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For the First time in India, Bank Absorbs Phishing Liability
Phishing attacks are a common form of risks in today’s Internet based Banking. Banks have been largely bulldozing the customers into believing that the liability for Phishing should be boarne by the customers because they were negligent in re...
Nutty Western Lady Reads the mind of Baboons…not
Just when you thought animal lovers couldn’t get more ridiculous comes this story, via NPR. Holy Baboon! A ‘Mystical’ Moment In Africa by Robert Krulwich. It tells the story of baboons who were romping down to a lake, and suddenly t...
Shell game Will Pay for Abortion coverage (while pretending it’s not)
Okay now. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Senate has compromised on the Health Care bill so that taxpayer money will not be used for abortions. The original compromise was that the government would subsidize the coverage of health insurance, bu...
Does Faith make you nice?
I’m not sure what to make of the article in Slate that equates religiosity with niceness, and points out that the atheistic Danes and the Swedes are happier and nicer and have fewer negative social problem than the US which boasts of it’s...
ITA 2008 Emergency Help Center for Corporate Directors and CEOs
October 27, 2009 has been an important day for the Indian Digital World. The much awaited amendments to the nine year ole ITA 2000 was finally notified. ITA 2008 has different meanings to different persons. To the Cyber Law Observers, it is a shift i...
Was Climategate another Cyberattack by Russia?
I am fascinated by what the US blogs are calling “Climategate”. It seems that one of the main scientific research labs behind Global warming, indeed the one whose data was one of the lynchpins proving “climate change” was ...
Book Review: Going Rogue
Sarah Palin is still making headlines, and her book “Going Rogue” is now a best seller. Much of what I have read about her and the book seems to be viewed through the “inner beltway” mindset, by those who automatically hate th...
Global Warming Conference: aiding the corrupt, or saving the planet?
I’m not really following the Copenhagen conference on global warming. My specialty was public health, and I see both the problems of chemicals and pollution destroying people’s health, but I have worked enough in third world countries to ...
Maguindanao Investigation turns up Arms, Voter ID cards, and Witnesses to Other Murders
The massacre of fifty plus civilians, including 27 journalists, allegedly by a local politician attempting to eliminate an opposing candidate, has resulted in numerous arrests, and martial law being declared in that southern Philippine province. But ...
Philippine Controversy: Marshall Law in Maguindanao
The massacre of fifty people, including almost 30 journalists, at the end of November continues to cause problems here in the Philippines. They “know” who ordered the murders, and even have witnesses: the powerful Ampatuans. Father runs M...
Would you trade your Love life for a smaller chance of Cancer?
According to USNews and World Report, only six percent of women who are at high risk of breast cancer agreed to take the cancer preventing drug Tamoxifen. The dirty little secret: A lot of these women have heard about the side effects, and said no wa...
The Federal Government’s Medical system still needs improvement (and money)
Universal health care in the US is about 60 years overdue. However, to see what will actually happen when government bureaucrats take over health care, you need to look at the Federal systems that are actually in existence, and who already use guidel...
Global warming religion becoming a Joke
Mischievous conservative writer Jonah Goldberg links to a British site that keeps a list of problems caused by Global Warming. Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, poppies more potent, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, ...
Critics call Poland Patriot missile plan a symbolic gesture, U.S. military newspaper reports
Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — An article in the U.S. semi-official military newspaper Stars and Stripes suggests that the Obama administration’s plan for placing a limited number of Patriot missiles in Poland has no military significance and is b...
