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Journal SPAM: Spacetimecurves Blog: Flynt Leverett Talks 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius
Flynt Leverett Talks

He basically tells C-Span what Dear Leader didn't want published in the New York Times.

Apparently the CIA had okayed it, but Bu$hCo didn't want that sucker out.

This boils down to

  1. the previous reports of Iran offering to negotiate a comprehensive deal for peace in the Middle East, and,
  2. The dialog that Iran had with the USA right after 9-11 and the lead up to Afghanistan.
Security

Submission + - Double Skype attack confuses security firms

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Two different pieces of malware were set loose on Skype users this week and although neither seems to be causing serious problems, ZDNet is reporting that security firms are confused.

Just 24 hours after warning that there may be a worm exploiting the popular Skype Internet telephony service, Websense reclassified the pest as a Trojan horse. Symantec has published an advisory about a similar piece of malware attacking the same program but it is calling the malware a worm. Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure admitted the double attack has confused security firms.
It's funny. Laugh.

Journal Journal: Great Minds (Not!) Think Alike 1

Journal by ncc74656
From today's Best of the Web, in the sounding-like-our-enemies department:

"You know, education--if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."--John Kerry, Oct. 30

Privacy

Submission + - UK government cancels central Identity Database

Submitted by meringuoid
meringuoid writes: After a good deal of controversy, it seems the British government have decided to abandon their plans to centralise all information on citizens in a single central database. Instead, when they do bring in their planned identity card system, they'll use existing databases. This will apparently mean losing out on some of the advantages the Government claimed for the new system, but it will save them a great deal of money...
The Internet

Submission + - Classic Rock Stars: Crazy, Stupid or just Greedy?

Submitted by Bob Cat - NYMPHS
Bob Cat - NYMPHS writes: Love 60's music? You can listen to streamed concerts at Wolfgang's Vault — at least until the courts shut it down. Concert promoter Bill Graham recorded the Doors, the Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, CSN, &c, and stored it all away along with posters, shirts, tickets, handbills. The current owner of the trove is selling it off — how about buying an original unused ticket to Woodstock for your mom? A t-shirt from Woz's US Festival for yourself? You might think some of those bands would want to be paid for the streamed music, but no, they want a cut of the memorabilia sales. "Said Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek to The Times: "If people are buying something because it says the Doors on it then, you know, you should give the Doors some of the money. Look, I need to pay my electric bill. I play an electric keyboard."
Announcements

Submission + - Line Rider: the new version here for the holidays

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secretsather
secretsather writes: "The much anticipated new version of Line Rider is now available. TECH.BLORGE.com covered the story a while back, Line Rider: strangely addictive Flash game consuming Internet, and now we're back with the update!

Yes, the rumors are true, and this is the official new version of line rider; which is by far better than all the rip off, hacked versions available. The creator stayed many steps above the rip off's providing us with a much better interface and tools to play with.

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2006/12/19/li ne-rider-the-new-version-is-here-for-the-holidays/ "
Space

NASA Sees Glow of Universe's First Objects 327

Posted by kdawson from the first-post dept.
Damek writes with news from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which has captured light from what may have been the first glowing objects in the universe, light generated 14 billion years ago. From the article: "'We are pushing our telescopes to the limit and are tantalizingly close to getting a clear picture of the very first collections of objects,' said Dr. Alexander Kashlinsky... 'Whatever these objects are, they are intrinsically incredibly bright and very different from anything in existence today.' Astronomers believe the objects are either the first stars — humongous stars more than 1,000 times the mass of our sun — or voracious black holes that are consuming gas and spilling out tons of energy. If the objects are stars, then the observed clusters might be the first mini-galaxies..."

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