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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - May 3, 2000, New Braunfels, Texas VIVNew Bflbysb'ELSHerald-1 Water Restrictions ■ Landscape watering is allowed from midnight to 10 a.m. and from 8 p.m. to midnight one day per week. Residents with a last digit of 4 or 5 can water today. U C f I . JNG ........:.............~......... v -'T'1'-............... ... : ■ . .. : . ■ _ I ..WW.,.., I .... ...un Vol, 149 No. 118 18 pages in 2 sections May 3, 2000 Wednesday Serving Comal County since 1852 50 Appraisals out, values up Residents face tax hike, with or without bond election By Ron Maloney and Heather Todd Staff Writers The newest notices of appraised value began arriving Tuesday in the mailboxes of owners of about half the property in the Comal Appraisal District. Locally — with seven bond proposi tions worth $65 million on Saturday's city ballot— the timing was probably less than favorable to proposition supporters. Everyone who gets a notice this week will be facing the plain unpleasant reality that their taxes will go up this year — no matter how they vote. Mayor Stoney Williams acknowledged that the timing of the property appraisals just days before the bond election could be detrimental to the bond propositions. "It's not the best timing right now in terms of the bond propositions because these things are needed and I think people will rethink them now. But, it's good for people to know their property values and how each proposition is going to affect them," he said. Williams said he thought the reappraisals could make some people reconsider their votes on some bond items. "I am sure it will make some people rethink how they how they vote on things like the activity center or the pool," he said. "If people think we need these things, then I don't think it will affect their decision. But anything they think of as a perk, I believe they will rethink it a lot more." City Manager Mike Shands said he didn't believe the appraisal notices will have a significant impact on how residents vote in the May 6 election. "There have been about 2,000 early voters and I would say it's likely most people have already made up their minds about the bonds and how they are going to vote. It's obviously not going to affect those who have already voted and I don't think it's going to greatly affect those who are waiting to vote," Shands said. The timing of the notices is set by Texas See VALUES/5A How TO DISPUTE AN APPRAISAL Appeal within 30 days — before May 31 — by calling the Comal Appraisal District at 625-8597 to request an appointment with an appraiser or the Appraisal Review Board. Formal requests for an appointment with the ARB can be mailed to the Comal Appraisal District at 178 E. Mill St. 78130.Props. 5 & 6 seen as long overdue By Heather Todd Staff Writer Supporters of a $2.63 million sports complex and a $7.25 million activity center say building better recreational facilities would be a sound investment in the future of New Braunfels. Voters will decide at the polls Saturday whether they want to make that investment — one that could, if both propositions were approved, raise the current 31 -cent per $ I OO valuation tax rate by more than 6 cents. In addition, council could decide to raise the property tax rate to help fund maintenance and operations of the facilities. Prop. 5 would fund a sports complex with athletic fields and Prop. 6 would fund an activity center, including an indoor Olympic swimming pool and gymnasium. Many parents and volunteers say the facilities would significantly improve the state of youth recreational facilities in New Braunfels — improvements that are long overdue, they say. David Feltmann, a board member of New Braunfels Youth Sports, Inc., said existing facilities were inadequate. "On the soccer fields, we have so many kids out there we're wearing out the grass," he said. More than 400 girls who play softball haul water to their fields and play only during the day because they don't have lighted fields, said Randy Heinbaugh with the Girls Softball League. Hundreds more kids who love basketball or volleyball vie for gym space so tight that programs remain limited. Feltmann said expanded recreational facilities would give more youth in the area the opportunity to participate in athletics. A location for either facility has not yet been determined and won't be until after the election. If approved, the sports complex would raise the current 31 -cent per $ I OO valuation tax rate 1.7 cents. A resident owning a home with a taxable value of $100,000 would pay about $17 more in taxes or $330 a year, instead of $313. If the activity center is approved, it would require a 4.7-cent increase on die current tax rate. That would cost the resident of a home with a taxable value of $ 100,000 about $47 See YOUTH/5A'Hope Floats' in Gruene K. JESSIE SLATEN/Herald-Zeitung Jamie Madison, above, holds up the last unrolled T-shirt for Saturday's Hope Floats in Texas Walk/Float in Gruene. Jamie suffers from A T, and even helping roll tee shirts gets her a little tired. Below, family and friends help prepare T-shirts and goody-bags for the benefit. Tubers look to raise money, awareness From Staff Reports More than 2,000 of the tubers floating down the Guadalupe River Saturday will enjoy the sunshine and a good time in the cool water but that won't be all — or even the most important thing — they came for. They'll be looking to raise $100,000 in the fourth annual "Hope Floats in Texas" — and to raise awareness of the debilitating and fatal childhood disease ataxia telangiectasia. A-T combines symptoms of muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, cancer, cystic fibrosis and immune system dysfunction. Saturday's activities will be hosted by Dave and Amy Madison of Schertz and their children, Braun, 19, Jamie, 17 and Andy, 13, at Rockin' R River Rides as part of a nationwide effort to benefit the A-T Children's Project. All three Madison children have been diagnosed with A-T. '"Hope Floats in Texas' is important for the A-T Children's Project as a fund-raiser, but it's just as important because it helps others to find us — and can help them gain an early diagnosis," said Amy Madison, director of Hope Floats in Texas and for the A-T Children's Project. Events this weekend include a Friday night "Camp for a Cure," in which church youth groups will set up tents and enjoy an evening of music and campfires. "It's a nice mission trip," Madison said. Saturday, things begin at 8:30 a.m. and include the only river float for charity in Texas, a two-kilometer walk through scenic and historic Gruene and an auction of items including a late model car, sports celebrity items, vacations and more. Registration for the walk ($15) or the float ($25) includes a free meal with a T-shirt. On hand will be San Antonio radio personality Sonny Melendrez, recording artists Carmen Clark and Jill Jones and the Lone Star Chorale and the Wimberley Volunteer Fireants. Sponsors include Rockin' R River Rides, Wal-Mart/Sam's, H-E-B, Southwest Airlines, Schlitterbahn, State Bank and Trust, Lion's Club, WB35 TV, VFW, Physical Therapy Unlimited & Health and Fitness Colter, Realty Executives, V&V Sausage and Linda Alexander-Century 21 Realty.Low rainfall threat to rec GB RA reduces river flows By Erin Magruder Staff Writer Despite recent rainfall, outfitters are worried that thousands of water-hungry tourists might be walking instead of floating their way down the Guadalupe River Memorial Day weekend. Because of scarce rainfall coupled with a recent drastic decrease in inflows to Canyon Reservoir, the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority implemented Sunday a drought provision that reduces downstream flows to conserve stored water for future use, OBRA officials said. The provision allows GBRA to reduce flows from Canyon Reservoir from the required 90 cubic feet per second minimum to 60 cfs when inflows to the lake average less than 90 cfs for a period of 45 days, GBRA spokeswoman Judy Gardner. The conservation measures will remain in place until the reservoir gets enough rainfall to return Canyon Lake back to the conservation level, which is 909 feet above mean sea level. The last time GBRA invoked the drought release provision for Canyon Reservoir was in May 1996 — at which point the conservation measures remained in place until fall, Gardner said. As of Monday, Canyon Lake measured 905.4 feet above mean sea level. But if the drought continues until summer — as many have predicted — the impact on the local