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Posts by Harry Stottle
126 posts • joined 2 May 2007
UK.gov rushes out broken 'Orphan Works' system as EU Directive comes in
Abuse of Process
assuming the facts are as reported, any half decent prosecutor could make a strong case in the European Courts (probably also the UK Courts) that what the government has done amounts to "abuse of process" and would thus nullify their attempt at bypassing the EU legislation. If there are any concerned copyright holders with sufficiently deep pockets, you might want to consider funding such a prosecution...
Windows 10 feedback: 'Microsoft, please do a deal with Google to use its browser'
Re: Stop. Just Stop.
Thanks David, I'll give it a try...
Re: Stop. Just Stop.
Fully agree. And your justifiable rant reminds me of the question I've been meaning to put to anyone more experienced with the windoze environment than I am.
Is it not possible to create either a registry setting or registry checker or firewall setting (etc etc) which simply and automatically blocks any attempt at installing not just Chrome but ANYTHING which we don't explicitly (and consciously - for example by being required to enter a randomly generated PIN rather than just clicking a button or pressing Enter) permit? AND, having said NO, will never permit any future attempt to ask us about the same app again unless we go in and re-enable the question for that particular application.
I'm very familiar with many of the registry change blocking shields (on my systems, ZoneAlarm blocks them, Avast blocks them and I've got Regwatcher alerting me to any changes) and even with those aids and few decades of windoze experience, some still get through. So I've acquired considerable expertise in removing the bastards, but prevention would be so much better than cure and protecting my clients, friends and family from such intrusions is virtually impossible.
Scrapping the Human Rights Act: What about privacy and freedom of expression?
Re: At first they came for the Paedophiles
Your post is extremely apposite and well re-engineered.
I would guess your downvotes result from ignorance and failure to recognise your parody of the famous translation of Martin Niemoller's 1946 poem which, for the benefit of those who've obviously never encountered it, I include here:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Racing Post escapes ICO fine after leaking info of 677K punters
tried to upvote your comment but my upvote seems to have disappeared.
In any case, I fully support your proposed approach (we can haggle over amounts but the principle is sound). In 2008, I created an authentication system for a security firm who were obliged to check the paperwork for any casual labour they hired to ensure they had employment rights in the UK. The only thing that forced the firm to take the matter seriously was the prospect of a fine for failure to demonstrate their checks had been carried out, as prescribed in law (we'll gloss over the Security Theatre involved). That fine was a non negotiable £10k PER INDIVIDUAL failure. That made them sit up and take notice...
Securobods claim Middle East govts' fingerprints all over malware flung at journos
Back in the 20th century, in a few comments I haven't been able to retrace, I made the point that there was a major upside to the activities of the then malware (mostly irritants produced by script kiddies et al). Viz, that it was forcing us to repair the gaping holes left in our online and offline security arising from the innocent design framework created by the architects of the intaweb who, initially at least, believed that it would be restricted to communications between respectable university folk and no one in their right mind would deliberately use the open doors to insert malicious software.
Now it is widely acknowledged that States have become malware producers and major security attackers, I'm feeling somewhat vindicated. The situation is bad, but consider what things would be like if we hadn't spent the last 20 years developing firewalls and malware protection...
Russian law will force citizens' personal data to be stored locally
Re: And Edward Snowden looked down...
Shouldn't that be Brownnose?
Report: UK.gov wants to legislate on comms data BEFORE next election
Re: "Calm Down"
Ah, so this is what a Home Office Troll looks like
"We have no privacy concerns (etc"
Noone who understands data collection and data mining would make that statement.
If you need to ask why it's a privacy threat, you're probably not going to understand the answer, although, if you stick around these parts long enough, you will begin to absorb the painful truth
The wider social problem is that you are more representative of the "common herd" than the average Reg reader...
If you want an IT job you'll need more than a degree, say top techies
Wildcard Replacement
re: "Wildcard rename as in *.xxx to *.yyy is unique to DOS, so anyone who cut their teeth in another environment would not know about it."
I rarely plug commercial software but I'll make an exception for Explorer 2 (pronounced Explorer Squared) which I've been using (as a replacement for Windoze Explorer) without a glitch for about 10 years now. (http://www.zabkat.com/)
Wildcard replacement is one of their more trivial features and it's done within their GUI.
NSA spied on 'radicalisers' porn surfing so as to discredit them, reveals Snowden
Succour to the Real Enemy
Your comment is so incredibly naive, it hurts.
Let's imagine that we conclude that such tactics constitute a legitimate and useful weapon.
The first consequence is that it justifies laws permitting the gathering of the relevant data on all potential targets. Which means mandating the infrastructure necessary to achieve the required monitoring.
The second consequence is that authoritarians everywhere will start using the attack against not just the "evil-doers" (terrorists, paedophiles etc) but against all dissenters and dangerously effective political campaigners.
The third consequence is that the authoritarians will recognise that they cannot predict where and when dangerous dissent will arise and observe that, if they wait till it has emerged, it may be too late to gather the embarrassing porn-crawling (or similar) data, so they will give themselves the permission to gather that data on ALL citizens "just in case".
The fourth consequence will be that any dissent and political campaigning will be restricted to those lily-white weirdos who have never ventured into the world of murky and mucky web based information.
We are, of course, a long way down that road, and the Americans already routinely use covert character assassination techniques against their dissenters and whistleblowers, but even they - currently - dare not use individuals private web history against them. But if they sniff public approval of such totalitarian tactics, they won't hang back from passing yet more constitution-proof legislation.
You sir are guilty of providing succour to the real enemy...
Google, Microsoft to drop child sex abuse from basic web search
The "Cure" for Paedophilia will be VR
First off, major kudos to the AC who shared his own judicial nightmare with us.
this is actually a prediction I made before the turn of the century. (http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=god)
Once VR is genuinely full immersive (a la "Matrix" rather than the cheesy VR helmets which we will sneer at in years to come) and operating at so called "gestalt" speeds (so we genuinely have no sensory means of identifying fact from fiction other than the ability to step back out of the fiction), human sexual desires of all kinds will be much more deeply fulfilled by the VR world than the real world could ever manage.
This will be equally true for paedophiles. They'll be able to whistle up whatever they need to satisfy their lust to a much greater level, in much greater safety and, importantly, with zero impact on any other human beings. A major consequence of this will be the end of the recruitment cycle which research tells us is responsible for the perpetuation of paedophilia. If "real" humans stop being abused in their formative years, they'll stop becoming paedophiles themselves and the problem will gradually fade away.
The only obstacle I see to technical progress to such a solution are the Authoritarians continuing down their road towards "thought crime" where they have begun to criminalise such things as creating your own images (even drawings or paintings based on your own imagination) if such images are of subjects which, in the real world, would involve child porn (http://tinyurl.com/npxvvh5). Taking such an extreme legislative position crossed the rubicon and defined the first legally recognised "thought crimes". We should have had riots in the street but, of course, we didn't because it was only those nasty peedos, so who gives a shit? The next steps will be the criminalisation of thoughts about blowing up Parliament and the like. Just the sort of thing which will make a lot of us want to blow up Parliament...
In any case, even if I'm right and VR eventually eliminates Paedophilia, other problems, of course, will arise in its place. Like: how is the human race going to procreate if everyone is getting their rocks off in VR? And, before you reject that option as wild speculation (also part of the same essay) check out what's happening in Japan right now even before we get the serious technology...
MI5 boss: Snowden leaks of GCHQ methods HELPED TERRORISTS
SOME is Plausibly Deniable. But that's not the point...
SOME of his stuff is Plausibly Deniable but quite a lot is sourced "on the record".
But that's not the point. If the Parker (et al) complaint is based on revelations of tradecraft, they're either lying (about that) or ignorant - of the existence of Bamford's exposures; which we know is untrue because for many years it was actually illegal to sell Puzzle Palace in the UK. So they definitely know what he's putting in the public domain and it's always been a lot more detailed (and potentially useful to the evil ones) than anything we've seen in the Grauniad.
Of course, Bamford isn't in the best seller lists, so I suppose they could have been counting on the old reliable: "security through obscurity"
James Bamford told us almost everything Snowden has "exposed"
apart from some of the program names (like PRISM), can someone please provide an example of any functionality or practice revealed by Snowden which we could not have picked up from James Bamford's "trilogy" (Puzzle Palace - 1983 , Body of Secrets - 2002 and Shadow Factory - 2009)
I ask out of genuine interest, I was 2/3rds of the way through Shadow Factory when Snowden outed himself and, so far, nothing he revealed has come as a surprise.
