<p>A flaw in the wildly popular online game <em>Minecraft</em> makes it easy for just about anyone to crash the server hosting the game, according to a computer programmer who has released proof-of-concept code that exploits the vulnerability.</p>
<p>"I thought a lot before writing this post," Pakistan-based developer Ammar Askar wrote in a <ahref="http://blog.ammaraskar.com/minecraft-vulnerability-advisory">blog post published Thursday</a>, 21 months, he said, after privately reporting the bug to <em>Minecraft</em> developer Mojang. "On the one hand I don't want to expose thousands of servers to a major vulnerability, yet on the other hand Mojang has failed to act on it."</p>
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<p>The vulnerability stems from the fact that the client is allowed to send the server information about certain slots. This, coupled with the NBT format’s nesting allows us to <em>craft</em> a packet that is incredibly complex for the server to deserialize but trivial for us to generate.</p>
<p>In my case, I chose to create lists within lists, down to five levels. This is a json representation of what it looks like.</p>
<p>The root of the object, <code>rekt</code>, contains 300 lists. Each list has a list with 10 sublists, and each of those sublists has 10 of their own, up until 5 levels of recursion. That’s a total of <code>10^5 * 300 = 30,000,000</code> lists.</p>
<p>And this isn’t even the theoretical maximum for this attack. Just the nbt data for this payload is 26.6 megabytes. But luckily Minecraft implements a way to compress large packets, lucky us! zlib shrinks down our evil data to a mere 39 kilobytes.</p>
<p>Note: in previous versions of Minecraft, there was no protocol wide compression for big packets. Previously, NBT was sent compressed with gzip and prefixed with a signed short of its length, which reduced our maximum payload size to <code>2^15 - 1</code>. Now that the length is a varint capable of storing integers up to <code>2^28</code>, our potential for attack has increased significantly.</p>
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<p>Ars is asking Mojang for comment and will update this post if company officials respond.</p>
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<pstyle="display: inline;"class="readability-styled"> I've written a couple of posts in the past few months but they were all for </p><ahref="http://blog.ioactive.com/search/label/Andrew%20Zonenberg">the blog at work</a>
<pstyle="display: inline;"class="readability-styled"> so I figured I'm long overdue for one on Silicon Exposed.</p>
<p> I've written a couple of posts in the past few months but they were all for <ahref="http://blog.ioactive.com/search/label/Andrew%20Zonenberg">the blog at work</a> so I figured I'm long overdue for one on Silicon Exposed.</p>
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<h2> So what's a GreenPak?</h2><br/> Silego Technology is a fabless semiconductor company located in the SF Bay area, which makes (among other things) a line of programmable logic devices known as GreenPak. Their <ahref="http://www.silego.com/products/greenpak5.html">5th generation parts</a> were just announced, but I started this project before that happened so I'm still targeting the <ahref="http://www.silego.com/products/greenpak4.html">4th generation</a>.</p>
<p> GreenPak devices are kind of like itty bitty <ahref="http://www.cypress.com/products/32-bit-arm-cortex-m-psoc">PSoCs</a> - they have a mixed signal fabric with an ADC, DACs, comparators, voltage references, plus a digital LUT/FF fabric and some typical digital MCU peripherals like counters and oscillators (but no CPU).</p>
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<p>Here are some of the secrets that the receptionist will never tell you when you check in, according to answers posted on <ahref="https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-things-we-dont-know-about-hotel-rooms"target="_blank">Quora</a>.</p>
<p>Even posh hotels might not wash a blanket in between stays </p>
<p>Even posh hotels might not wash a blanket in between stays </p>
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<p>1. Take any blankets or duvets off the bed</p>
<p>Forrest Jones said that anything that comes into contact with any of the previous guest’s skin should be taken out and washed every time the room is made, but that even the fanciest hotels don’t always do so. "Hotels are getting away from comforters. Blankets are here to stay, however. But some hotels are still hesitant about washing them every day if they think they can get out of it," he said.</p>
<p>Forrest Jones advised stuffing the peep hole with a strip of rolled up notepaper when not in use. </p>
<p>Forrest Jones advised stuffing the peep hole with a strip of rolled up notepaper when not in use. </p>
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<p>This is not common, but can happen, Forrest Jones said. He advised stuffing the peep hole with a strip of rolled up notepaper when not in use. When someone knocks on the door, the paper can be removed to check who is there. If no one is visible, he recommends calling the front desk immediately. “I look forward to the day when I can tell you to choose only hotels where every employee who has access to guestroom keys is subjected to a complete public records background check, prior to hire, and every year or two thereafter. But for now, I can't,” he said.</p>
<p>Bedbugs love wood. Even though a wooden luggage rack might look nicer and more expensive than a metal one, it’s a breeding ground for bugs. Forrest Jones says guests should put the items they plan to take from bags on other pieces of furniture and leave the bag on the floor.</p>
<p>The old rule of thumb is that for every 00 invested in a room, the hotel should charge in average daily rate </p>
<p>The old rule of thumb is that for every 00 invested in a room, the hotel should charge in average daily rate </p>
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<p>4. Hotel rooms are priced according to how expensive they were to build</p>
<p>Zeev Sharon said that the old rule of thumb is that for every $1000 invested in a room, the hotel should charge $1 in average daily rate. So a room that cost $300,000 to build, should sell on average for $300/night.</p>
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<p>Despite the snacks in the minibar seeming like the most overpriced food you have ever seen, hotel owners are still struggling to make a profit from those snacks. "Minibars almost always lose money, even when they charge $10 for a Diet Coke,” Sharon said.</p>
<p>Towels should always be cleaned between stays </p>
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<p>7. Always made sure the hand towels are clean when you arrive</p>
<p>Forrest Jones made a discovery when he was helping out with the housekeepers. “You know where you almost always find a hand towel in any recently-vacated hotel room that was occupied by a guy? On the floor, next to the bed, about halfway down, maybe a little toward the foot of the bed. Same spot in the floor, next to almost every bed occupied by a man, in every room. I'll leave the rest to your imagination,” he said.</p>
<h2>The U.S. has long been heralded as a land of opportunity -- a place where anyone can succeed regardless of the economic class they were born into.</h2>
<p> But a new report released on Monday by <ahref="http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi-dev/cgi-bin/"target="_blank">Stanford University's Center on Poverty and Inequality</a> calls that into question. </p>
<p> The report assessed poverty levels, income and wealth inequality, economic mobility and unemployment levels among 10 wealthy countries with social welfare programs. </p>
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<p> Among its key findings: the class you're born into matters much more in the U.S. than many of the other countries. </p>
<p> As the <ahref="http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi-dev/cgi-bin/publications/state-union-report"target="_blank">report states</a>: "[T]he birth lottery matters more in the U.S. than in most well-off countries." </p>
<p> But this wasn't the only finding that suggests the U.S. isn't quite living up to its reputation as a country where everyone has an equal chance to get ahead through sheer will and hard work. </p>
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<p>Measure the circumference of your cloche and cut the foam oasis about 3/4 inch (2 cm) smaller. Place the foam oasis into a container full of water and allow to soak until it sinks to the bottom. Dig out a hole on the oasis large enough to fit your plant, being careful not to pierce all the way through to the bottom.</p>
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<p>Gently place the cloche over the oasis. The glass may push some of the moss upward, exposing some of the foam.</p>
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<p>Simply pull down the moss with tweezers or insert more moss to fill in the empty spaces.</p>
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<p>This particular terrarium rests on a planter saucer and features a small white pumpkin.</p>
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<p>This particular terrarium was placed on a wood slice and a little toy squirrel was placed inside to add a little whimsy.</p>
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<p>Displayed alone or in a group, these pretty arrangements allow you to add a little nature to your decor or tablescape.</p>
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<span><p>Parties hosted at restaurants, clubhouses and country clubs eliminate the need to spend hours cleaning up once party guests have gone home. But that convenience comes with a price tag. A country club may charge as much as $2,000 for room rental and restaurant food and beverage will almost always cost more than food prepped and served at home.</p></span></div>
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<span><p>Parties hosted at restaurants, clubhouses and country clubs eliminate the need to spend hours cleaning up once party guests have gone home. But that convenience comes with a price tag. A country club may charge as much as $2,000 for room rental and restaurant food and beverage will almost always cost more than food prepped and served at home.</p></span></p>
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<span><p>Instead of hiring a DJ, use your iPod or Smartphone to spin the tunes. Both easily hook up to most speakers or mp3 compatible docks to play music from your music library. Or download Pandora, the free online radio app, and play hours of music for free.</p>
<p>Personalize the music with a playlist of the grad’s favorite songs or songs that were big hits during his or her years in school.</p></span></div>
<p>Personalize the music with a playlist of the grad’s favorite songs or songs that were big hits during his or her years in school.</p></span></p>
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<span><p>Avoid canned drinks, which guests often open, but don't finish. Serve pitchers of tap water with lemon and cucumber slices or sliced strawberries for an interesting and refreshing flavor. Opt for punches and non-alcoholic drinks for high school graduates that allow guests to dole out the exact amount they want to drink.</p></span></div>
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<span><p>Avoid canned drinks, which guests often open, but don't finish. Serve pitchers of tap water with lemon and cucumber slices or sliced strawberries for an interesting and refreshing flavor. Opt for punches and non-alcoholic drinks for high school graduates that allow guests to dole out the exact amount they want to drink.</p></span></p>
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<span><p>Instead of inviting everyone you – and the graduate – know or ever knew, scale back the guest list. Forgo inviting guests that you or your grad haven't seen for eons. There is no reason to provide provisions for people who are essentially out of your lives. Sticking to a small, but personal, guest list allows more time to mingle with loved ones during the party, too.</p></span></div>
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<span><p>Instead of inviting everyone you – and the graduate – know or ever knew, scale back the guest list. Forgo inviting guests that you or your grad haven't seen for eons. There is no reason to provide provisions for people who are essentially out of your lives. Sticking to a small, but personal, guest list allows more time to mingle with loved ones during the party, too.</p></span></p>
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<span><p>See if your grad and his best friend, girlfriend or close family member would consider hosting a joint party. You can split some of the expenses, especially when the two graduates share mutual friends. You'll also have another parent to bounce ideas off of and to help you stick to your budget when you're tempted to splurge.</p></span></p>
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<span><p>Skip carving stations of prime rib and jumbo shrimp as appetizers, especially for high school graduation parties. Instead, serve some of the graduate's favorite side dishes that are cost effective, like a big pot of spaghetti with breadsticks. Opt for easy and simple food such as pizza, finger food and mini appetizers. </p>
