CLOUD: LifeLock Wallet pulled

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Another app bites the dust.

 

Dear LifeLock Wallet User,

You have received this email because you have previously downloaded the LifeLock Wallet app or its predecessor, Lemon Wallet.

We are writing to let you know that we have determined the app is not fully compliant with payment card industry (PCI) security standards, and we are taking immediate steps to correct this and ensure the ongoing safety of your personal information.

It’s important for you to know that we have no reason to believe your personal information, including credit card numbers and other data, has been compromised as a result of the PCI compliance issue.

As we move forward to bring the app into the highest levels of PCI compliance, we are deleting your stored personal data from our LifeLock servers. This does not affect your ability to use your credit cards or other information you have uploaded to LifeLock Wallet.

We’re working to return a fully PCI compliant LifeLock Wallet to you soon. Until then, we are removing the app from all app stores, including the Apple App Store, Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

We know that being without this application for a while is asking a lot of you. We apologize for the inconvenience. At the same time, we want you to know that we are taking all of these steps because we take your security and privacy very seriously.

When LifeLock Wallet is available again, rest assured that you can download it, provide your personal information and use it again with confidence—knowing that it’s backed by an industry leader that is committed to doing the right thing.

For more information, please visit http://www.LifeLock.com/mobile.

Sincerely,
The LifeLock Wallet team

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RANT: Dookhan’s fake evidence

Monday, May 19, 2014

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/paul-craig-roberts/call-the-cops/

Call the Cops at Your Peril
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
May 10, 2014

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Americans who trust the criminal justice (sic) system are completely stupid. A case ofmass wrongful conviction that I wrote about years ago finally came to trial last November. Annie Dookham, a Massachusetts state chemist who falsified drug tests, thus sentencing thousands of innocent people to years in prison, destroying their lives and the lives of their families, was sentenced to 3 to 5 years in prison. Dookhan sent thousands of innocents to prison in order to aid prosecutors in attaining high conviction rates and in order to achieve her own rise as a highly productive state employee. The judge noted that Dookham had cost the state millions of dollars in settling wrongful convictions and had shaken to the core the integrity of the criminal justice (sic) system.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/11/22/annie-dookhan-former-state-chemist-who-mishandled-drug-evidence-agrees-plead-guilty/lhg1mwd9U3J8eh4tNBS63N/story.html

State officials say that Dookhan’s fake evidence could have tainted 40,000 cases. Askyourself, what kind of person would destroy so many people in order to advance herself? And progressives think that the public sector is the answer.

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Argh!

How can you not get upset after reading this?

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CLOUD: SKYPE did away with the invite link

Sunday, May 18, 2014

How dumb is Microsoft?

It’s a cheap and easy way to get people to join.

Argh!

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GUNS: Gun Control in Nazi Germany; it CAN happen here and has

Saturday, May 17, 2014

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/audrey-d-kline/nazi-gun-control/

Gun Control in Nazi Germany
By Audrey D. Kline
Mises.org
May 10, 2014

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As has been well documented, Jews were methodically attacked, their homes, businesses, and synagogues ransacked and burned. Upward of 30,000 Jews were arrested. Any Jews resisting arrest were ordered shot on the spot. Attacks on the Jews were to be carried out by the SA, with no interference by police. Jews arrested were to be sent to concentration camps for up to 20 years. The pogrom was so thorough that nearly all age appropriate, Jewish adult males in Stuttgart had been arrested. With the population afraid and disarmed, Hitler could proceed with little worry about resistance. The Court reinforced that there was no judicial review needed for activities of the Gestapo.

Halbrook concludes by noting that less government regulation and a tradition of rejecting tyranny could have led to a different outcome in Germany. Instead, systematic creation and manipulation of firearms registration and regulations, coupled with the decimation of individual citizen’s rights, enabled Hitler’s dictatorship and the slaughter of millions of innocent Jews and citizens of Nazi-occupied countries, as well as tens of thousands of Germans. It remains for all of us to wonder what might have been had people refused to register their firearms. Indeed, we should all take note and never forget.

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“Gun Control” aka “Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

Remember that it started in South to protect the KKK. Can’t have victims shooting back.

And never forget the Japanese internment.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Die in the camps like cattle or die fighting.

You’re dead either way.

The character “Ronald Spiers” in Band of Brothers (a 2001 TV Mini-Series): “The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”

“From my cold dead hands”

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MONEY: California dreaming of the Bank of North Dakota

Friday, May 16, 2014

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Robbing-Main-Street-to-Pro-by-Ellen-Brown-Banking_Jerry-Brown_Public-Banks-140507-488.html

OpEdNews Op Eds 5/7/2014 at 14:28:58
Robbing Main Street to Prop Up Wall Street: Why Jerry Brown’s Rainy Day Fund Is a Bad Idea
By Ellen Brown (about the author)

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There is another alternative — one that California got very close to implementing in 2011, before Jerry Brown vetoed the bill. AB750, a bill for a feasibility study for a state-owned bank, passed both houses of the state legislature but the governor refused to sign it. He said the study could be done by the Assembly and Senate Banking Committees in-house; but 2-1/2 years later, no further action has been taken on it.

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That is not just California dreaming. There is already a highly successful precedent for the approach. North Dakota is the only state with its own state-owned depository bank, and the only state to fully escape the credit crisis. It has boasted a budget surplus every year since 2008, and its 2.6% unemployment rate is the lowest in the country. Contrast that to California’s, one of the highest.

