Wired.com's Noah Shachtman wrote in 2001 that the site "clearly reports with a point of view; the site is unabashedly in the hawkish camp of Israeli politics," adding that Debka had partnered with the right-wing news site WorldNetDaily for a weekly subscription product.[3] Yediot Achronot investigative reporter Ronen Bergman states that the site relies on information from sources with an agenda, such as neo-conservative elements of the US Republican Party, "whose worldview is that the situation is bad and is only going to get worse," and that Israeli intelligence officials do not consider even 10 percent of the site's content to be reliable.[1] Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf calls Debka his "favorite alarmist Israeli website trading in rumors."[4]
Stratoshield: Nathan Myhrvold explains how to save the planet
But it turns out that's far from the only idea Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures has dreamed up to save the planet from calamity.
Here's another one: Combat climate change by pumping liquid sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere through nozzles in a hose lifted more than 15 miles into the atmosphere using helium-filled balloons. As described by Myhrvold in an interview this week, the idea behind this "Stratoshield" would be to dim the sun in critical areas of the world by just enough to reduce or reverse the effects of global warming.
"We think it's a simple, relatively cost-effective, pretty practical way that you could intervene and cool Earth off enough to present disaster," Myhrvold said.
No, this is not a joke, or a plot from a bad science-fiction movie. In fact, Myhrvold is talking about the idea now because the Stratoshield and hurricane-stopper ideas are both documented in the new book, "SuperFreakonomics," the follow-up to the hit "Freakonomics" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
. War is the solution to everything for you people. Horrible
So if the US had intervened in Rwanda to stop the genocide there, you'd be against that war too? When, in your worldview, is war justified. Please enlighten us.
For the same reason it's ok for cops to have guns but it's no ok for criminals to have guns. Which country is more likely to use nuclear weapons against the US or US interests?
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Netflix(NFLX) announced on Friday that it will expand its licensing agreement with NBC, allowing users to stream prior televisions series from its cable and broadcast networks.
Netflix subscribers will be able to watch series like Saturday Night Live, Friday Night Lights, Monk and Battlestar Galactica, the company said.
Netflix has been working over the last several months to expand its streaming content, first through a partnership with EPIX, a joint venture between Viacom(VIA), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lions Gate Entertainment(LFG) that could add up to 20,000 new titles to Netflix's streaming content.
I know people aren't going to listen to the interview. So here's a rough summary.
The guy says they only focused on Islamist terrorists. Some of their data comes from terrorists biographies found in an Al-Queda safe house.
The countries the terrorists come from have bad job markets for engineers(libya, saudi arabia,pakistan). Engineers get their degrees and have high hopes for their careers. When they get disappointed by the closed job market in their countries, they tend to get radicalized.
Microsoft executives in Moscow and at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., asserted that they did not initiate the inquiries and that they took part in them only because they were required to do so under Russian law.
After The New York Times presented its reporting to senior Microsoft officials, the company responded that it planned to tighten its oversight of its legal affairs in Russia. Human rights organizations in Russia have been pressing Microsoft to do so for months. The Moscow Helsinki Group sent a letter to Microsoft this year saying that the company was complicit in “the persecution of civil society activists.”
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So if they say US gov't debt is AA, going by S&P's track record, it's actually C?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debka.com
Your business is dead in the water.
Yes..because that sort of thing never happens when you host the services in-house.
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/10/video_nathan_myhrvold_explains_how_to_save_the_world.html
Can the stockholders fire a CEO? Don't they need to elect a board of directors that would then fire the CEO?
Agreed...
OTOH, who usually cleans up any messes that happens with it? Who gets blamed if the cloud provider has an outage?
Like IT departments don't mess up or in-house IT departments don't have outages.
FCC approved media consolidation had nothing to do with this?
people started paying a "Your physically handicapped" tax.
A bad-grammar tax would raise a lot more revenue.
. War is the solution to everything for you people. Horrible
So if the US had intervened in Rwanda to stop the genocide there, you'd be against that war too? When, in your worldview, is war justified. Please enlighten us.
Of course theodp didn't read the article. Or, if he did, he was hoping you didn't. Reading the article would ruin his narrative.
When can I get it on the kindle. I only read the articles so the iPad playboy isn't really for me.
new stuff if it's proven
Proven to whom? To you or the people who are willing to pay top $$ for that technology?
Is it too much to expect people who took an oath to protect government secrets to abide by that oath?
If the source code for a super secret firewall program designed to protect secrets were leaked, THAT would be ironic. This is an unclassified memo.
Indeed the highest ranking people AFAIC (and I really mean it) are those, who first invent/build something, some new idea
I agree with most of what you say but none of this applies to bankers and the people who brought you the synthetic CDOs.
Many think there's a high chance the capital gains rate is going up soon, and so taking long term capital gains this year is indicated.
He expects the Bush tax cuts to expire?
This isn't news at all.
Now if only the father had put the boy in the balloon....
Debka is BS at times and Israeli misinformation at other times.
For the same reason it's ok for cops to have guns but it's no ok for criminals to have guns. Which country is more likely to use nuclear weapons against the US or US interests?
To track IBM's billing hours. At 300$/hr for an IBM consultant, that's a lot of computing.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Netflix(NFLX) announced on Friday that it will expand its licensing agreement with NBC, allowing users to stream prior televisions series from its cable and broadcast networks.
Netflix subscribers will be able to watch series like Saturday Night Live, Friday Night Lights, Monk and Battlestar Galactica, the company said.
Netflix has been working over the last several months to expand its streaming content, first through a partnership with EPIX, a joint venture between Viacom(VIA), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lions Gate Entertainment(LFG) that could add up to 20,000 new titles to Netflix's streaming content.
He made is clear that he focused on Islamic Terrorism.
The countries the terrorists come from have bad job markets for engineers(libya, saudi arabia,pakistan). Engineers get their degrees and have high hopes for their careers. When they get disappointed by the closed job market in their countries, they tend to get radicalized.
Engineers tend to be more religious/right wing.
Isn't it obvious? Engineers can't get laid in this life. They're only chance of getting laid is the 72 virgins.
Microsoft executives in Moscow and at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., asserted that they did not initiate the inquiries and that they took part in them only because they were required to do so under Russian law. After The New York Times presented its reporting to senior Microsoft officials, the company responded that it planned to tighten its oversight of its legal affairs in Russia. Human rights organizations in Russia have been pressing Microsoft to do so for months. The Moscow Helsinki Group sent a letter to Microsoft this year saying that the company was complicit in “the persecution of civil society activists.”