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China: CyberWars On The Electronic Horizon

Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press wrote a great piece on future cyberwars and present modern day attacks:

SAN FRANCISCO — The Chinese government today disputed a report labeling it the world’s most aggressive offender in probing for holes in other nations’ Internet security and encouraging a looming global cyber showdown.

The report, issued today by Santa Clara-based security software vendor McAfee Inc., said government-affiliated hackers in China are at the forefront of a brewing “cyber Cold War” still in its infancy. [1]

Cyber Wars are predicted to happen in the future. This report is chilling, the cyberworld is under attack now.

Based on McAfee research and input from security experts with NATO, the FBI and other intelligence outfits, the report said hackers in China are believed responsible for four out of five major cyber attacks on government targets in 2007.

The biggest intrusions appear to have targeted a Pentagon computer network and government agencies in Germany, India, Australia and New Zealand. [1]

Attacks on critical national infrastructure rose in 2007. These included “financial markets, utilities and air traffic control machinery, and the attacks were believed to have been launched by governments or government-allied groups.”

Governments and infrastructure are not the only targets.

The McAfee report also detailed the growing threat to Web surfers from increasingly sophisticated techniques to steal personal information online and install malicious code on victims’ computers to herd them into networks of compromised machines that pump out spam or fire off attacks.[1]

It was revealed that the September 9 strike by Israel on a “nuclear” site in Syria was the first major use of a “electronic” warfare strike.

Elements of the attack included some brute-force jamming, which is still an important element of attacking air defenses, U.S. analysts say. Also, Syrian air defenses are still centralized and dependent on dedicated HF and VHF communications, which made them vulnerable. The analysts don’t believe any part of Syria’s electrical grid was shut down. They do contend that network penetration involved both remote air-to-ground electronic attack and penetration through computer-to-computer links.

“There also were some higher-level, nontactical penetrations, either direct or as diversions and spoofs, of the Syrian command-and-control capability, done through network attack,” says an intelligence specialist.[2]

The Cold War is over, the Cyber Wars have just begun.

By LBG
Source – [1] Houston Chronicle
Source – 2 - The September 9th Attack On Syria
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Pravda: Women Only Smart and Nice Seven Days A Month

A new study from Pravda. Since this is one of the days that I’m smarter and nicer but becoming emotionally dreamy (according to this story) then I’ve decided to post it.

Women become smarter and nicer only for seven days of their monthly cycle

How can women be so different? A sweet and tender bunny can turn into a spiteful and irritable bitch without any apparent cause. Where is their common sense? What for are all these groundless suspicions and jealousy? These are typical questions men have been asking for ages. Even Nancy Meyers in her “What Women Want” did not give a clear explanation to this question. But now it is science that can answer. It turns out that sex hormones rule over women’s brain. The knowledge of biochemistry can easily predict women’s emotions.

The difference between male and female brains is not a secret to modern-day science: cerebral hemispheres function in different ways. Neurons – nerve cells in woman’s brain – are always active. These factors cause constant changes in perception and handling of information.

Scientists explained this fact through experimental results. They discovered that pregnant mice are much smarter than their non-pregnant companions. The animals become cleverer because their brain receives more estrogen, the female sex hormone.

“This hormone stimulates the growth of dendrites, neuron sprouts; and this, in its turn, improves cerebration,” Professor Craig H. Kinsley said.

The professor believed at first that the experiment held true only for animals. But his colleagues from York University of Toronto proved that estrogen positively influenced all mammalian female beings, especially human beings of female sex. The latter should not necessarily be pregnant to be wise: their quick-wittedness depends on the menstrual period.

The concentration of estrogen in female body grows in about ten days after the beginning of the menstrual period. As a result of this process women become smarter and nicer, but only for seven days. Men can quickly tell the difference between photographs of one and the same woman made in different monthly periods.

“On these days women are also prone to rivalry. Her senses including hearing, vision, smell, her skin sensitivity, logic and emotions can either worsen or intensify during menstruation,” Charles Crawford, a psychologist from Simon Fraser University says.

On the basis of these experiments scientists compiled a peculiar calendar, which men can use in their relations with the opposite sex. The only difficulty is that men should possess enough information about women whose behavior they want to predict.

From the first till the seventh day of the cycle:

Women experience slight problems with understanding other people and prefer to simply smile back. The ability to express thoughts weakens. Women become dreamy and emotional.

From the eighth to the fourteenth day:

Women grow wiser and prettier, but become emotionally unbalanced at the same time. They make scathing remarks about other women, but are favorably concerned with men.

From the fifteenth to the eighteenth day:

This is a period of extreme suspiciousness and jealousy. The organism demands more sex and scandals. Mental capacity decreases. Skin becomes more sensitive to caress.

From the nineteenth to the twenty-second day:

Mental capacity fades away. Problems with memory are possible. Women become extremely confiding. Their color sensing is quite OK: all presented bouquets of flowers would be appreciated.

