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So, let's examine the logic here. How can INFORMATION flow be improved, by repealing PRODUCT embargoes on Cuba? We already have a free internet. Cuba chooses to censor that internet and deny its citizens potentially harmful thought. Why could this be so? Could it be that Cuba could discover that better systems are available, and that it's totally bogus that their countrymen are imprisoned just because they disobey the authorities?

For your second sentence, it's the false equivalency so beloved these days. If Party A does something bad, and Party B does something bad, then Party A's evil is totally excused by Party B's actions.

I think its more like one of these..
http://media.monstersandcritics.com/galleries/2022646/0194988255085.jpg

I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with this: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1644803.php/Norway-to-scale-back-contribution-to-Libya-no-fly-zone-operation and everything to do with them hating Norway for their freedom.

The number of people helped by Caritas soared by 30 per cent to more than 60,000 this year - and the organization says it does not have enough resources to attend to all those in need.

About 600,000 Portuguese aged over 65 years are undernourished or even suffer from outright hunger, according to a recent study by the organization NutriAction.

The social organization Banco Alimentar, which feeds about 240,000 people daily, says 27 per cent of the 10-million-strong population goes without eating at least one day per month.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/features/article_1601310.php/Poverty-fuels-anger-during-general-strike-in-Portugal-News-Feature

This is where I live, and it's getting worse, not better.

OBL's family wasn't anywhere near OBL, otherwise they would either be dead or in position to describe what happened, neither of these two cases being true.

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Amal al-Sada was shot in the leg as she rushed the Navy SEALs, according to U.S. officials. She is now in Pakistani custody, along with her daughter and two other bin Laden wives, according to Pakistani officials, who say they eventually will be repatriated.-- Bin Laden's Wife: I'll Stand With You

Next.

Please show us a video of OBL that is after 2001. I bet you cannot find one. The 2007 video is clearly a fake, since he appears younger.

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Oct. 29, 2004: Osama Bin Laden Video Message

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Wanted: dyed and alive. Bin Laden reappears – and he’s had a makeover
Of course you weren't thinking that hair dye isn't invented till the year 2200, were you?

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The locals know nothing more about OBL than we do. If they did know more, OBL would have been betrayed along time ago.

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BACKGROUND: The Haqqani group, al-Qaeda's own Taliban

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Osama is dead from 2001. US waited a long time to present his death to us, when the time was right.

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See video from 2004, and this: Osama bin Laden Killed: 'Justice Is Done,' President Says

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If Al Qaeda is driven by CIA, MI6 and Mossad, then its no wonder Al Qaeda announced OBL's death. Why would they need to announce it anyway?

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The US had the body, there was nowhere for Al Qaeda to go, was there? Try to say, "He's not dead!", and the US could produce either the body or the photos. Then there would be the awkward question of, "If he's not dead, why isn't he saying anything?" For Al Qaeda to try to cover up Bin Laden's death would have been more pathetic than the idea that, "Al Qaeda is driven by CIA, MI6 and Mossad". Well, there is also the fact that Muslims from around the world have been recruited to fight and die for Al Qaeda, and apparently none of them would have noticed that it was run by Americans, British, and Jews? Really? The fact that Bin Laden's wife saw him killed would also make that awkward, wouldn't it? If you've paid attention, you know that al Qaeda has announced the death of its regional leader in other places, such as Iraq.

You might want to try reading from a broader range of media - you've got things pretty much backwards. Maybe you can start here

Well it does look like they have finally got this under control, at least for the most part.

Plugging one leak does not mean the situation is even close to being under control. Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said:

... no further leakage has been detected from the pit. But there is a possibility that the water, which has lost an outlet, could show up from other areas of the plant.

The highly radioactive water is believed to have come from the No. 2 reactor core, where fuel rods have partially melted, and ended up in the pit. The pit is connected to the No. 2 reactor turbine building and an underground trench connected to the building, both of which were found to be filled with highly contaminated water.

Thousands of tons of highly radioactive water had already been found in many places outside the reactor buildings even before the direct leak into the ocean was discovered. Is there anything more substantial than crossed fingers and wishful thinking that makes you think the flow of highly radioactive water will halt now that they've plugged the direct outlet into the ocean?

