Reality Leigh Winner, 25, arrested and charged with leaking top-secret NSA docs on Russia hacks to The Intercept / Boing Boing
▻https://boingboing.net/2017/06/05/reality-leigh-winner-arrested.html
Winner had been a government contractor with Top Secret clearance at a Georgia facility since February, according to the DOJ. On May 9, the government claims she printed classified information from the facility and mailed it to a media outlet.
#leaks #trump #Russie #élections #États-Unis
Errata Security: How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner
►http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html
The problem is that most new printers print nearly invisibly yellow dots that track down exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed. Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match up precisely who printed the document.
In this post, I show how.
The Whole World Is Now a Message Board
▻http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/04/the-whole-world-is-now-a-message-board.html
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/28/magazine/28-alt-right-pepe.w1200.h630.jpg Whatever else the alt-right is, it is a movement born and incubated on the internet, and it couldn’t have existed without that technology. Circulation, discussion, and debate are oxygen to political ideas. Commercial and social mechanisms like “the cost of owning a printing press” and “No one will invite you to parties if you openly praise Hitler” traditionally cut off extreme thinkers from mass circulation. Now, though, you can reproduce your ideas essentially infinitely, for prices so low as to be effectively free, and suffer no ill social effect. In fact, online, toxic ideas are more likely to get attention and social capital (plus, thanks to programmatic ad networks, real capital) that goes along with attention.
And there is a literal army of dissatisfied, disenchanted, mostly male young adults ripe for radicalization. The internet is host to what the writer and programmer David Auerbach calls “the first wide-scale collective gathering of those who are alienated, voiceless, and just plain unsocialized” — seeking freedom from the disappointments of the physical world in places where social interaction is decoupled from material and emotional signals they don’t understand or have access to. “There’s people that are, like, behind the counter at a Pizza Hut or whatever, and their intellect and their skills are not being used in the real world in a way that’s appealing to them,” the web-comic artist and longtime 4chan observer Dale Beran tells me. “The only interesting stuff that’s going on is the internet and video games.”
This was the sensibility galvanized in 2014 by — what else? — a depressed and frustrated man’s rambling, 9,000-word post falsely accusing his game-developer ex-girlfriend Zoë Quinn of exchanging sex for video-game reviews. Quinn came to stand in for all the women who were attempting to carve out roles in an industry where “three-dimensional female character” traditionally referred to modeling breast physics in a graphics engine. That Quinn was innocent of the charges against her was irrelevant. She had become a meme: an endlessly replicable, endlessly remixable referent, a shibboleth for the quasi-religious systems of internet culture. Memes do not make for a particularly compassionate politics. As Whitney Phillips, a professor at Mercer University who specializes in internet culture, explains, “When you’re engaging with a meme, you’re not engaging with a full narrative” — much less with the real person on the receiving end.
And so the keening wail of a rejected boyfriend became a dedicated and highly organized media campaign: Gamergate. Some Gamergaters harassed and insulted journalists and feminist critics of video games in attempts to silence them. The repetitive-task, button-pushing skills developed through years of gaming had paid off in a new, bigger game: ruining people’s lives.
Message-board culture does more than radicalize the disaffected; it also teaches them how to manipulate the attention economy. Message-board threads only superficially resemble real-world conversations; in fact, public online social interaction is built around competing with your peers for attention from the group as a whole. As Beran puts it to me, “There’s an evolutionary struggle” for ideas to be seen. If a post isn’t clever or catchy enough, “it just dies, and no one ever sees it. The best stuff, in a Darwinian struggle, gets to the top. That’s how memes are created.”
As the mainstream media increasingly takes its coverage cues (and its revenue sources) from a small handful of powerful social networks, the news becomes easier and easier for them to influence. The shitlords of the internet don’t create the conditions that lead to reaction, but they are more than happy to exploit them. And skilled at it, too.
How the New York Times Is Using Strategies Inspired by Netflix, Spotify, and HBO to Make Itself Indispensible
▻https://www.wired.com/2017/02/new-york-times-digital-journalism
Sulzberger, like more than three dozen other executives and journalists I interviewed and shadowed at the Times, is working on the biggest strategic shift in the paper’s 165-year history, and he believes it will strengthen its bottom line, enhance the quality of its journalism, and secure a long and lasting future.
