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Guns aren't easy to make.

Yes, they are. Zip guns are almost trivial, they were commonly made by juvenile delinquents in the 1950s. Indian villagers with simple tools can make guns, while back-alley gunsmiths in the Philippines today turn out not just simple pipe guns but submachine guns. Resistance movements in Nazi-occupied Poland were also able to set up clandestine gun factories.

While most criminal firearms in the U.S. today are diverted from the legitimate market, if that source were ever to dry up it would have very little impact on the availability of firearms to criminals. Folks making meth today would turn their labs into machine shops.

And now with 3-D printing, and CNC milling? Fugeddaboutit.

The number one source of guns for criminals is theft.

No, it's not. Seriously, dude, this is one of those times where a minute with your favorite search engine can save you from looking like an ass...

Make it a crime to have your guns stolen,

...but then, if you believe that being the victim of a crime can itself be made a crime, it'll take more than fact-checking to stop you from looking like an ass.

It's great to see this kind of thing. I hope she wins, honestly. She's got an uphill battle ahead of her.

What a lot of people don't realize is that Wipro and Infosys buy influence in this country, that's how they've been able to game the system and get away with it for a long time?

Ultimately we need to restructure the H1-B system so that it allows companies to get the talent they need without all the middle-man broker approach and doesn't exploit workers from abroad and keep wages down and unemployment high in this country. We don't need to hire Kindergarten teachers on H1-B visas. http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Fort-Worth-Independent/202267.htm
Really? Fort Worth ISD? Come on you can't find a qualified US resident to teach?

Also, the immigration reforms that seem largely stalled now have some things in it that are making H1-B mills a bit nervous, I say good!
Even in their own country, Wipro, Infosys et al are viewed as "Selling Indians abroad." So it'll be great to see how this case evolves.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-04-23/outsourcing/38762361_1_h-1b-immigration-reform-indian-it

Take a look at the comments.

No one but Samsung is making any real money selling Android phones.

Only on Slashdot. In the real world, that's just old FUD, and the market is competitive amd dynamic.

Apple versus Samsung passe': Smartphone rivals like LG, Sony gain on leaders

Samsung is now more profitable than Apple, according to second-quarter financial results released by Samsung on Friday in Seoul, South Korea. But while the two rivals have successively one-upped each other with ever sleeker, more technologically sophisticated phones, new competition is stirring.

The combined share of the worldwide smartphone market controlled by Apple and Samsung slipped to 43 per cent in the second quarter from 49 per cent a year earlier, IDC, a research firm, reported Friday.

Some of the companies chipping away at the leaders are familiar names trying comebacks, like Sony, Nokia and HTC. Others are relative newcomers, like LG of South Korea and Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei of China.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-07-27/news/40833643_1_samsung-electronics-smartphone-market-strategy-analytics

Venus has always been suspicious.

I personally find Pluto suspect.

You can understand why the Indian Army might be jumpy.

To See the Unseen

Generally, India's money should be at about 30 rupees to the dollar. It is now over 65. that is because they are directly manipulating against the dollar. This has gotten old.

As much as I'd love for the Rupee to be 30 to the Dollar, you have to give some basis for this comment about currency manipulation.

The problem with your statement is that it makes no sense for the Indian economy to have a weak currency. India is the 3rd largest net importer in the world (after USA and UK). It makes no sense to have a weak currency for a net import country. It leads to massive inflation which is what is happening in India right now (and has been for a while).

It makes sense for China to weaken their currency since they are a net exporter, but makes no sense for India. You're incorrectly assuming that the IT industry rules the roost in India -- it makes up only 1.6% of the GDP. Hardly enough to drive fiscal policy to the extent of currency manipulation (then again, there's always corruption and industry collusion).

Ladies and gentlemen, history will title this period "1983".

History can be a tricky thing, especially when you are projecting into the future to determine what "the history" will be.

For all we know the current period could in fact be not "1983," but rather "1938." Will one of the many crisis or conflicts be the Sudetenland? Will one of them turn out to be the invasion of Poland? There are plenty of candidates.

