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3D died on the vine, as this will too. Most people who invested in TV sets regret their purchase and for movies it's just a gimmick for them to charge more, much like cable TV and satellite companies used to add a 'HD surcharge' to your bill and it never went away. Now everything is HD, and we're still paying that damned surcharge.

The actual link, has "30-million" in the URL, but does, in fact say $300,000 in the article. I guess this is a case where only the URL was "read", not the story, while "composing" the summary...

Here is the correct link to the CryptoLocker story http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptolocker-criminals-earn-30-million-100-days-1429607

DavidGilbert99, please fix your damn article. You wrote the article, you wrote the summary, both with attention-getting headlines. And they both passed different sets of editors (assuming the editors even exist) and they are both incorrect with the $30M figure.

The only story behind this is how little they netted, not how much.

Here is the correct link to the CryptoLocker story http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptolocker-criminals-earn-30-million-100-days-1429607

Here is the correct link: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptolocker-criminals-earn-30-million-100-days-1429607

"According to Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, the SCADA systems on board the International Space Station have been infected by malware", DavidGilbert99

'Kaspersky doesn't give any details about when the infection he was told about took place, but it appears as if it was prior to May of this year when the United Space Alliance .. moved all systems entirely to Linux to make them more "stable and reliable."' ref

"Prior to this move the "dozens of laptops" used on board the space station had been using Windows XP, which is inherently more vulnerable to infection from malware than Linux." ref..

"The ISS's control systems (known generally as SCADA systems) were already running various flavours of Linux prior to this switch for laptops last May." ref

"According to Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, the SCADA systems on board the International Space Station have been infected by malware", DavidGilbert99

'Kaspersky doesn't give any details about when the infection he was told about took place, but it appears as if it was prior to May of this year when the United Space Alliance .. moved all systems entirely to Linux to make them more "stable and reliable."' ref

"Prior to this move the "dozens of laptops" used on board the space station had been using Windows XP, which is inherently more vulnerable to infection from malware than Linux." ref..

"The ISS's control systems (known generally as SCADA systems) were already running various flavours of Linux prior to this switch for laptops last May." ref

"According to Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, the SCADA systems on board the International Space Station have been infected by malware", DavidGilbert99

'Kaspersky doesn't give any details about when the infection he was told about took place, but it appears as if it was prior to May of this year when the United Space Alliance .. moved all systems entirely to Linux to make them more "stable and reliable."' ref

"Prior to this move the "dozens of laptops" used on board the space station had been using Windows XP, which is inherently more vulnerable to infection from malware than Linux." ref..

"The ISS's control systems (known generally as SCADA systems) were already running various flavours of Linux prior to this switch for laptops last May." ref

So the quote attributed to Kaspersky is false? Oddly enough the TFA has now been updated and there's no mention of Linux in it..

Because, of course, the French economy is doing so well.

And since he then proceeded to pose for a picture with the guy, I'd say evidence this actually happened is pretty incontrovertible.

Then it comes down to whose version of events you believe.

The presence of SAS men

One man and he was off-duty.

and Israeli commandos in Westgate

Those commandos were airlifted after the siege began. They were not there when things happened.

Either go back on or get your off meds because the tinfoil isn't working.

I'm not 100% sure of how it works in Britain, but I think the way it works is that there is a tax/fee on recording media that then gets passed to an organization that dishes out the money to copyright holders based on a measure of popularity. If you bought a blank VHS tape you have already payed for the right to make copies of any video content that you have obtained legally. The terms of use for those copies are pretty strict, but they are legal.

We don't have a special tax on recording media in the UK, at all.

Until very recently (2012), it was technically illegal to make copies of anything you owned without the copyright owner's permission, though AFAIK no one was ever sued for it. Now you can. Unfortunately, you still are not allowed to break security measures, so ripping a DVD to video is still illegal. I think you can make straight copies, since you do not need to circumvent the security to do this. Most people in the UK thought making backups was not illegal, even prior to the new law.

The Wikipedia page on ripping is out of date and therefore wrong, though it is still illegal to rip DVDs because of CSS, it is not illegal to rip music from CDs. This page and this page have decent explanations.

Ya, it's nice that most of the stories don't say a word about the dead guy. He didn't actually die until after the landing, but he was unresponsive before landing.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/512649/20131009/john-wildey-humberside-plane-landing-pilot-ill.htm

The pilot, who has not been named on request of his family, later died. A spokesman for Humberside Police said: "A post mortem is to be undertaken following the sad death of the pilot of a light aircraft which landed safely at Humberside Airport yesterday evening.

