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Everything is good for something, including SPAM. According to this article.
A spam message wishing a Russian woman happy new year may very well have killed her and saved hundreds of intended targets, according to an account by The Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent, Andrew Osborn.
The woman, dubbed “The Black Widow,” who Russian authorities suspect was part of the same militant group that killed 35 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday, was at a house preparing for the attack, which would have occurred on New Year’s Eve at Red Square. Instead, the woman’s mobile phone, which served as the device’s detonator, was activated hours early by a spam message wishing her a happy new year. She was killed, while a man and woman suspected of being accomplices escaped from the house.
Russian security forces told The Telegraph that phones are usually kept off until the last minute for detonation, but in this case, “the terrorists were careless.”
Ah, to be wealthy enough and famous enough to be sued by wackos.
Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks is seeking a restraining order against the star, real name Sean Combs, accusing him of a whole plethora of wrong doings.
According to Turks, the 41-year-old, along with his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter and LAPD brutality victim Rodney King, is responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Center amongst other outrageous alleged atrocities. In the disturbing court documents, Turks claims that she dated Diddy, and that the two have a son together, Cornelius Wilson, 23 years old.
She alleges that she has been subjected to abuse from 2001 – 2010 and that: “[Diddy] went through Kim Porter and Rodney King and knocked down the WTC and then they all came and knocked my children down. Set me up to be on disability and disabled my baby. he put my baby in a wheelchair.”
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“Plus I won a lot of money at the casino in Mississippi and Sean P. Diddy Combs has my chip to my money. I heard he gave it to Gwen Allen to hold but she can not cash it in. I want my chip please help me. it’s well worth over 100 zillions of dollars, and my hospital keys.”
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Valerie is requesting a cool $900 billion dollars in child support, and $100 billion dollars for “loss of income.”
Taking us backwards, one step at a time to when it was considered the girl or woman’s fault for getting raped, medical decisions are politically controlled, and only the rich (like the wives and daughters of politicians) can afford to travel to get an abortion. The poor have no right to the same treatment.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would rewrite the rules to limit drastically the definition of rape and incest in these cases.
With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Republicans propose that the rape exemption be limited to “forcible rape.” This would rule out federal assistance for abortions in many rape cases, including instances of statutory rape, many of which are non-forcible. For example: If a 13-year-old girl is impregnated by a 24-year-old adult, she would no longer qualify to have Medicaid pay for an abortion.
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Other types of rapes that would no longer be covered by the exemption include rapes in which the woman was drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes.
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The “re-definition” of the rape exception “is only one element” of an “extreme” bill, she adds, citing other provisions in the law that pro-abortion rights groups believe would lead to the end of private health insurance coverage for abortion.
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If death is one of life’s inevitables, so are lawsuits when it comes to the death penalty.
Texas has 317 convicted murderers on death row, but because of a company’s decision last week to stop making the key drug for lethal injections, Texas only has enough of the potion to execute two.
Consequently, Texas and 32 other states will be watching closely as Ohio prepares to execute Johnnie Baston. They will be watching not only to see how well the substitute drug works, but how entangling the legal battle is going to be.
Baston, 36, convicted of killing a wig shop owner in 1994, is scheduled to arrive at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility’s “Death House”on March 10. If everything goes according to plan, he’ll be strapped to a gurney, allowed to make a final statement, and injected with a dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital.
The drug, chemically similar to a drug used to euthanize horses, is the latest flashpoint in the debate over the death penalty. Texas, which has the busiest death row in the country, expects to run out of its supply of lethal drugs in March.
“The supply expires in March, so we’ll have to look to some sort of alternative,” said Texas Department of Corrections spokesman Jason Clarke. “We’ll likely end up changing the drug. We’ll look to what other states use successfully.”
Too bad hanging went out of style in Texas…
Wow, talk about repressed hostility.
Found by Martin Higgins.
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With word of Egypt’s protests spreading across the country—largely via Twitter, Facebook, and SMS—by Thursday night local time, all of those electronic channels went silent.
Twitter, Facebook, and SMS have been interrupted intermittently since the mass protests began on Tuesday. Still, messages from ad hoc organizers calling for larger demonstrations were getting through, via Internet users with proxy servers that allowed them to circumvent the digital walls.