The main goal isn’t simply to maximize revenue from advertising—the strategy that keeps the lights on and the content free at upstarts like the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Vox. It’s to transform the Times’ digital subscriptions into the main engine of a billion-dollar business, one that could pay to put reporters on the ground in 174 countries even if (OK, when) the printing presses stop forever. To hit that mark, the Times is embarking on an ambitious plan inspired by the strategies of Netflix, Spotify, and HBO: invest heavily in a core offering (which, for the Times, is journalism) while continuously adding new online services and features (from personalized fitness advice and interactive newsbots to virtual reality films) so that a subscription becomes indispensable to the lives of its existing subscribers and more attractive to future ones. “We think that there are many, many, many, many people—millions of people all around the world—who want what The New York Times offers,” says Dean Baquet, the Times’ executive editor. “And we believe that if we get those people, they will pay, and they will pay greatly.”
A Prettier JavaScript Formatter
▻http://jlongster.com/A-Prettier-Formatter
oday I am announcing prettier, a JavaScript formatter inspired by refmt with advanced support for language features from ES2017, JSX, and Flow. Prettier gets rid of all original styling and guarantees consistency by parsing JavaScript into an AST and pretty-printing the AST. Unlike eslint, there aren’t a million configuration options and rules. But more importantly: everything is fixable.
Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/04/anti-surveillance-clothing-facial-recognition-hyperface
Hyperface project involves printing patterns on to clothing or textiles that computers interpret as a face, in fightback against intrusive technology The use of facial recognition software for commercial purposes is becoming more common, but, as Amazon scans faces in its physical shop and Facebook searches photos of users to add tags to, those concerned about their privacy are fighting back. Berlin-based artist and technologist Adam Harvey aims to overwhelm and confuse these systems by (...)
Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters’
▻http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-islam.html
In fact, the United States spent $50 million from 1986 to 1992 on what was called a “jihad literacy” project — printing books for Afghan children and adults to encourage violence against non-Muslim “infidels” like Soviet troops. A first-grade language textbook for Pashto speakers, for example, according to a study by Dana Burde, an associate professor at New York University, used “Mujahid,” or fighter of jihad, as the illustration: “My brother is a Mujahid. Afghan Muslims are Mujahedeen. I do jihad together with them. Doing jihad against infidels is our duty.”
Voir aussi :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/128789
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/283992
►https://seenthis.net/messages/299999
►https://seenthis.net/messages/431786
Quand j’ai voulu retrouver l’article du Washington Post de 2002 il y a quelques années, le premier et seul article mainstream décrivant ces livres d’école, il n’était plus en ligne sur le site du WP, et les seuls sites qui le reproduisaient étaient des sites plus ou moins complotistes. Désormais, cette histoire semble common knowledge. Ça devrait interroger au niveau de quelque part, non ?
Visualisation de la position de #Rosetta par rapport à la comète Tchourimov-Guérassimenko, en temps réel ou animé
▻http://rosetta.esa.int/RosettaNow
Rosetta NOW++ | Q&A
▻http://rosetta.esa.int/RosettaNow/qa.html
From what date is the visualisation applicable?
The visualisation applies from the 20th January 2014 when the Rosetta Spacecraft exited Deep Space Hibernation and pointed towards the Earth. The steps leading to the repointing can be seen at approx 16:00 on that date in the visualisation.
Why does it go only a short period into the future?
The data used by this visualisation is based upon “actual” pointings executed or to be executed on the spacecraft. While viewing pointings in the past is never an issue, one can only view pointings a certain time period into the future that is dependent on the current weekly planning status of the mission. Every Monday and Thursday, the trajectory & pointing of the spacecraft is confirmed for the coming days. On Monday, the pointings are confirmed for the period from Wednesday until Friday night. On Thursday, the pointings are confirmed for the period from Saturday until Tuesday night. In that respect, if looking at the tool on a Wednesday, then the pointings will cover up to a time on Friday etc.
Are the stars in the background real and “correct”, or is that just a notional star field?
The stars are real, taken from the Bright Stars Catalog. Their brightness relative to the comet may not be correct. Their colors (estimated from V and B magnitudes) may be exaggerated.
Is the appearance of the comet real too, using a shape model and real-time info on the orientation?
Yes, a real shape model is used, albeit not the highest resolution available, for data proprietary reasons. This version was also published for 3D printing purposes. Orientation of comet is based upon predictions (for the future) and reconstructions from operational data products.
Is the orientation of the spacecraft based upon real information?
