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Book your room at Jupiter International Hotel Cazanchis
Deluxe Room
Max Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)Twin Room
Max Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)Junior Suite
Max Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)Superior Room
Max Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)Standard Room
Max Occupancy: 1 guest4-star hotel with full-service spa and free breakfast
Located in the heart of Addis Ababa, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of ECA Conference Center, Menelik II's Palace, and Addis Ababa Stadium. Meskel Square and Addis Ababa National Archives and Library are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
Along with a full-service spa, this smoke-free hotel has a restaurant and a fitness center. Free breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free valet parking, and a free airport shuttle. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 102 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. For entertainment, LED TVs come with satellite channels, and guests can also appreciate comforts like Egyptian cotton sheets and premium bedding.
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Jupiter International Hotel Cazanchis features a sauna and a steam room. The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 180 square feet (16 square meters) include a conference center and conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, spa services, and multilingual staff. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available 24 hours). Complimentary self parking and valet parking are available on site.
Jupiter International Hotel Cazanchis is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- Total number of rooms - 102
- Number of floors - 8
- ATM/banking
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Computer station
- Designated smoking areas
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Free valet parking
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference center
- Snack bar/deli
- Free self parking
- Year Built 2008
- Conference space size (feet) - 180
- Conference space size (meters) - 16
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Free reception
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Television in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Access via exterior corridors
- Free weekday newspaper
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Shower/tub combination
- Rainfall showerhead
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Free dial-up Internet access
- Room service (24 hours)
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
A complimentary breakfast is served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
Jupiter International Hotel Cazanchis has a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna, a steam room, and a fitness center.
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa. Services include Swedish massages and massages. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a steam room. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
- Swedish massage
- Steam room in spa
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No pets or service animals allowed
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 20 per day
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.

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Results 1 - 20 of 1,694 in Rio Rancho, NM
State's Biggest Archery Tourney Saturday in Rio Rancho, New Mexico w/Photo
More than 800 young archers will compete Saturday in New Mexico's fourth annual National Archery in the Schools State Tournament in Rio Rancho. Shooting will start at 8:45 a.m. and conclude at 5:45 p.m. at the Santa Ana Star Center. Comment?
Elks Hoop Shooters advance w/Photo
Two of six contestants to advance to the Elks National Hoop Shoot regional competition in Dallas are from Deming. Santana Valentine, left, advanced in the 8-9 girls' division at the state finals held Feb. 22 at Rio Rancho. Comment?
Students protest PARCC testing w/Photo
... THE DISTRICT WARNED STUDENTS THEY COULD GET UNEXCUSED ABSENCES OR EVEN SUSPENSIONS FOR TAKING PART. SAME STORY IN RIO RANCHO. WE COULD BE LEARNING INSTEAD OF TAKING A TEST. AARON: WE ALSO SAW TEST HITTING THE STREETS. STUDENTS FROM SOUTH VALLEY ... Comment?
School letter grades depend on PARCC participation w/Photo
... dents who opted out of PARCC testing. APS was going to allow students to opt out until testing started Monday. In Rio Rancho, 60 of more than 11,000 students testing opted out. No schools there fell below the participation line. Comment?
School letter grades tied in with PARCC participation w/Photo
... SAID THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT YET. THEY ALSO DIDN'T KNOW IF ANY SCHOOLS DROPPED BELOW THE 95% PARTICIPATION RATE. IN RIO RANCHO, ONLY 60 OUT OF MORE THAN 11,000 STUDENTS TESTING OPTED OUT. NO SCHOOLS THERE FELL BELOW THE 95% PARTICIPATION RATE. SANTA ... Comment?
Rio Rancho issues voluntary boil alert for parts of the city w/Photo
The city of Rio Rancho and New Mexico Environment Department has issued a voluntary boil alert for Rio Rancho residents living west of 10th Street and Northern Blvd after a pump failed in the area. According to the city, "[t]his request does not mean that the water is contaminated; however, residents should err on the side of caution and boil their water until further notice." Comment?
Rio Rancho St.Baldricks w/Photo
We are just under a week away from seeing firefighters, police officers, EMTs, and others shave their heads in solidarity with brave kids who are undergoing treatment for various cancers. Comment?
PARCC testing sparks massive high school walkouts w/Photo
A massive walkout is taking place at high schools throughout New Mexico on Monday in protest of the state's new standardized test called PARCC. As promised, high school students in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho skipped class and got loud to protest the tests that started Monday. Comment?
Students walkout on first day of PARCC test w/Photo
... of the test on the last day. For Albuquerque Public Schools, 894 students have opted out of the test so far. In Rio Rancho, 30 students have opted out, while 197 were on the list in Las Cruces. High school students have been warned about the ... Comment?
Albuquerque Philharmonic Orch.'s event was featured
... ummel Trumpet Concerto with soloist Brynn Marchiando. V. Sue Cleveland High School Concert Hall, 4800 Laban Rd in Rio Rancho. Free, donations appreciated. (505) 433-7445 or www.NMAPO.org Comment?
Family files lawsuit after police say man beaten to death w/Photo
Rio Rancho police say an elderly man was beaten to death. At an assisted living home. Comment?
Day before PARCC testing begins, APS again warns of consequences for walkouts w/Photo
... that bridge when we get to it." So far, parents have opted 894 students out of the tests in Albuquerque, 30 in Rio Rancho and 197 in Las Cruces. "When you opt out, it eliminates all of our alternatives to graduate," Perez said. "Say if we did bad ... Comment?
Storm of the decade moves out the metro w/Photo
... Saturday, cars were sliding off the slick roads. Police put up barricades on NM528 heading up the big hill into Rio Rancho, but people moved them out of the way and drove right through. In that same area, several cars slid into each other creating ... Comment?
... ON THE WESTSIDE. POLICE HAD TO SHUT DOWN HIGHWAY 528 NEAR WESTSIDE. THAT'S THE BORDER BETWEEN ALBUQUERQUE AND RIO RANCHO. AND THAT'S WHERE ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER KIRSTEN SWANSON FOUND CARS ABANDONED, RIGHT ON THE ROAD. ASK ANYONE OUT AND ABOUT THIS ... Comment?
