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By Andy Greenberg
The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power
station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the
plant's owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed
from the Internet. Lunsford, a researcher for IBM's Internet Security
Systems, found otherwise.
"It turned out to be one of the easiest penetration tests I'd ever
done," he says. "By the first day, we had penetrated the network. Within
a week, we were controlling a nuclear power plant. I thought, 'Gosh.
This is a big problem.'"
In retrospect, Lunsford says the station's safety mechanisms probably
would have prevented him from triggering a nuclear meltdown. But he's
fairly certain that by accessing controls through the company's network,
he could have sabotaged the power supply to a large portion of the
state. "It would have been as simple as closing a valve," he says.
The disturbingly vulnerable system that Lunsford hijacked is powered by
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software, or SCADA, a type of
software made by companies including Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people
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SCADA systems are used around the country to control infrastructure like
water filtration and distribution, trains and subways, natural gas and
oil pipelines, and practically every kind of industrial manufacturing.
And as some security professionals are pointing out, those weaknesses
are increasingly connected to the Internet, leaving large parts of
America's critical infrastructure exposed to anyone with moderate
information technology training and a laptop.
At the DefCon hacker conference earlier this month, security researcher
Ganesh Devarajan gave a presentation detailing how researchers can find
flaws in SCADA systems using "fuzzing," a technique that floods software
with data and tracks which input causes a crash, allowing hackers to
inject their own commands.
"These are simple bugs, but very dangerous ones," says Devarajan,
associate security analyst at 3Com-owned security firm Tipping Point. He
says he's alerted SCADA software vendors to all the flaws he's found,
but he nonetheless imagines a scenario in which someone plants a
contaminant in a water reservoir and hacks into water-quality sensor
systems to prevent detection. "If someone can provide false data," he
says, "They own the system."
To be sure, the threat of attacks on major SCADA systems isn't entirely
new, and the wave of cyberterrorism predictions that followed Sept. 11,
2001, have largely been dismissed as hype and paranoia. But given SCADA
systems' vulnerability, many experts wonder why those attacks haven't
yet materialized.
One answer may be the sheer complexity of major infrastructure systems:
Though SCADA computers have weak external security, controlling them
takes engineering expertise. Most hackers could only gain enough control
to create the fear that they're capable of something worse, says Alan
Paller, director of the SANS Institute.
That means that even if outright attacks aren't increasing, there's a
growing threat of extortion, says Paller. In fact, the SANS Institute
hosts a crisis response center for cyberattacks, and Paller says he's
learned of multiple threats within the last year and a half from hackers
claiming to have infiltrated SCADA systems and demanding ransom. Other
shakedowns have likely gone unreported.
Paller predicts that those incidents will increase. "There's been very
active and sophisticated chatter in the hacker community, trading
exploits on how to break through capabilities on these systems," he
says. "That kind of chatter usually precedes bad things happening."
Extortion is more than an economic problem; racketeers could easily
trigger an accident while trying to demonstrate control over a facility,
says Marcus Ranum, chief security officer for Tenable Security. "To spin
a pump or move a valve, you don't have to be a petroleum engineer," he
says. "Then again, you could spin the wrong pump and blow something up."
Not every SCADA sabotage scenario is so hypothetical. In 2000, Vitek
Boden, a 48-year-old man fired from his job at a sewage-treatment plant
in Australia, remotely accessed his former workplace's computers and
poured toxic sludge into parks and rivers; he hoped the plant would
re-hire him to solve the leakage problem.
In January of 2003, SCADA system computers infected with the Slammer
worm caused a blackout at the Davis-Besse power plant in Ohio. Seven
months later, another computer virus was widely suspected of preventing
the detection of power loss at a plant providing electricity to parts of
New York State.
SCADA systems' lack of security features is a symptom of their age; most
were developed at a time when critical infrastructure systems weren't
connected to the Internet and needed no intrusion prevention. Some have
a 20-year life span, making them obsolete for years after they're
installed. And many of the companies that develop SCADA software make
installing security patches difficult or, fearing that patches will
hamper the software's operation, don't offer customer support for
patched systems.
All of which still leaves U.S. infrastructure open to crippling attacks
by criminal hackers or cyberterrorists, says Jim Christy, director of
future exploration at the Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center.
"This is an Achille's heel for several of our critical systems," Christy
says. "Nation-states and terrorist organizations are definitely looking
at this as an option, a weapon of mass disruption."
That kind of risk means major security changes are necessary, says
Christy. But because SCADA systems are largely owned by the private
sector, critical infrastructure like power plants and water systems may
remain vulnerable until the problem affects profits--or leads to
disaster. Christy argues that we can't wait that long: His unofficial
opinion is that SCADA needs government regulation.
"The government mandates fire sprinklers. Those cost builders money, but
they save property and lives," he says. "If critical infrastructure is
important to our national security, shouldn't there be minimum standards
it has to meet?"
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03 JulTue / 2012This summer we are wishing "buenas vacaciones" to one of Rienzi's paintings: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's The Nativity is on holiday, loaned to the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain. This three-part blog series discusses The Nativity and its unusual medium, and chronicles the painting's journey overseas to the Prado with Rienzi's director, Katherine Howe.
29 JunFri / 2012As the Electronic Records Archive Start-Up grant, funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, concludes, the MFAH has piloted an Electronic Transfer Protocol (ETP) consisting of a database application and procedures for its use. The ETP supports the transfer of institutional electronic records into archival custody with metadata and access privileges intact. In its final version, the ETP will also support . . .
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The Left parties have urged the people not to pay water and UGD charges.
Addressing a press conference in Vijayawada on Wednesday, CPI city secretary Donepudi Sankar and CPI(M) city secretary Ch. Babu Rao said that the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has unilaterally hiked the water charges. The hike was very steep and ranged between 4 per cent and 400 per cent.
Never in the history of corporation, the tariff was hiked so steeply and it automatically is increased by 7 per cent. The water charges would increase with every revision of property tax, they said.
'A burden'
It was unfortunate that the VMC was levying a burden of Rs. 25 crore on the people. The VMC was already putting a huge burden on various pretexts on the common man. The poor were the worst sufferers as they would not be able buy water at such exorbitant rate. For the poor, the water charges would be Rs.740, while the property tax would be Rs. 150 per annum, they pointed out, adding, the government would not respond unless the people reacted and stop paying the charges.
