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Gawker comments on Apple/ATT security breach

~ Pharmer

Apple’s Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed.

No claims from here of any expertise in hacking, but ATT and Apple have mud on their faces.   The rich and famous early adopters of the 3 G iPad/phone will be PMS-ing when they understand that some of their personal information has been made available to the public.

The scoop from above comes from the folks at Gawker, and this tech tabloid feature is worth the read.

And, a little bit about those Gawker guys, who ribbed Rush Limbaugh on the occasion of his  4th wedding this past week. (He’s still honeymooning).

They are paradoxical, like so many other techies.   There is an orderliness to the techie mind which allows the logic of programming.    However, it seems that every brain needs a little  perverse pleasure, and this is provided to many techies through dabbling in leftist politics and feel good ideology.

There has to be at least some disorder in every brain, it seems.

The folks at Gawker like to abuse Rush Limbaugh, and he seems to take it in fairly good humor.  He likes their scoops on the latest electronic  and programmable toys, to which he remains  addicted.

Chief Climate Skeptic

~ Pharmer

Meet the Grand Poobah -David Holland, who’s Freedom of Information Requests to East Anglia University’s climatologists , were referenced among the escaped email files now residing in hard drives worldwide.  He has gained widespread recognition for his skepticism, and efforts to obtain the actual climate data which was said to support the Global Warming Religion.  The movement to prosecute the climatologists for violating Freedom of Information regs,  has caused the group to turn 180 degrees and promise full disclosure.

The only roadblock is that much of  raw climate data  has been thrown out long ago, so we have no chance of reviewing it.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
Apparently the emails were leaked to the press  well over a month ago,  (before they were hacked).   The BBC is reported to have dropped the ball, and this perhaps precipitated the hacking and dissemination of the files on the internet.

Not to be deterred, the UN shows no signs of changing policy of sacrificing the economic and technological progress of  nations on the altar of the Global Warming Religion.
There is “virtually no possibility” of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body, its chair said today.