Seems like Microsoft is saying, "Enough is enough! This has gone too far..."
Despite a federal court order directing Microsoft to turn overseas-held email data to federal authorities, the software giant said Friday it will continue to withhold that information as it waits for the case to wind through the appeals process.
The judge has now ordered both Microsoft and federal prosecutors to advise her how to proceed by next Friday, September 5.
Let there be no doubt that Microsoft's actions in this controversial case are customer-centric. The firm isn't just standing up to the US government on moral principles.
It's now defying a federal court order. "Microsoft will not be turning
over the email and plans to appeal," a Microsoft statement notes.
"Everyone agrees this case can and will proceed to the appeals court.
This is simply about finding the appropriate procedure for that to
happen."
***
Today's Greek Lesson...
New research shows that wireless routers are still quite vulnerable to attack if they don't use a good implementation of Wi-Fi Protected Setup.
Bad implementations do a poor job of randomizing the key used to
authenticate hardware PINs. Because of this, the new attack only
requires a single guess at the hardware PIN to collect data necessary to
break it.
After a few hours to process the data, an attacker can access the router's WPS functionality.
Two major router manufacturers are affected: Broadcom, and a
manufacturer to be named once they get around to fixing it.
"Because
many router manufacturers use the reference software implementation as
the basis for their customized router software, the problems affected
the final products, Bongard said. Broadcom's reference implementation
had poor randomization, while the second vendor used a special seed, or
nonce, of zero, essentially eliminating any randomness."
***
Coffee Napage
Caffeine is a staple of most workplaces — it's rare to find an office
without a coffee pot or a fridge full of soda.
It's necessary (or at
least feels like it's necessary) because many workers have a hard time
staying awake while sitting at a desk for hours at a time, and the
alternative — naps — aren't usually allowed.
But new research shows it might be more efficient for employers to encourage brief "coffee naps,"
which are more effective at returning people to an alert state than
either caffeine or naps alone.
A "coffee nap" is when you drink a cup of
coffee, and then take a sub-20-minute nap immediately afterward.
This
works because caffeine takes about 20 minutes to get into your
bloodstream, and a 20-minute nap clears adenosine from your brain without putting you into deeper stages of sleep.
In multiple studies,
tired participants who took coffee naps made fewer mistakes in a
driving simulator after they awoke than the people who drank coffee
without a nap or slept without ingesting caffeine.
***
On August 6, U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga ordered the federal government to "explain why the government places U.S. citizens who haven't been convicted of any violent crimes
on its no-fly database."
Unsurprisingly, the federal government
objected to the order, once more claiming that to divulge their no-fly
list criteria would expose state secrets and thus pose a national
security threat.
When the judge said he would read the material
privately, the government insisted that reading the material "would not assist the Court in deciding the pending Motion to Dismiss
(PDF) because it is not an appropriate means to test the scope of the
assertion of the State Secrets privilege."
The federal government has
until September 7 to comply with the judge's order unless the judge is
swayed by the government's objection.
***
Ars piece about the executive order that is the legal basis for the U.S. government's mass spying on citizens.
One
thing sits at the heart of what many consider a surveillance state
within the US today. The problem does not begin with political systems
that discourage transparency or technologies that can intercept everyday
communications without notice.
Like everything else in Washington,
there's a legal basis for what many believe is extreme government
overreach—in this case, it's Executive Order 12333, issued in 1981.
“12333 is used to target foreigners abroad, and collection happens
outside the US," whistleblower John Tye, a former State Department
official, told Ars recently.
"My complaint is not that they’re using it
to target Americans, my complaint is that the volume of incidental
collection on US persons is unconstitutional.”
The document, known in
government circles as "twelve triple three,"
gives incredible leeway to intelligence agencies sweeping up vast
quantities of Americans' data.
That data ranges from e-mail content to
Facebook messages, from Skype chats to practically anything that passes
over the Internet on an incidental basis.
In other words, EO 12333
protects the tangential collection of Americans' data even when
Americans aren't specifically targeted—otherwise it would be forbidden
under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978.
***
Amazing what a new pair of shoes can do for you...
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Friday, August 29, 2014
Big Wednesday James O'brien Board Transfer And Laird Hamilton Pier Shot
We just had some of the biggest waves in a while here on the California coast this week.
There was one dude who surfed the wedge in an unusual way. He paddled out on a long board with a short board. After he gt into the wave on his long board he transfers to the short board and abandons the long board. This guy is epic!
