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Some Twitter posts (pre-dating the "official" announcement by more than 12 hours) mentioned suicide.

The person murdered was not a moderator for (or affiliated with) the site, as many seem to report. Neuveo tweeted "Negative, is not our partner the person executed, but no doubt this attempt to silence the voices of Nuevo Laredo." At least that's what google translate says. An employee of the site was killed in September, but this appears to not be affiliated, and only some sort of scapegoat to disseminate the message to others who inform on Zetas.

here's the judge offering to sell her the car
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

and then here's the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she tells him she got another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

here's the judge offering to sell her the car
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

and then here's the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she tells him she got another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

Here is the judge offering to sell her the car.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

here is the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she gets another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

Here is the judge offering to sell her the car.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

here is the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she gets another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

hillary knows about this law

http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/statuses/133650002890334209

"One last thing: A law has been uncovered that would allow prosecution of my father. I will not use it and I beg the state not to either."

she's been posting on her twitter to the effect that
1) she has taken no money from any of the media attention.
2) she doesn't want her daddy jailed,
and
3) she just wants him to say to her that he realises that he was wrong and mean it.

personally, I don't hold out much hope for her approach. He's lost face, and he's addicted to power and respect (and, as it turns out, was addicted to opiates). He'll want to get his own back and retaliate in nasty ways. If Hillary wants to have any peace in her life, she has to jail her own father so he can't come after her ever again.

here is the judge offering to sell her the car
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

here is the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she gets another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

here is the judge offering to sell her the car
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

here is the judge threatening to report the car stolen when she gets another job to pony up the cash.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

here is the judge demanding that she pay off the car or take it back
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

and when she says that she can pay it off, he threatens to report the car stolen.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

here is the judge demanding that she pay off the car or take it back
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FF1MKmzBG

and when she says that she can pay it off, he threatens to report the car stolen.
http://twitter.com/#!/shoeofallcosmos/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitter.com%2FN5egyjaW

Read this then go here and do something about it.

Disclosure: I am not in the UK.

"SIRI. When unable to understand the Scotch accent, have an educated guess by recommending the nearest public house. "

(source)

I have been following this lightly for a while. On the one hand Rossi's history does not give confidence to this being real. On the other hand he doesn't seem to approach it like I would expect a scammer to approach it - he does get in touch with universities and professors, and he does not ask for money, even apparently financing the contruction of this 1 MW plant himself. Also holding a large-scale demonstration with big-name media present does not seem usual. If it is a hoax, I am not sure what he would get out of it besides publicity (being in the news).

There are 3 options: (1) it is a hoax/fraud, (2) he really believes it is true and cannot manage to do measurements correctly or is in some kind of denial and interprets the results incorrectly so they fit his beliefs, (3) it is true.

It is not clear whether this demonstration will make it clear. There have already been 11 other smaller-scale demonstrations and apparently there has never been conclusive evidence throughout all these. It also depends on who is vetting the test. There is someone from PESwiki there tweeting updates, tweeted "Q&A just finished; reading of results; 470 kW maintained continuously during self-sustain; customer satisfied; sale made; more later." and expects to post an article on the wiki/blog in the next hour or so. PESwiki historically has followed/reported on hundreds of bogus technologies. But the customer is satisfied? Who is the customer! Also an AP writer from NY is apparently attending the demo. However, a link to the likely writer says that he covers "telecommunications, consumer electronics, etc" for the AP, so it's not likely he is knowledgeable about energy technologies.

It will be very interesting to see the reports.

Here are the various semi-high-profile news articles about this technology that have recently been published, to collect them all in once place:
Forbes blog, Oct 28th
Wired, Oct 28th
Forbes blog, Oct 17th
Wired, Oct 6th
And then plenty of other sites like blogs and physorg since January of this year.

CONGRATS ROSSI!!