Source – Pravda

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Dog the Bounty Hunter Petition to Arts and Entertainment Network OVER 400 Pages of Signatures So Far!

Bring back “Dog the Bounty Hunter” now!

NOTICE Dog Fans, give yourselves a pat on the back. We’ve already collected over 400 pages worth of signatures and comments on the “BRING BACK DOG” petition. We’re going to leave it up for a few more days; probably until Monday or Tuesday. Over 400 pages! We had to start a new post because the comments section at HaloScan was overloaded and was giving some people trouble. This will be up for a few more days. Keep up the good work! If you know anyone who hasn’t signed yet, they still have 3 or 4 more days, so encourage them. All the instructions are the same as before.

Sign the petition below and help us bring back the Dog.

Tired of reading about it, talking about and worrying about a Dog-less TV line-up?Now you can help get Dog out of the doghouse–now!

We are trying to collect 250,000 signatures to put “Dog the Bounty Hunter” back on the Art & Entertainment Network’s fall line-up. The petition and electronic signatures will be sent to the AETV’s corporate offices on November 26, 2007. AETV is the parent corporation of the A & E Network.

We will also send along all comments made by the readers–you–at the end of this story to AETV.

To help us help Dog, follow the instructions at the end of the petition wording.

That’s 14 days to collect 250,000 signatures: that’s only a little over 17,000 signatures a day–a small fraction of the show’s audience.

Tell your friends and family and anyone else who might be interested in seeing “Dog the Bounty Hunter” possibly return to the airwaves. If A&E is unmoved, the outpouring of support might surely influence another rival network, such USA Network or Spike TV, to pick the show up.

The petition reads as follows:

— PETITION To Bring “DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER” Back To A & E – –

Bring back “Dog the Bounty Hunter” to the Arts & Entertainment Network schedule.

The tapes released by the National Enquirer were of a private cell-phone conversation, made without Duane “Dog” Chapman’s knowledge (most probably illegally) and sold for monetary gain.

The slur was not an expression of hate, but of ignorance.

Duane Chapman has on several occasions apologized on national TV broadcasts.

While not condoning the use of racial slurs, supporters urge the Arts & Entertainment Network to bring back the “Dog the Bounty Hunter” show.

The sooner, the better.

———– Bring Back “DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER” ———–
Only fourteen days.

Everybody better get busy.

[NOTE: We will update the totals from all our source petitions. We took the comments off to speed the page speed. Total for Dog the Bounty Hunter at 07:00 November 13, 2007: 1445]

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SIGNING THE PETITION:
1. Go to the “Comments” section at the end of this piece.
2. Fill in your real name and email address. Your email address will not be visible to others.
(Optional: You may add a comment. No profanity please. You are trying to impress A & E that you are a responsible viewer–valuable to their advertisers on “Dog the Bounty Hunter”)
3. Push the [PUBLISH] button.

Tell your any Dog fan. Thank you.

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Hillary for Dummies: 10 Hillary Clinton Quotes on the Issues

10 Hillary Clinton quotes on the issues to start your day.

Two weeks ago,the news was about Hillary Clinton’s flip flops on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. For or against? No one, including Clinton, seemed to know.

The focus has since turned on the experience Clinton brings to the table in her quest for the 2008 Presidency.

To answer both questions about her stand on the issues and her experience, DBKP presents this capsule view of the 2008 Clinton platform–in her own words. Carry it with you for quick reference.

Tax policy: * “The tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re going to have to cut that short and not give that to you. We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” –San Francisco fund-raiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer – 6/8/2004 Small Business Growth: * “I can’t worry about every under capitalized business” –Testimony before congress on the effects of Nationalized Health Care. The War on Terror: * “It’s been said, and I think it’s accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-Qaida in particular.” –Dateline, NBC 4/16/2004 Executive Privilege: * “I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.” –Commenting on release of subpoenaed documents in 2000. Religious Issues * “I have to confess that it’s crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.” –Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1997 * “I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned (about Islam) has come from our daughter.” –U.S. presidential reception – 2/20/1996 The U.S. Constitution * “A right-wing network was after his (husband Bill Clinton) presidency…including perverting the Constitution.” –20/20, ABC 6/8/2003 Media Matters: * “I mean, you’ve got a conservative and right-wing press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.” –aired on C-Span, 1/19/1997 The Importance of The Historical Record: * “Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can’t write anything.” –Asked in 1996 interview if she as US First Lady was keeping a diary, hours before a jury in Little Rock, Arkansas, returned guilty verdicts against Clintons’ business partners. Challenges * “The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.” –NBC’s Today show interview January 1998

Clear, concise, compact: the 2008 Hillary Clinton stand on the issues, in her own words.

Never again be confused.

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Y.A.A.F.M.: Muslims

An oldie-but-goodie about the Danish/Muslim Cartoon controversy.

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