The corporation, under special officer rule, has no authority to take a policy decision, they opined. Let the proposal be kept on hold until an elected body assumes office. The Congress government had no concern for the people. The Congress government should withdraw the hike and seek the public mandate, they said, adding, they would not keep quiet if the hike was not rolled back.
'Baseless claims'
The VMC de-linked the water services from property tax going against the rules. It was against the laid down procedures. The water service was one of the components in property tax. The VMC was making baseless claims that the water charges were not hiked since 2004. The property tax was revised twice since 2004. So, the water charges were also revised twice as the water service was part of the property tax, they added.
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PANAJI: Just like the magistrate, probably a lot more would have been surprised by the turn of events.
"You should have been doing that before coming to the court. You have wasted my entire morning session as I had set aside everything to hear this case," Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC, Vasco) Edgar Fernandes told Vasco Sports Club's legal counsel when they told the court they were not pressing for an injunction, restraining Shillong Lajong Football Club from participating in the I-League.
Vasco's flip-flop on Friday morning caught everyone by surprise especially since just a day earlier the club seemed to be going all out to restrain the All India Football Federation (AIFF) from conducting the I-League, starting Saturday, if Lajong were also involved.
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Writer, producer, director and Cal State Northridge film professor Alexis Krasilovsky received a lifetime achievement award, "The Special Award of the Festival 'The Gate of Freedom,' " at the Ninth Gdansk Documentary Film Festival in Poland.
The award was given to her "for emphatic solidarity to all people of all genders." The festival featured screenings of documentaries about dignity and work, and was inspired by the workers of the Solidarity movement, which got its start in Gdansk.
"It's a great honor to receive the Gate of Freedom Special Award from an international film festival located in Gdansk, the city where the Solidarity Movement was born," said Krasilovsky. " I hope that I can live up to the responsibility bestowed on me by the Gdansk DocFilm Festival, whose focus is 'work and dignity,' both as a professor and as part of the California Faculty Association, fighting for the dignity of our profession and for the quality of education of our students."
"Women Behind the Camera" is based on Krasilovsky's book of the same name, published in 1997. "Women Behind the Camera" is the first in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to succeed in a male-dominated field. Professor Krasilovsky and her co-editor, Dr. Harriet Margolis of New Zealand, are co-editing a second volume that pertains to camerawomen around the world.
"The responsibility of this award extends to my own filmmaking," Krasilovsky said. "I hope to be able to express some of the issues that workers around the word face in my new documentary-in-progress, 'Pastriology,' when it comes to having enough of a living wage to feed themselves and their families. Being able to practice free speech as a professor, filmmaker, poet and writer is a euphoric feeling."
As head of her own production company, Rafael Film, LLC, Krasilovsky has written, directed, produced and shot numerous documentaries, video-poems and art films, including "Exile," "What Memphis Needs," "Blood," and "End of the Art World," all of which were also screened as part of Krasilovsky's retrospective at the festival.
For more information on "Women Behind the Camera," visit http://www.womenbehindthecamera.com/.


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Drawing from more than 10 years of dental experience, Dr. Alvaro Lazo emphasizes gentle dentistry aided by advanced technology. Before performing dental services such as root canals, extractions, or cleaning, technicians reveal inner-mouth workings with digital radiography, which reduces the radiation exposure of traditional radiographs by up to 90%. Laser cavity detection and treatment seek out and stop tooth decay without the use of drills that can inadvertently tap into a tooth's precious oil reserves.
Formerly known as Ambridge Country Club, Harmony Ridge Golf Club reopened in 2008 under the guidance of Greg Paul. The nine-hole course is commonly referred to as Oakmont's Little Brother, as it shares Oakmont Country Club's designers, H.C. Fownes and Emil Loeffler, and has a propensity to withstand noogies. It beckons swingers of all levels with 120 verdant acres that stretch across Beaver County countryside. A newly renovated blues cafe and sports bar, which proffers a menu of American fare along with weekly live music, rounds out an afternoon of long drives and short putts.
Extreme athletes banded together to design Spartan Races' intense courses orchestrated over standardized distances, each strewn with natural and man-made obstacles to test mind-body fitness, resilience, stamina, and strength, designed to leave participants exhausted and exhilarated. In waves of about 200, runners collect smudges and stains as they perform box jumps, haul heavy sandbags, and juke feral linebackers. Depending on where in the world they're participating, the course may be as short as 3 miles or, for extremely practiced athletes, as long as a full marathon.
When the morning fog clears, a bridge fashioned out of five rustic corncribs appears to pay homage to EagleSticks Golf Club's roots. Originally used to feed the horses that grazed on the erstwhile farm, the wood from the corncribs now arches over a creek that splits the fairway on the 11th hole—a 591-yard par 5 dubbed the course's signature attraction for its bending fairway, elevated tee box, and visible ties to a bucolic past. Designed by renowned Ohio architect Dr. Michael Hurdzan, the 6,508-yard course challenges golfers with constant elevation changes—some of which exceed 100 feet—that demand accuracy, sound course management, and the ability to activate the cart's hang-gliding wings. Throughout the round, bentgrass fairways and greens present a much more hospitable landing place than the course's thick, bluegrass rough. At various hillcrests and elevated tees, players can take in a full view of the course's scenery, which includes several waterfalls and woodlands populated by oak, maple, ash, locust, and cherry trees ripe for the hugging.
After a day on the links, golfers can gather at Mac's Sports Bar to quiet rumbling bellies with a menu of classic American food such as burgers, sandwiches, and pizza. Guests can unwind in Mac's dining room—which features eight televisions, an open-beam ceiling, and other contemporary touches—or at the adjoining patio, which attracts summertime breezes and ghostly golf balls trying to reconnect with their long-lost owner.
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Designed by Dr. Michael Hurdzan
18-hole, par 70 course
Length of 6,508 yards from the farthest tees
Bentgrass fairways and greens, bluegrass rough
Any golfer who played a round at Vista Golf Course between 1973 and 2010 may not recognize the course's current vistas. In 2010 the course underwent a major overhaul that saw the replacement of many ponds and tee signage. Though still not an especially long golf course?care was taken to keep it manageable for beginners?several par 4s extend more than 400 yards, giving longer hitters the chance to gain an advantage. A driving range and putting green also give every visitor the chance to work toward improving their swing mechanics.
