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Posts by RW
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Giant bank IT cockup of 2012 'could have brought down ENTIRE financial system'
Re: Ulster Bank fine
If they're both (parent and child) that incompetent, why weren't they forced out of offering financial services? And their senior managers and directors blacklisted from ever again holding any position of responsiblity for, or in respect of, financial IT?
Until the sociopaths who run all large corporations are identified by name and permanently blacklisted, we're going to see this kind of malfeasance over and over and over again.
5 Nigerian gangs dominate Craigslist buyer scams
How to deal with phishing scam/spam
You've all seen these too. "Your email box is full, please go to such-and-such site and re-enter your handle and password" being a stripped down version.
The solution is obvious: always, always respond but fill in false information. If the scammers get thousands of replies full of nonsense, they will be hard pressed to figure out which ones are legitimate. Maybe!
They spam us, we reverse-spam them.
Loss of unencrypted back-up disk costs UK prisons ministry £180K
Off with their heads!
It wan't "the prison service" that lacked the necessary attentiveness. It was some one or few individuals within that service who didn't, yet were responsible for just such matters.
It might very well be that some upper level management wonk had cancelled the position(s) supposed to handle those responsibilities. But always there is individual failure to do the job correctly that lies behind organizational failures.
Journal that published Facebook emoto-furtle study: Proper boffins get CONSENT
The Register has slipped!
"researchers from the University of Cornell in San Francisco"
Clearly, Kelly Fiveash, the author of the Register article, did not read the actual article and has gaps in his knowledge of American institutions of higher education.
First of all, "Cornell" is Cornell University, not "the University of Cornell". This can be easily ascertained by simply looking in the gazetteer at the back of the better American dictionaries or even by using that new-fangled Google thingie. I admit that the nomenclature of American universities is not consistent; some are "University of X", others are "X University", but the proper response to this inconsistency is to look things up and get them right instead of winging it and getting the facts wrong.
Moreover, Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, not San Francisco. How Mr. Fiveash managed to make such a hash out of the name of a very well known American university is beyond me.
Further: Facebook's "Core Data Science Team" works out of Menlo Park, California (as the PNAS article clearly states), not San Francisco. Important note for Mr. Fiveash: "San Francisco" and "the (San Francisco) Bay area" are not synonymous. I suggest he take a gander at Google maps.
Given the Register's generally high standard of writing, these errors come as an unpleasant surprise.
Fukushima radioactivity a complete non-issue on West Coast: Also for Fukushima locals, in fact
That's not a map of the radioactive plume
It's a map of the March 2013 tsunami, quite a different thing. As can be verified by simply moving your cursor over it.
Vile Twitter trolls thrown in the cooler for rape abuse tweet spree
Re: Rule No. 1
"The main argument seems to be that 'you shouldn't _have to_ defend yourself"
An elderly medieval historian I know once remarked regarding the feminist slogan "take back the night" that it was a quixotic quest; that historically only during a few decades in the twentieth century had it ever been reasonably safe for unaccompanied women to walk about at night — and even then only in some cities.
One possible response to "but I shouldn't have to defend myself" is "sez who?" aka "where does it say that?" People using that excuse for foolish behavior are indulging in wishful thinking at the possible cost of their health and life.
BT-owned ISP Plusnet fails to plug security hole on its customer signup page
Re: Barely News. PlusNet and Security are Mutually Exclusive.
"6 alphabetic characters"
Which alphabet? Roman? Cyrillic? Georgian? Armenian? Greek?
Does the word "alphabet" include abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, and logographic writing systems?
If passwords are restricted to the Roman alphabet, can you use letters from the extended forms of it? Like this: ƷǔƲƜƈŷűÈäẪṃ
More generally, can you use Unicode characters in a password?
Given the comments on BT's incompetence in such matters, the answers are probably "Roman only", "no", "no", and "no". Never mind that Unicode has been implemented quite widely for at least ten years now.
Quadrillion-dollar finance house spams Reg reader with bankers' private data
No one's paying attention
This is just another example of what happens when no one pays attention.
Some other examples from personal experience, not entirely IT related, of the results of no one paying attention:
1. A weekly e-flyer for a pharmacy chain, in PDF format, but really just a string of jpegs with such low resolution you couldn't read the text. No way to tell just what this week's specials were! No one bothered to actually look at the end result to be sure it was legible. Strangely enough, an email to the president's email address actually got to him, and they cleaned up their act promptly. I imagine somebody got their fingers slapped over such stupidity.
2. A big illuminated sign by the highway saying "For latest road condition information, check http://....." With all the hoopla about the adverse effects on driving of using cell phones, you'd think that a sign that was an open invitation to fire up your browser would be dismissed off hand as counterproductive.
3. An emergency response program that has designated routes for emergency vehicle use only. Problem: all the routes between different parts of the metroplex are so designated: you simply cannot get from part A where people work to part B where they live without using one of these highways. If we have a big earthquake (certain to happen sooner or later), everybody's going to want to rush home to make sure things are okay, that their kids in school are okay, etc. There aren't enough cops to block the resultant flood of traffic; and besides, the cops will have other things to do after a big shake. [The city I live in has very few road links between some sections.] This particular stupidity also involves failure to take into account human nature which, as the old adage teaches us, never changes. Plus the common bureaucratic position that making a rule against something actually stops people from doing it.
In the present case, somebody didn't bother to look at the email address they'd keyed to be sure it was correct, to say nothing of the other criticisms of this fiasco.
New NSA leak reveals invasion of the management consultants
How very Dilbertesque!
It could be from a Dilbert cartoon! "Leverage" as a verb, my eye!
The thing that really worries me is that the writers of this bilge are (apparently) unaware how uncommunicative it is, how silly it sounds, how empty of real meaning.
Facebook RIPS away your veil of privacy, declares NO MORE HIDING
Yet another reason not to use FB.
Oz retailers crying wolf over incomplete data
We get availability b.s. in Canada too
The Asics company makes certain athletic garments in the US. These are readily available in the US from a number of online retailers, but every last one of those retailers' websites states that they will not ship to Canada (among many other countries). Presumably Asics has given exclusive distribution rights to some Canadian company and has done the same elsewhere.