Largest snow event in 7 yrs: expect closures w/Photo
According to the National Weather Service, Albuquerque is seeing the biggest snowfall event since December 2006 and more snow is expected over western Bernalillo Co. through the morning, impacting parts of the westside, Rio Rancho and northern portions of the metro area. Comment?
Massive storm 9th snowiest in Albuquerque history w/Photo
... accident calls. As a result, they will not be responding to any unless injuries are involved. Albuquerque and Rio Rancho closed public schools Friday due to highways and roads around the state covered with ice and snow. The Weather Service says the ... Comment?
Seriously? Some common sense, folks.
Please advise your viewers/listeners that the City of ABQ and the City of Rio Rancho have deployed barricades on SB NM528 from Westside Blvd. into Abq. Several subjects have moved the barricades and then became stuck on the hill, requiring rescue. Comment?
Ice, snow cover some New Mexico roads after storms
... schools due to a winter storm that left many highways and roads around the state covered with ice and snow. Rio Rancho schools also were closed. After another storm system moved in, the state Department of Transportation reported early Saturday that ... Comment?
High school baseball: Ace Pticher expected to lead Rams in District w/Photo
On the second day of the Socorro Independent School District baseball tournament, Duran was the winning pitcher on Friday in an 11-3 win against Rio Rancho, N.M., at Montwood High School. "I was freezing so I didn't feel that good, but I came out and started warming up and got my rhythm," said Duran, who was first-team All-District in the old District 1-5A last season. Comment?
PARCC testing begins Monday w/Photo
... TEST. TONIGHT THEY SAY THEY'RE READY FOR MONDAY. A SNOW DAY PUT A DAMPER ON PARCC PROTESTS IN ALBUQUERQUE AND RIO RANCHO... BUT THEY CONTINUED IN OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE. No PARCC! No PARCC! THAT'S CELL PHONE VIDEO OF A PROTEST AT HOT SPRINGS HIGH ... Comment?
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The humpbackturtle, QUE CHIMBA!!!The people who work there are very freindly, the food is excellent. It atracts relaxed openminded people, so great atmosphere! The surroundings are heavenly, you are in paradise. The beach, the locals in, the jungle, the sea the whales, beautifulI! Choco I will be back!
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Recent Content:
Success in OS X
10 easy steps (and lots of unnecessary prose) on how to set up a new PowerBook in 48 hours or more.
Five years ago I wrote about my travails solving some networking issues on my Linux laptop. I equated the experience to a classic XKCD comic in which a simple software fix escalates to a life-and-death situation. The same thing happened to me again, this time on Mac OS X. Read on to find out.
For as long as I've understood object-oriented programming, I've had an ambivalent relationship with C++. On the one hand, it promised the low-level control and performance of C, but, on the other, it also had many pitfalls that did not exist in other high-level managed languages like Java. For example, I would often find myself in a position where I wouldn't be quite sure exactly what the compiler would be doing under-the-hood, particularly when passing around objects by value. Would the compiler be "smart" enough to know that it can rip out the guts of an object instead of making an expensive copy? Granted, much of my uncomfortableness could have been remedied by a better understanding of the language specification. But why should I have to read an ~800 page specification just to understand what the compiler is allowed to do? The template engine and the STL is incredibly powerful, but it can make code just as verbose as Java, one of Java's primary criticisms. Therefore, I found myself gravitating toward more "purely" object-oriented languages, like Java, when a project fit with that type of abstraction, and falling back to C when I needed absolute control and speed.
A couple years ago, around the time when compilers started having
full support for C++11, I started a project that was tightly coupled
to the LLVM codebase,
which was written in C++. Therefore, I slowly started to learn about
C++11's features. I now completely agree with Stroustrup: It's best to think of C++11 like a completely new
language. Features like move
semantics give the programmer complete control over when the
compiler is able to move the guts of objects. The new auto
type deduction keyword gets rid of a
significant amount of verbosity, and makes work with complex templates
much easier. Coupled with the new decltype
keyword, refactoring object member
variable types becomes a breeze. STL threads now make porting concurrent code much
easier. That's not to mention syntactic sugar like ranged for statements, constructor inheritance,
and casting keywords. And C++ finally has lambdas! C++11 seems to be a bigger leap forward
from C++03 than even Java 1.5 (with its addition of generics) was
to its predecessor.
As an example, I recently needed an unordered hash map where the keys were all pointers. For example,
std::unordered_map<char*,bool> foo;I wanted the keyes to be hashed based upon the memory addresses of the character pointers, not the actual strings. This is similar to Java's concept of an
. Unfortunately, the
STL does not have a built-in hash function for pointers. So I created one thusly:
/* for SIZE_MAX and UINTPTR_MAX: */ #include <cstdint> namespace hashutils { /* hash any pointer */ template<typename T> struct PointerHash { inline size_t operator()(const T* pointer) const { auto addr = reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(pointer); #if SIZE_MAX < UINTPTR_MAX /* size_t is not large enough to hold the pointer's memory address */ addr %= SIZE_MAX; /* truncate the address so it is small enough to fit in a size_t */ #endif return addr; } }; }Note that I am using
here to reduce verbosity, since it is evident that addr
is a uintptr_t
from the righthand side of the assignment.
The hashutils::PointerHash
object allows me to do this:
std::unordered_map<char*,bool,hashutils::PointerHash<char>> foo;The neat part is that C++11 has a new
keyword that essentially lets me generically alias that definition:
template<typename K,typename V> using unordered_pointer_map = std::unordered_map<K,V,hashutils::PointerHash<typename std::remove_pointer<K>::type>>; unordered_pointer_map<char*,bool> foo;Note the use of
, a great new
STL template that gets the base type of a pointer.
In another instance, I wanted to have a hash map where the keys were pointers, but the hash was based off of the dereferenced version of the keys. This can be useful, e.g., if you need to hash a bunch of objects that are stored on the heap, or whose memory is managed outside of the current scope. This, too, was easy to implement:
namespace hashutils { template<typename T> inline size_t hash(const T& v) { return std::hash<T>()(v); } /* hash based off of a pointer dereference */ template<typename T> struct PointerDereferenceHash { inline size_t operator()(const T& pointer) const { return hash(*pointer); } }; /* equality based off of pointer dereference */ template<typename T> struct PointerDereferenceEqualTo { inline bool operator()(const T& lhs, const T& rhs) const { return *lhs == *rhs; } }; template<typename K,typename V> using unordered_pointer_dereference_map = std::unordered_map<K,V,PointerDereferenceHash<K>,PointerDereferenceEqualTo<K>>; }Note that, through the magic of the C++ template engine, this code supports keys that are pure pointers as well as C++11's new smart pointers.