Members at Curves, a fitness center designed exclusively for women, rotate around a circuit of hydraulic resistance machines that have been designed to work with female bodies and promote weight loss, protect against osteoporosis, and manage arthritis. An experienced trainer is always nearby to help to manage participants' machine maneuvering and muscle making. Instead of fiddling with weight stacks and losing momentum, the hydraulic machines use your own body weight, fitness level, and aerodynamic water bottle to create resistance that matches abilities, decreasing the risk of soreness or injury. Because traditional lifting and lowering motions create bulky muscles, each machine uses pushing and pulling motions to develop toned, lean muscles perfect for crushing a grapefruit without looking like you can.


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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Soul singer Howard Tate has died in his New Jersey apartment a decade after a career resurrection that followed years of tragedy and obscurity.
A spokesman for the Burlington County medical examiner says Tate was 72 when he died Friday in Burlington City.
Tate was born in Macon, Ga., and grew up in Philadelphia.
In the late 1960s and early '70s he had three top 20 R&B hits, including "Get It While You Can," written by his longtime producer Jerry Ragovoy and made more famous by Janis Joplin.
But Tate fell into drug addiction and ended up homeless. Ragovoy believed he had died.
Tate made a comeback a decade ago — again with Ragovoy producing. His 2003 release "Rediscovered" was nominated for a Grammy for best contemporary blues album.
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Swarms of tiny robots to monitor the oceans
(Read article summary)Scientists want to learn much more aobut the ocean than they currently know. So they're developing tiny robots to go underwater and observe.
Oceans cover about 71 percent of the earth's surface. Much of what happens in this watery world — and by extension, almost three-quarters of the planet's surface — remains maddeningly beyond humanity's ability to easily measure it.
Scientists have so far used their understanding of physics and fluid dynamics, combined with what direct observations are available, to infer how the ocean works. These inferences remain, in many cases, best guesses -- albeit very well-informed best guesses. But scientists inevitably dream of a day when they can directly observe the goings-on of the ocean.
That day, it seems, is moving closer and closer to actuality.
Various ongoing projects are enhancing our ability to monitor, in real time, what happens in the ocean. An improved ability to peek into this previously hidden realm will aid in several important endeavors — fishery management, understanding the impacts of climate change on ocean dynamics, and forecasting tsunamis among them.
In that regard, scientists at the University of San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California San Diego are now developing some potentially important new devices: small, low-cost, ocean-going robots that, in some respects, act like schools of fish. They swarm.
Earlier this week, the National Science Foundation awarded grants to two teams at Scripps. The goal: to develop new, ocean-monitoring robots that are deployed, and operate, in groups.
The so-called autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs) will work as follows: Many tens or even hundreds of pint-size AUEs will be dropped into the ocean along with a few "motherships" — basketball-sized AUEs.


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Updated: 09/27/2012 - It's not abnormal for a person to choose a new career path, but for a woman to leave a successful career in the fashion industry to go and run a cow/calf operation is a bit unusual.
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Updated: 09/25/2012 - Brazos Valley 4H stopped by to talk about their Thumpers and Jumpers fundraiser.
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Attendance: 18,611
Denver, CO (Sports Network) - DeJuan Blair and George Hill each scored 17 points, as the San Antonio Spurs dominated the Denver Nuggets, 111-92, at the Pepsi Center.
Blair and Hill also pulled down nine and six rebounds, respectively, for the Spurs, who improved to 3-2 on their eight-game road trip. Tim Duncan donated 16 points and seven rebounds. Manu Ginobili tallied 15 points, six rebounds, and six assists. Richard Jefferson and Roger Mason chipped in 14 points apiece for San Antonio, which shot 53.2 percent from the floor.
"We just wanted to get a great win before the (All-Star) break," Hill said. "We know this road trip is important. We need as many wins as possible."
Nene finished with 20 points and nine rebounds for the Nuggets, who were trying to notch back-to-back series victories against the Spurs for the first time since the 1986-87 and 1987-88 seasons. Carmelo Anthony had 19 points and six rebounds, while Chauncey Billups ended with 17 points and seven assists for Denver, which shot just 39.2 percent from the field.
"We got to the free throw line, but we didn't get to the rim very often," said Denver head coach George Karl.
This was the final game before the NBA All-Star break.
The Spurs led 32-29 after 12 minutes of play, and started the second quarter on a 15-4 run to create some breathing room. Blair tallied eight points during the burst, which Hill capped with a deuce to make it 47-33 with less than seven minutes left until half. San Antonio led 54-45 at the break.
Denver scored seven consecutive points early in the third to get within four, 56-52, with nine minutes remaining. But the Spurs fought right back with a 9-1 flurry. Antonio McDyess' long jumper made it a 65-53 contest with seven minutes left.
Following five straight points by the Nuggets, San Antonio went on a 10-2 run to open up a 15-point margin. Mason made a pair of three-pointers during the spurt, with the latter making it 75-60 with three minutes left. The score was 83-70 after three periods.
The Spurs cruised to victory in the fourth.