That being so, why aren't the authoritarians up in arms about Bamford's revelations? He's been at it long enough. Do they kid themselves that the "evildoers" wouldn't discover such sources?
KEEP CALM and Carry On: PRISM itself is not a big deal
NSA Skype Backdoor predates Microsoft Acquisition
Duncan appears to have made the same mistake I did.
I high fived anyone within range when I saw the slide confirming PRISM's skype access date as 2/6/11 because I'd blogged, when the news of Microsoft's acquisition went public, that I suspected that at least one of the reasons for their interest was in providing a back door for their US Government clients.
The slide appeared to confirm that sequence of events. My self congratulations were cut short, however, when my (American) wife pointed out that the date on the slide would be in American date format and thus meant 6 Feb, not 2 June. Microsoft's acquisition date was 11 May.
I'd also take issue with Duncan's assessment that because the PRISM numbers are "too small" they can't be connected with the "peering points" (which, incidentally, although owned by the likes of AT&T, are shared with all the other major US Telecom providers). I suspect the PRISM numbers reflect only the "interesting" fruit harvested from the petabytes of data which the Narus STA 640s are more than capable of "reassembling".
I recommend James Bamford's "Shadow Factory" (2008) for anyone nerdy enough to want the gritty detail but Wired were the first to publish Klein's exposure and they cover this detail here:
India joins list of nations vetting Huawei, ZTE
Consider the implications...
..of the ban on Chinese telecoms contributing to the infrastructure of the Western World. Does it not amount to an admission that they believe the Chinese could use their access to our communications systems to implant undectable surveillance even while under the kind of surveillance we could mount against them?
If they sincerely believe that this is even possible, I suggest that such confidence can only reasonably be based on experience...
INSATIABLE black hole in Milky Way's heart crams hot gas into cavity
Re: Much greater discovery masked by headline
ah, they've cheated!
the first sentence did read (until a couple of minutes ago)
"Space boffins have suggested the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Universe..."
Much greater discovery masked by headline
apparently, according to the article, astronomers have identified the Milky Way as the centre of our universe. That's MUCH bigger news than a black hole sucking in a gas cloud...
Open source app can detect text's authors
Preserving Anonymity
the technique which will preserve your anonymity and allow you to preserve all your sock puppets (at least for the time being) is to create your draft in your native language, mince it through one or more translators and then back into your native language. Correct the errors. Post. That's how I did the other posts on this page without anyone spotting me. Oops.
On a more semi serious note, has anyone got around to running Shakespeare's texts through this software to see if Christopher Marlow (or any other contenders) show up as suspects?
Hong Kong plods turn RoboCop with strap-on vid cams
Untrusted Surveillance
The problem with so caledl "liberty" campaigners is that they lack imagination. The existence of these cameras is a major opportunity to begin taking control BACK from the Police. All we need is a a Law which makes any interaction between them and the public illegal UNLESS it IS recorded by such cameras. Citizen Innocent Until Proved Guilty; Authority Guilty Until Proved Innocent.
In addition, we need to introduce immutable audit trails and robust laws mandating the storage of and access to the data. With these measures in place, body cameras will begin to be seen as protection rather than oppression. This is a major example of how and why Trusted Surveillance needs to be implemented...
O2's titsup network struggles to find its feet
Emergency Services
It's a horrible thought and nobody's mentioned it, so I thought I'd better at least ask the question.
As I understand it, O2 have no idea what caused the outage. And I believe they are the network provider (via their "Airwave" service) for the UK Emergency Services.
Could this have been a trial run by someone who wanted to see what the effects on the Emergency Services communications would be? And do we know if they were affected at all?
Official: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5bn
Encryption - Stooge for the NSA?
given the complete absence of any business case for the scale of this acquisition, I am minded to cynicism.
One of earlier (Anon Coward) commenters on this story suggests they might want it for access to their encryption "or perhaps the NSA do".
That may not be that far fetched. We know that the various security services have expressed concerns at their inability to eavesdrop Skype calls. Perhaps they figure if a friendly co-operative new owner can let them look under the hood..
Lost ancient civilisation's ruins lie beneath Gulf, says boffin
Graham Hancock's been preaching this for years...
now go to http://www.grahamhancock.com/archive/underworld/ where you will find Graham Hancock's been promoting this idea since 2002 or earlier and has been trying to get archaeologists to look under the water. Major vindication of his ideas...
Police send Reg hack CRB check database
"We aren't set up to deal with encrypted messages"
that's what I was told.
No names, no pack drill as they say, but as part of one of my contracts, I was required (only this week in fact) to prepare a list of 400 names for CRB vetting in blocks of 50 in excel spreadsheets. I pointed out that sending these as attachments to an email was like sending them on the back of a postcard and asked how we should encrypt them and pass them the key separately.
The answer was don't bother, just send the data. "We aren't set up to deal with encrypted messages". I'd say that IS a (fairly major) System Design flaw...
Facebook rejects CEOP 'panic button' demands (again)
Facebook Members Have The Solution In Their Own Hands
If I were an active facebook member (which thank the lord I'm not sir) I would start a facebook campaign in which every member, at least once a day, pressed the panic button "accidentally" and flooded the CEOP twats with a manual DDoS, until they beg facebook to take the button off...
Google Caffeine: What it really is
Are "distributed masters" the solution to DDOS?
Above my pay grade but the only potential solution I've contemplated in regard to DDOS is what I call "Grand P2P" where - say - a thousand google scale organisations (if there are that many - let's say organisation big enough to pay a $Million dollar sign up fee without whingeing) form a dedicated "distributed master net" which hosts (for example) the authentication keys we'd need to run a Trusted Surveillance system, or the black and whitelists we'd need to eliminate SPAM.
The idea being that not even the most widely distributed botnet could generate sufficient traffic to pull down such a GP2P network.
Does the GFS2 concept achieve similar protection or would there still be a single point of failure (eg the ip address or dns) which would leave the system vulnerable to attack? (a GP2P system shouldn't have that vulnerability because it would have a thousand access points)
Can someone enlighten me?
Top British judge suggests ban on 'cruel' killer roboplanes
I'm with hizzonner on this one...
I'm with the Judge on this one. But neither he nor the Reg seem to understand why the use of these weapons should be seriously restricted if not banned.
It's nothing to do with additional cruelty. The track record of the so called laser guided weapons delivered by manned aircraft is far worse than anything so far managed by the Hellfires.
The real issue is "reduced cost/risk" to the attacker and the problem which arises from that is that it makes it much easier for them to make a lethal decision. And that makes it far more likely that the weapons will be used in increasingly trivial or dubious circumstances.
The protection offered by manned flight is that, if we run the risk of losing a pilot, we'll take a lot more care in assessing whether the target really does need to be destroyed.
It's really in the same vein as I've hinted elsewhere. I'd like to get back to our "Leaders" taking the lead position into any future military conflicts. It's likely to make them much less likely to start their wars in the first place...
Millions opted into UK mobile phone directory
Class Action Anyone?
Seems to me that there's already enough support here for a class action by any of us who find our detail are held by these jokers without our explicit permission. I'd happily cough a £100 quid. If a couple of hundred of us are prepared to club together we could legally club them into submission. ...and teach the other bastards (who prefer opt out to opt in) a useful lesson
Michigan man jailed for humping car wash vacuum
Why is this man in Jail?
Yeah, I know everybody's having a good giggle, but, though his actions are rather amusing and being caught was humiliating, who, apart from himself, has been in the slightest bit harmed by his embarrassing actions?
Had he been doing this in the middle of a school playground, I might be somewhat more sympathetic to the punishment, but all we know from this story is that a neighbour reported "suspicious" behaviour. I doubt if the neighbour felt threatened by the behaviour and once the local forces of internal repression had check the man out and found him not to be a physical threat, they should have told him to conduct his sexual games indoors and moved on to more important matters.
This is the kind of Police State behaviour which is almost more threatening than the more obvious Tasing and bully boy tactics we encounter more often. Why more threatening? Because nobody bats an eyelid. It's just accepted that a prison sentence for this aberrant but harmless behaviour is perfectly acceptable. Well it isn't.
Multi-sense VR helmet in development
Ambitious but every journey begins with a single step...
Very ambitious claims being made for this project. It will fail. But version 15 or 16 should be pretty good and by the time we get to v 20, we genuinely will not be able to distinguish between real and virtual; not without contextual clues at least...