The fly in the ointment is that there is NO online source for these garments in Canada. And they are low demand items, so it's futile to look for them in local brick'n'mortar places. Perhaps they're available retail in the larger cities, but not in the burg I call home, where we are isolated on an island. This is par for the course in Canada; prices are significantly higher and selection is significantly smaller even when you do find a Canadian source for such goods.
Result: Asics does not sell as many of these garments as it might, and its competitive position regarding them in Canada is non-existent. And would-be buyers like myself are forced to use complex, costly workarounds to import them from the US.
Patching Xerox's number-changing photocopy phlaw will take weeks
Re: JBIG2
I wonder how it responds to other scripts with lots of hard-to-distinguish-by-the-uninitiated characters? E. G. Chinese characters (and the versions used in Japanese and Korean); nearly any South Asian script; Georgian, with it curlicues; the many extra characters added to the Roman alphabet for African languages. (Just browse through Character Map and look at all the wonderful scripts supported by Unicode.)
Sounds to me like Xerox is now rather like MS: too many people running around, nobody actually in charge, obvious design and engineering errors not having the whistle blown on them before they're inflicted on the hapless public. Surely someone should have said "our business is making copies of documents, not free variations on them.".
They don't recognise us as HUMAN: Disability groups want CAPTCHAs killed
Re: I use CAPTCHAS
But computers today are fundamentally devices with a visual-tactile interface. If you are blind and fingerless, you really need to find some other hobby than responding to comments on El-Reg (for example).
Limbaugh: If you hate Apple then you're a lefty blog-o-twat hipster
Re: Let me see now, his "logic" would imply that.........
In some circles, it's generally believed that Fox "commentators" are only in the game for the money, and they'll say whatever they think will improve their cash flow. Facts, logic, and other meritorious aspects of "the news" play no role in this. It's direct appeal to gut emotions that works.
Pretty much the same thing can be said about the American anti-gay industry, which features such bozos as Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown, Eugene Delgaudio, and a host of other grifters.
Finance CIOs sweat as regulators prepare to probe aging mainframes
> Any business unit that doesn't make money is seen as a "drain on resources" .
The situation is analogous, perhaps very closely so, with the problem of deteriorating infrastructure in the US. The people who control the purse strings don't acknowledge the importance of the highway network, for example, in keeping business running throughout the country. Hence highways, bridges, and all else are allowed to gradually deteriorate to the point of uselessness. [Actually, this isn't entirely true, but it approximates the situation usefully.] Maybe the IT systems of a bank don't make money that's visible as a separate line item, but if you take them away by virtue of flood, earthquake, tsunami, fire, riot, revolution, or even simple human error, the entire bank will suddenly stop making money.
A better motto for the world at large is "if you build it, you have to maintain it, and you will have to replace it entirely by a certain age, even if it's still usable." This applies to web pages as well as physical infrastructure, and it certainly applies to software systems.
So: Just how do you stop mobile users becoming leaky lusers?
A secret known to two people is no secret
Title says it all.
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf predicts the future, fears Word-DOCALYPSE
Re: From a historical perspective
Not the researchers of tomorrow, but those of today.
Out of personal interest, I've been cataloging YouTube videos of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku tsunami. The extremes are (a) those videos that have been watched by hundreds of thousands of people and reposted to YouTube by a good many of them; and (b) those that have been watched by very few and exist on YouTube only in one version. The object is to identify the best version of each significant video, best meaning most complete, preferably with a good deshaker applied.
Of course this is a hopeless task, as there are something on the order of 100,000 tsunami videos, far too large a number to catalog by hand. But even disregarding that minor issue, trying to figure out which version is original and complete is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Today.
Feds slam hacker-friendly backdoors in jalopy, grub factories
Sounds like HP's plans for admin-free networks
At the end of the day, it seems that the only way to truly secure any piece of networked gear boils down to physical security, e.g. no connection to the internet at all, a backdoor-enable switch as suggested by "Ru" above, or some similar measure that no amount of hacking can overcome. There's still the problem of social engineering, so maybe making that switch one operated by a lock and key is necessary. Otherwise, a stupid secretary gets an email "go flip switch J on box A" and does it.
Whoops! Tiny bug in NetBSD 6.0 code ruins SSH crypto keys
You win the prize. All other so-called random number generators are only pseudo-RNGs.
This is a well-known fact that is unfortunately not as well known as it should be.
How to survive a UEFI BOOT-OF-DEATH on Samsung laptops
On the evils of "making assumptions":
That phrase actually means "I just guessed."
One of my co-workers, before I retired, regularly messed up his programming. When asked "why did you do that?" while looking at some egregiously bad code, his reply was often "I assumed (such and such)."
Of course, his assumptions were usually wrong.
In fact, whenever he hit a tough bit of code to write, he'd often take the lazy way out and "assume" that nobody ever made a mistake, that you didn't need to be wary of user input errors, and other variations on avoiding hard thinking or, horror of horrors, going and asking somebody who knew what they were doing.
Oi, Microsoft, where's my effin' toolbar gone?
The flaw in trying to do users favors
Whenever software attempts to read users' minds, anticipate what they will do next, save them effort (sometimes), or divine the intentions behind user errors, it's all guesswork and it's often wrong.
Give me good old Windows 3.1 software like Lotus 1-2-3 R5 that did what you told it to do, nothing else. If you made a mistake, it simply told you so and made no effort to diagnose the your intentions.
Why pictograms instead of words in menus?
Because pictograms don't require translation when building software versions for other languages.
Sheer laziness, in other words.
Or maybe consideration and foresight in anticipation that today's monolingual speaker of English will be using Haida or Georgian tomorrow.
AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play
Re: More adverts, everywhere.
Loyal Commenter: "I'm not going to buy whatever they're touting, so why force them on me if I make the choice that I don't want them?"
I think you just said "the Emperor has no clothes." Selling something on the internet? Forget about ads: they don't work, just as Loyal Commenter says. Instead of trying to lure visitors to your site selling crap, try setting up your site so that Google searches for the goods/services you offer return your pages. And make sure people can navigate to the item they might buy. Example: I buy a fair amount of body jewelry and have noted that some sites have very poor search facilities, while others have excellent ones. The distinction is simple: can a visitor to such a site tell within seconds if (say) you have circular barbells, made of stainless steel, internally threaded, with a 10mm thickness? Sometimes the answer is yes, it's easy to tell, but other times you can't be sure and keep wondering if you overlooked the item you are contemplating purchase of.
