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(visited by Dariusz Stefan and Anna Tomczak-Stefan)
03-May-2001 -- 03-May-2001. Confluence 54N 022E is located 15km to the ESE of Gizycko.
Third confluence from a trip of 8
3km North of Wydminy on the marvellous Wydminy Lake there is a curiosity - a wooden footbridge spanning its sides. In the morning, after breakfast we set off to see the Boyen fortress and on eastwards. We found the confluence (10:45, 531st kilometer) across the lakeside road, in the field. Luckily, the buildings nearby seemed deserted, so we took our time to locate the zeros and take photos. Then on towards the east...
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Word of LinkedIn's recent lawsuit against unknown defendants is quickly spreading across the internet – and it's not just about finding out who is scraping the site. There seems to be a clear message embedded in the 17-page complaint, filed on Monday by the company in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California: any activity on this 'professional network' which negatively impacts its product offering (read: revenue streams) will be pursued - and prosecuted., an unusually aggressive approach to litigation designed to prove that when it comes to misappropriating LinkedIn's intellectual property, "you can run, but you can't hide."
LinkedIn claims that Defendants created thousands of fake profiles and used them to run automatic scraping programs via virtual machines hosted by Amazon Web Services. Amazon is not named in the suit, but will be subpoenaed by LinkedIn to discover the IP addresses of the alleged hackers. LinkedIn will then need to subpoena associated payment records and/or the ISPs connected to the addresses to track down the individuals. It will then amend the complaint to include the discovered Defendants. This is not an uncommon practice in data breach litigation.
The damages claimed by LinkedIn include various allegations as to disruption of the accuracy and integrity of the site because of the fake profiles, strain to its servers caused by the scraping programs and the time and resources wasted responding to the Defendants' activity.
But what's really at the center of this lawsuit? LinkedIn Recruiter. According to the complaint, this remains one of LinkedIn's "fastest growing services," which has grown to over 16,000 customers and clients currently paying for access to this notoriously expensive service, including 90% of the Fortune 100. According to the complaint, "corporate recruiters and headhunters purchase LinkedIn Recruiter memberships in order to search ... the entire LinkedIn network for top candidate's names and profiles ... including passive candidates who might not be looking for a job."
In fact, LinkedIn Recruiter is specifically mentioned in the complaint more than 10 times.[1] Among allegations threatening "ongoing and irreparable injury to LinkedIn," the complaint states:
"by pilfering member data from the LinkedIn site, the Doe Defendants misconduct threatens to degrade the value of LinkedIn's Recruiter product, which LinkedIn has invested substantially in over the years. On information and belief, the Doe Defendants, who have invested none of their own time and resources into developing and building the LinkedIn platform, have engaged in their scraping activities in an attempt to establish competing recruiting websites and usurp LinkedIn's Recruiter product."[2]
LinkedIn has already shut down the fake accounts and implemented "additional technological barriers" to protect its data, however the lawsuit seeks additional enforceable protections (injunctive relief) as well as damages (money), attorney's fees and "all profits attributable to the Doe Defendants' wrongful acts to be proven at trial."[3]
There are 6 claims listed in the complaint, and most of them require the company prove it used some form of technological barriers to protect itself. Scrapping is explicitly barred by LinkedIn's User Agreement and its robot.txt file; however the company goes on to support its claims by listing additional technological measures it takes to protect its data. The practices include limiting the level of activity on individual profiles, monitoring IP addresses for unusually high activity and CAPTCHA protections to prevent automatic registration of multiple new accounts.[4]
Craigslist v. 3Taps[5] recently told us that, at least in the Northern District of California, tracking suspicious activity and blocking an IP address is sufficient to create a technological barrier for otherwise publically accessible sites under the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. §1030 ct seq. LinkedIn is telling us in this lawsuit that they are tracking suspicious activity to IP addresses, not just individual user accounts.
Read between the lines here, because this is where it gets important. Only two of the claims, Breach of Contract and Misappropriation, actually rely on the LinkedIn User Agreement. If successful, the other claims may set a precedent that would apply to anyone that accesses and scrapes the site, not just logged-in members.
LinkedIn may never actually find the individuals responsible for scraping data in this particular instance, but that may not be the point. This suit sends a message from anyone collecting information from LinkedIn profiles without its permission – especially companies that use the information to enhance a tool marketed to recruiters. If I ran a profile aggregation service, I would certainly be keeping an eye on this case and taking a good look at my data collection practices right about now. Because the potential claims against you could, like those listed in the Complaint, include:
Read the full complaint here: LinkedIn Corp. v. Does, 14-cv-00068, U.S. District Court, Northern ...
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Linked In is showing its true colors now.
@ Derdriver: You're surprised that LI is acting like this? It's ALWAYS worked to increase it's power and control.
@keith, sarcasm my friend, sarcasm.
