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The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent's conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak, The Washington Post reported Monday -- in the latest example of the government seizing records of journalists. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/20/justice-department-obtained-records-fox-news-journalist/#ixzz2TqU7HoNv

It isn't thought crime that is the concern, but rather "ball bearing" crime.

This is what happens when you catch them before they attack.

Bomb plot: Life sentence for Irfan Naseer, ringleader of Birmingham men planning wave of UK suicide attacks

This is what happens when you don't.

Madrid Train Station Blasts Kill 190
Bali bombing remembered 10 years on
London Attacks
Investigation of Boston Marathon bombings continues

I would think this is easy to understand.

I think I'm more interested in what will happen with the quality of care received. Presently the US is THE destination of the world for nearly all forms of specialty care, such as e.g. cancer, cardiac, and neurology. It often happens that somebody in Europe or Canada needs care that simply isn't offered there, or the physicians there say that the person stands a much better chance of survival at X hospital in the US, so their country pays to send them here to be cared for.

I really don't want to see that go away.

A Stanford researcher examined the issue of why in spite of this, the US ranks low in outcome of care compared to many other first world countries, and it turns out that this is due to poor lifestyle habits:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/15/facts-about-americas-health-care-quality-that-world-doesnt-know/

(I know, the source is fox news, so most of slashdot will simply dismiss it outright, but it's merely a summary of what somebody else found)

This also explains why, for example, that the claim that our lifespans are shorter than most first world countries because we don't have free health care is a false one. Denmark for example as as free health care as you can get, is a first world country, and yet their lifespans are within a margin of error of ours.

Yeah, right.
Next thing you know you'll start talking like there are people outside of the US who matter..

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/29/alleged-honor-killing-suspect-yaser-said-could-be-hiding-in-plain-sight-as-new/
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/55330/another-muslim-honor-killing-in-america-arab-muslim-bro-murders-muslim-sis-in-obamatown/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aasiya_Zubair

though admittedly its not legally sanctioned in the US. It will happen wherever these people go because to them domestic abuse IS the law.

The point is that you can't pass laws that will have any affect on these people because they believe that the law internal to their culture is always more righteous than the laws of the country they are living in.

c) The US Justice Department estimates 70% of guns recovered from Mexican cartels were legally purchased in the US.

Hmmm... apparently they felt embarrassed about the 90% claim they had been using, but it looks like neither 90% nor 70% are really true.

The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S.
U.S. Gun Laws: Mexico's Favorite Scapegoat for Drug Violence

I wouldn't be shocked to hear cartels are also buying abroad, but why bother when you can get most of what you need immediately to the north?

Because they want military grade weapons, like grenades, rocket launchers, and fully automatic weapons and those aren't available from el Norte? (After all, they are often battling the Mexican army, marine corps, and federales, as well as other cartels.) On the other hand, there are plenty of sources from the Central and South America, and other places, that converge in Mexico.

The US is a convenient scapegoat for the weapons problem in Mexico, but not the genuine source of the problem.

Bullshit. It's questioned all the time.

http://nation.foxnews.com/media-matters/2012/09/19/congressman-says-media-matters-may-lose-tax-exempt-status

Although the new technology may have an impact, it appears unlikely there will be significantly more restrictive gun control laws passed at the Federal level in the US. The public and the facts are against it overall. In various states, such as New York, Colorado, and California, there have been a number of new, highly restrictive laws passed, that at least in some cases are unpopular, are opposed by the police, and are unlikely to survive challenges in court. The brilliant governor in New York managed to get a law passed that outlawed even police weapons - New York is in the best of hands although California is a contender as well.

The idea that ordinary citizens can't protect themselves with guns is ridiculous.

Tough Targets - When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens
Stories That Happened In MI

What about the murder rate?

Murder by Numbers

Gun control's general effect on crime?

Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control
Crime soared with Mass. gun law
England has worse crime rate than the US, says Civitas study

Self-Defense: An Endangered Right

The withdrawal of a basic right of Englishmen is having dire consequences in Great Britain, and should serve as an object lesson for Americans. Today, in the name of public safety, the British government has practically eliminated the citizens’ right to self-defense. That did not happen all at once. The people were weaned from their fundamental right to protect themselves through a series of policies implemented over some 80 years. Those include the strictest gun regulations of any democracy, legislation that makes it illegal for individuals to carry any article that could be used for personal protection, and restrictive limits on the use of force in self-defense. . . .