Meanwhile a pox on search aggregators that do nothing but clutter up Google results.
On International Woman's Day we remember Grace Hopper
Historical quibble
The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation did not "later become Unisys". It first became Univac, which underwent various changes in name and ownership, finally merging with Burroughs in 1986 to form Unisys.
Reg readers brew up the ultimate cuppa
We must start from basics!
A good cup of tea is hot, aromatic, and free from the bitterness of tannins from over-steeped leaves. You can get this nectar even from quite cheap tea if you use the right technique, to wit, put the tea in a small conical sieve over the mouth of the tea pot and pour the boiling water through that. Tea is ready immediately; no need to steep. End of discussion.
Euro watchdog bares teeth at Microsoft over browser gaffe
Re: "Whoops!"
It was neither deliberate nor a "technical" error. It was a management error, pure and simple. You would think that MS, with the threat of a large fine hanging over it should they commit a specific misdeed, would make very sure that that misdeed did not occur by accident. But no, someone deep in the technical hierarchy in Bellvue was given the authority to okay an update without the point being made "make absolutely certain browser choice is still there for European customers."
My impression of MS is that its management is utterly chaotic, with nobody in particular actually in charge. MS isn't "too big to fail". It's "too big to succeed".
US insurer punts 'bestiality' to wide-eyed kiddies, gasp 'mums'
One Million Moms? Hardly!
Joe Jervis regularly features the latest insanity from OMM on his gay-oriented blog, Joe. My. God. (findable via Google). I forget the exact figure, but someone checked Facebook and found that OMM had about forty thousand "likes". The suspicion is often voiced that OMM is just one person with a very dirty mind who sees filth everywhere.
Regular readers of El Reg are likely to get a kick out of Joe. My. God.'s regular features of homophobic nuts, if only for the comedy value. Particularly recommended is a dude who styles himself "Third Eagle of the Apocalypse and Co-prophet of the End Times."
Ancient lost continent discovered lounging on Mauritian beach
Geoboffins? Good grief, Charlie Brown!
I can see a number of neologisms in the hatching: bioboffins, theoboffins, physioboffins, technoboffins, psychoboffins, socioboffins, anthropoboffins, ecoboffins, archaeoboffins.
When will the madness stop?
Australia joins hunt for corporate tax dodgers
The proposal overlooks a well-known fact
Naming and shaming will have no effect. Corporations and those who control them have no shame.
Global mercury ban to hit electronics, plastics, power prices
Re: CFL's
Those cleanup instructions from the EPA tacitly assume a hard surface floor. Wall-to-wall carpeting is very common; just try to scrape up spilled mercury from it!
Viruses infect vital control systems at TWO US power stations
Re: @Artic Fox: You are surely not suggesting that there are companies out there........
They'd probably be safer running DOS.
Ever had to register to buy online - and been PELTED with SPAM?
Re: They don't even spam well
Canada Post online tracking "works" that way but with the wrinkle that the headers for a plain text version are present but no plain text.
Thus if your email client is set up not to render HTML, you are s.o.l.
OTOH, given the extraordinary slowness of Canada Post and their unreliability (small parcels go missing with no trace), you couldn't really expect anything else.
Re: @Peter Hoare
Does that work on Unicodized email addresses such as
ICO hits the road to crack 'underlying problem' at data-leak councils
Re: Finally going out to find out what's going on. Fines *not* the answer.
The issue isn't so much dropping a USB stick on the bus as it is the sheer foolishness of putting unencrypted data on the thing in the first place. A close runner-up is the foolishness of anybody from the CEO down taking protected data outside the workplace in any form.
To some extent, the latter is caused by the managers who don't understand that the work day is only eight hours long.
Consumer group urges Aussies to spoof IP addresses
Similar to geo-restrictions on retail sales
Amazon has a nasty little habit of announcing "this product cannot be shipped to your default address." I've seen this with athletic gear from Asics and even with CDs made by Sony. Just like Hollywood installing that infernal region code on DVD's and then discovering that if anything, it impedes sales and encourages piracy.
When you live in a country where online commerce is not particularly well developed (e.g Canada), whether Asics or Sony like it or not, all such restrictions do is lead to creative ordering. As for Asics, I simply had what I wanted sent to a friend in Seattle, who then forwarded them to me. And Sony's silly restriction was easily circumvented by finding a Canadian listing for a used copy of my heart's desire.;
it appears that large corporations have not yet learned that the first two W's in "WWW" mean "world-wide." Time to kiss off geographically restricted distribution contracts.
PS: Canada is not a dead loss when it comes to online sales. I was easily able to find an online source for Blooker cocoa in Ontario.
Yahoo! will! ignore! 'Do! Not! Track!' from! IE10!
More Microsoft "doing favors no one asked for"
MS could have prevented this brouhaha by simply including setting DNT during installation, requiring the user to respond one way or the other. Yahoo would then have no gripe because the setting would always be derived from the explicit action of the users.
But, no. Dear Microsoft followed through on their usual bad habit of trying to guess what people want instead of simply asking them. Spare me operating systems that do things for you that way.
Re: "it does not accurately reflect user intent"
The thing that makes me laugh is that the ads aren't very effective, not at all. I use AdBlockPlus, so I don't see many ads, but the ones I do see never entice me to actually visit the web site advertised, much less spend money at it.
I spend a fair amount of money on online purchases, but not because of advertising. I've used Google to find sites that sell the kind of thing I usually look for and simply bookmark those. Looking for a specific item, say 1/2" diameter eyelets for my earlobes made of white jade, always requires investigating one such site after another, by hand. (Some sites make the search very easy, others a pain in the ass.)
Google is hopeless when it comes to exhaustively searching for such a specific item because (a) websites are inconsistent about how they present the information and (b) Google works word by word and isn't very good at finding loose groupings of descriptive words.
Don't bother with Big Data – listen to customers instead
Sociopathy at the top
The root problem is that when they depart their homes to go to work, managers leave their humanity behind on the dresser. All they have to do is ask, would I treat my dearly beloved grandmother like this?