@ Derdirver. : That's my thing (sarcasm)- get your own! ;)
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Collateral Damage, a surprisingly bad Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, sets the bar another notch lower for the Austrian Oak. Once a reliable frontman for stupid but guaranteed-to-be-fun big-budget action flicks, Schwarzenegger at 54 seems to be poised to compete with Clint Eastwood for lower-octane thriller employment.
Arnie plays Gordon Brewer (how come he's never named Gerhard Thuswaldner? just asking...), a Washington, D.C. firefighter who turns into an avenging commando when his wife and tot are wiped out by a terrorist blast. Due to the obvious "hot button" details in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Warner got volumes of free publicity in the interim between its original opening date in the fall of 2001 and the early, sparse days of 2002 (though obviously made well before 9/11, Damage manages to be offensive anyway by exploiting memories of other domestic bombings for this schlock). But even amid the slim pickings of the movie graveyard season, director Andrew Davis seems intent to prove that The Fugitive was some kind of miracle exception in a career of deadly duds. After skipping Under Siege 2, Davis is attached to Under Siege 3, which is a promising sign that Davis is going the way of Commando director Mark L. Lester.
Commando keeps coming to mind, as Collateral Damage plays like a de facto remake, though the former film's brainless action pornography is almost charming, certainly unpretentious, and eminently watchable in comparison to Davis's film, with its consistently preposterous plot matched with a stubbornly straight face. Recalling the spate of early-90s Die Hard ripoffs with "ordinary" guys taking action, one baddie scoffs, "He's just a fireman" (Davis's Under Siege had Steven Seagal intoning "I'm just a cook"). But like all those misguided films, Collateral Damage forgets to add any vulnerability or even develop a genuine sense of peril for Schwarzenegger. He simply devours each obstacle set in front of him like a champeen pie-eater, and waves for the next.
Making matters worse, Schwarzenegger finds himself pitted against terrorist villain Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini (Cliff Curtis, looking for all the world like a slightly less cartoony version of Art Malik's all-purpose ethnic villain in Arnie's True Lies), and paired for much of the film's running time with pouty-lipped femme fatale Francesca Neri, who plays "The Wolf"'s wife. With Schwarzenegger in serious, threatening-to-cry mode and surrounded by colorless performers, Johns Leguizamo and Turturro provide a modicum of distraction in their respective ludicrous roles.
But no one is safe from the inept screenplay--the product of three presumably well-compensated "writers"--or Davis's hamhanded direction. His unmemorable action sequences here include a poorly-staged opening (the public bombing which seems to surgically take out only Schwarzenegger's family) and a waterfall leap which Davis rips off from his own The Fugitive. In justifying another disturbing, Hollywood-sanctioned revenge mission, Schwarzenegger's Brewer remarks, "If I don't do it, it seems no one else will," but that's a lousy excuse for both murder and the existence of a multi-million dollar mistake like this one.
Collateral Damage gets a solid next-gen upgrade from Warner in an A/V transfer that handily bests its DVD equivalent. Color and detail are vibrant, black level is strong, and film grain retains the film's theatrical appearance. The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio options likewise effectively recreate the theatrical experience. Though this isn't a reference-quality disc, it certainly gets the job done nicely for a lower-tier catalog title.
In bonus features, there's a commentary by Andrew Davis that covers the basics about production and post-production (including the location shoot) and working with a star of Arnold's magnitude.
The HBO First Look special "The Making of Collateral Damage" (14:49, SD) features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Davis, Cliff Curtis, producer Steven Reuther, Francesca Neri, and producer David Foster.
"The Hero in a New Era: Reflections on Collateral Damage" (8:43, SD) talks around the touchy timing of the post-9/11 release, in comments from Davis and Schwarzenegger.
Last up are "Additional Scenes" (7:55, SD) and the "Theatrical Trailer" (2:09, SD).
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Destination | Pompeii |
Starting point | Positano, Praiano |
Positano or Praiano to Pompei private transfer
Pompeii was an ancient roman town-city near modern Naples, in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the common of Pompeii. With Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has been a tourist destination for over 250 years. Today it has UNESCO Word Heritage Side status and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year. For this reason if you came here for your holiday you cannot miss the chance to visit at list once this place and for make you easier the organization for your transport we can pick up you from Positano or Praiano and bring you to Pompeii(or Castellamare di Stabia) . You will have a private car or minivan only for you at the time you want and the duration of this service will be about fifty minutes or more. If you fill in the relative form our staff will organize this transfer for you and they will give you all the information you need, with pleasure.


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Grand launch of Deshi Tender – the best source of tender and procurement information in Bangladesh
Jun 11th
It's a pleasure to announce that today we have released the first online product, Deshi Tender, of our company. Please find it here:
Deshi Tender is the best source of all tender and procurement information in Bangladesh. We collect tender information from various sources – newspapers, websites and sometimes directly from companies.