As a result, he is odds-on favourite to become the new CEO

That said, your second point is exactly right. It's in nobody's interests (except these three shareholders) to put Microsoft in the hands of these asset stripping vampires.

It can go wrong sometimes. That said, don't knock hive till you've tried it.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/467900/20130515/man-sweden-dies-sex-hornet-s-nest.htm

H.

Ugh.

So people have bought then, hook, line, etc., the total lie that Assad used gas on his own people. He didn't.

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1958

http://rt.com/news/turkey-syria-chemical-weapons-850/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418378/Syrian-hostage-Domenico-Quirico-overheard-rebels-blame-Damascus-chemical-attacks.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/504735/20130909/syria-chemical-attack-assad-rebels-blame-hostage.htm

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/08/syria-chemical-weapons-not-assad-bild

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/06/syri-j13.html

http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/

http://consortiumnews.com/2013/09/06/obama-warned-on-syrian-intel/

http://www.voltairenet.org/article180149.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-military-and-intelligence-officials-to-obama-assad-not-responsible-for-chemical-attack/5348576

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/

This is a classical Microsoft move, a Microsoftie join a company ruins it and then rejoins the mothership, resistance *is* futile ..

BBC failed Digital Project Cancelled

Project Kangaroo Cancelled

Highfield joins Microsoft after just four months at Project Kangaroo

BBC appoints Microsoft man to control future media

Lest you think its farfetched, China already bans the use of Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and FourSquare in China. Local alternatives such as Sina, Tencent, qq etc. took their places fairly quickly. After PRISM, more governments may follow suit.

Not to nitpick, but China bans some Google sites and services, but not all. Just which ones depends on what part of the country you're in, and how/where you access the Web. GMail and Google Translate generally aren't blocked. FB and YT are definitely completely blocked anywhere on the mainland, though. And the article you link to is talking specifically about Google+, BTW.

I know about this because I just spent 3 weeks in China.

Oh, and be careful with Google Translate--some very unhelpful people apparently have been "correcting" some of the Simplified Chinese results with Traditional/Cantonese characters and pronunciations, even though Simplified is used only with Mandarin.

Captcha: ellipsis (heh)

Because as much as they voice their displeasure, turning back isn't really an option for businesses using the cloud.

Maybe in the US, but worldwide is a different matter. Governments could easily force the issue by forbidding the use of US cloud companies, especially for their companies that deal with issues of defence and national security.

Lest you think its farfetched, China already bans the use of Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and FourSquare in China. Local alternatives such as Sina, Tencent, qq etc. took their places fairly quickly. After PRISM, more governments may follow suit.

Elon Musk Admits he is Too Busy to Build Hyperloop

The editors should be paying me to do their homework.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/497781/20130808/elon-musk-admit-busy-make-hyperloop-shot.htm

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/492120/20130718/microsoft-takes-900-million-charge-surface-tablets.htm ...store of six million Surface tablets.

Perhaps they should install Android.

I'm reminded of the parody video from The Onion (I think) where you had a jock who was killing the misfits at his high school so that they wouldn't snap and create another columbine.

Well if you think "misfits" aren't already subject to extra scrutiny these days you would be wrong.

School administration, teachers, counselors are all getting training in this. And its more an more evident that even other students are starting to look out for certain types.

So far, the merely odd or quirky kids have not been caught up in this to a great deal, but it still does happen, especially to guys who go goth.

I would expect that knowledge of biological markets that might be discovered would be welcome, by parents and perhaps the people having them. If you know about a predisposition to heart disease you can take extra care. If you are exceptionally predisposed to breast cancer you can guard against that, and take extreme steps. (Jolie).

Oddly enough, the aids virus is now being used to deliver "genetic fixes" to repair or compensate certain genetic defects and even fight http://www.examiner.com/article/science-fiction-aerosol-delivery-of-an-engineered-virus-halts-lung-cancer-progression-mice>cancer.

As a parent, I would jump at the chance to have my kid tested for that even in the absence of symptoms, early enough to make changes in education and upbringing.

Just a small sample:
London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists
Fertiliser bomb plot: The story
Rucksack Bomb Plot Terror Suspects Nasser, Khalid and Ali Accused of Planning Attack ‘Deadlier than 7/7’

There have been regular arrests in the US besides actual attacks. Here is a sample.

