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It says something along the lines - "DNR captured this BUK on 29/June/2014, from UA AA base".

Ok thanks for the clarification. Terrorists indeed claimed to have stolen a BUK system from local Donbass military base, on 29/06: https://twitter.com/kram_ua/st... Here's another claim - they're saying they fixed it: https://twitter.com/Dbnmjr/sta...
UA army claimed all BUKs were crippled beyond repair, so it is also likely that specialists and materials needed for repair (if it indeed happened) came from Russia.

Or what was stolen was rather less "crippled" than the Ukrainian Government would like to admit.
It isn't as if politicians tend to be the most honest of people, even in peacetime.

Ok thanks for the clarification. Terrorists indeed claimed to have stolen a BUK system from local Donbass military base, on 29/06: https://twitter.com/kram_ua/st... Here's another claim - they're saying they fixed it: https://twitter.com/Dbnmjr/sta...
UA army claimed all BUKs were crippled beyond repair, so it is also likely that specialists and materials needed for repair (if it indeed happened) came from Russia.

Or what was stolen was rather less "crippled" than the Ukrainian Government would like to admit.
It isn't as if politicians tend to be the most honest of people, even in peacetime.

Ok thanks for the clarification. Terrorists indeed claimed to have stolen a BUK system from local Donbass military base, on 29/06: https://twitter.com/kram_ua/st... Here's another claim - they're saying they fixed it: https://twitter.com/Dbnmjr/sta...

UA army claimed all BUKs were crippled beyond repair, so it is also likely that specialists and materials needed for repair (if it indeed happened) came from Russia

Also, there's a series of intercepted phone calls between terrorists on 16-17th of July, where they discuss BUK system newly arrived from Russia.

Ok thanks for the clarification. Terrorists indeed claimed to have stolen a BUK system from local Donbass military base, on 29/06: https://twitter.com/kram_ua/st... Here's another claim - they're saying they fixed it: https://twitter.com/Dbnmjr/sta...

UA army claimed all BUKs were crippled beyond repair, so it is also likely that specialists and materials needed for repair (if it indeed happened) came from Russia

Also, there's a series of intercepted phone calls between terrorists on 16-17th of July, where they discuss BUK system newly arrived from Russia.

Yet another NSA shill pointing fingers at someone else

To distract you from US gov disinfo and cover up projects like congressedits.

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Simply put, Americans, don't worry about what others are doing, whatever bad is happening outside the US, your government is doing it 10 times worse and you're taking the blame for them.

They are still useful. For example, they might shed some light on whether this is true or not.

Yes, BUK is large, slow, heavy, easy to spot. And guess what? There are numerous photos and videos of this BUK spotted in the area on the day of the tragedy.

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/07/17/7032237/
https://www.facebook.com/dmitr...
https://twitter.com/Dbnmjr/sta...

Russia supported terrorists with tanks, armored vehicles, ammunition, grenades etc since early April. It has been confirmed by numerous sources - by locals, UA military, by terrorists themselves. What makes it unlikely for them to smuggle in a few BUK-s and a few specialists as well? Given that, after all, the major issue terrorists had do deal with was UA air forces?

There's actually no contradiction here. https://twitter.com/kram_ua/st... -- this is a picture by rebels claiming that they stole BUK from UA army. Next thing that happens - this BUK is used to shoot down a civilian airplane. Now, who might also have BUKs up for grabs in the area? What other, huge country is close (within 15 miles range), is known to import vast amount of arms, tanks, missiles, etc into the terrorist-controlled territories?

At this moment it looks like BUKs were "thrown in" by Russia in order to suppress UA air strikes.

The president's reaction was:

"I Can haz Cheezeburger?"

No, I am not kidding:

https://twitter.com/jonkarl/st...

You can't see this? Come on, they fucking brag about it.

The article linked to originally had a picture of the tweet I mentioned, but they removed it during an update:

https://twitter.com/strobetalb...

Here, let me help you - https://twitter.com/kram_ua/st...
It says something along the lines - "DNR captured this BUK on 29/June/2014, from UA AA base".