Of course the sociopaths would treat their grandmothers badly, which leads to the point that sociopaths are not fit to hold positions of any responsibility. Unfortunately, from all appearances, the upper levels of management in all corporate bodies are primarily sociopaths.
We are doomed.
Megaupload case near collapse: report
Re: Worst intentions?
The incompetent lawyers might very well be holdovers from the Bush administration, hired because they declared personal loyalty to Bush. Many of them have law degrees from "Liberty University", the late Jerry Falwell's piss-poor excuse for an institution of higher education.
FIVE more councils say soz for exposing people's privates
Until the higher ups responsible lose their jobs, nothing will happen. The higher ups earn the big bucks; let them shoulder big responsibilities, even if they themselves didn't make the key mistake.
@ Dave the Cat:
Just say to your students "Now pay attention because if you don't, you WILL lost your job when you mess this up." Make sure all employees have been put on notice that certain types of email mistakes WILL result in immediate firing.
NHS fined £375k after stolen patient data flogged on eBay
Until the doofus managers who oversee such fiascoes feel some serious hurt — by preference in their pocketbooks — no tightening up will take place. Indeed, I'd name and shame them, and then put their names on a blacklist "do not employ this person in IT management".
The crazy system of one arm of the Crown fining another is...well...crazy. Which party originally inflicted this insanity on the suffering British people, pray tell?
Verizon retreats on 'convenience fee' for online bill payment
Paying through a third party
I.e. paying a bill through an ATM: here in BC, the statutes governing "agency" stipulate that a payment to an agent is considered as having been made to the principal immediately. Thus, if a bank tries to say "it takes X days for your payment to be passed on", the correct response is a reference to the law and a suggestion that they'd better get a less sluggish system installed.
Other jurisdictions may have similar provisions in force.
Feds propose 50-state ban on mobile use while driving
The right hand and the left hand
Here in British Columbia, we have a rather toothless law against cell phone use while driving.
But guess what? On the outskirts of Victoria, there are signs erected by the authorities on the freeway heading north, pointing drivers to a website, drivebc.ca, and to a toll-free telephone number for information on road conditions ahead.
These are clearly invitations to the driver to use his cellphone. The geniuses devoted to highway safety don't seem to realize that they are encouraging dangerous behavior.
In addition, though billboards are forbidden along BC highways (except on Indian reserves), the Dear Government has polluted the roadside with endless dorky little signs pointing to "tourist attractions" and similar detritus that doesn't offer drivers any real information to help them. No one seems to think about the distractions these may cause, entirely aside from the ugly blight they are on the scene. I blame it on quasi-marketers in the tourism ministry who have quite childish ideas about what actually enhances the tourists' experience.
Meanwhile, many roadside rest stops have been closed, along with the toilets at them, leaving weak-bladdered drivers no option but to piss by the side of the road. Some tourist experience! "I visited BC and I couldn't pee"
Eyes on stalks: ancient predator a real monster
The Badass Honey Badger
If you want to watch a Youtube video of the honey badger, go to "Badass honey badger", which has a fairly amusing re-do of the narration dubbed in.
Gould's Hallucigenia mistake
Gould later published an article in Natural History in which he owned up to his mistake in "Wonderful LIfe." That article was later put between covers, in "Bully for Brontosaurus" iirc.
Christmas gamma burst stupendo-explosion DEATHMATCH
Neologistic overload
The author has used up El Reg's lifetime supply of the word "astro-boffin" and its derivatives.
Lovefilm dumps Flash, BLINDS Linux fans with Silverlight
Shades of the FBI warning on CDs
That big FBI seal and ominous words to the effect "don't you dare pirate this CD!"
Never mind that the only people who see it are the paying customers who actually bought the CD. Talk about insulting one's customers!
WRT Lovefilm dumping flash and thereby shutting out Linux users. Yes, Linux users may only make up a percent or two of their customer base, but in these hard economic times can any business afford to throw away a percent or two of their established customers?
Is the electromagnetic constant a constant?
Generally speaking the word "chemical" is reserved for compounds, usually molecular in nature.
It's *elements* that are synthesized in stars, but only up to atomic number 56, iron. Heavier elements are synthesized only in supernovas.
Indeed, "chemical" is a weasel word in this case. "Atoms" would be more suitable and more precise.
Get your nomenclature right, Mr. Chirgwin.
Online government services would exclude many Welsh
On saving money by moving everything to the internet
Decades ago, a professional librarian and I were discussing the ins and outs of computerizing libraries, for example their card catalogs. She reported that at a convention she'd attended, the point was made that computerization was no cheaper than doing things the Old Way. Its advantage was that it was much faster.
I suspect the same is true of any government IT initiative, even today. If anyone says it's cheaper, they're either lying or grossly misinformed. Far too many government IT projects seem to be pie in the sky, swallowed holus bolus by brain dead pols with stars in their eyes.
MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux
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Bing Gets Self-Serve Deals and Coupons for Small Business Owners
Apr 11, 2011
Bing, Microsoft's increasingly popular search engine, just launched a new product for business owners today that not only allows them to claim and edit their profiles on Bing's local search feature, but also introduces a new self-serve platform for offering deals and other offers to their users. These offers can appear on Bing, as well as the business owner's own website and Facebook pages. The service replaces Bing's Local Listing Center.
Did Google Mislead Government About Its Security Certification for Google Apps for Government? (Updated)
Apr 11, 2011
Last year, the Department of the Interior decided to replace its 13 aging email system for its 88,000 employees with Microsoft's cloud-based offering. Google, which was also in the competition for this contract, which is worth an estimated $59 million over five years, filed a lawsuit shortly after the contract went to Microsoft, claiming that the process was not fair and open. In its filing (PDF), which were unsealed by the court last week, Google claimed on multiple occasions that its offering was certified under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Among other things, FISMA sets out to establish minimum security requirements for information systems used by the U.S. government.