As another example of the afforementioned auto
and ranged for statements, this is how easy it is in C++11 to hash an
entire collection (e.g., a std::vector
namespace hashutils { class HashCombiner { private: size_t h; public: HashCombiner() : h(0) {} template <class T> inline HashCombiner& operator<<(const T& obj) { /* adapted from boost::hash_combine */ h ^= hash(obj) + 0x9e3779b9 + (h << 6) + (h >> 2); return *this; } operator size_t() const { return h; } }; /* hash any container */ template<typename T> struct ContainerHash { size_t operator()(const T& v) const { HashCombiner h; for(const auto& e : v) { h << e; } return h; } }; }Then, to make all sets hashable (and thereby valid to be used as keys in a map), simply add this:
namespace std { template<typename... T> struct hash<set<T...>> : hashutils::ContainerHash<set<T...>> {}; }
I realize that this post is a collection of rather mundane code snippets that are nowhere near a comprehensive representation of the new language features. Nevertheless, I hope that they will give you as much hope and excitement as they have given me, and perhaps inspire you to (re)visit this "new" language called C++11.
Seven months ago I asked the following question on StackExchange:
Sometimes, when I have many applications open doing many memory and IO-intensive things, my computer inevitably starts to thrash a bit. While waiting for things to settle down, I often decide to close some applications that don't really need to be open. The trouble is that many of the applications (especially ones that have background/idle processes) tend to be intermittently unresponsive until the thrashing subsides, so it either takes a very long time for them to get focus to send ⌘+q, or when I go to close them by clicking on their icon in the dock I am only presented with the option to force quit. I know that those applications aren't permanently unresponsive, so I'd prefer to send them a gentle TERM signal and have them quit gracefully when they are able. I usually end up killing them by using
from the terminal, however, that's not always feasible, especially if the terminal is also hosed.What is the easiest way to gently send the signal to kill a process if/when that process is intermittently unresponsive? (In a situation in which access to the terminal and/or starting a new application is not convenient.)
The question didn't get much fanfare on StackExchange, and the only
answer so far has been to use AppleScript to essentially
programmatically send the ⌘+q signal to the
application. I'll bet it's basically equivalent to using
from the terminal to send a SIGTERM to the
process, but it might work in the event that my terminal emulator app
is also unresponsive. Anyhow, it was the best solution I had, so I
matured the idea by making a friendly standalone AppleScript that
enumerates all of the currently running processes and prompts the
users for which to gently kill. Here it is:
local procnames tell application "System Events" set procnames to (get the name of every process whose background only is false and name is not "GentleKill") end tell (choose from list procnames with prompt "Which applications would you like to gently kill?" with multiple selections allowed) if result is not false then set tokill to result set text item delimiters to {", "} display dialog "Are you sure you want to gently kill " & tokill & "?" repeat with prog in tokill tell application prog to quit end repeat end if
Steamed fish that is finished with a drizzle of hot oil is a classic Cantonese dish. The way I like to make it includes a few Japanese ingredients, and my method is a bit unorthodox.
- 12 inch frying pan with lid
- A small raised rack that will fit inside the pan that can provide a centimeter or so of clearance above the bottom of the pan; the removable rack that came with my toaster oven works perfectly
- A very small bowl
- A small saucepan (it can be tiny)
- A platter for serving that is large enough for the fish and deep enough to hold some sauce
- 2 tbsp. soy sauce
- 1 tbsp. mirin
- 1 tbsp. shaoxing cooking wine, or you can substitute an additional tbsp. of mirin
- 1 tbsp. sake
- 1/4 cup of either water, katsuo dashi stock, or water plus half of an instant dashi stock packet
- 1 fillet of a large flaky fish. Approximately 1 pound. I often use rockfish or wild striped bass. If you cannot find a large fillet, a smaller whole fish can be used.
- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped cilantro
- 2 in. knob of ginger, peeled and julienned
- 2 scallions, both whites and greens, julienned (or thinly sliced at an oblique angle, similar to the thicker Chinese "horse ear" cut)
- hot chili pepper, sliced thin at an oblique angle (optional)
- 1/8 tsp. five spice powder
- 1/4 tsp. toasted sesame oil
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
- Mix the soy sauce, mirin, shaoxing wine, sake, and water/dashi in the frying pan
- Place the fish into the pan and marinade for 15 minutes, flipping once half way
- Meanwhile, combine the ginger, cilantro, scallion, optional chili pepper, five spice and toasted sesame oil in a small bowl and mix
- Remove the fish from the marinade, place the rack into the pan, and the fish onto the rack
- Bring to a boil
- Once boiling, cover the pan tightly, reduce the heat to simmer, and steam for 8 minutes
- Meanwhile, start heating the vegetable oil in the small saucepan
- When the fish is done steaming, remove it and the rack from the pan, placing the fish on the platter
- Increase heat to high and let the sauce reduce to the consistency of Grade A (runny) maple syrup
- Pour the sauce over the fish and put the herb mixture on top of the fish
- When the vegetable oil is very hot, spoon it over top of the herbs
Lenticrypt: a Provably Plausibly Deniable Cryptosystem
or, This Picture of Cats is Also a Picture of Dogs
Back in 2009, I wrote about a thought experiment on how to subvert copyright law via plausible deniability. A couple years ago I expanded on that thought experiment by proposing a seedling idea on how to accomplish it via cryptography. Since then, I've slowly been developing that seedling into a functioning proof-of-concept, which has culminated in the creation of the Lenticrypt project:
Lenticrypt can generate a single ciphertext file such that different plaintexts are generated depending on which key is used for decryption:
$ python lenticrypt.py -e key1 plaintext1 -e key2 plaintext2 -o output.enc $ python lenticrypt.py -d key1 output.enc | diff - plaintext1 -s Files - and plaintext1 are identical $ python lenticrypt.py -d key2 output.enc | diff - plaintext2 -s Files - and plaintext2 are identical
Unlike alternative plausibly deniable cryptosystems like the recently discontinued TrueCrypt—whose ciphertext size grows in proportion to the number of plaintexts (i.e., hidden volumes) it encrypts—Lenticrypt's ciphertext size is proportional to the largest plaintext it encrypts. This is because Lenticrypt shares bytes in the cyphertext between each of the plaintexts it encrypts; they are not stored in separate regions of the ciphertext. Therefore, there is no straightforward way to estimate the number of plaintexts that are "hidden" inside a single ciphertext.