I found V for Vendetta to be largely nonsense. And the purpose of police states generally isn't to prevent street crime, but to ensure the survival of an oppressive regime through oppression of the political opposition.

There's a bigger list of people detained and jailed in the UK who turned out to be innocent. Since the 9-11 the surveillance has increase by a large factor and the reduction in crime is not even measurable - but of course really there's been a huge reduction in terror attacks, but we can't know about it 'cause it's secret (sigh).

Because they were so incredibly effective at preventing 9/11 in the US, and so effective at stopping the London, UK subway bombings, and so effective at preventing the train bombing in Madrid, Spain, right? I'm feeling less imperiled already.

As I understand it, the surveillance was started some time after the 9/11 attacks, so it couldn't have stopped that. But as to attacks in the UK, there has been a steady stream of arrests and trials over the years. A number of those plots were aimed at mass casualties by attacking stadiums, that sort of thing. I'm surprised you apparently haven't heard of them.

Just a small sample:
London terror bomb plot: the four terrorists
Fertiliser bomb plot: The story
Rucksack Bomb Plot Terror Suspects Nasser, Khalid and Ali Accused of Planning Attack ‘Deadlier than 7/7’

There have been regular arrests in the US besides actual attacks. Here is a sample.

I found V for Vendetta to be largely nonsense. And the purpose of police states generally isn't to prevent street crime, but to ensure the survival of an oppressive regime through oppression of the political opposition.

Everybody of significance involved in planning 9/11 is dead,

No, far from it. As far as I know, these plotters are very much alive and in custody:

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Ramzi Binalshibh
Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi
Abi Abd al-Aziz Ali
Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarek bin Attash

And there appears to be a sleeper cell to track down:

Boston Marathon Bombings: FBI Hunts Terror 'Sleeper Cell' Linked to Tsarnaev Brothers

But a little of the pressure may be off since it looks like the Boston bombing will shortly no longer be the first major terrorist attack since 9/11.

With Nidal Hasan bombshell, time to call Fort Hood shooting a terror attack?

Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army major facing court-martial for a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009, plans to argue that he acted in defense of the Taliban in Afghanistan. So much for the official US line that the shootings were an act of workplace violence, critics say.

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According to some, it's a hunt for every person in the world who may not in the future submit to the will of the US Government. War without End, in other words.

According to some? I often find what "some say" to be disingenuous and an easy way to work in libelous statements without direct attribution while providing no useful direction.

Much better to be concrete about it when you can. I generally consider government surveillance of those in direct contact with terrorist groups to be legitimate. In light of the ongoing misuse of government power by the IRS to suppress political opposition groups, religious groups, and donors to political opposition groups, with possible involvement from EPA, FBI, and OSHA, the Justice Department probes on reporters, the stonewalling before Congress, the administrations attempt to ban weapons little used in crime - semiautomatic rifles, the very wide dragnet by NSA is potentially very troubling. I wonder who is receiving the intelligence produced from the analysis, and for what purpose?

It is very much time to write your political representatives. Make sure to at least mention the IRS action against opposition groups, and as much of the above as you care to. Hopefully it isn't too late and things simply look worse than they are. At this moment I'm not placing bets.

For all we know, they were commiting a crime of an unrelated nature.

You do know there is a considerable amount of photographic evidence of dudes who look like these turkeys. You do know that the guys the police chased were armed with firearms and bombs, yeah? and these guys resisted arrest (unlike, say, a random citizen who wouldn't fire on police trying to talk to them). You do know that the people apprehended visited Islamic jihadi sites, yeah? you do know that the Australian imam "Sheil" Feiz inspired these dudes yeah? (according to: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/459253/20130419/feiz-mohammad-tamerlan-tsarnaev-boston-marathon.htm).

Now I agree that the arrested dude could be innocent by some means - but your statements don't make much sense given the evidence available to even us plebs. If you wanted to say "innocent until proven guilty" then I'm with ya. If you wanted to say "I'm bored with the manhunt and capture of Islamic terrorism that killed three people (including a Chinese national and a young boy) and wounding hundreds more, ruining a globally-reknowned celebration of athletic prowess, and traumatising many bystanders" then I'm not with you. In fact, I'd say you were perhaps a bit of a self-centered prat whose writing suggests a lack of empathy with the victims. By all means you can tire of the manhunt coverage, by all means feel free to speak (write) your opinion. Please don't be surprised if we think you are a bit of a git for shifting blame off the perpetrators. Such as implicitly suggesting the police had gone crazy and just grabbed some minor perps; and suggesting that coverage of a jihadi attack on US soil and the associated manhunt was not as newsworthy as say, Kim Kardashian's tribulations.