In addition:

According to estimates by TEPCO announced Wednesday, 25 percent of the nuclear fuel rods have been damaged at the No. 3 reactor. The company earlier said that 70 percent of the No. 1 reactor's fuel rods and 30 percent of the No. 2 reactor's fuel rods have been damaged.

Nishiyama said past hydrogen explosions have likely occurred due to hydrogen accumulation caused by the reaction of melted fuel rods' zirconium with steam from the coolant water. But now there is concern that hydrogen could accumulate in the No. 1 reactor under a different process involving radiation-induced decomposition of water into hydrogen and oxygen.

The installation of billion dollar radiation shielding around the reactor buildings has to be delayed until at least September because, of the high level of radioactivity. In other words, they need to wait for the current levels of radioactivity to decay before it is safe enough to install radiation shielding. So, ISTM, the September date is optimistically assuming the ongoing contamination will magically stop. Yet, even if the shielding could be installed tomorrow:

Some experts were sceptical about the feasibility of the measure as the step would have only limited effects in blocking the release of radioactive substances.

That is because the bulk of the release of radioactivity is downward in the water, not upward into the air. The shielding story highlights the challenge they are up against. The level of radioactivity around the plants (and in the plants) is so high, it is impeding their efforts to control the amount of radioactivity escaping. For example, work to restore the primary cooling system for reactor #2 has been halted for almost two weeks because of the high levels of radiation in the turbine building. The radiation level, due to highly radioactive water in the building, is over one sievert per hour. So a worker hits their lifetime dose limit less than 15 minutes. Someone who lingers there for an 8 hour shift will die regardless of what treatment they receive. It's been reported that the level of radioactivity in reactor buildings 1, 2, and 3 is too high to measure.

They are pouring hundreds of tons of uncontaminated water onto (into?) the reactors every day to cool them. Thousands of tons of this water has come out contaminated with radioactivity and has flooded the turbine buildings, tunnels outside the buildings, and the ground. They don't know how the water is getting contaminated or the routes it is taking

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/fl-endangered-sharks-20101030,0,1055241.story

This happened with sharks after Jaws and continues to this very day. The original author of Jaws, Peter Benchley, said that he regretted writing the novel and the creation of the film because it lead to the mass killing of so many species of sharks.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/books/news/article_1097132.php/Peter_Benchley_author_of_Jaws_dies_at_65

this one cost 25% more than 2006

We all know that a highly contested midterm election is going to be expensive, that's not in contention.

You're claiming that it's being bankrolled by "corporate paymasters" who will get a "huge ROI." Evidence, please.

this one cost 25% more than 2006

These guys got away with it, but they're probably wanted by Interpol.

The American media still love to jab the Russians. It's an old, childish resentment going back to the Cold War and the space race. Even today, you'll find thousands of American-made documentaries about the space race in which the Soviets are only mentioned as an afterthought (even though they pioneered almost every space "first" from 1957-1969). I've only seen one English documentary that even tried to deal seriously with the Soviet space program (and, of course, you can't buy it in the U.S., it was only released in Region 2 and only aired once in the U.S., on the National Geographic Channel)

it could be as easy as determining regional weak points, and a terrorist cell can launch BLU-114/B carbon filament warheads in enough areas simultaneously to cause a cascade blackout. the technology has already been in news in Taiwan.

(man i can't wait to get that phone call from Homeland Security tonight.)

Actually I think they can revoke a players right to play a blu-ray disk by revoking the decryption keys, in effect making the movie useless if they revoked the keys that a player uses. Eventually a player would stop functioning all together for any new disks, making it essentially useless.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/news/article_1289226.php/AACS_revokes_released_HD-DVD_and_Blu-ray_keys

this idea.

Last year, we read about/or i read about:

http://corporate.honda.com/safety/details.aspx?id=pedestrian

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/autos/news/article_1435518.php/Honda_improves_pedestrian_safety_with_new_generation_dummies

http://world.honda.com/news/2004/4040824_02.html

https://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=8166

RE: wasn't there some incident where they gave up Chinese dissidents to the Chinese government?

True, but use Yahoo in your search in place of Google. [By the way they still do not see anything wrong with their role in the prosecution of this case. A few links are provided to jog your memory.]