Google and NYTimes Team Up to Launch Trivia Game
Apr 11, 2011
Google and the New York Times just launched a new trivia game, A Google a Day, that will make its print debut tomorrow morning. The new puzzle will appear right above the New York Times' legendary crossword puzzle, but with the added twist that unlike in regular trivia games, A Google a Day encourages people to go out and search for the answer online. To ensure that Google's real-time search feature doesn't spoil the fun, agoogleaday.com will feature a stripped down version of Google's regular search engine without any of these additional features
Adobe Introduces Creative Suite 5.5 with Subscription Plans and a Tablet SDK
Apr 10, 2011
Adobe just introduced version 5.5 of its Creative Suite - a bundle of software for creative professionals that, depending on the specific bundle, includes graphics and development-oriented tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and video-focused programs like Premiere Pro, Audition and After Effects. This is the first time Adobe has released a major point release of its Creative Suite (CS)...
Google Acquires PushLife Syncing Service as it Prepares to Launch its New Streaming Music Service
Apr 8, 2011
PushLife, a Toronto-based startup that allows users to sync their iTunes and Windows Media Player libraries with Android and BlackBerry smartphones, has been acquired by Google. The company, which was founded in 2008, describes its mission as helping users to "play, organize, schare and purchase digital content across multiple devices" and calls itself "the best upgrade to your BlackBerry and Android media player." The PushLife team will join Google's engineering team in Canada.
Google's ITA Acquisition Gets the Green Light: What It Means for You
Apr 8, 2011
Google just announced that it has received permission to proceed with its acquisition of ITA Software, the Cambridge, MA-based company that specializes in providing ticketing and logistics services to airlines like United Airlines, Air Canada American Airlines and major online travel agencies like Orbitz, Kayak and others.
YouTube Goes Live – But Only For Select Partners
Apr 8, 2011
Google just announced the launch of its live video streaming platform for YouTube. Until now, live events on YouTube were generally one-offs and focused on concerts, major sporting events and special interviews. Now, however, YouTube will allow a select group of its partners to stream their content live. Currently playing live shows will be highlighted on a special page.
Google Latitude Check-In Offers Go Nationwide
Apr 7, 2011
A few weeks ago, just in time for SXSW, Google launched check-in offers for Latitude, its location-based service and social network. At the time, these offers were only available at a limited set of places in Austin – the home of SXSW – but starting today, users of Google's Latitude Android and iPhone apps will be able to get...
Facebook Announces Open Compute: Shares the Design Specs of its Servers and Datacenters
Apr 7, 2011
Facebook today announced that it will share the design specs for the servers and datacenters that power its service with anybody who is interested. As the company's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted at today's presentation, Facebook's products and infrastructure are intimately linked. Without enough capacity in its datacenters, Facebook (and other companies) can't push out new, compute-intensive features....
Microsoft Launches its First iPad App: Bing for iPad
Apr 7, 2011
With Bing for iPad, Microsoft just launched its first native iPad app. The app, which is available for free, reformats Bing's content for the tablet and is clearly influenced by the same design decisions that guide Bing's web presence. When you open the app, for example, you are greeted by a large image that changes daily and the whole...
Microsoft and Toyota Team Up to Bring the Internet to Your Car (Updated)
Apr 6, 2011
Microsoft and Toyota just announced a new partnership today that aims to create a platform for Toyota's next-generation telematics services on top of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform. The first cars that will profit from this will be Toyota's electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, which will get some of these services starting in 2012. Toyota hopes to roll...
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For part #1 of this series see: The 1970s And The Birth Of The Action Hero
The 80′s:
Ok, so here's where the different eras don't necessarily fit nicely to the decades. I'd argue that the first 80′s action movie actually came out in 1973.
That film was Enter The Dragon, Bruce Lee's American debut. Crucially, what sets Bruce Lee's character (conveniently called 'Lee') apart from Dirty Harry is that he was a martial artist, as opposed to a detective. So, that means that he had to solve every problem by fighting, instead of police work. And thus the film is full of fighting. The narrative becomes a structure to accommodate the fight sequences upon, as opposed to being the driving force of the film itself. And that, ladies and gentleman, is the definition of an action film.
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The defining image of the 80′s action hero is the singular hero taking down waves and waves of anonymous bad guys, completely unstoppable. Whereas we knew that Clint will catch the bad guy, we know that Arnie will kill loads and loads and loads of bad guys.
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In Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography, he talks greatly about his struggles to bring bodybuilding into the mainstream. In the early 70′s it was a weird subculture often ridiculed by the media. Working out was strange. Most interestingly, Schwarzenegger claims that Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood would go to the gym like he did, but would never admit it "They were working out, but in secret. Whenever somebody commented on their muscles, they'd say 'I was born this way'".
By the 80′s this had changed. Schwarzenegger's bodybuilding doc Pumping Iron was a breakthrough hit. Professional wrestling grew in popularity as MTV ushered in the Rock N Wrestling Era. And action heroes got big.
But the action heroes of the 80′s weren't just ripped – they also had an air of legitimacy. Eastwood and Bronson were just actors – the new decade brought real tough guys. Schwarzenegger was a bodybuilder, most of the new breed were real life martial arts – Jean Claude Van Damme, Michael Dudikoff, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal , Cynthia Rothrock.
Carl Weathers was a former NFL player. Roddy Piper and Jesse Ventura were wrestlers. Notably, Sylvester Stallone didn't have this legitimacy, but he did make his name playing a boxer, so maybe in the eyes of the public he did. The other notable feature that separated 80′s action heroes from those of the 70′s was their exotic-ness. They were not the all-Americans of Lee Marvin and Steve McQueen's day – the likes of Schwarzenegger, JCVD and Dolph Lungren all were obviously European with silly accents and unpronounceable names. Stallone definitely had the wonky accent.
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Montana legislator introduces bill to give corporations right to voteSubmitted by Bob-45 on Sun, 02/24/2013 - 00:28
By David Ferguson
Saturday, February 23, 2013 11:16 EST
A Montana Republican state legislator has introduced a bill that would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections. According to Think Progress, Rep. Steve Lavin (R-Kalispell) has introduced Montana House Bill No. 486, which would grant to "a firm, partnership, company or corporation" that owns property within a district the right to vote as a citizen of that district.
Echoing former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's 2011 assertion that "corporations are people, too, my friend," the law, if enacted, would empower a representative of each company in the district to cast a vote in the company's interest. The representative would be required to present proof of the company's registration with the secretary of state and that they are that organization's designee.