Political support for more restrictive nation gun control measures in the US has fallen.

USA Today: Support for gun control bill falls below 50%
During a manhunt, 69 percent of voters want a gun
NRA Has 54% Favorable Image in U.S
Dems push gun control agenda in DC, but not in battleground states

I welcome any and all pushback against monitoring of the public.
Here is related news, not quite the same implications, but a good trend none the less:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/22/states-local-governments-join-push-to-turn-off-red-light-cameras/

And I didn't see any tanks, unless you were watching something I wasn't. What the hell good would they be? You gonna shoot a guy with a tank cannon?

Well, maybe 'tanks' is a bit strong of a word for some, but just because they didn't have cannons doesn't mean there wasn't a lot of armor on hand.

this new model suggests 6000 +/- 500 degrees C, the old model was 6000 +/- 1000 degrees to some sources, but up to 9000 degrees by others

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262762,00.html

the point is 6000 degrees C has long, long been in the possible range, and the earth's core may well be much hotter

Easy, bring back the Dell Dude

Yeah, sure, the only problem Dell is facing is a lack of quality advertising, and an out of work actor has really managed to outsmart the board of directors.

I'm not a stock analyst, but I'll wager that the overall decline of the PC market in general, coupled with Dells complete lack of innovation in any space, is why the investors backed off. Dying companies' books have a certain smell, even if the company is showing no other outward signs of trouble.

Easy, bring back the Dell Dude

Five days ago North Korea was moving their missiles and they're only now getting them in firing position? How long does it take to ready a missile? Seems like the US had patriot missiles halfway across the world in South Korea in less time than it's taken the North thus far.

The State of Ohio AG is looking at making them illegal

http://www.columbuscriminalattorney.com/speed-cameras-may-be-prohibited-in-ohio/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/07/turning-point-ohio-judge-rules-speed-cameras-violate-rights/

If the negative externalities of fossil fuel usage (up to $1,600 per person annually) were properly internalized into the price of electricity as economists say should be done (with the revenue going to hospitals to pay for health care for respiratory patients), nuclear energy would suddenly become much more cost-effective than it is today.

But sadly, we live in an age of privatizing profits and socializing losses.

The TSA says they are all about the war on terror.
But their actions prove they are only interested in conducting a War on Diginity.

Groping children
soaking a man in his own urine
Arresting people for wearing watches with exposed gears
Arbitrary strip-searches
Detaining people armed with flash cards
Forcing mothers to drink their own breast milk
Forcing a woman to remove her nipple ring with pliers
Requiring women to remove their bras
Requiring a woman to remove the brace on her sprained ankle and then making her walk on it to prove it was sprained

The list of abuses is into the thousands. Every once in a while they get a taste of their stupidity. But it isn't anywhere near enough.

Oft-quoted Princeton scientist and climate-change advocate Michael Oppenheimer speaks of a 65% margin of error in their temperature predictions. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/30/botched-environmental-forecasts/

I see. Do you have a citation that actually matches your assertion?

Also if you thought you knew what the error margin was, why did you claim that you didn't?

If you are ignorant of something, that is not our responsibility to correct. Your use of the word "our" implies that you are part of a group. I believe based on your statement that is the Global Warming group. So your group makes a claim of Global Warming. So yes it is your responsibly defend your claims and explain your methodology used to come to your conclusions. I never made a claim I have nothing to expain, you made a claim so you do.

I note your attempt to establish, by momentous leaps of logic, a circumstance whereby the scientific community owes you an explanation for the fact that reality behaves in a way that you (personally) do not like. I note this attempt in order to highlight it's failure.