The orientation of spacecraft is based upon predictions (for the future) and reconstructions from operational data products. For predictions, short term changes of spacecraft attitude which are not reflected in the simulation are in principle possible but have not occurred so far. The actuation of solar panels is modelled correctly. The actuation of the High Gain Antenna is mostly correct, however, some times there are two different antenna positions which point to the same direction. The transition between such two positions is not modelled correctly. Sometimes, the antenna just jumps from one position to the other.
In which direction is the Sun in the image.
The up direction of the image is defined by the movement of the spacecraft relative to the comet. Thus, the Sun can be in any direction. The normal vector on the solar panels always points to the Sun, so this gives an indication where it is.
What is the distance of the “camera” from the spacecraft and effective focal length of the “lens” being used to generate the view?
The observer is 33 m behind the spacecraft, offset to the side by 7.5 m. The camera has a field of view of 30 deg.
Police asked 3D printing lab Arora to recreate a dead man’s fingers to unlock phone
▻http://fusion.net/story/327145/3d-print-dead-mans-fingers-to-unlock-his-phone
A 3D printed finger alone often can’t unlock a phone these days. Most fingerprint readers used on phones are capacitive, which means they rely on the closing of tiny electrical circuits to work. The ridges of your fingers cause some of these circuits to come in contact with each other, generating an image of the fingerprint. Skin is conductive enough to close these circuits, but the normal 3D printing plastic isn’t, so Arora coated the 3D printed fingers in a thin layer of metallic particles so that the fingerprint scanner can read them.
[...]
“We don’t know which finger the suspect used,” he told me by phone. “We think it’s going to be the thumb or index finger—that’s what most people use—but we have all ten.”
[...]
a password that you have memorized may be protected by the Fifth Amendment. Your fingerprints aren’t.
but a judge argues that
phones should be considered extensions of our minds and should be protected under the Fifth Amendment (protection against self-incrimination) and not just the Fourth Amendment (protection against illegal search and seizure). He argues that cell phones are unlike almost anything else we own.
Here’s One of the Many Rapes We Won’t Hear about Because the Kashmiri Press is Being Crushed - The Ladies FingerThe Ladies Finger
▻http://theladiesfinger.com/crpf_kashmir-reader
The Kashmir Reader, an English daily published from Srinagar, had a story yesterday about a group of CRPF men attacking a family on their way to Srinagar. “The CRPF men intercepted the family of three when the son and daughter of an ailing woman were taking her to a Srinagar doctor. The CRPF men sexually abused the daughter, beat and tortured her brother and took him away to be killed. Their helpless mother pleaded for them to be spared, for which she received abuses and kicks in return. An intervention by the local police saved the young man from being killed and the young woman from being raped,” said the first para of this horrifying story.
Since being published yesterday, the story has been going offline on and off. It is currently offline. But you can read it here and here.
The Kashmir Reader is of course only one of the many media organisations being gagged in Kashmir right now. The New Indian Express reports, “Police on Saturday seized copies of major Urdu and English newspapers in the Kashmir Valley following midnight raids on the printing press creating an information blackout as mobile services also remained suspended. The publishers on their websites have claimed that their print copies were seized and people working for the printing press were also arrested.”
A History of #Media Control and Media Blackouts in #Coups_d'Etat | Privacy Online News
▻https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/07/history-media-control-media-blackouts-coups
Before the printing press was invented in 1453 by Gutenberg, the Catholic Church was the chokepoint of knowledge in Europe. It produced all the written knowledge in its monasteries, and anything circumventing that chokepoint had to rely on inefficient oral tradition and transmission – people telling each other across generations and across distance, essentially playing Telephone. The Church also wrote all its knowledge in Latin, which wasn’t readily accessible by the common folk, and so even needed the local preachers to translate the knowledge into the local language.
The printing press wasn’t as much a new invention, as it was the extremely successful combination of four other inventions: movable metal type, cheap clothrag-based paper, oil-based inks, and the squeeze press; along with a few auxiliary inventions, like the Gutenberg hand mould that allowed for rapid fabrication of metal movable type and therefore profitability.
Paradoxically, Gutenberg was convinced the press would strengthen the Church, as it would reduce copying errors between Bibles significantly – all books would indeed be identical. The result was the exact opposite, much thanks to the footwork of one Martin Luther, who objected to some abuses of power by the Church – abuses enabled by their chokepoint on information and media at the time. Specifically, they were selling salvation to raise funds, something that wasn’t in the books – and being a clergyman, Luther knew this and objected to it.