This legislation would go beyond even the allowances made for corporations and companies to funnel unlimited dark money into elections as per the "Citizens United" decision. Think Progress reported that the bill was tabled by the state legislature almost immediately, so it is unlikely to be voted into law.
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One of the dumbest things I have heard of.
It is stupid things like this that make conservatives look incredibly dumb.
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I pray this was done
I pray this was done Ironically. As in to highlight what a farce "Corporations are people too." is.
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STAR WARS EPISODE VII Eyeing Jesse Plemons for Lead Role
By Dan Casey on January 10, 2014
First he was Landry, the lead singer of Crucifictorious, in Friday Night Lights. Then he was Todd, a/k/a Meth Damon, the sociopathic cold-blooded killer with a Nazi uncle in Breaking Bad. Now he could be the star of J.J. Abrams' Star Wars Episode VII. According to a report from The Wrap, Plemons could be well on his way to a galaxy far, far away.
It's important to note that Plemons has not been officially cast yet. The 25 year-old actor is scheduled to meet with director J.J. Abrams next week to discuss the film, which is heavily rumored to reunite Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford too. Apparently, Plemons had taped an audition that "was well-received by those involved in the casting process", and he'll make the trek to Los Angeles next week for a second, face-to-face audition with Abrams.
Personally, I think this is phenomenal casting, given Plemons' considerable acting chops and his slight resemblance to Mark Hamill. Considering Hamill is 62 years old and Plemons is 25 years old, it would put the young actor in the right range to play, oh say, Luke Skywalker's offspring. There's no word yet on who Plemons would be playing, but rumor has it that the film revolves around three main characters, two young boys and a girl. Perhaps one of those will be Plemons. One thing is for sure though – it's likely that we'll hear more from Lucasfilm and Disney in the coming weeks.
Would you like to see Jesse Plemons make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs? Let us know in the comments below or tell me on Twitter.
I love me some FNL & dat dudes an amazing actor I have no problem with that now if only Disney can get Natalie Portman to join the cast
[…] already got news that Breaking Bad's Jesse Plemons is up for a part (Luke Jr.?) but now a whole bunch of new, more familiar names are starting to pop up. According to […]
Do to my drunken typos when doing recaps of Breaking Bad, Plemons will forever be known to me as 'Math Demon'.
No! No! I'm going to spend the whole movie thinking "Luke Skywalker, you dead-eyed Opie motherfu**er."
@orionsangel: Your saying Sir Alec Guiness was a nobody….until Star Wars?
I see what you did there… "he'll make the trek to Los Angeles"… nice tie in.. well played Master Dan… Well played indeed!
It's Less than …..12 parsecs …!
Not under it …
I don't care about Star Wars, but it would be hard to watch him play any different role. I know, it's typecasting, but that's just the way it is.
I didn't know Pete Holmes had a brother.
I'm glad they're casting a nobody. Just like the original Star Wars film.
Holy shit yes please. I just got acquainted with this actor watching Friday Night Lights on Netflix and he's awesome – – and what a perfect choice for the new Star Wars (I mean nothing could be worse than Episode 1, right?). I hope they make the right decision here.


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Die Veneris, 27 Junii, 1645.
THE Grand Committee of the House proceeded,
according to former Order, to take the Business
concerning the Government of the Church into Consideration.
Mr. Whittacre in the Chair.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Whittacre reports, from the Grand Committee of
the House, the Ordinance for speedy Dispersing and Publishing of the Directory, and for Punishing of such as
shall use the Book of Common-Prayer, and of such as
shall not use, or shall deprave, the said Directory: Which
was read the First and Second time; and, upon the Question, committed to the Grand Committee of the whole
Ordered, That, in regard many Hundred of the common
Soldiers, lately taken Prisoners by Sir Thomas Fairfax,
have very chearfully listed themselves for the Service of
the Parliament, against those bloody and barbarous Rebels
of Ireland; and are ready to be transported into that
Kingdom with all convenient Speed, That all the Ministers of the several Churches and Chapels within the
Cities of London and Westminster, Lines of Communication, and the weekly Bills of Mortality, be especially desired, both in the Afternoon and Forenoon of the next
Lord's Day, to move effectually their respective Congregations to contribute their Charity towards the Relief and
Transportation of those Soldiers which are willing to adventure their Lives in so pious and honourable Employment: And all such Monies as shall be collected by the
respective Officers and Churchwardens for this Service,
shall be paid over, on Monday next, to Alderman Bunce,
Alderman Kenrick, and the rest of the Treasurers appointed to receive the Fourscore thousand Pounds upon
the late Ordinance for Ireland: And the Committees of
Adventurers for Ireland, sitting at Grocers-Hall, are desired to give their best Assistance for the Advancing of this
charitable Contribution; which shall be issued out, for the
Relief of the said Soldiers, in such manner as by Warrant from the Committee for Prisoners shall be from time
to time directed.
Ordered, That Sir Robert Harley do make his Report,
concerning the Pictures in York-House, To-morrow Morning.
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FORT MYERS, Fla.-- Crews at the Riverland Nursery on Palm Beach Blvd. in Fort Myers expect to move or cover thousands of plants before the colder weather settles in overnight.
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Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. (February 9, 2007)
NBC comedy pilot Area 52 about a secret government installation in
the desert with an alien resident, has added Jane
Lynch to the cast. Jane will be playing Irene Maloof, who if she's anything
like Lynch's previous characters, probably inappropriately hits on the alien.
More good fall pilot news: there's a recurring lesbian character in Hackett,
a half-hour, single camera comedy in the works for Fox about a bad-boy literary
luminary who escapes his troubles with women and a disgraced career teaching
at yale to become a public high school teacher in Ohio. One of his fellow teachers
is a woman named Tam, who is described in the casting call as a "sexy 20′s
lesbian" whose lover has left her. Where do I sign up for detention?
"Without going into too much detail, we've all been there and
done that."
