0 China: People's Daily Rejects US Hacking Claims

By Mark Stone, China Correspondent

The United States is "scared fans in China," according to an article on the front page of China Daily.

The newspaper, which is the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, or rejected with firmness the possibility of state-sponsored hackers made last week by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

"Americans continue to label China as a hacker, just by playing the rhetoric of the 'China threat' in cyberspace, providing further justification for an American strategy to contain China," the article says the first page.

He added: "Even those who have little knowledge of the internet knows that hacking attacks transnational and concealable.

"IP addresses is simply not enough evidence to confirm the origin of the hackers."
China People Daily
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal announced last week that they have been victims of cyber attacks extended.

Evidence of such media is strongly recommended that the hacking came from China, and that there is no evidence that the attack "state-sponsored".

This relationship produces a wider debate about the alleged involvement of China in cybercrime.

'E was revealed over the weekend that Google's Eric Schmidt, chairman believes that China as "the most advanced and productive" hackers to foreign companies.

Writing in his new book, co-authored with Jared Cohen, Mr Schmidt said that China was "filterer more active and excited about the world of information."

The difficult history of Google and China are well documented. Because the search engine was launched in China in 2006, fought censorship in the country.

China's communist government has made a block at the national level on several websites, including Facebook and Twitter, while specific search on Google and other search engines are regularly blocked if they are deemed too sensitive.

Last year a report by the U.S. Congress said China's state-backed group with increasing levels of sophistication are trying to break the computer system of the United States. The report said China was "the most threatening actors in cyberspace."

The article in People's Daily, which is written in the style of editorial, saying that the U.S. is using national security as a justification for these unfounded allegations.

Americans have long supported China guilty of commercial espionage.

The article also said that, as the Chinese government has made on Friday, the Chinese website has been the victim of a large number of attacks on U.S. IP addresses of other countries, but that "China does not draw simple conclusions or conclusions hasty attack at the source."

According to the New York Times, China hackers steal passwords from the company of 53 employees shortly after the paper published an intervention from a family heritage Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

Both the New York Times or The Wall Street Journal has explicitly accuse the Chinese government involvement.

The methods used to breach computer systems and 'bouncing' of information across servers around the world means that it is often impossible to accurately identify the attackers.

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Feb 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM | 0 Comments

0 150-foot asteroid will buzz Earth, no need to duck

 Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP) - An asteroid 150 meters wide will come very close to Earth next week, even closer than the high-altitude communications and weather satellites. This flyby will be closer to known objects of this size.

But do not worry. Scientists have promised Megarock at least 17.100 miles away when the hinge through next Friday.

"No impact the Earth is possible," said Donald Yeomans, manager of the Near-Earth Object Program at NASA Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday.

Even the possibility of an asteroid-satellite walk-in very remote, Yeomans and other scientists said. A few hundred satellites orbit at 22,300 mph, higher than that of the asteroids, though operators have been warned of an incoming object for monitoring purposes.

"Nobody raised a red flag, and they did not," he told reporters Yeomans. "I certainly do not favor any problems."

It 's impossible to see with the naked eye, these little things Considered by asteroids. Instead, I took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is 6 miles wide.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 However, as is well known at the time of its discovery, it can still pack a wallop.

If it hits the Earth - It would not, scientists were quick to add to Thursday - would release the energy equivalent of 2.4 million tons of TNT, and the removal of 750 square miles. This is what happened in Siberia in 1908, when the forest land around the asteroid Tunguska River leveled by a little 'smaller bomb exploded about five miles above the earth.

It is likely that this is the size hitting the Earth once every 1200 years. A meeting near dangerous as it is expected to occur every 40 years.

Most of the asteroids in the solar system is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and still is not stable for billions of years. Some pop out from time to time, however, for the Earth

This closest approach will take place on Friday afternoon, Eastern time, throughout Indonesia.

There will be many shows. Asteroid will zip by at 17.400 mph. This is about eight times faster than a rifle bullet from a high velocity.

The asteroid will be visible to the naked eye and with binoculars and telescopes will appear as a small point of light. What is the first look will be in Asia, Australia and Eastern Europe.