Why's this version going to fail? Primarily because it's an external device. V 15 (or thereabouts) will be internal. But also if the developers agree with this report that "sight is easy" then they don't yet understand the problem. Why d'you think VR helmets haven't already taken off? Because anyone using them for more than about 20 minutes tends to throw up or get a massive headache. Why? Because sight aint easy at all. The problem is that they insist on presenting prefocussed images to each eye at about 3 inches.
The brains "accommodation" algorithm knows it's focussed on an image 3 inches away, but the data in the image only makes sense to the brain if the objects are several feet away (or more). This produces real cognitive dissonance and the nasty side effects.
Solving that problem aint easy; it requires abandoning prefocussed images and somehow presenting the eye with exactly the same data it would get in real life, forcing the eye to focus naturally instead of too short. There's a fortune waiting for whoever cracks that little conundrum...
Brit nuke subs exposed on Google Earth
The Military's Complaints are Entirely Justified!
Classic instance of how Privacy is intimately connected with Security.
Publishing hi res aerial reconnaissance images of buildings makes them much easier to attack. But why has it not occurred to anyone else that this same risk applies to the private homeowner?
Particularly if you include "street view", the potential burglar and other attackers can now "case the joint" without even taking the nominal risk of being seen on the street in the days leading up to the attack. Sauce, goose, ganders etc...
UK's 'secure' child protection database will be open to one million
Where do they claim it is "Secure?"
Can someone point me to a formal statement by the government (and/or its contractors) to the effect that this will be a secure database?
I ask because - if such a statement exists - I would argue that we have the basis for a legal suit of criminal negligence and/or fraud (depending who is making the statement) and I for one would be happy to donate a hundred quid to a class action to sue the arse off the bastards.
How the gov's child protection database fails to add up
Once we get past about 50 having access, the actual number no longer matters
Anyone doing serious security needs to factor in a 1% risk PER PERSON of security breach by "professional trained security aware" staff in any given year. Thus with 100 properly trained staff you are typically going to get one breach a year.
With 1000 having access, you'll get 10 a year and so on.
With 330,000 we can guarantee approximately 10 a day and that's if they're "professional trained security aware" staff. At a million we're up to 30 breaches a day.
In fact though, probably less than 1000 of that million will be "professional trained security aware" staff, so it is reasonable to scale up the breach rate by a factor of 5 to 10.
So it really doesn't matter. Once you give more than about 50 "professional trained security aware" staff access, regular breaches are inevitable. Under no circumstances can such a database be described as secure...
Academic avoids extradition over Holocaust denial
Thought Crime
I find this kind of prosecution deeply disturbing.
MUCH More disturbing than the distorted views the victim is apparently guilty of holding. Do I care that people still deny the Nazi guilt for the holocaust? Of course (my own family lost over 60 members to the Nazis) but these baseless beliefs do no more harm (on their own) than, for example, the conviction held by Creationists that the Theory of Evolution is a conspiracy to destroy religion. Are we going to start locking them up too? If so it's a shame we didn't make that decision before the Americans elected one...
DARPA to begin mysterious 'Project GANDALF'
Could have been much worse...
It might have been called Project Saruman...
Mosley asks Europe to change UK privacy laws
This is NOT a Binary Decision!
This is one of those instances where everybody makes the same mistake. They fall into the binary trap. EITHER freedom of the press, OR decent privacy laws. Here's a possible solution. Bring a Jury into the picture. (this is an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about here: http://stottle.blogspot.com/2006/02/shortcut-to-democracy.html)
viz: Any time a paper is about to publish a story which contains a potential breach of privacy, it submits the story to a standing jury established for that purpose alone. It can even be a jury of its own readers, providing they can be shown to represent a reasonable cross section of the community. In practice this would be an online "advisory panel" whose job is to answer the single question, "Does the public interest in this case outweigh the private interest?" Their decision would be considered advisory only (leaving the editorial decision firmly in the hands of the publisher, where it belongs). BUT:
In any subsequent court case, the defendant would be able to use the Jury's endorsement as mitigation and, should the plaintiff win, the penalties would take into account the involvement of a jury and its decision.
For example, if a Jury has pronounced in favour of publication, the penalty would be minimised. If the Jury had advised against publication, the penalty would be maximised. If the Jury hadn't even been consulted, the penalty would be maximised, then doubled.
This would allow Juries to protect the public interest and, where reasonable, the private interests of individuals. It would encourage the media to take responsible, rather than merely commercial decisions.
German developers forge Iron from Chrome
Tried it
doesn't work in Sandboxie. Binned it...
HP loads PC with nonexistent web browser
I too use Sandboxie
And I have had about 2 dozen of my users and clients using it without major incident for about 3 months. What I particularly like about it is the configurability (like being able to give access rights selectively to trusted programs) and the option to run ANY program inside the sandbox - which means you can test for nasty side effects before it screws up your system.
Only last night, ferinstance, I used it to test what RealPlayer 11 wanted to install on my system before I let it do so for real. (Answer: 1217 files in about 100 new locations, most of which were utterly unnecessary)
Joss-sticks increase cancer risk: Official
Doubling a small risk is not very risky
and the question they haven't answered (as usual) is "what is the absolute mortality rate?" It may well be that the risk of cancer has doubled but that others have reduced, leaving to no overall change in mortality, or even, (as now hinted by several strands of cannabis research) a small overall benefit...
Lag log leaks - Home Office contractor loses entire prison population
@Dunstan Vavasour
Well said sir.
A number of comments have focussed on introducing/increasing "criminal" penalties for data loss. This would be neither effective or realistic. Furthermore it does no more than reinforce the ill-IT-irate approach of the Government's existing incompetent attempts at Security Theatre. They THINK you can impose security with rules constraining humans. Wrong.
As Dunstan puts it:
"As far as I'm concerned, the problem isn't that the data was put onto a USB stick, it is that the data *could* be put onto a USB stick."
The reason The Law cannot possibly help is that it is quite impossible to create a "proportionate" penalty. Why not? Because the point of penalties is to act as a deterrent and whether a penalty is a deterrent depends on the value of the data to the attacker - which is not something under our control.
Yes, we might deter casual theft or incompetence with a fine of a few thousand quid, or a prison sentence. But if the purpose of the theft is serious enough (obvious example terrorism) then no penalty is going to have the required deterrent effect and it's THAT kind of attack we should be most concerned about. And the ONLY protection against that kind of attack is to make it physically impossible for attackers to get at the data. Dunstan again:
"We come back to the basic shortfall: legitimate users shouldn't have access to the data, they should have a view of the data."
And, in cases like the present example, they shouldn't even have a view of the "real" data. For the purposes of research, there is no obvious reason why they cannot have an anonymised view of the data, where any sensitive identifiers have been replaced with pseudo-data.
Librarian of child abuse networking site jailed indefinitely
What Pisses Me Off Most About Paedophiles
...is that they give the Police State the one plausible argument they need for "Total Surveillance". Even Terrorism doesn't attract as much support for its countermeasures as does Paedophilia. Hence, if we want to keep the State out of our lives, we're going to have to figure out for ourselves what we do to prevent Paedophiles abusing this medium (the web). And then, do it.
Massive expansion planned for 'no-work' database
@ How About The Reverse
it exists, but I've just wasted half an hour of my all too precious time looking for it and I can't find it. Somewhere out there, though, is a web page where EMPLOYEES can rate their employers in order to pre-inform potential job applicants.
What the Trade Unions should do, in response to this nonsense, is formalise that approach and create a national - or even international - database of bad employers with verifiable examples of their practices...
SQL attacks inject government sites in US, UK
Add Sandboxie to your protection suite
been using it for about a month now on a dozen or so web active machines. Seems pretty faultfree, stable and let's me sleep better at nights knowing that it no longer matters what "infects" my users' machines because it all disappears when they close their browsers. 'course, I can't do anything to stop them handing over sensitive data to phishing sites but that's a horse of a different feather...
Killer Satnavs amok in 'Utah Polyhedron' phenomenon
Back to Basics...
I've long argued that kids shouldn't be allowed to use calculators in school until they've demonstrated a reasonable grasp of mental arithmetic. Why? Because if you perform the calculations mentally - at least to an approximation - then you have some idea of whether what the machine is telling you is likely to be correct.
The same obviously applies to idiots with Satnavs. They shouldn't be allowed near them until they've demonstrated at least rudimentary map reading skills so they've got a chance of spotting the fact that the machine is leading them astray...
Suprise at spelling snafu sanctions
Headline Ironic Right?