- Belinda Carlisle on The Go Go's lesbian experiences, to
My friend Brent
Hartinger's (Geography Club, The Last Chance Texaco) latest excellent
young adult novel came out this week, and I made the mistake of starting to
read it at 11pm last night. Of course I got sucked in and before I knew it,
it was 1am and I was still wide awake, even though I'd promised myself I'd go
to sleep by midnight. My girlfriend, on the other hand, had fallen asleep the
minute her head hit the pillow, like she always does. It's one of her
more annoying traits.
back to the book. It's a two-part book called Split
Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies / Bride of the Soul-Sucking
Brain Zombies, but don't let the name throw you–this isn't one of
those teen horror/slasher novels that are all the rage now (seriously, who lets
their kid read those?). Zombies is about the romantic misadventures
of a gay high school junior named Russell, and his sarcastic bisexual Asian-American
friend Min who has a purple streak in her hair, a mother who wears really tacky
sweaters, and a crush on a closeted cheerleader named Leah. When Russell and
Min volunteer to be extras in a horror movie shooting nearby, the sparks between
Min and Leah start to fly, but Leah's refusal to admit she's dating Min threatens
to end the relationship before it begins.
Will Leah finally introduce Min to her cheerleader friends? Will Min get off
her high-horse long enough to let her? Will I get any sleep tonight?
Eh, like the bumper sticker says: you can sleep when you're dead. Or watching
All My Children.
On this week's episode:
Valentine's Day, coming out, and Linda Villarosa's upcoming novel.
Watch the conclusion of the two-part lesbian episode of Fox's Trading Spouses
tonight to find out if the homophobic straight family gets what's coming to
them–and read our new interview
with Pepper and Judy to get their take on the whole thing.
Out actress Maile Flanagan just received
another Emmy nomination for her voice-over work on the PBS series Jakers!
The Adventures of Piggley Winks (she won last year for Outstanding Performer
in an Animated Program).
Next Tuesday on Dirt,
Garbo, Mallory, and a random guy have a graphic threesome. A heartwarming scene
just in time for Valentine's Day!
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How to choose the right cosmetic dentist
Good and effective dental care can mean much more than just getting regular checkups. Although regular checkups are very important, you also need to take the right steps to maintain your pearly white's looks. Choosing the right Charlotte cosmetic dentist can help you keep your smile its brightest white. But how do you choose the right Charlotte cosmetic dentist? Here are some great tips to follow to guide you to the right one.
- First and most important, make sure the Charlotte cosmetic dentist is accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, NOT just a member! Any dentist can become a member of the ACCD, but dentists actually accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry must undergo at a substantial amount of cosmetic dentistry education and training, present five different types of cosmetic dentistry cases to a panel of experts, pass written and oral examinations, and adhere to a strict code of cosmetic dentistry ethics.
- Choose a dentist who specializes in cosmetic dentistry – general dentists are excellent at all things general dentistry such as fillings, cleanings, preventing gum disease, and regular care. But for artful cosmetic care, you need an actual accredited, certified cosmetic dentist who specializes in smile makeovers and smile design every day.
- AVOID "bargain" cosmetic treatments – facilities that claim to be bargain "cosmetic dentistry centers" often aren't run by people who are cosmetic dentists! Think of it as getting a cheap haircut. However, in this case, the results don't grow out after a few weeks, but may be with you for decades to come. Although it may cost more initially, it is always better to pay for quality and trust that spend more later to fix the bad "haircut."
- Don't be fooled by credentials from schools offering quickie "certifications" – There are plenty of organizations popping up offering short-cut "credentials," "medals," or awards" in cosmetic dentistry. But for the general public, we don't always know how valued those certificates are. Be wary of any cosmetic dentists who are not accredited by any board except the American Board of Cosmetic Dentistry and the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. Any other award or certificate by other organizations may mean little when choosing a cosmetic dentist.
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Punk rock has been a part of cinema ever since the music was created in places like Los Angeles, New York and London in the mid to late '70s. Aside from the music, either live or on record, the big screen provided another medium to convey what punk truly stands for: not giving a fuck what anyone els ... More >>
Bob Dylan is being sued. For supposedly being racist. Could the harmonica enthusiast born Robert Allen Zimmerman -- the man whose ejaculate created national treasure Jakob Dylan of the Wallflowers -- truly be a bigot? Sure, he could be. Or maybe his comment likening Croatians to Nazis was misinterpr ... More >>
Don't spend too many late-night hours reading longtime Ministry leader Al Jourgensen's memoir. It's a dark, dark nightmare. Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen is harrowing tale of drugs, sex and, of course, rock-n-roll, inspired by the artist who influenced a generation of musical ... More >>
Hey guys, guess what. Scientists recently decided that the world could instantly turn into a solid state at any moment, so before that happens, go catch these 10 must-see concerts in DFW. Scroll down to make your bucket list, then find the link to this terrifying NPR article on page two.
More '90s bands are coming to town! The Dream is alive! Out of the bands below that I'm announcing are coming to town, a handful of them peaked a couple of decades ago. Now go watch that music video for the song "Good" by Better than Ezra to take you on a little trip down memory lane.
Earlier this week, Weezer announced plans to partner with Carnival Cruise Lines to arrange the first ever "Weezer Cruise." The four-night voyage from Miami to Cozumel will also feature sets by the likes of Ozma, Dinosaur Jr., Wavves and loads of others.Never mind how awesome we think all this sou ... More >>
Stakes are high for comedy written by and starring women.
I hadn't seen Alex Cox's Straight to Hell since forever, but Barak Epstein at the Texas Theatre was kind enough to provide a copy yesterday in advance of its re-appearance at the Oak Cliff movie house tomorrow night -- the first of four nights paying homage to the filmmaker. Well, technically, it ... More >>
I've considered retiring this weekly feature many times in recent weeks; we're about out of the good stuff, I fear -- unless you're just dying for a ladies-choice between Linda Ronstadt at Reunion in '82 or Courtney Love and Hole at Deep Ellum Live in '94, which I'd briefly considered last night. ... More >>
Edgefest 2010Pizza Hut Park in FriscoMay 1, 2010Better than: watching the Kentucky Derby, although probably not if you were doing so from Churchill Downs' infield--because that's a party, folks.Phoenix headlined Edgefest's smaller stage on Saturday.Believe it or not, there was music at Pizza Hut ... More >>
Saturday, May 1, at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco
Vishal Malhotra Calhoun's back, even if it's just those two on the left...Over on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's site today, a real treat for fans of Calhoun, one of the finest bands from that city: Seems the band, which called it quits last May, isn't done yet. And there's proof: A week ago toda ... More >>
It is truly weird when City of Ate stories pop up in other venues, often without context. For instance, our Top 10 on foods to fry for next year's state fair somehow ended up in a Baltimore paper's blog, where some people show surprising scorn for things Texan.These cross-posts, or whatever they' ... More >>
It was 15 years ago last week when a landscaper found Kurt Cobain's body sprawled out on the floor of his garage apartment. Time flies when you're dead, huh? His suicide will always be a shining example of why an aspiration to celebrity is such a vacuous exercise in ego. The guy could never admit ... More >>
Who should fear the reaper this year?