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/news/article_1373666.php

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/16/yahoo.congress/index.html

http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2007/07/shi-taos-case-y.html

• 2000: Israel/Palestine: Armed Attacks on Civilians Condemned
• 2001: Israeli Missiles Kill Two Kids
• 2002: Panel to look into civilian deaths in 2002 IAF attack on Shehadeh
• 2003: Secrecy over shoot-to-kill fear in Gaza, Two journalists have been gunned down by Israeli troops
• 2004: TOTALS FOR 2004: Israelis: 8 Palestinians: 188
• 2005: Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order
• 2006: Teenager killed as missile explodes near school bus
• 2007: Israeli army says three children killed in Gaza were playing
• 2008: Palestinian group says Israelis killed 68 children in Gaza in year
• 2009: Israel Hits Second U.N. School, Blasts Way Into Southern Gaza

That's bullshit. Stating that "It's just the soldier's job" is the same nonsense that it was at the Nuremberg trials. Soldiers are people and they are expected to refuse both immoral and illegal orders.

maybe we shouldn't vote in bloodthirsty psychos

As opposed to the Israeli leadership?
Belgium bars Sharon war crimes trial
The man who would testify against Sharon is blown up. Was this another targeted killing?

I make no claims that the Hamas leadership is a bunch of nice guys, but you may want to do some more reseach on Israel. I'm sure you can find at least as many bad things to say about Hamas, but as the saying goes:
"Two wrongs don't make a right."

The IDF has always attacked military targets

Why should anyone believe half the crap that you spew?
Seriously, why are you so gung-ho confident about stuff that can be so easily disproven with 60 seconds of googling? Its like you are repeating something someone else told you and never bothered to question it.

has a home that costs thousands of dollars a month in electricity,

the 60- to 70-year-old house is undergoing renovations to add solar panels to reduce consumption off the power grid, and energy-efficient windows have been installed. The home also uses "compact" fluorescent light bulbs and other energy-saving technology, the Gores drive hybrids and participate in two programs that indirectly reduce carbon emissions.

One is through the local power company -- the massive Tennessee Valley Authority -- which runs the Green Power Switch program that uses some renewable energy like wind and solar power. The second is through a so-called carbon credit program, in which the Gores pay money to invest in a third party to reduce one ton of carbon emissions for every ton of carbon the Gores emit.
--Fox News

, and does very little himself monetarily speaking to help with environmental groups, despite all of the millions he is pulling in from his "documentary"

"My wife Tipper and I are devoting 100% of whatever profits we receive from both the movie and the book to a new organization of The Alliance for Climate Protection that environmental groups in the United States have helped to initiate, but goes beyond environmental groups to include faith groups, labor and business groups and they are planning now a nation-wide persuasion campaign in the United States.

And in fact, Paramount has done something unprecedented in agreeing to contribute 5% of its domestic gross [not just profits] from this movie. They have already committed $5,000 as a minimum."
--Cannes Interview with Gore

Um...one word? Blackwater. I have NO problems with the soldiers of the US military,I have many friends that have fought in Iraq. What I have a problem with is the fact that the government seems to be in love with mercs,who WILL end up with this technology. The men and women I know who have served believe in words like honor and justice. A merc will happily shoot an entire family for a paycheck. To see what kind of guys they are simply read here. And now it looks like they are being used on US soil which means it ain't just Iraqis that have to worry.

And the simple fact of the matter is the Army Rangers don't need this stuff.They already ARE invisible. believe me,I know. I had a buddy who was a Ranger get me a visitor pass to watch some exercises in the '80s,and he and his buddies decided to play "spook the hippie". needless to say,I was the hippie. We were walking to the range when suddenly the ground moved and I'm surrounded by Rangers. Hell,I wasn't a foot from them and I never knew they were there. And just as quickly they blended back into their surroundings and were gone. What worries me about this stuff is it in the hands of mercs like Blackwater. Would we have ever had King's "I have a dream" speech if this kind of tech was in the hands of mercs then?

What worries me is the genie getting out of the bottle. Like an earlier poster said,what if you wrap a chemical or biological bomb in this stuff? Do you think your average police force is going to have the tech to detect this stuff? But as always this is my 02c,YMMV. And as far as you accusing me of Karma whoring,mine has been at excellent for years and I couldn't honestly care less. Anyone who has read my past posts knows I simply speak what is on my mind. And this tech looks like it is going to bring a world of bad and little if any good. Maybe we'll get lucky and it won't be horribly abused. But I'm not betting on it.