recreational industry could be significant, said Paul Rich, vice president of the Water Oriented Recreation District and owner of Mountain Breeze outfitter and campground in New Braunfels. "If we don't get any rainfall or any water help from GBRA, we might as well shut the doors down...because you can't recreate at 60 cfs," Rich said. GBRA manager Bill West will address concerns and discuss the drought provisions at 5 p.m. Thursday at a special WORD meeting at the Tye Preston Memorial Library meeting room, 1321 Farm-to-Market Road 2673 in Sattler. The drought provision only requires GBRA to release water at an amount equal to the actual inflow to Canyon Lake, but West said the river authority would supplement the release with additional stored water to meet contractual obligations to municipal and industrial users downstream. And even if Canyon Reservoir benefits from a significant rainfall event, GBRA is not required to release more than 90 cfs as long as the lake level remains below 909 feet above sea level, Gardner said. As of Tuesday, the flow of the Guadalupe River See RAIN/5A Inside Abby................................7A Classifieds.......................5-8B Comics...............................2B Crossword..........................2B Forum.................................6A Local/Metro........................4A Movies..................................7A Obituaries...........................3A Sports............................8A Today.................................2A Television............................8A www.herald-zeltung.com Key Code 76Gomez pleads guilty, could get 6 months in 'Scooter Man' death By Heather Todd Staff Writer The face of Ray "Scooter Man" Biggadike could haunt a New Braunfels man every time he gets behind the wheel. Jesus "Jesse ' Rodriguez Gomez, 38, will have to place a picture of the 78-year-old Biggadike on the visor of any vehicle he drives as part of a plea agreement presented Monday in District Judge Gary Steel's courtroom. Gomez, who was facing manslaughter charges in Biggadike's death in 1999, pleaded guilty to lesser charges of failure to stop and render aid and tampering with evidence and could be sentenced to 180 days in prison. Under the plea agreement, Gomez would serve IO years probation and the manslaughter charge would be dismissed. Tampering with evidence is a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Failure to stop and render aid is punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled June 8. At that time, a judge could accept the plea and sentence Gomez to the recommended 180 days in prison and IO years probation, or the judge could reject the plea. lf the judge rejects the plea, Gomez could could go to a court or jury trial. If a judge accepts the plea agreement, Gomez could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison if he violates the provisions of his probation. Gomez was accused of hitting Biggadike as the elderly man crossed Business 35 on his battery-powered scooter June 28. Biggadike was crossing the busy, four-lane thoroughfare from the east toward Avenue A. He was thrown 58 feet from his scooter and pronounced dead on the scene. Authorities investigated the accident as a hit-and-run after witnesses said the unidentified car that hit Biggadike turned right onto a nearby street and fled the scene. According to the plea agreement, Gomez also would serve 300 hours of community service and attend a driver safety course and a victim impact program within one year. Gomez also would pay a $2,000 fine, send an apology letter to the victim's family within 180 days and use an ignition interlock on any vehicle he drives. Bill Biggadike, Ray Biggadike Is son, said the recommended prison sentence seemed light in consideration of his father's death. 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UPDATE: The Court in OpenMind Solutions v. Does 1 – 2925 heard oral argument on April 11, 2011. At the end of the hearing — during which the judge expressed some initial concerns with OpenMind's attempt to lump the defendants into a class action — the judge requested that OpenMind and EFF submit briefs on the merits of the class action lawsuit. Those briefs will be due in two weeks; we will then wait for a ruling from the Court. In the meantime (as reported below), discovery remains stayed.
As we've been reporting for some time, a series of lawsuits has been filed across the U.S. against thousands of individuals accused of having illegally uploaded and downloaded copyrighted works in violation of copyright law. One of the latest of those suits is a case called OpenMind Solutions v. Does 1 – 2925, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief asking the judge to quash the subpoenas seeking the identities of the nearly 3,000 anonymous defendants.
We are glad to report that the judge has decided to stay discovery pending a hearing on the issues EFF raised in its brief, which means that (at least temporarily), ISPs need not comply with the subpoenas sent out by OpenMind's attorney John Steele.
The hearing in this case is scheduled for April 11. In the meantime, if you are an ISP or an anonymous Doe defendant, you should make sure your attorney is aware of the judge's order. For more information, or if you have further questions, consult EFF's Subpoena Defense Resources page.
By delaying or even blocking security updates for mobile devices, mobile carriers put their users, their business, and the country's critical infrastructure at unnecessary risk. Mobile security problems plague the entire software stack — the baseband, the kernel, the application frameworks, and the applications — and carriers continue to resist shipping regular and frequent updates.
For a specific example, consider the compromise of a Comodo certificate authority. The only "solution" for the problem of Comodo's compromised CA is to update the browser and ship the new browser to every client computer. Without that update, browsers remain vulnerable to the hacker. While personal computer users might plausibly update their computers, mobile users have little or no control over the security status of their devices. There is unlikely to be any update they can get any time soon. Mobile devices will remain vulnerable to the fraudulent certificates for many months (or years) to come.
In fact, Ars Technica reported last week that Windows Phone 7 on AT&T is all but guaranteed to be months out of date at any given time — if it ever gets updates at all. Android and iPhone suffer from delayed updates as well.
Mobile carriers are chiefly to blame for this problem. Although Apple, Google, and Microsoft should develop security fixes faster, they are fundamentally limited by carrier intransigence.
Carriers should stop blocking frequent updates for mobile devices, and should work with subscribers and with platform vendors to ship security updates on an internet timescale.
Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you?
It's very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law — which, like the law of many European countries, gives individuals a right to see what private companies know about them — to force his cell phone carrier to reveal what it knew about him. The result? 35,831 different facts about his cell phone use over the course of six months. As the German newspaper website Zeit Online reports:
This profile reveals when Spitz walked down the street, when he took a train, when he was in an airplane. It shows where he was in the cities he visited. It shows when he worked and when he slept, when he could be reached by phone and when was unavailable. It shows when he preferred to talk on his phone and when he preferred to send a text message. It shows which beer gardens he liked to visit in his free time. All in all, it reveals an entire life.
To show just how extensive this data is, Spitz chose to make it all available to the public; Zeit Online used it to prepare a remarkable interactive map, which animates Spitz's movements, moment by moment, over the course of half a year. It's correlated with information Spitz willingly posted on the web, and, according to him and the newspaper, is remarkably, eerily accurate. Try it out.
A report in the New York Times on Saturday described the data release, which it called "astounding", and put it in a U.S. context, quoting EFF's Kevin Bankston. The Times tried to find out whether U.S. mobile phone carriers have similar data about their subscribers, but it said "[t]he major American cellphone providers declined to explain what exactly they collect and what they use it for."