One observer told me that James made one wave and did not make another.
Laird Hamilton shot the Malibu Pier.. Videoed from a drone.
There was one dude who surfed the wedge in an unusual way. He paddled out on a long board with a short board. After he gt into the wave on his long board he transfers to the short board and abandons the long board. This guy is epic!
One observer told me that James made one wave and did not make another.
Jamie O'Brien Board Transfer @ Wedge 08/27/14
And Laird Hamilton shot the Malibu Pier as if he does it all the time at an extremely fast pace.
Videoed from the sand...and another angle...
"Not Me, Lord! I Can't Talk!"
He had been there ever since he fled for his life after killing a man in Egypt and burying him in the sand.
He could not go back to Egypt, so he married a Midianite girl by whom he had children.
Jethro, his father in law, was a priest of Midian.
God began to talk to Moses, and what He had to say to him was very important. For two chapters we see that God was very patient with him; but in Exodus 4:14 we read, Then the anger of the lord burned against Moses...
Why would God choose a man, begin to talk with him, and spend as much space in the Word trying to persuade him to do His will as is spent in Genesis on the account of creation itself?
Two chapters cover creation, and two chapters cover the time God was trying to convince Moses to go down into Egypt.
There was a reason why God became so angry with Moses, and I would not be surprised if some of us anger the Lord in the same way.
Let us look at what happened, for this is a story we should remember all our lives.
Exodus 3:1-2
3 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush ( this was really the Shekinah glory ) : and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and yet the bush was not consumed.
It was not a natural fire that Moses saw; it was a holy fire, the same as the tongues of fire that sat on the hundred and twenty in the upper room on the day of Pentecost.
It did not burn up the bush; neither did it singe the hair of the hundred and twenty.
It was a holy Shekinah fire. the presence of the Spirit of God Himself that was moving upon them. The Shekinah glory was the fire that appeared throughout the Old Testament.
It appeared over the ark of the covenant between the cherubim , and it was also the fire in the pillar of fire that blazed at night over the camp of Israel.
Exodus 3:3-6
God said, "I am the God of your father." Moses parents were Amram, a godly man, and Jochebed.
Exodus 4:1-12King James Version (KJV)
2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6 And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
(Moses now had three signs with which to convince the people; and although he ran from the snake and experienced the leprosy, he still was not listening.)
10 And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
( "God, You cannot do it with me!" Do you ever feel that way?)
11 And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Even though a brother may be blind or deaf, these truths are for him. God will use him. The promises for him to have a ministry are as real and valid as they are for anyone.
Moses argues that he was slow of speech; he probably stuttered and stammered. Moses was telling God that he had the wrong boy.
Although the Lord was showing Moses all the things he was to do, he kept backing off, because for eighty long years he had built up the image of himself that he could never do anything.
Moses became ambitious when he was about 40 years old. According to Josephus, the historian, he was then a general fr Egypt.
When Moses went to the Israelites to be a self-appointed deliverer, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew; so he killed him and buried him in the sand.
The next day, he saw two Hebrews fighting, and he asked them why they were fighting among themselves.
One of them said,"What are you going to do, kill me and bury me in the sand too?" ( Exodus 2 ) .
Moses was afraid because it was known. Pharaoh then tried too kill him, so he fled to the backside of the desert.
In sparse land, hardly able to sustain anything, he as content to watch over a few sheep for his father in law.
Forty years had gone by, and there was Moses, a nobody who was eighty years old when God was trying to get through to him.
He showed him a bush that would not burn up, a rod that could turn into a serpent, ad a way to make his hand leprous and heal it.
After showing him all these wonders He said, "I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say" ( in other words, God offered to Moses speech that would come prophetically ) .
But he said, "Please Lord, now send the message by whomever Thou wilt." ( Get yourself another boy. I do not want to be the one. Send the message by anyone else." That is exactly what moses meant ) .
God had tried to convince Moses that it was all completely under control. God had chosen him, commissioned him, and promised to enable him.
Yet Moses would not accept it. There was a deep innate reluctance to be an instrument in the hand of God.
( I know of some men like that. Men that God opens up the door of ministry to and they then back off in fear that they will fail.)
Then the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently.
And more over, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
And you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and i will teach you what you are to do.
Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and it shall come about that he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be as God to him." Exodus 4:12-16.
It had to be that way, because even though Aaron was made the high priest, he was God's second best. We read that in the wilderness, when the people wanted an idol to worship, he said, "Give me your earrings."
