Wikileaks presents a “threat to the U.S. Army” and publishes “potentially actionable information” for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site.
The 32-page report entitled Wikileaks.org – An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups? (.pdf) indicates the government’s concern that “current employees or moles” within the Defense Department or the U.S. government “are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.” To stop this, the 2008 report had suggested a campaign to expose and punish those who leak to the site, which was founded in 2007 by Chinese dissidents, journalists and mathematicians.
Just a heads up everyone, there's some bullshit happening somewhere. Keep an eye out for future updates, though I'll post more if anything happens.
Award-winning plastic surgeon Peter Anthony Haertsch has been awarded $267,919 in damages for being defamed in Channel 9 news program about a Gold Coast meter maid's botched boob job.
The acclaimed Sydney surgeon and burns specialist, who was awarded an Order of Australia for his work with the Bali bombing victims, says he was "absolutely humiliated" by the segment, aired on A Current Affair on August 1, 2008.
Mr Haertsch took action against journalist Kate Donnison and Nine, accusing them of defaming him and manipulating his interview to make him out to be a "monster" or "Dr Death" in the report about a breast enlargement gone wrong.
In the report, meter maid Andrea Chia described her stitches bursting before the implants began falling out, ending her career.
Cypher 7 is Alex Haas and Jeff Bova.
A talented musician in his own right, Haas co-founded Cypher 7 in 1996, an ambient/alternative group whose three widely acclaimed albums (produced and released by Bill Laswell) continue to influence new artists. More recently he recorded and released his first solo album, Buildings, on his own Sonicontinuum label.
Alex Haas (1963) was born in New York City but grew up in France and Switzerland. After studying computer music at MIT and guitar/composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he moved back to New York in 1982 to work at the famed Power Station recording studio and to start building a career in music engineering/production.
Jeff Bova, born in Washington D.C. in 1953, got his musical education at the Berklee School of Music, Boston and at the Manhattan School of Music, New York were he played keyboards and Trumpet.
A Melbourne woman is outraged after discovering a Borders book store was selling a 'control a woman' remote.
The toy product, similar to a TV remote control, is being sold as a novelty gift for $14.99.
Katie Robertson saw the remote in a Borders book store last week, after attending a lunch celebrating International Women's Day.
It's supposed to be a safe haven for kids, but what happened on a Dutchess County playground is sick and shocking.
A 6-year-old boy was injured going down a slide -- after it was rigged with a razor blade.
Now an 11-year-old boy is under arrest.
"I slid down the slide; I felt something stinging," 6-year-old Sean Yambo said.
When Sean tells the painful story of his slide and slice, it makes people angry. This kid, who should not know any pain, suffered an excruciating gash on his behind after a blade from a box cutter was deliberately wedged into a crack in a slide at this apartment complex playground.
"The ambulance took me on a stretcher and took me in the cars. They put me in the hospital. They put on my stitches," Sean said.
John Yambo, Sean's father, was furious.
"He was at the top of the slide all happy. When he went down … disaster," John said. "Thirty stitches … it was horrifying to say the least. Every night we're changing the gauze and what not. The pain, the agony, the screaming. ..."
Paul Keating today dismissed Tony Abbott as an "intellectual nobody" who he had regarded as the Coalition's "resident nutter".
Arguing that the Rudd Government deserved to be re-elected for avoiding a recession, the former prime minister savaged the Opposition's economic credentials, saying “you wouldn't trust this mob with a jam jar full of five cent bits”,
The 68-year-old grandfather accused of punching children in a Northwest Side Walmart appeared in Franklin County Municipal Court this morning.
Judge Mark Hummer set bond for Ralph Conone, of 5687 Shadowbrook Dr., at $150,000. Should he post bond, Conone was ordered to stay away from his victims and Walmart while the case proceeds.
Columbus police have charged Conone with two misdemeanor counts of assault but said they expect that more victims will come forward as their investigation unfolds.
Hummer told the news media not to photograph Conone in court to protect the police investigation. Police said they hope other children can identify him.
Conone was caught Wednesday night at the Wal-Mart at 2700 Bethel Rd. after a 6-year-old boy complained to his mother that Conone had punched the back of his head.
The woman followed Conone out of the store, grabbed his arm, led him back inside and notified security.
Police said a review of the surveillance video in the store confirmed not only the assault on that boy but other assaults on his 7-year-old brother and two other children who haven't been identified.
Measuring just 8.8-micrometers long, this 1-billionth scale model of the USS Enterprise "was made with a 30 kV Ga+ focused-ion- beam CVD using phenanthrene gas by Takayuki Hoshino and Shinji Matsui of the Himeji Institute of Technology."
A quarter of IT workers are on the hunt for a new job, after what was for many a second year without a pay rise, according to the 2010 iTnews Job Survey Report.
The survey of 1,600 employees across all sectors of the IT industry found 25.5 percent of employed respondents were looking for a job.
Another 20 percent were expected to join the search in the next 12 months.
iiNet's existing fibre pricing regime begins with a 25 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload speeds, with a cap of 5 Gigabytes of data in each direction, for $49.95 per month, and its fastest plans (for 100 Mbps downloads and 5 Mbps uploads) at $129.95 per month for 60 GB of data consumption in each direction and $159.95 for 90 GB of data consumption.
Microsoft is rising to the challenge of Google Docs, offering free Office applications on the web as it releases Office 2010.
New paid versions of the ubiquitous office suite will be available to businesses in May and consumers in June, but its Office Web Apps component is already available in beta through Microsoft Office Live.
Anyone with a Windows Live account can create, modify or share Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents for free. They do not need Microsoft software installed on their machines.
The world's shortest man, He Pingping, who was just 74.6cm (2ft 5in) tall, has died in Rome.
He was born in 1988 in Wulanchabu, China, with a form of primordial dwarfism, and was officially recognised as the world's shortest man in 2008.
He was admitted to hospital two weeks ago after suffering a chest complaint and died on Saturday, but his death has only just been announced.
Jim Mielke's wireless blood-fueled display is a true merging of technology and body art. At the recent Greener Gadgets Design Competition, the engineer demonstrated a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.
Well, closer to most of Asia, except Malaysia.

I'd assume people still remember record high...
Paul Keating for PM
fubar on 16-03-2010