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Hello Moonflower, There are actually 2 fruitcake threads still "live" on the harvest forum. Fruitcakes 2 is on the first page and if you do a search on "fruit cake" you'll find the original as well. If you can tell us a bit more about what you're looking for the members might be able to provide something specific. How do you define "easy"? Would you like to begin with a mix? Do you prefer candied fruit or dried? Alcohol or alcohol free? Dark or light? Here is a link for an easy fruitcake formula that starts with a poundcake mix and gives you lots of choices. Carol |
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3004 River Reach
Williamsburg, VA 23185
4 br, 3 full & 1 half ba $448,500
1612 River Ridge
Williamsburg, VA 23185
3 br, 2 full & 2 half ba $379,000
4689 Westhampton
Williamsburg, VA 23188
3 br, 4 full ba $609,000
116 Sir Thomas Lunsford Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185
3 br, 2 full & 1 half ba $339,000
4212 Old Lock Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23188
3 br, 3 full ba $149,000
7702 Cedar Dr
Lanexa, VA 23089
2 br, 1 full ba $995,000
100 George Sandys
Williamsburg, VA 23185
4 br, 4 full & 1 half ba
3004 River Reach
Williamsburg, VA 23185
4 br, 3 full & 1 half ba $448,500
1612 River Ridge
Williamsburg, VA 23185
3 br, 2 full & 2 half ba $379,000
4689 Westhampton
Williamsburg, VA 23188
3 br, 4 full ba $609,000
116 Sir Thomas Lunsford Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185
3 br, 2 full & 1 half ba $339,000
4212 Old Lock Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23188
3 br, 3 full ba $149,000
7702 Cedar Dr
Lanexa, VA 23089
2 br, 1 full ba $995,000
100 George Sandys
Williamsburg, VA 23185
4 br, 4 full & 1 half ba
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Jim has represented us in both our Purchase and Sale transactions with integrity, intelligence, honesty & sound advice - always. Would recommend him to family & friends without hesitation. Shirley GabriShirley GabriJim came highly recommended from a family friend. He exceeded our expectations as a realtor. He met our tight schedule requirements, was very perceptive to what we were looking for, and two years after our settlement, we still recommend Jim to friends and family. Not only did we find ourselves a fantastic realtor, but we also found a friend!Dana and EricAnswers (20)
Displaying: 20 Most Recent AnswersAnswered: Dec 23, 2013Sure, there is no doubt they are a headache for everyone involved. You should go through your lender(s), get the short sale possibility approved and one of us will be happy to help you understand the process and get the home on the market. You've just been emailing the wrong agents. Find an agent who has the CDPE or SFR designation.Answered: Jul 28, 2012I am happy to provide you the name of a reputable lender I work with who can talk to you about an application and evaluating where you are in the qualifying stage. I'm not sure a time share will do more to help your credit though. Most of your credit score is determined by length of history and payment history. A car with a recurring monthly payment for instance will help more than a time share with a once a year payment. If you made the time share purchase recently on credit, your payment history may be too recent to help and you could also have a huge debt to pay back and that might actually hurt. Your credit profile is a very complex combination of your use of credit available and I would trust too many people selling you something to have your best interest at heart. As an ethical real estate agent I have no problem looking at your big picture and suggesting when renting or buying is in your best interest. But you are planning something for a year from now and it's a great time to start making improvements so your're ready to move in 2013! If you want to contact me directly or get more information check me out online.Answered: Apr 2, 2012In answer to: how do i post my listings on homes.comLots of agents and realtors ask questions here-not always and usually not identifying themselves as agents. Not that that's surprising. Mono is a realtor with Remax!Answered: Mar 12, 2012Hi Bryan, That is a tough one to locate but I will ask around. What are you willing to pay?Answered: Mar 4, 2012Some lenders are able to go as low as 600 but there numerous qualification parameters in addition to credit scoreAnswered: Dec 28, 2011Calling a reputable mortgage lender is your first step. I can point you in the right direction. Your credit score is the minimum for most lenders today. You should also look at your budget for what you can afford.Answered: May 25, 2011In answer to: is this house under contractUntil, May 26th the property is available for bids for owner occupants,government agencies and non profits. In some cases "bids" have been presented but not accepted or not contracted yet. Your best bet is to look at it if you are ready and able to buy be prepared to submit a bid. Timing is everything when it comes to some of these properties. They can be a real deal!Answered: May 15, 2011Any Realtor or real estate agent can help you find rental homes, but few are likely to do so without establishing some kind of fee-most likely up front,since we are not paid in the typical sense. If you agree to pay someone for helping you, you will probably find someone willing to help!Answered: May 15, 2011In answer to: Is it possible to buy a house with 0 down?It still is possible with a few different types of mortgages-like a VA mortgage or USDA financing, but those are not available to everyone or every property. The lending environment has drastically tightened up and the lenders and the government who is backing the loans, want buyers to be qualified and prepared for homeownership. By saving up and having some of your own money in the deal gives everyone some assurances. An FHA mortgage typically only requires a 3.5 % down payment so for every $100,000 you are buying, you'll need $3500 toward the down payment. There will also be some closing costs to pay.Answered: Mar 19, 2011Linda, I've sent an email to the listing agent about a longer term lease. It may be a good possibility. One of us will call you back. Thanks, Jim Mellen, RE/MAX Peninsula at New TownAnswered: Mar 12, 2011Here is the contact phone number for the leasing agent. Perhaps she can get you in to see it and answer your questions 757-827-1400Answered: Jan 27, 2011In answer to: Do you always have to have a downpayment for a home?Hi Carol, There are only a couple of loan programs out there I'm aware of where you can buy with no money down. FHA and USDA rural development financing of the property qualifies. if you are a veteren, you may have you VA eligibility as another option. You should consult with a local lender in your area for your options! Good LuckAnswered: Jan 27, 2011Thanks for the question. In todays lending and house buying environment, the one thing a buyer has to have is sufficient credit scores. Lenders have and are on the losing side of loans for the past several years. They have established some guidelines to lend based on credit scores that may seem punitive. But the last thing anyone wants to do is put someone in a home they cannot afford. So I would say, get an idea what your scores are and have a minimum score of 620 with a mid score in the 660-680 range and there most likely will be a loan program out there for you. Unfortunately scores below 600 won't qualify, and shouldn't qualify for a mortgage. They indicate that you are already stressed financially or have been in the past and aren't quite ready to be tied down to a mortgage commitment just yet. I've seen people turned down with ample income, but low scores and people with minimal income and good scores get qualified. If I can recommend a lender to you to make some inquiries, I have some great Williamsburg area lenders who would be happy to see what you look like on paper and if they can't help you today, they will give you some adviise on how to get where you need to be.Answered: Oct 26, 2010Hi Myra, I am not the listing agent of this property and based on your questions I would suggest you try to work with an agent who can represent you in full capacity rather than a listing agent. A listing agent may not easily be able to represent your best and full interest if they already have that relationship with a seller. This particular home does have a master bedroom down and I would be happy to discuss with you the features of the home as listed in the MLS or perhaps meet with you to discuss the contingencies you are concerned with. Nuyer counseling is free but best handled in person in a professional environment and not through forums like this that are open to everyone and their brother! My number is 757-810-3642 and my web site is www.JimMellen.com where you can see if I am a true full time dedicated professional!Answered: Aug 27, 2010Hi Raquel, this is listed by Greg Garret/GregGarretrealty.com. I suggest you contact them directly!Answered: Aug 25, 2010This listing looks like a HUD property. It depends on where the source of this listing comes from as to the accuracy of the information. Many sites not related to the MLS or a REALTOR code of ethics may post throughout the internet. If you are interested in this $10,000 listing you might try going to HUD.gov and looking through the areas listings. However to buy one you need to go through a registered agent. You may contact me directly at 758-810-3642 and I will spend some additional time helping you.Answered: Aug 23, 2010Vickie,owner financing is a great solution for both a buyer and seller, but the terms can be tough. Finding a seller capable and will to hold the note is tough since most sellers need the proceeds to make their next move. If you do find one though,they will ask for a lot of the same credit info a bank may in order to prove your worthiness. If you have a little money to put down to have "some skin in the game" that will help.You'll likely be asked a lot of personal questions, and if offended or too private to answer, you might stick to renting and find a seller landlord willing to do a lease purchase or rent with option to buy instead of right into a contract for deed.Answered: Aug 23, 2010This might be a tough combination of criteria in the area you prefer but I will see what I can find. Feel free to email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com at RE/MAX Peninsula in New Town so I can find more about what you might wnat in a home or if can be flexible in your search! ThanksAnswered: Jun 26, 2010Hi Brittany, when you apply for and get a mortgage for a home you own the home and have the right and obligation to live in it and maintain. However the bank owns a very important piece of paper filed at the courthouse that gives them a lien on the property in case you do't pay. But you pay the bank back over the course of 30 years typically or until you decide to sell. When you resell it the bank is the first one in line to get paid back!Answered: Jun 15, 2010Hi Lynda, I'm not able to send photos through this system but if you can email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com, I'll be happy to send you a link from the MLS with 14 pictures.My Designations (3)
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In the aftermath of the atrocities in Norway, the Economist asked Matt Goodwin to discuss the British far-right in light of the events in Norway.
