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Strong Passwords Aren't Enough: How to to Ensure the Apple and Amazon Exploit Never Happens to You

This weekend, former Gizmodo writer Mat Honan lived every tech geeks worst nightmare: he got hacked, with all his accounts compromised and his computers wiped with no backup. The scary part: No "real" hacking was involved—all it took was a few support calls to Apple and Amazon and nearly all his most important accounts were compromised. Here's everything you need to do now to keep this from happening to you. More »

1K Lifehacker / by Whitson Gordon an... / 9 hours ago

Dear Craigslist: We Need to Talk

Craigslist started off as a friendly alternative to the slow, limited world of printed classified ads, offering everything from used furniture to apartment sublets to "romance." While that much hasn't changed, the company is now taking action against third party developers and inhibiting its users. This doesn't sit well with me, and I don't think it should with you either. More »

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Iran pledges support as Syria fighting rages

Senior Iranian official meets Assad in Damascus as new deaths are reported in Aleppo where troops are battling rebels.

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Winds of Change at the Edge of the Solar System

As the venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft hurtles ever outward, breaking through the very borders of our solar system at staggering speeds upwards of 35,000 mph, it’s sending back information about the curious region of space where the Sun’s outward flow of energetic particles meets the more intense cosmic radiation beyond — a boundary called the heliosheath.Voyager 1 has been traveling through this region for the past seven years, all the while its instruments registering gradually increasing levels of cosmic ray particles. But recently the levels have been jumping up and down, indicating somethi

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montreal and massachusetts, polar opposites on animal welfare: please take action

This post is a classic case of "Which do you want first, the bad news or the good news?" But unfortunately for dogs and the people who love them, this is no joke.Last week, a dog named Wicca was put to death in Montreal. I was too upset to write about it or even face many of the details. The dog, a pitbull, was accused of biting someone, yet there was credible evidence the dog had not done so. An

36 wmtc / by laura k / 14 hours ago

Ronan Parke - We Are Shooting

Better than Justin Bieber.

3 aangirfan / by Anon / 7 hours ago

Crowdsource Request: New Books in SF and Fantasy

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I am now chief interviewer for the New Books Network's SF and Fantasy channel. I've got some exciting authors lined up for launch, and a few more who have agreed to record in September. But my response rate has dropped off dramatically in the last two weeks.In retrospect, August might not have been the best time to start interviewing.Anyway, I'm hoping that

6 The Duck of Miner... / by Dan Nexon / 9 hours ago

Waiting For Godot

I've been watching the past couple weeks especially as the little berries on my ash trees begin to ripen. Even this evening they are more red than the orange they appear in the photo here. Long work shifts over the summer months so far have meant I've really had precious little time to do much hiking, though I certainly have taken full advantage when opportunities arise. My trees' b

3 Fort McMurray Adv... / by Way Way Up / 52 min

Adams’s supporters starting to sound Australian

2 Not PC / 4 hours ago

The Other Reasons for Invading Syria

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Ray Evans reviews The Denialist Victory

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Obama Super PAC Waiting To Unload On Mitt Romney’s Embrace Of Paul Ryan Budget

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks in Milwaukee, Wis., on March 30, 2012, with House Budget Committee Chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) looking on. (Steven Senne / AP) Huff Post Jon Ward Posted: 08/07/2012 10:21 am Updated: 08/07/2012 10:54 am Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes caused a stir this week when they encouraged Mitt Romney to pick Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) or Sen. Marco Rubi

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The EnvironmentaList

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Quito Grown

In Ecuador, urban farms provide an antidote to rising food prices

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Chevron Refinery Explosion Clouds SF Bay Area

Living next to Chevron is like living "with a bully standing over you," says Richmond resident

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The Corbett Report

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Violation of Consent: Fluoridation and Forced Medication

by James Corbett boilingfrogspost.com August 7, 2012 Ever since Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cinematic classic “Dr. Strangelove” was released, it has become fashionable for those who have wished to avoid the debate over the fluoridation of the water supply to engage in the rhetorical equivalent of stuffing their fingers into their ears and singing “I can’t hear you” by alluding to General Ripper’s infam

100+ gem The Corbett Repor... / by Corbett / 14 hours ago

Stopping the Empire with Eric Draitser

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com joins us once again to go over the latest geopolitical news from around the world, from Syria to Africa to the South China Sea. We discuss the context and background behind the headlines and sensationalism of the mainstream press and examine the imperial conquest that underlies the mainstream lies. CLICK HERE for the audio of this radio broadcast.