In a 2009 interview, Bank of North Dakota President Eric Hardmeyer stated that when the dot-com bust caused North Dakota to go over-budget in 2001-02, the bank did act as a rainy day fund for the state. To make up the budget shortfall, the bank declared an extra dividend for the state (its owner), and the next year the budget was back on track. No massive debt accumulation, no Wall Street bid-rigging, no fraudulent interest-rate swaps, no bond vigilantes, no capital appreciation bonds at 300% interest.

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I think there is a HUGE barrier to establishing any “State Bank”.

The crony capitalists give campaign contributions. That’s the People’s tax money stolen by the Gooferment and transferred to Wall Street and Big Banks. And, portion is kicked back to the politicians and bureaucrats.

All very “legal”.

That’s what’s going to stop the “State Bank” movement cold!

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RANT: Three excellent questions?

Thursday, May 15, 2014

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From a SurvivalBlog Reader:

We are told to not judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge all gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.

We constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. Why do we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?

We are cutting benefits to veterans, giving no pay raises in the military, and reducing the armed forces to a level lower than before WWII. Why are we not stopping payments or benefits to illegal aliens?

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Three excellent questions?

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INTERESTING: China train to America

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/05/09/china-may-build-an-undersea-train-to-america/

China may build an undersea train to America
BY ISHAAN THAROOR
May 9 at 8:01 pm
Screengrab from Sina.com
Screengrab of China’s proposed global train routes from Sina.com

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China is planning to build a train line that would, in theory, connect Beijing to the United States. According to a report in the Beijing Times, citing an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese officials are considering a route that would start in the country’s northeast, thread through eastern Siberia and cross the Bering Strait via a 125-mile long underwater tunnel into Alaska.

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To that end, Beijing has assiduously resurrected the narrative of the ancient Silk Road as well as given prime billing to the tales of China’s famed Ming dynasty treasure fleets, which sailed all across the Indian Ocean. Seen in such grand historic perspective, a tunnel to Alaska doesn’t seem too far-fetched.

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Sadly, the USA because of it’s debt, deficit, huge amount of diktats, and a crapy economy, there’s no “building” here.

No one does big project with big benefits.

Argh!

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GUNS: “Victim disarmament” costs this poor woman her life

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Dubliner-woman-killed-in-hour-long-bear-mauling-in-Canada.html

Bear kills Irish woman in savage attack in Canada
Kate Hickey @irishcentral May 10,2014 04:00 AM

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A Dublin woman had been killed by a male black bear on an oilfield in Alberta, Canada.

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Lorna Weafer (36), who emigrated to Canada with her parents, Margaret and Frank, 30 years ago, was working as an instrument technician carrying out electrical work at the Suncor oilfield. The oilfield is located 25 miles north of her home in Fort McMurray.

The incident took place at 2:15pm on Wednesday, May 7. Weafer was exiting a portable washroom when she was attacked.

Six of her co-workers tried to scare off the bear but they could not save her. She died at scene.

Her colleagues blasted air horns, sprayed fire extinguishers and shot a water cannon at the bear who continued to maul Weafer for an hour. The bear would back away for short periods and then come back.

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Are you kidding me. No one had a handgun or a rifle.

Argh!

As a species, we are delusional.

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

In this case, mauled by a bear.

Maybe she couldn’t have defended herself, but that’s up for debate.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), six co-workers armed with air horns?

One person with a 1911 .45 on their hip could have ended it a minute.

Transfer from magazine to bear would take conservatively a minute or two.

Argh!

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CLOUD: EDITORIALLY Goodbye

Monday, May 12, 2014

http://stet.editorially.com/articles/goodbye/

FEBRUARY 12, 2014 EDITORIALLY
Goodbye

Editorially
Editorially makes collaborative writing easy.

Today brings some sad news: Editorially is closing its doors. The application will remain available until May 30, at which point the site will go offline. We encourage all users to export their data.
We’re proud of the team and tool that we built together and incredibly thankful that so many of you were willing to give it a try. And we continue to believe that evolving the way we collaborate as writers and editors is important work. But Editorially has failed to attract enough users to be sustainable, and we cannot honestly say we have reason to expect that to change.
We wish that were not the case — we’ve spent much of the past two years working on the hypothesis that the reverse was true — but today we must be honest with ourselves, and with you: this isn’t going to work.
We know many of you have spent time and energy making Editorially a tool you use every day, even going so far as to evangelize it to your friends and colleagues. For that: thank you. We’re sincerely sorry to have let you down.

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[JR: Bottom line — you can NOT depend on the cloud.]

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INTERESTING: “tiny villages”?

Monday, May 12, 2014

I’ve Seen People Turn Garbage Into Some Cool Stuff. But THIS…. This Is Absolute Brilliance.
http://feedly.com/e/j8yQMvWh

I’m sure the “City Fathers” won’t like this.

If they have ordinances about “feeding the homeless”, imagine a city with “homeless housing”?

I am fascinated by “tiny houses” as “interesting” for those that can do it. This is the next step down (i.e., no toilet, kitchen, or power). But I’m sure it’s better than a doorway or a dumpster.

Wonder how long before there are “tiny villages”?

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