I can't be the only one who spotted "Suprise"?
More seriously, the case for allowing such "flexibility" is made by Sean Groarke's sample above: "There books - there there."
How would you cope with that sentence if spoken rather than written? Answer "context"; and it's not wildly unreasonable to apply the same logic to the written word. But that only applies to that kind of example - where we're dealing not so much with mis-spelling as with wrong choice of words which sound identical.
Permitting things like "wierd" instead of "weird", however, just muddies the water and ultimately slows down communication.
Knights Templar to Vatican: Give us back our assets
Property Is Theft
Interesting. And how did they acquire their "assets" in the first place?
After this, we want to see the Native Americans suing the American State for the theft of their land and genocide from the late 16th century through to the early 20th...
Privacy watchdog hoists Google by its own petard
@Emilio González - Well Said sir
the deep point that the vast majority of the population seem to be completely blind to is that breaches of Privacy can lead to very serious breaches of Security.
Home Office minister gets tough, then gets stuck
"Hard Working Families"
is the phrase that makes me projectile vomit at the screen so, inspired by your example, I googled
"government OR opposition AND "hard working families" AND Labour"
(the "AND Labour" excluded the foreign contributors without excluding the British Tories who nearly always use the phrase in close proximity to an attack on Labour)
...which "brought up" (hmmm... know the feeling) 46,300 examples including this beauty from wikipedia:
These words and phrases belong to a class of "button pushing" cliches which politicians believe puts them in contact with Joe Public. Every country probably has its own. America has dozens. IF they work as politicians obviously believe they do, then this suggests that We The People are every bit as stupid as they think we are. Not good news for those of us who aspire to Democracy
Sovereign immunity blocks DMCA suit against Air Force
The Divine Right of Kings
"Sovereign immunity basically states that the United States is immune from lawsuits, except in areas where it has given its consent to be sued"
"Sovereign Immunity" is the last vestige of the "Divine Right Of Kings". It's about as corrupt as a political system can get. It's not unique to the Police State of America, of course. They inherited it from the UK and decided it was such a good idea, they would keep it.
As the author points out, there might be legitimate security reasons for the State to need to bypass normal copyright and other legal protections. In this particular case they might even have an arguable case on other grounds. But there is NEVER a legitimate reason why they should not have to at least justify such exceptions to We The People in the form of a duly constituted Jury (if necessary, in secret session)
It continues to amaze (and depress) me that State Bullying like this can be public knowledge and not start riots...
Virgin Galactic to unveil tool to fling rich people into space
Do we get to choose?
which rich people get flung?
I have alist...
Security shocker: 75% of US bank websites have flaws
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the USAPATRIOT act
because, with the power the Police State has given itself to crawl all over citizens bank accounts, credit card histories, library loans etc, etc, consumers should be resigned to the fact that no amount of webside security is ever going to protect them from the Organized Criminals who run their country
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EXCLUSIVE: Zoie Palmer talks "Lost Girl," cats on Twitter, and the power of lesbian fandom
AE: When I talked to Anna, she said that you guys were both a little surprised when Lauren and Bo were together-together right off the bat in season three.
ZP: Yes, we were both really surprised but really pleased. We didn't know where season three was going to go, so to find out we were a couple right away, it was unexpected, but it was also really great. It's been such a good journey for Bo and Lauren so far, but we haven't really seen them as an official couple until now. Their relationship has been tumultuous and back-and-forth and Bo-and-Dyson and Bo-and-Lauren, and so to find out that Bo and Lauren are girlfriends, it was a nice surprise.
AE: In the first episode of season three, when Bo called Lauren her girlfriend, I think it shut down Twitter.
ZP: Bo and Lauren have broken Twitter a couple of times!
AE: What are you enjoying most about Bo and Lauren's season three relationship?
ZP: I'm enjoying what I've enjoyed about their relationship from the very beginning: the way the writers and the show handle the story. It is filled with all of the things any relationship is filled with. It's just been treated so respectfully. A lot of times same-sex couples of TV get treated in all sorts of negative ways or tossed off or the couples are just given lip service. But Bo and Lauren have been treated the same as Bo and Dyson, and Kenzi and Nate.
The reason I think our gay audience, our bi audience, our transgender and even straight audience have responded to Bo and Lauren the way they have is because our writers have said, "This is a relationship that matters." And it does matter. It's relevant, it's real, and it's honest. I think that's why — no matter how our audience identifies, gender-wise or sexuality-wise — Lauren and Bo resonate.
And it is very important to Anna and I that we approach it that way, that we approach it as something honest and real, that we give it 100 percent.
AE: One other thing I really appreciated this season, just as a woman, is that Kenzi and Lauren have sort of found a begrudging respect for another.
ZP: Yes, I liked that too. I think people have always wondered what the issue was with them, and it was nice to see that their animosity was really just based on insecurity on both sides. Kenzi because Bo is really her only true comrade in life, and the only person she can trust, and the idea that Lauren could take her away, that was a struggle for Kenzi. So, Kenzi and Lauren had created this kind of rivalry for Bo's affection and attention and time. Ksenia [Solo] talked a bit about it, like this should come up some time, how we are with each other. And I actually really liked how the writers did it, because it wasn't just like, "OK, now we're best friends!" There's still some tension there, but at least now they understand that they both love Bo.
AE: OK, let's get real for a second. My cat is in love with your cat. She reads your cat's Twitter every day.
ZP: Your cat uses the internet too? We can never let them meet. Do you know what I find most amazing about my cat's Twitter account? There are people who follow my cat that don't follow me. It's kind of my favorite thing ever. She has her own independent fans who have no interest in me whatsoever.
I have had so much cat sex today…like SO much. Happy V day to ME!!!!
— @zoiepalmer s cat (@Cloverblob) February 15, 2013
If the dog wants her stupid tiny tennis ball back she's going to have to come and get it! twitter.com/Cloverblob/sta…
— @zoiepalmer s cat (@Cloverblob) February 10, 2013
My paws are gonna fall off, I've been up all night voting on the e-online poll for this LOBO couple. I'm effing starving! And oddly horny.
— @zoiepalmer s cat (@Cloverblob) February 8, 2013
AE: Before I let you go, I need to ask you something really important. I recently sorted every lesbian TV character ever into Hogwarts houses, you know, from Harry Potter, and I sorted Lauren into Hufflepuff, because while she's obviously a super-genius, she's also really loyal and accepting and she works her ass off. But I got kind of reamed by our readers who are just absolutely convinced that Lauren is a Ravenclaw.
ZP: Wait, hang on. Let me ask you a question: Isn't Hermione Granger a Gryffindor?
AE: Yes.
ZP: And isn't she also crazy smart and loyal and a hard worker, but also full of courage and bravery, and isn't she the best friend ever?
AE: Yes.
ZP: Right. Lauren is a Gryffindor.
AE: I can't believe Zoie Palmer is schooling me on Harry Potter right now. I didn't even realize this was a dream of mine.
ZP:OK, how about this: If Dr. Lauren had a daughter, you know who it would be, right? Hermione. She goes off to Hogwarts and comes back as Dr. Lauren's apprentice.
AE: You have no idea how many fan fictions you just spawned. Real quick: Any word on whether or not you guys are getting a season four pickup?
ZP: We haven't heard yet, but I'm going to say, cautiously, that I'll be surprised if we don't. I really hope so. Our writers still have so many stories left to tell.
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Hotel Marlowe Cambridge- Recommendations
I'll be staying for a few days at Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge.
I'd love some recommendations for restaurants within walking distance.
I have done some research already and have a list, although not all are within walking distance, but I'm looking for those "must visit" places that are not necessarily the most well known.
Any ideas on best pizza, best Indian, best South-East Asian, best Deli or sandwiches, other ethnic restaurants would be greatly appreciated.
This is a total foodie outing so I will be eating out 3 times per day or more if I can handle it.
Here is my list so far.
Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage
Sam La Grassa's
The Hungry Mother
Craigie on Main
East Coast Grill
Gran Gusto
The Similans
East Coast Grill and Raw Bar
1271 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
The Similans
145 1st St, Cambridge, MA 02142
1704 Washington St, Boston, MA 02118
Bartley's Burger Cottage
1246 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Gran Gusto
90 Sherman St, Cambridge, MA 02140
Hungry Mother
Cambridge, MA, Cambridge, MA
Craigie on Main
853 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Hotel Marlowe Restaurant
25 Edwin H Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02141
best pizza: coppa; i tried regina, was not that impressed but that was several years ago. Better posters than I like Regina in the North End only
best Indian: Tamarind Bay in Harvard Square
best Sichuan: Sichuan Gourmet in Brookline
best chinese fish in tank: East Ocean Seafood in Chinatown
best deli: take a train to NYC; I will come with
best sandwich: lobster roll Neptune Seafood, lobster sandwich: Alive and Kicking Seafood
best Thai: i am not sure
best Cambodian: Elephant Walk (Cambridge and Brookline)
Best Afghan: Helmand (Cambridge)
best French: Craigie and Clio; the chef at Craigie was trained at Clio
best sushi: O ya
Tamarind Bay
75 Winthrop St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Elephant Walk
2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140
Sichuan Gourmet
1004 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446
re: cambridgedoctpr
Thanks cambridgedoctpr.
The last time I was in the US I visited Boston and Clio was absolutely the highlight for food. Ken Oringer seems to have a great touch with spices and not diving too far into the molecular realm.
Helmand seems to come up a lot so I'll have to add that to my list.
I'm not going to have time to jump on the train to NY but the last time I was in Philly I was told pretty much the same thing and I was able to find a great deli sandwich there. I'm holding out hope the same thing will happen in Boston.
re: hhost.ca
you should definitely go to Helmand, its right next to your hotel as a plus. make sure to order the kadoo (with meat, not the vegetarian) its to die for
re: Wannabfoode
People always do recommend Helmand, and I will go with the assumption that it is a good Afghani restaurant. Personally, I don't love the spice profile and never have wanted to go back after trying it once, and recommend taking a look at the menu to see if it rings your bell.
Each to his own, of course!
I'd add Muqueca (Brazilian coastal) or Midwest Grill (Brazilian churrascaria--not the best one but the one that is walking distance). Casa Portugal.
Great sandwiches in Cambridge, though not delis. In order that I like them: Hi-Rise Bakery (a bit outside Harvard Sq), Darwin's (2 different locations, both just outside HS), All Star Sandwich Bar (Inman sq). Only at the latter can you get fries, the others are a bakery and a cafe. Also, good ones at Cardullo's (HS), a specialty shop. If you do decide to go to Hi-Rise, then make a stop at Formaggio, which is a few blocks away.
You should make time for ice cream--I like Toscanini's best--they do certain individual flavors so fantastically, Christina's second--more flavors, more interesting flavors. Though some people may take those as fighting words.
I would spend a meal on something other than Dante, personally. I think you'll have that territory covered by the other restaurants and while you can sit outside and can eyeball the river, it's not a commanding view or anything.
There's a lot more in Inman Sq you might want to try. I love ECG for its energy and some of its dishes are great, but usually not wowed. I'd go to Tupelo or to North by Northeast.
All Star Sandwich Bar
1245 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
1010 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Midwest Grill
1124 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Casa Portugal
1200 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
re: dulce de leche
I much prefer Christinas to Toscaninin's - both for straight up quality as well as some other reasons which I'll refrain from getting into (as it often leads to the mods getting upset).
I like ECG but find that I'm usually a bit underwhelmed given the price point. I do really enjoy both NxNW and Tupelo.
re: dulce de leche
uggggh actually wer'e both way off, hahaha what makes it worse is that I was just parroting what you wrote and didn't even realize I changed my own statement.
It's East by Northeast, yeesh.
East by Northeast
1128 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
re: cambridgedoctpr
I'm from Prince Edward Island so our "local" food is pretty similar to New England food. Lots of good restaurants here but we don't have really good ethnic choices and our pizza and sandwich places are universally mediocre.
re: trufflehound
I am a huge fan of Bambara. They have a great three course lunch special and a "happy hour" special with two dollar appetizers from 4-6. The bartenders are fantastic. And the chef is just amazing.
If you walk up Cambridge Street towards Inman Square there are lots of small restaurants, most of which have been named above. I am a fan of Muqueca although service has been slower since a recent move.
Craigie on Main and Hungry Mother do it for me, but Dante is not in the same category. Their outdoor patio is a perfect place for drinks and appetizers, though.
I also recommend getting a drink and something to nibble on at No. 9 Park. It's a favorite around here. Depending on how much you like to walk, you can walk over the Longfellow Bridge and get to No.9 Park in about 45 minutes or so, walking through a lot of great areas.
The Marlowe is a great hotel. Enjoy your stay!
1010 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Hungry Mother
Cambridge, MA, Cambridge, MA
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin H Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA 02141
Craigie on Main
853 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Within walking distance, definitely try Helmand - excellent food! Similans is good Thai food, but nothing special. Closeby and still in Cambridge, try Oleana - very good food from a James Beard award-winning chef.
The Similans
145 1st St, Cambridge, MA 02142
134 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA 02139
If you are into beer, Cambridge Brewing Company and Lord Hobo are within walking distance of your hotel and are two of the best beer destinations around. They are really close to two places on your list, Emmas and Hungry Mother. Oleana is also right around there and is amazing.
Down Cambridge street from your hotel are a couple good, cheap spots. Courthouse seafood for fried seafood. Scampa for roast beef and pizza.
You are also a short walk across the Longfellow Bridge from Liberty Hotel, which has a couple restaurants and quite the upscale bar scene.
I love The Helmand. Unique and very close to your hotel.
Cambridge Brewing Company
1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
Hungry Mother
Cambridge, MA, Cambridge, MA
134 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Lord Hobo
92 Hampshire St, Cambridge, MA 02141
Definitely Emma's pizza - their salads are great too.
And ditto for the Helmand. It is something very different and the food is excellent.
I love Rendezvous, a do-able walk on a nice night from your hotel. Local and fresh ingredients; wonderful food.
There is a Portugese Restaurant, Atasca, which does get mixed reviews on CH. I really like it, though.
re: snowcone
Thanks for all of the suggestions.
Is anyone familiar with the Ronie burger at Miracle of Science?


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November 24, 2014
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The King's Harem Ch. 07bychocolatepornstar©
Aisha should have dropped dead from the looks the girls gave her as they carried their things out of the palace. Their eyes burned into her with an intensity and hatred that made Aisha shiver. She felt sorry for them but she did not feel responsible. This was Dominic's decision and she had no prior knowledge of it, nor did she ask him to do it as many assumed. One day he just said that he had no use for so many women in his harem and dismissed them. He said it was wasted time to have them there when he no longer took them to bed.
The women didn't realize they would all have been gone were it not for Aisha's insistence that the ones with children be allowed to stay. Lizeth in particular was unable to accept the fact that she was leaving. When she found out she threw herself at Dominic's feet, begging and pleading with him to let her stay. Dominic flat out refused until he had to have guards come in and remove her.
Yenee stood with Aisha and Nadia as they watched the women leave. The day of their wedding Dominic had surprised Aisha by having Yenee come live with them. Nadia stared over at Aisha the same way the other women did. Nadia's jealousy toward Aisha grew stronger every day. In the few short months that Aisha had been back she accomplished what Nadia could not in 7 years; she convinced Dominic to get rid of the harem.
Even though Dominic denied that it was Aisha's doing everyone in the palace believed it was. It was no secret to anyone who Dominic's favorite wife was or that he would do anything for her. He was with Aisha more often than Nadia and he clearly enjoyed her company more.
Aisha tried her hardest to stay away from Nadia but still there were times when the two of them had to be together. Nadia did everything she could to make it clear to Aisha that her presence there was not wanted. She scowled and snipped at her when she was around; Aisha was quickly losing patience with her. She did not want to step on Nadia's toes because in her mind Nadia was still Dominic's true wife and she felt like an intruder.
But there seemed to be nothing she could do to make Nadia happy. She constantly felt the need to outdo Aisha. If Aisha was adorned in gold, Nadia had to be adorned in diamonds. She found ways of getting Dominic's attention if she thought Aisha was getting too much from him. She insulted Aisha in front of everyone and threw fits when Aisha slept in his chamber.
Aisha wouldn't tell Dominic everything Nadia did but he saw the tension between them. He told Aisha that it would take Nadia some time to get past her jealousy but eventually she would accept her. Aisha wasn't so sure.
Aisha walked into the throne room as she often did without knocking or having herself announced. Dominic was surrounded by papers and hard at work. He knew it was her before he raised his head; no one else dared disturb him while he worked.
Amir rushed in behind her. "I am sorry your highness, she refuses to let me announce her."
Aisha crossed her arms and looked at Dominic.
Dominic shook his head. "It is fine Amir. Leave us please." He raised his eyebrows at Aisha questionably. "What is so important that you come barging in here while I am working?"