Could be worse. These "best and brightest" could have been elected and run amok. Oh, wait, that was 2008. ;)

No seriously though, one man's "bring the government to its knees" is another's "bring spending back in line with sane levels more similar to (population-adjusted) 2007 levels instead of keeping it at 50% above that forever with all the implications that will have on our debt and/or tax levels and economic growth". I suppose it must be nice to be able dismiss all your political opponents with caricatures of their views, though I'm idly wondering whether making that decision instead of going for intellectual honesty is itself consistent with the brain scan differences reported in this article :)

Interestring then that the numbers are far higher than you state, and are directly enacted by those voted out in 2008 (They took office in 2009, and inherited the mess those leaving in 2008 and before left behind)

Now, is it fair to say that the new crop hasn't done enough to rein in spending? Yes, probably. What's one of the major "debt" causes though? That whole prescription medicare law, passed in 2003 by the GOP listed as bigger debt (deficit) driver than even ObamaCare?.

So, let's start lowering our deficit, start with the unfunded Medicare plan. Once you remove that, we can start on other problem areas. Oh, you'll have to increase taxes too, to at least 2000 levels (pre-bubble) just to even the playing field. I just would like to be there when you tell your elders.

A bubble whose side effect is governments seizing people's banking accounts to pay for bailouts.

Democrats have already floated the idea of taxing your 401K.

That's the bubble that can and will destroy the world economy.

Are you one of those people who will exclaim "What? The death penalty for breaking and entering? How unjust!" after reading this?

You do know that he wasn't charged with being a douchebag? Hell, douchebaggery isn't even a crime. So I have to wonder, are you uninformed or do you think people should be able to engage in activities that can result in significant harm without any consequence unless something bad happens? Should I be able to go down to the local quik-e-mart with my arsenal and start shooting at people and as long as I don't hit anyone, no-harm-no-foul? Or maybe I should be able to sprinkle polonium in people's food and as long as they can't 100% prove that my actions caused the radiation poisoning, then all I should get is a stern lecture and a finger shaken at me?

The competency of a criminal shouldn't be definitive in how he is treated by the justice system. It may be a factor to include, but should be a small factor. Someone who tries to shoot you in the face and misses shouldn't be treated much differently than someone who tries to shoot you in the face and splatters your brains all over the room.

Except that every Fox story is something like "Is Barack Obama the antichrist?" or "Do Democrats want to kill your grandmother?" or "Are liberals spineless cowards?" or "Is global warming actually good for you?"

It may be that they only answer the question with opinion and not facts 55% of the time, but 99% of their headlines are in that form, "asking a question" to make a statement.

That is a testable assertion on the web and video. It looks to me that you get both points wrong in both forms of media.

Except that every Fox story is something like "Is Barack Obama the antichrist?" or "Do Democrats want to kill your grandmother?" or "Are liberals spineless cowards?" or "Is global warming actually good for you?"

It may be that they only answer the question with opinion and not facts 55% of the time, but 99% of their headlines are in that form, "asking a question" to make a statement.

That is a testable assertion on the web and video. It looks to me that you get both points wrong in both forms of media.

Looks like two orders of magnitude change in measurements (100 times). At least that's what the article I found here says: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/03/20/voyager-1-leaves-solar-system/?intcmp=features

Stop blaming Obama for everything.

He inherited this mess and is doing the best he can, with Congress tying his hands.

Obama doesn't personally OK everything the Department of Justice does, he doesn't have the time to do that!

His time is spend trying to fix this country despite a Congress which is trying to block him for almost everything he is trying to accomplish, often due to hateful reasons that have no place in civilized society.

Obama has done a LOT to make gov't more accessible (White House Android app, We The People petitions, etc). Stop bashing Obama, remember Clinton signed the DMCA and Bush the 2nd signed the Patriot Act, etc, etc.

So many hours of rebuttal required there, Frank. Let's choose just one.

President Obama, Congress passes bill to extend Patriot Act despite Sen. Rand Paul delay

Obama Signs Last-Minute Patriot Act Extension

Obama Takes Wrong Turn on Civil Liberties, Adopting Worse Patriot Act Stance Than GOP

But in the administration's defense, I'm sure you got your Obama phone, Frank.

Electricity from coal is only cheap if you ignore its external costs, up to $1,600 per person annually.

You will remember great hits like Solendra, A123, and Fisker.