The objection of this one man sparked a century of civil war across the known world at the time – loosely described as the years 1524-1648. In particular, it was triggered by the Luther Bibles, where Luther printed bibles in German and French, and distributed them by the cartload — instantly revoking the media chokepoint previously held by the Catholic Church, an action that upset the power balance so much it led to a century of brutal warfare.
Can Bitcoin Free West Africa From CFA Franc Tyranny? | ICT Works
▻http://www.ictworks.org/2016/05/20/can-bitcoin-free-west-africa-from-cfa-franc-tyranny
Zero Cost of Coinage
One key issue is the requirement that the CFA Franc is printed in France and the African countries using the currency have to pay France for the printing services. Yet the Bitcoin payment system is free to use and open for anyone to use it. With Bitcoin technology, anyone can use the currency without requiring approval from any government payment processing services.
Flexible Monetary Value
The value of the CFA Franc is determined by France and has been devalued in 1994 at 50%, one French Franc, previously worth 50 FCFA became 100 FCFA (1). While the value of Bitcoin fluctuates, no one country manipulates it in order to control the economy of another country. Also, if Bitcoin is used as an immediate transfer value, vs. a store of wealth, the long-term exchange rate doesn’t matter.
Easier Intra-Africa Trade
The CFA Franc are emitted by three Central banks, the West African Central Bank (BCEAO), the Central Africa (BEAC) Bank and the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros Central Bank (BCC). Even-though they are technically the same Franc, there is no real convertibility between the three zones creating a trading fence between them. Bitcoin value is universal and anybody in the world could purchase goods from anyone without any intermediary.
Lower Forex Costs
The countries using the CFA Franc pay huge commissions disguised in the Operations accounts deposit to France for the convertibility of their currency. Indeed, France is the only country in the world, which guarantees to convert the CFA Franc in Euro (and therefore in most major currencies) and its monopoly creates hefty commissions while doing these operations. Bitcoin can allow money transfer between two remote locations instantly, with very little to no commissions. Bitcoin has the same value worldwide and does not need to be converted to fiat money.
No Operations Accounts
France has established a clearing house which forces the former African Colonies to deposit 50% of their currency with the French Central Bank. Whenever a former colony sells exporting goods on the international market, that country must keep 50% of the sales in what is called the operation accounts. Prior to 1973, all of these countries were depositing 100% of their transactions in these operations accounts. With Bitcoin there is no central bank and this constraint is eliminated.
3D printing ? Meh. Here is 5-axis desktop #CNC - let’s make metal parts to spec, on demand !
@fil Chouette machine : ▻http://www.pocketnc.com.
Par contre, c’est pas libre et un peu cher. Compter environ 4000$.
Refugee #Phrasebook in Use in Idomeni
Refugee Phrasebook has recently received a new printing request: A phrasebook with Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu, Greek and Kurdish for the Idomeni camp in Greece. Our team made a PDF with these languages through Wikibooks and thanks to Raul Walch and other volunteers, 1000 copies of Refugee Phrasebook were printed in Idomeni this week to improve communication in the camp.
Le phrasebook en pdf pour la Grèce :
▻http://www.refugeephrasebook.de/pdf/rpbGreece1603a.pdf
Mais il y a plein d’autres phrasebooks pour d’autres pays #Wikibooks :
▻https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Refugee_Phrasebook
▻http://www.refugeephrasebook.de
#dictionnaire #asile #migrations #réfugiés #solidarité #langue #communication
Il y a aussi un #dictionnaire_médical :
▻http://refugeephrasebook.de/pdf/italy-medical1511.pdf
#traduction #langue
@reka
Refugee Communication Boards
We’ve all seen some of the horrific pictures of people leaving their home countries, seeking refuge somewhere safer. Most of us can’t even begin to imagine what it must be like to flee one’s country, belongings, sometimes also family and friends. The stress, anxiety and sorrow – it is ungraspable.
And imagine then crossing the borders into another country where they speak a language that you don’t understand, what do you do then? How do you say that you are hungry? In pain?
In order to facilitate communication we’ve created a simple communication board with our software at Boardmaker Online that allows you to express some basic needs and feelings.
If you happen to be one of those kind souls helping the refugees on the ground, please download the communication board in the appropriate language below, print it out, and use it when you talk to those people in need.
