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  1. Locutus

    Apple Device ID Leak Traced To BlueToad

    Stolen IDs did not come from FBI, as claimed by AntiSec, but from a Florida-based app publisher that issued an apology and said it is no longer collecting UDID data. September 10, 2012 02:45 PM The source of the database containing a million Apple device...
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    Feds to strip 3000 of citizenship over fraudulent applications

    OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is set to announce Monday that the feds are moving to strip about 3,000 people of their Canadian citizenships for fraudulent applications. Federal officials have identified 11,000 questionable applications for citizenship or permanent resident...
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    Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers’ Unions

    Turn Down $400 Million Deal, 16% Pay Raise... Highest Average Salary In Nation... Average $76,000 per year before benefits... SOME SCHOOLS OPEN -- BUT JUST TO SERVE FREE MEALS... 400,000 STUDENTS UNLEASHED... Cops Pour Onto Streets to Deal With 'Unsupervised Kids'... GODFATHER 'DISAPPOINTED,'...
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    We have a right to see Khadr tapes

    Last week Vic Toews, the public safety minister, finally received videotapes of Omar Khadr, the confessed murderer and terrorist, being interviewed while in prison. At the request of Khadr’s lawyers, the U.S. military commission in 2010 had those videotapes sealed. Toews wants to review...
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    Florida voters facing a long, long ballot in November

    via Fark Many of Florida's November ballots to be the most complicated ever: 10 pages long, five pages front-and-back, printed in English, Spanish and Creole. What could possibly go wrong? TALLAHASSEE — Brace yourselves, Florida voters: The election ballot you'll see this fall is longer...
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    Yeah, let's rebuild the Avro Arrow

    Good one Lou. :lol: via Fark: Canadian National Defense guy: "Hey, I know...let's cancel the contract for American F-35s, dust off those plans of the Avro Arrow from the 1950s and build those instead. That'll be MUCH cheaper" OTTAWA—A consortium of Canadian manufacturers sought to go...
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    The Sounds of Capitalism

    The history of advertising jingles, a truly American art form What Midwestern childhood spent bellied up in front of the family TV set wasn’t shaped in some small but inexorable way by the Empire Carpet Man, that folksy spokesman who always managed to slip you his number before you...
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    Where's the Secret Service?

    Obama Picked Up By Scott Van Duzer, Florida Pizza Place Owner (PHOTO, VIDEO) In Florida for his bus tour on Sunday, President Barack Obama made an unannounced stop at Big Apple Pizza and Pasta in Ft. Pierce. There, the shop's owner, Scott Van Duzer, lifted the president off the...
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    The Party that Obama Un-Built

    The Wall Street Journal It has been a stunning slide "The focus of this week's Democratic convention was President Obama. Lost in the adulation was the diminished state to which he has brought his broader party. Today's Democrats are a shadow of 2008—struggling for re-election, isolated...
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    Good Samaritan’s purse stolen

    while trying to save stabbing victim’s life A Good Samaritan became a victim herself when her purse was stolen after she stopped to help a man who had been stabbed outside a downtown nightclub early Sunday morning. The man...
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    In Honour of Skilled Blue Collar Workers

    The narrative of the "Progressive" Democrat Party in America appears to be that everyone should get a 4+ year degree at a college or university. They won't offer any qualifiers beyond that because, after all, that would be "judging". So, if a young person were to borrow $40,000 or $80,000...
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    Climate Change and forestry in Canada

    Man-made global warming begat climate change which will soon become climate. Easier to make the goal post stand that way. :lol:
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    N.J. Town Overrun With Anti-Semitic Graffiti

    MANALAPAN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Just 10 days before the High Holidays a New Jersey community woke up to find swastikas and anti-Jewish graffiti all over town. The photographs show the images neighbors woke up to in Manalapan on Thursday morning — swastikas on street signs, mailboxes, a cable...
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    Flea Market treasure found

    While you were at the flea market happily picking up an 8 track tape of "Frampton Comes Alive" the woman next to you just found a $100,000 Renoir h/t Fark...
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    All your gold are belong to us

    Judge Says 10 Rare Gold Coins Worth $80 Million Belong to Uncle Sam A judge ruled that 10 rare gold coins worth $80 million belonged to the U.S. government, not a family that had sued the U.S. Treasury, saying it had illegally seized them. The 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle coin was...
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    Smashed fried potatoes

    Take everything you love about a French fry — that crisp, golden-brown crust enveloping an oh-so-fluffy interior — and flatten it. In fact, go ahead and smash it. Lately, I've been frying up smashed potatoes, and they're everything I could want in a French fry and more. Each bite is like a...
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    Some more 'found' photos

    This time in an old grocery box...Chicago in 60's, give or take. Looks rather proto-Durka-ish in a way (if you've seen his work). Vivian Maier: Stunning black and white images discovered in a grocery box capture the places and faces of ¿60s Chicago | Mail Online
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    Sept. 7, 1940 - Nazi Germany commenced the London Blitz

    via sda Moments in History Sept. 7, 1940 - Nazi Germany commenced with the London Blitz, the original attacks consisting of 57 consecutive nights of bombing - video here & here. Sept. 8, 1944 - The first V-2 rocket was launched by Germany against London. small dead animals: Moments in...
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    This summer may see first ice-free North Pole

    How about that google 'troll' + 'CC' search result tutorial you were going to explain to me? Help a bruther out man.
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    Romney Out-Debates Obama

    Bring Science back to the WH National Review Online has an interesting article up about how Romney schools Obama on science. tldr; Romney wins. But don't take my word for it, read what our non-conservative friends at Slate have to say. But, then, like I said earlier, more...