Last year, the US Department of Commerce slapped tariffs on Chinese solar panels after the WTO agreed that the Chinese were dumping (too late for Solyndra).
And Solyndra is suing 3 Chinese solar companies under the Sherman anti-trust act for driving the company out of business

The Chinese bought A123, with the US Government's approval.
Fisker is the last man standing, but they're at the whim of their now-chinese-owned battery supplier, who has been trying to invalidate their previous contract.

All your examples had negative narratives pushed by conservative media.
Unfortunately, those narratives never actually had much relation to reality.

How do you internalize a cost when you can't identify the cost?

We know that air pollution costs up to $1,600 per person annually in respiratory problems. We also know that the cost of climate change is estimated at around $20 per ton of CO2. Therefore, the costs can be identified and quantified.

...no, no -- that's not how it's going to be "picked up".

Let's take a look:

NBC News: Particle confirmed as Higgs boson

Associated Press: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

Reuters: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Wall Street Journal: New Data Boosts Case for Higgs Boson Find

FOX News: Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson

Washington Post: A closer look at the Higgs boson particle that helps explain what gives matter size and shape

Chicago Tribune: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Sky News: Higgs Boson: Experts Sure Of 'God Particle'

New York Daily News: Physicists say they have discovered crucial subatomic particle known as Higgs boson

Boston Globe: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

BBC (UK): LHC cements Higgs boson identification

BusinessWeek: Case for Higgs Boson Strengthened by New CERN Analysis

The Daily Mail (UK): Scientists say they HAVE found the 'God particle' - but admit they still aren't sure what type of Higgs boson it is

The Independent (UK): Have they found the Higgs boson at last? Cern physicists say they're confident of 'God particle' breakthrough

Telegraph (UK): Higgs boson: scientists confident they have discovered the 'God particle'

News Limited (AU): Higgs boson, the God particle, discovered by CERN

US News and World Report: Physicists Observe Higgs Boson, the Elusive 'God Particle'

None of these articles make any links to "God" other than a few -- mostly UK, not US -- sources referring to it as the so-called "God particle", but even those explain exactly what this particle is theorized to be, not anything supernatural, "proving God exists", or having anything whatever to do with God.

I was complaining about the US's war crimes, or don't they count as crimes if your own country does it?

They don't count as war crimes if they are ordinary acts of war falsely labeled war crimes, as many are wont to do.

I'm curious - do the actual war crimes or crimes against humanity of a Saddam or a Assad trouble you at all? Or is it just the actions of the United States?

Was it a crime against peace for the United States led coalition to remove Saddam's occupation army from Kuwait?

from the article:

Once satisfied with the results, a scientist can save her invention to a file, click the order button and ship the virtual creature’s specs to a DNA synthesizing lab such as GenScript or GeneArt, which can assemble actual physical DNA based on the specs.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/27/programming-life-with-click-mouse/#ixzz2M8XF9cfu

So my question is: are the DNA synthesizing labs regulated? Will they just synthesize anything that is submitted, or is there some scrutiny?

And what is the risk if they do synthesize something bad? What is the amount of effort needed to weaponize even dangerous DNA? If it is relatively easy, then regulation of the synthesizing labs is well advised.

from the article:

Once satisfied with the results, a scientist can save her invention to a file, click the order button and ship the virtual creature’s specs to a DNA synthesizing lab such as GenScript or GeneArt, which can assemble actual physical DNA based on the specs.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/27/programming-life-with-click-mouse/#ixzz2M8XF9cfu

So my question is: are the DNA synthesizing labs regulated? Will they just synthesize anything that is submitted, or is there some scrutiny?

And what is the risk if they do synthesize something bad? What is the amount of effort needed to weaponize even dangerous DNA? If it is relatively easy, then regulation of the synthesizing labs is well advised.

I have designed multiple high throughput DNA synthesizers, some of the output being sold as unlabeled oligos being sold to the molecular biology market. Trust me, the ethical purveyors or DNA sequences screen the incoming sequence requests against references databases holding known, dangerous viral gene data.

from the article:

Once satisfied with the results, a scientist can save her invention to a file, click the order button and ship the virtual creature’s specs to a DNA synthesizing lab such as GenScript or GeneArt, which can assemble actual physical DNA based on the specs.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/27/programming-life-with-click-mouse/#ixzz2M8XF9cfu

So my question is: are the DNA synthesizing labs regulated? Will they just synthesize anything that is submitted, or is there some scrutiny?