<p>Avoid pre-packaged foods and pre-made deli platters. These can be quite costly. Instead, make your own cheese and deli platters for less than half the cost of pre-made.</p></span></div>
<p>Avoid pre-packaged foods and pre-made deli platters. These can be quite costly. Instead, make your own cheese and deli platters for less than half the cost of pre-made.</p></span></p>
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<span><p>Instead of an evening dinner party, host a grad lunch or all appetizers party. Brunch and lunch fare or finger food costs less than dinner. Guests also tend to consume less alcohol in the middle of the day, which keeps cost down.</p></span></p>
<figure><imgsrc="http://img-aws.ehowcdn.com/640/cme/cme_public_images/www_ehow_com/cdn-write.demandstudios.com/upload/image/35/B4/DD5FD05A-B631-4AFE-BC8F-FDACAD1EB435/DD5FD05A-B631-4AFE-BC8F-FDACAD1EB435.jpg"alt="A brunch gathering will cost less than a dinner party."data-credit="Mark Stout/iStock/Getty Images"data-pin-ehow-hover="true"data-pin-no-hover="true"/></figure>
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<span><p>Decorate your party in the graduate's current school colors or the colors of the school he or she will be headed to next. Décor that is not specifically graduation-themed may cost a bit less, and any leftovers can be re-used for future parties, picnics and events.</p></span></p>
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<p>They held meetings with executives from News Corporation and Fairfax, representatives of the TV networks, the ABC top brass and a group from the media union and the Walkley journalism foundation. I was involved as a member of the Walkley board.</p>
<p>The initiative, from Tony Abbott’s office, is evidence that the Government has been alarmed by the strength of criticism from media of the Data Retention Bill it wants passed before Parliament rises in a fortnight. Bosses, journalists, even the Press Council, are up in arms, not only over this measure, but also over aspects of two earlier pieces of national security legislation that interfere with the ability of the media to hold government to account.</p>
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<p>The Bill would require telecommunications service providers to store so-called “metadata” — the who, where, when and how of a communication, but not its content — for two years so security and law enforcement agencies can access it without warrant. Few would argue against the use of such material to catch criminals or terrorists. But, as Parliament’s Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has pointed out, it would also be used “for the purpose of determining the identity of a journalist’s sources”.</p>
<p>And that should ring warning bells for anyone genuinely concerned with the health of our democracy. Without the ability to protect the identity of sources, journalists would be greatly handicapped in exposing corruption, dishonesty, waste, incompetence and misbehaviour by public officials.</p>
<h4name="9736"id="9736"data-align="center">Welcome to DoctorX’s Barcelona lab, where the drugs you bought online are tested for safety and purity. No questions asked.</h4>
<pname="8a83"id="8a83">Standing at a table in a chemistry lab in Barcelona, Cristina Gil Lladanosa tears open a silver, smell-proof protective envelope. She slides out a transparent bag full of crystals. Around her, machines whir and hum, and other researchers mill around in long, white coats.</p>
<pname="b675"id="b675">She is holding the lab’s latest delivery of a drug bought from the “deep web,” the clandestine corner of the internet that isn’t reachable by normal search engines, and is home to some sites that require special software to access. Labeled as <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA"data-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA"rel="nofollow">MDMA</a> (the street term is ecstasy), this sample has been shipped from Canada. Lladanosa and her colleague Iván Fornís Espinosa have also received drugs, anonymously, from people in China, Australia, Europe and the United States.</p>
<pname="2644"id="2644">About a week after testing, those results are sent in a PDF to an email address provided by the anonymous client.</p>
<pname="9f91"id="9f91">“The process is quite boring, because you are in a routine,” Lladanosa says. But one part of the process is consistently surprising: that moment when the results pop up on the screen. “Every time it’s something different.” For instance, one cocaine sample she had tested also contained phenacetin, a painkiller added to increase the product’s weight; lidocaine, an anesthetic that numbs the gums, giving the impression that the user is taking higher quality cocaine; and common caffeine.</p>
<pname="39a6"id="39a6">The deep web drug lab is the brainchild of Fernando Caudevilla, a Spanish physician who is better known as “DoctorX” on the deep web, a nickname given to him by his Energy Control co-workers because of his earlier writing about the history, risks and recreational culture of MDMA. In the physical world, Caudevilla has worked for over a decade with Energy Control on various harm reduction focused projects, most of which have involved giving Spanish illegal drug users medical guidance, and often writing leaflets about the harms of certain substances.</p>
<pname="7b5e"id="7b5e">While the Energy Control lab in Madrid lab only tests Spanish drugs from various sources, it is the Barcelona location which vets the substances bought in the shadowy recesses of of the deep web. Caudevilla no longer runs it, having handed it over to his colleague Ana Muñoz. She maintains a presence on the deep web forums, answers questions from potential users, and sends back reports when they are ready.</p>
<pname="0f0e"id="0f0e">The testing program exists in a legal grey area. The people who own the Barcelona lab are accredited to experiment with and handle drugs, but Energy Control doesn’t have this permission itself, at least not in writing.</p>
<pname="126b"id="126b">Despite the prevalence of people using the service to gauge the quality of what goes up their nose, many users send samples to Energy Control in the spirit of its original mission: keeping themselves alive and healthy. The worst case scenario from drugs purchased on the deep web is, well the worst case. That was the outcome when <ahref="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenager-patrick-mcmullen-who-died-while-on-skype-had-bought-drugs-from-silk-road-8942329.html"data-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenager-patrick-mcmullen-who-died-while-on-skype-had-bought-drugs-from-silk-road-8942329.html"rel="nofollow">Patrick McMullen,</a> a 17-year-old Scottish student, ingested half a gram of MDMA and three tabs of LSD, reportedly purchased from the Silk Road. While talking to his friends on Skype, his words became slurred and he passed out. Paramedics could not revive him. The coroner for that case, Sherrif Payne, who deemed the cause of death ecstasy toxicity, told <em>The Independent</em> “You never know the purity of what you are taking and you can easily come unstuck.”</p>
<pname="5e9e"id="5e9e">ScreamMyName, a deep web user who has been active since the original Silk Road, wants to alert users to the dangerous chemicals that are often mixed with drugs, and is using Energy Control as a means to do so.</p>
<pname="b109"id="b109">“In the white market, they have quality control. In the dark market, it should be the same,” Cristina Gil Lladanosa says to me before I leave the Barcelona lab.</p>
<pname="e3a4"id="e3a4">A week after I visit the lab, the results of the MDMA arrive in my inbox: it is 85 percent pure, with no indications of other active ingredients. Whoever ordered that sample from the digital shelves of the deep web, and had it shipped to their doorstep in Canada, got hold of some seriously good, and relatively safe drugs. And now they know it.</p>
<pitemprop="description">Los pueblos indígenas reclaman por derechos que permanecen
incumplidos, por eso es más eficiente canalizar la protesta que reprimirla</p>
<pitemprop="description">Los pueblos indígenas reclaman por derechos que permanecen incumplidos, por eso es más eficiente canalizar la protesta que reprimirla</p>
</div>
<sectionid="cuerpo"itemprop="articleBody">
<p>Abdullah Ocalan, el líder independentista kurdo, desembarcó en Italia en noviembre de
1998 y pidió asilo político. Arrastraba un pedido de captura de Turquía, donde era acusado por
terrorismo. El ex comunista Massimo D'Alema, recién asumido, dudaba. Acoger a Ocalan implicaba comprarse
un problema con un aliado de la OTAN e importar un conflicto ajeno, pero deportarlo lo exponía a la pena
de muerte, legal en Turquía pero inadmisible en la Unión Europea. Optó por la estrecha avenida del
medio: se ignoró el mandato de captura al tiempo que se negó el asilo, presionando a Ocalan para que se
fuera por las suyas. Tras una carambola a tres bandas, fue capturado por agentes turcos en Kenia, donde
se encontraba bajo la protección del embajador griego, mientras intentaba abordar un avión hacia
Holanda. Desde febrero de 1999 permanece en una cárcel de máxima seguridad en la isla turca de
Imrali.</p>
<p>Uno de los autores de esta columna vivía en Italia en esa época y siguió la crisis de cerca; el otro la
estudió en profundidad, años más tarde. Pero no hacía falta: cualquiera puede encontrar esta información
a un clic de distancia. Eso fue lo que no hizo un periodista de un diario argentino, que no es la
nacion. La semana pasada se publicaron extractos de un "informe de carácter secreto" que mencionaba
supuestos contactos internacionales de organizaciones mapuches. Entre ellos aparecía Ocalan, a quien el
informe ubicó "con domicilios en Palermo y en el centro porteño", y aseguraba incluso que había sido
visto "en Neuquén, Río Negro y Chubut durante el juicio a Jones Huala".</p>
<p>Abdullah Ocalan, el líder independentista kurdo, desembarcó en Italia en noviembre de 1998 y pidió asilo político. Arrastraba un pedido de captura de Turquía, donde era acusado por terrorismo. El ex comunista Massimo D'Alema, recién asumido, dudaba. Acoger a Ocalan implicaba comprarse un problema con un aliado de la OTAN e importar un conflicto ajeno, pero deportarlo lo exponía a la pena de muerte, legal en Turquía pero inadmisible en la Unión Europea. Optó por la estrecha avenida del medio: se ignoró el mandato de captura al tiempo que se negó el asilo, presionando a Ocalan para que se fuera por las suyas. Tras una carambola a tres bandas, fue capturado por agentes turcos en Kenia, donde se encontraba bajo la protección del embajador griego, mientras intentaba abordar un avión hacia Holanda. Desde febrero de 1999 permanece en una cárcel de máxima seguridad en la isla turca de Imrali.</p>
<p>Uno de los autores de esta columna vivía en Italia en esa época y siguió la crisis de cerca; el otro la estudió en profundidad, años más tarde. Pero no hacía falta: cualquiera puede encontrar esta información a un clic de distancia. Eso fue lo que no hizo un periodista de un diario argentino, que no es la nacion. La semana pasada se publicaron extractos de un "informe de carácter secreto" que mencionaba supuestos contactos internacionales de organizaciones mapuches. Entre ellos aparecía Ocalan, a quien el informe ubicó "con domicilios en Palermo y en el centro porteño", y aseguraba incluso que había sido visto "en Neuquén, Río Negro y Chubut durante el juicio a Jones Huala".</p>
<figcaptionid="epigrafe2585177">Foto: LA NACION</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Esta falsa noticia fue la más rocambolesca de una larga cadena. Dos hechos quedaron en evidencia:
primero, que hay periodistas que no chequean la información; segundo, que los servicios de inteligencia
los utilizan para manipular la agenda pública. Y sobre los servicios hay dos posibilidades: o son burros
o son perversos. Las opciones no son excluyentes, aunque cualquiera alcanza para tornarlos indignos de
confianza. Sin embargo, de ellos proviene la información que alimenta a muchos medios de comunicación y,
aún más grave, al Estado argentino.</p>
<p>El reguero de noticias falsas y vínculos brumosos tiene, paradójicamente, un objetivo prístino: asociar
la acción de los grupos mapuches con el terrorismo internacional. Comunicadores, analistas y escritores
alineados con el discurso oficial llegaron a relacionar las ideas de las organizaciones patagónicas con
las de Estado Islámico (ISIS) de Irak y Siria. El terrorismo carece de definiciones consensuales y ha
sido utilizado para emparentar cosas bien diferentes. Aunque el líder mapuche más radicalizado (y menos
representativo) declare que propician "un proceso de construcción de autonomía sin pedirle permiso al
Estado", vincular a un grupo que reclama tierras en la región de sus ancestros con otro que busca
gobernar el mundo según sus normas religiosas y ha masacrado a miles de personas requiere de una
operación intelectual tan audaz como inadecuada.</p>
<p>La asociación con el movimiento kurdo, en cambio, asoma menos inverosímil. Desde su arresto, Ocalan
transformó su pensamiento: de una visión nacionalista con inspiración estalinista evolucionó al
confederalismo democrático, una propuesta de organización comunal, ecologista, más apegada a las raíces
locales que a las fronteras nacionales. Parece lógico que esas ideas resuenen en agrupamientos
indígenas, que reivindican una organización anterior a la consolidación de los Estados sudamericanos.
