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The Senate will not consider CISPA in its current form:
According to the chairman of a key Senate committee, the cybersecurity bill passed by the House is “important” but its privacy protections are “insufficient.”
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The U.S. Navy is going to install laser weapons aboard the USS Ponce in fiscal 2014.
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![The Week has a great roundup of predicted apocalypses that never came to pass. Our favorite:
Halley’s Comet, 1910
What was predicted: When Halley’s Comet reappeared in 1910, the Chicago Yerkes Observatory made the poorly calculated decision to announce that it had detected a poisonous gas in the comet’s tail. The New York Times added fuel to the fire by quoting a French astronomer as saying this gas “would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.” Panic ensued, gas masks were purchased, and people began loading up on “comet pills,” [emphasis ours] which promised to counter the effects of the noxious gas. In an attempt to keep the fumes at bay, homeowners placed pieces of paper over their locks.
What actually happened: The planet remained undisturbed. Once the comet had passed, The Chicago Tribune announced to readers, “We’re still here.”
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The Week has a great roundup of predicted apocalypses that never came to pass. Our favorite:
Halley’s Comet, 1910
What was predicted: When Halley’s Comet reappeared in 1910, the Chicago Yerkes Observatory made the poorly calculated decision to announce that it had detected a poisonous gas in the comet’s tail. The New York Times added fuel to the fire by quoting a French astronomer as saying this gas “would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.” Panic ensued, gas masks were purchased, and people began loading up on “comet pills,” [emphasis ours] which promised to counter the effects of the noxious gas. In an attempt to keep the fumes at bay, homeowners placed pieces of paper over their locks.
What actually happened: The planet remained undisturbed. Once the comet had passed, The Chicago Tribune announced to readers, “We’re still here.”
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Bye bye Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry and good ol’ boys were drinking whiskey and rye and singing this’ll be the day…
Or December 15th will be at any rate
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Blackout: Syria vanishes from Internet
The country has been experiencing an Internet outage for several hours, and many people on Twitter are also reporting phone lines are down. In addition, some airlines are canceling flights to Damascus.
According to Renesys, which operates a real-time grid that continuously monitors Internet routing data, all 84 of Syria’s IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet. The outage started at 10:26 UTC (12:26 p.m. in Damascus or 5:26 a.m. ET), and there doesn’t appear to be any end in sight.
The site initially said only 92 percent of the country’s routed networks were offline, but the remainder eventually disappeared, as well. Renesys said it’s “investigating the dynamics of the outage and will post updates as they become available.”
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