In fact, Lenticrypt has the theoretical property that, under reasonable assumptions, there is always a near 100% probability that there exists an key in the public domain that will decrypt a given ciphertext to any desired plaintext, even if that key is not known. Therefore, even if an incriminating plaintext is revealed, the author of the ciphertext can plausibly deny having created it because there is a non-zero probability that the plaintext was legitimately decrypted by random chance.
More technical details on the cryptosystem as well as additional use-cases are described in Issue 0x04 of The International Journal of PoC||GTFO.
Note that Issue 0x04 of PoC||GTFO is a polyglot: Among other things, you can also treat the .pdf file as if it were a .zip. If you extract it, there are some neat Leticrypt-related Easter eggs inside the feelies.
Random Solutions are Often Good Enough
Sometimes taking the easy way out isn't nearly as bad as it might seem!
Hard Problems
Computer Scientists and Software Engineers deal with computationally hard problems all the time. But those challenges don't solely apply to those people creating the software; they are equally relevant to those people analyzing it. For cybersecurity researchers, finding a hash collision… determining the user inputs that can assign a certain value to a tainted EIP… deciding whether a black-box binary is malicious… they're all really hard! As our work becomes more and more automated with the help of program analysis techniques, these computationally hard problems become more and more prevalent. But what makes one problem harder than another? In the remainder of this post I'll answer that question, and introduce some surprising new results of my research that demonstrate how good solutions to inherently very hard problems can be quickly generated. Read on for more.
First of all, thanks for all of your positive feedback on our recent post on physical security. One of the comments we've received multiple times is that these types of locks and the practice of using mnemonics for their codes is primarily limited to government facilities. It turns out that's not really a limitation. Like a muted post horn, now that these locks have piqued our curiosity we're starting to see them everywhere we look. Check out this find we made today:
Don't bother checking, we scrubbed the Exif. Bank of America: Feel free to contact us directly if you'd like to know the location ;-)
Another thing we neglected to emphasize in the original post was that our time estimates are upper bounds based off of the assumption that the lock will have a four minute timeout for successive failed attempts. For locks that do not have such a timeout (e.g., basically all mechanical locks, and presumably the one on this ATM), you can divide the brute-force cracking time by at least a factor of four.
Exploiting Password Weaknesses in Physical Security
In which I channel the spirit of my eighth academic cousin thrice removed, Richard Feynman.
Digital spin locks like the Kaba Mas X-09 and X-10 are very common for high security applications like vault doors. US General Services Administration approval means that they are nearly ubiquitous in securing government filing cabinets that contain documents that are classified secret, as well as securing the doors to laboratories in which secret code is written and stored. Strolling through the hallways of any Department of Defense facility or government contractor's office, one is likely to see many of these on the doors:
Kaba Mas X-09 |
These types of locks are very sophisticated: they are self-powered by rotating the dial and they have a digital printout on the top of the code as it is being entered. Security features to thwart automated brute force attack include random jumps in the numbers as the dial is being turned, algorithms for detecting "non-human" rotations of the dial, and long timeouts for successive failed attempts. These types of locks are usually configured to accept a six-digit code that is input as a sequence of three numbers from 0 to 99. That means there are $math$10^6 = 100^3 = 1,000,000$math$ possible combinations. With a four minute timeout, brute forcing all of the combinations would take almost eight years!
Humans are generally bad at remembering long sequences of numbers, and in most facilities the combinations to these locks are changed frequently. A single employee might have to memorize dozens of different combinations (one for each safe, door, etc.). Therefore, as a mnemonic, the security officers who set the codes often use six-letter words which are translated into codes using the mapping from a phone keypad. In fact, one will almost always see a magnet or sticker like this right next to the lock:
For example, the word "HACKER" would equate to the code 42-25-37.
1 | 2 abc | 3 def |
4 ghi | 5 jkl | 6 mno |
7 pqrs | 8 tuv | 9 wxyz |
0 |
And therein lies a vulnerability. First of all, using a phone dial pad for the mapping from letters to numbers means that the numbers zero and one will never be used! This means the number of potential codes to test has been decreased from one million to $math$8^6 = 262,144$math$. That's a decrease of almost 75%! But we can do even better.
Next, let's assume that the code word is a six-letter English word that occurs in the dictionary. Looking at /usr/share/dict/words, there are only 17,706 six-letter English words that have direct mappings using a phone keypad. That's much lower than the 262,144 possible codes without zero and one, which means that we have reduced the number of possible codes to brute force by over 98% from the original! For example, the code 55-57-59 doesn't appear to correspond to any words in the dictionary. That's likely because almost all words need at least one vowel, and the phone keys 5, 7, and 9 don't provide any vowels. Furthermore, many of those 17,706 words actually map to the same code. For example, the words "DOSAGE", "ENRAGE", "FORAGE", and "FORBID" all map to the code 36-72-43. If we just count the number of distinct codes generated by those six-letter English words, we get only 14,684, a reduction of almost 99%! With a four minute failure timeout, brute forcing those 14,684 codes would only take about forty days.
But wait, there's more!
Not all letters occur in English words with the same frequency; you're much more likely to find the letter 'e' in a randomly chosen word than the letter 'x'. For example, almost 10% of the six-letter English words in the dictionary end in the code "37", just like in our example word "HACKER". Therefore, if we cleverly order our brute force approach to try codes that occur most frequently in English words, then we can increase our chances of cracking the code quicker.
I sorted all of the 14,684 distinct codes in decreasing order according to the number of words that map to that code. If a code word is chosen uniformly from the set of all six-letter English words, then this ordering will maximize our chances of cracking the code quickest. In fact, after fewer than 250 attempts, we will have cracked the code with about 5% probability. In other words, with only about half a day of access to the lock, a brute force attempt using this ordering will have a 5% chance of success. In contrast, if the lock's code were instead set using a randomly generated six-digit number, it would require on average 50,000 attempts (~5 months) to crack it with 5% probability. On the other hand, if the code was set from a six-letter English word using a phone keypad mapping, the lock can be cracked with 50% probability after about 16 days.