And what is the risk if they do synthesize something bad? What is the amount of effort needed to weaponize even dangerous DNA? If it is relatively easy, then regulation of the synthesizing labs is well advised.

from the article:

Once satisfied with the results, a scientist can save her invention to a file, click the order button and ship the virtual creature’s specs to a DNA synthesizing lab such as GenScript or GeneArt, which can assemble actual physical DNA based on the specs.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/27/programming-life-with-click-mouse/#ixzz2M8XF9cfu

So my question is: are the DNA synthesizing labs regulated? Will they just synthesize anything that is submitted, or is there some scrutiny?

And what is the risk if they do synthesize something bad? What is the amount of effort needed to weaponize even dangerous DNA? If it is relatively easy, then regulation of the synthesizing labs is well advised.

I have designed multiple high throughput DNA synthesizers, some of the output being sold as unlabeled oligos being sold to the molecular biology market. Trust me, the ethical purveyors or DNA sequences screen the incoming sequence requests against references databases holding known, dangerous viral gene data.

Who would have expected publicly defying the law would motivate prosecutors to come down hard on a suspect?

The "law" was a TOS/AUP. Are you saying you've never violated any of the terms of a network or website's TOS/AUP? I strongly doubt that you even read them (nobody else does either.. you may remember the game vendor who included a term ceding ownership of the user's soul to the publisher, and nobody even noticed). Do you agree that violating any of those terms ("defying the law", as you phrase it) should be treated as a felony?

No. I'm saying that if you're going to commit a felony, telling the world that you're going to do it an encouraging others to do so is a pretty reliable way to get a prosecutor's attention.

Once satisfied with the results, a scientist can save her invention to a file, click the order button and ship the virtual creature’s specs to a DNA synthesizing lab such as GenScript or GeneArt, which can assemble actual physical DNA based on the specs. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/27/programming-life-with-click-mouse/#ixzz2M8XF9cfu

So my question is: are the DNA synthesizing labs regulated? Will they just synthesize anything that is submitted, or is there some scrutiny? And what is the risk if they do synthesize something bad? What is the amount of effort needed to weaponize even dangerous DNA? If it is relatively easy, then regulation of the synthesizing labs is well advised.

Who would have expected publicly defying the law would motivate prosecutors to come down hard on a suspect?

The "law" was a TOS/AUP. Are you saying you've never violated any of the terms of a network or website's TOS/AUP? I strongly doubt that you even read them (nobody else does either.. you may remember the game vendor who included a term ceding ownership of the user's soul to the publisher, and nobody even noticed). Do you agree that violating any of those terms ("defying the law", as you phrase it) should be treated as a felony?

While it doesn't seem that it was stated that they are the greatest threat it was stated that the DHS views them as a threat. After it came out there was massive backpedaling from that statement though. For sources see:
The Washing Times
CNN
The actual DHS report courtesy of Fox News
The actual DHS report courtesy of FAS if you don't like fox
CBS news

Thos heavy trucks aren't being driven for fun; they're bringing goods to market that we all collectively buy.

And as long as we continue to distort the market for freight transport by heavily subsidizing the trucking industry, those trucks will continue to tear up our roads (literally) and contribute to traffic congestion when much of their cargo should instead go by rail which causes much less of a problem.

I should also add that trains are three times as fuel-efficient as trucks, which means they create one-third as much air pollution. Air pollution costs us up to $1,600 per person annually.

We would all save a lot of money if the trucking industry pulled its own weight, so to speak.

I'm not from the US, but I've seen fox news and npr, and I think you can objectively say that the shit runs deep on fox news. Just because Fox makes shit that is right-wing biased doesn't mean you have to drag npr down there just because they apparently are left-wing biased.

This is possibly banging my head against a brick wall, but it ought to be obvious that I was referring to the system that was proposed, rather than a system that is already operating. In case it wasn't, then let me make it clear I was referring to the proposal that were being kicked around as discussed in this article on Fox News.