Well, the plane was shot down over territories controlled by pro-Russian terrorists. Just before noon, there was a few posts by them claiming that they have a powerful anti-aircraft missile system installed in this very area. There are videos of this, etc.. take a look -

https://twitter.com/kram_ua/status/489819473789333505/photo/1

It roughly says the following: "Anti-aircraft system BUK, on territory of anti-aircraft site PVO A1402 controlled by DNR (name of this pro-Russian terrorist organization)". Date: 29/06/2014.

Having lived in LA, Seattle, Toronto, and Winnipeg, amongst other places. You might enjoy https://twitter.com/madisontra... during rush hour in Central time zone :)

Ryan recently joined AOL when they purchased GDGT, although I am pretty sure he appreciates the irony of an AOL VP complaining about not being able to easily cancel service, as a VP he probably can't express that in public...

... or maybe he can.

You would think people that lie for a living wouldn't be so damn blatant. https://twitter.com/congressed... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/inde...

https://twitter.com/SpaceX

Rocket booster reentry, landing burn & leg deploy were good, but lost hull integrity right after splashdown (aka kaboom).

Detailed review of rocket telemetry needed to tell if due to initial splashdown or subsequent tip over and body slam

Custom cases for phones/electronics projects (Raspberry Pi comes to mind), prototypes of all sorts of things (custom rings is one I saw in their twitter feed, heck I read a story about a surgeon in the UK who used 3D printing to make models of bones and organs to practice surgery procedures on saving several thousand pounds and several weeks vs traditional hand made models.

The question is "How much overlap is there between the MakerBot market and the Home Depot shopper market?" My anecdotal experience says there is not a lot of overlap. The pros are buying in bulk at a discount and for them time is money. Waiting hours to make a widget isn't what they are looking for. The average homeowner wants to fix a problem or do some upgrades and needs help and advice. Tinkering with a MB machine isn't really what they want either. Sure, some MB hobbyist also shop at HD but do enough do this to but what is essentially a bleeding edge toy vs a really useful tool for regular work. Toys are nice but the market is limited.

Custom cases for phones/electronics projects (Raspberry Pi comes to mind), prototypes of all sorts of things (custom rings is one I saw in their twitter feed, heck I read a story about a surgeon in the UK who used 3D printing to make models of bones and organs to practice surgery procedures on saving several thousand pounds and several weeks vs traditional hand made models.

Well, the latest edit tweeted by @congressedits for example is this one, inserting the following into David Icke's biography: "He is also a disinformation agent funded by the [[Pleiadians]]." That's just someone wasting their and everyone else's time. That's not to say there haven't been edits on politically contentious topics from gov't IP addresses; there most certainly have, and that's why these Twitter accounts are a good idea. The downside is that long-term, they will drive this sort of editing underground. People who do want to make a politically contentious edit will go to the nearest Starbucks to avoid detection. It's an inherent weakness of Wikipedia, because on less well watched pages some of those edits always slip through. Wikipedia is full of articles edited by people with an undeclared conflict of interest. It's arguably one of the reasons for its popularity.

He is also a disinformation agent funded by the Kremlin.

Source

> Outside of Valve I don't think many developers ... pay enough attention to game design to consistently produce quality games

That's because a game is too dependent on Art + Tech. You can have the world's greatest designer but if they don't understand how to capitalize on Tech & Art _tailored_ for their project you're dead in the water.

There are few Game Designers that are recognized as delivering the goods. Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright, etc. How many of these game designers do the general public even know??

I don't see how that matters, the point is games are homogenized for the sake of market friendliness.

> Games are an awkward state of limbo these days,

AAA games maybe, but not indie.

Okay.

Content creation costs are spiraling out of control.

Why did you bold that and then not follow up on it

People are getting fed up with grind-for-gear ooh shiny with shallow gameplay.

Minecraft just reach 54 million across all platforms.
https://twitter.com/pgeuder/st...

Well that's a contradictory statement if I've ever seen one.