Breeder plants have been on the books since the early 1970's. Fundamentally, they're a good idea; interesting thing is that South Africa is buying the Soviets missiles, and converting them to be used in reactor plants. Some good things might come from this. Namely (1)the turning of "swords" to "plowshares", (ie. missiles to energy plants). (2) It gives time for the intelligent types time to invent some kind of massive filter method for depleting radio active matter for reuse. (3) Maybe drive down the cost of shipping by installing nuclear reactors in cargo ships.

This is:

"Bertelsmann is to publish a single-volume book of the German Wikipedia, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland. 20 euros a copy, 1 euro from each copy to go to Wikimedia. They're taking the intro section from 25-50,000 articles for the 1000-page book, to be released in September. Who says open source writing can't work?"

As a user of comcast who is willing to equitably share the service, you might best understand a different perception of heavy downloaders from this story and the picture accompaning it.

http://people.monstersandcritics.com/bizarre/news/article_1384370.php/Louisiana_fat_people_banned_from_All_You_Can_Eat_Buffet

Well, reports mention SJ wants 1M iphones sold by end of Sept. Further reports indicate the July pace shows it might fall short.

That's actually a bad article about a real issue. A better article is here.

Intel's AMT technology puts special purpose hardware in the network controller which recognizes UDP and TCP packets on ports 16992, 16993, 16994, and 16995. This is completely independent of the operating system. Various system administration functions can be performed. Anybody can inventory the machine and read its ID. Other functions, like power off/on, reboot, user disable (disables keyboard/mouse/on-off switch) and remote disk I/O require a password or crypto key.

This has been around for a while; the previous version was called IPMI, Intelligent Platform Management Interface. It talked UDP only. AMT also talks TCP and HTTP; there's a whole protocol stack in the network controller now just for this. This was originally a server farm management system, but now it's on desktops, too. If HTTP mode is enabled, you can control the machine from a web browser via port 16692.

It even works while the computer is "turned off"; it's part of "wake on LAN" functionality.

Supposedly, there is no valid default password or key, and the feature is supposedly off by default. But if any software ever enables this, you're 0wned.

The computer manufacturer can preload management keys. "An OEM may supply platforms with a PID-PPS pair already written to the Intel AMT Flash memory.", according to Intel. If a vendor does that, they 0wn your computer. Something to watch for. AMT can also be enabled from the Intel Management BIOS extension screen. (Password: "admin", it says in the manual.)

The normal way AMT keys get loaded in a corporate environment is that you plug in a USB key with a special file ("setup.bin") and power cycle the machine. The machine then tries to connect to the mothership on port 9971, doing a DNS lookup for "ProvisionServer" if no IP address was specified.

If you don't want AMT enabled, here's how to disable it:, "Intel AMT is returned to Factory Mode by selecting the Unprovision option on the BIOS Extension menu or by disabling Intel AMT from the BIOS extension Manageability Feature Selection."

The whole AMT system is reasonably designed; it even has Kerberos authentication. But it's so powerful and so hidden that if it's ever enabled, it's worse than a root kit. Even reinstalling the OS won't help.

Here's Intel's technical info about AMT.

This article mentions "kernel patching" which is definitely an area that was locked down in Windows Vista for improved security. If Apple was hacking the kernel as part of their DRM implementation, their technique could well run afoul of this change. I personally equate the conspiracy theories in this thread with the idea that a secret cabal is really running the entire world. It's appealing to some people and it makes them feel safer than the more likely reality that nobody is doing this stuff intentionally or that any specific intellect is truely behind it all, much in the same way our ancestors found it comforting to think they were being boned by Zues or Hera on purpose instead of bad things just happening. Microsoft is not the same company it was in 1995, large numbers of the old timers from those days have retired or at least moved on to other areas of the company, and much of the daily work on the code is being done by people who've only been with the company on the order of 2 or 3 years. There is an entire department concerned with legal compliance, and between them and the security groups have most of the real authority these days. Microsoft did more than best effort to educate the world about the changes coming in the new OS. Lots of companies either convinced themselves that it would never ship, that their software was too "important" for Microsoft to break and not hack up their OS to make it work, choose willful ignorance, or saw it as an opportunity to shiv each other and/or Microsoft in the press for their own gains. The final builds of the OS were available to MSDN Subscribers and through the Beta programs in November of last year, so it was technically possible to have most compatibility issues resolved well before Jan 30th. The reality is that corporations do not typically operate on a rational, logical basis. More often priorities are set based on mandates from ill-informed executives in combination with reactive in-bound support issues. Even many Microsoft teams took the same "we'll deal with it after the building is on fire instead of before" attitude, so it really shouldn't' surprise anyone that the entire software industry has a similar attitude. Still, you have to start somewhere and after a five year lull, things in the world of Windows software has gotten "interesting" (in that Chinese proverb kind of way for some) again.