Los paralelos, sin embargo, terminan allí. En Chile, donde el conflicto ha tenido su desarrollo más
dramático, la Sociedad de Fomento Agrícola denunció en 2014 que los insurrectos causaron daños por 10
millones de dólares y la muerte de tres agricultores y un carabinero a lo largo de 15 años; en la
Argentina, por ahora, se registran actos de vandalismo, ocupaciones de tierras y cortes de rutas
aislados. En contraste, el conflicto entre el Partido de los Trabajadores del Kurdistán y la República
de Turquía se cobró cerca de 40.000 vidas en los años 90 y lleva más de 2000 desde la reanudación de
hostilidades en 2015.</p>
<p>Consultada sobre esta desproporción, una fuente de los servicios nos la resumió así: "La estrategia de la
Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), de Chile, y ahora de la Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche (RAM), más que
matar directamente, es realizar sabotajes, movilizaciones, ataques a iglesias y empresas y mucha
prensa". ¡En Medio Oriente pagarían por un terrorismo así! Ningún hecho de violencia debe ser
minimizado, pero las analogías no resisten prueba.</p>
<p>La "cuestión mapuche" es social antes que policial. La Constitución manda "reconocer la preexistencia
étnica y cultural de los pueblos indígenas argentinos. Garantizar el respeto a su identidad?; reconocer
la personería jurídica de sus comunidades, y la posesión y propiedad comunitarias de las tierras que
tradicionalmente ocupan; y regular la entrega de otras aptas y suficientes para el desarrollo humano".
Estos derechos permanecen incumplidos. Y no son un capricho chavista: los países que reputamos serios
también los reconocen. En Estados Unidos, las reservaciones indígenas ocupan 80.000 kilómetros
cuadrados, el 1,3% de la superficie del país (y 400 veces la superficie de la ciudad de Buenos Aires).
En Canadá, unas 2300 reservas ocupan 28.000 kilómetros cuadrados. Australia otorga a los pueblos
indígenas más de la mitad de los territorios del norte del país y son los nativos quienes negocian con
las empresas mineras los permisos para que operen en sus tierras. En Nueva Zelanda existen tribunales
especiales con jurisdicción sobre las tierras ancestrales de los maoríes; una de sus ventajas es que
empoderan a los aborígenes individualmente, liberándolos del yugo de los caciques.</p>
<p>La protesta social es indisociable de la democracia. Cuando desborda, recanalizarla es más eficiente que
reprimirla: ahí reside el arte del acuerdo. En la Argentina la tarea es delicada porque pocos confían en
la imparcialidad de las instituciones. Entonces, cada actor reivindica sus intereses con los medios de
que dispone: los sindicatos hacen huelga, los estudiantes toman colegios, los empresarios cierran las
fábricas y todos hacen piquetes. El politólogo Samuel Huntington definía una sociedad así como
pretoriana y el jurista Carlos Nino llamó a la Argentina "un país al margen de la ley". Al movilizarse
por sus derechos y desconfiar del Estado, la comunidad mapuche se demuestra bien argentina.</p>
<p>Las cinco provincias patagónicas tienen una población similar a la de La Matanza. A diferencia de los
Estados Unidos, que se integraron hacia el oeste otorgando parcelas de tierra a los colonizadores, y de
Brasil, donde el rol de ocupación y desarrollo territorial fue cumplido por las fuerzas armadas, la
Argentina obvió la tarea integradora tras consolidar su soberanía a finales del siglo XX. Hoy sobra
tierra y falta gente. Gobernar sigue siendo poblar, pero también integrar.</p>
<p>Seamos claros: ningún individuo u organización tiene derecho a violar la ley. Pero el problema histórico
del Estado argentino no fue tanto quiénes lo desafiaron como quiénes lo gobernaron. Cambiemos.</p>
<p>Esta falsa noticia fue la más rocambolesca de una larga cadena. Dos hechos quedaron en evidencia: primero, que hay periodistas que no chequean la información; segundo, que los servicios de inteligencia los utilizan para manipular la agenda pública. Y sobre los servicios hay dos posibilidades: o son burros o son perversos. Las opciones no son excluyentes, aunque cualquiera alcanza para tornarlos indignos de confianza. Sin embargo, de ellos proviene la información que alimenta a muchos medios de comunicación y, aún más grave, al Estado argentino.</p>
<p>El reguero de noticias falsas y vínculos brumosos tiene, paradójicamente, un objetivo prístino: asociar la acción de los grupos mapuches con el terrorismo internacional. Comunicadores, analistas y escritores alineados con el discurso oficial llegaron a relacionar las ideas de las organizaciones patagónicas con las de Estado Islámico (ISIS) de Irak y Siria. El terrorismo carece de definiciones consensuales y ha sido utilizado para emparentar cosas bien diferentes. Aunque el líder mapuche más radicalizado (y menos representativo) declare que propician "un proceso de construcción de autonomía sin pedirle permiso al Estado", vincular a un grupo que reclama tierras en la región de sus ancestros con otro que busca gobernar el mundo según sus normas religiosas y ha masacrado a miles de personas requiere de una operación intelectual tan audaz como inadecuada.</p>
<p>La asociación con el movimiento kurdo, en cambio, asoma menos inverosímil. Desde su arresto, Ocalan transformó su pensamiento: de una visión nacionalista con inspiración estalinista evolucionó al confederalismo democrático, una propuesta de organización comunal, ecologista, más apegada a las raíces locales que a las fronteras nacionales. Parece lógico que esas ideas resuenen en agrupamientos indígenas, que reivindican una organización anterior a la consolidación de los Estados sudamericanos. Los paralelos, sin embargo, terminan allí. En Chile, donde el conflicto ha tenido su desarrollo más dramático, la Sociedad de Fomento Agrícola denunció en 2014 que los insurrectos causaron daños por 10 millones de dólares y la muerte de tres agricultores y un carabinero a lo largo de 15 años; en la Argentina, por ahora, se registran actos de vandalismo, ocupaciones de tierras y cortes de rutas aislados. En contraste, el conflicto entre el Partido de los Trabajadores del Kurdistán y la República de Turquía se cobró cerca de 40.000 vidas en los años 90 y lleva más de 2000 desde la reanudación de hostilidades en 2015.</p>
<p>Consultada sobre esta desproporción, una fuente de los servicios nos la resumió así: "La estrategia de la Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), de Chile, y ahora de la Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche (RAM), más que matar directamente, es realizar sabotajes, movilizaciones, ataques a iglesias y empresas y mucha prensa". ¡En Medio Oriente pagarían por un terrorismo así! Ningún hecho de violencia debe ser minimizado, pero las analogías no resisten prueba.</p>
<p>La "cuestión mapuche" es social antes que policial. La Constitución manda "reconocer la preexistencia étnica y cultural de los pueblos indígenas argentinos. Garantizar el respeto a su identidad?; reconocer la personería jurídica de sus comunidades, y la posesión y propiedad comunitarias de las tierras que tradicionalmente ocupan; y regular la entrega de otras aptas y suficientes para el desarrollo humano". Estos derechos permanecen incumplidos. Y no son un capricho chavista: los países que reputamos serios también los reconocen. En Estados Unidos, las reservaciones indígenas ocupan 80.000 kilómetros cuadrados, el 1,3% de la superficie del país (y 400 veces la superficie de la ciudad de Buenos Aires). En Canadá, unas 2300 reservas ocupan 28.000 kilómetros cuadrados. Australia otorga a los pueblos indígenas más de la mitad de los territorios del norte del país y son los nativos quienes negocian con las empresas mineras los permisos para que operen en sus tierras. En Nueva Zelanda existen tribunales especiales con jurisdicción sobre las tierras ancestrales de los maoríes; una de sus ventajas es que empoderan a los aborígenes individualmente, liberándolos del yugo de los caciques.</p>
<p>La protesta social es indisociable de la democracia. Cuando desborda, recanalizarla es más eficiente que reprimirla: ahí reside el arte del acuerdo. En la Argentina la tarea es delicada porque pocos confían en la imparcialidad de las instituciones. Entonces, cada actor reivindica sus intereses con los medios de que dispone: los sindicatos hacen huelga, los estudiantes toman colegios, los empresarios cierran las fábricas y todos hacen piquetes. El politólogo Samuel Huntington definía una sociedad así como pretoriana y el jurista Carlos Nino llamó a la Argentina "un país al margen de la ley". Al movilizarse por sus derechos y desconfiar del Estado, la comunidad mapuche se demuestra bien argentina.</p>
<p>Las cinco provincias patagónicas tienen una población similar a la de La Matanza. A diferencia de los Estados Unidos, que se integraron hacia el oeste otorgando parcelas de tierra a los colonizadores, y de Brasil, donde el rol de ocupación y desarrollo territorial fue cumplido por las fuerzas armadas, la Argentina obvió la tarea integradora tras consolidar su soberanía a finales del siglo XX. Hoy sobra tierra y falta gente. Gobernar sigue siendo poblar, pero también integrar.</p>
<p>Seamos claros: ningún individuo u organización tiene derecho a violar la ley. Pero el problema histórico del Estado argentino no fue tanto quiénes lo desafiaron como quiénes lo gobernaron. Cambiemos.</p>
<p><b><i>Andrés Malamud es politólogo e investigador en la Universidad de Lisboa. Martín Schapiro es abogado
administrativista y analista internacional</i></b></p>
@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ patching</a></strong>. App Updates using File-by-File patching are, <strong>on a
patching </span></strong></p>
<p> Android apps are packaged as APKs, which are ZIP files with special conventions. Most of the content within the ZIP files (and APKs) is compressed using a technology called <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DEFLATE&oldid=735386036">Deflate</a>. Deflate is really good at compressing data but it has a drawback: it makes identifying changes in the original (uncompressed) content really hard. Even a tiny change to the original content (like changing one word in a book) can make the compressed output of deflate look <em>completely different</em>. Describing the differences between the <em>original</em> content is easy, but describing the differences between the <em>compressed</em> content is so hard that it leads to inefficient patches. </p>
<p> Watch how much the compressed text on the right side changes from a one-letter change in the uncompressed text on the left: </p>
<p> File-by-File therefore is based on detecting changes in the uncompressed data. To generate a patch, we first decompress both old and new files before computing the delta (we still use bsdiff here). Then to apply the patch, we decompress the old file, apply the delta to the uncompressed content and then recompress the new file. In doing so, we need to make sure that the APK on your device is a perfect match, byte for byte, to the one on the Play Store (see <ahref="https://source.android.com/security/apksigning/v2.html">APK Signature
Schema v2 </a>for why). </p>
<p> When recompressing the new file, we hit two complications. First, Deflate has a number of settings that affect output; and we don't know which settings were used in the first place. Second, many versions of deflate exist and we need to know whether the version on your device is suitable. </p>
<pdir="ltr"><span>File-by-File Patch Size (% vs original)</span></p>
<p><span>File-by-File Patch Size (% vs original)</span></p>
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<td>
<div dir="ltr"><ahref="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.king.farmheroessupersaga&hl=en"><span>Farm Heroes Super Saga</span></a></div>
<p><ahref="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.king.farmheroessupersaga&hl=en"><span>Farm Heroes Super Saga</span></a></p>
</div><spanid="docs-internal-guid-de7f0210-d587-05da-d332-146959aa303f"></span><br/></div><em>Disclaimer: if you see different patch sizes when you press "update"
</div>
</div>
<p><em>Disclaimer: if you see different patch sizes when you press "update"
manually, that is because we are not currently using File-by-file for
interactive updates, only those done in the background.</em>
interactive updates, only those done in the background.</em></p>
<p> These changes are designed to ensure our community of over a billion Android users use as little data as possible for regular app updates. The best thing is that as a developer you don't need to do anything. You get these reductions to your update size for free! </p>
project</a> where you can find information, including the source code. Yes, File-by-File patching is completely open-source! </p>
<p> As a developer if you're interested in reducing your APK size still further, here are some <ahref="https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/reduce-apk-size.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_filebyfile_120616&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog">general
@ -23,20 +23,19 @@ program</a> for third-party manufacturers interested in using the "Arduino" bran
<p>But, perhaps, once a project becomes profitable, there is simply no way to predict what might happen. Arduino LLC would seem to have a strong case for continual and rigorous use of the "Arduino" trademark, which is the salient point in US trademark law. It could still be a while before the courts rule on either side of that question, however. </p>
<h2><ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/637533/">Mapping and data mining with QGIS 2.8</a></h2>
<p> By <b>Nathan Willis</b>
<br/>March 25, 2015 </p>
<p> By <b>Nathan Willis</b><br/>March 25, 2015 </p>
<p><ahref="http://qgis.org/">QGIS</a> is a free-software geographic information system (GIS) tool; it provides a unified interface in which users can import, edit, and analyze geographic-oriented information, and it can produce output as varied as printable maps or map-based web services. The project recently made its first update to be designated a long-term release (LTR), and that release is both poised for high-end usage and friendly to newcomers alike. </p>
<p>The new release is version 2.8, which was unveiled on March 2. An official <ahref="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog28/index.html">change
log</a> is available on the QGIS site, while the release itself was announced primarily through blog posts (such as <ahref="http://anitagraser.com/2015/03/02/qgis-2-8-ltr-has-landed/">this
post</a> by Anita Graser of the project's steering committee). Downloads are <ahref="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html">available</a> for a variety of platforms, including packages for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and several other distributions.</p>
<a href="http://fakehost/Articles/637747/"><imgsrc="http://fakehost/images/2015/03-qgis-map-sm.png"width="350"height="264"alt="[QGIS main interface]"/></a>
