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Message 77501 - Posted: 20 Apr 2017, 11:48:36 UTC - in response to Message 77492.  

Blackrock & Evening Standard would have left him no time to concentrating on being an MP.


Ohh right like he will be sorly missed smarmy little person of uncertain parentage ;-)
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Message 77506 - Posted: 20 Apr 2017, 16:51:54 UTC

From the upper left coast happy 4/20 day to all.
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Message 77732 - Posted: 3 May 2017, 0:32:17 UTC

They are falling like dominoes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39781954
Megyn Kelly, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Shine, Sean Hannity
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Message 77764 - Posted: 6 May 2017, 11:34:29 UTC
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https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/05/04/2017-08975/notice-of-information-collection-under-omb-emergency-review-supplemental-questions-for-visa
The Department of State has submitted the information collection request described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the emergency review procedures of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The purpose of this notice is to allow for public comment from all interested individuals and organizations. Emergency review and approval of this collection has been requested from OMB by May 18. If granted, the emergency approval is only valid for 180 days.

The Department proposes requesting the following information, if not already included in an application, from a subset of visa applicants worldwide, in order to more rigorously evaluate applicants for terrorism or other national security-related visa ineligibilities:

  • Travel history during the last fifteen years, including source of funding for travel;
  • Address history during the last fifteen years;
  • Employment history during the last fifteen years;
  • All passport numbers and country of issuance held by the applicant;
  • Names and dates of birth for all siblings;
  • Name and dates of birth for all children;
  • Names and dates of birth for all current and former spouses, or civil or domestic partners;
  • Social media platforms and identifiers, also known as handles, used during the last five years; and
  • Phone numbers and email addresses used during the last five years.

I hope your memory is good enough, or no entry to the USA. At least they don't need your passwords, probably because they have those already. ;-)
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Message 77765 - Posted: 6 May 2017, 13:16:41 UTC - in response to Message 77732.  

They are falling like dominoes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39781954
Megyn Kelly, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Shine, Sean Hannity

More questions for Fox News to answer. Federal probe of Fox News focuses on potential disguising of harassment payout.
Investigators in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York have focused on a payment to Laurie Luhn, a former Fox booker and event planner who left the company in 2011 with the seven-figure severance package. Luhn later claimed that she had engaged in a consensual but a mentally abusive, relationship with Ailes and that several of his lieutenants facilitated the assignations and were aware of his alleged mistreatment of her.
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Luhn’s case is of particular interest to prosecutors because of the unusual nature of her severance. One of her settlement checks is signed by a corporate executive based in Los Angeles who had no direct involvement with Fox News, according to people who spoke about the investigation anonymously because they weren’t authorized to speak on the record.

Luhn worked primarily at Fox’s headquarters in New York, not in Los Angeles, so the executive’s signature has raised questions about where the funds for her severance came from. Investigators have been looking into whether some of the cost of her settlement was attributed to another Fox-owned entity to minimize the impact on Fox News’ financial statements.

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Message 77811 - Posted: 9 May 2017, 20:32:23 UTC

Much more to worry about than Ping Pong II
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Message 77814 - Posted: 9 May 2017, 22:06:58 UTC

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Message 77815 - Posted: 9 May 2017, 22:18:36 UTC - in response to Message 77811.  
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Ping Pong II

Good God, that page uses over 45 scripts and links to other pages. Almost a crime in itself.
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Message 77816 - Posted: 9 May 2017, 22:31:55 UTC - in response to Message 77815.  

Ping Pong II

Good God, that page uses over 45 scripts and links to other pages. Almost a crime in itself.

The crime is they have been trying to clean up the mess a Hanford for decades and they still don't have a clue what to do with it.
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Message 77817 - Posted: 9 May 2017, 22:52:32 UTC - in response to Message 77814.  

F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/james-comey-fired-fbi.html?_r=0

While he is at an FBI recruiting event in Los Angeles.
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Message 77818 - Posted: 9 May 2017, 22:57:12 UTC - in response to Message 77816.  
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The crime is they have been trying to clean up the mess a Hanford for decades and they still don't have a clue what to do with it.
No, but truly, does anyone know what to do with nuclear waste material? Launching it into the sun is probably too expensive?
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Message 77821 - Posted: 10 May 2017, 1:21:32 UTC - in response to Message 77818.  

The crime is they have been trying to clean up the mess a Hanford for decades and they still don't have a clue what to do with it.
No, but truly, does anyone know what to do with nuclear waste material? Launching it into the sun is probably too expensive?

Too risky, do you want that much material sitting atop a rocket when it explodes?
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Message 77832 - Posted: 10 May 2017, 9:38:17 UTC - in response to Message 77821.  
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Too risky, do you want that much material sitting atop a rocket when it explodes?

It's already (purported to be) in special containers that can withstand being dropped from a plane, plus the Russian space venture is really good these days, almost no exploding rockets anymore. (American so so ;-)) We probably have some uninhabited island someplace that we can use as a launch platform, in the off-chance that it goes wrong. But I suspect it's just considered 'too expensive'.
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Message 77833 - Posted: 10 May 2017, 9:40:38 UTC - in response to Message 77814.  

F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump
White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee: "It's time to focus on the things that the American people care about." (or let's drop the stupid Russian involvement investigation).
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Message 77850 - Posted: 10 May 2017, 18:49:53 UTC

Article 1

RESOLVED, That Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF ITS IMPEACHMENT AGAINST HIM FOR HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS.

ARTICLE 1

In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his consitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that:

On November 8, 2016, and prior thereto, agents of the Committee for the election of the President committed unlawful entry of the computers of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, in concert with a foreign power, the Russian Federation, for the purpose of securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Donald J. Trump, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such illegal entry; to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities.
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Message 77851 - Posted: 10 May 2017, 22:43:32 UTC

U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe, Officials Say

Acting on fears that terrorists can build bombs into laptops, Homeland Security has decided to expand the ban it imposed on Middle Eastern flights. Computers will now be checked as baggage.
Because they cannot explode when they're in the baggage compartment? The Russian plane coming down over Egypt in October last year was blown up with a soda can in the baggage compartment, what do you think a laptop will do?
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Message 77859 - Posted: 11 May 2017, 16:12:15 UTC - in response to Message 77833.  

F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump
White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee: "It's time to focus on the things that the American people care about." (or let's drop the stupid Russian involvement investigation).
Oops - Now what Trump?
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Message 77873 - Posted: 12 May 2017, 17:52:11 UTC
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Batten down the hatches, Ransomware infections reported worldwide.
A massive ransomware campaign appears to have infected a number of organisations around the world.

Computers in thousands of locations have apparently been locked by a program that demands $300 (£230) in Bitcoin.

There have been reports of infections in as many as 74 countries, including the UK, US, China, Russia, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.


Update your Windows people. Get at least MS17-010.
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Message 77895 - Posted: 15 May 2017, 16:18:35 UTC - in response to Message 77873.  

On that ransomware, thought I'd look at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/client_types.php and see what people are using, but it hasn't been updated in years! So no idea what people are running today.

I'm wondering if the areas with large numbers of machines infected are areas where piracy of O/S is rampant? I know large organizations tend to delay updates to be sure mission critical stuff isn't broken by the update, so that's how they got caught with their pants down. But a place where lots of small users who should be patching but perhaps can't because the O/S isn't a legal copy?
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Message 77919 - Posted: 16 May 2017, 10:28:42 UTC

The next best thing to finding a leprechaun's pot of gold is finding a nugget like this: - "Dr Lloyd feels "powerless" and frustrated at having to choose "usually between a number of highly incompetent morons"" :-)

Don't knows don't really care
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