Je prends connaissance de cette #bibliothèque numérique #anarchiste :
The Anarchist Library
▻https://theanarchistlibrary.org
theanarchistlibrary.org is (despite its name) an #archive focusing on #anarchism, #anarchist texts, and texts of interest for anarchists.
Within the scope of our use of the term “anarchism” we have been quite broad, but broad does not mean infinite, and basically shrinks down to a set of ideas against the State and the capital. This immediately rules out the so-called “anarcho-capitalism”, “anarcho-nationalism” and similar crap.
What is so special about this site?
Often, you may find the texts hosted here on other sites that also aim to be digital libraries, and often the texts are taken from them (the source is always listed). But this #library provides (together with the on-line version of each text) one or more high quality PDFs in various sizes and and formats, as well as its plain text sources, and an #EPUB version for mobile platforms. We actively encourage the #DIY printing and the distribution of the texts, so you have the “imposed” version for Letter paper (USA) and A4 (rest of the world): just print double side, fold and clip, and the booklet is ready.
The site provides a way for distributors and friends to change the layout of the PDFs and to create collections of an arbitrary number of texts (1 or more). See the bookbuilder page.
The site also provides an advanced search engine.
Et donc je prends aussi connaissance de ce #CMS
Amusewiki
▻https://amusewiki.org/special/index
Amusewiki , a library-oriented #wiki engine. #Amusewiki is more than just a wiki engine, it’s also a powerful authoring, archiving and publishing platform.
Why would I want this engine and not MediaWiki / Drupal / WordPress / whatever?
Amusewiki is not a clone of existing CMS. It was created to manage large amounts of texts (books and articles) with a special focus on quality, printing and first rate reading experience.
The PDF and EPUB generation is not a nice addon, it’s the core feature.
If you only need a CMS for a fancy site, amusewiki is not for you.
Instead, you should consider amusewiki if:
- You want high-quality output (EPUB and #PDF with #LaTeX quality).
- You want a site with a #flat-file and #Git backend for long-term archiving.
- You want to be able to reformat the PDFs, merging texts into collections. Add a text and take a look at the bookbuilder
- You don’t want or need fine-grained user permissions.
- You don’t want or need talks, comments, forums, social, etc embedded into the site.
See the feature list for more details.
Peut-être connais-tu aussi, dans le même genre, la Kate Sharpley Library (▻http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net) ?
Là aussi il y a un fonds documentaire énorme. Elle a été fondée notamment par un militant anglais nommé Albert Meltzer.
Autopromotion : je publie une chronique sur ce personnage, dans mon blog, cet après-midi ou demain. Je suis en train d’y mettre la dernière main.
Ah je ne connaissais, merci ! J’irai lire ta note quand elle sera publiée :-)
Amalgamma develops 3D-printed concrete for building
▻http://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/21/amalgamma-develops-3d-printing-concrete-technique-building-structures-bartle
A group of students from the Bartlett School of Architecture has developed a method of 3D printing concrete to create structural elements and large furniture pieces.
Member States’ Support to Emergency Relocation Mechanism
Situation au 4 janvier 2016
►http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/european-agenda-migration/press-material/docs/state_of_play_-_relocation_en.pdf
A la vitesse d’une tortu(r)e...
Why the EU’s refugee relocation policy is a flop
After eight months of summits, debates and joint declarations on what to do with the hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming into Europe, one figure sums up the EU’s achievement so far: 272.
▻http://www.politico.eu/article/why-eu-refugee-relocation-policy-has-been-a-flop-frontex-easo-med
Is a distribution key system the solution to the EU’s refugee crisis?
The Dublin regulation in its three incarnations has attracted plenty of criticism on various grounds and from various statutory and non-statutory actors – the most noticeable perhaps being it is a system that impact unevenly on EU member states, with countries at the EU’s southern border particularly exposed because of their position. These countries have traditionally responded to the pressure imposed by the Dublin regulation in two ways – formally, demanding more solidarity from other member states and a different system altogether; informally, letting people slip through their bureaucratic net not finger-printing them (see Italy) or allowing such poor reception conditions for asylum seekers to force other member states to stop returning so called ‘Dublin cases’ on human rights ground (see Greece).