Later he made his speech to Moses, saying, "I cast it into the fire and it came out a calf" ( Exodus 32 ). He connived with them in their idolatry.
He was too weak to stand up for Moses who had been on the mountain for forty days. Moses must have been thoroughly shaken to find there was not enough to sustain Aaron and the people for forty days.
After forty days he came down from the mountain, and the people were dancing around the golden calf, worshiping it and committing sinful acts, just after God delivered them out of Egypt and had been so good t them.
People can forget quickly. God grant that we do not forget, that He build it deep within our hearts to be ready to do the will of the Lord.
Moses was ready to go from that time on. Until that time he tried God until He became very angry with him. God deals drastically when He has called us to be something and we are reluctant to get with it.
It is not the heinous crimes and sins that will stop the Body, it is this reluctance to face what god has called us to be.
It lies within our power to do what God has called us to do and to say what God tells us to say.
That deep , unbelieving reluctance we have angers God more than anything else. We have a false image of ourselves that keeps coming up, and it is one of the biggest destroyers of our faith.
How do you really receive the commission or a directive? Like Moses?
Do you say, "I will do my best that I can, I cannot do anymore," and make your excuses?
Since when has a commission ever been given to a man according to his ability?
When did God ever send a man out to do something, and say, "I have chosen you, O My servant, because I know that you are very wise, you have much money, you have great abilities, and there are many people flocking to you; with great leadership you will accomplish this"?
God never says that about anyone.
God takes the weak things and confounds the mighty; He takes the foolish things ( I Corinthians 1:27 ).
He chose you, and for you to argue with God that you cannot do what He asks you to do is just as foolish as it was for Moses.
God did not choose you for your ability; He chose you because He chose you, and that is as much reason as you can have to explain it.
God gives you a commission and sends you out to do His will in the earth, and your inability to do it is not, and never will be, the issue.
He said, "I will be with you, I will help you."
You cannot have an image of yourself in your own ability. You must have an image of yourself linked with His ability.
Fantasy can be directly related to faith, if it is not taken too far. People should be healed and delivered from fantasizing too much, for they should not live in a make-believe world.
But the make-believe world, properly guided, can be a springboard into the world of reality.
For instance, suppose there has been a prophesy over you, or you had a dream, or you were sitting in the congregation when God gave a commission to the church.
What are you going to do about it?
Begin to imagine yourself as one of the prophets or prophetesses of the Lord. Fantasize a little about it.
Picture yourself like peter, walking down the street with your shadow falling on the sick and healing them.
Picture yourself blessing handkerchiefs and garments and sending them out- picture the people being healed.
Live it yourself. Let it be a springboard to your faith, until you accept yourself as a bond-slave of the Lord who can do anything He commissions you to do.
You can do anything He tells you to do.
You can become anything He says you will be.
This is the faith you must have. What image do you have of yourself? Is it an image according to the flesh with its limitations, or do you have an image of yourself with faith which envisions what it will be?
Remember, God looks at you with faith, and He is liable to shout at you ( as He did to Gideon in Judges 6 and 7 ) when you are running from the enemy and say, "The Lord is with the, thou mighty man of valor! Wherefore art thou running from the enemy? Turn around and smite them, and they will flee from thee in seven ways" ( Deuteronomy 28:7 ).
Get the picture in your mind that God is not limited, and neither are you limited in your relationship to Him.
The anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and perhaps you feel that the Lord is not happy about the way you regard yourself- the way you draw back from being all that He wants you to be.
Let one of your objectives be to break loose from your limitations. Stand and pray the prayers of faith.
Believe God and walk in His faith with all your heart.
It was not a natural fire that Moses saw; it was a holy fire, the same as the tongues of fire that sat on the hundred and twenty in the upper room on the day of Pentecost.
It did not burn up the bush; neither did it singe the hair of the hundred and twenty.
It was a holy Shekinah fire. the presence of the Spirit of God Himself that was moving upon them. The Shekinah glory was the fire that appeared throughout the Old Testament.
It appeared over the ark of the covenant between the cherubim , and it was also the fire in the pillar of fire that blazed at night over the camp of Israel.
Exodus 3:3-6
3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burnt up.
4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, Here am I.
5 And he said, Do not come near here: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, Here am I.
5 And he said, Do not come near here: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
God said, "I am the God of your father." Moses parents were Amram, a godly man, and Jochebed.
