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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Japan developing cyber weapon: report
Japan has been developing a virus that could track down the source of a cyber attack and neutralise its programme, the daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday.
The weapon is the culmination of a 179 million yen ($2.3 million) three-year project entrusted by the government to technology maker Fujitsu Ltd to develop a virus and equipment to monitor and analyse attacks, the daily said.
The United States and China are reported to have put so-called cyber weapons into practical use, Yomiuri said.
Japan will have to make legal amendments to use a cyber weapon as it could violate the country's law against the manufacture of a computer virus, the daily said.
In November a computer system run by about 200 Japanese local governments was struck.
In October, Japan's parliament came under cyber attack, apparently from the same emails linked to a China-based server that have already hit several lawmakers' computers.
It was also reported that Japanese computers at embassies and consulates in nine countries were infected with viruses in the summer.
Currently, the virus is being tested in a "closed environment" to examine its applicable patterns.
Source: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Japan_developing_cyber_weapon_report_999.html
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Jewish friend of late Pope John Paul II dies
FILE - In this Thursday, March 23, 2000 file photo, Pope John Paul II greets World War II death camp survivor, and boyhood friend, Jerzy Kluger, during a visit to the Yad Vashem Memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem. Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II, has died in a clinic near Rome. Kluger's wife, Irene, told The Associated Press that her husband, who was 90, had died on Dec. 31 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for three years and was buried Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Isaac Harari/GPO/ho, File)
FILE - In this Thursday, March 23, 2000 file photo, Pope John Paul II greets World War II death camp survivor, and boyhood friend, Jerzy Kluger, during a visit to the Yad Vashem Memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem. Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II, has died in a clinic near Rome. Kluger's wife, Irene, told The Associated Press that her husband, who was 90, had died on Dec. 31 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for three years and was buried Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Isaac Harari/GPO/ho, File)
ROME (AP) ? Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II and who lost much of his family to Nazi death camps, has died in a Rome clinic, his widow said Monday. He was 90.
Irene Kluger told The Associated Press that her husband died on Dec. 31 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for three years and was buried Monday. The couple lived in Rome for decades, but at John Paul's urging, Kluger, a World War II veteran, occasionally returned to visit Wadowice, the southern Polish town where the two spent their boyhoods, his widow said.
Kluger, a year younger than John Paul, who died in 2005, was one of the last living childhood friends of the late pontiff. He was 5 when he met Karol Wojtyla, who would become a priest two decades later in his predominantly Catholic homeland, and eventually Krakow's cardinal, before being elected as history's only Polish-born pontiff in 1978.
The two ? Kluger known by his nickname Jurek and the future pope known as Lolek ? played soccer, shared school benches and lived in houses across a square in Wadowice. Kluger also recalled daring swims with the young Wojtyla in the Skawa River during the warmer months. In winter, the two also hiked for hours to the top of the local mountain to ski.
Upon John Paul's death, Kluger said the pope always had a passion for social justice.
"Even when he was a young boy, he would already show great concern for social equality, especially for the Jews," Kluger told the AP. "This was very important to him from a very early age."
John Paul's landmark efforts to improve Vatican-Jewish relations, including a historic visit to Rome's main synagogue, were a legacy of his 26-year papacy.
Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, the longtime secretary of John Paul II, remembered Kluger as "a great Polish patriot" and said it caused him deep grief to learn of the death of the pope's friend, whom he also knew.
"It didn't matter the Kluger was a Jew and the pope a Christian," Dziwisz, the archbishop of Krakow, said in a statement carried by the Polish news agency PAP. "Between them there was a deep, human bond and concern about Polish issues in the world."
The pope and Kluger kept in touch across time and distance, and Kluger occasionally visited the Vatican so they could dine together, meetings that apparently helped shape John Paul's thinking on Jewish issues.
George Weigel, a biographer of John Paul, wrote in "Witness to Hope" that Kluger was a "sounding board" for John Paul in his thinking about the history of relations between Jews and Catholics and relations with Israel.
Early in his papacy John Paul asked his friend to start informal discussions with Israeli diplomats in Rome as the Vatican began to consider establishing full diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, according to Weigel.
Kluger's efforts did not lead to an immediate establishment of diplomatic ties, which occurred only in 1993, but may have helped change the thinking of skeptical Israeli officials, Weigel wrote.
Elan Steinberg, vice president of the organization American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said Kluger's passing was both a moment of individual sorrow as well as of "symbolic remembrance for the link with Pope John Paul under whom a revolution in the advancement of Catholic-Jewish relations was realized."
"Their childhood friendship was seared by their shared experience of coming under the Nazi yoke in Poland," Steinberg said in an emailed statement. "There can be no question that John Paul's warmth and gestures to the Jewish people were shaped by his personal witness of Nazi horrors."
Irene Kluger said her husband lost his mother, sister and virtually the rest of his entire family, except for his father, a lawyer, when his relatives perished in German death camps in Poland in World War II.
