HA. i had seen the new javascripty media viewer and was annoyed, but did not research it.

luckily, you can disable it. if you are logged in, go to your preferences, appearance tab and unmark "Enable Media Viewer".

yay :)

lack of understanding what russia does and what happens in ukraine right now is astonishing. where do you get your news, russia today ?

samzenpus. i even bothered to find a way to hide him for my logged-in account, but unfortunately i can't just make him disappear for my anonymous visits, which is how i ended up here

sure, i didn't say it's easy to change - but it's important to recognise that this is wrong and laziness on their part :)

it's not about possibility, it's about attitude. that approach is bad. sure, sometimes it can't be avoided because of a crappy vendor - but that does not mean it's "just fine", it should be listed as a risk & drawback in your security assessment reports

they are simply badly designed apps, the vendor was lazy.
i'm guilty of doing that sometimes myself, but i'm not going to try and justify it - i was just lazy or pressed for time. it does not make it a good practice in any case.

you are changing the claim and then refuting it.
the claim is that terrorists shot down something, thinking it's an ukrainian transport plane... except that it was not.
this is confirmed even by their own boasting (which they quickly removed after they saw what fell out of that plane)

they supplied the sam system. they supplied the personnel manning it. they did pick the target... just that they fucked up.
of course, they are pretending thy know nothing about those terrorists they sent and armed there for this exact reason - so that they could say "ooooh, it's some innocent, peaceful rebels"

i didn't mean that any of these was on purpose.
mh17 does look like an accidental shot - but fully enabled by the current russian leadership, including supply of the troops, financing and the weapons.

ah, another anonymous kremlin commenter.
just remember that in the regime you are promoting you, your relatives and friends will be fair game to the ruling putin class.

there's a difference between full scale, open invasion - and the slow creeping of special forces, a sam system here or there etc.
russia used this tactic in crimea, denying their involvement when everybody said it's them - then admitted it was them all along.
now they are denying their presence in the eastern ukraine...

first, i'm a european - and we know what an invasion by russia looks like and means.
second, the plane was avoiding a storm, and was still supposed to be in safe height (nobody thought putin would allow to provide such weaponry to the terrorists)
third, the plane was jointly controlled by kiev and russian traffic controllers.
fourth. just a few hours before the hit, russia supposedly closed the corridor where mh17 was flying. might be a coincidence. but oh how you would trump that up if ukrainians would have done that...
fifth, the only ones who are hiding the evidence are the terrorists on the ground - that includes rocket remains, blackboxes etc. oh well, by now they are being hidden in moscow.

"no, we have no idea who shot down kl007" would be more appropriate. more recent, involves the same aggressor.
and if the usa issues official statement that they detected a missile launch from the terrorist controlled territory, you can bet their internal report said "duh, of course it's those guys".
one problem with "oooh, we don't know yet" is that it's one of the pr strategies that works for the kremlin - just wait a bit and those lazy germans, hooked on the gas, will forget about this...

indeed, in ukraine they are not operating as open as in crimea... but several of the leaders are "ex-russian-forces".
how convenient, isn't it ? both gru and fsb have been identified as "previous" workplaces of many.
there are also reports of some regular duty soldiers mysteriously dying - those are a bit harder to verify with dead bodies being transported back to russia with trucks.

here's a usa statement (they got some satellites and other systems that help with gathering information) :
http://ukraine.usembassy.gov/statements/asmt-07192014.html
the careful wording in the world of diplomacy means "oh stop fucking around, it's 100% clear who did it".

At the time that flight MH17 dropped out of contact, we detected a surface-to-air missile (SAM) launch from a separatist-controlled area in southeastern Ukraine.

also, the terrorists are sent and controlled by russia. if that indeed was not them... you can be sure as hell they would allow any and all inspections, completely secure the area to prevent any tampering, get all blackboxes and deliver them to international experts. because it would be juuuust perfect for them.
they did the opposite.