<p><a href="http://fakehost/Articles/637747/"><imgsrc="http://fakehost/images/2015/03-qgis-map-sm.png"width="350"height="264"alt="[QGIS main interface]"/></a></p>
<p>As the name might suggest, QGIS is a Qt application; the latest release will, in fact, build on both Qt4 and Qt5, although the binaries released by the project come only in Qt4 form at present. 2.8 has been labeled a long-term release (LTR)—which, in this case, means that the project has committed to providing backported bug fixes for one full calendar year, and that the 2.8.x series is in permanent feature freeze. The goal, according to the change log, is to provide a stable version suitable for businesses and deployments in other large organizations. The change log itself points out that the development of quite a few new features was underwritten by various GIS companies or university groups, which suggests that taking care of these organizations' needs is reaping dividends for the project. </p>
<p>For those new to QGIS (or GIS in general), there is a detailed new-user <ahref="http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/training_manual/">tutorial</a> that provides a thorough walk-through of the data-manipulation, mapping, and analysis functions. Being a new user, I went through the tutorial; although there are a handful of minor differences between QGIS 2.8 and the version used in the text (primarily whether specific features were accessed through a toolbar or right-click menu), on the whole it is well worth the time. </p>
<p>QGIS is designed to make short work of importing spatially oriented data sets, mining information from them, and turning the results into a meaningful visualization. Technically speaking, the visualization output is optional: one could simply extract the needed statistics and results and use them to answer some question or, perhaps, publish the massaged data set as a database for others to use. </p>
<p>But well-made maps are often the easiest way to illuminate facts about populations, political regions, geography, and many other topics when human comprehension is the goal. QGIS makes importing data from databases, web-mapping services (WMS), and even unwieldy flat-file data dumps a painless experience. It handles converting between a variety of map-referencing systems more or less automatically, and allows the user to focus on finding the useful attributes of the data sets and rendering them on screen. </p>
<h4>Here be data</h4>
<p>The significant changes in QGIS 2.8 fall into several categories. There are updates to how QGIS handles the mathematical expressions and queries users can use to filter information out of a data set, improvements to the tools used to explore the on-screen map canvas, and enhancements to the "map composer" used to produce visual output. This is on top of plenty of other under-the-hood improvements, naturally.</p>
<p>In the first category are several updates to the filtering tools used to mine a data set. Generally speaking, each independent data set is added to a QGIS project as its own layer, then transformed with filters to focus in on a specific portion of the original data. For instance, the land-usage statistics for a region might be one layer, while roads and buildings for the same region from OpenStreetMap might be two additional layers. Such filters can be created in several ways: there is a "query builder" that lets the user construct and test expressions on a data layer, then save the results, an SQL console for performing similar queries on a database, and spreadsheet-like editing tools for working directly on data tables. </p>
<p>All three have been improved in this release. New are support for <tt>if(condition, true, false)</tt> conditional statements, a set of operations for geometry primitives (e.g., to test whether regions overlap or lines intersect), and an "integer divide" operation. Users can also add comments to their queries to annotate their code, and there is a new <ahref="http://nathanw.net/2015/01/19/function-editor-for-qgis-expressions/">custom
function editor</a> for writing Python functions that can be called in mathematical expressions within the query builder. </p>
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<p>There have also been several improvements to the Python and Processing plugins. Users can now drag-and-drop Python scripts onto QGIS and they will be run automatically. Several new analysis algorithms are now available through the Processing interface that were previously Python-only; they include algorithms for generating grids of points or vectors within a region, splitting layers and lines, generating <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsometric_curve">hypsometric
<p>The process of working with on-screen map data picked up some improvements in the new release as well. Perhaps the most fundamental is that each map layer added to the canvas is now handled in its own thread, so fewer hangs in the user interface are experienced when re-rendering a layer (as happens whenever the user changes the look of points or shapes in a layer). Since remote databases can also be layers, this multi-threaded approach is more resilient against connectivity problems, too. The interface also now supports temporary "scratch" layers that can be used to merge, filter, or simply experiment with a data set, but are not saved when the current project is saved. </p>
<p>For working on the canvas itself, polygonal regions can now use raster images (tiled, if necessary) as fill colors, the map itself can be rotated arbitrarily, and objects can be "snapped" to align with items on any layer (not just the current layer). For working with raster image layers (e.g., aerial photographs) or simply creating new geometric shapes by hand, there is a new digitizing tool that can offer assistance by locking lines to specific angles, automatically keeping borders parallel, and other niceties. </p>
<p>There is a completely overhauled "simplify" tool that is used to reduce the number of extraneous vertices of a vector layer (thus reducing its size). The old simplify tool provided only a relative "tolerance" setting that did not correspond directly to any units. With the new tool, users can set a simplification threshold in terms of the underlying map units, layer-specific units, pixels, and more—and, in addition, the tool reports how much the simplify operation has reduced the size of the data.</p>
<p>There has also been an effort to present a uniform interface to one of the most important features of the map canvas: the ability to change the symbology used for an item based on some data attribute. The simplest example might be to change the line color of a road based on whether its road-type attribute is "highway," "service road," "residential," or so on. But the same feature is used to automatically highlight layer information based on the filtering and querying functionality discussed above. The new release allows many more map attributes to be controlled by these "data definition" settings, and provides a hard-to-miss button next to each attribute, through which a custom data definition can be set. </p>
<p>QGIS's composer module is the tool used to take project data and generate a map that can be used outside of the application (in print, as a static image, or as a layer for <ahref="http://mapserver.org/">MapServer</a> or some other software tool, for example). Consequently, it is not a simple select-and-click-export tool; composing the output can involve a lot of choices about which data to make visible, how (and where) to label it, and how to make it generally accessible. </p>
<p>The updated composer in 2.8 now has a full-screen mode and sports several new options for configuring output. For instance, the user now has full control over how map axes are labeled. In previous releases, the grid coordinates of the map could be turned on or off, but the only options were all or nothing. Now, the user can individually choose whether coordinates are displayed on all four sides, and can even choose in which direction vertical text labels will run (so that they can be correctly justified to the edge of the map, for example). </p>
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<p>QGIS is one of those rare free-software applications that is both powerful enough for high-end work and yet also straightforward to use for the simple tasks that might attract a newcomer to GIS in the first place. The 2.8 release, particularly with its project-wide commitment to long-term support, appears to be an update well worth checking out, whether one needs to create a simple, custom map or to mine a database for obscure geo-referenced meaning. </p>
<h2><ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/637735/">Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice</a></h2>
<p> By <b>Jonathan Corbet</b>
<br/>March 25, 2015 </p>
<pstyle="display: inline;"class="readability-styled"> The LibreOffice project was </p><ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/407383/">announced</a>
<pstyle="display: inline;"class="readability-styled"> with great fanfare in September 2010. Nearly one year later, the OpenOffice.org project (from which LibreOffice was forked) </p><ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/446093/">was
cut loose from Oracle</a>
<pstyle="display: inline;"class="readability-styled"> and found a new home as an Apache project. It is fair to say that the rivalry between the two projects in the time since then has been strong. Predictions that one project or the other would fail have not been borne out, but that does not mean that the two projects are equally successful. A look at the two projects' development communities reveals some interesting differences. </p>
<p> By <b>Jonathan Corbet</b><br/>March 25, 2015 </p>
<p> The LibreOffice project was <ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/407383/">announced</a> with great fanfare in September 2010. Nearly one year later, the OpenOffice.org project (from which LibreOffice was forked) <ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/446093/">was
cut loose from Oracle</a> and found a new home as an Apache project. It is fair to say that the rivalry between the two projects in the time since then has been strong. Predictions that one project or the other would fail have not been borne out, but that does not mean that the two projects are equally successful. A look at the two projects' development communities reveals some interesting differences. </p>
<h4>Release histories</h4>
<p> Apache OpenOffice has made two releases in the past year: <ahref="https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/the_apache_openoffice_project_announce">4.1</a> in April 2014 and <ahref="https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing_apache_openoffice_4_1">4.1.1</a> (described as "a micro update" in the release announcement) in August. The main feature added during that time would appear to be significantly improved accessibility support. </p>
<p> The release history for LibreOffice tells a slightly different story: </p>
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bark but the caravan moves on.</span>" That may be true, but, in this case, the caravan does not appear to be moving with any great speed. </p>
<p> Anything can happen in the free-software development world; it is entirely possible that a reinvigorated OpenOffice.org may yet give LibreOffice a run for its money. But something will clearly have to change to bring that future around. As things stand now, it is hard not to conclude that LibreOffice has won the battle for developer participation. </p>
<h2>Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition</h2>
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<li><ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/637395/">Security</a>: Toward secure package downloads; New vulnerabilities in drupal, mozilla, openssl, python-django ... </li>
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<li><ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/637397/">Distributions</a>: A look at Debian's 2015 DPL candidates; Debian, Fedora, ... </li>
<li><ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/637398/">Development</a>: A look at GlusterFS; LibreOffice Online; Open sourcing existing code; Secure Boot in Windows 10; ... </li>
<li><ahref="http://fakehost/Articles/637399/">Announcements</a>: A Turing award for Michael Stonebraker, Sébastien Jodogne, ReGlue are Free Software Award winners, Kat Walsh joins FSF board of directors, Cyanogen, ... </li>
<pname="f923"id="f923">In late 2011 I sat in the design room of our university’s student newsroom with some of the other editors: Kate Hudson, Brent Rose, and Nicholas Maronese. I was working as the photo editor then—something I loved doing. I was very happy travelling and photographing people while listening to their stories.</p>
<pname="c9d4"id="c9d4">Photography was my lucky way of experiencing the many types of people my generation seemed to avoid, as well as many the public spends too much time discussing. One of my habits as a photographer was scouring sites like Flickr to see how others could frame the world in ways I hadn’t previously considered.</p>
<pname="930f"id="930f">I started discovering beautiful things the <ahref="http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/13/02/06/timelapse-strips-homewood.htm"data-href="http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/13/02/06/timelapse-strips-homewood.htm"rel="nofollow">web could do with images</a>: things not possible with print. Just as every generation revolts against walking in the previous generations shoes, I found myself questioning the expectations that I came up against as a photo editor. In our newsroom the expectations were built from an outdated information world. We were expected to fill old shoes.</p>
<pname="2674"id="2674">So we sat in our student newsroom—not very happy with what we were doing. Our weekly newspaper had remained essentially unchanged for 40+ years. Each editorial position had the same requirement every year. The <em>big</em> change happened in the 80s when the paper started using colour. We’d also stumbled into having a website, but it was updated just once a week with the release of the newspaper.</p>
<pname="e498"id="e498">Information had changed form, but the student newsroom hadn’t, and it was becoming harder to romanticize the dusty newsprint smell coming from the shoes we were handed down from previous generations of editors. It was, we were told, all part of “becoming a journalist.”</p>
<h3name="e2f0"id="e2f0">We don’t know what we don’t know</h3>