EFF has been following this issue for years and has worked extensively to limit government access to location data about individuals; government agents have increasingly sought to use this information, using questionable legal arguments to get carriers to turn it over. Still, it's remarkable to see an actual location data set about a real person. (According to the Times, German carriers have, for legal reasons, now stopped routinely storing this data. However, like all mobile phone carriers, they still have the technical ability to collect it at any time.)
Malte Spitz explains why he worked to obtain this information: to help educate the public about some of what's at stake in the German and worldwide debates about telecommunications data retention. All around the world, including the United States, proposed laws would force carriers to retain enormous quantities of personal information. As Spitz and Zeit Online have shown, these troves of information can give a detailed picture of each person's private life.
When legal issues light up the Internet, people turn to EFF for answers. Whether it's attacks on coders' rights, overreaching copyright claims online, or governments' efforts to censor or spy on people, we are often among the first to hear about troubling events online, and we're frequently the first place people turn to for legal help.
So why are there times when EFF is involved in an important case but is silent or gives only limited information about it? Usually it's for one of three reasons: to protect the people who have asked us for help, because of a specific court requirement or because we're putting the strategy into place.
First, the legal protections for attorney/client communications and attorney work product allow lawyers and their prospective or existing clients to speak frankly with each other and to honestly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their cases. But these communications and notes must be kept strictly confidential in order to remain protected. If the confidentiality is broken, the person or a person's attorney can be required to reveal their communications, legal strategies, and evaluations to their opponents – including to prosecutors who can put them in jail or opposing civil lawyers. Breaching these privileges can hurt the people who ask us for help and undermine our chances of winning a case, so we are very careful to avoid doing so.
Other times, a court limits our ability to speak. A recent example of this is when the government demanded information from Twitter as part of its Wikileaks investigation, where we were subjected to a court sealing order. In this Twitter records case, we are representing Birgitta Jonsdottir, one of the Twitter users whose records are being sought by the U.S. government. Initially, the fact of our representation was the only thing we could acknowledge publicly. The court documents in the case were filed under seal, and we could not even discuss the hearing we were preparing for, leading to many awkward and frustrating conversations with EFF members as well as reporters. However, we asked the judge to unseal the court records, and she ultimately did unseal nearly all filed documents in the case to be released to the public, including news of the hearing. In such cases, we press as hard as we can to get the legal proceedings made public, especially for cases involving important personal privacy and free speech implications.
Finally, there are times when we are simply not finished investigating a case to determine whether to take it, or are taking the initial steps to put a strategy into place. Here's a page outlining some of the things we consider when making those decisions. This often involves not only gathering background information, but also conducting a legal and technological analysis of the situation. We also try to help people find other lawyers for cases we can't take. While working through this process, the worst thing we could do is to talk publicly before a legal strategy is in place and before EFF has solidified our role. This is especially true when the legal situation is in flux, as when emergency legal relief is sought or when some of the people potentially involved have not yet been notified or identified. We've had a few of those recently – close watchers of EFF may have some guesses about specific instances where this has been the situation.
However, none of this should keep EFF members, the press, or the public from emailing us at email@example.com when something is happening that potentially requires EFF's involvement. EFF members and the general public are an essential part of our early warning system – a form of crowdsourcing that helps us have a much broader view of what's going on and where the important cases are occurring. But we hope you will understand if we answer your call or email with limited detail or if we hold back from commenting extensively in the press or on our blog. We believe strongly that everyone's rights online should be vigorously protected, and sometimes that requires us to be silent.
Further proof that the recording industry's oft-repeated claims of the downfall of the entire music industry hold no water: a new report finding that filesharing has led directly to "reduced costs of bringing works to market and a growing role of independent labels." In other words, in the past decade, we have seen more music from independent outlets and at lower prices – something that consumers and music fans should all be happy about.
The study, by University of Minnesota economist Joel Waldfogel, proves just what we've been saying as recently as last week – that filesharing (unauthorized or not) has led more artists to create more music, and – just as importantly – more different music. U.S. copyright law is based on a compromise recognized in the Constitution that grants authors (or artists, or musicians) a limited monopoly designed to give those authors an incentive to make their creative works. As we've long known and as this study makes clear yet again, even in the face of filesharing, those incentives still exist.
UPDATE (3/26/11): HTTPS is again available for those in the countries discussed below. Microsoft denies deliberately blocking access to HTTPS, blaming the problem on a bug:
We are aware of an issue that impacted some Hotmail users trying to enable HTTPS. That issue has now been resolved. Account security is a top priority for Hotmail and our support for HTTPS is worldwide – we do not intentionally limit support by region or geography and this issue was not restricted to any specific region of the world.
If you've been waiting for a golden opportunity to download EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox add-on, this is it.
Microsoft appears to have turned off the always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Hotmail users who have set their location to any of these countries receive the following error message when they attempt to turn on the always-use-HTTPS feature in order to read their mail securely:
Your Windows Live ID can't use HTTPS automatically because this feature is not available for your account type.
Microsoft debuted the always-use-HTTPS feature for Hotmail in December of 2010, in order to give users the option of always encrypting their webmail traffic and protecting their sensitive communications from malicious hackers using tools such as Firesheep, and hostile governments eavesdropping on journalists and activists. For Microsoft to take such an enormous step backwards undermining the security of Hotmail users in countries where freedom of expression is under attack and secure communication is especially importantis deeply disturbing. We hope that this counterproductive and potentially dangerous move is merely an error that Microsoft will swiftly correct.
The good news is that the fix is very easy. Hotmail users in the affected countries can turn the always-use-HTTPS feature back on by changing the country in their profile to any of the countries in which this feature has not been disabled, such as the United States, Germany, France, Israel, or Turkey. Hotmail users who browse the web with Firefox may force the use of HTTPS by defaultwhile using any Hotmail location settingby installing the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox plug-in.
As many — EFF included — have been saying for years, filesharing is not the reason that the recording industry has fallen on hard financial times. In fact, the recording industry's complaints that the sky is falling really only apply to the recording industry, and not musicians and the fans, who have seen increased music purchases, increased artist salaries, and the availability of more music than ever before. And now two new reports further debunk the recording industry's myth.
First, the London School of Economics released a paper finding that while filesharing may explain some of the decline in sales of physical copies of recorded music, the decline "should be explained by a combination of factors such as changing patterns in music consumption, decreasing disposable household incomes for leisure products and increasing sales of digital content through online platforms." And even if the sales of recorded music are down, there is an important distinction to draw: the recording industry may be hurting, but the music industry is thriving. For example, the LSE paper points out that in the UK in 2009, the revenues from live music shows outperformed recorded music sales.
We've also seen more and more artists making a go of it on their own. Rebecca Black, a 13-year-old, is reportedly netting nearly $25,000 a week from digital downloads of her hit song, "Friday." The band OK Go famously made a name for itself by self-producing widely popular music videos and then leaving a big record label that failed to "recognize the basic mechanics of the Internet" by attempting to prohibit embedding of the band's video content. As the lead singer noted, "[c]urbing the viral spread of videos isn't benefiting the company's bottom line, or the music it's there to support." Even bands with record deals are finding different ways to make money. For example, the popular band the Black Keys makes 85% of its money from live shows.