Let us hope a shooting war between the major powers doesn't start any time soon.

Lord West: cut foreign aid to defend the Falklands

He said: “I am horrified our naval flotilla now comprises only 19 frigates and destroyers.

"In the Falklands, in the first month of fighting, we had four sunk and 14 damaged. That makes you think. We seem to have forgotten that when you fight you lose things.

"Here we are with 19 frigates and destroyers. Are they bonkers? Are they mad? How have they allowed this to happen?”

Are you asserting that there are no companies that could sue Microsoft? Because there's a whole Wikipedia page about Microsoft litigation. And that's probably only the well-known cases.

Of course, I did point out that accountability was limited, but it does happen. More to the point, no one is going to become accountable for any practice or performance under Linux unless you pay them either.

But if you are asserting that no one is ever going to successfully sue a commercial OS maker, I don't think I'd take your side in that bet.

Below we can see a suit against HP in India for them simply abandoning WebOS, which really never even actually took off.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-13/hardware/39227429_1_webos-touchpad-leo-apotheker

If someone in the community simply stopped working on their highly touted, FOSS project, do you think they could be sued for that? Forget it. Support isn't just about bugs or security patches, it's also a guarantee that the OS will remain usable or viable so that it can be reliably installed and operated for an extended period of time.

The threat of suits is a very real threat for commercial products and it happens in every sort of product type. There is zero reason it can't be used against OS'es, except for the fact that OS makers are usually either FOSS types, or gigantic organizations that can crush most attempts.

it actually is a cell tower
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6676901.stm
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-21/news/34002418_1_base-camp-base-station-mount-everest-base

As an Indian, my first reaction was of denial. After reading the report, however, everything seemed so familiar. The numerous trails given away in the report is hardly like the slick Stuxnet worm. It does look like the handiwork of a bungling government servant like Kapil Sibal

If this is really the state of Indian intelligence, then Pakistan or any other country does not have to worry. These "hackers" have given out more information than they could probably have gathered.

Casteism is taught in schools from 6th class itself in India.
http://www.greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?id=30817&cat=10&scat=25
http://tehelka.com/karnataka-how-a-government-job-spelt-doom-for-37-dalit-families/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/90-per-cent-of-people-vote-on-caste-lines-Katju/articleshow/18117893.cms
http://www.firstpost.com/india/wont-eat-in-vessels-cleaned-by-dalit-woman-say-children-in-gujarat-school-615541.html

If you really want to help them, please write to http://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ and http://pmindia.nic.in/feedback.php seeking Independent Nation for 300 million India's Untouchable People as per Congressman Trent Franks House Concurrent Resolution 139.
http://rediff.com/news/2007/may/03touch.htm
http://www.change.org/petitions/independent-nation-for-300-million-india-s-untouchables

With all due respect to the victims and their families and friends - this isn't world news. In quite a few parts of the world, not just Iraq and Afghanistan, that's a small note somewhere on page 5 of the local newspaper.

It seems the world disagrees with you. This are all page one stories at sites that span the world.

Germany - USA: Explosionen beim Boston-Marathon - drei Tote, hundert Verletzte
Russia , (Act of terrorism committed in the U.S., numerous victims reported
Australia - US on alert after blasts shatter Boston Marathon killing 3, wounding 140
India - Boston Marathon bombing kills 3, injures over 130
Argentina - Bombs kill 3 people, wound more than 100 at Boston Marathon
United Arab Emirates - Boston Marathon: 3 killed, more than 140 injured as 2 bombs explode near finish line
South Africa - Boston terror attack: Three killed, 100 injured
Japan - 3 dead, more than 110 hurt after two bombs explode near Boston Marathon finish line

So it's not news-worthy for the body count and not for the fact that there was a bomb or two.

Actually it is newsworthy, for both reasons. Mass casualty events tend to be that way. Last I heard the number of bombs was 5-7.

And, most importantly and most disgustingly, we are still thinking in tribal norms. Our own dead and wounded are more important than the foreign ones.

