Day: June 6, 2011

RANT: Borrow from China to give it to the Muslim Brotherhood?

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http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/humpty-obumpty-and-the-arab-spring/

Humpty Obumpty and the Arab Spring
By Spengler
DC Insanity: Washington Borrows From China and Gives The Money To The Arabs

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(Editor’s Note: I keep giving you proof of the myriad ways that the global collapse will occur. It could come from within DC. But is just as likely to come from outside the USA as other nations implode. And don’t forget about the European Union. HALF of its member nations are already bankrupt. And OBama commits $20 Billion to Arabs…money that we are borrowing to “lend” to the Arab nations that are in trouble.)

I’ve been warning for months that Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and other Arab oil-importing countries face a total economic meltdown (see Food and failed Arab states, Feb 2, and The hunger to come in Egypt, May 10). Now the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed my warnings.

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Whatever the Group of Eight actually had in mind, the proposed aid package for the misnomered Arab Spring has already become a punching bag for opposition budget-cutters. “Should we be borrowing money from China to turn around and give it to the Muslim Brotherhood?” Sarah Palin asked on May 27.

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Maybe I’m being taken in by the “stupidity” of Sarah Palin, but this make as much sense as BHO44 stopping Gulf drilling and giving 2B$ to Brazil to drill in the Gulf.

Time for “We, The Sheeple” to speak up!

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TECHNOLOGY: Use special characters in passwords

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http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/06/1321257/A-Brief-Sony-Password-Analysis

A Brief Sony Password Analysis
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 06, @09:30AM
from the change-it-now-people dept.

troyhunt writes

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99% of passwords don’t contain a single non-alphanumeric character.”

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It would seem that two short words separated by a “special” character would be a great password.

9vfj#4fkh kdj5@3jdz 4ax4$32az

Give the hackers another 10 characters to worry about.

26 lower case, 26 upper case, 10 digits, 10 specials = 72

(72) ** password length *** equals a long time for crackers.

Even if you cheat like I suggested — [(62)**4 (10) (62)**4] — is still a long time.

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TECHNOLOGY: E-books are “interesting”

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http://www.macworld.com/article/160120-2/2011/05/ebook_prices_outrage_innovation.html

E-Book prices fuel outrage — and innovation
by Narasu Rebbapragada, PCWorld May 30, 2011 9:00 am

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The evolution to digital will differ by publisher. Hachette’s Thomas anticipates, “Some print runs will decline, some will expand, and new readers (who were not previously regular physical book buyers) will enter the market because of the digital revolution.”

And only time will tell where in the pricing spectrum—from best-selling $25-plus hardbacks at one end to 99-cent music downloads at the other—e-book prices will settle. Some argue that there’s no incentive for publishers to cut prices. Despite the public protests, people are buying e-books in droves. Others point to the inevitable downward trend of digital content prices.

“It’s still a little bit like the Wild West out there,” says Brian Felsen of the current digital publishing landscape. But who lassos whom—publisher, retailer, or self-made author—remains to be seen.

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Clearly, the inet is crashing existing business models.

If marketing is a “conversation”, then the model has to profit off that “conversation”. That’s what is important developing that community. Monetizing it is secondary.

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