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Moving to Google+
I’ve moved all of my pictures and interesting things over to Google+
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I’m not sure that I’ll do any more updates here.
AlanC
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UK riots: David Cameron announces his prescription
The scary part of this:
* Communication networks: They will be closed down (presumably on a localised basis) where there are suspicions that they are being used to faciliate criminal activity.
For some reason, this sounds a lot like the actions of the folks in the middle-east during the recent uprisings.
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”Zynga Inc. hopes to raise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering that follows LinkedIn’s sizzling stock market debut last month. The amount of money Zynga is seeking in its IPO will likely change as its bankers determine how many shares should be sold and at what price. That process typically takes three to four months.
‘FarmVille’ creator Zynga to go public - Yahoo! Finance [finance.yahoo.com]
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”We at AOPA are very disappointed in President Obama’s statements today concerning raising taxes on private aircraft,” said AOPA President Craig Fuller. “Imposing higher taxes on GA aircraft by lengthening depreciation schedules is inconsistent both with sound economic principles and with the promises of support made by the President’s own Secretary of Transportation just a few months ago during a speech in Wichita.
AOPA Online: Obama vilifies aircraft, praises GA manufacturers [www.aopa.org]
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”[H]ackers can now murder millions of Americans who’ve been implanted with wireless medical devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators, drug pumps and brain stimulators. By remote control! Sight unseen! UNDETECTED!!!
Hackers Heart Murder [www.allvoices.com]
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Special Airspace Bulletin - NOTAM
FAA TO ESTABLISH TFR OVER RALEIGH, NC ON MONDAY
A notam has been issued that will restrict flight in the area during President Obama's planned visit.
==> 30 nm radius TFR <== Location: On the RALEIGH/DURHAM VORTAC (RDU) 296 degree radial at 1.8 nautical mile Surface to 17,999-ft-MSL Times: 10:30 AM local until 3:15 PM local Monday, June 13, 2011 Requirements for flight and operations not authorized ( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/notams-special.html ) ==> 10 nm radius no-fly zone <== Location: On the RALEIGH/DURHAM VORTAC (RDU) 296 degree radial at 1.8 nautical mile Surface to 17,999-ft-MSL Times: 10:30 AM local until 3:15 PM local Monday, June 13, 2011 ==> AFFECTED PUBLIC USE AIRPORTS <== KRDU Raleigh-Durham Intl KIGX Horace Williams 5W5 Triple W W17 Raleigh East KTTA Raleigh Exec Jetport KLHZ Triangle North Executive 4W7 Hurdle Field KTDF Person County 4W4 Whitfield Farms KJNX Johnston County View the new notam page at: http://www.aopa.org/tfr/#a=KRDU
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”Assuming, then, that we are capable of learning as much from Hiroshima as our forefathers learned from Magdeburg, we may look forward to a period, not indeed of peace, but of limited and only partially ruinous warfare.
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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”The Pentagon, which has long been concerned about efforts by China and Russia to obtain military secrets, announced separately that it would soon view serious computer attacks from foreign nations as acts of war that could result in a military response.
Lockheed Says Hacker Used Stolen SecurID Data - NYTimes.com [www.nytimes.com]
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Another reason not to “FaceBook”
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