Another recent study, this one by the Social Science Research Council, delves into international aspects of "piracy," especially in emerging markets, and finds unauthorized filesharing in some developing economies has actually created opportunities for media companies to come up with innovative business models that allow legal and widespread access to media goods. For example, in India, "where large domestic film and music industries dominate the national market, [large media companies] set prices to attract mass audiences, and in some cases compete directly with pirate distribution." The impact of this cannot be understated: in many of these emerging markets, the new business models are improving legal access to music and art that was previously unaffordable for many people.
The SSRC report also points out that, despite the content industry's dire predictions, the media business is still thriving: "Software, DVD, and box office revenues in most middle-income countries have risen in the past decade — in some cases dramatically. Sales of CDs have fallen, but the overall music business, including performance, has grown."
Despite these realities, the policy debate continues to focus on enforcement and "strengthening intellectual property," which, SSRC rightly points out, is incredibly counterproductive and comes at a high social cost. Instead of discussing ways to make sure artists get paid for their work and fans have access to media goods, time and energy is wasted debating how to continue an enforcement policy that has failed to actually curb unauthorized filesharing.
We are encouraged to see studies like these that challenge policy makers to shift the tone of the debate to a more productive conversation about how to innovate and use new technologies to benefit artists and their fans. Because the bottom line is this: those who find ways to capitalize on new technologies will be the ones to succeed going forward.
Iranian hackers obtain fraudulent HTTPS certificates: How close to a Web security meltdown did we get?
On March 15th, an HTTPS/TLS Certificate Authority (CA) was tricked into issuing fraudulent certificates that posed a dire risk to Internet security. Based on currently available information, the incident got close to — but was not quite — an Internet-wide security meltdown. As this post will explain, these events show why we urgently need to start reinforcing the system that is currently used to authenticate and identify secure websites and email systems.
There is a post up on the Tor Project's blog by Jacob Appelbaum, analyzing the revocation of a number of HTTPS certificates last week. Patches to the major web browsers blacklisted a number of TLS certificates that were issued after hackers broke into a Certificate Authority. Appelbaum and others were able to cross-reference the blacklisted certificates' serial numbers against a comprehensive collection of Certificate Revocation Lists (these CRL URLs were obtained by querying EFF's SSL Observatory databases) to learn which CA had been affected.
The answer was the UserTrust "UTN-USERFirst-Hardware" certificate owned by Comodo, one of the largest CAs on the web. Comodo has now published a statement about the improperly issued certs, which were for extremely high-value domains including google.com, login.yahoo.com and addons.mozilla.org (this last domain could be used to trojan any system that was installing a new Firefox extension, though updates to previously installed extensions have a second layer of protection from XPI signatures). One cert was for "global trustee" — not a domain name. That was probably a malicious CA certificate that could be used to flawlessly impersonate any domain on the Web.
Comodo also said that the attack came primarily from Iranian IP addresses, and that one of the fraudulent login.yahoo.com certs was briefly deployed on a webserver in Iran.1
What should we do about these attacks?
Discussing problems with the revocation mechanisms that should (but don't) protect users who don't instantly get browser updates, Appelbaum makes the following assertion:
If the CA cannot provide even a basic level of revocation, it's clearly irresponsible to ship that CA root in a browser. Browsers should give insecure CA keys an Internet Death Sentence rather than expose the users of the browsers to known problems.
Before discussing whether or not such a dramatic conclusion is at all warranted, it is worth considering what the consequences of blacklisting Comodo's UserTrust CA certificate would have been. We used the SSL Observatory datasets to determine what had been signed by that CA certificate. The answer was that, as of August 2010, 85,440 public HTTPS certificates were signed directly by UTN-USERFirst-Hardware. Indirectly, the certificate had delegated authority to a further 50 Certificate Authorities, collectively responsible for another 120,000 domains. In the event of a revocation, at least 85,000 websites would have to scramble to obtain new SSL certificates.
The situation of the 120,000 other domains is more complicated — some of these are cross-certified by other root CAs or might be able do obtain such cross-certifications. In most — but not all — cases, these domains could continue to function without updating their webserver configurations or obtaining new certs.
The short answer, however, is that the Comodo's USERFirst-Hardware certificate is too big to fail. If the private key for such a CA were hacked, by the Iranians or by anybody else, browsers would face a horrible choice: either blacklisting the CA quickly, causing outages at tens or hundreds of thousands of secure websites and email servers; or leave all of the world's HTTPS, POP and IMAP deployments vulnerable to the hackers for an extended period of time.
Fortunately, Comodo has said that the master CA private keys in its Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) were not compromised, so we did not experience that kind of Internet-wide catastrophic security failure last week. But it's time for us to start thinking about what can be done to mitigate that risk.
Cross-checking the work of CAs
Most Certificate Authorities do good work. Some make mistakes occasionally,2 but that is normal in computer security. The real problem is a structural one: there are 1,500 CA certificates controlled by around 650 organizations,3 and every time you connect to an HTTPS webserver, or exchange email (POP/IMAP/SMTP) encrypted by TLS, you implicitly trust all of those certificate authorities!
What we need is a robust way to cross-check the good work that CAs currently do, to provide defense in depth and ensure (1) that a private key-compromise failure at a major CA does not lead to an Internet-wide cryptography meltdown and (2) that our software does not need to trust all of the CAs, for everything, all of the time.
For the time being, we will make just one remark about this. Many people have been touting DNSSEC PKI as a solution to the problem. While DNSSEC could be an improvement, we do not believe it is the right solution to the TLS security problem. One reason is that the DNS hierarchy is not trustworthy. Countries like the UAE and Tunisia control certificate authorities, and have a history of compromising their citizens' computer security. But these countries also control top-level DNS domains, and could control the DNSSEC entries for those ccTLDs. And the emergence of DNS manipulation by the US government also raises many concerns about whether DNSSEC will be reliable in the future.
We don't think this is an unsolvable problem. There are ways to reinforce our existing cryptographic infrastructure. And building and deploying them may not be that hard. Look for a blog post from us shortly about how we should go about doing that.
- 1. This is strong circumstantial evidence that the attack was perpetrated by Iranians, though it also possible that the perpetrators used compromised systems in Iran in order to frame Iran.
- 2. A few previous examples.
- 3. These numbers are from the SSL Observatory. Before we performed those scans, we are unsure that anybody knew how many CAs were trusted by our browsers and operating systems, because CAs regularly delegate authority to subordinate CAs without announcing this publicly


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Stuart Broad, the England fast bowler, will miss the rest of the Ashes campaign because of a torn abdominal muscle. He sustained the injury during the fourth day of the Second Test and was unable to take the field yesterday as England pushed for victory.