▻https://nandosigona.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/is-a-distribution-key-system-the-solution-to-the-eus-refugee-
Dublino, il flop della relocation e la fine dell’Europa unita
Nascono «nuovi mostri burocratici» per far fronte al naufragio del Regolamento di Dublino e al fallimento della ridistribuzione dei rifugiati da Italia e Grecia verso il resto dell’Ue. E intanto i cittadini perdono sempre più fiducia nelle istituzioni Ue
▻http://openmigration.org/idee/dublino-il-flop-della-relocation-e-la-fine-delleuropa-unita
Quadrature — Kartograph
▻http://quadrature.co/work/kartograph
http://quadrature.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMGP9840_bear_s.jpg 
http://quadrature.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMGP9734_bear_small.jpg Kartograph updates old maps by drawing new geographic data over the infrastructure of old times using the internet. The selection of the section is based on the location of the machine. The starting material are old atlases and maps that conceivably used to be the main source of knowledge for information regarding countries near or far. Their purpose was taken over more and more by online services like Google Maps or OpenStreetMap in the last three decades. While classic paper maps are basically already outdated the moment they get published, digital map services stay valid by simply updating themselves instantly. But this advantage over the analogue reduces the object to its mere informational value and disregards all the other levels of meaning that especially maps contain as reflections of the image we have of the world as a culture. Unimpressed by this, the machine overwrites the old source and thus not only demonstrates the structural changes that took place in this area since the printing of the original map but also the shift of technical systems and its social implementations.
Abdul Karim cancels the purchase of Ulaanbaatar Times printing factory
▻http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/?p=17332
Un investisseur qatari avait gagné la vente aux enchères de l’imprimerie de presse possédée par l’état. « Suite aux commentaires [ultranationalistes, j’imagine] sur les réseaux sociaux », il se désiste, perdant ainsi sa consignation initiale et laissant la place à un gros groupe privé local.
#mongolian_business ...
Last weekend, Abdul Karim sent an official letter to the State Privatization Commission, requesting to cancel his purchase of the Ulaanbaatar Times printing factory.
The printing factory, which covers an area of 2,698 square meters, was auctioned on November 30, and Abdul Karim won with the highest bid of 24 billion MNT. Abdul Karim is a Qatar-born Mongolian citizen, but many people questioned his legal rights to purchase the state-owned property on social media. The public became curious about the identity of the winning bidder, and media outlets shared interviews about Karim with people who claimed to have information about him.
Abdul Karim explained in his application for cancellation that various comments on social media caused him to reconsider the purchase of the Ulaanbaatar Times printing factory.
“I’m deeply upset that media outlets and social media have been spreading unpleasant and false information about me and my family. After consulting with my wife and son, I’ve decided to cancel my decision,” he stated.
Mayor of Ulaanbaatar E.Bat-Uul sent a letter to Abdul Karim in regards to his decision. “I don’t know what exactly caused you to change your mind, but if various rumors and comments on social media made you change your decision, I’d like to express my deepest regrets,” he wrote in the letter.
Mayor E.Bat-Uul stated that Mongolia was democratic and that the people of Mongolia have the right to freedom of speech and to freely express opinions on social media. Even so, he pointed out at the end of the letter that Abdul Karim can take legal action if he has felt threatened or received harassment in any way.
Many people questioned the whereabouts of Abdul Karim’s large sum of money to complete the purchase. Head of the Ulaanbaatar City Property Relations Agency Sh.Tumurbaatar said that Karim was going to receive support from internationally recognized funding sources. Sh.Tumurbaatar said it was unlikely that Karim would use illegal funds for a purchase made through an open auction.
Abdul Karim paid a 710 million MNT deposit in advance before participating in the auction. This amount will not be returned pursuant to auction rules, as he has cancelled his purchase. Abdul Karim’s 710 million MNT will be transferred to a state account.
The next highest bidder in the auction, Director of Tavan Bogd Group Ts.Baatarsaikhan, will now be able to purchase the printing factory. Director Ts.Baatarsaikhan offered 23.85 billion MNT at the auction. In the case that he refuses the offer, another auction will be held for the Ulaanbaatar Times printing factory within 14 days.
The Pirate Book Project from Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska is a book that examines the history and culture of media piracy
▻http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/134284452736/the-pirate-book-project-from-nicolas-maigret-and
This work offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy. It contains a compilation of texts on grassroots situations whose stories describe strategies developed to share, distribute and experience cultural content outside of the confines of local economies, politics or laws. These stories recount the experiences of individuals from India, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Mali and China. The book is structured in four parts and begins with a collection of stories on piracy dating back to the invention of the printing press and expanding to broader issues (historical and modern antipiracy technologies, geographically specific issues, as well as the rules of the Warez scene, its charters, structure and visual culture…).