Codes are not usually changed on a month-to-month frequency, so an adversary with intermittent access to the lock (e.g., after hours) could quite conceivably crack it before the code were changed.
If there exists an additional vulnerability that allows the attacker to detect whether each successive two-digit subcode is correct before entering the next two-digit subcode, then the expected value for the length of time required to crack the code is on the order of minutes.
So what can we do about it? The most obvious solution is to simply choose codes randomly from the set of all possible one million 6-digit numbers. If we really do want to have a mnemonic, though, we could do a lot better by using a letter-to-number mapping that makes use of zeros and ones, and also produces a relatively even distribution of codes from English words. Here is one such example of a mapping:
1 a | 2 e | 3 br |
4 co | 5 dnq | 6 ip |
7 lmjz | 8 hkt | 9 su |
0 fgvwxy |
It's not necessarily the best one, though. Finding the optimal mapping—the one that ensures a uniform distribution across all six-digit code for six-letter English dictionary words—is actually an instance of the multiple knapsack problem (a variant known as the multiple subset sum problem) and is therefore NP-Complete, and likely intractable for problems even as "small" as this one. Let $math$L = \{a, b, \ldots, z\}$math$ be the set of letters in the alphabet and let $math$f : L \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$math$ be a function mapping letters to their frequency among six-letter words in the dictionary. Then we can relax the problem to the minimization of the mean squared error over the summed frequencies of the letters mapped to each number: Find a function $math$t : L \rightarrow \{0, \ldots, 9\}$math$ that maps letters to numbers such that $equation$\frac{1}{10}\sum_{i=0}^9 \left(\sum_{\ell \in t^{-1}(i)} \left(f(\ell) - \frac{\sum_{\ell \in L} f(\ell)}{10}\right)\right)^2$equation$ is minimized. The total number of legal mappings, $math$t$math$, is $math$10^{26} = 100$math$ million billion billion. With that said, the example mapping above will be at least a million billion billion times more secure than using a phone keypad mapping!
The moral of the story here isn't that these locks are inherently vulnerable; if used properly, they are in fact incredibly secure. The takeaway is that these locks are only as secure as the codes humans choose to assign to them. Using a phone keypad mapping on six-letter English dictionary words is the physical security equivalent of a website arbitrarily limiting passwords to eight characters.
A couple days ago, Dominic Spill and Michael Ossman presented an interesting talk at Shmoocon on using specially crafted error correcting codes to have unambiguous encapsulation, preventing attacks like "Packet in Packet." This appears to be the culmination of some work that was first proposed to the LANGSEC mailing list back in March. The underlying problem that they are trying to address is that the physical layer is almost always error-prone: bits often get flipped. The data link layer addresses this by using error-correcting codes: methods of encoding the bits to be transmitted such that certain types of errors can be caught and corrected, at the expense of some additional bandwidth overhead.
Packet in Packet Attacks
If a sufficient number of bit-errors occur, however, error correcting codes can still fail to correct or even detect an error. Protocols usually address this by adding a checksum in the packet header/preamble. To illustrate this, let's consider a made-up link layer protocol in which there is a header that starts with the magic number 0x1337 followed by a checksum and the message body. If a detectable but uncorrectable error occurs, then the packet can be dropped. If an undetected bit-error occurs in the body, then the checksum will fail and the packet will be dropped. If an undetected error occurs in the header, then either the magic will be broken and it will fail to be detected as a frame or the checksum will fail, in both cases causing the packet to be dropped. The one exception to this latter case is the basis for Packet in Packet attacks: If we were to start the message body with 0x1337 followed by a checksum and our desired body, then the link layer protocol will skip over the corrupted header and think that the actual frame starts at the beginning of our hand-crafted body! In effect, we have embedded a complete packet inside the body of another. It turns out that if we transmit this carefully crafted packet-in-a-packet a bunch of times, then eventually (in what turns out to be a reasonable amount of time) a bit-error will occur causing our payload to be interpreted as the real link layer frame. Attacks like this have been demonstrated on real data link layer protocols like IEEE 802.15.4.
Isolated Complementary Binary Linear Block Codes
Spill and Ossman propose using a special error correcting code that has a property they call "isolation:" the code can be split into multiple subcodes that have additional error-correcting properties between them. One of the subcodes could be used strictly for bits of the header/preamble, while another subcode could be used strictly for the body. This provides additional error correcting capability specifically for cases like that which the attack above exploits, without increasing the bandwidth overhead of the code. They call this family of codes "Isolated Complementary Binary Linear Block Codes" (ICBLBC).
As an example, consider the following eight code words:
00000 | 00011 | 00101 | 01001 |
01110 | 10110 | 11010 | 11100 |
Note that each code word differs from the others by at least two bits. This means that we can detect single-bit errors. For example, if 01110 is corrupted in the physical layer to 01010, then we can immediately know that an error occurred because that code does not exist in our set of eight. If two or more bit-errors occur, then an error may go undetected, which is the case that Packet in Packet attacks exploit. This is exactly like the types of error correcting codes used in most data link layer protocols. The difference, however, is that this particular set of eight code words has an additional property: it is an isolated complementary binary linear block code. Let's call the first row of codes "Subcode 1" and the second row of codes "Subcode 2." Now, note that every code in Subcode 1 differs from every other code in Subcode 2 by at least three bits. That means that we can not only detect but also correct single-bit errors between the two codes, giving the two subcodes properties of a Hamming Code. If we encode the header/preamble of the packet using one subcode and the body using the other, then we can circumvent Packet in Packet attacks with little to no extra bandwidth overhead!
Generating the Codes
Spill and Ossman have provided some code that can enumerate these codes. Currently, they have reported discovery of 6-bit ICBLBCs with up to twenty-two codes in subcode 1 and two codes in subcode 2, or up to ten codes in each if they are divided evenly. While their implementation does work, it is limited by the fact that it essentially performs a brute-force search to discover them, causing them to investigate a hardware-based approach using FPGAs.