> Outside of Valve I don't think many developers ... pay enough attention to game design to consistently produce quality games

That's because a game is too dependent on Art + Tech. You can have the world's greatest designer but if they don't understand how to capitalize on Tech & Art _tailored_ for their project you're dead in the water.

There are few Game Designers that are recognized as delivering the goods. Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright, etc. How many of these game designers do the general public even know??
http://www.businesspundit.com/...

> Games are an awkward state of limbo these days,

AAA games maybe, but not indie. Content creation costs are spiraling out of control. People are getting fed up with grind-for-gear ooh shiny with shallow gameplay.

Minecraft just reach 54 million across all platforms.
https://twitter.com/pgeuder/st...

https://twitter.com/MeredithFrost/status/477222276866142210/photo/1

Best mockery of the 2014 World Cup logo - EVER!

Also quite accurate for the Brazil-Germany, errr, match.

Please, Please take a look at Michael Mann's Twitter stream if you think for a moment that he is a victim in any of this.

https://twitter.com/MichaelEMa...

$250 damages for ATI

The "small percentage" I mentioned was in reference to this. You can argue if you like that a ~ 27.3% increase is large but I disagree, since climate sensitivity to CO2 is widely acknowledged to be based on a geometric progression.

As I've said, we've increased CO2 by ~40% but your link refers to the CO2 rise between 1900 (290 ppm) to 2000 (369 ppm) which is an increase of ~27.24%. But we're actually living in 2014, and CO2 in real life is now at ~400 ppm because we're increasing it so rapidly that even NOAA websites rapidly go out of date. That's a ~37.93% increase even if you take "1900" to be the start of the the Industrial Revolution.

Also, climate sensitivity is logarithmic, not geometric. But it's hard to remember that our CO2 emissions are probably more rapid than any events in the last 300 million years. Even logarithmic climate sensitivity allows for accelerating warming if the CO2 concentration rises faster than exponentially. Since 1960, atmospheric CO2 concentration has risen faster than exponentially. Tamino showed this by taking the logarithm of the Mauna Loa measurements and noting a statistically significant acceleration.

We also need to keep in mind, though, what percentage that is of the overall atmosphere: (CO2 % of all atmosphere [wikimedia.org]. Which is a very small percentage indeed, even though Wikipedia puts it higher than NCDC does in the above page.

Why do we need to keep that in mind, any more than we need to keep in mind the very small percentage of alcohol or LSD in the bloodstream? The same percentage increase of ~40% also occurs when we notice that before 1850 there were ~4 kg of CO2 over each square meter of Earth's surface. Now there are ~6. We did that.

The "small percentage" I mentioned was in reference to this. You can argue if you like that a ~ 27.3% increase is large but I disagree, since climate sensitivity to CO2 is widely acknowledged to be based on a geometric progression.

As I've said, we've increased CO2 by ~40% but your link refers to the CO2 rise between 1900 (290 ppm) to 2000 (369 ppm) which is an increase of ~27.24%. But we're actually living in 2014, and CO2 in real life is now at ~400 ppm because we're increasing it so rapidly that even NOAA websites rapidly go out of date. That's a ~37.93% increase even if you take "1900" to be the start of the the Industrial Revolution.

Also, climate sensitivity is logarithmic, not geometric. But it's hard to remember that our CO2 emissions are probably more rapid than any events in the last 300 million years. Even logarithmic climate sensitivity allows for accelerating warming if the CO2 concentration rises faster than exponentially. Since 1960, atmospheric CO2 concentration has risen faster than exponentially. Tamino showed this by taking the logarithm of the Mauna Loa measurements and noting a statistically significant acceleration.

We also need to keep in mind, though, what percentage that is of the overall atmosphere: (CO2 % of all atmosphere [wikimedia.org]. Which is a very small percentage indeed, even though Wikipedia puts it higher than NCDC does in the above page.

Why do we need to keep that in mind, any more than we need to keep in mind the very small percentage of alcohol or LSD in the bloodstream? The same percentage increase of ~40% also occurs when we notice that before 1850 there were ~4 kg of CO2 over each square meter of Earth's surface. Now there are ~6. We did that.