<pname="8263"id="8263">We spent much of the rest of the school year asking “what should we be doing in the newsroom?”, which mainly led us to ask “how do we use the web to tell stories?” It was a straightforward question that led to many more questions about the web: something we knew little about. Out in the real world, traditional journalists were struggling to keep their jobs in a dying print world. They wore the same design of shoes that we were supposed to fill. Being pushed to repeat old, failing strategies and blocked from trying something new scared us.</p>
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<liname="0be9"id="0be9">Not enough discussion between the business side and web efforts</li>
<h3name="8d0c"id="8d0c">Common problems in student newsrooms (2013)</h3>
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<h3name="9c30"id="9c30">A train or light at the end of the tunnel: are student newsrooms changing for the better?</h3>
<pname="4634"id="4634">In our 2013 research we found that almost 50% of student newsrooms had created roles specifically for the web. <strong>This sounds great, but is still problematic in its current state.</strong></p>
<figcaption><strong>We designed many of these slides to help explain to ourselves what we were doing</strong></figcaption>
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<pname="39e6"id="39e6">When a newsroom decides to create a position for the web, it’s often with the intent of having content flow steadily from writers onto the web. This is a big improvement from just uploading stories to the web whenever there is a print issue. <em>However…</em></p>
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<pname="5c11"id="5c11">When everyone in the newsroom approaches their website with the intention of using it to explore the web as a medium, they all start to ask “what is possible?” and “what can be done?” You can’t expect students to think in terms of the web if it’s treated as a place for print words to hang out on a web page.</p>
<pname="4eb1"id="4eb1">We’re OK with this problem, if we see newsrooms continue to take small steps towards having all their editors involved in the stories for the web.</p>
<figcaption>The current Open Journalism site was a few years in the making. This was an original launch page we use in 2012</figcaption>
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<h3name="08f5"id="08f5">What we know</h3>
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<h3name="f6c6"id="f6c6">A note to professional news orgs</h3>
<pname="d8f5"id="d8f5">We’re also asking professional newsrooms to be more open about their process of developing stories for the web. You play a big part in this. This means writing about it, and sharing code. We need to start building a bridge between student journalism and professional newsrooms.</p>
<pname="bd44"id="bd44">We expect to have more original tutorials as well as the beginnings of what a curriculum may look like that a student newsroom can adopt to start guiding their transition to become a web first newsroom. We’re also going to be working with the <ahref="http://queensjournal.ca/"data-href="http://queensjournal.ca/"rel="nofollow">Queen’s Journal</a> and <ahref="http://ubyssey.ca/"data-href="http://ubyssey.ca/"rel="nofollow">The Ubyssey</a>next school year to better understand how to make the student newsroom a place for experimenting with telling stories on the web. If this sound like a good idea in your newsroom, we’re still looking to add 1 more school.</p>
<pname="abd5"id="abd5">We’re trying out some new shoes. And while they’re not self-lacing, and smell a bit different, we feel lacing up a new pair of kicks can change a lot.</p>
<pname="63ec"id="63ec"><strong>We’re still in the early stages of what this project will look like, so if you want to help or have thoughts, let’s talk.</strong></p>
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<p>Get fast and easy access to the features you use most in the new menu. Open the “Customize” panel to add, move or remove any button you want. Keep your favorite features — add-ons, private browsing, Sync and more — one quick click away.</p><imgsrc=""data-processed="false"data-src="//mozorg.cdn.mozilla.net/media/img/firefox/desktop/customize/designed-redesigned.fbd3ee9402e6.png"data-high-res="true"data-high-res-src="//mozorg.cdn.mozilla.net/media/img/firefox/desktop/customize/designed-redesigned-high-res.6efd60766484.png"alt=""id="designed-mobile"/></div>
<p>Get fast and easy access to the features you use most in the new menu. Open the “Customize” panel to add, move or remove any button you want. Keep your favorite features — add-ons, private browsing, Sync and more — one quick click away.</p>
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<h3>Themes</h3>
<p>Make Firefox match your style. Choose from thousands of themes and dress up your browser with a single click.</p><arel="external"href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/themes/">Try it now</a><br/><arel="external"href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/use-themes-change-look-of-firefox">Learn more</a></div><ahref="#add-ons"role="button">Next</a>
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<p>Make Firefox match your style. Choose from thousands of themes and dress up your browser with a single click.</p>
<p><arel="external"href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/themes/">Try it now</a><br/><arel="external"href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/use-themes-change-look-of-firefox">Learn more</a></p>
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<p>Add-ons are like apps that you install to add features to Firefox. They let you compare prices, check the weather, listen to music, send a tweet and more.</p>
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<li>Read the latest news & blogs</li>
<li>Manage your downloads</li>
<li>Watch videos & view photos</li>
</ul><arel="external"href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/?sort=featured">Here are a few of our favorites</a><br/><arel="external"href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/find-and-install-add-ons-add-features-to-firefox">Learn more</a></div>
<p><arel="external"href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/?sort=featured">Here are a few of our favorites</a><br/><arel="external"href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/find-and-install-add-ons-add-features-to-firefox">Learn more</a></p>
<p>The Awesome Bar learns as you browse to make your version of Firefox unique. Find and return to your favorite sites without having to remember a URL.</p><arel="external"href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs">See what it can do for you</a></div>
<p>The Awesome Bar learns as you browse to make your version of Firefox unique. Find and return to your favorite sites without having to remember a URL.</p>
<p><arel="external"href="https://support.mozilla.org/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs">See what it can do for you</a></p>
<div><imgsrc="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/14/world/13SUDAN-1/13SUDAN-1-master768.jpg"alt=""data-mediaviewer-src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/14/world/13SUDAN-1/13SUDAN-1-superJumbo.jpg"data-mediaviewer-caption="United Nations peacekeepers at a refugee camp in Sudan on Monday. In exchange for the lifting of United States trade sanctions, Sudan has said it will improve access for aid groups, stop supporting rebels in neighboring South Sudan and cooperate with American intelligence agents."data-mediaviewer-credit="Ashraf Shazly/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images"itemprop="url"itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/14/world/13SUDAN-1/13SUDAN-1-master768.jpg"/>
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<pdata-para-count="250"data-total-count="4223">“There is no reason to believe the guys in charge have changed their stripes,” said Mr. Reeves, a senior fellow at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. “These guys are the worst of the worst.”</p>
<pdata-para-count="208"data-total-count="4431">Obama administration officials said that they had briefed President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team, but that they did not know if Mr. Trump would stick with a policy of warmer relations with Sudan.</p>
<pdata-para-count="143"data-total-count="4574">They said that Sudan had a long way to go in terms of respecting human rights, but that better relations could help increase American leverage.</p>
<pdata-para-count="149"data-total-count="4723"data-node-uid="1">Mr. Reeves said he thought that the American government was being manipulated and that the Obama administration had made a “deal with the devil.”</p><ahref="#whats-next">Continue reading the main story</a></div>
<pdata-para-count="149"data-total-count="4723"data-node-uid="1">Mr. Reeves said he thought that the American government was being manipulated and that the Obama administration had made a “deal with the devil.”</p>
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<pdata-para-count="148"data-total-count="148"><ahref="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/yahoo-inc?inline=nyt-org"title="More information about Yahoo! Inc.">Yahoo</a>’s $4.8 billion sale to <ahref="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/verizon-communications-inc?inline=nyt-org"title="More information about Verizon Communications Inc.">Verizon</a> is a complicated beast, showing how different acquisition structures can affect how shareholders are treated.</p>
<pdata-para-count="177"data-total-count="325">First, let’s say what the Yahoo sale is not. It is not a sale of the publicly traded company. Instead, it is a sale of the Yahoo subsidiary and some related assets to Verizon.</p>
<pdata-para-count="529"data-total-count="854">The sale is being done in two steps. The <ahref="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/000119312516656036/d178500dex22.htm">first step</a> will be the transfer of any assets related to Yahoo business to a singular subsidiary. This includes the stock in the business subsidiaries that make up Yahoo that are not already in the single subsidiary, as well as the odd assets like benefit plan rights. This is what is being sold to Verizon. A license of Yahoo’s oldest patents is being held back in the so-called Excalibur portfolio. This will stay with Yahoo, as will Yahoo’s stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan.</p>
<pdata-para-count="479"data-total-count="1333">It is hard to overestimate how complex an asset sale like this is. Some of the assets are self-contained, but they must be gathered up and transferred. Employees need to be shuffled around and compensation arrangements redone. Many contracts, like the now-infamous one struck with the search engine Mozilla, which <ahref="http://www.recode.net/2016/7/7/12116296/marissa-mayer-deal-mozilla-yahoo-payment">may result in a payment of up to a $1 billion</a>, will contain change-of-control provisions that will be set off and have to be addressed. Tax issues always loom large.</p><ahref="#story-continues-1">Continue reading the main story</a></div>
<pdata-para-count="479"data-total-count="1333">It is hard to overestimate how complex an asset sale like this is. Some of the assets are self-contained, but they must be gathered up and transferred. Employees need to be shuffled around and compensation arrangements redone. Many contracts, like the now-infamous one struck with the search engine Mozilla, which <ahref="http://www.recode.net/2016/7/7/12116296/marissa-mayer-deal-mozilla-yahoo-payment">may result in a payment of up to a $1 billion</a>, will contain change-of-control provisions that will be set off and have to be addressed. Tax issues always loom large.</p>
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<pdata-para-count="112"data-total-count="5371">In Yahoo’s case, this is not deliberate, though. It is simply the most expedient way to get rid of the assets.</p>
<pdata-para-count="583"data-total-count="5954">Whether this is the most tax-efficient way is unclear to me as a nontax lawyer (email me if you know). Yahoo is likely to have a tax bill on the sale, possibly a substantial one. And I presume there were legal reasons for not using a <ahref="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/alliant-techsystems-break-up-and-the-return-of-the-morris-trust/">Morris Trust structure</a>, in which Yahoo would have been spun off and immediately sold to Verizon so that only Yahoo’s shareholders paid tax on the deal. In truth, the Yahoo assets being sold are only about 10 percent of the value of the company, so the time and logistics for such a sale when Yahoo is a melting ice cube may not have been worth it.</p>
<pdata-para-count="450"data-total-count="6404">Finally, if another bidder still wants to acquire Yahoo, it has time. The agreement with Verizon allows Yahoo to terminate the deal and accept a superior offer by paying a $144 million breakup fee to Verizon. And if Yahoo shareholders change their minds and want to stick with Yahoo’s chief executive, <ahref="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/marissa_mayer/index.html?inline=nyt-per"title="More articles about Marissa Mayer.">Marissa Mayer</a>, and vote down the deal, there is a so-called naked no-vote termination fee of $15 million payable to Verizon to reimburse expenses.</p>
<pdata-para-count="426"data-total-count="6830">All in all, this was as hairy a deal as they come. There was the procedural and logistical complications of selling a company when the chief executive wanted to stay. Then there was the fact that this was an asset sale, including all of the challenges that go with it. Throw in all of the tax issues and the fact that this is a public company, and it is likely that the lawyers involved will have nightmares for years to come.</p><ahref="#whats-next">Continue reading the main story</a></div>
<pdata-para-count="426"data-total-count="6830">All in all, this was as hairy a deal as they come. There was the procedural and logistical complications of selling a company when the chief executive wanted to stay. Then there was the fact that this was an asset sale, including all of the challenges that go with it. Throw in all of the tax issues and the fact that this is a public company, and it is likely that the lawyers involved will have nightmares for years to come.</p>
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<p>Our sources say Lupita told cops it was taken from her room sometime between 8 AM and 9 PM Wednesday ... while she was gone. </p>
<p>We're told there is security footage that cops are looking at that could catch the culprit right in the act. </p>
<p><imgalt="update_graphic_red_bar"src="http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/11/20/update-graphic-red-bar.jpg"/><strong>12:00 PM PT</strong> -- Sheriff's deputies were at The London Thursday morning. We know they were in the manager's office and we're told they have looked at security footage to determine if they can ID the culprit.</p>