The point was that, rather fortuitously for the Republicans of course, these plans were only being mooted in states that usually vote Democrat in Presidential elections, but happen to have Republican controlled state senates and Republican governors.

If you believe that the fact that these changes, if implemented, have the completely unintentional, but happy, side-effect of nullifying the Democrat vote in states that are increasingly leaning blue, then I have a bridge to sell you.

The only time a politician proposes a change in the way people vote is when it advantages them. Because of the distribution of vote in states where Democrats have a larger support, Republicans would not only win seats where they otherwise wouldn't, they actually win more seats that the Democrats. Don't believe me, look up Not Gerrymandering, but Districting: More Evidence on How Democrats Won the Popular Vote but Lost the Congress. Basically, they lost the popular vote in both presidential and congressional races, but managed to win big in the house races. The Republicans had =47% of the house vote in Michigan but got 64% of the seats.

So the Republicans wanted to engineer a way to win in states were they are a minority vote party. As I said, utterly repugnant. Basically, without a wholesale redistribution of the population in those states to produce election results that reflected the popular will, Democrats would never win in those states.

that guy on Fox who talked about how sunny Germany is compared to the US and how that's why solar power makes sense for them...

Research this. Make sure you understand what actually happened vs. what you are accusing.

What actually happened was a reasonable news story and one person, a woman named Shibani Joshi, made one throwaway comment that wasn't part of the story. It was a mistake for her to make a comment like that about an area she hadn't researched well. But if you watch the clip on YouTube you can hear her say "In California, it's a great solution; here on the east coast, it's not gonna work." Lots of articles are mocking her and amplifying her claim to say that the whole USA gets less sun than Germany. It turns out that even the east coast gets more sun than Germany, so she was wrong, but not as stupidly wrong as people are saying.

Here is an article by Shibani Joshi, a follow-up. She publicly retracts her mistaken comment.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/02/08/germany-isnt-all-that-sunny-and-case-for-diversified-energy-world/

The other big mistake Shibani Joshi made was to agree that solar power was "working out great" for Germany. The price of electricity is brutally high there. Here's an article, not by Fox news, but by a respected German news magazine.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/consumers-bear-brunt-of-german-switch-to-renewable-energies-a-861415.html

Now that you have gone on record as opposed to false statements by the news media, can I get you to complain about the stuff Piers Morgan has been saying about guns, or the false reporting about how the economy is not that bad, or the savage attacks on Mitt Romney for claiming that Jeeps were going to be built in China (claims that were correct), or the false reporting about the dangers of fracking, or any of a dozen other things I could mention?

It wouldn't be wise to get all your news from Fox. It also wouldn't be wise to get all your news from the Huffington Post, or CNN, or any other single source.

Whoops, I made a mistake. That's for commercial vehicles. For cars it must be accurate to within 5%. I can't find the federal law that states that, but I've seen multiple stories mention it. See link below. http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/05/11/how-fast-are-really-going-accuracy-speedometers/

That APK guy is a such a psycho, it's scary. His full name is Alexander Peter Kowalski, and he lives with his mom at:
903 East Division St.
Syracuse, NY 13208
DOB: 01/31/1965

He is also suspected to be a faux terrorist. The FBI is looking for this guy, so I encourage everyone to give them details of APK if they have any. This guy's sick reign of terror must stop. Check out this link:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1843962156001/fbi-asks-for-help-solving-15-year-old-anthrax-mystery/ [foxnews.com]
As soon as I saw that video, I thought: "Wow! That's APK described exactly!" It seems that a 35+ man with mental issues, living in Syracuse, NY has been sending out threatening letters with white powder in them to people. It's not actually anthrax, but it is claimed to be in the letters. This guy is high up on the FBI's most wanted list.

More info here: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/fbi_wades_through_tips_that_co.html [syracuse.com]
You can report info on APK by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI or submitting the form at tips.fbi.gov. Please help stop this guy.

