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Mongoose: Security flaw gave researcher the power to erase every video on YouTube

Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Security
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Security flaw gave researcher the power to erase every video on YouTube

Today's tale of apocalyptic internet near-misses comes from software developer Kamil Hismatullin, who discovered a security flaw in YouTube that allowed him to delete any video he wanted—or all of them, if he so desired. Fortunately, he did not so desire (although he apparently had some thoughts about doing a number on Justin Bieber's channel), and instead he reported the bug to Google and collected a $5000 reward.

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Stephen E. Arnold: The Death of Useful Search

IO Impotency
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Stephen E. Arnold

Search Engine Optimization: Chasing Semantic Search

I have read a number of articles about search engine optimization (SEO) and Web search. From my point of view, the SEO sector wants to do more than destroy relevance. SEO seeks to undermine the meaning of discourse. For some marketers, the destruction of meaning is a good thing. A Web site and its content will be disconnected from what the information the user seeks. The user, particularly a recent high school grad, is probably ill equipped to differentiate among reformation of information, disinformation, and misinformation. Instead of identifying Jacques Ellul’s touch points, the person will ask, “Is he Taylor Swift’s hair stylist.” As I said, erosion of meaning is a good think when a client’s Web page appears in a list of Google search results or is predicatively presented as what the user wants, needs, and desires.

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Owl: Martial Law & Foreign Troops in the USA? Jade Helm — Comments on JFK versus Kent State verus Repression Today

05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement, Military
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Who? Who?

Article (link only) is pretty good, but see the even better acid reply (in full below the fold) from a reader.

What Would Happen If Martial Law Was Declared In America?

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Jean Lievens: 3D Printing Market — and Superficial True Costs — Rising

Economics/True Cost, Hardware
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3D Printing Market Tops $3.3 Billion, Expands by 34% in 2014

If you’re wondering about the health of the market for 3D printers and 3D printing technology, put your thoughts at ease.  Market research firm Canalys says almost 133,000 3D printers were shipped around the world during 2014, and that represents a whopping 68% increase over the calendar year 2013.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Google in Three-Front War

Commerce, Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
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Google: Three Elephants Preparing to Fight Among Themselves

I love the Google. I found two unrelated articles interesting for one simple reason: Google is getting ready for its own version of Wrestlemania. Read more.

Phi Beta Iota: Google, like Microsoft and Standard Oil, needs to die. It is only corruption that keep subsidies for fossil fuel and tolerance for the information-era equivalents of fossil fuel, alive.

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SchwartzReport: Muslims to Outnumber Christians by 2070 (55 Years – 1 to 2 Generations)

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence
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Stephan A. Schwartz

No developed Christian country has a sustainable birthrate, and just as many White people are freaked out at America becoming a majority minority nation, so the freak out becomes all the greater when they learn that Christians will soon be a smaller group than Muslims, as this report describes.  And here is the kicker: As the U.S. has repeatedly injected itself into the Muslim world, often with violence and death as a result, how do you think the people who live in Islamic countries, and who are still offended by the 13th century Crusades will feel about the U.S. in the future?

Study: Muslims To Outnumber Christians Worldwide At 2070

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