<p>Many Tunisians accuse the country’s political Islamists, who held power from 2011 to 2013, of having been slow to respond to the growing danger of terrorism. Islamist politicians have acknowledged that they did not realize the threat that would develop when radical Muslims, who had been repressed under authoritarian regimes, won the freedom to preach freely in mosques.</p>
<p>In Washington, White House press secretary Josh Earnest <ahref="http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2015-03-18-ML--Tunisia-Attack-The%20Latest/id-653822d829b24cef993c5bd6a7ce44b5">condemned the attack </a>and said the U.S. government was willing to assist Tunisian authorities in the investigation.</p>
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<p><span>Gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum, killing at least 19 people, most of them foreign tourists. (Reuters)</span></p>
<p><span>Gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum, killing at least 19 people, most of them foreign tourists. (Reuters)</span></p>
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<p>“This attack today is meant to threaten authorities, to frighten tourists and to negatively affect the economy,” said Lotfi Azzouz, Tunisia country director for Amnesty International, a London-based rights group.</p>
<p>Tourism is critical to Tunisia’s economy, accounting for 15 percent of its gross domestic product in 2013, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, an industry body. The Bardo museum hosts one of the world’s most outstanding collections of Roman mosaics and is popular with tourists and Tunisians alike.</p>
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<p>“We must pay attention to what is written” in that law, Azzouz said. “There is worry the government will use the attack to justify some draconian measures.”</p>
<p>Tunisian Islamists and secular forces have worked together — often reluctantly — to defuse the country’s political crises in the years since the revolt.</p>
<p>Last fall, Tunisians elected a secular-minded president and parliament dominated by liberal forces after <ahref="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/tunisias-islamists-get-sobering-lesson-in-governing/2014/11/20/b6fc8988-65ad-11e4-ab86-46000e1d0035_story.html">souring on Islamist-led rule</a>. In 2011, voters had elected a government led by the Ennahda party — a movement similar to Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. But a political stalemate developed as the party and others tried to draft the country’s new constitution. The Islamists failed to improve a slumping economy. And Ennahda came under fire for what many Tunisians saw as a failure to crack down on Islamist extremists.</p>
<div><span>Map: Flow of foreign fighters to Syria</span></div>
<p>After the collapse of the authoritarian system in 2011, hard-line Muslims known as Salafists attacked bars and art galleries. Then, in 2012, hundreds of Islamists <ahref="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-tunisia-embassy-attack-tests-fledgling-democracy/2012/09/20/19f3986a-0273-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html">assaulted the U.S. Embassy </a>in Tunis, shattering windows and hurling gasoline bombs, after the release of a crude online video about the prophet Muhammad.
<ahref="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23452979"></a>The government outlawed the group behind the attack — Ansar al-Sharia, an al-Qaeda-linked organization — and began a crackdown. But the killing <ahref="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23452979">of two leftist politicians</a> in 2013 prompted a fresh political crisis, and Ennahda stepped down, replaced by a technocratic government.</p>
<p>After the collapse of the authoritarian system in 2011, hard-line Muslims known as Salafists attacked bars and art galleries. Then, in 2012, hundreds of Islamists <ahref="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/in-tunisia-embassy-attack-tests-fledgling-democracy/2012/09/20/19f3986a-0273-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html">assaulted the U.S. Embassy </a>in Tunis, shattering windows and hurling gasoline bombs, after the release of a crude online video about the prophet Muhammad. <ahref="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23452979"></a>The government outlawed the group behind the attack — Ansar al-Sharia, an al-Qaeda-linked organization — and began a crackdown. But the killing <ahref="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23452979">of two leftist politicians</a> in 2013 prompted a fresh political crisis, and Ennahda stepped down, replaced by a technocratic government.</p>
<p>Tunisia’s <ahref="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/03/tunisia-opts-for-an-inclusive-new-government/">current coalition government</a> includes an Ennahda minister in the cabinet. Still, many leftist figures openly oppose collaboration with the movement’s leaders.</p>
<p>“Ennahda is responsible for the current deterioration of the situation, because they were careless with the extremists” while they were in power, Azzouz said.</p>
<p>The leader of Ennahda, Rachid Ghannouchi, condemned Wednesday’s attack, saying in a statement that it “will not break our people’s will and will not undermine our revolution and our democracy.”</p>
<p>Security officials are particularly concerned by the collapse of Libya, where various armed groups are vying for influence and jihadist militants have entrenched themselves in major cities. Tunisians worry that extremists can easily get arms and training in the neighboring country.</p>
<p>In January, Libyan militants loyal to the Islamic State <ahref="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/video-shows-purported-beheading-of-egyptian-christians-in-libya/2015/02/15/b8d0f092-b548-11e4-bc30-a4e75503948a_story.html">beheaded 21 Christians</a> — 20 of them Egyptian Copts — along the country’s coast. They later seized the Libyan city of Sirte.</p>
<p>Officials are worried about the number of Tunisian militants who may have joined the jihadists in Libya — with the goal of returning home to fight the Tunis government.</p>
<p>Ajmi Lourimi, a member of Ennahda’s general secretariat, said he believed the attack would unite Tunisians in the face of terrorism.</p>
<p>“There is a consensus here that this [attack] is alien to our culture, to our way of life. We want to unify against this danger,” Lourimi said. He said he did not expect a wider government campaign against Islamists.</p>
<p><aname="1c164a7079bfe20ebd611d79f96418b5a225cbc6"></a><imgsrc="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_400w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/03/18/National-Economy/Images/Nic6429750-1140.jpg?uuid=zLIZQs2KEeSip5UXo6cFBg"data-hi-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/03/18/National-Economy/Images/Nic6429750-1140.jpg?uuid=zLIZQs2KEeSip5UXo6cFBg"data-low-res-src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_400w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/03/18/National-Economy/Images/Nic6429750-1140.jpg?uuid=zLIZQs2KEeSip5UXo6cFBg"/><br/><span>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts as he visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem on March 18 following his party's victory in Israel's general election. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)</span></p>
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<p>President Obama told the U.N. General Assembly 18 months ago that he would seek “real breakthroughs on these two issues — Iran’s nuclear program and Israeli-Palestinian peace.”</p>
<p>But <ahref="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/netanyahu-sweeps-to-victory-in-israeli-election/2015/03/18/af4e50ca-ccf2-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html"title="www.washingtonpost.com">Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumph</a> in Tuesday’s parliamentary elections keeps in place an Israeli prime minister who has declared his intention to resist Obama on both of these fronts, guaranteeing two more years of difficult diplomacy between leaders who barely conceal their personal distaste for each other.</p>
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<p>“On the way to his election victory, Netanyahu broke a lot of crockery in the relationship,” said Martin Indyk, executive vice president of the Brookings Institution and a former U.S. ambassador to Israel. “It can’t be repaired unless both sides have an interest and desire to do so.”</p>
<p>Aside from Russian President Vladimir Putin, few foreign leaders so brazenly stand up to Obama and even fewer among longtime allies.</p>
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<p><span>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right. (Reuters)</span></p>
<p><span>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right. (Reuters)</span></p>
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<p>In the past, Israeli leaders who risked damaging the country’s most important relationship, that with Washington, tended to pay a price. In 1991, when Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir opposed the Madrid peace talks, President George H.W. Bush held back loan guarantees to help absorb immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Shamir gave in, but his government soon collapsed.</p>
<p>But this time, Netanyahu was not hurt by his personal and substantive conflicts with the U.S. president.</p>
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<p>“That could be an issue forced onto the agenda about the same time as a potential nuclear deal.”</p>
<p>Reviewed by <aonclick="return sl(this,'','prog-lnk');"href="http://www.webmd.com/hansa-bhargava">Hansa D. Bhargava, MD</a></p>
<p>Feb. 23, 2015 -- Life-threatening peanut allergies have mysteriously been on the rise in the past decade, with little hope for a cure.</p>
<pxmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan">But a groundbreaking new study may offer a way to stem that rise, while another may offer some hope for those who are already allergic.</p>
<p>Parents have been told for years to avoid giving foods containing peanuts to babies for fear of triggering an allergy. Now research shows the opposite is true: Feeding babies snacks made with peanuts before their first birthday appears to prevent that from happening.</p>
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<p>“I think this study is an astounding and groundbreaking study, really,” says Katie Allen, MD, PhD. She's the director of the Center for Food and Allergy Research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Allen was not involved in the research.</p>
<p>Experts say the research should shift thinking about how kids develop <ahref="http://www.webmd.com/allergies/guide/food-allergy-intolerances"onclick="return sl(this,'','embd-lnk');">food allergies</a>, and it should change the guidance doctors give to parents.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, for children and adults who are already <ahref="http://www.webmd.com/allergies/guide/nut-allergy"onclick="return sl(this,'','embd-lnk');">allergic to peanuts</a>, another study presented at the same meeting held out hope of a treatment.</p>
<p>A new skin patch called Viaskin allowed people with peanut allergies to eat tiny amounts of peanuts after they wore it for a year.</p><aname="1"></a>
<p>A new skin patch called Viaskin allowed people with peanut allergies to eat tiny amounts of peanuts after they wore it for a year.</p>
<h3>A Change in Guidelines?</h3>
<p>Allergies to peanuts and other foods are on the rise. In the U.S., more than 2% of people react to peanuts, a 400% increase since 1997. And reactions to peanuts and other tree nuts can be especially severe. Nuts are the main reason people get a life-threatening problem called <ahref="http://www.webmd.com/allergies/guide/anaphylaxis"onclick="return sl(this,'','embd-lnk');">anaphylaxis</a>.</p>
<p> Reviewed by <aonclick="return sl(this,'','prog-lnk');"href="http://www.webmd.com/hansa-bhargava">Hansa D. Bhargava, MD</a></p>
<p>April 17, 2015 -- Imagine being sick in the hospital with a <ahref="http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/bacterial-and-viral-infections"onclick="return sl(this,'','embd-lnk');">bacterial infection</a> and doctors can't stop it from spreading. This so-called "superbug" scenario is not science fiction. It's an urgent, worldwide worry that is prompting swift action.</p>
<pxmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan">Every year, about 2 million people get sick from a superbug, according to the CDC. About 23,000 die. Earlier this year, an outbreak of CRE (carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae) linked to contaminated medical tools sickened 11 people at two Los-Angeles area hospitals. Two people died, and more than 200 others may have been exposed.</p>
<p>The White House recently released a <aonclick="return sl(this,'','embd-lnk');"href="http://www.webmd.com/click?url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/national_action_plan_for_combating_antibotic-resistant_bacteria.pdf">comprehensive plan</a> outlining steps to combat drug-resistant bacteria. The plan identifies three "urgent" and several "serious" threats. We asked infectious disease experts to explain what some of them are and when to worry.</p>
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<h3>But First: What's a Superbug? </h3>
<p>It's a term coined by the media to describe bacteria that cannot be killed using multiple <ahref="http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/rm-quiz-antibiotics-myths-facts"onclick="return sl(this,'','embd-lnk');">antibiotics</a>. "It resonates because it's scary," says Stephen Calderwood, MD, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. "But in fairness, there is no real definition."</p>
<p>Instead, doctors often use phrases like "multidrug-resistant bacteria." That's because a superbug isn't necessarily resistant to all antibiotics. It refers to bacteria that can't be treated using two or more, says Brian K. Coombes, PhD, of McMaster University in Ontario.</p>