Monthly Archives: July 2011
The banning of the Daily Show
If you were expecting to see the Daily Show on More4 this week you would have been disappointed.
While the rest of the world could see Jon Stewart's take on the News International hacking controversy, viewers in the UK were denied that pleasure.
Stewart's usual method of editing footage of politicians for comedic effect fell foul of an arcane prohibition – because in the relevant segment he dared to use footage of MPs speaking in the Commons chamber. The offending segment can be found on this website (use the search facility!). Ironically Stewart's point was that the British political system – which he describes as 'awesome' – holds our executive to better account than do the Americans: perhaps naively, he is praising the UK Parliament!
Television comedians have satirised politicians in this way for some time. This clip from Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet illustrates David Cameron's desire to be the heir to Blair possibly better than any journalist could. But the film of Cameron and Blair was not shot in the precincts of the Mother of Parliaments.
The Today programme discussed the prohibition and any listener might have wondered why it remains in place – although MP Roger Gale still feels Parliament needs such protection.
On August 27th, as part of the Festival of Politics in Edinburgh I'll be debating with some British comedians about the effect of satire on politics. Once a breath of fresh air in the 1960s the idea of the corrupt, lying, pompous politician has I think now become a lazy cliche – the equivalent of the mother-in-law or Irish joke of the 1970s. It also has political effects. It's no accident that Guido Fawkes – who trades in a jokey denigration of all politicians – is committed to an extreme neo-liberal agenda which mistrusts any kind of authority not based on the market. Yes Minister was so liked by Margaret Thatcher because it showed civil servants to be self-interested and politicians too weak to do anything about it – the series made her case for reducing government better than she ever could.
As the political novelist Anthony Trollope wrote in his autobiography: 'The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no'. The same can be said of any kind of any artist, comedians included. For if nothing else, the reiteration of the same image – or joke – can reinforce what people think about any subject.
Those making comedy at the expense of politics do therefore have some responsibilities that go beyond making us laugh. But they should not be hedged in by the kind of censorship that kept the Daily Show off our screens. In trying to protect Parliament from falling into disrepute this particular measure has only made Parliament look more ridiculous than could have any comedian.
The British far-right after Norway
In the aftermath of the atrocities in Norway, the Guardian asked Matt Goodwin to join a roundtable discussion on the far right, with Dan Hodges, journalist Matthew Taylor and Hugh Muir which which you can listen to here.
Anders Behring Breivik: the ongoing debate
The recent attacks in Oslo and Utøya by 'lone wolf' Anders Behring Breivik have prompted a tidal wave of reaction and analysis in the international press and blogosphere.
Here, Ballots and Bullets gathers together five pieces of essential reading which get to the heart of events:
Our own Matthew Goodwin argues that the attacks are symptomatic of a rise in politically-motivating violence in Europe, and asks what we can do about 'lone wolves'?
Sam Leith, of the Evening Standard, wonders whether the attacks were about madness or politics?
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen examines the ideological environment from which Anders Behring Breivik emerged.
Tea Party favourite Glenn Beck claims he saw it all coming.
Rob Ford wonders what we actually know about Anders Behring Breivik and concludes: not a lot.
And finally, Matthew Goodwin summaries five things we know about the attacks.
The Norwegian attacks: five things we know
Based on my expertise on the far-right in Britain and continental Europe it is safe to conclude the following:
1. The distinction between actions and attitudes is an important one. Large majorities of citizens in Europe reject violence, but large numbers are also concerned about the same issues that feature in the 'Breivik manifesto': concern over Islam, anxiety over immigration and rising diversity, and dissatisfaction with the mainstream parties. This does not equal a mass of would-be bombers, but it does mean that there is a pool of potential around the European far right.
2. We need to ask ourselves whether we have focused too heavily on one form of religiously-motivated extremism, at the expense of other (in this case political) forms of extremism. For example, in Britain we have spent much of our time talking about how best to counter radicalisation within Muslim communities, and prevent violent extremism. But what about other communities and forms of political action that might not be openly violent, but certainly contain a culture of violence?
3. This is a game-changer in how we approach the far right. This movement was often dismissed as the dog which doesn't bark. Sadly, over the weekend, it barked. We need to get past the conventional wisdom that says that far right groups and their followers are only a marginal, disorganized and weaker cousin to their al-Qaeda (or AQ) counterparts.
4. We need far more evidence on the far right. It has become pan-European in scope, developing new networks, both online and offline. This is not a problem only for Norway, for Scandinavia or Britain. This is a challenge for Europe and the responses from security services and policy-makers should reflect that.
5. Breivik will almost certainly become a heroic figure among some sections of the ultra right-wing in Europe, much in the same way that Timothy McVeigh was held up by sections of the American militia movement, or David Copeland was praised by British neo-Nazis. These are figures who cross the line that separates ideas from action. In this case, they have also left a detailed blueprint for how to act to any would-be copycat attacker. It is not alarmist or sensationalist to worry about this threat. Both American and British security services have warned about it for some time.