I don't think this is the reason for the great lakes water level dropping, not to mention the water levels (at least on lake michigan) fluctuate so much anyhow... And based on this - they see other problems that seem to contribute to it more.

I'm currently lying in bed, using my (powernowd) laptop, my usb bluetooth headphones, and my usb laser mouse, as well as posting this comment over my wifi connection -- all of which worked without any linux voodoo whatsoever. The only thing that required anything custom was getting the ati mobile video card working (with 3d accelertion -- worked just fine out of the box), which required a grand total of 5 minutes and a how-to on wiki.ubuntu.com . Doing the same thing in Windows required a grand total of 4 different driver CDs, which installed 3 different system tray icons and god knows how many background processes. I'm not saying that Ubuntu is perfect, but it's getting there, and if something doesn't work out of the box, a quick search on the wiki or the forums makes it do so. And guess what? It might require a little reading. But I never claimed that your grandmother could install Ubuntu; I claimed that most people "in the know" who don't enjoy buttering their little cornholes will have switched to an operating system made by a company who's not completely out of touch with the real world.

Your data on SUV sales is utterly incorrect. The data (with links):

Ford SUV sales lead to loss: "7/21/2006 - Ford Motor Co. reported an unexpected quarterly loss Thursday as sales of sport-utility vehicles plunged amid rising gasoline prices. The loss threatened Chief Executive Officer William Clay Ford Jr.'s plan to revive the No. 2 U.S. automaker."

Chrysler has slower truck and SUV sales: "9/18/2006 - DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group said at the weekend it could lose about $US1.27 billion this year, a much deeper loss than it forecast in July because of mounting inventory and slower truck and SUV sales."

German premium car makers hit by slump in SUV sales: "9/13/2006 - Germany's premium car makers are feeling the pinch as consumers in the United States, the world's biggest car market, are turning their backs on fuel-guzzling SUVs."

Chrysler slashes production of trucks, SUVs: "9/19/2006 - In the meantime, the company plans to significantly scale back on truck and SUV output due to a decline in sales of such vehicles. Trucks and SUVs, which historically represent about three-quarters of Chrysler's volume and return generous profits, have been under pressure in the U.S. due to high gasoline prices, [DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter] Zetsche said."

When you go to Google, you are confronted with 35 languages (most of them real) for their website. I do not think that ICANN is forcing websites to work in English. Foreign language users have plenty of content and more with every passing second!

Of course other countries do such a better job at managing domains.

I google news searched the topic ... and only got 1 result ... M&C Science & Nature ... Is this real?

As stated before, this is old news. However, this site is posting some groundbreaking NEW news that affects the world of Apple. Check the date of the article in question...

Well, the big difference in US and Chinese censorship is: the US rarely puts their own journalists in jail for what they write.

On the other hand, there are more than a few foreigner journalists in Guantanamo Bay. A recent This American Life episode discusses a case where two satirists were held in Guantanamo for three years, largely based on two parodies they published. (Look about three minutes into the file.)

Also, "Reporters Without Borders said six Iraqi journalists were arrested by U.S. troops and held for months without charges, legal representation or visitors." (from here).

I recall a recent comment on an NPR news program: The United States is currently holding a remarkable number of journalists. Fewer than China, but within the top five nations of jailed journalists, perhaps second or third. Of course, the overwhelming majority of the jailed journalists are not American citizens.

I am sorry that I can't find the article at present and so perhaps you will doubt my claim. I wouldn't blame you and I wish I knew where I heard the claim.