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<p><b>Mozilla</b> is a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Free_software"title="Free software">free-software</a> community, created in 1998 by members of <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Netscape"title="Netscape">Netscape</a>. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions.<supid="cite_ref-1"><ahref="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> The community is supported institutionally by the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation"title="Mozilla Foundation">Mozilla Foundation</a> and its tax-paying subsidiary, the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation"title="Mozilla Corporation">Mozilla Corporation</a>.<supid="cite_ref-2"><ahref="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products"title="List of Mozilla products">Mozilla produces many products</a> such as the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firefox"title="Firefox">Firefox</a> web browser, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird"title="Mozilla Thunderbird">Thunderbird</a> e-mail client, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firefox_Mobile"title="Firefox Mobile">Firefox Mobile</a> web browser, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firefox_OS"title="Firefox OS">Firefox OS</a> mobile operating system, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Bugzilla"title="Bugzilla">Bugzilla</a> bug tracking system and other projects.</p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firefox"title="Firefox">Firefox</a> is a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Web_browser"title="Web browser">web browser</a>, and is Mozilla's <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Flagship_product"title="Flagship product">flagship</a> software product. It is available in both desktop and mobile versions. Firefox uses the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Gecko_(software)"title="Gecko (software)">Gecko</a><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Layout_engine"title="Layout engine">layout engine</a> to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Web_standards"title="Web standards">web standards</a>.<supid="cite_ref-42"><ahref="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup> As of late 2015<sup><ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mozilla&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Firefox has approximately 10-11% of worldwide <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary"title="Usage share of web browsers">usage share of web browsers</a>, making it the 4th most-used web browser.<supid="cite_ref-w3counter1_43-0"><ahref="#cite_note-w3counter1-43">[43]</a></sup><supid="cite_ref-gs.statcounter.com_44-0"><ahref="#cite_note-gs.statcounter.com-44">[44]</a></sup><supid="cite_ref-getclicky1_45-0"><ahref="#cite_note-getclicky1-45">[45]</a></sup></p>
<p>Firefox began as an experimental branch of the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla#Mozilla_Project"title="Mozilla">Mozilla codebase</a> by <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Dave_Hyatt"title="Dave Hyatt">Dave Hyatt</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Joe_Hewitt_(programmer)"title="Joe Hewitt (programmer)">Joe Hewitt</a> and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Blake_Ross"title="Blake Ross">Blake Ross</a>. They believed the commercial requirements of <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Netscape"title="Netscape">Netscape's</a> sponsorship and developer-driven <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Feature_creep"title="Feature creep">feature creep</a> compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.<supid="cite_ref-46"><ahref="#cite_note-46">[46]</a></sup> To combat what they saw as the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite"title="Mozilla Application Suite">Mozilla Suite's</a><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Software_bloat"title="Software bloat">software bloat</a>, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite.</p>
<p>Firefox was originally named <i>Phoenix</i> but the name was changed so as to avoid trademark conflicts with <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies"title="Phoenix Technologies">Phoenix Technologies</a>. The initially-announced replacement, <i>Firebird</i>, provoked objections from the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firebird_(database_server)"title="Firebird (database server)">Firebird</a> project community.<supid="cite_ref-47"><ahref="#cite_note-47">[47]</a></sup><supid="cite_ref-48"><ahref="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></sup> The current name, Firefox, was chosen on February 9, 2004.<supid="cite_ref-49"><ahref="#cite_note-49">[49]</a></sup></p>
<p>Firefox Mobile (codenamed <i>Fennec</i>) is the build of the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firefox"title="Firefox">Mozilla Firefox</a><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Web_browser"title="Web browser">web browser</a> for devices such as <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Smartphone"title="Smartphone">smartphones</a> and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Tablet_computer"title="Tablet computer">tablet computers</a>.</p>
<p>Firefox Mobile uses the same <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)"title="Gecko (layout engine)">Gecko</a><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Layout_engine"title="Layout engine">layout engine</a> as <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firefox"title="Firefox">Mozilla Firefox</a>. For example, version 1.0 used the same engine as Firefox 3.6, and the following release, 4.0, shared core code with Firefox 4.0. Its features include <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/HTML5"title="HTML5">HTML5</a> support, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firefox_Sync"title="Firefox Sync">Firefox Sync</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Add-on_(Mozilla)"title="Add-on (Mozilla)">add-ons</a> support and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Tabbed_browsing"title="Tabbed browsing">tabbed browsing</a>.<supid="cite_ref-50"><ahref="#cite_note-50">[50]</a></sup></p>
<p>Firefox Mobile is currently available for <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Android_(operating_system)"title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> 2.2 and above devices with an <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/ARM_architecture"title="ARM architecture">ARMv7</a> or <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/ARM_architecture"title="ARM architecture">ARMv6</a> CPU.<supid="cite_ref-51"><ahref="#cite_note-51">[51]</a></sup> The x86 architecture is not officially supported.<supid="cite_ref-52"><ahref="#cite_note-52">[52]</a></sup><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Tristan_Nitot"title="Tristan Nitot">Tristan Nitot</a>, president of <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Europe"title="Mozilla Europe">Mozilla Europe</a>, has said that it's unlikely that an <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/IPhone"title="IPhone">iPhone</a> or a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/BlackBerry"title="BlackBerry">BlackBerry</a> version will be released, citing <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Apple_Inc"title="Apple Inc">Apple's</a> iTunes Store application approval policies (which forbid applications competing with Apple's own, and forbid engines which run downloaded code) and BlackBerry's limited operating system as the reasons.<supid="cite_ref-53"><ahref="#cite_note-53">[53]</a></sup></p>
<p>Firefox OS (project name: <i>Boot to Gecko</i> also known as <i>B2G</i>) is an <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Open_source"title="Open source">open source</a><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Operating_system"title="Operating system">operating system</a> in development by Mozilla that aims to support <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/HTML5"title="HTML5">HTML5</a> apps written using "<ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Open_Web"title="Open Web">open Web</a>" technologies rather than platform-specific native <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Application_programming_interface"title="Application programming interface">APIs</a>. The concept behind Firefox OS is that all user-accessible software will be HTML5 applications, that use Open Web APIs to access the phone's hardware directly via <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/JavaScript"title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a>.<supid="cite_ref-54"><ahref="#cite_note-54">[54]</a></sup></p>
<p>Some devices using this OS include<supid="cite_ref-55"><ahref="#cite_note-55">[55]</a></sup> Alcatel One Touch Fire, ZTE Open, LG Fireweb.</p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird"title="Mozilla Thunderbird">Thunderbird</a> is a free, open source, cross-platform email and news client developed by the volunteers of the Mozilla Community.</p>
<p>On July 16, 2012, Mitchell Baker announced that Mozilla's leadership had come to the conclusion that on-going stability was the most important thing for Thunderbird and that innovation in Thunderbird was no longer a priority for Mozilla. In that update Baker also suggested that Mozilla had provided a pathway for community to innovate around Thunderbird if the community chooses.<supid="cite_ref-56"><ahref="#cite_note-56">[56]</a></sup></p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/SeaMonkey"title="SeaMonkey">SeaMonkey</a> (formerly the Mozilla Application Suite) is a free and open source cross platform suite of Internet software components including a web browser component, a client for sending and receiving email and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/USENET"title="USENET">USENET</a> newsgroup messages, an HTML editor (<ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Composer"title="Mozilla Composer">Mozilla Composer</a>) and the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/ChatZilla"title="ChatZilla">ChatZilla</a> IRC client.</p>
<p>On March 10, 2005, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/The_Mozilla_Foundation"title="The Mozilla Foundation">the Mozilla Foundation</a> announced that it would not release any official versions of Mozilla Application Suite beyond 1.7.x, since it had now focused on the standalone applications <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox"title="Mozilla Firefox">Firefox</a> and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird"title="Mozilla Thunderbird">Thunderbird</a>.<supid="cite_ref-57"><ahref="#cite_note-57">[57]</a></sup> SeaMonkey is now maintained by the SeaMonkey Council, which has <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Trademark"title="Trademark">trademarked</a> the SeaMonkey name with help from the Mozilla Foundation.<supid="cite_ref-58"><ahref="#cite_note-58">[58]</a></sup> The Mozilla Foundation provides project hosting for the SeaMonkey developers.</p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Bugzilla"title="Bugzilla">Bugzilla</a> is a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/World_Wide_Web"title="World Wide Web">web</a>-based general-purpose <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Bug_tracking_system"title="Bug tracking system">bug tracking system</a>, which was released as <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Open_source_software"title="Open source software">open source software</a> by <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Netscape_Communications"title="Netscape Communications">Netscape Communications</a> in 1998 along with the rest of the Mozilla codebase, and is currently stewarded by Mozilla. It has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Bug_tracking_system"title="Bug tracking system">bug tracking system</a> for both <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software"title="Free and open source software">free and open source software</a> and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Proprietary_software"title="Proprietary software">proprietary</a> projects and products, including the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/The_Mozilla_Foundation"title="The Mozilla Foundation">Mozilla Foundation</a>, the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Linux_kernel"title="Linux kernel">Linux kernel</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/GNOME"title="GNOME">GNOME</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/KDE"title="KDE">KDE</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Red_Hat"title="Red Hat">Red Hat</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Novell"title="Novell">Novell</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Eclipse_(software)"title="Eclipse (software)">Eclipse</a> and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/LibreOffice"title="LibreOffice">LibreOffice</a>.<supid="cite_ref-59"><ahref="#cite_note-59">[59]</a></sup></p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Network_Security_Services"title="Network Security Services">Network Security Services</a> (NSS) comprises a set of <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Library_(computing)"title="Library (computing)">libraries</a> designed to support <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Cross-platform"title="Cross-platform">cross-platform</a> development of security-enabled client and server applications. NSS provides a complete open-source implementation of crypto libraries supporting <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer"title="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</a> and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/S/MIME"title="S/MIME">S/MIME</a>. NSS was previously <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Multi-licensing"title="Multi-licensing">tri-licensed</a> under the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License"title="Mozilla Public License">Mozilla Public License</a> 1.1, the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License"title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a>, and the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/LGPL"title="LGPL">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>, but upgraded to GPL-compatible MPL 2.0.</p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/AOL"title="AOL">AOL</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Red_Hat"title="Red Hat">Red Hat</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Sun_Microsystems"title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a>/<ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Oracle_Corporation"title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Google"title="Google">Google</a> and other companies and individual contributors have co-developed NSS and it is used in a wide range of non-Mozilla products including <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Evolution_(software)"title="Evolution (software)">Evolution</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Pidgin_(software)"title="Pidgin (software)">Pidgin</a>, and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice"title="Apache OpenOffice">Apache OpenOffice</a>.</p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(software)"title="SpiderMonkey (software)">SpiderMonkey</a> is the original <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/JavaScript_engine"title="JavaScript engine">JavaScript engine</a> developed by <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Brendan_Eich"title="Brendan Eich">Brendan Eich</a> when he invented <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/JavaScript"title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a> in 1995 as a developer at <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Netscape"title="Netscape">Netscape</a>. It became part of the Mozilla product family when Mozilla inherited Netscape's code-base in 1998. In 2011, Eich transferred the nominal ownership of the SpiderMonkey code and project to Dave Mandelin.<supid="cite_ref-BE201106_60-0"><ahref="#cite_note-BE201106-60">[60]</a></sup></p>