Every family looks after its own first, as does every country. But as to tribes - there aren't really any tribes in the West anymore, none that function anyway. (Were the last the Scotts?) You might try that line of thinking on people from parts of the world that actually do have functioning tribes, such as the Middle East, or Africa. Your disgust will probably be taken as evidence of being crazy. It wouldn't even be a question to them - of course you look after the tribe first, it is a matter of survival. If you can convince the Arabs that making peace with the Jews is preferable to killing them, you might have a chance a reducing tribalism, but I doubt you can eliminate it.

Burglarize is common in All of English speaking North America as well as India, so that puts you brits in the distinct minority.

Way back when I first got Internet, I always used to keep my WiFi open for universal access. My thinking was, I found it extremely convenient when I accidentally found an open WiFi while traveling, so why not do the same for others.

However, now the point is moot, since open WiFi is as good as illegal in my country (India) now. After a spate of related news articles, I had to lock down my wireless. It just isn't worth having cops over for something like this :-(

They follow the example of Muhammad impeccably, kidnapping and raping non-Muslim girls, terrorising non-Muslim countries, and even who oppose laws used to suppress non-Muslims.

Uh, Eric, you know what you should have told them the path to prosperity was; the North Korean government should completely and radically change from a multi-generational dictatorship to a representative Democracy and Capitalistic System,

Uh, Mullen, most of the Capitalistic Systems in the world have been in a state of massive crisis for the last few years.
A crisis that was self-inflicted, has been self-inflicted before and, because proper regulation never seems to last, will undoubtedly be self-inflicted again.

The USA has just wrangled an agreement from China to allow the UN Security Council to expand existing sanctions.
The international sanctions might have something to do with the lack of prosperity in North Korea.

Since when was it considered smart to reach out to a hacker? Why not ask a professional con-artist for spiritual advice?

I wasn't talking about intelligence; I was talking about psychology. Most people do things under stress that they wouldn't normally ever even think of doing, especially in a war.

Unfortunately, many people higher up than Manning do actually seek out the supernatural when planning important events: like presidents and generals. You can think of the Reagons who made their decisions (at least in part) based on the advise of an astrologer. McKenzie King (in Canada) was also a religious kook who "believed in an afterlife, and consulted fortune tellers, communicated with his dead relatives in seances, and pursued 'psychical research.' Mackenzie King was also extremely superstitious." (ref: ).

And another nation with nuclear weapons has its politicians make decisions based on (ref.)

The daily added: "Indian politicians too are deeply influenced by the pronouncements of these gurus, and come election time, the whole country evolves into one huge crystal ball."

It noted that in Pakistan leaders from Benazir Bhutto to "lesser political mortals like Imran Khan are reported to have consulted pirs and spiritual gurus on their life choices and strategies...."

"Black goats, astrologers, numerologists, holy men have all figured in the lives of our leaders.

I'd say that the relatively young, naive, uneducated, low ranking, 23 year old, private, who wanted to do the right thing is a lot more sensible than the religious kooks who are revered for their leadership and their pursuit of greed. So he may not be a genius, but at least he isn't an elected official.

When South Africa did this (to black people, rather than women), under Apartheid, the civilised world rightly condemned it, and imposed trade sanctions. Where are the trade embargoes on Saudi Arabia? They're in contravention of the UN declaration of Human Rights.

Because a lot of people who will condemn westerners for almost anything (you haven't got a black disabled transexual speaking at your Ruby conference, you must be a fascist), they put complete asshole behaviour of Muslims down to "religious freedom" or "ethnic diversity". Sure tag the women, abduct Hindu girls, murder those priests, its just the expression of your beliefs.

Unless they're living in India and over 40...

Here's an idea - instead of linking back to a Slashdot post about a story... how about linking to the FREAKING ACTUAL STORY!?

US colleges beat down fees in drive towards $10,000 degree

...and filed a patent for the implementation or call it execution....otherwise some clever company, that is better known for suing others in the industry,; that's had one of its famous patents invalidated recently, will file...and sue.

Because little things such as properly filed IP documents have stopped apple so well in the past, right? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/apples-iphone-loses-name-battle-with-mexicos-ifone/articleshow/17092765.cms

I can see your point, but I don't think this is a slippery slope issue.