Grimaldi's Pizzeria3636 McKinney, Suite 190214-559-4611 Last night my ladyfriend and I decided on a pizza dinner at Grimaldi's in the West Village. If you haven't been yet, Grimaldi's is the first Dallas location of the chain which has served famously delicious coal-fired pizza pies to dudes like F ... More >>
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Il Solé's menu rocks. Unfortunately, so does the sound system.
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With Adore, Billy Corgan has finally made a record as good as he thinks it is
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The wages of Lollapalooza's sin is Metallica and make-up
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Michael Jackson tells HIStory to whoever is left to listen to it
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Sushma swaraj is likely bjp candidate for PM , will you vote her
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I dont think so she is too good for PmAnswered by babu rao, 13 Sep '12 08:21 pm
Could I vote !Answered by vishwabandhubajpai, 11 Sep '12 04:53 am
I must have voted.
I must have voted.
She is a better PM candidate as compared to other much published candidates.BJP will get benefit out of it but not sure whether BJP will get the majority.Answered by madanmohan, 10 Sep '12 11:46 pm
No, She lacks depth in her personality and statesmanship. She is hardliner as she talked of shaving her head if Sonia became PM. Even Advani and Atalji never talked in this tone. If i have to choose someone from BJP, Arun Jaitly seems right candidate though no one talks about himAnswered by sunil sharma, 10 Sep '12 07:53 pm
My voting her to parliament does not guarantee that she will become PM. It is the party which will decide and declare their P.M. candidate!!!Answered by Vishwanath V, 10 Sep '12 11:47 am
We can vote only for member of parliament, and not DIRECTLY for prime minister. in any case i wont vote for her as i am not in her areaAnswered by iqbal seth, 10 Sep '12 11:22 am
Sure, I wanted to see her as PM since very Long, even when i was not allowed to voteAnswered by Shatabdi Express, 10 Sep '12 11:21 am
I dont Vote. I only QnAAnswered by Brinda Sapat, 10 Sep '12 11:21 am


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Bulgaria will carry a 21-point advantage into the second leg of their EuroBasket 1st Qualification Round semi-final tie with Switzerland after storming back from seven points down to win 92-71 in the first game on Thursday.
Playing at home in Sofia, Bulgaria were in control during the first half of the encounter, but unable to shake off their gutsy guests, had to conform with a slim 44-41 lead at the half-time buzzer.
Switzerland returned to the court after the interval determined to take advantage of their hosts' nerves and quickly claimed the lead, extending it to seven points, 56-49, midway through the third quarter.
Surprisingly, this development instilled a sudden sense of urgency in the hosts and their response was swift and powerful.
Chavdar Kostov immediately drilled a three-pointer, his first basket in the game, to spur a 19-5 Bulgaria run that saw them lead 68-61 at the end of the third period.
The hosts had seized the momentum in the clash but still wanted to make the most of it and take a sizeable cushion for the second leg.
They kept their foot firmly on the gas and started the final frame on a 15-2 run that gave them their first 20-point lead, 83-63, with 5:39 left on the clock.
Bulgaria were exhausted and Switzerland too shocked to think of reducing the gap in the final five minutes, leaving both sides wasting possessions and effectively keeping the point differential effectively unchanged until the final buzzer.
The hosts, who dished out 26 assists, had five players scoring in double digits with Aleksandar Georgiev collecting 13 points and Nikolay Varbanov, Veselin Veselinov and Kaloyan Ivanov contributing 12 points each.
Switzerland's Dusan Mladjan and Clint Capela finished with game-highs of 18 points apiece in defeat, the latter also adding five rebounds.
The return leg of the semi-final tie takes place in Switzerland on Sunday 25 August.
Konstantin Papazov, head coach of Bulgaria:
"It was not an easy win. I am not sure that at the third half there was anybody in the gym who believed that we will win by 21 points. We have to be happy. Again we showed a couple of times that we have a heart. Basketball is such a game that one minute is enough to take you to a 10 points difference. Or take you to [the other end] in a bad psychological state. Switzerland has a great shooter [Mladja] and it took a lot of work to control him. I am very happy with this team. Our joker was Aleksander Georgiev. He grabbed his chance and did it the best way."
Aleksander Georgiev, Bulgaria:
"We did not play well in the first half. [At half time] we made some corrections in our play and at the fourth quarter we started to play better. We were very strong in defense; we started to play better and freely in offense. So we understood that the team of Switzerland is not so strong. They were lucky to score four consequent three-pointers, but we did our best in the last minutes, so now we have an advantage of 21 points. We hope that we will qualify."
Petar Aleksic, head coach of Switzerland:
"Congratulations to Bulgaria for the big win. We played very well for 25 minutes. After that we lost control of the game. The Bulgarians played very tough after that ponit. We lost our focus and freshness. We stopped playing good defense. Offensively we couldn't do a lot. Bulgaria scored some really tough shots. We were surprise with a couple of their forwards - Veselinov and Georgiev. They made some very difficult treys. We played much better than the result shows. The reality is that we shouldn't have lost by more than 10 points. This is not the realistic score for this game. We are a young team, without a lot of experience. We did some mistakes, and that cost us a 7-0 run. After that we couldn't come back. We were not thinking for the second game, we tried to win this one. I am proud of my team, they are doing a great job. It was our seventh game in a row, a lot of travelling, so we were physically not so good tonight."
Marko Mladjan, Switzerland:
"Bulgaria played a very good game. We started not so good, but we managed to come back and made some tough shots. But then we broke down and Bulgarian made some important shot. We let them have some open shots. But there are more 40 minutes left, so we will do our best to win at home."
Branko Mirkovic
Clint Capela