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Guide For US Airport Security
The airport security seems to have a little trouble picking out the potential threats to America…
Here’s a quick test… pick out the terrorist:
Or maybe this one:
Then we have the typical candidate for searches:
Getting warmer:
Or how about these happy vacationers? They all have something in common.
I know, it’s tough to pick out the possible suspects. Hope this guide will help.
Michelle Lang of the Calgary Herald Killed
Four Canadian soldiers and Canadian journalist were killed in Kandahar today. The journalist was identified as Michelle Lang of the Calgary Herald.
Greetings from Afghanistan, where I will be reporting for Canwest News Service and the Calgary Herald for the next several weeks.
I am currently at Kandahar Airfield, the sprawling military base near Kandahar City perhaps best known for its dusty conditions and a very busy Tim Hortons. At the moment, Afghanistan’s winter rains have turned that famous dust into a giant mud pit.
Life here, though, has been made considerably brighter by Christmas decorations. Many soldiers have decorated their sleep tents with Christmas lights. One bike near the media work tent has a wreath attached to its handlebars.
The Herald is currently publishing Christmas cards from Canadians in Kandahar. You can check out the cards and post your own message to Canadian troops in Afghanistan here:
My sincere and heartfelt condolences to the families of the Michelle and the four soldiers.
Harper Could Use Prorogue To Save Canada Billions
With a Parliament prorogue until after the Olympics, I think he should have taken a few more steps to save us some serious money:
- Use the period to layoff all MPs and make them apply for (un)eployment insurance. This would be an eye opener for them. maybe a few would run off and get real jobs.
- Layoff all Parliament workers and support staff – again a few would get real jobs and we’d breath new life into the place.
- Shut down all government departments that are not deemed essential. This would give us a taste of life without government for two months and Canadians would realize that we don’t need most of what they provide.
Which of these would be missed:
Assisted Human Reproduction Canada
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Atlantic Pilotage Authority
Currency Museum
Blue Water Bridge Canada
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Canada Emission Reduction Incentives Agency
Canada School of Public Service
Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal
Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Dairy Commission
Canadian Firearms Program
Canadian Grain Commission
Canadian Heritage
1. Aboriginal Affairs Branch
2. Canadian Conservation Institute
3. Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board
4. Canadian Heritage Information Network
5. Ceremonial and Canadian Symbols Promotion
6. Exchanges Canada
7. International Affairs Branch
8. Official Languages
9. Sport Canada
10. Values and Ethics
11. Virtual Museum of Canada
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat
Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency
Canadian Polar Commission
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Cape Breton Development Corporation
Multiculturalism
Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation
Canadian Ice Service
Clean Air On-line – Canada’s Clean Air Act
Climate Change
First Nations Statistical Institute
Great Lakes Pilotage Authority Canada
Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics
Laurentian Pilotage Authority
National Battlefields Commission
National Energy Board
National Farm Products Council
National Film Board of Canada
Networks of Centres of Excellence
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
Pacific Pilotage Authority Canada
Public Service Staffing Tribunal
Registry of the Specific Claims Tribunal of Canada
Species at Risk Public Registry
Western Economic Diversification Canada
Shutter them and 2010 deficit is solved.
photo credit: solidstate_
Environment Cananda Knocks Out 4500 Websites
Environment Canada now cleaning up the Internet:
The two websites, “enviro-canada.ca” and “ec-gc.ca”, are “directly connected to a hoax which misleads people into believing that the Government of Canada will take certain actions in relation to environmental matters,” wrote Mike Landreville from Environment Canada in an email to the German Internet Service Provider (ISP) Serverloft. “We trust you appreciate the importance of avoiding confusion among the public concerning Canadian governmental affairs and that you will assist us in preventing this hoax from spreading further.”
In a remarkable overstepping of bounds, Landreville also asked the ISP to “make every effort to prevent any further attempts concerning other environment-related domains (enviro, ec-gc, etc.) originating from your servers.”
Website suspended
Serverloft blocked the IP-range for this server because of the content of the client’s website and would only unblock the IP-range if we suspended the website. The website was used in a spoof by The Yes Men.
Serverloft blocked the IP-range without a warrant and without calling us and thus affecting servers hosting 4500 of our customers’ websites until we ourselves discovered the problem, and convinced Serverloft to unblock. Serverloft did send us an email explaining that they would not unblock the IP-range until the websites were taken offline. The email was sent 5 minutes after they cut of the access to the mail server, so we only received the email after the 4500 websites were back online.
Convincing Serverloft that their systems had blocked access on purpose was hard because Serverloft frontline support claimed that all their systems were working fine and they therefore assumed that the problem was a configuration problem on our server. They refused to help troubleshooting the issue.
Serverloft could simply have called us and asked us to deal with the situation. We would then have asked the Canadians for a warrant. If the Canadians had shown us a warrant we would have taken down the site immediately. As others have pointed out the Canadians could probably just have gone through CIRA and have the domain suspended, which would not have affected any of the other 4500 websites.
As we cannot go through every single page that our customers put on their websites we anticipate a similar situation may arise again. We have therefore asked Serverloft to revise their procedures so we at least would get a phone call before they cut our connection. They have so far refused to do so. They have answered:
your net was blocked because of hosting phishing sites. I’ve attached the information, we have, below our signature. I’m sorry, but we cant call every costumer for abuse. In some cases we’ve to respond very fast and have to block the net or server.
While I appreciate Serverloft respond fast, it is no good if the collateral damage is more than 1000 times as big. Had they called I am sure we would have found an arrangement that would satisfy both of us.
As India Silently Suffers
Useless Knowledge from The BBC:
A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.
Over 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the country had their penises measured precisely, down to the last millimetre.
The conclusion of all this scientific endeavour is that about 60% of Indian men have penises which are between three and five centimetres shorter than international standards used in condom manufacture.
Doctor Chander Puri, a specialist in reproductive health at the Indian Council of Medical Research, told the BBC there was an obvious need in India for custom-made condoms, as most of those currently on sale are too large.
The issue is serious because about one in every five times a condom is used in India it either falls off or tears, an extremely high failure rate. And the country already has the highest number of HIV infections of any nation.
Mr Puri said that since Indians would be embarrassed about going to a chemist to ask for smaller condoms there should be vending machines dispensing different sizes all around the country.
“Smaller condoms are on sale in India. But there is a lack of awareness that different sizes are available. There is anxiety talking about the issue. And normally one feels shy to go to a chemist’s shop and ask for a smaller size condom.”
But Indian men need not be concerned about measuring up internationally according to Sunil Mehra, the former editor of the Indian version of the men’s magazine Maxim.
“It’s not size, it’s what you do with it that matters,” he said.
photo credit: The Rocketeer