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No, but global warming is threating the viability of the cacao growing areas, messing up the rainfall patterns.

Bull. We're panicking enough about the bacon, let's not make shit up.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/global-warming-could-make-chocolates-expensive/articleshow/11266989.cms

http://www.ibtimes.com/global-warming-makes-chocolate-dearer-322831

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/10/local/la-me-gs-valentines-day-destroyed-by-climate-change-20120210

An encrypted Blackberry remains a device that cannot be successfully examined - I believe you can get an image from the device but it is encrypted at a level that makes cracking the encryption unlikely.

I wonder if that's true, given that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion agrees to hand over its encryption keys to India. I do realize that this is traffic encryption keys, which are likely different from device storage keys... but it still does make one wonder.

>There is no mention of "registration forms" or free housing within those links.

Here you go, Kaangressi:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cong-builds-house-of-dreams-on-Narendra-Modis-turf/articleshow/15579607.cms

They are trying to hoodwink the poorest people in society, in a no-holds barred bid to eliminate their opponent. This type of blatant offering of sops is basically tantamount to vote-rigging.

You can act like an apologist for them all you want, but your comments reveal more about yourself than about the subject you're commenting upon. Indians like me want improvements in Indian democracy, and meanwhile apologists like you leave me cold.

Have you ever in your life read the articles you cite here entirely or are you just trying to type something to take my screen space? Let me quote...

Housing for urban poor was a hallmark of previous Congress governments when the Gujarat Housing Board constructed precisely 1,76,830 homes in the 1970s and 1980s. Once the BJP came to power, the GHB went defunct and housing was a subject left to the builders.

1- Congress did deliver on its promise when they were in power for building homes.
2- BJP stays in power for two decades. Screws it all up and does nothing.
3- Congress now makes a new commitment to build more homes if put in power and you suddenly have a problem with that?

Why? They have delivered to their previous commitment. If not entirely, atleast more than the current BJP government.

People like you will always exist to complain and cry but have nothing to offer for a solution. JFK:- Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

>There is no mention of "registration forms" or free housing within those links.

Here you go, Kaangressi:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cong-builds-house-of-dreams-on-Narendra-Modis-turf/articleshow/15579607.cms

They are trying to hoodwink the poorest people in society, in a no-holds barred bid to eliminate their opponent. This type of blatant offering of sops is basically tantamount to vote-rigging.

You can act like an apologist for them all you want, but your comments reveal more about yourself than about the subject you're commenting upon. Indians like me want improvements in Indian democracy, and meanwhile apologists like you leave me cold.

Indian regime is suffering from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger

Let them first fix racism.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Wrong-number-call-rings-social-boycott-of-50-dalit-families/articleshow/15552449.cms

There is a reason why these things happen. For you in the West, things are very uniform as far as cultures, traditions, behaviour and expectations go. For a country like India, there is not even uniformity within one state. It is very difficult to judge the dynamics of such a varied culture with the yardstick of the West, and sometimes even unfair. I am not justifying the violence, I'm trying to point out reasons for the hair-thin patience when it comes to communal issues. Hindus and Muslims in India have always been at loggerheads.

The series of events that led to the rumors being a big deal was this: clash between Bodos (a native Assamese, largely Hindu community) and resident Muslims over a piece of land. This was either misreported, or mistaken as a clash between native Hindus of Northeast and illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. This spiked a communal issue, even though it wasn't one to begin with, between other Muslims across the nation against Hindus specifically from Northeast, resulting in the death of two. The mass rumors started going out on SMS services, social media and email about revenge against Northeasterners, which led to a massive Exodus of NE people back to their home-states. This not only hurts the economy, but overall socio-political makeup of India. It is necessary at such times to curb the trigger events, even though it may seem tyrannical to ban them. Hindu-Muslim relations in India are a silk-string my friend, not to be taken lightly. Whether you approve of it or not, communal violence doesn't need rationale justification to spark.

Oh and by the way, to make things more dramatic: Bulk of the online scare campaign comes from Pakistan, so claims the Government.