"I want to know what they are doing here?" Aisha pointed to two young girls following meekly behind her.
"I told you I was bringing in handmaids to help you out with the baby."
"And I told you that I did not want any other woman taking care of my child. Anyway Iba is my handmaid."
"Iba has two children of her own and can not provide the help I think you need. All women of status have someone to help take care of their children Aisha. It is just custom."
"It is not my custom. I keep telling the two of them to leave me yet they continue to follow me around like abandoned puppies."
"They were told that as your handmaids they should stay with you at all times. You will need their help Aisha."
"I do nothing but lie around here as it is. I doubt I will ever be so busy that I cannot take care of my own child. Tell them to go away."
Dominic smiled and waved the two girls away. "Come here Aisha." Aisha walked over to his desk and sat down. He stood up and got in between her legs. " I thought I told you to take it easy. Why are you up causing trouble?"
"I do not need to take it easy. I am pregnant not ill."
"You certainly are in a foul disposition today."
"I think I am just ready for this baby to be out. I am bored and all I do is languish. I can not even go to the harem's quarters anymore to see the other children."
"I do not want you spending all of your time there. Iba, Yenee and the handmaids should be keeping you company during the day now." Aisha rolled her eyes and Dominic kissed her softly. "You will be able to come and go as you please after the baby is born."
"Hopefully I will be able to sleep again at night once the baby is born. My stomach makes it so uncomfortable."
Dominic rubbed her belly. "Yes, I hear you walking the halls at night. I am also restless at night from worrying about you. I think I would prefer to have you sleeping with me."
"Dominic, we have already discussed this."
"I do not care what Nadia thinks about it. I would sleep better knowing that you are beside me-at least while you are pregnant."
Aisha wrapped her arms around his neck as he kissed down hers. "I don't want to do anything to anger her. She has been really upset since our wedding."
"She will have to get past that. You are my wife now, if I wish to have you sleep in my chamber then you will." Dominic grabbed her butt and pulled her into his crotch. He reached up and massaged her breast through her gown.
"Control yourself Dominic," she said playfully. "This is not what I came here for!"
"I know but you look so great in this new gown I bought you." He continued to kiss her and knead her breasts.
Aisha laughed. "First you tell me to rest because of the baby and then you tire me out serving you in your bed."
"I do not think showing me a little attention will hurt the baby. Besides you show up here teasing me and expect me not to touch you?"
Dominic kissed down her chest.
"Teasing you," Aisha laughed! "I am big and round with child and I can barely walk. I am hardly in the condition to seduce a man."
"Everything you do seduces me. Even heavy with my child you drive me mad." He pulled her gown off one shoulder and pulled out her large swollen breast. Aisha jumped as his tongue grazed across her sensitive nipple. She held his head as he suckled from it.
"Oh I'm sorry. I did not realize you were busy." Nadia said from the doorway.
They both blew and Aisha pulled her strap up. They hadn't realized that the door was left cracked.
"What is it Nadia?" Dominic asked not looking away from Aisha.
"Dhameer is asking for you."
"Well tell him I am busy right now."
"Dominic his game is soon and he needs you to practice with him now."
Dominic looked up at Aisha. "Go to your chamber and rest please. I'll come see you later this evening." He helped Aisha off the desk and kissed her.
"Dominic? What about those girls?"
"I don't want you to do everything on your own. Can we compromise that you will at least keep one of them?"
Aisha wrinkled her nose. "Very well."
Dominic smiled at her and walked out of the room. He didn't acknowledge Nadia as he left.
Nadia rested her weight against the frame of the door and looked at Aisha disapprovingly as she fixed her clothing.
"You know Aisha, I never allowed my husband to have me in that way while I was pregnant. It is something only the lowliest of women do."
"I agree my lady but Dominic just seems to be unable to keep his hands off of me. I do what I must to keep my husband happy." Aisha smiled pompously.
Nadia glared at her and walked out of the room.
Aisha stuck her tongue out at her as she disappeared around the corner.
Shahim stirred at the sound of the prison door being opened. He turned over and saw a woman walk through the door. The doorman announced her as the queen. She was wearing a gown that displayed her curvy body. Her breasts sat high at the top. She smiled politely at him as she entered.
Shahim bowed.
"You look as though you have had a hard night. Is there anything I can do to make your stay here more pleasant?"
"I am fine, thank you my lady."
"I am amazed that you stay such a strong man in the mist of something that must hurt you immensely."
"I do not understand my lady."
"The woman who was to be your wife. She is in bed with my husband as we speak." Nadia turned her back to him and pretended to sob. "Does it hurt you as it hurts me?"
"I have been trying not to think of it. Aisha came to me and explained."
"Is that it then? She explained to you why she has so readily given herself to another man so soon after her engagement to you and you leave it at that?"
"She tells me she loves the king and how can I fight with that? She was not yet mine."
"But she has been with you the way a woman is with her husband and then with him immediately afterwards. I am sorry, I just do not understand how a woman can do that."
"I do not feel comfortable speaking with her highness about it. I think it is best kept between Aisha and myself."
"Well I feel terrible about what will happen to you because of it."
"May I ask your highness-what is to be my fate?"
"I can not say. My husband believes you may have forced yourself upon Aisha and for that you may very well die."
"Forced myself? Aisha and I were never even together that way."
"You can not expect him to believe that. You were with her for many months."
"Never my lady. It was Aisha that wished to but I would not have it before we were married. I swear it."
"That would make you a decent man indeed Shahim. I do not wish to see such a good man be sent to death. I will do whatever I can to see to it that my husband goes easy on you."
Nadia turned to leave, smiling once her back was turned to him. She had hoped he would tell her something that she could use against Aisha. Even now though she had very little to help her since the two of them had not had sex.
Aisha and her handmaids saw Nadia coming up the stairs from the direction of the prison. She wondered what business Nadia had there.
"We have been summoned to the throne room my lady."
"Fine." She gave Aisha a large smile knowing that she was afraid of what she was doing at the prison. Aisha raised an eyebrow but followed behind her without asking anything.
"Why can't you just release him?"
"He is in prison for assaulting me. If I let him go it will look as though my will is weak."
"But you hit him first. He was defending himself."
"My people are not interested in details, they are interested in knowing that their king rules with an iron fist. That I can not be walked over. A man has assaulted me and he has to be punished."
Aisha pursed her lips together and gave him an unhappy look.
"Do not look at me that way Aisha. There is nothing I can do. I will make sure his sentence is very light."
"How light?"
Dominic shrugged in frustration. "I will send him to work out his sentence in a nobleman's home."
"No Dominic. You know workers who are paying for crimes are treated horribly."
"Aisha what would you have me do?"
Aisha thought about it. "Sentence him to work here."
Dominic narrowed his eyes. "Oh you are walking on dangerous ground to even suggest such a thing."
"Why, because you do not trust me?"
"It is him I do not trust."
"You know he will be treated well working here for you. There is no telling how he will be abused elsewhere. In another man's household they may do whatever they wish to him."
"Only an idiot would let his wife's ex-fiancé live in his home and be around her all day."
"You know very well this palace is so large I may never even see him. Besides your outside servants do not live in the house they have their own quarters in the back."
"I don't know why you waste your breath. It is out of the question."
Aisha searched his eyes for any sign that he would break. "Fine then. You are king and this decision is yours. I just want you to know I will not be happy to be married to a man who throws innocent men in prison and who still thinks of me as a whore."
"You are twisting my words again Aisha. I am not calling you a whore."
"You do not trust me around Shahim. That is as good as calling me a whore."
Dominic covered his eyes as Aisha rambled on.
"Never in my life has anyone given me a headache the way you do."
Aisha sweetened her expression. "I am your wife now Dominic. Can't you just do this one favor for me?"
"You have always gotten exactly what you want from me anyway Aisha."
She looked at the floor trying to conceal her smile. Dominic got up from his desk and walked over to her.
"Fine, I will do as you ask. Whatever sentence he is given will be served out here as my mason."
"Thank you Dominic."
Dominic pulled her to him quickly and looked down into her brown eyes. "Aisha you are mine now in the eyes of Allah and my country-I can not handle you having affection for another man. If I feel as though you have sexual feelings for him..."
"You would be blind to think that I am attracted to any other man." Aisha kissed him.
He pulled her to him tighter. "You will have to work to make me believe that," Dominic smirked.
Aisha unbuttoned his shirt and kissed his chest. "What can I do to prove it to you my lord," she asked seductively?