As an integral part of the side, whose batting has become almost as important as his new ball bowling, the tourists may find Broad difficult to replace in the weeks ahead. The injury will also cause him to miss the one-day series that follows the Ashes, though he is expected to have fully recovered by the time of the World Cup in February.
Broad said with understandable disappointment: "Playing for England in an Ashes series in Australia has been something I've dreamed of for a long time so to have that cut short by injury is devastating. So far the series has been everything I had anticipated and knowing I'll play no further part is quite hard to take. Given the way we had started the series I was looking forward to playing a leading role in England retaining the Ashes but that's not to be.
"Injuries happen and there's nothing I can do about it other than make sure I get stuck into rehabilitation and come back stronger in time for the World Cup next year. This winter is a big one for the England team so my focus will have to shift to preparing for the World Cup."
The England medical officer, Nick Peirce said the nature of the injury meant Broad would be ruled out of the rest of the tour. He will fly home this week for a course of rehabilitation.
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An undisputed master of Falstaff, Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi's opera for the first time at the Met since 2005. Robert Carsen's production--the first new Met Falstaff since 1964--is set in the English countryside in the mid-20th century. Ambrogio Maestri (last season's Dulcamara in the Opening Night production of L'Elisir d'Amore) sings the title role of the brilliant and blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvelous ensemble that includes Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Lisette Oropesa, and Franco Vassallo.
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BeschreibungProfiles a watershed year (2002-2003) in the life of the U.S. Supreme Court, with contributions by journalists and Court advocates that discuss critical rulings on gay rights, affirmative action, hate speech, federal-state relations, and criminal law.
InhaltsverzeichnisIntroduction; A High Court of one: The role of the swing voter in the 2002 term; Anthony M. Kennedy and the road not taken; A revolutionary year: Judicial assertiveness and gay rights; The next culture awr; The affirmative action decisions; Was affirmative action saved by its friends?; The Court's faux federalism; Cross burning: Virginia v Black; Cruel and unusual: Lockyer v Andrade; Glasnost at the Supreme Court
PortraitNeal Devins is Goodrich Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William and Mary School of Law. He is also Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. His most recent books include "The Democratic Constitution "and "Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law" (4th edition), both coauthored with Louis Fisher.Davison M. Douglas is the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at the William and Mary School of Law, where he is former Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law. He is the author of "Reading, Writing, and Race: The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools."
Pressestimmen"'The quiet of a storm center,' Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said of the Supreme Court. The storm--the drama--has never been more intense than in the 2002-03 term. Here the decisions of that term are brilliantly, provocatively described and analyzed."--Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon's Trumpet and Make No Law "A close and revealing look by journalists and advocates on the operations of the Supreme Court. This book captures the powerful political pressures that constantly play against the Justices and help determine their decisions."--Louis Fisher, author of American Constitutional Law
Untertitel: 'Constitutional Conflicts'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 2004
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
"Because I'd rather die than go back into an institution"
Video footage is available here from ITN and this powerful, moving film made by the Guardian's John Domoko's. There wasn't a great deal of mainstream media coverage, perhaps because unlike the student protests or riots there was no violence or mess left behind, just organised 'delicate disruption'.
The protestors chained themselves together at approximately midday*, and were soon surrounded by slightly bemused looking police officers. It was heartening to see Sky News report the views of protestors, and include the statement from one gentleman that he 'wished no animosity to the police' but to explain the sweeping cuts to disability services, from social care, to the scrapping of the ILF, to welfare cuts meant his ability to live independently was at risk and that he'd "rather die than go back into an institution" This report was particularly moving because the gentleman speaking appeared to be old enough to have either lived in institutions or to have grown up with the threat of being forced to live in one.
There were no reports of arrests; the Met police appeared unsure as to how to deal with the situation, and from the coverage available online they seemed extremely reluctant to intervene further than politely requesting people to move. Watching I could only think back to a conversation with a Met police officer I had about this around a year ago, where he explained that if disabled people wanted to protest then many of the Met would want to support them. (obviously this is not a formal view of the Met police!)
However, moving 20 wheelchair using protestors would have been a problem as there were no accessible police vans to put people into, and there was a particular comedy moment when the police tried to issue instructions via loudhailer and were politely asked if they had a British Sign Language interpreter available. They did not!
At 2pm, having made their point the protestors unchained themselves and dispersed.
This protest was only in part to do with the welfare cuts. They are just one of the issues currently creating a 'perfect storm' facing disabled people. Regardless of your beliefs about the deficit and welfare cuts, this protest was particularly intended to highlight how the media representation of disabled people has changed over the past few years, that public perception of disability has altered as a result of that to be less sympathetic to the needs of disabled, sick and older people, and that in the past 12 months alone disability hate crime has risen by a horrifying 75%.
It was incredibly powerful and moving to see the disabled community coming together to protest in this way after the successes of campaigns like The Broken of Britain, Where's The Benefit and the more recent Spartacus Report. Although people did not know each other before these protests the sense of unity, community and belief that if one of us is hurt, all of us are hurt was strongly evident throughout the day.
* time corrected thanks to @sisyphusa
11 comments:
- JuliaM said...
"... that public perception of disability has altered as a result of that to be less sympathetic to the needs of disabled, sick and older people..."
Tell me, do you expect that throwing your lot in with the public nuisance that is UKUncut, and disrupting shoppers, is going to make that better?
Or worse?
- 10:35 am
Lack of accessible police vans and of BSL communication: says it all!
- 10:54 am
- Becca said...
I don't know where this very cute mini-anecdote about there being no accessible police vehicles came from but I'm afraid it's total fiction - be assured, there were at least 3 accessible police vans parked yards away from the protest by about half past 1. The Met are used to DAN; it would be a huge surprise if they had failed to prepare for us.
Also, you know perfectly well that nobody is ever too young to have spent time rotting in an institution, I was born in 1985 and spent 9 months being abused and neglected in turns in a 'young disabled unit' in 2008, and I know of children as young as 2 who live in segregated institutions now, in 2012. This will only get worse under current Tory policy.
- 10:57 am
We watched the Guardian's film of the protest, last night, and it was indeed very moving. We felt so proud of the protesters;some looked understandably a bit nervous, but determined. Very,very well done to them all.
- 11:02 am
- pseudodeviant said...
Thank you! We had such wonderful support from everyone who couldn't make it - it was fantastic. I'd never been filmed before :-)
Would you like me to tweet you a link to my blog post on why I went & took part? (I won't spam your comments section with it)
- 11:10 am
- BenefitScroungingScum said...
Psuedodeviant: Yes please...and please do put it in the comments section cos that way more people will share it
- 11:20 am
- BenefitScroungingScum said...
Becca: It came from twitter yesterday, it's very difficult to piece together coverage into one blog post when the news drip feeds in via various sources.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Met had been a bit unprepared for DAN...they definitely were used to such actions, but there haven't been any for some years.
And yes, I do know that about insitutions, but the wider public who read these blogs don't have that understanding so it's important to break the information down into small enough chunks to be digested. Huge well done to everyone who went yesterday though!
- 11:22 am
- Sarah Ismail said...
