Quarter of Americans Are Not Against Usage of Nuclear Weapon at War

The Simons Foundation and Angus Reid Strategies published the results of international survey about usage of nuclear weapon.

There were 3 variants:

• is it possible to use nuclear weapon at war?
• is it possible to use it as preventive action?
• or it can't be used in anyway.

Washington Profile writes that almost 25% of Americans nuclear weapon can be used at war. The same opinion has 17% of Englishman, 11.7% of Germans, 9.6% of Italians (these countries can use NATO's nuclear weapon) and 34.9% of Israelis (they don't confirm and don't deny the presence of nuclear weapon).

Preventive action is supported by:

• 37% of Frenchmen;
• 20% of Americans;
• 28% of Englishman;
• 18.4% of Italians;
• 8.4% of Germen.

76.9% of Germen, almost 70% of Italians, almost half of Englishman, more than 43% Frenchmen, more than 40% of Americans and 21.6% of Israelis are sure nuclear weapon can not be used in any ways.

Unbelievable Trousers

Would you wear them?

Do you know what is Meizu M8 MiniOne?

Meizu M8 MiniOne, which is claims as Chinese version of iPhone. You might know that iPhone is not available for Asian Market; many Asian people say that Apple too underestimates the power of Asian Market and Economic. All right, perhaps the opinion is not true. However, Meizu M8 MiniOne has come as a new iPhone version for Asian Market. Its looks just like iPhone in every way.

Meizu, the company that have cloned the iPhone seems to be familiar with Asian Market that really exited with gadget. Touch-screen is the choice for navigating this device, it has been predicted that for couple years in further, touch-screen will mostly dominating the user interface of all well-known gadget.

Meizu M8 MiniOne is said to support standard GSM, TD-SCDMA for 3G connectivity, 3.3” widescreen (720x480) display, Bluetooth, and ARM11 processor, which is running at the clock of 533MHz. The operating system of Meizu M8 MiniOne is Windows CE 6.0 that based on the Window CE kernel that specially made for Meizu M8. A 3MP camera is completing the snapshot shot feature; blend with 0.3MP VGA for video conferencing. Unfortunately, there is no flash for supporting the camera of this device.

For some people, paying an iPhone-like device at the price of US$788.50 seems to be expensive. Yes, Meizu M8 MiniOne is sold more expensive than iPhone that stand at the price of US$500. However, if you cannot wait for any longer time, Meizu M8 MiniOne can be the choice to fulfill you gadget desire. The latest information that I have got is the device will be available at the end of this year.

Meizu M8 MiniOne Complete Specification

Dimensions: 105x57x11.5mm
Display: 3.32” 16-Bit (720x480 pixels) TFT Touch-screen
PC Interface: USB2.0 Ultra Fast Data Transfer
Flash Memory: Built-in basic Memory (4GB/8GB)
GSM + EDGE + WCDMA + SCDMA Networks
Bluetooth Support
TV-out Support
Line-in Support
Video Playback: MPEG-4/H.263/H.264 at 30FPS
3.0MP + 0.3MP Dual Cameras (Optional)
Video Conferencing (Optional)
Operating System: Windows CE 6.0
Processor: ARM11 533MHz

related source: Meizu M8 MiniOne

Total number of records containing sensitive personal information involved in security breaches 166,021,210.

Hackers steal data and data costs money.

According to Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report the prices are

• bank account details - up to US$400;
• credit card details - $0.50 ... $5;
• E-mail passwords - $1 ... $350;
• E-mail addresses - $2 ... $4 (per megabyte).

And the problem of stolen data continues to grow. Recently it became known that Connecticut's Data on Its Money Was Stolen. A tape containing information financial data for nearly all Connecticut state agencies and personal data of 1.3 millions of Ohio residents passed to criminals.

But it's just one case. To imagine real size of the problem here are some more figures about disclosed private information:

• May 22, 2006 U.S. Dept. of Veteran's Affairs (Washington, DC) 28,600,000 records;
• Sept. 7, 2006 Circuit City and Chase Card Services, a division of JP Morgan Chase & Co. 2.6 million records;
• Oct. 23, 2006 Chicago Voter Database 1.35 million records;
• Jan. 17, 2007 TJ stores (TJX), including TJMaxx, Marshalls, Winners, HomeSense, AJWright, TKMaxx, and possibly Bob's Stores in U.S. & Puerto Rico -- Winners and HomeGoods stores in Canada -- and possibly TKMaxx stores in UK and Ireland 45,700,000 records;
• July 3, 2007 Fidelity National Information Services Certegy Check Services Inc.
  (Jacksonville, FL) 8.5 million records.

TOTAL number of records containing sensitive personal information involved in security breaches 166,021,210.

All figures are taken from A Chronology of Data Breaches. And similar information can be found at Attrition.org Data Loss Archive and Database.

And is your private data secured?

Happy birthday, Linux!

On the 17-th of September 1991 Linus Torvalds has uploaded Linux v0.01 on ftp.funet.fi.

It had no GCC, it could be installed only on some AT-386 and it was called OS "Freax". It was a barely functional UNIX with tons of bugs, but that doesn't stop it being useful. Many people still use it as the first step when learning to hack the Linux kernel.

It already had such structure...

Would you create your Linux?

Peris Hilton Earns on Peris Hilton

Now it has tried one of the most profitable - judicial claims. And the occasion has had very opportunely - company "Hallmark" has let out comical cards with the image of a secular lioness.

Certainly, the former successor of world hotel empire has hastened to demand from the company indemnification of mental cruelty. The sincere wounds, put to it production Hallmark, Hilton has estimated in $ 100 000. Most likely, this sum should suffice parties fan on pocket charges - at least until the next manufacturer will not try to encroach on its advantage.