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Madine Under Investigation
City Old Boy News
Former Coventry City loanee Gary Madine is the subject of an FA investigation after his sending off against Carlisle United on Tuesday night.
As previously reported on this site, Madine, now playing for Sheffield Wednesday, was sent off in the match against his former club.
However, Madine is alleged to have motioned with his head towards the referee and made comments to Carlisle fans both at the game and on Twitter before his account was deleted.
An FA spokeswoman said: "Our current position is that we are investigating the matter."
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Xfce 4010 – (release-schedule and versioning)
Hi all,
There has been a lengthy discussion about the xfce version-number.
Is it OK to call the next version of xfce 4.10?
Some package maintainers have a problem with 4.10 being a later version then 4.8, since they see 4.10 as 4.1 with an extra decimal for precision.
Since it could cause upgrade-problems for several distributions, we should find a way to solve that problem.
Why not go for 5.0?
If the '.' is a decimal-separator, a 0.2 upgrade from 4.8 would end up at Xfce 5.0. But we already discussed that . We are not going for 5.0, it would only create confusion, and people start thinking we pulled a 'gnome-3′ on them. So that one was out pretty quick.
But, the confusion remains. Olivier Fourdan argued that we could think of it as a hexadecimal value, so 0x4.8 would be followed by 0x4.A. Though this sounds funny, and it solves our problem for a few versions (0x4.C, 0x4.E) but we'd end up with 0x5.0 eventually… resulting in the same problem.
And nobody uses the hexadecimal system for version-numbers, that is silly.
So? Now what?
It took a while before we realized, that the '.' could be seen as a separator for thousands (it's used like this in most of Europe). So you'd have Xfce 4,008 and Xfce 4,010. This not only solves our problem for the next version. At the rate of one release every 2 years we stay away from the whole 5.0 discussion for another 990 years. (Unless another reason appears to introduce a 41xx series of 50xx series of Xfce somewhere this century).
So, here's the conclusion:
The next version of Xfce will be Xfce 4010 (four-thousand-and-ten)!
But that's ridiculous!?
Well, it used to be. But these days anything is possible with version-numbers really, except for going backwards.
Which is precisely what we are avoiding here.
Just look at Mozilla Firefox (moving from 4 to 9 at the same pace as they went from 0.7 to 1.0) or Google chrome (what version-number are they using anyway?), or the linux-kernel, going from 2.6.0 to 2.6.39 with entire subsystems being rewritten from scratch, and then moving from 2.6.39 to 3.0 without any radical change whatsoever.
Really, moving from 4.8 to 4010 is not really that big a deal, if it serves the right purpose.
That's nice and all, but when will we get it?
Ah, more good good news :)
We have a new schedule. (it is not published to the wiki yet though)
Essentially, the development-phase is pro-longed until the weekend after FOSDEM, giving us time to do some hacking there and get it in master the week after.
Dates | Phase/Deadline | Everyone's Tasks | Release Team Tasks | Maintainer Tasks |
2011-Feb-13 – 2012-Feb-12 | Development Phase | Support Xfce | Supervise development, remind people of deadlines | Hacking |
2012-Feb-12 – 2012-April-01 | Release Phase | Wait patiently | Perform releases, remind people of deadlines | Perform releases of own components if desired |
Xfce 4010pre1 (Feature Freeze) | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4010pre1 | Make sure the latest development release is in good shape and uploaded | ||
2012-March-11 |
Xfce 4010pre2 (String Freeze) | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4010pre2 | Make sure that strings in the latest development release or in master are good | |
2012-March-25 |
Xfce 4010pre3 (Code Freeze) | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4010pre3, create ELS branches | Make sure the latest development release is in good shape, or that code is solid/finished in master | |
2012-April-01 |
Xfce 4010 (Final Release) | Celebrate | Prepare release announcements, release Xfce 4010, branch for stable release, merge ELS branches into master | Make sure to upload a new release of own components before this deadline |
We hope you are as happy as we are with the new release schedule.
Update: There was some confusion about the date notation, updated it to get rid of the month-numbers.
Update-2 [18-01-2012 13:37 CET]: For more background information about this decision, check this link
Documentation Wiki
Over the last years we've tried many techniques to make it easier to submit documentation for the Xfce packages. Unfortunately, whatever we've tried; hardly any documentation was contributed.
Complete documentation (or close to that) was still a goal for Xfce 4.10, so we've decided to drop the package manuals for the next stable release (now GIT master) and focus on a wiki-based setup. This means that the Help buttons in 4.10 will try to open your web browser and redirect you to the correct page on docs.xfce.org.
We understand a small group of people without Internet are affected by this change. However as the situation is right now, clicking the Help button is often not even possible and once the wiki is starting to grow, we'll look into an xfce4-docs package that contains a snapshot of the wiki data.
We hope with this change the barrier to contribute manuals is low enough for contributors to help us with good documentation, so Xfce 4.10 will be the best documented release we've ever made (and that should fairly easy ;-).
Xfce git modules
I needed to update my scripts to checkout everything in the Xfce git repositories. I used to run something like ssh ls /var/git
on mocha (our old git server) to get the list of modules, but now I have this:
lynx -dump -listonly git.xfce.org \
| grep "git.xfce.org/[^?]" | grep -v "archive" \
| sed -e 's^.*http://git.xfce.org/^^' -e 's^/$^^'
Any better suggestions? This works very well for me, already.
Now, unfortunately, I have not found the time and energy to do something useful with all that fresh code. But it feels good to know it's there if I do ;-)
Looking for new maintainers for some of my projects
I am looking for a new maintainer for some of the open source projects I started over the last couple of years. Due to taking a full-time position as a software engineer, I will have less spare time to hack in the near future than I had while being a student. I will continue contributing to Xfce but I would like to focus on core development (thunar, tumbler, garcon etc.). As a consequence, I am looking for people interested in maintaining the following projects:
- thunar-media-tags-plugin
- xfce4-verve-plugin
- xfce4-mixer
- xfce4-time-out-plugin
- jptemplate (see http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/jptemplate/ for documentation)
Most of these are smaller projects but some of them (like thunar-media-tags-plugin and xfce4-mixer) have many users. xfce4-mixer is particularly interesting, I think. It's code base is of medium size and it lacks integration with notification daemons, key bindings for muting and altering the volume of a selected channel. Also, the per-channel widgets could be arranged in better ways than they are right now. PulseAudio support has been requested several times but that is an entirely different story. xfce4-mixer is mainly intended as a mixer for GStreamer. A PulseAudio mixer would better be written from scratch. But if anyone is up for the task - why not!