Guys, if anyone here took part please Tweet links to your blog posts to @samedifference1. I would like to do a round up of them on Same Difference.
Kali, there was more mainstream media coverage than I was expecting, and I was pleased to see it...
- 11:38 am
- pseudodeviant said...
Ok, here's a link to my blog about why I protested yesterday - http://pseudo-living.blogspot.com/2012/01/disabled-peoples-protest-in-oxford.html
- 12:02 pm
- Pats Petition said...
Here's the link to Pat's Petition which is about that 'perfect storm' of all the changes affecting disabled people and carers -
It needs to get to 100,000 signatures to get a response from government so please do share and get people to sign it. These issues affect every one of us - we could be disabled tomorrow - so MILLIONS should be signing! Let's get it to 100k!
- 12:55 pm
I am glad people were organised yesterday a message needs to be sent to the Goverment and their partners in crime the so-called "Media" that the disabled are not "scroungers" many hold down jobs.
I too am disabled and although I have hidden disabilities I do not qualify for assistance
I wish to pass on my support to everyone who took part in the events of yesterday.
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Tapestry does not render the tags in which you embed your jwcid attribute. Tapestry also requires the template be syntactically correct as far as XML/HTML tags go, BEFORE it parses and renders. I have some HTML with parts being dynamically altered based on certain conditions. To achieve it in JSP, it was super easy. To achieve it in Tapestry, it was kind of a pain. Please correct me if I error. I have a component with an HTML table. In the table, there is a ValidField, which becomes part of a form on a containing page. I want the table, with color and other formatting, to not be rendered if a parameter of this component is set to false. If the parameter is true, the table will be rendered. There is a good reason for this, but that is a long story. Here is the simplified code in JSP: <% if (...) { %>

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  <% } %> <input type="text" jwcid="title" /> <% if (...){ %> (Example: Math 110 Sections 2 & 3 Fall 2002)

 <% } %> Here is the code in Tapestry:

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  <input type="text" jwcid="titleInBody" /> (Example: Math 110 Sections 2 & 3 Fall 2002)

   <input type="text" jwcid="title" />  This doesn't seem a BIG deal in this example, but it becomes a big deal in some of the more advanced presentation logic I've done. Especially since I had to create another component element int the .jwc file because you can't duplicate your component ids. I also have another file where I just want to place bold tags around a phrase based on a condition. It seems a little painful to have to write the phrase twice surrounded with opposing conditions, especially when that phrase is large, and there are many of them. I have so far really enjoyed learning Tapestry, but this seems a problem. I hope I have just missed something... I hope there is a better way. If anyone knows it, please, please tell me. -- Dan Wells <email@example.com>
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Why are HELOCs so hot?
According to a new study by Experian, the volume of new Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOCs) being originated more than doubled over the past five years. The fourth quarter of last year saw $43 billion in new HELOCs hit the marketplace.
HELOCs have been around for many years, and always represent a viable financial tool for homeowners with equity. So if there are always reasons to get a HELOC, why are they particularly hot now? It seems a variety of conditions have combined to contribute to the surge in the popularity of HELOCs.
4 Reasons HELOCs Are Hot
Here are four market conditions that help explain the jump in HELOC activity:
- Mortgage rates are still near record lows. 2016 saw a remarkable summer for mortgage rates. It's not just that they remained so low, but that they were remarkably stable. At one point, 30-year mortgage rates stayed in a tight range between 3.40 percent and 3.50 percent for 11 straight weeks. Low interest rates make HELOCs and other mortgages attractive to homeowners, and that stability makes it easier for consumers to follow through on their plans.
- Rising home prices have beefed up owner equity. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index has been rising steadily since early 2012, and is now approaching pre-housing crisis levels. The sustained recovery in housing prices has helped American homeowners build equity quickly in recent years. This equity becomes a resource that can be borrowed against with HELOCs or home equity loans when needed.
- Old loans are ripe for refinancing. HELOCs were also very popular during the housing boom of a decade ago, and now many of those loans are reaching their repayment stage. With interest rates so low, it makes sense for many of those borrowers simply to refresh their credit lines by refinancing into new HELOCs.
- Low default rates are giving lenders confidence. Experian reports that just 0.49 percent of all HELOCs, or less than 1 out of every 200, are seriously delinquent in their payments. Loan performance has improved significantly since the Great Recession, and that is a significant factor in making HELOCs more readily available. The more reliably borrowers pay back their loans, the more motivated lenders are to make new loans.
Reasons to Get a HELOC
Given that market conditions are favorable, why should you consider a HELOC? Here are three basic reasons to get a HELOC:
- Low-cost borrowing. Consumers have many credit options available to them, but normally loans that can be secured by equity in a home will carry lower interest rates than personal loans or credit cards. Thus, HELOCs can be a cost-effective form of borrowing both for new expenses or to refinance old debts.
- Multiple needs over time. HELOCs let you access credit as you need it, so if you are planning on having multiple needs for credit in the months or years ahead – say, a series of home improvement projects – it can be more efficient to use a HELOC to access the credit only when those needs come up rather than all at once.
- Flexibility. Future plans are not always clear to people. You may anticipate needs for credit in the years ahead without knowing exactly when those needs will occur or how large they will be. A HELOC gives you the flexibility to deal with that uncertainty.
Home equity credit should never be accessed lightly – your ability to repay should be carefully assessed before you borrow money. When you do have manageable borrowing needs, a HELOC might be the right tool to fit your situation. The rising popularity of HELOCs these days suggests that many other consumers are reaching the same conclusion.


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CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfield—a choice that enrages many inside the world's most powerful intelligence agency. Her detractors will resort to extreme measures to prevent her from taking the reins—which makes Rapp an expendable asset. But Mitch Rapp is no one's pawn, and he will stop at nothing to find out who has set him up.
Hear Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top operative, battle global terrorism in more of Vince Flynn's political thrillers.
©2011 Vince Flynn (P)2011 Simon & Schuster
"Flynn hits his stride in this thriller about high-end Washington politics...[he] has an exciting, Ludlum-like series going here." (Booklist)
"Flynn's latest thriller...is an old-school spy story...updated with heavy helpings of international intrigue and domestic politicking and betrayal." (Library Journal)
"Fans of Ludlum and Clancy will want to check it out.' (Pioneer Press)
"One bad listen"
I love Vince Flynn (RIP). I loved all the books. In the series's except this one. I gave it 3 stars because of Flynn and Rapp. I listened to all the other bulks before this one. I only read it because I was joesin for more Rapp however there was noooooo character development. It's like all the characters were thrown in a blender and they came out with no identity. Do not read this first it may sour you away from a great series. Leave it for last
"Can't stand narrator"
Bad Midwest accents, mispronounced words, awkward story-interrupting pauses. Just plain bad, especially compared to George Guidall who has read other books in this series.
