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Submission + - Karmapa Lama Arrested (moveon.co.in)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dharamsala businessman KP Bhardwaj, who is believed to have struck a land deal with the Karmapa's trust, and a bank manager from Haryana have been arrested and are being questioned following the recovery of unaccounted foreign and Indian currency worth nearly Rs70 million from the monastery.

Submission + - FemPhocus (femphocus.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: FemPhocus is a photography website that focuses on real women. Our goal is to showcase all the women that larger corporations have excluded, but yet are still very captivating. Our direction is towards artful, classy, nudes, in a comfortable environment, without the pressure of a male presence.

Comment Re:Boom! (Score 2) 347

by manofherb (#34991314) Attached to: How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works

i'm pretty sure I build these accumlator tanks at my job, they are wreck proof, bulletproof, and fireproof they are tested well above their rated pressures, we even blow one up out of every batch just to see what it would take (i'm guessing these are 15,000 psi + to explode, but it could only be 10-12 I'm not sure what configuration we used to build these) and there is a bladder installed after it leaves the factory

Submission + - pin pad difficulties

Submitted by manofherb
manofherb writes: anyone ever notice how your computer keypad is oriented different than an ATM pinpad or telephone? was this a result of patent issues or was it just an overlooked mistake? anyone ever type their pin in wrong? How annoying is it to you when the cashier instructs you to "enter your pin and push the green button" as your hand is resting on the keypad...

Comment Re:Ban guns (Score 1) 2166

by manofherb (#34807688) Attached to: Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down

I nebraska there are 3 guns per person on average, I have friends and family that have many more guns than that(assault, hunting, handguns, etc.) yet not a one of us has ever committed a gun crime and the state is a safe place to be
  the logic of banning guns doesn't work because the shooting at a high school in omaha would have still happened because it was a cop's weapon used(which we would not ban I bet)
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Submission + - Facebook Censors Birth Photos

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "The Chicago Tribune reports that Laura Eckert, a photographer who specializes in pictures of pregnant women and the first moments of a baby's life had her account disabled for posting pictures Facebook initially deemed inappropriate, including shots of a friend and her newborn moments after birth that partially showed her friend's breasts, but not her nipples. Eckert says she sent more than 30 e-mails to Facebook to inquire and didn't get a response until the day after KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids reported on her plight. "It's funny it happened after the media got involved. I sent many polite e-mails asking for information over the course of the last few weeks and got no response. None," says Eckhert. For their part Facebook has now re-enabled the account and spokesman Simon Axten apologized explaining that Facebook reviews thousands of pieces of content every day to ensure Facebook remains a safe and trusted environment for everyone. "Of course, we make an occasional mistake. This is an example," says Axten. "When this happens, and it's brought to our attention, we work quickly to resolve the issue." Eckert says she is relieved to be able to log on to Facebook again, but that she's still unclear which birth photos the company allows. "No one has picked up on the angle that interests me most...that Facebook has apparently changed their Terms of Use since I originally agreed to them, yet I can't remember them ever asking me to "re-agree" to them.""
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Submission + - Amazon Cloud Not Big Enough for Feds and WikiLeaks 1

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Dave Winer was already upset that Amazon Web Services (AWS) pulled the plug on WikiLeaks for posting classified U.S. government documents. So, he wasn't exactly thrilled to receive email three weeks later from an AWS PR flack boasting that 'the U.S. federal government continues to be one of our fastest growing customer segments'. Writes Winer: 'It makes perfect sense that the US government is a big customer of Amazon's web services. It also makes perfect sense that Amazon wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize that business. There might not have even been a phone call, it might not have been necessary.' Amazon, which wowed the White House with its ability to scale video slideshow site Animoto, was able to get its foot in the Federal door as a Recovery.gov redesign subcontractor.
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Submission + - Protesters arrested on White House, CNN ignores it (thiscantbehappening.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.

Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president’s daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government’s Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times.

No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital’s local daily, the Washington Post, which apparently didn't even think it was a local story worth publishing an article about (they simply ran a photo of Ellsberg with a short caption).

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