If you are interested in maintaining any of the above (yes, you are free to rename jptemplate to something that does not carry my initials!), please let me know in a comment or send a mail to firstname.lastname@example.com!
(You will need knowledge of C, GLib and GTK+ for the Xfce projects and VIM script for jptemplate. But in particular panel plugins are really simple, so the code base should be easy to understand even for a GTK+ newbie who is willing to read API manuals.)
Joining Codethink
I already hinted at the end of my studies in earlier posts related to my thesis. After submitting that thesis I moved 400km south of Lübeck to enjoy a few quiet weeks, record music and work on Xfce. However, I only stayed there for two weeks before I was set to fly over to Manchester, UK. The reason: I will be joining Codethink in January!
Having spent the last three weeks in and around their office, the city of Manchester and one of its suburbs, I can confidently say that this was a great decision. Codethink is a social and diverse company with a strong background in open source, with bright people, and a nice overall atmosphere and attitude. We had plenty of enjoyable evenings, chats, not to forget the brilliant food. I managed to feel at home already, but sadly, I had to leave again yesterday.
Like many people in Codethink, Manchester appears to be a city that likes music, a place where almost everyone is either a die-hard music fan or even a musician. I found a room right in the hart of the northern quarter at 10 minutes walking distance to the office, surrounded by record shops, live music venues and pubs. Rehearsal spaces are expensive but nearby. I could list various additional reasons for why I'm really happy. This simply is a good move.
About three years ago I was about to cancel my studies and look for a job. In the end I decided to carry on. Last week my Diplom (the German equivalent of an MSc) certificate arrived. Despite many doubts throughout these years, I managed to graduate with honors. It's funny that this grade will have no impact on anything and is only really useful for proving to myself that I can pull through if I really want to. But then again, I had a great and chilled time being a student. So in retrospective, I guess I only ever had doubts because I was impatient and eager to make a difference in what was supposed to be the "real world".
Now, with Codethink, I can.
Learning from GNOME
I just read an interview with Federico Mena-Quintero, which is a good read in its entirety, but one thing struck me as being a very important change to how GNOME is being developed.
Federico says (emphasis mine): "The latest thing is that now things have to go through the design team first, and I don't think that is a good thing; there should not be a central body of control that decides how things are done, because that simply doesn't scale. And it also doesn't teach people in how to do design properly. I really would like to move to a model where, instead of having a central body of people who can veto things in or out, we can have a shared understanding of what constitutes good design and implementation."
This has been very important in my personal development as a programmer. I remember the vivid discussions about usability on the gnome lists with well-known names like Havoc Pennington. And they helped me enormously to form my own opinions on these matters.
From a (safe ;-) distance it seems like GNOME is missing a big opportunity to teach the world, oh alright, other free software developers about good design and thereby giving chances to new developers to learn from their peers. Specifically, it is not as easy as it once was for a casual observer to gain an understanding of the concepts and their implementation that are the basis for gnome development and that's a real pity, I believe.
Ristretto 0.1.x — Getting rid of anoyances…
Over the past few years, the top 2 complaints about ristretto have been 'it leaks memory!' and 'it crashes in this <obscure> way when I press this button'.
And you know… these people were right. During the past 6 months, my main focus was fixing these problems. After a lot of code-simplification and refactoring, I finally managed to fix all the reported crashes and memory-leaks. (Yes, I know this took a while…)
In my opinion, this made ristretto 0.1.0 the most stable release so far.
But there are still quite some improvements to be made by removing nuisances in the user-experience. Some of these have already been addressed in 0.1.0, including:
- Support for using arrow-keys to navigate through the images
- Additional accelerator for the 'f' key for switching to full-screen-mode
- Additional accelerator for the 'q' key for quitting ristretto
- Modify scroll-zoom so the mouse-cursor stays above the same region of the image when zooming in or out
- Re-introduce the file-properties dialog.
There are still some things that can be improved with regards to usability, I will work closely with the Xfce Design SIG to identify and improve problems with the ristretto UI. One of the things I will finally start on improving is the sorting-algorithm used for sorting the images on their filenames (Bug #6866), so the images are sorted in a similar order as they are in Thunar.
The main focus during the 0.1.x release-cycles is getting existing functionality to work better, so expect a faster release-schedule featuring smaller changes for the coming months.
On MeeGo
Whatever MeeGo was, it never made it into the open source mainstream, which I consider to consist of projects actively worked on by volunteers and companies alike, and didn't manage to become an project attractive enough for individual open source enthusiasts not driven by money to make substantial contributions.
There is enough room to speculate over the reasons why this is. My personal take is that MeeGo failed to be a successful open source project because the corporate commitment to the open source idea was not strong enough and expectations were too high right from the start.
Open source projects start with an idea and evolve into a proper product over time. Sometimes they are developed incrementally, sometimes it happens that big parts of them are replaced all at once. The idea behind an open source project may be huge but they all start off with baby steps. MeeGo, however, wasn't supposed to. The idea behind MeeGo was big, and due to market pressure it was expected to become complete and successful quickly. It occurs to me that the idea was to sort of guarantee success by providing the project with professional, corporate governance.
I think everyone who started working on open source as a hobby knows that this is something a lot of hackers don't are comfortable with. An open source project under corporate leadership may easily suffer from top-down decisions that give developers the feeling of working in a restrictive environment rather than a playful one. I'm not surprised by the fact that the only people I know ever contributed to MeeGo worked either for/with Intel or Nokia.
It isn't the technologies, tools or frameworks that are reason for the failure of MeeGo. KDE and GNOME are large and successful projects based on Qt, GTK+, Clutter, D-Bus-based desktop middleware etc. What has lead to failure in my eyes—-the eyes of an outsider, opn source developer and potential user—-is that the dynamic nature of open source projects conflicted with corporate expectations and hopes for a quick success they needed so badly. Add to that the pressure on Nokia, the corporate culture clash of two global information technology companies and the fast pacing world of mobile devices and interfaces, and you have a pretty explosive mixture.