Exodus 4:1-12King James Version (KJV)
4 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5 That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6 And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
(Moses now had three signs with which to convince the people; and although he ran from the snake and experienced the leprosy, he still was not listening.)
10 And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
( "God, You cannot do it with me!" Do you ever feel that way?)
11 And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Even though a brother may be blind or deaf, these truths are for him. God will use him. The promises for him to have a ministry are as real and valid as they are for anyone.
Moses argues that he was slow of speech; he probably stuttered and stammered. Moses was telling God that he had the wrong boy.
Although the Lord was showing Moses all the things he was to do, he kept backing off, because for eighty long years he had built up the image of himself that he could never do anything.
Moses became ambitious when he was about 40 years old. According to Josephus, the historian, he was then a general fr Egypt.
When Moses went to the Israelites to be a self-appointed deliverer, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew; so he killed him and buried him in the sand.
The next day, he saw two Hebrews fighting, and he asked them why they were fighting among themselves.
One of them said,"What are you going to do, kill me and bury me in the sand too?" ( Exodus 2 ) .
Moses was afraid because it was known. Pharaoh then tried too kill him, so he fled to the backside of the desert.
In sparse land, hardly able to sustain anything, he as content to watch over a few sheep for his father in law.
Forty years had gone by, and there was Moses, a nobody who was eighty years old when God was trying to get through to him.
He showed him a bush that would not burn up, a rod that could turn into a serpent, ad a way to make his hand leprous and heal it.
After showing him all these wonders He said, "I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say" ( in other words, God offered to Moses speech that would come prophetically ) .
But he said, "Please Lord, now send the message by whomever Thou wilt." ( Get yourself another boy. I do not want to be the one. Send the message by anyone else." That is exactly what moses meant ) .
God had tried to convince Moses that it was all completely under control. God had chosen him, commissioned him, and promised to enable him.
Yet Moses would not accept it. There was a deep innate reluctance to be an instrument in the hand of God.
( I know of some men like that. Men that God opens up the door of ministry to and they then back off in fear that they will fail.)
Then the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently.
And more over, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
And you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and i will teach you what you are to do.
Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and it shall come about that he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be as God to him." Exodus 4:12-16.
It had to be that way, because even though Aaron was made the high priest, he was God's second best. We read that in the wilderness, when the people wanted an idol to worship, he said, "Give me your earrings."
Later he made his speech to Moses, saying, "I cast it into the fire and it came out a calf" ( Exodus 32 ). He connived with them in their idolatry.
He was too weak to stand up for Moses who had been on the mountain for forty days. Moses must have been thoroughly shaken to find there was not enough to sustain Aaron and the people for forty days.
After forty days he came down from the mountain, and the people were dancing around the golden calf, worshiping it and committing sinful acts, just after God delivered them out of Egypt and had been so good t them.
People can forget quickly. God grant that we do not forget, that He build it deep within our hearts to be ready to do the will of the Lord.
Moses was ready to go from that time on. Until that time he tried God until He became very angry with him. God deals drastically when He has called us to be something and we are reluctant to get with it.
It is not the heinous crimes and sins that will stop the Body, it is this reluctance to face what god has called us to be.
It lies within our power to do what God has called us to do and to say what God tells us to say.
That deep , unbelieving reluctance we have angers God more than anything else. We have a false image of ourselves that keeps coming up, and it is one of the biggest destroyers of our faith.
How do you really receive the commission or a directive? Like Moses?
Do you say, "I will do my best that I can, I cannot do anymore," and make your excuses?
Since when has a commission ever been given to a man according to his ability?
When did God ever send a man out to do something, and say, "I have chosen you, O My servant, because I know that you are very wise, you have much money, you have great abilities, and there are many people flocking to you; with great leadership you will accomplish this"?
God never says that about anyone.
God takes the weak things and confounds the mighty; He takes the foolish things ( I Corinthians 1:27 ).
He chose you, and for you to argue with God that you cannot do what He asks you to do is just as foolish as it was for Moses.
God did not choose you for your ability; He chose you because He chose you, and that is as much reason as you can have to explain it.
God gives you a commission and sends you out to do His will in the earth, and your inability to do it is not, and never will be, the issue.
He said, "I will be with you, I will help you."
You cannot have an image of yourself in your own ability. You must have an image of yourself linked with His ability.
Fantasy can be directly related to faith, if it is not taken too far. People should be healed and delivered from fantasizing too much, for they should not live in a make-believe world.