Out of curiosity, I wondered if this problem could be solved more efficiently using constraint reasoning. Therefore, we implemented a generator that encodes the ICBLBC constraints as a Satisfiability Modulo Theories problem and used DOCO (Digital Operatives' proprietary constraint optimizer) to enumerate all feasible solution codes. Sure enough, our solver was able to almost instantaneously reproduce Spill and Ossman's results, as well as enumerate codes of larger bit length that would likely be intractable to discover using brute force search. For example, in less than a second it was able to discover this 7-bit ICBLBC consisting of fifty codes in subcode 1 and two codes in subcode 2:
Subcode 1 | Subcode 2 |
37, 118, 44, 21, 35, 28, 107, 61, 41, 25, 94, 13, 56, 84, 124, 31, 110, 117, 50, 76, 62, 49, 47, 81, 7, 19, 109, 87, 103, 22, 93, 82, 70, 26, 127, 115, 55, 52, 59, 73, 11, 91, 88, 67, 69, 42, 121, 14, 38, 122 | 0, 96 |
as well as this one with nineteen codes in each subcode:
Subcode 1 | Subcode 2 |
23, 89, 17, 27, 9, 65, 51, 5, 83, 85, 0, 18, 80, 54, 36, 33, 113, 3, 116 | 76, 122, 61, 127, 103, 14, 107, 104, 79, 56, 109, 98, 28, 70, 94, 47, 110, 74, 42 |
This 8-bit ICBLBC was discovered in a matter of seconds and consists of eighty codes in one subcode:
Subcode 1 | Subcode 2 |
1, 4, 7, 8, 13, 16, 19, 25, 30, 32, 35, 37, 41, 42, 44, 47, 49, 54, 56, 59, 61, 69, 76, 81, 84, 87, 88, 97, 100, 104, 109, 110, 112, 121, 122, 124, 127, 128, 131, 133, 137, 142, 145, 146, 148, 152, 155, 161, 162, 164, 168, 171, 173, 176, 179, 181, 185, 190, 193, 196, 199, 200, 205, 208, 211, 217, 218, 220, 223, 224, 227, 229, 233, 234, 236, 239, 241, 246, 248, 253 | 66, 75 |
I have reimplemented this approach using Microsoft's "free" (as in beer) Z3 constraint solver and pushed it to a fork of Spill and Ossman's project, available here. As always, feedback on this new approach is greatly appreciated.
With the recent and ongoing disclosures of what appear to be widespread Internet surveillance programs, the public is becoming increasingly aware of the privacy risks in sending plaintext E-mail. Even connecting to one's E-mail service provider using a cryptographically secure protocol like HTTPS provides a false sense of security, because one cannot ensure the trust or privacy of any intermediary servers/connections used to route the message to its recipient. As such, there are many excellent tutorials—and even entire web campaigns—that empower average users to protect their online communications via free tools like OpenPGP.
I have been personally encrypting my E-mail for well over a decade, and, since day one, Digital Operatives has employed strong cryptography to protect all of its internal E-mail communications. This works extremely well, and, for all intents and purposes, is currently very secure. There are some downsides, however. The number one complaint about using public key cryptography to secure all E-mail communications is that there really isn't a good way to search through the bodies of the E-mails in your inbox (since the message bodies are encrypted, a simple search for a term like "cat" or "meeting" won't match any of the E-mails it otherwise should have). In fact, the second bug ever reported for the popular EnigMail GPG plugin for the Thunderbird mail client was a feature request asking for the ability to search through encrypted E-mail bodies. That bug was opened in 2003 … and it is still open today.
The trouble is that the decryption step is too computationally expensive to decrypt all of the message bodies on the fly during the search. The alternative would be to temporarily decrypt the message bodies of new E-mails as they arrive and add them to a search index. The trouble is that this invites a security vulnerability, since sensitive message data would therefore be included in the search index.
Given that over 90% of the E-mail in my inbox is encrypted, I decided to scratch my own itch and develop a solution to this problem. I took the second approach mentioned above: I incrementally build a search index to search across the encrypted message bodies. To mitigate the aforementioned security risk with this approach, I encrypt the entire search index using the same private key used to decrypt one's E-mails. Therefore, the only risk would be if an adversary got access to one's private key, but that of course would have even worse security implications since he or she could then read all of the original E-mails anyway.
My proof-of-concept solution is a tool called Magiic. Magiic Allows for GPG Indexing of IMAP on the Command-line. It is a Python script that uses GnuPG for encryption/decryption and Whoosh for full-text indexing. It acts as a standalone mail application, connecting directly to an IMAP server and creating a local index off of the contents. It has a simple ncurses interface so all interaction can take place on the command line. Digital Operatives is releasing the code using a version of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license that has been modified slightly to be more applicable for software licensing. It is free for non-commercial use. The code is available here.


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Actually I believe the 802.11n standard requires 2 antennas so I think this might just be a biproduct of that and not something special to the iPad, just that most devices of this size/type aren't using 802.11n yet.
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GE Aviation is one step closer to bringing the 242 jobs we first reported in June, thanks to nearly $5 million in newly pledged state dollars.
The jet engine and aircraft system production company had announced its intent to expand its manufacturing at four North Carolina facilities, but had been awaiting confirmation of state incentives before officially committing to the plan. Word of those incentives came via press release Tuesday.
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Posted by Jason Wheeler | Subscribe HomePath Mortgage allows a borrower to purchase a Fannie Mae-owned property with a low down payment, flexible mortgage terms, no lender-requested appraisal and no mortgage insurance. Expanded seller contributions to closing costs are allowed. Currently Fannie Mae is offering up to 3.5% of the purchase price as credits towards borrowers closing costs on a … [Read More...]
4 Simple Steps to a Perfect Business Elevator Pitch: Examples, Outline, Format & Startup
June 25, 2010 By Jason Wheeler - Bay Area Mortgage Lender 14 Comments
If you are in a referral business it is important you have a perfect business elevator pitch down and ready for anytime you might need to use it. When you are an entrepreneur or a Real Estate Investor it can be very difficult to ask that age old question "What do you do?" One of my favorite blogs and a good mentor to anyone that builds their business by referral has some pretty good advice … [Read More...]