By the evening of Jan. 27, however, Facebook, and SMS were no longer accessible, and at roughly midnight, the entire Internet suddenly went dead.
Related Link: Internet Kill Switch for USA?
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While the Illinois state legislature waits to see if Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill into law requiring out-of-state Internet retailers to collect a 6.25 percent sales tax on purchases made by Illinois residents, the Illinois Department of Revenue is moving ahead with its own plan to put the taxpayers on the hook for the tax, requiring it be paid alongside the state’s income tax.
Critics say that the move puts ordinary residents at risk of being tax evaders if they don’t keep track of all the items they purchase online, or pay an estimated tax suggested by tax officials.
Other states are likely to adopt the Illinois plan, if legislators in other financially-troubled states see it as an easy way to collect more revenues from taxpayers.
Found by Cinàedh.
China: Doing interesting things with our money.
City planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta.
The “Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One” scheme will create a 16,000 sq mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than Greater London, or twice the size of Wales.
The new mega-city will cover a large part of China’s manufacturing heartland, stretching from Guangzhou to Shenzhen and including Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. Together, they account for nearly a tenth of the Chinese economy.
Over the next six years, around 150 major infrastructure projects will mesh the transport, energy, water and telecommunications networks of the nine cities together, at a cost of some 2 trillion yuan (£190 billion). An express rail line will also connect the hub with nearby Hong Kong.
“The idea is that when the cities are integrated, the residents can travel around freely and use the health care and other facilities in the different areas,” said Ma Xiangming, the chief planner at the Guangdong Rural and Urban Planning Institute and a senior consultant on the project.
Those evil Chinese, having their government do things for them instead of private business.
Twenty-nine rail lines, totalling 3,100 miles, will be added, cutting rail journeys around the urban area to a maximum of one hour between different city centres. According to planners, phone bills could also fall by 85 per cent and hospitals and schools will be improved.
“Residents will be able to choose where to get their services and will use the internet to find out which hospital, for example, is less busy,” said Mr Ma.
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Sony unveiled the successor to the PSP at its PlayStation Meeting in Tokyo today. While Sony spokespeople continually referred to the device by its codename of Next Generation Portable (NGP), it’s not yet clear whether this will be the name of the device when it is brought to market.
Here’s what we know so far:
- Quad-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU with an SGX543MP4+ GPU
- 5″ OLED touchscreen (960 x 544)
- 5″ touch pad on the rear of the device
- Two “real” analog joysticks (unlike the “nubs” on the PSP)
- Front and rear cameras
- 3G, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and GPS
- Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass
- A new physical media format to replace the aging UMD
- It’s “as powerful as the PS3”
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Which is the government’s responsibility to protect: you from yourself or your freedom to be an idiot?
For some lawmakers, Cathy Cruz Marrero’s now-infamous fall into a fountain while texting couldn’t have come at a better time.
In California, State Sen. Joe Simitian has reintroduced a bill that would fine cyclists $20 for texting. In Oregon, State Rep. Michael Schaufler wants to fine cyclists $90 for wearing headphones or earbuds. In Virginia, lawmakers are considering whether to broaden such a ban to include any handheld communication device.
And in New York, a bill before the legislature’s transportation committee would ban the use of electronic devices while crossing streets.
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Setting aside the obvious debate over whether a person should retain the basic right to walk or jog distracted, the next questions include whether this kind of ban will work to save lives, and if so, at what cost? […] Expect to see a range of legal questions about the finer details of the ban, including what, exactly, constitutes a street, and a crossing of the street, and which electronic devices, if any, may be excused from said ban.
Will there be increasing penalties for repeat offenders, including jail time?
“What you in for, kid? Bank robbery? Multiple murders? Demanding to ‘opt out’ with no junk touching at the airport?”
“Wearing earbuds while crossing the street.”
“Ah, huh. In that case, bend over.”
 Cella Energy CEO Stephen Voller exhibits his breakthrough technology – right shows the fuel’s hydrogen microbeads under a microscope |
UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.
According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.
Another company working on a fuel alternative… the more the merrier.
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