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Friday, January 6, 2012
Khloe Kardashian Helps Save Tigers with Texting Skills
Khloe Kardashian is putting her Twitter popularity to good use! The World Wildlife Fund discovered the benefits of having the vocal Kardashian sister in their corner when she took on one of their causes.
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Despite Republican obstruction, Obama announces summer jobs program for young people
President Obama's American Jobs Act included funding for sorely needed summer jobs for young people?the employment rate for people aged 16 to 24 was more than 10 points lower last July than at the same time five years earlier. Congress, of course, wouldn't pass anything that might create jobs and improve the economy, so Obama's administration once again had to find a way to get something, anything done despite congressional obstruction. Their answer is Summer Jobs+, in which, according to a White House release:
[T]he Federal government and private sector came together to commit to creating nearly 180,000 employment opportunities for low-income youth in the summer of 2012, with a goal of reaching 250,000 employment opportunities by the start of summer, at least 100,000 of which will be placements in paid jobs and internships.
Currently, 70,000 commitments for "Learn and Earn" paying jobs have been made, from nonprofits to corporate giants like Bank of America to federal agencies. The other 110,000 commitments currently on the table are for unpaid internships and other occasions to learn "Life Skills" and "Work Skills" through workshops and mentoring.
The commitments for paying jobs are an unalloyed good. For kids who can't find jobs, the opportunity to attend skills workshops or be mentored is definitely better than nothing. In the case of unpaid internships the big question is whether young people are actually being mentored and learning useful things. The Obama administration will need to be sure that some oversight is put in place and kids aren't used as free labor without getting any benefits to themselves, something that is true of far too many unpaid internships. That said, the effort to create paying jobs for young people is another important step by this administration to get things done in the face of Republican obstruction in Congress.
Originally posted to Daily Kos Labor on Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 02:08 PM PST.
Also republished by Daily Kos.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
More than 950 protesters invade Venezuelan prison (AP)
CARACAS, Venezuela ? More than 950 relatives of inmates are refusing to leave a Venezuelan prison in a protest to demand faster trial for inmates.
Prisons Minister Iris Varela says the relatives decided to "kidnap themselves" at the Yare I and II prison about 40 miles (70 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Caracas, during the New Year holiday. They include 800 women and 150 children and adolescents as well as a few men.
Varela says President Hugo Chavez has told authorities to negotiate peacefully.
State radio says Varela alleged on Tuesday that human rights groups financed by the CIA are trying to use the occupation "to destabilize the country."
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Dwayne Wade Continues To Be The Best Pound For Pound Shot Blocker in the NBA
Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat continues to be the best pound for pound shot blocker in the NBA in our opinion. ?The 6 foot 4 guard from Miami had no problem sending back the 6 foot 10 inch?Vladimir Radmanovic during the Heat?s game against the Hawks today.
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Acer and Lenovo reportedly eying Windows 8-based tablet launches in Q3 2012
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Japan tests $2.28m cyber-defence virus
The Japanese government is testing a self-defence virus that has the objective of tracking down the source of cyber attacks and removing the threat.
The virus is the result of a quiet, $2.28 million project that Fujitsu had undertaken on behalf of the Japanese Defence Ministry's Technical Research and Development Institute in 2008, according to reports from The Yomiuri Shimbun.
While the virus has the ability to track immediate sources of attack, it can also allegedly determine whether computers are being used as a proxy between the original source of the attack. Beyond this, it also stops its attackers and sends the information it finds back to its owners.
While it is only being tested and examined in a closed environment, its release is likely to raise serious questions about privacy, ethics and whether it would even be legal.
It was only in June last year that Japanese parliament passed laws that made it illegal to even write malware, regardless of whether they actually caused any damage, if its authors did not have a "reasonable excuse" to do so. The penalty for those found guilty ranges from a fine to up to three years in prison.
Even though the Japanese government may have the ultimate reasonable excuse to write viruses, the idea of writing benevolent viruses or worms is still an issue that has been debated in the information-security industry for years.
Renowned security expert Bruce Schneier has been quoted several times from a 2003 essay on the topic of benevolent worms, in which he wrote: "A worm is not 'bad' or 'good' depending on its payload. Viral propagation mechanisms are inherently bad, and giving them beneficial payloads doesn't make things better. A worm is no tool for any rational network administrator, regardless of intent."
University of New South Wales law lecturer and PhD candidate Alana Maurushat recently asked the ethical question of what happens to computers that, as a result of cleansing, crashed or damaged equipment that was connected to it.
She pointed out that critical infrastructure and even pacemakers could be connected and possibly infected.
On the technical side of implementation, Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said that the idea would be a bad one, stating that even a good virus uses system resources and on critical systems could cause unexpected side effects, or even hinder the collection of information.
"When you're trying to gather digital forensic evidence as to what has broken into your network and what data it may have stolen, it's probably not wise to let loose a program that starts to trample over your hard drives, making changes."
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Cluley said that fighting an infection could be done without self-replicating software, citing several examples of past benevolent viruses that could have served the same purpose without being viral.
But whether or not the Japanese government deploys such a defence, it likely wants to know who is behind the recent spate of attacks on the country. In October, Japan's parliament came under cyber attack, apparently from the same emails linked to a China-based server that have already hit several Japanese lawmakers' computers. Additionally, Japanese computers at embassies and consulates in nine countries have previously been infected with viruses.
Japanese private defence contractors have also been targeted, with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries attacked in September last year, while one of its rivals, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, was targeted shortly after.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com.au/japan-tests-228m-cyber-defence-virus-339328893.htm?feed=rss
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Freeport Indonesia union says delays return to work (Reuters)
JAKARTA (Reuters) ? Workers at Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc's (FCX.N) Indonesia unit delayed their return after a three-month strike because 500 employees of sub-contractors lack job security, a senior union official said Monday.
The workers hope to resolve the dispute and start heading back to the Grasberg mine in the central highlands of Papua island, eastern Indonesia, Tuesday, said union spokesman Virgo Solossa by telephone.
"It's likely that we will be back to work tomorrow as around 500 workers from several sub-contractor companies still have issues that need to be settled first. Today we want to make sure that all contractors have no issues," Solossa said.
The strike at the world's second-largest copper mine shook labor relations in Southeast Asia's largest economy because it was a high-profile attempt by workers to gain a larger share of the rewards in a booming economy.
The strike ended on December 14 with a deal under which Freeport agreed to a pay increase of roughly 40 percent for around 8,000 union members and to a framework for a better deal for roughly 15,000 other non-union workers and contractors.
Arizona-based Freeport earlier said it expected full operations at the Grasberg mine to resume in early 2012.
The union has not returned to work largely because of a dispute with contractor PT Kuala Pelabuhan Indonesia (KPI) over possible sanctions on workers who took part in the strike. Last week KPI agreed to rehire about 700 workers who went on strike with no sanctions, the union said.
Monday's dispute appeared to be similar to the union's with KPI.
(Reporting by Rieka Rahadiana; Writing by Matthew Bigg)
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