Jerzy Kluger was among the Polish troops led by Poland's celebrated World War II general, Wladyslaw Anders, during the battle against the Nazis at Monte Cassino, south of Rome, in 1944, she said.
Anders' troops fought as the Second Polish Corps of the British Eighth Army. Poles had risen up at home against the German occupiers and also fought alongside the British and other Allies in the struggle to defeat Hitler's regime.
"He never, never thought that the Germans would do what they did in Poland," Irene Kluger said of her husband.
Kluger was there when John Paul's successor, the German-born Benedict XVI, visited Wadowice in 2006, a day before he visited Auschwitz. Said Kluger of Benedict's stop in the death camp: "It's good that the pope will go there. The visit to Auschwitz is a question of responsibility."
Up to 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, were killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
Besides his Irish-born wife, Kluger is survived by a daughter.
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Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska contributed to this report from Warsaw.
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How Symbian's Endurance Leaves Room for Windows Phone
There's a semi-shocking stat going around today for those of us who live in the U.S.: according to StatCounter, which tracks mobile Web traffic, Symbian is still the number-one smartphone OS in the world.
There's a lot of strangeness in StatCounter's numbers, which don't entirely sync up with other methods of measuring OS popularity. But Symbian apparently still dominates in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, while it has faded into the background in the U.S. and Europe.
This is a potential rebuttal of MG Siegler's and Jon Gruber's assertion that Microsoft is "way too late" with Windows Phone, although you could make an argument that Apple and Google have the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe sewn up.
Microsoft + Nokia = The Whole Developing World
Mopping up after Symbian is where Microsoft's purchase of Nokia?did I say that out loud??comes into play, and Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has talked about converting Symbian fans into Windows Phone owners several times.
In much of Asia and Africa, especially, phones are sold independently of their carriers?that's one reason dual-SIM phones sell so well in places like India. So Microsoft/Nokia?let's call it MiKia?starts to look a lot more like Apple. MiKia now controls the OS, MiKia controls the OEM, the carrier isn't terribly relevant in the process, and?the real kicker?MiKia has a huge network of retailers in those countries.
The persistence of Symbian, a dying OS, is going to create a vacuum in Asia and Africa over the next few years. A lot of that vacuum will be sucked up by cheap Android phones, especially in places like China where domestic manufacturers are popping them out like gumball-machine toys. But with a good OS to OEM to retailer link and a void to fill, MiKia at least has a chance among those 3 billion-plus consumers.
(By the way: Yes, I'm not mentioning RIM's BlackBerry, which is doing pretty well in the developing world. But I don't think RIM's current short-term strategy, or lack of such, changes the playing field for Microsoft.)
If you want to know why Microsoft is prioritizing low-cost phones with "Tango" sotware over super-phones running "Apollo," that's why. It's aiming at countries where phones aren't generally subsidized, and where average incomes are lower. It hasn't been able to make a big move there yet because the phones have been too expensive. It's boring for all of us U.S.-based tech blogs to write about, but that doesn't mean it's dumb.
The counterargument, of course, is that where America and Europe go, developing countries are sure to follow. This is similar in some ways to my own argument about Windows Phone needing to attract a core of influencers before selling low-cost phones to the influencers' families and friends, but there's a key difference.
Mobile phones are an essentially social product, and the phones your immediate circle of friends and family carry are much more relevant than what people in faraway countries use. I'm also not sure that Indians and Brazilians aspire to use American and European toys anymore; that kind of northward-looking aspiration may be an artifact of the late 20th Century.
What About Here?
So it's not too late for MiKia in much of the world, where Symbian still dominates?many people still hold Nokia phones and the company has a strong retail network. That brings us back to the U.S. and Europe, of course. What about here?
First of all, I disagree with Siegler that Windows Phone has "essentially no third-party developer support." I've been hacking at some Windows Phones this week, and there are plenty of third-party apps. They just aren't the same apps as you find on Android and iPhone, which alienates Windows Phone owners in a Robert Scoble dinner party full of Android and iPhone owners trading app tips.
(You'll see this phenomenon in other criticisms of Windows Phone: critics say "I looked for my favorite Android/iPhone apps and didn't find them," as opposed to looking for apps that serve those functions but may be from a different developer, under a different name.)
Siegler's right, though, that Windows Phone needs to be disruptive, which it hasn't been. In the U.S., Microsoft's hardware strategy, its carrier strategy, and even its TV ads have been basically conservative. The phones are all black slabs, the platform went for big GSM carriers first, and Microsoft is running vague lifestyle ads. Yawn.
Former Windows Phone exec Charlie Kindel, meanwhile, criticized Microsoft's Windows Phone strategy recently, saying that OEMs, carriers and retailers never really got behind the platform.
