SECTION I: Cyber Attacks
A big difference between a TV set and a PC is that the former is free from cyber attacks, including viruses and hackers.
It is because a TV set simply receives electric waves which include information of images, sounds, and other simple data (in case of digital broadcasting).
The main function of a TV set can be realized without using computer software. But, a PC cannot function without software, such as the Windows OS and other various programs, in which viruses can be included and through which a hacker can intrude in the PC.
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Virtual Criminology Report 2009
Virtually Here: The Age of Cyber Warfare
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The most obvious of these attacks was the August 2008 cyber campaign against Georgia during the South Ossetia War.
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If a major cyber conflict between nationstates were to erupt, it is very likely that the private sector would get caught in the crossfire.
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As millions of Americans all over the world celebrated their nation’s independence over the July 4th holiday weekend, Web sites belonging to their government were bombarded with access requests, slowing and sometimes blocking access to the sites.
These denial-of-service attacks targeted the White House, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, National Security Agency, Federal Trade Commission, Department of the Treasury, Department of Defense and the Department of State, as well as the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Amazon and Yahoo.
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The following Tuesday, 11 Web sites of the South Korean government were brought down by the same network of 50,000 computers used in the attacks on the United States. South Korean intelligence officials blamed North Korea as the source of the attacks, an allegation that was reported by the Associated Press. Suddenly a lot more people started paying attention.
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Many of the Web sites were able to return to their usual business within a few hours. Some security experts and policymakers concluded that the attacks were no more than a nuisance to the people of the United States and South Korea, regardless of whether North Korea was responsible
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From what has been reported in the media, it appears that nation-states are engaging in cyber espionage on a massive scale. From around 2002 to 2005, for instance, an unknown source managed to download 10 to 20 terabytes of information from a sensitive, but unclassified, U.S. Department of Defense network in an episode code-named "Titan Rain." To put this amount of information in perspective, consider that digital copies of all the books (more than 18 million) in the U.S. Library of Congress would represent 20 terabytes of data.
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Today, once a hacker gains access to a system, it may be a relatively simple transition from downloading data to sabotaging it. According to Richard Clarke, "The distinction between intelligence collection and damage to systems is a few keystrokes."
http://img.en25.com/Web/McAfee/VCR_2009_EN_VIRTUAL_CRIMINOLOGY_RPT_NOREG.pdf
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You really need the Army, the Navy, the Air Service, the Marines, and the Cyber Force.
SECTION II: Global Cooling or Jet Stream
Recently, the subtropical jet stream has caused heat waves in Europe, China, and North America.
But, it might not imply further global warming.
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Global Cooling: Science and Myth
by Jason M. Vogel and Brian Lazar
Worried about climate change? Have no fear, the planet is getting colder at least according to some. This is more than speculation by skeptics: According to the World Meteorological Organization, global average temperature spiked in 1998 and has been in a cooling trend since then. Sure, 2008 was the 10th-warmest year on record since 1850, but if climate change is really happening, then shouldn't 2008 have been warmer than 1998? After all, greenhouse gas concentrations in 2008 were at an all time high. If you work in the fields of climate or weather, chances are you have heard this argument before.
http://www.weatherwise.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2010/July-August%202010/global-cooling-full.html
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By the way, it is a Japanese scientist that scientifically discovered a jet sream.
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In the 1920s, a Japanese meteorologist Wasaburo Ooishi[5] detected the jet stream from a site near Mount Fuji. He tracked pilot balloons, also known as pibals (balloons used to determine upper level winds),[6] as they rose into the atmosphere. Ooishi's work largely went unnoticed outside of Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream#Subtropical_jet
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In WWII, the Empire of Japan manufactured 9000 and more fire balloons to release them in the air, expecting them to reach North America riding on the jet stream. However, this operation did not turn the tide, though 300 of them reached North America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon
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(http://www.just-oldies.com/1961/will_you_love_me_tomorrow.htm
None would love them tomorrow if not in politics.
It is so since they are accused by God.
This is what I want to say today.
Rain might affect an outcome of Sunday's ballots in Japan...)
Joh 7:8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.
Joh 7:9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
Joh 7:10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.