But the make-believe world, properly guided, can be a springboard into the world of reality.
For instance, suppose there has been a prophesy over you, or you had a dream, or you were sitting in the congregation when God gave a commission to the church.
What are you going to do about it?
Begin to imagine yourself as one of the prophets or prophetesses of the Lord. Fantasize a little about it.
Picture yourself like peter, walking down the street with your shadow falling on the sick and healing them.
Picture yourself blessing handkerchiefs and garments and sending them out- picture the people being healed.
Live it yourself. Let it be a springboard to your faith, until you accept yourself as a bond-slave of the Lord who can do anything He commissions you to do.
You can do anything He tells you to do.
You can become anything He says you will be.
This is the faith you must have. What image do you have of yourself? Is it an image according to the flesh with its limitations, or do you have an image of yourself with faith which envisions what it will be?
Remember, God looks at you with faith, and He is liable to shout at you ( as He did to Gideon in Judges 6 and 7 ) when you are running from the enemy and say, "The Lord is with the, thou mighty man of valor! Wherefore art thou running from the enemy? Turn around and smite them, and they will flee from thee in seven ways" ( Deuteronomy 28:7 ).
Get the picture in your mind that God is not limited, and neither are you limited in your relationship to Him.
The anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and perhaps you feel that the Lord is not happy about the way you regard yourself- the way you draw back from being all that He wants you to be.
Let one of your objectives be to break loose from your limitations. Stand and pray the prayers of faith.
Believe God and walk in His faith with all your heart.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Thursday wrapup
Ars piece about the executive order that is the legal basis for the U.S. government's mass spying on citizens.One thing sits at the heart of what many consider a surveillance state within the US today. The problem does not begin with political systems that discourage transparency or technologies that can intercept everyday communications without notice.
Like everything else in Washington, there's a legal basis for what many believe is extreme government overreach—in this case, it's Executive Order 12333, issued in 1981.
“12333 is used to target foreigners abroad, and collection happens outside the US," whistleblower John Tye, a former State Department official, told Ars recently.
"My complaint is not that they’re using it to target Americans, my complaint is that the volume of incidental collection on US persons is unconstitutional.”
The document, known in government circles as "twelve triple three," gives incredible leeway to intelligence agencies sweeping up vast quantities of Americans' data.
That data ranges from e-mail content to Facebook messages, from Skype chats to practically anything that passes over the Internet on an incidental basis.
In other words, EO 12333 protects the tangential collection of Americans' data even when Americans aren't specifically targeted—otherwise it would be forbidden under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978.
***
Across drought-stricken California, farmers are desperate for water. Now, many of them are calling dowsers.
These "water witches," draped in dubious pseudoscience or self-assembled mythologies—or both—typically use divining rods and some sort of practiced intuition to "find" water. The professional variety do so for a fee.
And business is booming. They're just part of a storied tradition of pseudoscientific hucksters exploiting our thirst for water, with everything from cloudbusters to rainmachines to New Age rituals.
***
Those plucky "Ukrainian separatist's" ambition to join Russia have now been given Russian military support, as the Russian Army with long columns of armor have invaded Ukraine and have opened up a second warring front, in a big way.
The Reuters report, interestingly, quotes a member of Putin's own advisory council on human rights describing the move as an invasion: "When masses of people, under commanders' orders, on tanks, APCs and with the use of heavy weapons, (are) on the territory of another country, cross the border, I consider this an invasion."
***
I have windows 8.1 on my laptop and I find that I never use 'apps' at all.
Microsoft announced on its Windows blog Wednesday that it's removed more than 1,500 apps from its Windows Store in a bid to clean up the store and restore trust with Windows 8 and Windows Phone users.
Microsoft's new certification process, in particular, asks for clear and accurate names that "reflect the functionality of the app," more accurate categories, and differentiated icons to ensure apps aren't confused with one another.
Microsoft reached out to developers with apps that violated its policies; some agreed to make changes to their software, while those who were "less receptive" saw their apps removed from the Windows Store.
***
Darn, the mystery has been removed...
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/death-valley-s-moving-rocks-caught-act
"The flat surface of the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley is littered with rocks, some weighing hundreds of kilograms, each at the end of a track indicating that it has somehow slid across the surface.
The mechanism behind this has been the subject of much speculation but little evidence, until a trio of scientists caught them in action with cameras and GPS."
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