There's always room for disruption, but Microsoft has to disrupt. It could do this with Xbox or Kinect integration, with hardware designs or by subsidizing the heck out of devices so they're far less expensive than gadgets with similar specs. (Hey, that last one is working for Amazon with the Kindle Fire.) Just puttering along hoping the carriers will anoint it as the "third force" isn't enough, at least in markets where friends and family generally push buyers in Android and iOS directions.
For more, see PCMag's year in review of Apple, Microsoft, and RIM.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
California flood control plan will cost up to $17B
California has released a plan for managing flood risk along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which calls for a $14 billion to $17 billion investment over the next 25 years.
The draft plan was issued Friday by the state Department of Water Resources.
According to the state, the existing level of flood protection is among the lowest in the nation for metropolitan areas. In addition, it is estimated that about half of urban levees do not meet current engineering criteria.
The California Department of Water Resources will provide a public presentation on the draft Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, and outline the process for receiving public comments, at its Jan. 27 board meeting. The public is invited to make recommendations at a Feb. 24 board meeting.
State law requires DWR to prepare the plan to improve flood control efforts in areas protected by facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control.
The Central Valley Flood Protection Board must receive the draft plan no later than Jan. 1, 2012. The board is expected to consider the plan for adoption on July 1, 2012. The plan will then be updated every five years.
The full public draft is available at: www.water.ca.gov/cvfmp.
California has released a plan for managing flood risk along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which calls for a $14 billion to $17 billion investment over the next 25 years.
The draft plan was issued Friday by the state Department of Water Resources.
According to the state, the existing level of flood protection is among the lowest in the nation for metropolitan areas. In addition, it is estimated that about half of urban levees do not meet current engineering criteria.
The California Department of Water Resources will provide a public presentation on the draft Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, and outline the process for receiving public comments, at its Jan. 27 board meeting. The public is invited to make recommendations at a Feb. 24 board meeting.
State law requires DWR to prepare the plan to improve flood control efforts in areas protected by facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control.
The Central Valley Flood Protection Board must receive the draft plan no later than Jan. 1, 2012. The board is expected to consider the plan for adoption on July 1, 2012. The plan will then be updated every five years.
The full public draft is available at: www.water.ca.gov/cvfmp.
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Despite Ron Paul surge, tea party hopes on the ropes in Iowa
As tea party support splinters along more traditional political lines, polls show that hopes for nominating a conservative outsider who embodies constitutional ideals have withered. The question now is whether tea partiers will embrace a more conventional presidential nominee.
Three days ahead of the Iowa caucus, the tea party as any kind of solid voting bloc is practically nowhere to be found.
Skip to next paragraphInstead, Rick Santorum, a traditional Christian conservative, is on the rise. And Ron Paul? Although an intellectual keystone of the broader tea party movement that rose to protest government bailouts in 2009, he has consistently trailed far behind as a tea party favorite, suggesting his newfound appeal lies elsewhere. Rick Perry? Michele Bachmann? Herman Cain? According to polls at least: tested, considered, discarded.
A year ago, the tea party coalesced into a ballot box force that helped Republicans regain the House of Representatives while at the same time, as Sen. Dick Lugar (R) of Indiana has charged, undermining a Republican shot at grabbing the Senate. At the time, many tea partiers renewed their aim at President Obama, their undisputed public enemy number one.
How much do you know about the tea party? A quiz.
But oh so much has happened since then. And here on the eve of Republican nominating contests, the tea party savior never quite made it to the ball, forcing the amorphous bloc of conservatives, gun owners, libertarians, evangelicals, and even disgruntled Blue Dog Democrats to break across more traditional lines, leaving no clear front runner and the prospect of backing a more establishment candidate like Mitt Romney closer at hand.
?2012 was?supposed to be the year?the Tea Party picked a Republican presidential candidate,? writes the American Spectator's Andrew Cline. ?It was supposed to be this great, historic opportunity for conservatives to finally get a nominee without compromising. But the two candidates who would probably be judged the most pure of all [Perry and Bachmann] could be days away from seeing their campaigns ended, and the two candidates who are seen as having strayed the most from the party line over the years [Gingrich and Romney] are leading nationally.?
For his part, the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger hardly mentioned the tea party in a recent piece on the ?Ron Paul Vote.? He mostly referred to Paul's gains from the polling basement of the race to a potential Iowa winner as the Republican ?protest vote? that has whipped back and forth like a threatened snake as voters tested each candidate.
For the man who received so much of the tea party's ire ? Barack Obama ? the likely failure of the tea party to procure a candidate counts as a victory over a contingent of Americans he only occasionally has addressed by name. More broadly, it speaks to the polling reality that even as the tea party's name recognition has grown, it's likability quotient has dropped, largely thanks to Congressional standoffs taken ostensibly on principle ? payroll tax cut, debt limit ? that came off to many Americans looking as bull-headed, obstructionist, and counterproductive.
So, what happened?
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