Don't worry Sardukar86, this guy is a known psychopath. His full name is Alexander Peter Kowalski, and he lives with his mom at:
903 East Division St.
Syracuse, NY 13208
DOB: 01/31/1965

He is also suspected to be a faux terrorist. The FBI is looking for this guy, so I encourage everyone to give them details of APK if they have any. This guy's sick reign of terror must stop. Check out this link:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1843962156001/fbi-asks-for-help-solving-15-year-old-anthrax-mystery/
As soon as I saw that video, I thought: "Wow! That's APK described exactly!" It seems that a 35+ man with mental issues, living in Syracuse, NY has been sending out threatening letters with white powder in them to people. It's not actually anthrax, but it is claimed to be in the letters. This guy is high up on the FBI's most wanted list.

More info here: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/fbi_wades_through_tips_that_co.html
You can report info on APK by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI or submitting the form at tips.fbi.gov. Please help stop this guy.

APK: Watch your ass, sicko, I've reported you.

According FoxNews (should be valid enough for most!):
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/02/iranian-space-official-says-photo-shows-wrong-monkey/

Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks rocket launchings and space activity, also said this week's monkey space flight was real, but he had a slightly different explanation for the photo mix-up. He claimed the light gray monkey with the mole died during a failed space mission in 2011.

"The monkey with the mole was the one launched in 2011 that died. The rocket failed. It did not get into space," McDowell said. "They just mixed that footage with the footage of the 2013 successful launch."

Iran has never confirmed that a monkey died in 2011, or that there was a failed mission that year.

A complete analysis of the case has been given on NasaSpaceFlight forum: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11734.msg1007858#msg1007858

Also quoting from foxnews:
onathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks rocket launchings and space activity, also said this week's monkey space flight was real, but he had a slightly different explanation for the photo mix-up. He claimed the light gray monkey with the mole died during a failed space mission in 2011.

"The monkey with the mole was the one launched in 2011 that died. The rocket failed. It did not get into space," McDowell said. "They just mixed that footage with the footage of the 2013 successful launch."
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/02/iranian-space-official-says-photo-shows-wrong-monkey/

Think again: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/28/media-matters-reportedly-uses-illegal-guns-to-protect-organization-leader/

There have been some massive breakthroughs in the medical field in the last few years and most recently, a possible cure for AIDS and cancer.

Actually, it seems it was a DDoS, as admitted by the people claiming responsibility:

we used a 7kbotnet running hoic 100 threads each. 80servers in botnet and a 16gbps booter

(From the update link in the summary: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/01/31/amazoncom-website-offline/?test=latestnews)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,371902,00.html

Some states made a mistake and distributed WTF plates as normal plates. Example is in the above link.

You're one of the few enemies we can still put into our video games without any real backlash. If you start exerting the kind of leverage over our console makers and developers that you exert over our movie studios, then all we're going to be left with are North Korea, Iran, and a few of them stan countries. And even the stan countries are starting to bitch.

That post is offtopic? Hardly.

From the fine story post:

"They tried to frame Iran as having an active nuclear weapons program. Then they try to frame WikiLeaks as the reason why that's not known to the public now."

Both of Assange's assertions are false as shown above. Iran isn't being framed, they do have an actual active nuclear weapons program, including design and testing of implosion based warhead components. What they have yet to do, so far as is publicly known, is to actually produce a real warhead. Anyone reading the papers, as shown in the parent post, or other sources, knows this. If fact, Iran may be making a move to surge their efforts. This isn't good.

Assnage's comments are just another example of Assange's self-glorification. Nobody knows about Iran because Wikileaks hasn't release anything? Please.

That isn't much different from the claim he makes in regard to planning the Arab Spring. I doubt that is even 5% true.

. . . The first time I went to Egypt, also in 2005, I met the same kinds of people I met in Lebanon. Cosmopolitan, liberal-minded individuals who were like Arab versions of me. Egypt had nothing like Hezbollah controlling large swaths of the country and warmongering against the neighbors. No foreign army smothered the country. Instead it had a police state. The narrative there at first seemed to be: democrats against the regime. That’s what it looked like. But my experience in Lebanon prompted me to ask a question of my liberal Egyptian friends that seems not to have occurred to some of the other journalists and Western internationalists who have been there. I asked these Egyptian liberals, “how many Egyptians agree with you about politics?” The answer stopped me cold: five percent at the most. . . . --- The International Elite Bubble , by Michael J. Totten