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Will a Rise in Cyber-Terrorism Make Thrillers and Action Films Boring?

So, yes, a group of anonymous hackers broke into Gawker’s system and compromised the security of up to 1.3 billion users in what some are calling one of the largest attacks on a media site to date. But, depending on your level of paranoia, it gets worse. Others have argued that this attack – taken with the recent attacks on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal in response of Wikileaks reprimands – signals a new era of cyber-terrorism where small groups can wreak mass amounts of havoc at will. After taking all of this in, I did what I usually do when the news unsettles me a bit: I thought about movies. Then I realized that a sharp rise in cyber-terrorism will probably ruin movies too.

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Top Ranking American Diplomat Richard Holbrooke Died

Top Ranking American Diplomat Richard Holbrooke Died-President Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has died after a second round of operation to treat his condition in the heart. Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke has been rushed to the hospital and undergone an operation to repair a tear in his aorta which is the largest artery Top Ranking American Diplomat Richard Holbrooke Died is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

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Get In Line to Test-Drive an Electric Car From Hertz

Image: HertzEV website EV Rental Goes Mainstream Almost a year ago, I wrote about how Hertz, the largest car rental company in the United states, was going to have Nissan LEAF electric cars in its fleet . As I said then, I think it’s a great idea to give people a new way to become familiar with electric vehicles and try them for themselves (cars are expensive, so people are hesitant to spend their hard-earned cash on technologies they don’t trust — it took a while for… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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One-Sided CNN Omits Conservatives From Prop 8, Gay Teen Coverage

CNN continued its one-sided coverage of homosexual issues with two segments on Monday's Newsroom which featured only liberal activists. Anchor Kyra Phillips endorsed the work of Kamora Harrington and her “True Colors” group , which “organizes the largest LGBT youth conference in the country.” Correspondent Dan Simon played a sound bite from one of the opponents of Prop 8 without playing any from supporters. Phillips led her segment with Harrington, which began 38 minutes into the 10 am EST, by hyping the apparently dire situation with homosexual teens: “Gay bullying, gay suicides- they're sad stories that we keep hearing over and over again. But if the anecdotes weren't enough, there is a pair of new studies detailing just how hard it is to grow up gay.” After playing a clip from a student discussion group which her guest regularly holds, the anchor turned to her and gave her first hint that she endorsed her organization's work: read more

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Spam Relief Update, Part 2

As many of you have correctly pointed out, we've been facing a bit of an influx of spam on Current lately. We talked about some of the defense we put in place earlier, and today we're happy to say we've launched the next component in our spam defense! We've implemented a new filtering system that should prevent the majority of the spam from seeing the light of day. It's been less than 24 hours, and we've already seen a great deal of spam get caught up in the nets. However, as with any new system, we'll still be tweaking the levels and adjusting things to achieve optimum spam defeating levels. While we're doing this, the occassional bit of spam may slip through, so if you see any please flag it for us, so we can help teach the filters to better recognize spam. You may also find that some of your comments get caught up in the net. We're doing our best to make sure this doesn't happen, but if you try to post a comment and don't see it appear, that's likely the cause. We will be going through these comments and fishing out anything that's mistakenly caught up in the spam net. Thanks to all of you for your flags and patience while we dealt with spam–and especially for making us laugh with some of your spam flags! The LOL badges many of you earned were well-deserved, and made dealing with the influx of spammers much more entertaining. StephOnline Community Team added by: sgwhites

Follow ‘The Great Marlin Race’ Across the Equator

Credit: Kate Spencer, Randy Kochevar via GreatMarlinRace.org The Pacific blue marlin is one of the largest billfish to swim the open ocean. Just how far can they swim, and where exactly are they going? Scientists are tracking the movements of 10 marlin as part of this year’s Great Marlin Race, and showing the results on the Internet. Last year, three marlins swam across the equator, from Hawaii to the Marquesas Islands , a distance of more than 1,8… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scientists Fight Contagious Face-Eating Tasmanian Devil Cancer

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The wild shrieks and grunts made by Tasmanian devils as they fed on their prey terrified early English settlers in the 19th century, an experience that inspired the small carnivores’ common name. Today, however, it’s the devils that are being tormented—by an epidemic so horrific it seems otherworldly. It’s a parasitic cancer called Devil facial tumor disease, and since it first appeared in 1996 it has been responsible for a 70 percent decline in the Tasmanian devil population…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Largest Mining Company: We Must Move Away from Coal

Photo via Cleantechnica While we’ve received a healthy influx of signs that the world’s heavyweights aren’t planning on diversifying their energy portfolios to any radical degree in the near future — China building a submersible to dive 7,000 meters underwater to explore for oil among them — there are still reasons yet to be optimistic. Take this for example: the CEO of the largest mining company in the world, Australia’s BHP, ha… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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WEBN Fireworks 2010 schedule

Riverfest will run from noon until 9 p.m. Sunday. The Cincinnati Bell / WEBN Fireworks, commencing at 9:05 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 5th, is one of the largest and most prestigious public fireworks displays in the United States. This marks the 4th year of Cincinnati Bell’s title sponsorship and the 34th year for the annual end-of-summer Labor Day fireworks display on the Ohio Riverfront in Cincinnati, Ohio and Newport, Kentucky. The Cincinnati Bell WEBN Fireworks kicks off with live entertainment

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