6 gem The Corbett Repor... / by Corbett / 18 hours ago

Corbett Report Radio 191 – Stopping the Empire with Eric Draitser

18 gem The Corbett Repor... / by Corbett / 20 hours ago

NewsPirates/From the Quarterdeck

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Digging in these 7 variations of brought in shades expands the assortment of sunshine shielding items that Cheap oakleys holds

The add-on of these 7 different styles of shipped in sun shades grows the array of sunshine protective goods that Cheap oakleys bears and remains the aim of http://www.lovecheapsunglasses.com/ to help those have a lifetime of good health through providing attractive and comfy sunshine protective goods that are of the top and trustworthiness at cheap pricing.It is very important safeguard face from

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Obama calls for strengthening gun rules, Reid says no time for debate

Obama calls for strengthening gun rules, Reid says no time for debate Posted on July 28th 2012www.conservusa.com Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Jamie Rand

People with dreams…dreams of a better life or perhaps a just a different life. A life that allows our family to grow and spread out, or a life that recognizes we don’t need all the space we used to. For some maybe it’s the reality that our budget cannot bare the same lifestyle it used to, or others that our budget now allows for more. It’s the kind of dreaming that allows us to imagine our own fur

NewsPirates/From ... / by Jim Walrod / 22 hours ago

NolanChart.com

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The Chic-Fil-A Conflict Was Never About The Bedroom

by Van Bryant, II: It was about NOTHING.

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The Test

by Mark Vogl: Should one's faith in God guide decisions in life? If yes, then should it guide your politics, how you vote as citizen or representative?

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Obsolete

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And the winner of the 2015 general election is...

If procrastination was an Olympic event (and if it was, it'd still be more interesting than dressage), it's a sure bet that our politicians would take the gold. Over a century after the passing of the Parliament Act, and come the next election the House of Lords will still look almost exactly the same as it did then. Bearing in mind that it took a slight by comparison 96 years after the Great Re

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Texas Liberal

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There Is No Such Place As So-Called Flyover Country

Yesterday I flew from Houston to Chicago. With this post is a picture I took from the airplane. I’m not certain what state is shown in this picture. It might be Missouri, Kentucky or Illinois. Not knowing which state is pictured does not mean I view these places as so-called flyover country. All places are interesting and have value. I always get a window seat when I take an airplane trip so I can

Texas Liberal / by Neil Aquino / 11 hours ago

Centauri Dreams

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Voyager Update: Still in Choppy Waters

The continued explorations of our two Voyagers have earned these tough spacecraft the right to be considered an interstellar mission, which is how NASA now describes their journeys. Neither will come anywhere near another star for tens of thousands of years, but in this context ‘interstellar’ means putting a payload with data return into true interstellar space. Right now the Voyagers are still wi

Centauri Dreams / by Paul Gilster / 14 hours ago

In These Times

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The Next Hiroshima

August 6 should have been a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, humans finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit. This year’s August 6 memorials to the victims of Hiroshima have special significance. They took place shortly before the 50t

16 In These Times / by Noam Chomsky / 16 hours ago

Obsidian Wings

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Bigger, better or badder?

by liberal japonicus A point/counterpoint pair of articles here. An Atul Gawande New Yorker article about how 'Big Med' is a solution to rising medical costs, comparing The Cheesecake Factory with hospital chains. Fascinating stuff. One section about the resistance of doctors and staff to the idea of supervision: Sometimes they resist. “You have got to be careful from patient to patient,”

Obsidian Wings / by liberal japonicus / 18 hours ago