The "small percentage" I mentioned was in reference to this. You can argue if you like that a ~ 27.3% increase is large but I disagree, since climate sensitivity to CO2 is widely acknowledged to be based on a geometric progression.

As I've said, we've increased CO2 by ~40% but your link refers to the CO2 rise between 1900 (290 ppm) to 2000 (369 ppm) which is an increase of ~27.24%. But we're actually living in 2014, and CO2 in real life is now at ~400 ppm because we're increasing it so rapidly that even NOAA websites rapidly go out of date. That's a ~37.93% increase even if you take "1900" to be the start of the the Industrial Revolution.

Also, climate sensitivity is logarithmic, not geometric. But it's hard to remember that our CO2 emissions are probably more rapid than any events in the last 300 million years. Even logarithmic climate sensitivity allows for accelerating warming if the CO2 concentration rises faster than exponentially. Since 1960, atmospheric CO2 concentration has risen faster than exponentially. Tamino showed this by taking the logarithm of the Mauna Loa measurements and noting a statistically significant acceleration.

We also need to keep in mind, though, what percentage that is of the overall atmosphere: (CO2 % of all atmosphere [wikimedia.org]. Which is a very small percentage indeed, even though Wikipedia puts it higher than NCDC does in the above page.

Why do we need to keep that in mind, any more than we need to keep in mind the very small percentage of alcohol or LSD in the bloodstream? The same percentage increase of ~40% also occurs when we notice that before 1850 there were ~4 kg of CO2 over each square meter of Earth's surface. Now there are ~6. We did that.

I use Twitter for this purpose. A lot of news sites have their headlines integrated to it (including @slashdot of course).

Google Reader was merely the most popular 'client' app - its disappearance wouldn't spell the doom of feeds (RSS/atom/whatever), and here's why: practically all the major publishing apps have RSS functionality built-in.
Do you use Wordpress? You probably have an RSS feed whether you're aware of it or not.
Using phpBB? You probably have an RSS feed.
Started a subreddit? It comes with a bunch of feeds.

Now try to get an RSS feed for, say, https://twitter.com/slashdot .
Or how about an RSS feed for https://www.facebook.com/slash... ?

facebook still offers an RSS for timelines, but you'll have to get it first as it's keyed.
twitter doesn't offer an RSS at all, you'll just have to use the APIs (and you'll need to authenticate even if you only want public read access, so you'll have to register, too). And don't think about trying to offer an API-to-RSS bridge, Twitter doesn't take kindly to such awesomeness; http://tweet-2-rss.appspot.com...

These 'social media' platforms of course want you to stay inside their boundaries. If you want to know what @Whoever is up to, you'll just have to view twitter or, better yet, 'Follow' that user and make sure you've got yourself logged in on as many devices as possible preferably with the official twitter apps.

So what happens when a company no longer regularly posts their news or blog posts via their regular content delivery, and instead takes to twitter / facebook? The feed dies out. Sure, it's still there, and maybe once in a blue moon some new content does pop up on there.. but for that same content and everything else you'd be interested in, you'll just have to check them out on facebook and/or twitter.

It's only when companies start realizing this shift - and, again, they might not even be fully aware that they're offering a feed in the first place - that they might try shutting it down for fear of not reaching the right viewership (in the way they want, including the possibility of deleting a post that they later regret).

At least feeds will remain as the premiere way to deliver podcasts (hacked on as they are) ... until some sort of social podcasting platform emerges as the de facto standard and requires you to use their website/proprietary apps.

Journalism standards collapse: 12,600 news articles on #Assange fashion show - that #Assange hadn't even heard of

There needs to be a way to verify how the hardware operates, or you just have to trust the manufacturer. Personally, I wouldn't.

Agree. If Blackphone don't go down the hardware-checking road, that rather weakens their case. It'll take more than this. (I don't know what they mean by 'make', or even if they're correct in the first place.)

A simple solution would be to have a physical mic/camera-disconnect switch...