"by itself--meh; for continuity of story--okay"
This is more about Washington politics than Rapp's special talents. It really describes how you can never know when you will be on the other end of the hit list. And it ends on a cliff-hanger, so isn't very satisfying as a stand-alone book. However, if you are into this series, then you need this just for continuity. And I don't know where the years went. Rapp was in Europe in love with Greta, then here's Rapp with 10 years under his belt, and no more mention of Greta. It's all about the reporter from the Olympus White House Has Fallen Down previous book. Feels as if there were about 3 books missing.
Never thought I would use it as much as I have. Watch for bargins. Average price of my collection is less than half the regular price
"Keep on going Mitchell."
loved it. I need to get back to the first in the series. Thank you.
"Worth it"
While not quite as charismatic as Guidall, the narrator was pretty good. The "lack of an ending" is nothing like that, just that the thread continues in the next book.
"No ending?"
There was not as much action as previous novels. The "ending" is anti-climatic. I felt the same way as I did at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. May as well said to be continued...
Avid Audio book listener, Blogger and Book-Seller.
"I miss you George Guidall!"
If you happen to be reading the series out-of-order, I should mention that the next book in the Mitch Rapp series, Separation of Power (Book 5), is an immediate continuation of the story in this one, The Third Option.
In fact, The Third Option doesn't even have a concrete ending. You have to suck it up, take the pseudo-cliff hanger for what it's worth, and continue on to the next book to learn what happens. Lot's of people (evidenced by the many reviews I've read), get quite upset with the lack of an ending. Not me. By this time, I'm already deeply invested in the characters and story, so I know I'm going to read the rest of the series in short order. Besides, Vince Flynn is hardly the first author (or maybe the editor is to blame) to employ the cliff-hanger tactic to keep readers coming back. No skin off my back...well maybe a little. I'm no sadomasochist, but I actually enjoy the anticipation of waiting on the next book of a riveting series to come out. Fortunately for all of us, the whole series (13 books anyway), is already published.
A distinct lack of an ending doesn't detract much from what I got out of the book as a whole. Characters are important here, and not just the main one. Aside from being introduced to Scott Coleman (Navy Seal extraordinaire), we get lots of interesting input from DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) Stansfield, his underling Irene Kennedy, President Hayes, General Flood (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) and a plethora of senators, chairpersons and aides that keep the political intrigue pegged in the red. There's lots going on here, and lots more to learn in the next installment.
keeps you on edge and is most personal of Rapp books. shows his humanity.
"1/2 a story!"
This is a great start of a story but it's like a TV series. The author has clear designs on making this a two or more book series. That's fine but that should be indicated prior to buying the book. I feel cheated. Bo Hiss Mr Flynn just handed me a "Mickey Flynn" and you know it.
"Flynn is the best"
I intend to read all of the rest of the Flynn series I wish he was still here to create some more great stories
"The Third Option"
I read this book back in the early 2000's and enjoyed it then. I have just purchased the audio version and have again found the characters engaging, the story intriguing and the political infighting very disturbing!
If you are new to Vince Flynn read the books in order. He is a writer who will be missed.
"Thoroughly entertaining"
Loved this book. Clever "political" thriller revolving around the secretive world of the CIA and the protection of "the Land of The Free". While dirty deeds and treachery are the corner stones of the "Intelligence" world there is a clear distinction made between the " baddies and the good guys" . A thoroughly entertaining yarn not as cerebrally challenging as a John le Carre but more substantial, believable and rewarding than a typical James Bond.
"Not bad!"
A little too intricate in the upper levels of Washington and not enough Mitch Rapp action! Still a good story though!
"Another great Mitch adventure"
Another fast pace adventure for Mitch, found myself driving the long way home just to be in the car longer.
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Recently Black Girl Dangerous, the ultimate proving ground for un-ironic post-modernist identity politics, featured an article by a "fat brown goddess" wistfully complaining that The Great White Cultural Leviathan had "colonized" everyone's perceptions of love and beauty. Like most BGD posts, Caleb Luna's article is a veritable gold mine for those of us suffering from a morbid fascination with the latest antics of the Social Justice Community. The sad tale begins with an immediate blame-shift phrased like a catechism in the opening sentence:
That's right, there's a systemic white supremacist meme underlying all romantic interactions in society and informing individuals that they are forbidden to love the "brown boys." The tone from the outset is immediately set on denying personal agency and claiming that all one's tribulations and lack of romantic success hinge upon some vast, nebulous oppressive force that unjustly deprives this sad sack of shit from ever getting the love he so clearly deserves. (Oops, I think I just became part of the problem.) Luna continues to articulate his case in increasing detail: > "Colonization indoctrinates us into the romantic idolization of thinness, whiteness, and masculinity—in ourselves and others. How do I, as a fat, brown, femme, decolonize my desire so I can desire myself? How do I love myself in a world that tells me I am not lovable? How can I decolonize my desire so I won't ever again compulsively glance at a skinny boy who refuse to see me as the goddess I am?" Brace yourself gentle reader, this diabetic, bedazzled monstrosity goes further than merely blaming the nefarious machinations of "colonization" for others not finding him attractive, *he actually holds this phenomena responsible for why he feels disgusted in himself.* Now that's even more brazen than his obvious disregard for statistics on obesity and rates of diabetes among Hispanics. Caleb fails to find himself desirable because of "colonization," not because being grossly overweight is a naturally unattractive state of affairs. The author will eventually go full nihilist in an attempt to absolve himself of the burden of being attractive, but first he has to get a bovine rumination about the concept of romantic love out of his fat system: > "Romantic love, as we understand it, is a colonial construct. It is an all-consuming, possessive, lifelong, monogamous endeavor that works to sustain capitalism and white supremacist heteropatriarchy via the nuclear family. We are told that this romantic love is essential, shaping it as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Were we to sustain ourselves on self-love, platonic love, and love of community, what could change? We could see the beauty of our interdependence, rather than individuals competing for higher wages and standards of living at the expense of each other." Yes, the very concept of romantic love itself is a "colonial construct" by those dastardly white supremacist capitalist "heteropatriarchs." *If you can't acquire romantic love, why not just piss all over the very idea of romance itself?* Instead of "romantic love," we should just be hedonistic narcissists that see the "beauty of our interdependence," whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. Presumably Caleb's lack of success in romance has left him so distressed he cannot even bear to see others enjoy it, and would prefer to substitute something less oppressive and "more communal" than the idea of two people finding each other deserving of exclusive dedication. At no point should the reader find themselves wondering if Luna is merely trading a "colonial construct" for a different social construct of his own devising. As we well know, this is definitely not a [game of dissolving one oppressive concept to replace it with another](http://therightstuff.biz/2013/09/25/the-double-edged-sword/). *We're trying to do real Social Progress here.* So what's the Final Frontier of this voyage? > "In her piece "Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability," Mia Mingus pushes us to transcend a beauty binary and move towards what she calls magnificence, an embracement of the Ugly and the diversity of the body—of every body. Mingus frames beauty as an inherently exclusionary construction that erases people of color, trans and gender non-conforming folks, and disabled folks, specifically." In other words, because not everyone is beautiful and some of us are waddling, misshapen, poorly dressed landwhales about to suffer an impending Cardiac Event, we should, of course, *just get rid of the very concept of beauty itself.* If you don't like what you see in the mirror, just ban all reflective devices. Since the binary of calling something "ugly," and another thing "beautiful" oppresses and shames the ones who don't make the cut, we need to abandon the standard altogether. Naturally, the idea of something being beautiful was obviously just the product of conniving white supremacists attempting to "erase" anyone that doesn't fit their racist preferences anyway. Speaking of preferences, this is really what Caleb Luna is alluding to: He, like most of this unhealthy later day breed of Social Justice Warriors, feels that other people having preferences is a priori oppressive and wishes to live in a world where no one ever desires one type of thing over another. Preferences are by their very nature exclusionary, and rather than change oneself to suit the preferences of others, it's "preferable" to these spoiled, narcissistic prima donnas to stamp their feet and demand society itself change to suit them. This sort of behavior could be well characterized as a form of tactical nihilism, applied to concepts and standards they themselves fail to make the grade on. The question is, assuming someone snapped their fingers and all oppressive "heteropatriarchal" standards evaporated, would people suddenly find Caleb Luna "lovable" for who he is? The tacit assumption is of course that he's being discriminated against out of some form of racism and his lack of romantic success has nothing to do with any deficits within himself as an individual. Of course, the real answer to Caleb Luna's dilemma is simple: He's a fat, disgusting, weird homo, and even among the degenerate LGBBQWTF community, no one finds him attractive in the first place. This has fuck-all to do with white supremacist standards of beauty and everything to do with not being slovenly hambeast.