Just checked and surprised to see India has 929 million mobile subscribers. That is huge market.

and their cars catch fire

At least they weren't big fires. They were Nano fires.

and their cars catch fire

The same subpoena can't get the data out of RIM actually -- device to device communications are encrypted in such a way that RIM has no access to the contents.

Yeah, about that...

The absolute number of hungry people may be up, but as a percentage of the global population, it's probably lower than in the 80's.

Indeed. The UN says there are 925 million hungry people in 2010, around 13.1% of global population.

Around 1980 there were 850 million, although the global population was much smaller (4.5 billion versus 7 million), so the percent hungry then was around 19%.

Most hungry people are in Asia and Africa. India alone has 230 million hungry people. Other countries with large absolute numbers of hungry people are Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Pakistan.

Found two mention of "Facebook Dark Profiles" on google

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2165543/Facebooks-Dark-Profiles-twisted-genius-Mark-Zuckerbergs-quest-total-domination.html

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-28/social-media/32456558_1_facebook-photos-mark-zuckerberg-personal-email-addresses

BES (blackberry enterprise server) is the enterprise service. Enterprises run their own BES on their own hardware under their own control. RIM doesn't touch it. RIM hasn't (and can't) give away the BES keys because the enterprise has them not RIM.

Apparently there's some debate regarding if that's true or not.

Contrast this to a very similar sized loss suffered by the Navy (or a shipyard insurance company?) when a guy got depressed and set a nuclear sub on fire the other day to get out of work... it is much easier for me to see a real loss in that case.

USB, along with Barkley's and RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) are all under investigation for rigging LIBOR. This is potentially the largest currency fraud in the history of the world. Literally 100 of TRILLIONS of US dollars may have been influenced by rigging interest rates.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-07-28/news/32906786_1_libor-global-benchmark-interest-rates-credit-card-rates

Soon, the trading had crossed to the euro rate markets, according to the settlement documents filed in the Barclays investigation. And by 2007, traders at RBS and UBS were seeking to influence the yen rate market, according to documents filed in 2011 in Singapore's High Court and in Canada's Ontario Superior Court.

Traders at Barclays are believed to have participated in manipulating the rate for the dollar and the rate for the euro known as Euribor, according to documents filed in the Barclays settlement last month.

RBS and UBS traders are a focus of the global investigation because of their alleged involvement in seeking to influence yen-denominated rates.

Two RBS traders in London, Brent Davies and Will Hall, are alleged to have agreed to help a trader at UBS, Thomas Hayes, to manipulate yen Libor, according to court documents filed by the Canadian Competition Bureau.

So USB getting press about how unfair NASDAQ is acting could be an attempt at a smokescreen while they deal with their own problems. It's been reported that these banks are willing to do almost anything to settle with regulators because they are terrified of the potential liability if any more information comes out. Bankruptcy is not out of the question, and neither is jail time.

One can only hope that this time these evil bastards finally get some small measure of what they deserve.

I think it depends on your definition of "douchebag", whether you're tying it to company performance, or how nice a person one is. Jobs was frequently cited as being a terrible boss. Just a small sample of a google seach for "steve jobs bad boss":
http://freefeast.info/general-it-articles/steve-jobs-as-a-boss-an-employees-worst-nightmare/
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/steve-jobs-was-not-warm-and-fuzzy-biographer/articleshow/10469476.cms

The common perception among Slashdotters is that while Bill Gates may cause us some professional difficulties, he makes up for it with an exemplary philanthropic record.

Not me. I've voiced my concerns that are not so warmly received.

The short of it is that I think what Gates is doing is great but I don't understand why they buy research facilities in America and not Africa or why all the drug companies that get to sell their cures to Africa are all American. I mean without stability, roads and other infrastructure, Africa is going to constantly need someone else to fix their problems. And the money from the B&G Foundation stays in America invested in American companies that pays out to American companies that provide "cures" for Africa. It will perpetually work that way.