At this point, it has very little to do with communism. Florida is a big primary state and a big electoral state. Florida has a lot of Cuban-americans who would prefer we invade the island. They have traditionally fiercely opposed lifting the sanctions. Evidently this isn't as true as it was. Still, outside of cuban americans, not many people care one way or the other.

Thus, politicians gain very little and risk quite a bit by opposing the sanctions.

And yes, it is fucking stupid on multiple levels: it was probably always counter-productive, political leaders should show some fucking backbone and end it, citizens shouldn't be so apathetic about keeping an entire nation impoverished, and why is florida even allowed to vote?

But, dumb as all that is, "we still hate communism" is not a big reason why we still have sanctions.

I guess what the ACLU got their panties in a bunch about is that the organization also acts as a central point of contact for SWAT training/ purchases in the region.

So... a group of police, are setting their training calendars together so they can have a training session with more people at one time so they can save money on instructor costs. And they are buying stuff in bulk to reduce their costs.

You seem very intent on minimizing NEMLEC's role. Perhaps you are under the impression that the council is a mere social club organizing get togethers, banquets, golf outings, and dinner dances for men with guns.

The ACLMU's complaint suggests that this is not the case.
For instance:

46. For example, NEMLEC has purchased or otherwise acquired a Lenco BearCat, an armored personnel carrier that is designed for military or law enforcement use. See https://twitter.com/NEMLEC/sta... & https://twitter.com/NEMLEC/sta... (Exhibit M).

But if you are correct, and NEMLEC is simply brokering fleet purchases of armored vehicles, enabling the smaller police departments to militarize just as quickly as the Boston Police Department, but with the added savings of buying in bulk, we have nothing to worry about.

I guess what the ACLU got their panties in a bunch about is that the organization also acts as a central point of contact for SWAT training/ purchases in the region.

So... a group of police, are setting their training calendars together so they can have a training session with more people at one time so they can save money on instructor costs. And they are buying stuff in bulk to reduce their costs.

You seem very intent on minimizing NEMLEC's role. Perhaps you are under the impression that the council is a mere social club organizing get togethers, banquets, golf outings, and dinner dances for men with guns.

The ACLMU's complaint suggests that this is not the case.
For instance:

46. For example, NEMLEC has purchased or otherwise acquired a Lenco BearCat, an armored personnel carrier that is designed for military or law enforcement use. See https://twitter.com/NEMLEC/sta... & https://twitter.com/NEMLEC/sta... (Exhibit M).

But if you are correct, and NEMLEC is simply brokering fleet purchases of armored vehicles, enabling the smaller police departments to militarize just as quickly as the Boston Police Department, but with the added savings of buying in bulk, we have nothing to worry about.

FloridaMan, hero of the people!

aha, so the pastbin upload does seem to be from the real Matthew Green. That's a start. https://twitter.com/matthew_d_...

I had forgotten about the Carter foodstamps thing.

As far as McCain sounding "reasonable", I have to disagree:

http://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCa...

They didn't have a good response to my point that our radio reception efforts have been primitive enough that in order to 'hear' Alpha Centari the aliens would need to deliberately transmit an easy to intercept radio signal at us using several GW of power using the best dish technology we have.

Hi there. I'm a radio astronomer at a conference discussing the planned applications of the Square Kilometre Array, a proposed radio telescope which should be a whole lot more sensitive than previous ones. The next talk (just starting now) is about its application to SETI. I'll give you an update after the talk. (Or check the twitter feed.)

Exactly, there's no law to prohibit anyone from storing CC information, just a strong suggestion not to. Best practice preaches PCI/DSS compliance, but really it's the CC schemes that are broken. The schemes represent a compromise between convenience and 'security'. Here's an interesting Twitter stream: Need A Debit Card?, some even post photographs of both sides of the card and then wonder why their accounts are empty.

Hey Slashdotters

Thanks for all the comments - I truly love seeing the reaction to this post about the (my) ISS-Above.