It seems to me that many of a Leftist bent still desperately want the terrorism to have been conducted by a right wing nut, so the leftists could feel comfortable with the world view. Instead, reality has just slapped many leftists in the face and completely destroyed the Leftist excuses for jihad (assuming that US and Israel foreign policies or poverty are the causes of jihad rather than than the Truth - that the Qur'an has 109 violent clauses the mainstream Muslims believe is their duty to fulfil). I don't know whether what your politics are, but this event should be a wake up call to every Free Person. The battle between the 7th Century political Islam and the rest of the World (whose outlook is mostly in the 21st Century) has been going on for 1400 years and will not stop without either the Islamists subjugating all non-Muslims (their stated goal, eg. according to Sura 9:29) or the Free World defeats the political system called Islam (just as National and Soviet Socialism were defeated).

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/436822/20130219/htc-onex-android422-jellybean-cyanogenmod101-nightly-rom.htm The original HTC One X seems to be updated just right :) perhaps your experience is from fantasy...interestingly their allegedly is less Sense and more Stock in this Android too :)

Symbian isn't dead... only recently has Samsung exceeded Nokia's sales, and Nokia still sells more handsets than Apple. Even in smartphone sales (a subset of cellphone sales), Nokia isn't far behind Samsung and Apple.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/416666/20121219/samsung-tops-mobile-phone-market-2012-nokia.htm

Sold and shipped are two very different things.

Isn't that right, RS Components???

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/391521/20121005/rs-components-raspberry-pi-raspi-allied-customer.htm

download your pictures....
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/416349/20121218/download-instagram-photos.htm

delete your account....
https://instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/accounts/remove/request/

Samsung has now issued an official statement: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/388192/20120926/samsung-responds-android-smartphone-hack.htm

1) Average users don't install several browsers.

But there's no reason to think they wouldn't install something like Firefox for Android, but yeah probably not 'several'.

3) "Rolled in a few months" can also be read as "All S3's will be vulnerable for several more months".

It can, but it would be wrong to read it as such given that the update has already begun being rolled out.

Well doubting Thomas here's a better story which even gives a hint where it occurred http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/380372/20120904/antisec-anonymous-fbi-data-breach-apple-udids.htm. and if you want to see his recruitment spiel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiY2oGEEYb4. See, you too can become a FBI security leak. I wonder what else they got and didn't mention. It sure to make Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl brain burn for the next few months trying to figure out. Could you imagine the ribbing this particular FBI nugget is going to get in the office over the next few years, ouch.

They have one for $19 for iPhone 4; again, replacement service is extra.

How can you even begin to compare that with $10 for a replacement Galaxy S3 battery which you can easily replace yourself? The battery is half the price and fitting is free, so in total at least 4x cheaper.

http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/07/11/problems-emerge-in-samsung-galaxy-s3/#.UAGLLh0fyto - depends on how often you have to replace them. And that's not going into the cost of replacing the covers http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/363002/20120714/samsung-galaxys3-marble-white-pebbleblue-battery-cover.htm.

Many consumers thinking of upgrading will no doubt be holding out until October when Windows 8 is launched, before upgrading their PCs. This obviously means that the Q3 results are likely to be similarly flat, though Ultrabooks, the second generation Ivy Bridge versions of which are being launched at the moment, could have more of an impact by then.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/362375/20120712/pc-shipments-fall-ultrabook-flat-hp-lenovo.htm#ixzz20RKdxqyA

WOW I thing it's better to buy windows 7 now.

No, you didn't fix it. You just perpetuated a lie.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/359898/20120705/first-ios-malware-discover-find-call.htm

I'm not sure I follow. He wants to do away with [Federal] vice drug laws.Ron Paul is a champion of civil rights, in this regard.

He thinks it should be left up the states to legislate against drugs.

He's such a champion of civil rights he thinks businesses should be allow to discriminate on grounds of race.

It's a mere cooincidence that he hangs out with Fascists in Stormfront, the Third way and the BNP.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/290374/20120131/ron-paul-anonymous-neo-nazi-opblitzkrieg-antisec.htm