The discussion for events happening today has been moved onto its own thread:

http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/10/e-day-thread-rossis-1-mw-e-cat-plant-tested-by-first-customer/

PES Network is going to be tweeting about it:

https://twitter.com/#!/PESNetwork

Prepare for some real-time cognative dissonance from Rossi et al.

http://twitter.com/#!/zackwhittaker/status/29299981554

Relevant comic: http://www.askdreldritch.com/comic687.html. More substantially, there's now a twitter feed with regular updates http://twitter.com/#!/ROSAT_Reentry. The rate of descent is pretty fast. One thing to keep in mind is that although the chance of someone being hit by debris is around 1 in 3000 or so, the chance of a specific person being hit is much lower. It is extremely unlikely that two people will be hit so by a rough approximation, if someone is hit there is a 1 in 6 billion chance that it is you. So the chance is about 1/(3000 * 10^9)= 1 in 3 trillion. Even if one assumes a fairly high probability that when one person gets hit multiple people will get hit, the chance is still on the order of 1 in a trillion. That said, this sort of uncontrolled reentry is not ideal. But most satellites are either in higher orbits or are small enough such that everything will burn up when they reenter. Large satellites entering in an uncontrolled fashion is pretty rare.

I was about to suggest that you were incorrect and that /. reported on Google saying that 3.1 would merge the two, but in re-reading the linked article from back then, it appears that you're correct. They always said that ICS would merge the two together. Oh well, guess I shot down myself on that point. Yay for facts prevailing, regardless of my memory.

As for the source code commentary, I think it's ethically dissonant (read: hypocritical) for a company claiming that their OS is "open" to close the source for an extended period of time, even if they do later open it back up. I have no problems with closed source, but I do have problems with companies claiming one thing and delivering another (or nothing, in this case). I especially have issues with it since Andy Rubin, when Android was criticized in a public earnings call by Steve Jobs for its claims regarding openness, responded by Tweeting:

the definition of open: “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make”

And then only 4 months later he failed to deliver on his own idea of open for anyone wanting to use Honeycomb. At the very least, that's a disappointment. I don't see how anyone can see it otherwise. That they kept their word and are releasing the source for ICS is good, of course, but it's good in the same sort of way that your employer keeping their promise to pay you this month after skipping last month is a good thing. But it is good, and I'm glad to see that they're doing it.

Whether or not what they did is legal is a matter best left to lawyers, and I have no opinion on that subject.

What has being "green" got to do with Copyright law?

Not much. Of course, this is the party that is eager to clamp down on wifi, saying they want "Health Canada create enforceable, biologically-based regulations, that would limit human exposure to radio frequency radiation to a precautionary limit of 0.1 uw/cm2 (or 0.614 v/m ) for cumulative outdoor exposure". I thought the Sun output more than that, but I could be wrong.

Also, there's this amusing tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/ElizabethMay/status/96091744076177409 Well, obviously she doesn't have wifi, she's got a Blackberry!

The posts make no sense unless you understand lawyer speak, but I guess that's who they are targeting with with the information. Although wouldn't the lawyers already know how to use the website already? Take a look over at http://twitter.com/#!/SupremeCtofPA you have to follow the link to see what the information is all about.

The Register's Lester Haynes of its Special Projects Bureau is following the race (in an air conditioned 4x4: temperatures in the cabins of the cars can reach 50C)

They also have a twitter feed

News so far:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/12/world_solar_challenge_2011_race_rules/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/13/solar_update/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/wsc_update/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/15/wsc_update/

You missed the best part when she defended herself:

Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell.God created iPhone for that purpose! :)

She's just confirming what Apple fans already knew: God works at Apple.

You misunderstand her. She said "God created iPhone", and we know that Steve also "created iPhone". Therefore Steve is God. But Steve is dead... quite the Nietzsche moment there...

Start with the license.

as predicted: http://twitter.com/#!/ahl/status/121257501193809920

You missed the best part when she defended herself:

Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell.God created iPhone for that purpose! :)

She's just confirming what Apple fans already knew: God works at Apple.

Heh...I don't use twitter, but all you guys who does should use it to poke a little fun with that

WBC says Steve Jobs is God!