I just want you all to know I appreciate everything each one of you has said about me and about the ISS-Above. Very entertaining (and in many cases - a very appropriate reaction to a rather specialized and expensive device).

I'm not responding here to try to persuade any of you to have a different opinion. I do however want to at least speak to some of the misunderstandings that I see here - for the benefit of others who find this post and would otherwise be left with a very skewed view of what the device is (I wonder how many actually took the time to view the video?).

Firstly I built this device initially simply as something to give to my grandkids in England in December (I selfishly want my grandkids to see me as "the cool grandpa"). Instead of a "star" or "fairy" sitting on the top of their Christmas tree my grand-kids had an ISS-Above . They were all pretty excited to get one (and still are)

The point is the device makes a fuss whenever the ISS is above your horizon. It's not just about letting you know when it is visible. It flashes in the day-time - in the middle of the night (it apparently scares some peoples dogs/cats when it goes off in the middle of the night).

For me - this is about drawing attention to the fact we have this incredible feat of human achievement - the only permanently manned human outpost in space - and that it's above your location way more often than you actually even knew. So it's about inspiring awareness - and also about inspiring young kids to take a look at the incredibly versatile Single Board Computer paradigm (the Raspberry Pi).

Those free apps are all awesome (I have ALL OF THEM - plus some paid ones too) but they just don't do it for me. They take too much "care and feeding" for me to actually use consistently.. and I don't need yet another app on my phone that beeps and buzzes to let me know something else. The ISS-Above sits on a shelf - in your house / office / coffee shop and simply does it's job of reminding you (and anyone who can see it) when the ISS is passing by. Anyone within sight of it can see it. It inspires a greater understanding of and appreciation for what we are doing in space (this confirmed from lots of feedback and comments I have received from users of the ISS-Above all around the world).

One other thing the ISS-Above does is that it also autotweets whenever the ISS comes particularly close to your location. That's also a CRITICAL part of my vision. This is a two-way thing - it's both to have us down here be more present to the wonderful stuff going on in orbit - plus it's also to show NASA and all the astronauts up there how we KNOW they are there and appreciate what they are doing. NASA Johnson (mission control for the ISS) actually asked me to make sure the tweets tag them.

That autotweet can be customized. Now that I have shipped nearly 300 units worldwide there are a lot of tweets going out "to" the space station every day. I think of it like a world-wide wave to the space station. Check some of them out at http://twitter.com/issaboveyou

When I started building this I had NO expectation that ANYONE would find it particularly useful or interesting enough to buy one. There was some press about the device (e.g. Reddit / Hackaday / Universetoday / CNET / TWiT.tv) and I started to get emails and questions from people who said they wanted one. That's when I was persuaded to create a Kickstarter. It surprised the heck out of me when I found out how many people wanted one. All the Kickstarter orders have been shipped (probably the fastest Kickstarter fulfillment in history) and including orders I received after the Kickstarter closed there are close to 300 units worldwide now.

So - yes - the ISS-Above may not be for you. But then I never built it for "YOU".... I built it for my own wickedly sel

I say we believe david@truecrypt

https://twitter.com/stevebarnh...

It's just his page, read the actual quote I referenced, it's nothing to do with Steve Gibson - he is just quoting two people on twitter.

Bottom line - we have no evidence of warrant canary or "dev rage quit".

Also: https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea...

Personally I'm more inclined to believe the devs calling it than any NSA scheme, but again.

No. Evidence.

no he didn't. He doesn't understand the context and is using a specific type of crime as all crime, it is not.
For example, the paper does not include homicide. It's a report on interviewed victims, not a report of all violent crime.

Now that's just dishonest. disgbo said that "men are FAR more likely than women to be victims of violence, physical intimidation, violent crime, and other physical threats". dirk asked for evidence. The report digsbo cited, and the one he provided below, are exactly the evidence proving his claim.

Lets look at a more accurate and detail review, shall we?

Now who's cherry-picking? This report is about domestic violence only, which is but a small subset of all "violence, physical intimidation, violent crimes and other physical threats". Overall, men are more likely to be both victims and perpetrators in our culture. The argument that women have to be more conscientious about their safety just doesn't seem justified by the evidence.

