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This was scanned from a South African newspaper. The kicker is that Veet is a hair removal product!
Found by Donn Edwards.
 Peter Nicholson
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A new survey finds consensus among scientists about the reality of climate change and its likely cause. A group of 3,146 earth scientists surveyed around the world overwhelmingly agree that in the past 200-plus years, mean global temperatures have been rising, and that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.
In trying to overcome criticism of earlier attempts to gauge the view of earth scientists on global warming and the human impact factor, Peter Doran and Kendall Zimmerman sought the opinion of the most complete list of earth scientists they could find, contacting more than 10,200 experts around the world listed in the 2007 edition of the American Geological Institute’s Directory of Geoscience Departments.
Questions used were reviewed by a polling expert who checked for bias in phrasing, such as suggesting an answer by the way a question was worded. The nine-question survey was short, taking just a few minutes to complete.
- Payment processor Heartland may have lost 100,000,000 credit card numbers to hackers.
- Intels new chips.
- Steve Jobs needs to disclose health info to SEC.
- Comcast being probed for phone practices.
- Android point man quits.
- Belkin faking reviews.
- IBM sees strong 2009.
- Where are the MSFT job cuts?
- Seagate has maybe 30-percent of drives failing.
- The Conficker worm is ready to trigger.
- Google scraps newspaper ad program.
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Payment Processor Breach May Be Largest Ever – Security Fix— It’s possible that 100 million cards are stolen. Another outsourcing nightmare.
A data breach last year at Princeton, N.J., payment processor Heartland Payment Systems may have compromised tens of millions of credit and debit card transactions, the company said today.
If accurate, such figures may make the Heartland incident one of the largest data breaches ever reported.
Robert Baldwin, Heartland’s president and chief financial officer, said the company, which processes payments for more than 250,000 businesses, began receiving fraudulent activity reports late last year from MasterCard and Visa on cards that had all been used at merchants which rely on Heartland to process payments.
Baldwin said 40 percent of transactions the company processes are from small to mid-sized restaurants across the country.
Heartland called U.S. Secret Service and hired two breach forensics teams to investigate. But Baldwin said it wasn’t until last week that investigators uncovered the source of the breach: A piece of malicious software planted on the company’s payment processing network that recorded payment card data as it was being sent for processing to Heartland by thousands of the company’s retail clients.
Wealthy men give women more orgasms – Times Online In other words lie about your wealth. Or just be like most guys and not really care.
Scientists have found that the pleasure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their partner’s bank balance.
They found that the wealthier a man is, the more frequently his partner has orgasms.
“Women’s orgasm frequency increases with the income of their partner,” said Dr Thomas Pollet, the Newcastle University psychologist behind the research.
He believes the phenomenon is an “evolutionary adaptation” that is hard-wired into women, driving them to select men on the basis of their perceived quality.
(CNN) — Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River, passengers on the same route and same aircraft say they heard a series of loud bangs and the flight crew told them they could have to make an emergency landing, CNN has learned. Steve Jeffrey of Charlotte, North Carolina, told CNN he was flying in first class Tuesday when, about 20 minutes into the flight, “it sounded like the wing was just snapping off.” “The red lights started going on. A little pandemonium was going on,” Jeffrey recalled.
“It seemed so loud, like luggage was hitting the side but times a thousand. It startled everyone on the plane,” Jeffrey said. “We started looking at each other. The stewardesses started running around. They made an announcement that ‘everyone heard the noise, we’re going to turn around and head back to LaGuardia and check out what happened.’ “I fly about 50 to 60 times per year, and I’ve never heard a noise so loud,” he said. “It wasn’t turbulence, it wasn’t luggage bouncing around. It was just completely like the engine was thrown against the side of the plane. And when it happened again, everyone just started looking at each other and there was a quiet murmuring around the plane, and you could feel the tension rising just in looking.
He added, “About 10 minutes later when we never made the turn, we kept going, that’s when the pilot came on and explained — I wish I could remember the words — I remember him using air, compression and lock — I’m not sure the right order, but he made it sound like the air didn’t get to the engine and it stalled the engine out, which he said doesn’t happen all the time but it’s not abnormal.”
Hmmm, this is curious. Maybe some of our resident pilots can shed some light, that is if your not too busy watching the party in D.C.
Meaning Of Obama Signs In Downtown Seattle A Mystery – News Story – KIRO Seattle
Dozens of posters near the Space Needle depicting President-elect Barack Obama in whiteface have some people wondering what they mean and others saying the signs are racist.The black and white posters, with the likeness of Barack Obama and the word “OBEY?” underneath it, were found plastered around the vicinity of the Space Needle on Monday morning.