Again, are China and the US moral equals when it comes to censorship? No, certainly not. On this, you and I agree. But you asked for examples of US government censorship. Now, jailing journalists for what they write in other countries is not exactly censorship, but it's troubling nonetheless.

The total number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq through Tuesday, March 21 since the start of U.S. operations to topple Saddam Hussein on March 19, 2003, was 2,319, according to official figures issued by the Department of Defense, a rise of 49 in the past 39 days or an average of just over 1.3 killed per day. source

Someone mod parent down. Its pure fantasy and a troll.

Please note: the above sentance was not a quote from the parent of this post, I just happen to have used the same wording because I have the same feelings.

"Microsoft 'has become known for' providing timely patches for their software like no-one else. "

Microsoft's patches are coming quicker than they used to, which is probably why more of them seem to be causing problems.

Timely patches like no-one else? I don't think so. I know Microsoft has left critical flaws unpatched for longer than others...

"I can't say I ever noticed a patch screwing up a machine."

You and me are a pretty small percentage of the world's Windows users, so I don't think it really matters. Here are a few articles pointing to problems with Microsoft's patches:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2154155/users-fe el-pain-latest
http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingn ews.jhtml?articleId=185302749
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=180202426
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/17/ms_patch_g litch/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/12/ms_pulls_s ecurity_patch/
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=168600620
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_79 92.php/Faulty_Microsoft_patches_highlight_quality_ concerns
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5648595.html
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNCID=43 &CIaNID=18362

In related news, stem cell transplants can repair injured spinal cords in rats!

2005. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/articl e_1137269.php/U.S._losing_pulp_and_paper_mill_capa city

if like me you lived in one of the larger paper lumber harvesting regions of the US like me you'd have known that paper companies had been liquidating their assets for more than a year, to try to compensate for lower demand/more competeitive global markets.

yup, the sale of former timbering grounds have freed up massive chunks of valuable real-estate at rock bottom prices, at least here in wisconsin.

As the saying goes, Let's eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

HopeSeekr of xMule

First, the data is know to be fake. From this link:

http://news.pajamasmedia.com/world/2005/12/15/6683 762_Doctor_Cloning_P.shtml

Roh also told MBC television that Hwang had pressured a former scientist at his lab to fake data to make it look like there were 11 stem cell colonies.

In a separate report, a former researcher told MBC that Hwang ordered him to fabricate photos to make it appear there were 11 separate colonies from only three.

"This is something I shouldn't have done," said the researcher, who was identified only by his last name, Kim, and whose face was not shown. "I had no choice but to do it."

Second, from this link:

http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article _1073161.php/Disgraced_Korean_cloning_pioneer_pres sured_woman_colleague

It quoted the woman as saying she felt 'forced' to donate egg cells, having been told that if she did not do so her name would be removed from a research document published in 2004.

I hardly need to make editorial comment on these facts. Those without ethics will continue to insist nothing is wrong. Those of us with ethics shudder with revultion and hope the guy never works in a postition of authority again.

Germany closes tax loophole for Hollywood

Hollywood's Big Loss - No more free money from Germany

I find it odd that Slashdot reports on this only AFTER it's no longer true :)

OK. I did a google news search, and now I think I get it.

According to (a news site I've never heard of before) this article, ... the three-day summit is being overshadowed by criticism of the human rights situation in Tunisia and several attacks on foreign journalists reporting on this issue..

Seems like the human rights situation in Tunisia has nothing to do with the internet conference. That makes much more sense to me. I suppose if it was related to the internet conference, instead of reporters being beaten, CNN would have reported Ahead of the summit, rights watchdogs say, both Tunisian and foreign reporters have been harassed and flamed .

If the manufacturing breakthough talked about in this article pans out, the cost of Quantum Dot manufacture will drop from $2,000 to $400 per gram. That's huge improvement, but I still wouldn't expect to see Quantum Dot lightbulbs on ThinkGeek anytime soon...

Who is the third?! Deaths always come in threes.

Well, we have a few candidates: Hunter S. Thompson?(Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).

Or Sandra Dee(also known as Gidget)

Or Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)

FORTRAN?

SCO?

Delicious Delicacies?

Spreadfirefox.com?

The company project manager?