The purpose of this website is to ease the life of the (1) contractors who collect tender notices from many sources everyday, (2) company executives who publish their tender and/or procurement information to many newspapers, and (3) individuals who keep track of their desired tender information from various places. Deshi Tender works for all of them above.
We collect all tender and procurement information from national dailies, websites, and all possible tender sources and then publish those to our website. And then we notify our customers (by email) about the latest tender information – once/twice a day.
If you are contractor or a company, please join Deshi Tender today and enjoy maximum facilities in the occasion of inauguration.
Please visit the site. Your comments and feedback are most welcome.
OS CLiCKS is going to launch Deshi Tender – a tender and procurement service in Bangladesh
Apr 19th
OS CLiCKS is going to launch its first online product Deshi Tender. Deshi Tender is targeted to be the best source of tender and procurement information in Bangladesh. We are at the end of its development and hoping to release it next month.
Deshi Tender will be different than other tender service providers in Bangladesh. We classify tender information by category, organization and city/region/division. It's easy to find and filter your expected tender information. We tried to use the latest web technology so visitors experience never go negative. It is going to be sophisticated website with easy navigation, easy to understand & use features, etc.
Please keep your eyes on this URL: http://www.deshitender.com/


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So, I told everyone that I was coerced into invited to write some Chick Lit over at ChapterBytes, right? Well, I wrote my chapter today and I sent it over. But because you are all loyal readers I thought I'd give you the first look at the chapter.
The story is called "Foodie", and so far it is about a woman named Malorie who enters a culinary school and is paired up with some uber-dude named Evan (the girls writing this story all really seem to like Evan for some reason or another). As the story progresses the romance grows (you'll have to read the chapters for the details), until in the prior chapter to mine we see Malorie totally peeved that some uber-chick named Celine seems to have taken a shine to Evan. Instant hatred, apparently.
So, my chapter follows this initial realization that Malorie hates Celine in a really insane kind of way.
Foodie: Chapter 6
That night she made some calls.
"Hello, Hiro?"
"This is Malorie. Do you remember a little promise you made to me after I pulled you out of the path of that runaway tank?"
"Well, I need that favor paid back. Can you meet me outside the Blue Agave restaurant at ten tonight?"
"Hey. Warner."
"Oh, hi Malorie."
"Warner I need some help. Can you meet me outside the Blue Agave restaurant at ten tonight?"
"Sure Malorie. Should I bring anything?"
"How about some arsenic?"
"You got it, babe."
"Hey! Remember what happened the last time you called me "babe". Do you want to lose your other kidney?"
"Sorry ma'am. I'll see you later."
She waited in the dark, just outside the golden glow of the wall lamp outside the back door of the Blue Agave. At promptly ten she heard footsteps, and she called out: "Hi Warner."
"How did you know it was me?" he asked.
"Because I'm only expecting two people here tonight and one of them makes no sound at all when he moves. In fact, I'm going to go ahead and guess that he's already here…aren't you Hiro?"
"Hiro, Warner. Warner, Hiro."
"Gentleman. I have a problem. I would like you to help me solve this problem. Her name is Celine Richelieu…"
"I love her father's restaurant!" exclaimed Warner.
"You aren't making yourself any friends here, bub."
"Anyway, Celine Richelieu thinks she can get any guy she wants, and she has aimed her grabby little hands and perky boobs at a guy I'm kind of interested in. So…Warner. I'd like you to slip into her father's…."
"I gotcha…poison the coq au vin, right?"
"Exactly. I want him ruined. When people hear the name 'Richelieu' I want them to remember gagging, gasping death. And Hiro…"
"I want you to…."
"Ninja the hell out of her?"
"You got it babe."
"Thanks Hiro."
"Hey!" Warner shouted, "why does Hiro get to call you 'babe' without you threatening to take his kidney?"
"Because Hiro is a time-traveling, time-stopping, super-ninja from NBC's hit show Heroes. He can get away with a lot of stuff that you can't, kidney-boy."
"Gotcha babe. Aw, dammit!"
"It's too bad about Warner."
"Yeah, but what was I supposed to do? Just let him call me 'babe' and not take his other kidney?"
"True, but now who's going to poison all of Richelieu's customers?"
A shadow slipped from rooftop to rooftop, eventually stopping at the edge of one grand New York palace. Flipping over the side it slithered into an opening no human ought to have been able to squeeze into.
Hiro pulled out his awesome ninja sword and crept along the hallway leading to Celine's apartment. He ninja'd his way past the locked door and into her bedroom. He raised his awesome ninja sword and brought it slicing down onto the Celine-shaped lump on the bed.