WBC says God is dead (at 56)!

WBC to picket God's funeral!

http://stwem.com/2011/06/16/what-does-mt-mean-on-twitter/

http://twitter.com/#!/AP/status/121732977523826689

Apple says the company's co-founder, Steve Jobs, has died. He was 56: http://apne.ws/lCbPzP -MS

=>

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died at 56.

As of now, it appears to be running in self-sustained mode (creating heat with little or no electrical input) for over 2 hours.

Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell.God created iPhone for that purpose! :)

She's just confirming what Apple fans already knew: God works at Apple.

That's a bittersweet reminder of my Roman Catholic upbringing. Whenever I did something good like played the trombone well or scored well on a test, I was instructed to pray to Jesus for working through me to do something so good. Whenever I screwed up, well, all those powerful forces like God and the Devil were suspiciously absent and the fault was solely mine.

Reading around in the Meego Forum Thread on this topic, I found the following tidbits:

1-They are trying to dodge the MeeGo question, as asked directly in this IRC chat

2-Nokia have also noticed this, as seen by this tweet by a guy for for Qt/MeeGo at Nokia.

3-However, a Company called Novomok will provide Tizen with Qt, so...huh?

4- Also, Intel App up will be supported, and that's based on Qt apps, so yeah.

Have you seen the Qwikster Twitter account? I think the profile picture explains the thinking behind the split. https://twitter.com/#!/qwikster

Actually, Ron Garan is active on Twitter, not Facebook. The last few months, he's has one of the coolest twipic accounts I've seen.

It's not at all clear if the victims did complain to Facebook, but as he was posting under false details, banning the user or removing the account would have made little difference. He had been officially warned by the police in 2009, so presumably this represented an escalation of previous behaviour.

It turns out that his father is the author of this. It's not hard to imagine an alcoholic with Asbergers confusing that with what he actually did.

Given that there are two more days of BUILD, you'll probably see more of this.

I predict the next story will be about the windows app store policies.

Doesn't seem so for me, however an alternate link to the same image in a different location...
https://twitter.com/#!/sfslim/status/111206909062811649.

18min ago: "Our DB has blacklisted one of our frontend hosts due to connection errors. We're looking into it."
7min ago: "Our DB and frontend are friends again. The site is back up."

From their Twitter feed

Their response time to this problem is a great advertisement for their services.

Translation:
18 min ago - One of our frontend servers was automatically isolated because it did something suspicious.
7 min ago - Don't worry, no one would ever hack us so we reconnected the server and all looks normal.
(hey wait, who made all these unsigned commits?)

There has been a lot of push at the recent DEFCON conferences, and associated conversation since, to look at alternatives to the current CA system. Moxie Marlinspike has been pushing a remote-view notary system called which is currently a Firefox plug, and Dan Kaminsky has been pushing for DNSSEC.

There has been an awful lot of discussion about the technical details of SSL certificates on the Security StackExchange (Stack Overflow cousin) website, including the related blog post I penned: A Risk-Based Look at Fixing the Certificate Authority Problem.

There has been a lot of push at the recent DEFCON conferences, and associated conversation since, to look at alternatives to the current CA system. Moxie Marlinspike has been pushing a remote-view notary system called which is currently a Firefox plug, and Dan Kaminsky has been pushing for DNSSEC.

There has been an awful lot of discussion about the technical details of SSL certificates on the Security StackExchange (Stack Overflow cousin) website, including the related blog post I penned: A Risk-Based Look at Fixing the Certificate Authority Problem.

18min ago: "Our DB has blacklisted one of our frontend hosts due to connection errors. We're looking into it."
7min ago: "Our DB and frontend are friends again. The site is back up."

From their Twitter feed

Their response time to this problem is a great advertisement for their services.

I agree that that would be a very silly thing to tell the person. But the only evidence we have to suggest that that's what Assange told Leigh is Leigh's word. So you're trusting the word of a man who is now undertaking one of the biggest ass-coverings in history.