Personally, I won't place my bets on Tizen. I can only imagine how frustrated and disappointed everyone who tried to get involved may be today, even those who contributed to MeeGo as part of their work for Intel, Nokia or one of the many smaller companies that make up the corporate part of the open source ecosystem. It is also frustrating for me as a developer aiming for a job in open source and desktop/mobile/UI technologies.
I guess the mobile open source platform we are all hoping for will be there some day. But it will only appear slowly, driven by the efforts of enthusiastic individuals with big ideas, realistic expectations and sound knowledge of the pace and dynamics with which open source projects grow and mature. This of course relies on open hardware and I don't know enough about the manufacturing industry to predict the availability of open, hackable devices in the near future.
In the meantime, the best we can do as open source software developers is improve the base OS level and innovate in desktop/mobile/UI technologies by experimenting with new ideas and extending existing frameworks. I'll help where I can.
Looking for a full time job in Open Source
Two years ago I was really close to canceling my studies and looking for a job instead. In the end I continued studying, passed the final exams of my Diplom (the German old-school equivalent to a Master's degree) with excellent results and started working on my graduate thesis. Today, I am 1 1/2 months away from the submission deadline and it is clear that I will make it.
So, this time I'm serious: I'm looking for a full time employment in Open Source software development, engineering or management starting November this year. Hiring me will get you an experienced and talented hacker with a natural intuition for software architecture and aesthetics as well as a scientific and painstaking approach to software planning and implementation.
Through my work at the university and within the Xfce and Lunar Linux projects, I have gained experience in/with
- many programming languages (including C, C++, Ruby, Python, Vala, Lua, XSLT, TeX, Java, Bash and a couple of others),
- many frameworks (the whole GTK+/GLib stack including D-Bus, a bit of Clutter, XLib and Qt/QML, SWT/JFace, the FOX toolkit as well as web frameworks like Sinatra and Rails; some knowledge about the Linux kernel, its facilities and kernel-userspace communication mechanisms included),
- many developer tools (GNU compilers, Autotools, VIM, NetBeans, Eclipse and others),
- many software versioning systems (Git, Subversion, CVS and Mercurial), and
- various areas of computer science and software engineering (complexity theory, signal processing, graph drawing, micro-controller programming and sensor-based networking, software planning, testing etc.).
I feel equally at home developing for the desktop or for the web. Granted, my main area of expertise is user interface and middleware development on Linux, which my fellow Xfce hackers and I have successfully participated in, but I've always found web development with Ruby to be a refreshing change.
There are many other things related to open source that I love doing. Over the past years I've enjoyed being able to improve the transparency of the development and release management of Xfce. Streamlining the release process and providing tools for making release management fun was an initiative I am particularly proud of. The same goes for community efforts like the Xfce Foundation, which we've launched in early 2011 and which I am currently heading as president.
This post is not just about the past though, it's also about what lies ahead. Things I am particularly interested in with regards to the future include
- mobile platforms and applications (iOS and Android are not good enough, I think we need open alternatives),
- multi-touch interfaces on Linux (yep, this is on the way, but there still is a lot of potential work to be done, I guess),
- cloud-based applications (I know I can store files and data on the web, but where are the mind-blowing features that go beyond availability of personal data everywhere?), and
- environmental and power saving applications (living responsibly will become important soon enough; how can we generate awareness and support environmental causes with the help of software?).
I am excited and curious what my role will be in all this. Anway, I guess this is enough information about me for now. After all, this is no biography but a job-search post. ;)
If you read this and you happen to be Microsoft or Apple, do not even bother to send a headhunter. I prefer to work in the open and I believe in Open Source for many reasons. This ecosystem that we've created over the past two decades provides a great way for people from all around the world to collaborate on projects they care about, in an honest and tolerant way. I think that's an inspirational model from which our entire society can and hopefully will benefit. Why would we want to have it any other way?
If you are a member or leader of a company dedicated to Open Source software and are interested in hiring me, please let me know. Linked below are my resumé, software projects and email address. I'm looking forward to talking to you!
Download my resumé/CV — A list of references is included. Feel free to contact them; they are aware of being listed and I'm sure they will be happy to answer any of your questions.
My software projects — A list of open source software projects I am or have been working on.
Email address: email@example.com


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So Juke buyers are left with a monumental conundrum: traction or enthusiasm. Adding to the frustration is that Nissan stubbornly continues its CVT crusade despite the fact that it has failed to deliver any meaningful fuel economy advantage over the modern torque-converter automatics and dual-clutch transmissions used by other manufacturers. If we were going to live with a Juke, we'd be buying a front-wheel-drive model along with the stickiest summer tires we could afford.
The Mini's six-speed automatic, on the other hand, is perfectly suited to the engine's frisky, punchy character. Much more eager to rev than the Juke, the Countryman feels substantially quicker and turbocharger cues like the audible wastegate add to a more visceral experience. Shifts are quick and crisp, whether the transmission is left to its own devices or directed via the wheel-mounted paddles. In its entirety, the Countryman's powertrain package is just as entertaining as it is in the Cooper S cars.
A matter of money
Without a doubt, the Mini Countryman is the better car to drive. It is more natural in corners, boasts a more energetic powertrain, and feels more connected through its transmission. Is the Mini worth an extra $11,300? No, especially since raising the price with extras does little to enhance the driving experience. But a Countryman free of frivolous options is a well-equipped car that can justify the $4500 premium.
While the Countryman is the winner of this test, we're declaring the Juke a winner, too. Nissan's mainstream products are bland and uninspiring vehicles despite the fact that the company can build great niche cars like the Leaf and the GT-R. The Juke trends more toward those specialty vehicles in its execution -- fun to drive, exciting to look at, loaded with technology, and an incredible value -- but is practical and affordable enough to draw mass appeal. We hope it's a harbinger of things to come, as an ounce of the passion that went into the Juke could do wonders to make the Sentra, Altima, and Murano more compelling.


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When we got our hands on the new iPad last night, it ran silky smooth. Party because of the new A5X chip's graphics grunt – but also, apparently, because Apple has boosted its flagship slate's RAM to 1GB.
The Verge's sources claim that Apple has joined the spec race in a very out of character move. We'll be giving the new iPad a full workout at Stuff towers very soon – so we'll find out just how much of a performance boost that 1GB of RAM has given Apple's new tablet.
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