<p>SpiderMonkey is a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Cross-platform"title="Cross-platform">cross-platform</a> engine written in <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/C%2B%2B"title="C++">C++</a> which implements <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/ECMAScript"title="ECMAScript">ECMAScript</a>, a standard developed from JavaScript.<supid="cite_ref-BE201106_60-1"><ahref="#cite_note-BE201106-60">[60]</a></sup><supid="cite_ref-61"><ahref="#cite_note-61">[61]</a></sup> It comprises an <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Interpreter_(computing)"title="Interpreter (computing)">interpreter</a>, several <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation"title="Just-in-time compilation">just-in-time compilers</a>, a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Decompiler"title="Decompiler">decompiler</a> and a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)"title="Garbage collection (computer science)">garbage collector</a>. Products which embed SpiderMonkey include <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Firefox"title="Firefox">Firefox</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird"title="Mozilla Thunderbird">Thunderbird</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/SeaMonkey"title="SeaMonkey">SeaMonkey</a>, and many non-Mozilla applications.<supid="cite_ref-62"><ahref="#cite_note-62">[62]</a></sup></p>
<p>Rhino is an <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Open_source"title="Open source">open source</a><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/JavaScript_engine"title="JavaScript engine">JavaScript engine</a> managed by the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation"title="Mozilla Foundation">Mozilla Foundation</a>. It is developed entirely in <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Java_(programming_language)"title="Java (programming language)">Java</a>. Rhino converts JavaScript scripts into Java <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Class_(computer_programming)"title="Class (computer programming)">classes</a>. Rhino works in both <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Compiler"title="Compiler">compiled</a> and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Interpreter_(computing)"title="Interpreter (computing)">interpreted</a> mode.<supid="cite_ref-63"><ahref="#cite_note-63">[63]</a></sup></p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine)"title="Gecko (layout engine)">Gecko</a> is a <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Web_browser_engine"title="Web browser engine">layout engine</a> that supports web pages written using <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/HTML"title="HTML">HTML</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics"title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</a>, and <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/MathML"title="MathML">MathML</a>. Gecko is written in <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/C%2B%2B"title="C++">C++</a> and uses <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/NSPR"title="NSPR">NSPR</a> for <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Platform_independence"title="Platform independence">platform independence</a>. Its source code is licensed under the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License"title="Mozilla Public License">Mozilla Public License</a>.</p>
<p>Firefox uses Gecko both for rendering web pages and for rendering its <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/User_interface"title="User interface">user interface</a>. Gecko is also used by Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and many non-Mozilla applications.</p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)"title="Rust (programming language)">Rust</a> is a compiled <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Programming_language"title="Programming language">programming language</a> being developed by Mozilla Research. It is designed for safety, concurrency, and performance. Rust is intended for creating large and complex software which needs to be both safe against exploits and fast.</p>
<p>Rust is being used in an experimental layout engine, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Servo_(layout_engine)"title="Servo (layout engine)">Servo</a>, which is developed by Mozilla and Samsung. Servo is not used in any consumer-oriented browsers yet. However, the Servo project developers plan for parts of the Servo source code to be merged into Gecko, and Firefox, incrementally.<supid="cite_ref-64"><ahref="#cite_note-64">[64]</a></sup><supid="cite_ref-65"><ahref="#cite_note-65">[65]</a></sup></p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/XULRunner"title="XULRunner">XULRunner</a> is a software platform and technology experiment by Mozilla, that allows applications built with the same technologies used by Firefox extensions (XPCOM, Javascript, HTML, CSS, XUL) to be run natively as desktop applications, without requiring Firefox to be installed on the user's machine. XULRunner binaries are available for the Windows, GNU/Linux and OS X operating systems, allowing such applications to be effectively cross platform.</p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Pdf.js"title="Pdf.js">Pdf.js</a> is a library developed by Mozilla that allows in-browser rendering of pdf documents using the HTML5 Canvas and Javascript. It is included by default in recent versions of Firefox, allowing the browser to render pdf documents without requiring an external plugin; and it is available separately as an extension named "PDF Viewer" for Firefox for Android, SeaMonkey, and the Firefox versions which don't include it built-in. It can also be included as part of a website's scripts, to allow pdf rendering for any browser that implements the required HTML5 features and can run Javascript.</p>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Shumway_(software)"title="Shumway (software)">Shumway</a> is an open source replacement for the Adobe Flash Player, developed by Mozilla since 2012, using open web technologies as a replacement for Flash technologies. It uses Javascript and HTML5 Canvas elements to render Flash and execute Actionscript. It is included by default in Firefox Nightly and can be installed as an extension for any recent version of Firefox. The current implementation is limited in its capabilities to render Flash content outside simple projects.</p>
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<p>Mozilla VR is a team focused on bringing <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Virtual_reality"title="Virtual reality">Virtual reality</a> tools, specifications, and standards to the open Web.<supid="cite_ref-66"><ahref="#cite_note-66">[66]</a></sup> Mozilla VR maintains <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/A-Frame_(VR)"title="A-Frame (VR)">A-Frame (VR)</a>, a web framework for building VR experiences, and works on advancing <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/WebVR"title="WebVR">WebVR</a> support within web browsers.</p>
<h3><spanid="Mozilla_Persona">Mozilla Persona</span><span><span>[</span><ahref="http://fakehost/w/index.php?title=Mozilla&action=edit&section=23"title="Edit section: Mozilla Persona">edit</a><span>]</span></span>
<p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Persona"title="Mozilla Persona">Mozilla Persona</a> is a secure, cross-browser website <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Authentication"title="Authentication">authentication</a> mechanism which allows a user to use a single username and password (or other authentication method) to log in to multiple sites.<supid="cite_ref-67"><ahref="#cite_note-67">[67]</a></sup> Mozilla Persona will be shutting down on November 30, 2016.<supid="cite_ref-68"><ahref="#cite_note-68">[68]</a></sup></p>
<h3><spanid="Mozilla_Location_Service">Mozilla Location Service</span><span><span>[</span><ahref="http://fakehost/w/index.php?title=Mozilla&action=edit&section=24"title="Edit section: Mozilla Location Service">edit</a><span>]</span></span>
<p>This open source crowdsourced geolocation service was started by Mozilla in 2013 and offers a free <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Application_programming_interface"title="Application programming interface">API</a>.</p>
<p>Mozilla Webmaker is Mozilla's educational initiative, Webmaker's goal is to "help millions of people move from using the web to making the web." As part of Mozilla’s non-profit mission, Webmaker aims "to help the world increase their understanding of the web, take greater control of their online lives, and create a more web literate planet."<supid="cite_ref-69"><ahref="#cite_note-69">[69]</a></sup><supid="cite_ref-lifehacker.com_70-0"><ahref="#cite_note-lifehacker.com-70">[70]</a></sup><supid="cite_ref-lifehacker.com_70-1"><ahref="#cite_note-lifehacker.com-70">[70]</a></sup></p>
<h3><spanid="Mozilla_Developer_Network">Mozilla Developer Network</span><span><span>[</span><ahref="http://fakehost/w/index.php?title=Mozilla&action=edit&section=26"title="Edit section: Mozilla Developer Network">edit</a><span>]</span></span>
<p>Mozilla maintains a comprehensive developer documentation website called the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Mozilla_Developer_Network"title="Mozilla Developer Network">Mozilla Developer Network</a> which contains information about web technologies including <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/HTML"title="HTML">HTML</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/CSS"title="CSS">CSS</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/SVG"title="SVG">SVG</a>, <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/JavaScript"title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a>, as well Mozilla-specific information. In addition, Mozilla publishes a large number of videos about web technologies and the development of Mozilla projects on the Air Mozilla website.<supid="cite_ref-71"><ahref="#cite_note-71">[71]</a></sup><supid="cite_ref-72"><ahref="#cite_note-72">[72]</a></sup></p>
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<p>There are a number of sub-communities that exist based on their geographical locations, where contributors near each other work together on particular activities, such as localization, marketing, PR and user support.</p>
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<p>The Mozilla Reps program aims to empower and support volunteer Mozillians who want to become official representatives of Mozilla in their region/locale.</p>
<p>The program provides a simple framework and a specific set of tools to help Mozillians to organize and/or attend events, recruit and mentor new contributors, document and share activities, and support their local communities better.</p>
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<pstyle="display: inline;"class="readability-styled"> Speakers from the </p><ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Knight_Foundation"title="Knight Foundation">Knight Foundation</a>
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<p> Speakers from the <ahref="http://fakehost/wiki/Knight_Foundation"title="Knight Foundation">Knight Foundation</a> discuss the future of news at the 2011 Mozilla Festival in London.</p>
<div data-reactid="410"><imgalt="The PlayStation VR"src="http://l1.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/589noY9BZNdmsUUQf6L1AQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NzQ0O2g9NjY5/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/4406ef57dcb40376c513903b03bef048"data-reactid="411"/></div>
<p><imgalt="The PlayStation VR"src="http://l1.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/589noY9BZNdmsUUQf6L1AQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NzQ0O2g9NjY5/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/4406ef57dcb40376c513903b03bef048"data-reactid="411"/></p>
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<p>Sony’s PlayStation VR.</p>
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<pdata-type="text"data-reactid="460"><i>Ben Silverman is on Twitter at</i><ahref="https://twitter.com/ben_silverman"target="_blank"rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><i>ben_silverman</i></a><i>.</i></p>
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<p>“This is what he was fighting for, his son wrapped in an American flag,” Hicks told ABC News. However, when she posted the image on her page, she started to get comments accusing her of desecrating the flag.</p>
<p>On one Facebook page an unidentified poster put up her picture writing and wrote they found it was “disrespectful, rude, tacky, disgusting, and against the U.S. Flag Code.”</p>
<pstyle="display: inline;"class="readability-styled">The Federal Flag Code has guidelines for the proper treatment of the U.S. Flag but there are no rules for punishment related to violations. In the past, the </p><ahref="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/supreme-court.htm"target="_blank"data-rapid_p="18">Supreme Court</a>
<pstyle="display: inline;"class="readability-styled"> has found that people are protected from punishment under the First Amendment for manipulating or even burning the flag. </p>
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<p>The Federal Flag Code has guidelines for the proper treatment of the U.S. Flag but there are no rules for punishment related to violations. In the past, the <ahref="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/supreme-court.htm"target="_blank"data-rapid_p="18">Supreme Court</a> has found that people are protected from punishment under the First Amendment for manipulating or even burning the flag. </p>
<p>Hicks said she was surprised when messages suddenly started to pop up on her Facebook page and even her own website criticizing her photos.</p>
<p>She said she stayed up until 4 a.m. recently to take down comments from her business and company page, even on shoots that had nothing to do with the flag.</p>
<p>“I know how low I felt during those first few hours,” said Hicks. “[I felt] am I not a good American or veteran or wife. It’s a train-wreck you can’t help but watch.”</p>
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