I've written a giant document analysing the criticism of WikiLeaks handling of this matter here. I understand if you don't have time to read it, but here's what I've written in response to the criticism that Assange shouldn't have told Leigh that it was a temporary password:

WikiLeaks vehemently denies that they told Guardian that the password was temporary, tweeting: “It is strictly false that the Guardian was told the password or file were temporary, hence the elaborate password handover method.”

Whether or not he said this is something we’ll never know the answer to, since it’s WikiLeaks’ word against the Guardian. It’s not scientific of me to make guesses like this, but I’m going to, because I know Mr. Assange’s reputation. Before he was a WikiLeaks activist, Assange was a cryptography researcher. He created the Rubberhose file system to allow people to safely carry digital secrets without divulging their existence. I cannot say for sure what Assange told Leigh about that passphrase, and I have never met Mr. Assange, but judging by his reputation alone, he knows cryptography inside out. He knows which pieces of information are safe to divulge, and which aren’t. I find it hard to believe that Assange would have accidentally told Leigh that this was a temporary password, when we know just by virtue of the fact he used PGP that it wasn’t temporary.

If I can make some further speculation, I would imagine that Assange told Leigh something along these lines: “I am going to give you access to a file on my web server that will be temporarily available. After a few hours, the file will not be available any more, so you have to download it soon. Also, here is the password which you can use to decrypt the file.”

It’s possible that a non-technical person may have misunderstood the above sentences as suggesting that the password would be useless after those few hours. That still doesn’t excuse the divulging of a password. If someone says something about a red button which you didn’t fully understand, it is probably not a good idea to push the red button.

Also, I can only imagine that Assange did stress the utmost importance of keeping the password secure, and not writing down the additional “salt” word — after all, why would he tell him to remember the salt in the first place if it was safe to write it down?

Funny, I saw that one too and was wondering what Gizmodo was talking about. Looked like a legit internal review of a potential incident. Seemed like a proper example of them doing their work in a professional manner. It's not all about car chases and cracking big murder cases, occasionally you're dealing with the mundane stuff too.

I like the Greater Manchester Metro Police Twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/#!/gmpolice

How would Schrödinger’s cat feel about von Neumann getting into the kitty litter? More importantly, what would EcoKat do?

RefRef is the new LOIC, interesting write-up here, confirmed accurate by @AnonCMD.

Is this what took down Wikileaks?

"If you think it's nice that you can remove the DigiNotar CA, imagine a world where you couldn't, and they knew you couldn't. That's DNSSEC." -- Moxie Marlinspike

Over here you may observe the iphone enabled twit-verse moan about Cantor proposing rollbacks of environmental regulation.

Environmental regulation without trade balance is international NIMBYism, folks.

My first bug report was bug 27610, so we probably overlapped.

Yes, mpt was very much around. I learned a lot from reading mpt's comments in Bugzilla. It's too bad he didn't get along with everyone.

Source Links:
https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/108261633859649536
https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/108251897961517056

Source Links:
https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/108261633859649536
https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/108251897961517056

Starbuck's is closed, Almondine is open: https://twitter.com/#!/ApronAnxiety/status/107444218556981248 No word on Brooklyn Roasting Company. I may need a almond croissant this morning.

... https://twitter.com/settings/account when you're logged in. :)

The exchange of credentials has always been over HTTPS. It's just that the later communication redirects to HTTP (and includes your session cookie, which can be then used for sidejacking). Of course, it's easy to turn it on for "some users", since your credential exchange is over HTTPS, and after that, you know who the user is and can have the later communication be HTTP/S as appropriate.

Having a login page (e.g., http://www.twitter.com/) transmitted over HTTP is unsafe, since it's hard to verify where the login data is actually being sent. That is, an attacker could modify the login page to send credentials to a third party with a legitimate certificate instead of to Twitter, and since the login page wasn't HTTPS-protected, you wouldn't detect this. But, that's another story.

HTTPS for session communication -- what they're talking about here -- has been available as a feature for a while now. They're just changing what the default is for some users.