http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/20/chinese-people-power-a-primer
Chinese People Power: A Primer
Jesse Walker | February 20, 2011
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While our eyes are glued on the collapsing Qaddafi regime, the authorities in China are getting jittery about a Jasmine Revolution of their own:
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How about an American Jasmine Revolution?
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Google’s two factor authentication has arrived at one of my accounts.
It’s an excellent idea and turns one’s cell phone into the equivalent of a SecureId token. Maybe better?
Basically, before you turn it on, you have to consider THREE things.
(1) Understand that the initialization process takes a few minutes of your undivided attention. (If you screw it up, then I’m not sure how you fix it.) So “multi taskers” be forewarned.
(2) Understand what you need to do for all things that access your Google Account but don’t support two factor authentication (i.e., you email program). You’ll generate a special password for each of these applications. (It doesn’t say to, but makes it easy to generate on unique on for each such use.)
(3) Understand you have to have a plan if you loose your cell phone (i.e., losing one of your two factors will lock you out). Google allows you to specify another number and to print out a bunch of backup one time use passwords. Don’t fail to do this.
All in all, seems like a good working implementation.
I’d suggest that you do it on a test id. (Like I didn’t. I was excited to see it finally. That’s could be a bad blunder.)
I assume that you can revert if you want to. But I don’t know that for a fact.
Do as I say; not as I do?
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Injection are less painful if you resist the natural impulse to look away, scientists have claimed.
By Laura Roberts 7:00AM GMT 11 Feb 2011
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The body naturally reduces the pain experienced if the limb or body part affected is focused on visually.
Researchers found that people had a higher pain threshold if they looked at the arm or hand being treated.
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Interesting?
Is this version of the placebo or nocebo effect being demonstrate?
Fascinating stuff, imho.
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Bears’ Duerson shot himself; brain to be studied – Chicago Breaking Sports
Bears’ Duerson shot himself; brain to be studied
February 19, 2011 6:52 PM |
By Dan Pompei and Duaa Eldeib
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Former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Tribune.
His death has been ruled a suicide, but the Miami-Dade police department has yet to make the information public.
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Sad. Maybe the “game” needs more safety?
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“Thanks to a recent $260,000 grant from the Department of Transportation”
It’s not like the DoT ran a bake sale to get that 260k. And, it’s not that a “bike way” might not be nice thing to have. BUTT (there’s always a big but) (1) We can’t afford it while the finances are in such disarray. That means that everything MUST wait until the Federal, State, and Local finances are back to normal. AND, (for sake of argument) let’s assume that every time a dollar passes thru a level of bureaucrats it loses half its value due to administration. So we have a dollar of taxes paid to the Federal Gooferment and it has to transit down to South Brunswick. Working back that 260k must have cost some multiple of it. 520K, 1040k, 2080k, who knows? It’s just crazy to be happy about this.
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Federal Marshals Threaten, Censor «Libertarian Enterprise» By L. Neil Smith
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“I’ll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.” L. Neil Smith
For the first time, in its sixteenth year of publication, this journal of libertarian views and opinion — bound by an absolute moral resolve never to initiate force against anyone for any reason, nor to advocate or delegate its initiation — has been threatened by agents of the federal government and ordered to remove content from its website.
We have done so. When you learn, in a general way, what that content consisted of, you will be perplexed, at first, then angrier and angrier as you see what has been done to what was once a free country, and realize precisely who is most responsible for having done it.
Last August, _TLE_ ran a piece by our frequent contributor Jim Davidson about the hypocrisy of the federal judiciary. Three federal judges had just authorized a practice in which armed government agents could feel free to trespass on a citizen’s property without a warrant or probable cause, in order to affix a GPS tracker to that citizen’s car.
Our columnist’s natural and logical response was to deprive these judges of privacy the same way they were allowing the privacy of the individuals who pay their salaries (however involuntarily) to be violated. Using only publicly available sources, he published their names, addresses, and other information. Let me state that again, so there can be no mistake: he published their names, addresses, and other such information which he had obtained from purely public sources.
This week — six months later — we have been notified, first by our domain registrar GoDaddy.com, then in an e-mail from the U.S. Marshals’ “service” that we must remove the offending article from _TLE_’s website, in order to assure the safety of the judges and their families. (This, of course, begs the question, why in the hell their information is publicly available if it constitutes a threat to their safety.) GoDaddy.com has refused to answer reasonable questions about this affair — such as precisely what Terms of Service we were in violation of — instead simply repeating the order to remove the material.
We have complied.
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Clearly, The Elite are becoming very concerned that “We, The People” know where they live. The Mundanes have no privacy; the Efete Elite do!
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Bribes to Brazil to Continue | Cato @ Liberty.
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An amendment to end what Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) rightly called “lunacy” failed this afternoon in a depressing show of cowardice on cotton subsidies. The amendment [Amendment No. 89] would have ended payments to Brazilian [yes, sic] cotton farmers that cost U.S. taxpayers $150 million a year. The House rejected the amendment 183 to 246.
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Argh!
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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/free_speech_for.html
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
Free Speech for Them but Not for Us
David Henderson
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Does Hillary Clinton Understand Irony?
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech at George Washington University in which she criticized foreign governments for cracking down on freedom of speech.
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Right while Clinton was touting free speech and look at the back of the small room and could, presumably, see McGovern, goons roughed up McGovern and hauled him away. Did Hillary Clinton protest? No. She didn’t even miss a beat.
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Interesting. And, no media attention at all.
Hillary is making a lot of missteps if she’s trying to become President?
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Hillary Clinton: Israeli Settlements ‘Illegitimate’ – ABC News.
Wonder how this will impact the liberal Jewish vote and it’s “love affair” with the Democratic Party?
I’d feel like I got <synonym for the act of procreation, past tense>
Argh!
Think Hillary is bolstering her foreign policy credentials for a POTUS2012 run? Not with this blunder. And, not by associating with this blundering naive administration.
Hope we survive to 2012.
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Interesting!?!
Could have been disastrous. So there is nothing in the MACOSX operating system that ensures everything that should be in your environment is. And, by extension, nothing that shouldn’t be there isn’t either.
Argh!
What else can’t we see?
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