She trailed kisses down his body until she reached his pants. Her belly made it difficult for her to move but she got to her knees and began to undo his pants. She pulled them down slowly letting his hardness spring free. She kissed and licked down his shaft and massaged his balls. Dominic held onto her hair as she took his shaft into her throat.
Dominic groaned as she moved her mouth quickly up and down his aching cock. He loved her willingness to satisfy him. Her desire hadn't changed because she was pregnant or because she was his wife. She devoured his cock like the hungry harem girl she had been when she came to him.
Aisha gagged a little as she took him deeper into her mouth. He reached down and rolled her hard nipples between his fingers, making her moan onto his cock. He released her nipples and pulled his cock away from her. She looked up at him wantonly.
Dominic walked over to his bed. "I want you on your hands and knees."
Aisha stood up and undressed herself. She crawled onto his bed and got on all fours. Her breasts and stomach hung heavily underneath her. Dominic got behind her and rubbed his fingers along her slit. Her pussy juices dripped down to her clit and onto his fingers. He removed his fingers and plunged his cock into her.
Aisha grabbed the sheets beneath her and screamed as his cock sawed quickly in and out of her. Her tits swung back and forth every time he slammed into her. The room filled with the sounds of their grunts and his thighs smacking against her ass.
"Harder Dominic. Do it harder."
Dominic repositioned himself and pulled Aisha harder onto his cock. He leaned over her back and ran his hands over her belly and tits. He squeezed her tits and shoved himself into her as hard as he could. Aisha threw her head back and screamed his name as she felt an orgasm shooting through her body. Dominic continued to slide in and out of her through her spasms. He squeezed her tits harder and picked up his pace as he erupted inside of her. He pulled out of her and two more spurts shot out onto her wet lips. He turned her over onto her back and stared at her.
She was beautiful lying before him. A contented look on her face, her hand on her pregnant belly and his cum leaking from her. He kissed her belly and then her full lips.
"I love you so much Aisha."
"I love you too," she said through a sleepy yawn.
"I am getting sick of this. All I do is lie about all day. I have to leave this bed and this palace or I am going to lose my mind."
Aisha was on her back with her head hanging off her bed. Iba smiled as she played with Radhi and Rayhan on the floor.
"You are different now Aisha. You are the wife of a king. You and Nadia must be treated delicately." Iba made a snooty face.
Aisha laughed. "I am sure nothing good can come from Nadia and I being around each other all day. It only causes more tension between us."
"If I did not know you better I would think that you are intimidated by Nadia."
"I am intimidated by no one." Aisha said firmly.
"No usually you are not but Nadia seems to scare you. Around her you are like a pussycat. It has been that way since you arrived. "
Aisha sat up and gave Iba a playful frown. "I am certainly not scared of her. I just do not feel the need to antagonize her."
"She certainly tries to antagonize you. She is short and impatient with you. You are his wife just like she is-you do not have to take that from her."
"Nadia is a sad woman. She loves her husband and he does not love her back. I was a whore to her husband and she has every right to be angry with me. I may not ever get past the fact that I slept with another woman's husband."
"We have all slept with her husband." Iba laughed.
"Somehow that fact does not seem to bother you the way it does me," Aisha smirked.
Radhi ran up to her and she picked him up and spun him around.
"It did at first but that is not something I can worry about. I knew I wasn't the first woman other than his wife he had taken to his bed and I would not be the last. Besides she was so nasty to me I stopped caring."
"Well in England the men have only one wife; any other women are mistresses. I would hate any woman who slept with my husband. Do you really not understand her desire to have him to herself?" Radhi laughed as Aisha continued to spin him around in circles.
"I suppose I do but I do not believe her hatred of you is because you slept with Dominic. She hates you because he is in love with you and not in love with her. I must admit even I was envious of you for capturing his heart so quickly. But no one is to blame for that-people cannot help who they fall in love with."
Aisha put Radhi down on the floor and grabbed her stomach.
"Aisha are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine. Anyway I still want to stay out of her way so my life can be peaceful. Getting on her bad side did nothing for me before. I just want to enjoy my marriage and have my baby."
Iba smiled widely as Aisha said that. "You may get your wish very soon."
"What," Aisha said confused?
"Your water just broke Aisha!"
Dominic was working on papers with his minister of defense when he heard the loud screams. They tried to ignore it but the noise grew until it became unbearable.
Dominic ripped the doors open. "Amir," he boomed. "Who on earth is that? It sounds as if someone is being murdered."
"One of the ladies sire. I do not know what is wrong."
"Well go find out for heavens sake."
"Right away sire." Amir hurried away and Dominic sat back down at the table angrily.
"As I was saying my lord, if any country makes plans to attack our army is prepared..." The minister looked at Dominic. "Your highness?"
Dominic was staring off and listening to the screams closely. "Aisha," he yelled and ran out of the room without an explanation.
He entered Aisha's room to see her surrounded by women. Her last few screams pierced his ears as he walked towards them. She fell back on her pillow exhausted and covered in sweat, as her screams were replaced by small cries. Yenee wiped her forehead as she struggled for breath.
"You have another son." Maajida smiled and handed the crying baby to Dominic.


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Two thieves dressed like ninjas tried to rob a Seminole County pawn shop on Tuesday. And they would've gotten away with it all too, if it hadn't been for a confounding door that did not do what it was supposed to. Namely, open. Because ninjas are apparently agents of the shadows, clandestine mast ... More >>
A Port St. Lucie man was walking around a cop funny. And then he told the cop he "may have some needles between his cheeks." And, according to a St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit, it would appear that the man had more than just needles between his cheeks. He also had other drug pa ... More >>


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03/01/1990 - "Desipramine has the least anticholinergic and sedative effects of the first generation tricyclic antidepressant agents, but its pain-relieving potential has received little study. "
09/01/2010 - "pain sensitivity), locomotion and anxiety were not altered with desipramine treatment. "
11/01/2005 - "All 3 drugs reduced PHN pain, with desipramine providing satisfactory relief in 80% of those treated."
11/01/1992 - "The mean increase in peak VAS relief score after desipramine pretreatment, relative to placebo, was 6%; the 95% confidence interval for this estimate ranged from a 21% reduction to a 34% increase in pain relief. "
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01/01/1987 - "Preliminary results of an open, fixed-dose study of desipramine in panic disorder."
03/01/1995 - "Desipramine plasma levels and treatment response in panic disorder."
01/01/1993 - "Preliminary report: placebo-controlled, double-blind study of the clinical and metabolic effects of desipramine in panic disorder."
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01/01/2012 - "Desipramine is used for treating neuropathic pain, particularly in prostate cancer patients. "
08/01/1999 - "Peripheral antinociceptive actions of desipramine and fluoxetine in an inflammatory and neuropathic pain test in the rat."
02/01/2009 - "We have used an integrative approach combining behavioural pharmacology with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the effects of chronic treatment with the TCA desipramine, on touch-evoked pain (mechanical allodynia) and brain regional activity in the selective spinal nerve ligation (SNL) model of neuropathic pain. "
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03/01/2003 - "This finding supports previous reports of a possible role for desipramine in cocaine abuse treatment."
09/01/2000 - "Conversely, uptake inhibitors, such as the tricyclic antidepressant, desipramine, and the drug of abuse, cocaine, inhibit noradrenergic differentiation in both tissues. "
03/01/1994 - "Desipramine treatment for cocaine dependence. "
01/01/1990 - "Plasma concentrations of desipramine (DMI) and its 2-hydroxy metabolite (OHDMI) were compared among 72 patients being treated with desipramine for either depression (n = 39) or cocaine abuse (n = 33). "
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07/01/2002 - "The tic response rate was substantial (58% vs 5%; desipramine vs placebo, P<.001). "
07/01/2002 - "Likewise, desipramine significantly reduced tic symptoms (Yale Global Tic Severity Scale; 30% decrease from baseline relative to placebo, P<.001), with equal response in motor and phonic tic symptoms (P<.01 for both). "
01/01/1995 - "Desipramine showed a statistically significant improvement on a global linear analogue scale, but not on the Hopkins Motor/Vocal Tic Severity Scale, the Tourette Syndrome Severity Scale, or the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale. "
07/01/2002 - "Treatment with desipramine was well tolerated and was associated with robust clinically significant reductions in tic and ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents with chronic tic disorders and ADHD diagnoses."
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Promoting their forthcoming animation sequel 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa', DreamWorks Pictures released five animated posters exposing the main characters dancing with their unique styles.