I agree with the use of #YesAllWomen to bring awareness to sexual harassment, which is still prevalent, but I disagree with its use to highlight some belief that women live under some vague but constant threat of male violence that the rest of us don't, like this tweet. If the message is more targeted at things like domestic violence, that's justified by the evidence.

Not only can a paper voting system be hacked, incorrect or even malicious handling of paper ballots can have an effect on voting. Weblog Geenstijl.nl organized a popular count of the vote for the EU elections on Thursday in the Netherlands. The government was not allowed by EU rules to release the total result before end of voting on sunday, but the Netherlands voted on Thursday. Because of Dutch law, an individual is allowed to observe the vote and can request a reading of the results.
Observed anomalies: voters having voted for a party and the party having 0 votes in the results. Or a counter leaving the room with ballots and returning again (with the ballots). No possibility to check what happened with those ballots during her absence.
From previous counts I have reports of tallies being added "to the wrong column" which resulted in votes for candidate #1 going to #2, votes for #2 going to #3, etc.

It bugs me that there are apparently one-count-only errors. If you count again, you would have caught those errors.

What I find sad is that so many people feel like they are doing something when they tweet.

- Ms. Obama could have taken action against radical Islamic organizations. Instead, a sharpie, a piece of paper, a tweet - and she's done. Thanks, Michelle, good job.

- Ms. Obama could have a chat with her hubby about the way the USA supports terrorist organizations even giving aid to organization like Al Qaeda that the US is supposedly fighting.

But no, that would require actual effort and taking a genuine stand. Whereas Twitter costs nothing, risks nothing and does nothing - but you can pretend otherwise.

A joke I've read recently:

I'm not sure if "R is written by statisticians, for statisticians" is a good thing e.g. "stadiums are built by footballers, for footballers"

The 2nd SOMALGET country was first leaked by defense contractor resume. Hinted at, in any case. Defense Contractors put all the illegal shit they do in their resumes to get more jobs doing those things.

Christopher Soghoian's tweet on the subject.

Erica A's resume

Erica A spent December 2012 to October 2013 in Afghanistan, is an expert in "Somalget Retro GUI" and is available for hire immediately.

Exactly; as an illustration, take those three "unreasonable CC homework" questions for his 3rd grade daughter comedian Louis C.K. posted on twitter, and got a storm of support for in the "finer" media. Ignoring the fact that the homework questions were not part of the CC as such, I disagreed on all 3 accounts:
- first question: you get 6 boxes (the picture showed only the top 3 of them) and are asked to write "A" in half of them, "B" in 1/3 of them, and "C" in 1/6. For crying out loud, what kind of number-dyslectic moron thinks this is a difficult assignment? He must be hoping his daughter aspires to also be a comedian (or a journalist apparently), because she sure as hell won't get into higher education if she's being led to think she shouldn't learn to solve that. The media storm that followed was eerily reminiscent of idiocracy...
- second question: sure, you and I, as a parent, may not know what a "pictograph" is. However, you and I hopefully know how to use Google. After a 30-second search, I discovered "pictograph" is just a scary term for an innocuously simple concept. I bet his daughter was drilled in class on what a pictograph is and how to construct one before being given that assignment; not the teacher's fault if she wasn't paying attention, and as a parent, you shouldn't balk at a word you don't know unless you never want your offspring to learn more than you know.
- third question: he apparently deleted that one after a few days because I don't see it on his profile anymore; probably he realized just how stupid it made him look. Anyhow, the question consists of a number of separate, very simple equations. He pretty much admits in his tweet that the equations are not really too hard as such, except for the last one, which doesn't seem to make any sense at all. Just stare at that last one for 20 seconds... right, it's a simple typesetting error ! Specifically, what you're seeing is two equally easy equations that are unfortunately concatenated on one line by lack of a line break. Was this guy drunk when he posted it? And even if not, is lashing out without thinking what he considers "being a good role model"?