Friend or Follow Me – Jason Wheeler's Social Networks
August 1, 2013 By Jason Wheeler - Bay Area Mortgage Lender 4 Comments
Thanks for coming here to my personal blog and checking me out. I set this page up so you can "Friend or Follow" me on all of my social networks that I'm active on these days. All large companies and brands use social media to stay in touch with their main base of clients, customers and prospects. I like to use it as well in order to make connections and communicate with just about anyone … [Read More...]
Deducting CA Home Mortgage Loan Interest Rates – Saving on your California Taxes
February 20, 2012 By Jason Wheeler - Bay Area Mortgage Lender Leave a Comment
Guest post by Kevin Craig Is this how you feel when you think about tackling your taxes? Deducting home mortgage loan interest rates – Saving on your taxes Getting tax breaks on your home mortgage loan is one of the biggest benefits of home ownership but you need to know how it is possible to deduct the interest rates from your income so as to qualify for the tax breaks. Just as you need to … [Read More...]
The Truth on Making Quick Cash and Paying Off Debts
June 29, 2011 By Jason Wheeler - Bay Area Mortgage Lender 1 Comment
Posted by Jason Wheeler | Fully Follow Me | Subscribe Photo From quaziefoto Guest Post by Stewart Smith The Four Super Smart Ways to Make Quick Cash and Pay off Your Debts Consumer's debts are spiraling out of control in the post recession age and many people have been forced into huge debts all around the world. Several options are there which can save debt-laden people from … [Read More...]
February 27, 2014 By Jason Wheeler - Bay Area Mortgage Lender Leave a Comment
Are you wondering... "Can I get a home loan right after a short sale in the SF Bay Area?" The answer is YES you CAN get a loan recently after a short sale or a foreclosure with the 2nd chance home loan. Not every lender offers this and not every borrower will qualify. See the criteria below and see if you should apply. If your financial history is in the process of healing some wounds like … [Read More...]
VIDEO TRAINING: How Negotiate Your Mortgage and Student Loan Debt – Debt Reductions and Forgivness
October 4, 2013 By Jason Wheeler - Bay Area Mortgage Lender Leave a Comment
Do you want to know how you can negotiate your student loan debts to less than 39% of what you owe? Have you ever wondered if it is possible to avoid foreclosure, keep your home and have a ton of mortgage debt forgiven? Do you feel like you are under a mountain of debt after going to school? When you applied for your student loans did you not realize it is the hardest type of debt to … [Read More...]
Tips For Financing College Without Getting a Student Loan In the California San Fransisco Bay Area
March 3, 2012 By Jason Wheeler - Bay Area Mortgage Lender Leave a Comment
Guest Post by Ronald Palmer Who Would Pay Sticker Price for College? Would you go buy a car from a dealership and pay the sticker price??? Of course not, that would be absurd! Most people know that the sticker price is the starting point in the negotiation process at the car dealer. Now that we have established this concept to car buying, let's compare the experience to going to a college or … [Read More...]


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Conor Orr of NFL.com, citing multiple league sources familiar with the situation, reports that the Chiefs are likely to approach DL Mike DeVito about accepting a pay cut to be back with the team next year.
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The Kansas City Chiefs were dealt a hard blow in week 1, when both Mike DeVito and Derrick Johnson tore their Achilles tendons in a loss to the Tennessee Titans last Sunday. That being said, it shouldn't be much surprise that on Tuesday the Chiefs announced a handful of roster moves. #455049516 / gettyimages.comAs reported by Darin Gantt of Profootballtalk.com, Kansas City...
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Unfortunately, being on the wrong end of a 26-10 embarrassment on opening day wasn't the only loss the Kansas City Chiefs sustained on Sunday, as Andy Reid announced that both Derrick Johnson and Mike Devito had suffered a ruptured achilles, ending both of their seasons practically before they began.
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Kansa City Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson and defensive end Mike DeVito have both ruptured their Achilles tendon, coach Andy Reid announced following Sunday's 26-10 loss to the Tennessee Titans. Johnson fell to the ground in the middle of the field without anybody touching him. He had to be carted off the field. James Michael Johnson replaced Johnson in the lineup. DeVito...
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Atlanta Falcons sign DE Tyson Jackson
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Editor's Note: Welcome to "Funny Money," a feature written by New York-based comedian Jeff Kreisler. Lest there be any confusion, please note that this column is a work of satire and intended for entertainment purposes only. Enjoy the weekend.
So I'll be leaving TheStreet.com at the end of this month. My final column will run Feb. 3 -- a.k.a. Super Bowl Sunday, a.k.a. Pats' redemption. I'm off to work on many other projects, from my comedy tour to a book to business humor elsewhere. You can keep in touch and keep track of me at www.JeffKreisler.com/blog.
Since these are my last few columns for TheStreet.com, I'll try to slip in more of my own opinions than usual. If the editor doesn't like it, what's he gonna do, fire me?
With the economy teetering, some stimulus packages include more tax cuts. You know, trickle down economics, which is when the rich go to the bathroom on the poor.
The presidential candidates proposed economic plans of their own. Despite nuanced differences, they all boiled down to one basic idea: Elect me, and I'll spend billions on a really bitchin' inaugural party. Saudi Arabia and China have all our stuff now, don't they? Good. Relieves us of the burden of decision-making. Now we can just work and work and work and YouTube and MasterCard and work and work and work and never worry about how to spend the money we don't have. Hooray! The Zagat family is selling its guide business. I went to high school with Ted Zagat. Hey Ted, remember when me and Fraze hazed you, faked those phone calls from your mom, threatened to make you go boom? Ummm, just kidding. Didn't know you had money. Love me? In Wesley Snipes' tax evasion trial, the actor said he's not required to pay taxes. Besides, he's been to the future and he knows Bush's tax cuts eventually do become permanent and complete. Which is why he became a half-human, half-vampire vigilante in the first place. Apple's Steve Jobs introduced a new laptop and iTunes services at Jonestown, er, I mean MacWorld Expo. Then, after everyone drank iKoolAid, he disappeared in a cloud of sulfur. General Motors invested in a company that will produce ethanol from "standard municipal waste," or what you and I call "local politicians."This Will Require a Good Antacid
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February Wrap-Up!