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In Aberdeen, Scotland, it's local dialect (doric) meaning a young guy. That's probably why there's another definition further up, for fans of the Scottish actor Billy Boyd. Whose not from Aberdeen I think but never mind.
"Aye, d'ye ken that loon fae two doors up?"
dari loon Jum'at, 02 Juli 2004
A crazy, psychotic person who doesn't care a.k.a nutter]
C you are a proper loon
dari Loopyloulou Senin, 11 September 2006
Shortened version of the Canadian word 'loonie' which means a one Canadian dollar coin which has a loon (bird) on one side. It is equivalent to UK 'Quid'
I got ten loons in me pocket.
dari Canadianhero Senin, 03 September 2012
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Britain sells out of iPods
- December 23, 2003
- iPod,
"John Lewis had also sold out of the iPod, and was warning customers they may have to wait until mid January to get their hands on the product. Dan Knowles is the company's director of buying for electrical goods.
He said: 'We have sold over 2,500 iPods in the run-up to Christmas, which is a lot for such a highly priced product. It just seems to have that cool factor somehow, it's a truly iconic product already. I don't think there is a secret to it, it's just a really, really good product.'
However, those in the industry are unsurprised by the success. Gadget magazine Stuff voted the iPod its number-one gadget from a list of 100 products. Gary Parkinson, deputy editor, said: 'There has been phenomenal interest in the iPod. I don't think we have ever experienced anything like it for a gadget.'"
Apple Store Chicago "selling one iPod every 10 minutes"
- December 23, 2003
- iPod,
Investigation of Apple's iPod - Possible Class Action Lawsuit
- December 22, 2003
- iPod,
An anonymous reader at SlashDot reports that law firm "Girard Gibbs & De Bartolomeo LLP is investigating a potential class action against Apple Computer, Inc. on behalf of iPod owners whose batteries have died or lost their ability to hold their charge." The firm has posted an online form stating; "If you've experienced these or simliar problems and you are interested in helping us in our investigation, please fill out the form below."
Editor's note: The page is no longer available.
1.79 iPods sold every minute in 2003
- December 22, 2003
- iPod,
MacMinute reports - "According to sales figures documented in Apple's annual filing with the SEC, approximately 1.79 iPods were sold every minute in fiscal 2003. Apple said it sold 939,000 iPods for US$345 million in net sales this past year. The iPod is the number one-selling portable digital music player on the market, accounting for 29 percent of all units sold worldwide. The device holds 54 percent of the market share in terms of revenue."
iPodSkinz coming early 2004
- December 22, 2003
- iPod Accessories,
The people that brought you MacSkinz for Apple computers is soon to release iPodSkinz. iPodSkinz are formed plastic "Skinz" that snugly fit over the front of your iPod. "Our first release will be a few solid tones for all sizes of the original iPod only. The newer iPods will be "Skinned" sometime after the beginning of 2004. They cover and attach to the iPod just like our MacSkinz cover the iBooks and PowerBooks. The price will be $12.50 each with a 3+ quantity discount at $10.00 each."
iTunes, others to launch "the great digital music giveaway"
- December 21, 2003
- Digital Media,
"In the new year, some of the world's biggest brands will promote their products and services by doling out millions of free downloads through alliances with digital music services.
'You're going to see lots of free music given out via third-party companies," buymusic.com founder Scott Blum says. "It's not going to be Apple and iTunes driving the business. It's going to be companies like Pepsi and other third parties that are promoting digital music on bottle caps and on labels.'
Indeed, Apple Computer has inked a deal with Pepsi to give away 100 million iTunes downloads in a promotion that kicks off in February with a Super Bowl ad."
iPod designer Jonathan Ive awarded highest British design honor
- December 21, 2003
- Apple,
2004 Honda Accord iPod Install
- December 21, 2003
- iPod Accessories,
iLounger 'thericky' shares his step-by-step integration of iPod and his 2004 Honda Accord. You'll find this and many other auto installation discussions in our 'iPod-In-Car Solutions' forum.
"I recently installed the Soundgate SNHOND3 into my brand new '04 Honda Accord EX V-6 so that I could use my iPod in the car. I've been using an FM transmitter for a long time in my old car and was tired of hearing static and trying to find stations that worked.
Here you will find step-by-step, picture-filled instructions on how to install the SNHOND3 unit into your '03 or '04 Accord. They are identical installations."
Apple nets $345 million in iPod sales; 141% increase
- December 20, 2003
- iPod,
MacMinute reports Apple's Friday filing of its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission indicates the iPod continues to be a big winner for Apple.
iPods remain hot buy in the UK
- December 20, 2003
- iPod,
"Mike Khalfey, central buyer for electronics at John Lewis department stores, said so many people wanted an iPod they were having to take orders for delivery after Christmas.
'The demand is certainly outstripping supply,' he said, adding that the most popular model was the middle of the range 20GB iPod for
iTunes 4.2 and new 'Grouping' feature
- December 20, 2003
- iTunes,
In the latest release of iTunes appears a new feature called 'Grouping.' Grouping is another field you can edit and search on. Grouping is useful for Classical music, where a "work" or "piece" of music is multiple tracks but not the whole CD. It shows up in Get Info, View Options, and when you right click on column headers," as explained by 'iTunes Mike' in the Apple Discussions forums.
Apple job posting points to video iPod
- December 19, 2003
- iPod,
The following job posting has just appeared on Apple.com:
Just as an Apple job posting in early 2003 for a developer of iTunes for Windows was a clear confirmation of that product's arrival (which came six months later), this posting seems to demonstrate very clearly that the iPod is heading toward video.
PCWorld: iTunes is "the greatest, coolest, most insanely frustrating media player"
- December 19, 2003
- iTunes,
"An in-depth look at the greatest, coolest, most insanely frustrating media player out there and the store behind it" by Eric Dahl, PC World.
Wired: RIAA Loses Key Anti-Piracy Tool
- December 19, 2003
- Digital Media,
"A federal appeals court on Friday rejected efforts by the recording industry to compel the nation's Internet providers to turn over names of subscribers suspected of illegally swapping music online.
The ruling from a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was a dramatic setback for the industry's controversial anti-piracy campaign. It overturned the trial judge's decision to enforce a type of copyright subpoena from a law that predates the music downloading trend."
Dell stops selling iPods
- December 19, 2003
- iPod,
"Round Rock-based Dell Inc. stopped reselling Apple's iPods in mid-November, about two weeks after the company launched its own competing MP3 player.
"We've stopped selling them permanently," said Mary Fad, a Dell spokeswoman.
Both Apple and Dell declined to explain why the two companies scrapped their reselling agreement."
Refurbished 10GB iPod for $249
- December 18, 2003
- Deals,
Refurbished 2nd generation 10GB iPods (Windows) for $249 at MegaMacs.com, plus free software with every Fed Ex shipping.
Sessions@AOL Available at iTunes Music Store
- December 18, 2003
- iTunes,
"Sessions@AOL are exclusive in-studio performances recorded in an intimate setting." Artists include Liz Phair, Iggy Pop, R.E.M, Limp Bizkit and more. There are currently 16 sessions available for purchase at $.99 each.
Apple Releases 'iTunes Essentials' Compilations
- December 18, 2003
- iTunes,
Apple has released its own 'Essentials' compilation albums featuring the best in Classic Country, Make-out Songs, Johnny Cash, Disco Ball Reflections, Christmas Classics and lots more. Prices start around $11 for a complete compilation or you can opt to buy individual songs at $.99 and there are currently 41 albums to choose from.
Windows: iTunes 4.2 Released
- December 18, 2003
- Windows Software,
iTunes 4 is the best software jukebox in the world, with a great music store inside. With it, you can create your own personal digital music library to manage and listen to your music collection, all with drag-and-drop simplicity. iTunes encodes high-quality MP3s as well as pristine AAC, all in a free application. If you dont like getting charged a subscription fee or paying for additional features like fast CD burning, your digital music experience is about to get a whole lot better.
Mac: iTunes 4.2 Released
- December 18, 2003
iTunes 4, the stunning new rendition of one of Apples greatest hits, comes with an appealing new feature: the fabulous iTunes Music Store stocked with hundreds of thousands of songs you can preview and own with just one click. The worlds best digital music player now supports the new AAC audio format (think high-quality sound with even smaller file sizes), and lets you share your music with other Mac computers on your local Ethernet or AirPort wireless network. And if you have a Mac with a SuperDrive, you can archive your entire music library to DVDs for safekeeping.