Caught in the Slyyderweb

Ok initial layout/colour change done, might do more and customise this or a different layout more when I have more time

Now to search for some fresh blood... ummm I mean ideas/people :-)

Woah, this has the potential to be a huge story... Google and others hacked by sources out of China attempting to access info/gmail of Human Rights Activists, and now looking at stopping or closing down their filtered google.cn site/engine

A new approach to China

1/12/2010 03:00:00 PM
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different.

First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities.

Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Based on our investigation to date we believe their attack did not achieve that objective. Only two Gmail accounts appear to have been accessed, and that activity was limited to account information (such as the date the account was created) and subject line, rather than the content of emails themselves.
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To all my friends, old and new, whatever your thoughts, beliefs or practices, here's a thought for you, hoping the next few days are full of happiness, joy, and pleasure... enjoy the song, enjoy the festivities, and enjoy the new years/decade ahead :-)

Quotes of the day

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
- George Carlin
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams

I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don’t care about clever I don’t care about funny
I want loads of clothes and fuck loads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

And i’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
Cause everyone knows that’s how you get famous
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah I’m on to a winner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cause I’m being taken over by the fear

Life’s about film stars and less about mothers
It’s all about fast cars and cussing each other
But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic
and that’s what makes my life so fucking fantastic

And I am a weapon of massive consumption
And its not my fault it’s how I’m programmed to function
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah we're on to a winner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cause I’m being taken over by the fear

Forget about guns and forget ammunition
Cause I’m killing them all on my own little mission
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
Now everything's cool as long as I’m gettin thinner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cause I’m being taken over by fear

Lily Allen - The Fear

Liberal MP rubbishes human link to climate change

By Online parliamentary correspondent Emma Rodgers

Federal Liberal MP Dennis Jensen says the cause of climate change is still in dispute and has attacked environmentalists as "anti-democratic alarmists".

Dr Jensen, who has spoken out previously on the issue, has also called for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to be disbanded.

His comments come as the Coalition struggles with internal division on climate change policy.

In a speech to open the Australian Environment Foundation's annual conference in Canberra today, Dr Jensen said the question of whether climate change was caused by human activity was still up for debate.
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My thoughts... well first and foremost, I am glad that I have recently moved and this guy is no longer my local member!

In regards to the debate over whether this is purely natural ecological change or human induced, well while I am not an expert (then again I dont think this is Dr Jensens area of study/expertise either) like many things it probably comes down to some combination of the two factors. It may be part of a natural ecological cycle but what we do and produce I am sure would at the very least have amplified any effects.

To me, that then becomes the key point, in that whatever was the key driver or instigator, we can have an effect and help lessen the impacts by changing what we do and output, not just in terms of overall global warming but on our day to day health and living. To say that "oh these behaviours didn't cause or create it" does not mean that we still shouldn't change those behaviours to lessen the problem. That to me is like a patient saying "Oh it wasn't my diet that caused my diabetes, that came from genetic/hereditary reasons, so why should I change my diet to try and fix it?"

In the end, no matter what the cause was, if there are actions that can be taken to try and solve a problem then surely it is worth trying. Even if it may not be a direct benefit, it has to help the general health and well-being of our home, this planet. To continue on the previous medical analogy, it may be that changing the diet doesn't directly fix the diabetes, but if it helps improve your general underlying health and well-being, its got to make coping and dealing with the other problems easier.

Happy end for Humpty after controversial rewrite

The West Australian October 19, 2009, 5:47 am

Accident-prone nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty has been given a happier ending thanks to some controversial tweaking of his story by the BBC.

Britain's public broadcaster changed the words to the 1810 rhyme for one of its children's shows so all those who originally couldn't "put Humpty together again" after his great fall could now make "Humpty happy again".

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OK for all the Politically Correct wowsers out there, leave our classics alone! We do not need these sanitised, kids today can deal with it, we lived with it and didn't come out scarred!Or are they saying that Humpty being scrambled and Little Miss Muffett being scared of spiders is to blame for all of modern societies woes? Ok I will admit the Noddy/Gollywog thing I am a little more ambivilent on, especially as thats new books or material, not rewriting old stories... but even so...

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has not been able to get in to facebook all morning... *shudders and shakes* so this is what withdrawal feels like...

And more specifically, the editors and headline writers... seems that spending 2 years in australia from age 11 now qualifies you to be defined as an "Aussie"... at least for attention grabbing purposes...

I mean its still a sad and shocking story... but "Aussie porn star"? really?

Aussie porn star's brutal death