Élections locales en Ukraine 25/10/15
Version ministère de l’Intérieur #Tout_va_bien (so far : 17h11 locales)
Ukrainian Interior Ministry does not register serious violations on election day so far
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukrainian-interior-ministry-does-not-register-serious-violations-on-electi
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has not registered any serious mass violations related to the electoral process so far.
(intégralité)
Néanmoins…
Il n’a pas été possible d’ouvrir les bureaux de vote à Marioupol (10h12)
Polling stations can’t be opened in Mariupol over mistakes in voting ballots
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/polling-stations-cant-be-opened-in-mariupol-over-mistakes-in-voting-ballot
The polling stations in Ukraine’s south-eastern town of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, failed to open, as the majority of town’s elections commission’s members refused to accept the ballots finding mistakes in some of them.
The commission’s members from post-Maidan parties spent the night at Priazovsky Rabochy printing house, which belongs to oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, to avoid distribution of them to the polling stations.
At about 8 am they were preparing to seal the printing house and wait for the final decision of the Central Election Commission, Galyna Odnorog, famous volunteer and candidate to the local city council from Batkivshchyna party told the Kyiv Post by phone.
’There are the very grave mistakes in the ballots, one candidate is indicated from the wrong party there,’ she said.
She added that the head of the election commission Iryna Yurina demanded to accept the ballots and hand them over to the polling stations, threatening the commission’s members of criminal prosecution for disruption of the elections.
The director of the printing house told the local media that some of the ballots, which the commission’s members found at the polling stations, were defective and they had been not supposed to be used for the vote.
Néanmoins…
Quelques soucis à Krasnoarmiysk (16h41)
Central Election Commission obliges Krasnoarmiysk branch to immediately hold elections
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/the-central-election-commission-of-ukraine-obliges-krasnoarmiysk-election-
The Central Election Commission of Ukraine has ordered Krasnoarmiysk town election commission to hand over the ballots to precinct election commissions immediately and to hold the elections in Krasnoarmiysk.
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suivi à 17h05
Court stops election in Krasnoarmiysk, rules ballots printed illegally
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/court-stops-election-in-krasnoarmiysk-rules-ballots-printed-illegally-4006
A local court in Donetsk Oblast’s Krasnoarmiysk, just 30 miles west of Russian-controlled Donetsk, ruled that local election authorities have illegally printed ballets. The court ordered polling stations closed in the city of 65,000 people.
The local election commission printed the ballots at a private printing press without supervision. That’s a violation of Ukraine’s election laws, the Krasnoarmiysk court ruled.
However, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine on Oct. 25 ordered the Krasnoarmiysk election commission to hand over the ballots to precinct election commissions immediately and to hold the elections, according to Interfax-Ukraine. However, despite the CEC ruling no election is expected to take place on Oct. 25.
Et diverses irrégularités mineures : absence d’isoloir, campagnes poursuivies hier samedi, longues files d’attente…
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukraines-local-elections-begin-with-reports-of-ballot-problems-live-update
Geology Professor 3D Prints Newly Discovered Hadrosaur
▻http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/09/24/newly-discovered-hadrosaur-restored-with-3d-printing
3D scanning and printing certainly holds a lot of potential impact for geologists and other scientific pioneers such as Druckenmiller. This is especially true when it comes to restoring the skeleton of a completely new species of dinosaur. Delicate and rare fossils can be accurately remodeled and reproduced with 3D printing technology in order to allow a more hands-on approach to studying and displaying natural phenomenons of the past such as the hadrosaur
From summer to autumn to wear a skirt
Went to the summer alternating very moment, the beauty of the girls once again caught in a tangle of them buy clothes, is that while the temperature was still summer paragraph discounts, the heart should start long love, won the season final glory, or stop stop watching, to be Hitz row upon row and then shot a discount Xingui, in fact, this problem solved, if not necessarily a second election is not available, then the two have both, but to choose the money, to the summer fashionableHe has continued to fall.
1. Knee small slits, should put aside the cool casual cotton fabric, it totally a subtle retro cheongsam wan course, but the original taste of the city into a lazy, leisurely escape so eye-catching, unique to appear somewhat restrained light Charm of a small woman, with a small coat can become any of a fashion spectacle.