Seattle resident Michael Boren said he thought the posters were racist, while resident Kenny Brown said he didnt know what message the signs were meant to portray.
This is no mystery. These signs were designed by the same artist who did the HOPE poster. The primary distributor are these folks here. How hard is it to figure this out?
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Italian carmaker Fiat and US giant Chrysler have agreed to create a global strategic alliance. Under the terms of the deal, Fiat will get a 35% stake in Chrysler. In return, the US firm will get access to Fiat’s fuel-efficient vehicle technologies.
The United Auto Workers union (UAW) welcomed the deal, saying it could help preserve US manufacturing jobs.
The statement points out, however, that the agreement does not commit Fiat to funding Chrysler in future.
Chrysler has received an emergency loan from the US government worth $4bn, while Fiat has said it needed a partner because it was too small to continue on its own. Fiat chief executive Sergio Marchionne said the deal represented “a key milestone in the rapidly changing landscape of the automotive sector”.
Trading in Fiat shares had earlier been suspended amid speculation of a possible partnership with the US firm. After the announcement was made and trading resumed, Fiat shares rose 3.5%.
Now, bring over the new Fiat 500 with the 1.3 liter turbodiesel. Yes!
Sniper rifle software launched for iPod touch – Telegraph — Let’s see how long before this idea shows up on a TV show.
A new application has been launched for the iPod touch to help gun users line up a clean shot at their target.
The BulletFlight app, which costs £6.99 to download from the iTunes store, has been developed by Runaway App to turn the iPod touch into a ballistics computer which the company says can provide “quick solutions in the field”.
Users can mount their iPod touch to their rifle, and then use the iPod’s touch-screen to tap in details about the wind conditions, ammunition type, distance to the intended target and even the wind speed.
Found by Joe Carlson.
Consumerist- Belkin Business Development Representative Michael Bayard has been caught offering to pay anyone willing to leave perfect reviews of Belkin products on Amazon, Buy.com, and Newegg. Even worse, the highly unethical strategy seems to have worked—almost fifteen pages worth of Belkin products on Amazon have perfect five-star ratings.
Bayard brazenly hosted the fraud using Amazon’s own Mechanical Turk, which allows people to farm out menial tasks that computers can’t perform. Bayard isn’t some rogue Belkin employee trying to earn a few brownie points. According to his recently disabled LinkedIn profile, he’s responsible for overseeing “sales of Belkin products to major .com accounts such as Amazon.com.” As our estranged sister site Gizmodo points out, consumers rely on fair and impartial views to counterbalance misleading marketing claims. This incident shows one of the best reasons to always look for the negative reviews of any product.
We’re confident Belkin will soon release a statement strongly condemning Bayard’s actions and promising an investigation or some equally worthless schmaltz, but we really want to hear from Amazon. This form of fraud—and let’s not call it anything else—has happened before and it will happen again.
I have always liked most Belkins products and service, was this really necessary?
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A federal judge has ruled that Vice President Dick Cheney has broad discretion in determining what records created during his eight-year tenure must be preserved.
Absent any evidence that Cheney’s office is failing to safeguard records, it is up to the vice president to determine how he deals with material, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled.
At issue is whether Cheney had impermissibly limited the scope of the Presidential Records Act, a post-Watergate law aimed at protecting White House records.
Cheney has taken the legal position that his office is not part of the executive branch of government, triggering a lawsuit by several groups including three organizations of historians and archivists concerned that the record of Cheney’s time in office might not be adequately safeguarded.
The judge leaves the decisions on protecting information for other courts, other times – to the criminal in charge.
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This is very painful for many families who lost loved ones on 9/11.
Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims’ relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.
It is a potentially momentous time for the military detention center. President-elect Barack Obama whose inauguration is Tuesday has said he will close it, and many observers and some officials here expect him to suspend the war crimes tribunals for accused terrorists and move the trials to the U.S.
The victims’ relatives were in the courtroom audience as two Sept. 11 defendants, Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, proclaimed their role in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
“We did what we did; we’re proud of Sept. 11,” said Binalshibh, who has said he wants to plead guilty to charges.
“If they’re guilty … then let’s give them the death penalty that they deserve,” said Jim Riches of Brooklyn, N.Y., whose 29-year-old firefighter son, Jimmy, was killed at the World Trade Center.
What do you think? Close Gitmo, at least finish the trials of those involved in 9/11, or leave Gitmo open?
Is this the best propaganda that Hollywood can put out? They suck! Sorry, but I do not recognize half of these celebrities. And it’s interesting to see that “slavery” is going to be a big issue. Yes. And is the best message to stop drinking bottled water and turn off the lights for Obama? Cripes. This looks like a Microsoft ad.
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