"Coward!" came Celine's voice from above. Hiro looked up and there she was, dressed in her wizard's robes and floating above him. A fireball lanced out from her hands "Ha-do-ken!" she yelled.
Hiro immediately teleported back to Malorie.
"What happened? Why do you smell like baby-back ribs?"
"She knew I was coming. She is too powerful. She is a wizard!"
"Oh, fuck her."
Malorie pondered for a second. "Okay, now she knows we're up to something, so you'd better go stand watch over Evan. I don't want her getting anywhere near him."
"Hai. But what will you do?"
"I'm going to go get my troll-powered laser tank out of storage. Then I'm going to blast her into oblivion, and then I'm going to marry Evan and we're going to have lots of perfect babies. You can be the ring-bearer."
Oh, of course that isn't the real chapter (although I really did send that one in first.)
For the real chapter go on over to ChapterBytes and read my very first attempt at Chick Lit. It may not be up yet, but it should be up soon.


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MintBox 2 is finally available in Europe and can be ordered directly from Amazon:
This is great news for European customers as they no longer need to order from Israel or from the USA, thus saving on customs and shipping.
Note about stocks: Some of you already spotted it on Amazon. We had to delay this announcement as we ran out of stock. This is the 2nd shipment, but as I'm writing this, there are only 4 units left in Germany, and they're already gone in the UK. We'll get in touch with CompuLab regarding a 3rd shipment. If you're interested in this product and can't get your hands on it, please contact CompuLab for info on upcoming stock.
Update from CompuLab: "Next shipment to amazon.de is scheduled for Sunday 23-Mar. It is expected to be available 31-Mar. UK and DE is actually served by the same warehouse in Germany. We are still working on the listing at Amazon UK, but UK residents can order anytime from amazon.de"


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Tangerang Nightlife: Exploring BSD and Serpong
I've been living in Tangerang for over a month now and I've had a few occasions to visit the bars and nightclubs there. This review will give you a short overview of the nightlife in Tangerang and more precisely in the new cities Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) and Gading Serpong. Note : If you need a hotel, please check Serpong Hotel Deals and Tangerang Hotel Deals (I make a small commission on every booking but the price does not change for you and it helps me maintain Jakarta100bars). Overview of Tangerang Enigma Nightclub in Gading Serpong


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ZURICH (AFP) - A Swiss luxury boutique denied any wrongdoing on Friday after US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey claimed she had been the subject of racism when a shop assistant allegedly refused to show her an expensive handbag.
Winfrey, one of the richest women in the world, said she had been in Zurich for US singer Tina Turner's wedding in July and had spotted a swanky crocodile handbag while out shopping.
"I'm in a store, a name-brand store. I'm by myself, absolutely nobody else with me. And I say to the woman, 'I would like to see that bag on the shelf'," Winfrey told fellow US talk show host Larry King on Internet channel ora.tv.
"And she says, 'No, that one's too expensive. I'll show you this one'," said Winfrey.
She did not directly describe the incident as racist, but recounted it after telling King of a "racist moment" in New York years ago when she and her hairdresser were refused entry to a luxury store which had been robbed by two black people.
Ms Trudie Goetz, head of the Swiss luxury chain Trois Pommes, denied her saleswoman had ever sought to stop Winfrey buying the bag.
"Everyone wants to sell a crocodile bag," Goetz told AFP.
"It's a misunderstanding," she said, adding that the saleswoman always put the customer first and tried to be "too kind".
"She explained how beautiful the bag was, then she said, 'Honestly this bag costs 35,000 Swiss francs, but I can show you other versions in ostrich, in pure leather and in velour'," Goetz said.
That sum is worth US$38,000 (S$48,000) - small change for Winfrey, whose wealth is estimated at US$2.8 billion by Forbes magazine.
On its Twitter feed, Switzerland Tourism apologised and said the saleswoman had behaved inappropriately.
Winfrey joked that she had been tempted to buy up the entire store, recalling a scene in the movie "Pretty Woman" where Julia Roberts' prostitute character has the last laugh in a snobbish shop.
"I wanted to create a Pretty Woman moment and come back and buy everything and say, 'Big mistake!'. But then I thought she'd get a commission, to let's not do that," she told King.
Goetz said no disciplinary action was planned against the saleswoman.
"She's a great person. She's highly qualified. She also works in the shop in St Moritz and she takes care of prestigious clients," she said.
Trois Pommes was still considering how to respond to the claims, and would take legal advice, she added.
Winfrey, 59, was last month named the most powerful celebrity in the world by Forbes.


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With the US facing two wars and a flagging economy, are this year's midterm campaigns facing facts or creating mythologies? Are the media doing their job of keeping politicians honest? Also, the FBI searches UPS planes for suspicious packages, and Google set out to organize the world's information, but there's much more -- wind farms, self-driving cars and Manhattan real estate.
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