2. The tall woman wearing elegant Long Sleeve Dresses show belongs the right place, the girl of medium type of wear and ankle skirt is Exceeding, playful thing to say is certainly warm, but a little difficult to find the intentions, with waist Slim girls instant classic, medium body type will have a tall goddess Fan child.
3. Serpentine general jacquard fabrics, although the same color, but jacquard play of light and shadow is dreamy effect, plus snakes comparable plover pop classics, not Zhang Ziyang with understated luxury, beaded sleeveless round neck simple , Stark reveals expansive charming ladies.
4. Although the beginning of autumn has passed and well-being self-tuning, but the temperature is still silent bustle of the summer frenzy, if this season has not been fully experienced the cotton of music, then you can not miss the last train fluorescent green charming, shoulder-shaped hollow, harnesses fashionable light sexy, new style cotton grade carve city.
5. Johnson Valley faint spearmint, directly from the heart of silence and feel the invasion, thousands of disturbing thoughts, hit color stitching waist Fall Dresses, simple and also classic, tall also brisk, intellectual also wan However, knee-length dress lined through hidden completely dispel the lack of material Sentimental Size girls worry, awarded tall, quiet place fragrance.
6. Posted shirt collar package hip pocket, has become almost standard sonorous urban women, mostly suits or hit the break with the tradition of popular color, with one of the atmospheric Tongshen printing highlight emerging intellectual maverick, people suddenly awakened, intellectual pretty stylish and can actually go hand in hand.
7. Elegant girls always remember a life guidelines - never mess dress. Most of the girls in the same age visiting the chase popular, with a detached eye into the world outside, recognize quality content, the same control hollow, three-dimensional Color Block Dresses and chest, although very different, but similar connotation - Heavy deliberately children, good quality and needless to say.
Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos
▻http://www.wired.com/2015/09/lockpickers-3-d-print-tsa-luggage-keys-leaked-photos
The TSA is learning a basic lesson of physical security in the age of 3-D printing: If you have sensitive keys—say, a set of master keys that can open locks you’ve asked millions of Americans to use—don’t post pictures of them on the Internet.
Where’s Angela? Ultra-Orthodox paper edits Merkel and other female world leaders out of Paris march
▻http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.premium-1.636823?v=67732EEED8E5852F639EEC4781361CC7
▻http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.636825.1421141507!/image/1117163593.PNG_gen/derivatives/landscape_640/1117163593.PNG
Keeping women out of the public eye is nothing new in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world.
In the Israeli political parties that represent the ultra-Orthodox sector, women are explicitly banned from running for Knesset. In publications and advertisements that serve the sector, female images are completely absent, painting a visual picture of a world that contains only men and boys – and very occasionally, a prepubescent girl. Sometimes, astonishingly, they even refrain from printing women’s names, not just their photographs.
“If they don’t want to see women, just blur or cover her face. Why make it seem like a woman was not even there? ... It’s not about ’gawking at women’ or sexual arousal. Rather, it is an attempt to excise women from the public sphere completely. They are not protecting women from leering men or men from illicit thoughts. They are telling their community that women have no place in society outside the home.”
Police raid press of Turkish daily publishing selection of Charlie Hebdo’s new issue
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nID=76916&NewsCatID=341
Police have raided the printing press of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet as it prepared to distribute a four-page selection of Charlie Hebdo’s new issue in an act of solidarity with the French satirical magazine targeted last week in a deadly attack that claimed 12 victims.
It also took extreme security measures ahead of the scheduled publication of the supplement.
Police cars were sent to the printer of the daily in Istanbul early Jan. 14 and stopped trucks to prevent the distribution of the Jan. 14 edition. The distribution was eventually allowed after the prosecution made sure that cartoons representing the Prophet Muhammad were not included in the selection.
The editor-in-chief of the daily, Utku Çakırözer, stated earlier that they had decided not to publish a cartoon on the cover featuring the Prophet Muhammad in tears holding a “Je suis Charlie” banner, in reference to solidarity protests with the magazine.
“When preparing this selection, we have been attentive to religious sensitivities as well as the freedom of belief in line with our editorial principles,” Çakırözer said via Twitter Jan. 13. “We didn’t include the cover of the magazine after a long deliberation.”
Despite the daily’s decision not to publish the most controversial cartoons, police extended security measures in the surroundings of its offices in Istanbul’s central Şişli neighborhood.
(via Guillaume Perrier)