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- New York Times Identifies Shooter in Blackwater Massacre
Info at your fingertips a lot of it probably true
Colorado Springs Gazette – Jan 21, 2008
How old school can you get? For volunteer editors of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia that at-a-glance view isn’t nearly enough. n Wikipedia the city’s entry — written by anyone with an interest in Colorado Springs — spans 7140 words and includes history demographics transportation sports economy religion and 18 footnotes. At least that’s what the Wikipedia article looked like Friday morning. At any moment any Internet user could change the whole thing adding facts and context or throwing up false information and innuendo. It’s the nature of Wikipedia which covers many more subjects in much greater depth than traditional sources all subject to standards that volunteer editors set for themselves… How old school can you get? For volunteer editors of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia that at-a-glance view isn’t nearly enough. n Wikipedia the city’s entry — written by anyone with an interest in Colorado Springs — spans 7140 words and includes history demographics transportation sports economy religion and 18 footnotes. At least that’s what the Wikipedia article looked like Friday morning. At any moment any Internet user could change the whole thing adding facts and context or throwing up false information and innuendo. It’s the nature of Wikipedia which covers many more subjects in much greater depth than traditional sources all subject to standards that volunteer editors set for themselves. Critics say that’s why it’s unreliable compared with traditional sources that are created and carefully vetted by experts.
WEBSITE F THE DAY – pediaphon.fernuni-hagen.de
Pocket-lint.co.uk – Jan 21, 2008
<br><br>So fast that you might consider this little recommendation a life-enhancing one. nce you get over the awful awful name Pediaphon is actually quite clever. <br><br>It allows you to generate an MP3 or podcast from any Wikipedia article you like meaning you can take the world\’s most unreliable source of information with you wherever you go. <br><br>The robotic voice isn\’t exactly flawless and doesn\’t get all the words spot on but you\’ll get the general idea. <br><br>Might be a good idea for the bods at Wikipedia to work on and add to the their own site… <br><br>It allows you to generate an MP3 or podcast from any Wikipedia article you like meaning you can take the world\’s most unreliable source of information with you wherever you go. <br><br>The robotic voice isn\’t exactly flawless and doesn\’t get all the words spot on but you\’ll get the general idea. <br><br>Might be a good idea for the bods at Wikipedia to work on and add to the their own site.
Comments on ‘CIA claims crackers took out power grids’
Register – Jan 21, 2008
In an entertaining rant against SANS for treating unspecified reports of disruption seriously he described the topic as the genesis of an urban myth. h dear By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 21st January 2008 20:06 GMTI was thinking that was a decent article till the very last sentence: "The threat level for now at least remains at around the same level of the possibility of mobile malware taking down a phone network". There’s approximately zero chance of mobile malware taking down a phone network for lots of reasons that ought to be reasonably obvious. There are lots of ways a malicious or even accidental event could result in the bringing down of a SCADA network such as the ones which run utilities (and factories) around the world.
New York Times Identifies Shooter in Blackwater Massacre
AlterNet – Jan 21, 2008
It appears that reporter Ginger Thompson thinks that shooting up an intersection full of civilian traffic constitutes “acting like a soldier”. This socio-political change ostensibly began with the Nixon and Reagan administrations but actually is a rebirth of the Royalist King GeorgeIII loyalists of the Revolutionary war. The Bush family can be traced back to the defeated Royalists?Privatization of the public sector of what is the normal and usual business of government is a conversion of public government to government by corporate board rooms. Pre-war Germany called this system “National Socialism” and took the acronym NAZI. So what we have called ‘privatization’ is really Corporate Socialism or National Socialism in spite of the propaganda to the contrary.
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