Imagine aliens landed on Earth, took an assessment of us and were saddened to see war, pollution, poverty, etc. So they say they're going to help us and they buy 10 long range matter transmitters from another alien race and give them to Earth. But if we ask them on how to make the transmitters ourselves they just laugh and say "Please, you're still searching for subatomic particles. Plus, you're just going to use them for war if you can make them. And on top of that, you would have to pay sums you cannot fathom to the alien race who invented these machines. When these break, we'll get you some new ones." Meanwhile they're receiving accolades from the galactic senate and Earth remains full of war, pollution, poverty, etc.

It's a horrible truth but the one thing Africa has a lot of is humans. Life is cheap there. If you want to reverse that, you need to introduce stability and then farming and then commerce. There are huge areas where crime, corruption and warlords make it impossible to raise crops. Curing malaria is important but it isn't going to stop that from being the hungriest place on Earth. And it's not going to raise the value of human life there. Gates' idea to fix that is to pair up with Monsanto (surprise another American company with tons of IP). Right. I wonder if they'll patent the seeds they breed that grow well in regions of Africa?

Just like thinking up a new microfinancing system can win you a Nobel Prize, ideas on how to make areas secure and stable will go much further for farming in Africa than importing Monsanto seed with terminator genes.

Did you forget the part of "Girl is out for money" (last paragraph of guardian/entire other article) among other things?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-09/us/28247531_1_wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-swedish-women-condom

only that this study was far from conclusive.

Fine, this study was not conclusive. How about we add in this study (2008), the same comment from the Mayo Clinic, this study (2012) or this one (2012).

They all say the same thing: getting dirty as a kid and growing up in a rural environment reduces ones vulnerabilities to infections and afflictions. It's called the hygiene hypothesis and makes perfect sense when the evidence is examined.

People, particularly kids, who grow in more sterile environments (constantly using hand sanitizers, over using antibiotics, keeping everything spotless) on the whole, have more allergies and other issues than those who don't go OCD or, if you prefer, Monk.

Not sure how much more evidence you need when it's staring you in the face.

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Here is an extract from the "Times of India" article. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/FIR-against-rationalist-cops-call-him-for-questioning/articleshow/12681927.cms Note the excuse made by those who complained. MUMBAI: The Juhu police have registered an FIR against president of the Indian Rationalist Association (IRA) Sanal Edamaruku under Section 295 (defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class) of the Indian Penal Code. The police have called him for questioning. The Organisation of Concerned Catholics (OCC) and the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) had lodged complaints against Sanal at the Juhu and Andheri police stations. Sanal had come to the city recently to investigate the issue of water dripping from a cross at Irla. Sanal, whose trip was sponsored by a TV channel, had said that the phenomenon was not a miracle and caused by capillary action. OCC members said they were not upset with Sanal for saying the phenomenon was not a miracle. They were hurt by statements he allegedly made against the Pope and Catholic clergy.

Wonder how much of it is due to funds coming from Pakistan to ensure that tensions remain high in India. Some Indian states already try to bridge the gap with affirmative action for Muslims. But there's always some issue that crops up and sets everything back.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-03-26/news/27624391_1_muslims-in-government-jobs-muslim-castes-muslims-and-christians

No doubt you will feel cheated if Australia doesn't receive all the benefits of Chinese attention that the United States has received.

FBI cracks down on China's elusive army of amateur spies

The FBI estimates that more than 3,000 "front companies" have been established by Chinese nationals in the US specifically to purloin military and economic secrets illegally.

Let Me Count The Ways China Is Stealing Our Secrets

China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets

This CRS Report discusses China’s suspected acquisition of U.S. nuclear weapon secrets, including that on the W88, the newest U.S. nuclear warhead.

China's Secret War

Of course, why worry?

China warns Australia against military pact with US
Aussies fear threat of war with China

I wasn't aware that anyone actually took those allegations seriously. They basically amount to a condom having broken and claiming that he intentionally broke the condom, or that he began having sex with them while they were asleep. IIRC, after originally issueing the warrants (or whatever) in Sweden, a higher up judge later dismissed it for lack of evidence, which was then later overturned by another higher up. These women were openly bragging about their relationship with him only days before filing charges, and only did so once they found out he was involved with both of them. They were both seen attending one of his speeches and comfortable watching (this is on video) a few days later. It's rather transparent that the US government (among others) are using BS sex-crime allegations to try and silence someone blowing the whistle on their corrupt practices. Try this, if you'd actually like to hear the other side of the story (that doesn't involve the political motivation to shut down wikileaks and scare off other whistleblowers).