"Falling in love is dangerous for brown boys because, under white supremacy, we are not people to love."


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There's A Ramen Burger, You Guys
This was bound to happen someday, and of course, it happened in Japan. Burger joint Lotteria teamed up with ramen restaurant Menya Musashi to create a--you guessed it--ramen burger.
Two burger buns sandwich a pork cutlet, mayo and a bed of lightly fried ramen noodles. The concoction is served with "katsuo dashi," a Japanese broth.
I know what I'm making with my spicy Nong Shim noodles tonight!
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Network Reliability Engineer - Production
Dropbox simplifies the way people work together. Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Dropbox to work the way they want, on any device, wherever they go. As we scale our global brand, there's plenty of space for you to grow alongside us and simplify life for millions of people globally.
Your role and impact
Our Tech Operations team crafts the layer from which all Dropbox experiences are built. As our user base and product family continues to grow, tech operations is responsible for strengthening our foundation.
As a part of Network Reliability Engineering, you will be responsible for building, operating, and writing tools for the production network. In this role, you will benefit from close collaboration with engineering and serving teams.
- You will keep the AS19679 production network running with an emphasis on scale and automation
- Build software and systems to handle and monitor the network (common languages are Python and Go)
- Work cross-functionally with serving, engineering, and development teams to maintain a highly available, highly performant infrastructure
- You will participate in periodic on-call rotation
- This position will require less than 20% travel
- You have a BA/BS degree in a relevant engineering field or equivalent practical experience
- You hold 1-3 years of experience building, deploying, and operating production-facing networks
- Hands-on experience with Linux systems and programming, CLI, shells, daemons, and processes
- Working knowledge with protocols, such as BGP, ISIS, IPv6, SNMP, NetFlow, etc.
- Familiarity with network hardware & operating systems, such as Juniper, Cisco, Arista, etc.
- You have experience with QOS, MPLS, and DWDM [is a plus]
Benefits and Perks
- 100% company paid individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
- 401k + company match
- Market competitive total compensation package
- Free Dropbox space for your friends and family
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Generous vacation policy
- 10 company paid holidays
- Volunteer time off
- Company sponsored tech talks (technology and other relevant professional topics)
Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure people feel supported and connected at work. Groups like Women at Dropbox, [email protected], Black Dropboxers, and Pridebox (for LGBTQ employees and allies) are a big part of that effort.
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Does 'BlackPad' Mean RIM Will Change Operating System Soon?
Is BlackBerry 6 doomed before it even really gets off the ground?
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is coming out with a tablet — unofficially dubbed the "BlackPad" by some in the company — and it's not going to use the new operating system, the Journal's Phred Dvorak and Ting-i Tsai are reporting. Not only that, but RIM plans to eventually move its smartphones to the same system the tablet uses, they write.
And well-known Wall Street tech analyst Shaw Wu writes in a note today that "after spending some time with industry sources and power users," he believes "RIM should consider moving at least part of its product line to Android."
It's a no-brainer for RIM to introduce a tablet, given the success of Apple's iPad. But it's a little surprising that the tablet won't be using BlackBerry 6, which was just introduced in August with the BlackBerry Torch. Instead, the company is going with a totally new platform built by QNX Software Systems, which RIM acquired earlier this year. The software is described by testers as a worthy competitor to Apple's iOS operating system and Google's Android, which have shaken up the mobile market and forced rivals like RIM to play catch-up.


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Common Fibers MAX Carbon Fiber Minimalist Wallet
- The first continuous carbon fiber wallet
- Choose Black Lining, Blue Lining, or Red Lining
- 6 card slots, bill compartment, and 2 pockets behind the card slots
Have the most high-tech butt in the roomEverybody has a wallet. Okay, not everybody. But many people, and most guys. You can pick up your classic bifold wallet in any department store. But we bet you haven't seen this one there.
Meet the Common Fibers MAX Carbon Fiber Minimalist Wallet. It's the first continuous carbon fiber wallet. What's that mean? Well, most carbon fiber wallets have a slice of carbon fiber on the front and a piece on the back. Common Fibers cleverly wondered, "If we thinned out the resin coating on the carbon fiber, could we fold it?" And voila. One continuous piece. It gives you an extra angle of RFID protection and 15% more coolness.* The interior is made from a ripstop fiber intended for outdoor use, so it's water and stain resistant no matter which color you choose. And your bills will fit inside unless your last name is Armani or Prada, in which case we're guessing you already have your accessories covered.
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- Common Fibers MAX Carbon Fiber Minimalist Wallet
- Choose Black Lining, Blue Lining, or Red Lining
- The first continuous carbon fiber wallet
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- 6 card slots, bill compartment, and 2 pockets behind the card slots
- Bill compartment can easily fit up to 10 bills, foreign and domestic (see measurements)
- Wallet ships in a box suitable for gifting
- Materials: Aerospace-grade resin-coated 3K carbon fiber exterior + DirecTex Y-Diamond 300 Ripstop PV
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- The carbon fiber in each wallet is cut with a water jet
- Tensile Strength: 1066 lbs.
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- After 50K opens, the hinge was only 8% weaker (if you open your wallet twice a day, that'd take 68 years)
- Dimensions: 3.4" x 4.3" x 0.3" thick; 3.125" deep x 8" long bill compartment - high denomination Euro notes (100, 200, 500) stick out the top by 0.1"
- Weight: 3 oz.
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- Handmade in the U.S.A.
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