Okay guys, where is this year going? It seems like only yesterday I was sitting here saying I couldn't believe it was the end of January and here we are – another month down the line! I hope all your Februaries have been wonderful and had a lovely Valentines Day (if you celebrate it) and of course pancake day! Here's what's been going on in my booky world this month. Continue reading
The TMI Travel Tag!
I pinched this off of Katy's blog, The Lilac Scrapbook (which is awesome by the way, go check it out!) and although I wasn't tagged I loved the idea of a travel survey to talk about where you've been, where you'd like to go and share some photos! I won't tag anyone at the end as I wasn't tagged myself but if you'd like to do it then go ahead! (Be sure to credit it to Wanderness as she made the tag up!) Continue reading
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My Favourite Things About Blogging!
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Movie Review: Boyhood (2014)
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A bold prediction from James Pethokoukis of U.S. News & World Report (a double major in Soviet politics and American history and 2002 Jeopardy! champion, according to his bio), in a column titled "Why Obama Looks Like a One Termer":
That's right, the "O" in "Obama" may stand for "One Term." For starters, there's a strong chance that when voters head to the polls on Nov. 2, 2010, they likely will still think the economy is awful. Not much debate about that. (Good chance the Democrats' two-election winning streak comes to an end.) And while voters may be somewhat patient for two years, patient for four years? Really unlikely. If history is any guide at all, voters may still be terribly cranky about the economy when they cast their ballots on Nov. 6, 2012 and thus likely choose the 45th president of the United States — be it Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal or some other Republican without "Bush" for a last name. Once again a "change" election for an impatient America. The same bad economy that doomed John McCain in 2008 will have sunk Obama, as well.
That's right–this is empty twaddle from someone who hopes to say, "I told you so" in 2012 and who knows that no one will remember what he wrote now if Obama is re-elected.
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Yanukovich, 63, now accompanied only by his chief aide and a handful of security guards, was known to have been in the pro-Russian Crimea at midnight on Sunday after zig-zagging furtively around eastern Ukraine in a bid to find a safe haven.
But he and his entourage had now driven off to an unknown destination having shut down their communications systems, Ukraine's interim interior minister said, in a move to avoid being tracked.
"An official case for the mass murder of peaceful citizens has been opened," the minister, Arsen Avakov, wrote on Facebook. "Yanukovich and other people responsible for this have been declared wanted."
It was an ignominious political end for Yanukovich who has been publicly deserted by some of his closest erstwhile allies, stripped of his luxury residence outside Kiev and has had to witness the return of his arch-rival Yulia Tymoshenko.
Andriy Klyuev, a minor oligarch who was Yanukovich's head of administration, appeared to be the only person left standing by Yanukovich's side. He was still with his boss, Avakov said.
More than 80 people were shot dead in the capital Kiev last week, most of them anti-government protesters, in a bloody climax to a three-month, largely peaceful, campaign against Yanukovich's policies, known as the 'Euro-Maidan'.
Dumped now by his closest allies and backers after violence that shocked the world, Yanukovich fled Kiev by helicopter on Friday - the day when the 'Euro-maidan' told opposition leaders they rejected a deal they had done with him and demanded he immediately stepped down.
Avakov said he flew to Kharkiv, 500 km (300 miles) to the east where he stayed overnight in a state residence and recorded a defiant video message denouncing Ukraine's new leaders as 'bandits'.
He said he still regarded himself as the country's legitimate president and would try to defend his allies against unjust persecution.
On Saturday he then flew on by helicopter to Donetsk, his political stronghold 300 km (200 miles) to the south-east, where he tried to fly out on a private plane, possibly to Russia or other ex-Soviet republics such as Belarus or Azerbaijan.
After border guards denied take-off, he was driven to Crimea, his entourage taking care not to flag his movements with highway police outriders, Avakov said.
Once on the Crimean peninsula - where part of Russia's Black Sea fleet is anchored and where the Euro-Maidan movement enjoys little sympathy - he shunned state residences, again to avoid detection.
But having learned later in the day that his official duties had been handed over to one of Tymoshenko's closest aides, he aimed to go to Belbek airport - but changed his mind when he learned Avakov and the new head of state security service were waiting for him.
Thereafter, he assembled his staff, giving his state-designated bodyguards the option to leave him if they wished. Some did so, taking with them their state-registered weapons to hand over to Crimean authorities, Avakov said.
He later drove off to an unknown destination with his remaining bodyguards and Klyuev.
Klyuev, 49, a former head of the National Security Council and a former first deputy prime minister, is one of the country's most influential figures, with a highly successful business in electrical equipment which had made him a fortune valued by Forbes at more than $200 million.
He figured prominently in overtures in November to the European Union when Yanukovich was still weighing whether to sign a trade deal with the European Union or plump for financial aid from Russia.
Yanukovich in the end chose the latter course, sparking street protests and bloody clashes with police which ultimately led to his ignominious flight across Ukraine.
Many protesters have blamed Klyuev for initial police violence against a group of 'EuroMaidan' students on Dec. 1 which gave a huge surge to a protest movement then in its infancy.
In the past 24 hours, the whole parliamentary faction of Yanukovich's Party of Regions has made a sudden volte-face denouncing Yanukovich for giving "criminal orders" leading to bloodshed.
And Volodymyr Rybak, former speaker and a one-time ally, publicly derided his former boss for spreading false stories alleging he, Rybak, had been beaten and shot at by protesters.
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Perhaps the only thing that changes more rapidly than technology in today's amped-up digital environment is the terminology used to describe that technology and its impact on consumers--and marketers. One recent example is the advent of the term "omnichannel" marketing, which many struggle to differentiate from another relatively recent term--"multichannel" marketing. Still, those who are most enmeshed in the field say there is a key distinction between the two, and it's one that will have an impact on marketers as they continue to seek ways of having a meaningful impact on the consumers they hope to engage. And, importantly, it's less about technology than it may seem.
Jul 06, 2004
Groxis, Inc., a provider of visual search software, has announced the general availability of Grokker 2.1 for the Apple Macintosh platform. The company's software is used for exploring collections of documents, journals, photos, and Web pages visually. Mac users now have a new Internet research tool that lets them search the Web, including Google, Amazon, and others, more deeply than with a Web browser alone. Built for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar and 10.3 Panther, Grokker is now optimized for Apple's next generation operating system.