about a “perverted child”. A person with atypical genitals will have trouble in society, period. If given the choice, would you choose your child to be gay 100 years ago? Today, being gay isn’t much of an inconvenience and soon it will be completely accepted, but just ask Alan Turing what he thought. Being intersex is a deformity, and while nobody *should* treat them differently for it, just like polydactyls, let’s say, shouldn’t be treated differently, that’s not going to really be the case.

    Furthermore, typical genitals are much favored in sex. Not to be coarse, but I doubt many people who like penile penetration would enjoy such penetration from a micropenis. Dooming their child to a lifetime of trouble in the bedroom is not necessarily something parents want. And on the flip side, a woman with a micropenis will probably turn many men off, and the hormonal imbalance might make the woman less attractive to heterosexual men as well. And she might be infertile. There’s a lot of potential unpleasantness in her life because of this condition. Why not avert it?

    I think this sort of thing isn’t pure evil. I’m not saying it’s perfectly right, but it’s far from wrong.

  2. Because the authors of the report consider it unethical to treat 8 unborn children with a steroid that isn’t proven safe at high doses to possibly prevent a child with such a condition.

    For the parents, better choices could be to not have children, adopt children, or even abort a fetus with this condition if they really feel that strongly about it. The condition is detectable at a later stage of development.