The mainland Chinese office is not the "corporate office" of Proview. Both Proview in Shenzhen and the Proview in Taiwan are subsidiaries of Proview International Holdings listed in Hong Kong. According to this article they first tried this in a Hong Kong court which ruled in Apple's favor. So the "Corporate" office tried this once failed and then moved onto another subsidiary that was in a jurisdiction known for less than honest courts. Their claim may still be valid but the jurisdiction shopping aspect of this makes it look less likely to me. What I don't understand is why Apple would deal with the Taiwan portion of the company vs. the Hong Kong parent in the first place. They defiantly made a mistake by not going to the top of the organization. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/chinese-firm-in-ipad-row-threatens-to-sue-apple-in-us/articleshow/11925050.cms

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I have no fixed British paper currently I use this to find them. I look for ones with high online presence who are not pernicious asses about subscribing and who keep the tabliod pablum low. I choose one and read it for a week if I can stand it then pick another. Newspapers that are not professional are ignored. I don't provide a list as others may like ones I would not. I also pick single British news articles off google news if it looks like it wasn't written by a rabid wombat.
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The Times of India in English.
Good articles and better written than most US news sources. Their RSS feeds are fine and there are enough choices to be daunting at first.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

Middle east
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz in English.
http://www.haaretz.com/
and Al Jazeera in English
http://www.aljazeera.com/
Picking the peanuts out is trying. Read these together and make comparisons between them and other sources.

Pravda in English.
I've read enough stories they've written that provide a lot more information than other news sources that has shown to be accurate. I'm more impressed with them than propaganda would lead me to believe. They cannot be as free about in country reporting but international reporting can be very good. You have to read them with an eye to government propaganda but where they can they do fine original work.
http://english.pravda.ru/

Japan
I don't have one.

Some of the rest.
Finding a newspaper that is not censored or self-censoring to protect itself in some areas is difficult. A lot of newspapers have no choice. If I see an article I find interesting that occurred in a country known for censorship I also check surround countries news sources and others in country. I don't rigorously do this as I can only dedicate a fixed amount of time to being a news junkie.

If anyone has a pointer to a small, well written, non-tabloid, smart Australian online news source post it. I'm not seeing much I care about as most of it is cut and paste from others or is tabloid pablum.

Apologies for the delayed reply.. India has a different definition regarding where its poverty line lies.

I tried to find the statistics I used in my reply above, but can't seem to find them. Any way, here's an article from The Times of India from May of 2011 that might throw some light on the facts.

Just a reminder.. The exchange rate is: $1 USD = Rs.51.71 INR.
As per my calculations, the Urban Poverty Line lies at $7.16 per year while the Rural Poverty Line lies at $3.48 a year.
Of course, this data is a bit out of date.. However, considering inflation levels and the massively slow ambling of the government, I think the point comes through quite clearly.

I hope this info satisfies your curiosity. God knows, I wish more people were as interested. :(

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen! How many times can the same story be recycled over the course of two years?

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January 1, 2012 - Facebook flirting triggers divorces

Slow news cycle? Nothing else to publish? Blame Facebook for divorce!

and to think I was just reading about the number of call centers in the philippians recently bypass the number in india. Will they be passing our personal financial information on to terrorists??? I mean at$t is using call centers in the philippians. That to me is scarey, especially after the recent attack from there.

"More Filipinos - about 400,000 - than Indians now spend their nights talking to mostly American consumers, industry officials said, as companies like AT&T, JPMorgan Chase and Expedia have hired call centres here, or built their own. The jobs have come from the United States, Europe and, to some extent, India as outsourcers followed their clients to the Philippines."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Philippines-beats-India-in-call-centre-agents/articleshow/10898864.cms