Observers in the United States can safely forget. Astronomers using NASA's deep space antenna in the Mojave Desert of California would have to wait eight hours after closest approach to capture radar images.

Scientists include all the images they get. Asteroid offers a unique opportunity to observe something so big and close, and any new knowledge will help you if and when another asteroid murderess direct way to the ground.

Close approach also highlights the need to keep track of what is out there, if only to protect the planet.

Count when NASA near-Earth objects: just under 10,000, the result of a concentrated effort over the past 15 years. It is estimated that less than 10 per cent of the objects out there.

No one was excluded Earth severe impact, although said to be very low probability.

"We do not have all the money in the world to do this kind of work" to track and potentially divert asteroids, said Lindley Johnson, an executive with the Near-Earth Object Program observations of Washington.

In fact, when asked NASA plans to send astronauts to an asteroid in the next decade, as explained a few years ago by President Barack Obama, Johnson said the space agency is considering a number of options for human exploration.

A forward step in December, scheduled for 2016, is the launch of the space shuttle to fly in a much larger asteroid, collect samples and bring them back to Earth in 2023.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 - was discovered last year by astronomers in Spain - scientists suspect that it was made of silicate rocks, but I'm not sure. The exact shape and size is also a mystery.

What we know for sure:

"Orbit is so well known that objects are not random collisions," he repeated Yeomans During a press conference Thursday.

Close approach, in fact, will change its orbit around the sun in order to stay out of the earth, at least in the future, said Yeomans.

Johnson anticipates no "thing that the sky is falling" in reference to the flyby of next week.

He and other scientists invited journalists to keep a close encounter in the future.

"Space rock hit the Earth's atmosphere every day of basketball size object like a day .. Volkswagen-sized objects like every couple of weeks," said Yeomans.

The grand total of stuff hit the atmosphere every day? "About 100 tons", according to Yeoman, though most arrive without danger as sand particle sizes.

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Feb 8, 2013 | 4:02 PM | 0 Comments

0 What time is it? Russia's Medvedev resists change

MOSCOW (AP) - When the sun will come today? In Russia, it is an intense debate, and one that can reflect the stature of the sinking of the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Medvedev said Thursday that it has no plans to immediately reverse its decision to leave Russia during summer all year round.

The progress made in 2011 when he became president has been very popular since the nation was plunged into darkness range until late morning through the winter.

And now it is not clear how long the decision will actually take place.

Mentor Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, who has returned to the presidency in May after spending four years of premiership because of term limits, indicated that Russia can come back any time soon.

Putin said in December that attaches permanently to daylight saving time would make it difficult for European television viewers to watch the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Game - on track to be the most expensive Olympics ever, even more than the summer Olympics in London and Beijing - are known to be close to the heart of Putin.

Thursday ', the newspaper Izvestia bend to Putin said that the Cabinet had decided to move permanently to winter in Russia and that the government will soon be published.

The government immediately denied the report, and then Medvedev has said the Cabinet session that he saw no point in switching times now.

"The government feels unable to return to the present time," Medvedev said, adding that public opinion is divided. "We try not to make sudden movements, and live in a state without making a fuss over continue to monitor the situation and once again analyze the opinion of experts, doctors and citizens .."

Skip Daylight Saving Time is one of the few reforms that Medvedev has survived the return of Putin to the presidency.

Since the return of Putin, Medvedev more initiatives - to decriminalize defamation to expel government officials from state control of management of the company - has been methodically reversed.

Of course, Putin has been a very hard contrast to the platform of modernization Medvedev. The president has supported a series of repressive bills introduced severe penalties for those joining unauthorized protests and imposed new restrictions on groups that promote democratic rights.

Opposition activists have faced a, query, search and arrest, and three members of the rebellion of the punk band Pussy was sentenced to two years in prison for anti-Putin protest in Moscow's main cathedral.

Medvedev and Putin has avoided addressing difficult new course to defend his master, but it became increasingly cornered and helpless, despite his show of loyalty.

State-controlled television stations have narrowed the scope of their activities, and a newspaper article recently said that the network had received orders from the Kremlin to cast him in a negative light and focus on unpopular decisions, such as the weather changes.

Izvestia newspaper recently published a leak of official documents critical to the performance of staff Medvedev, requiring angry rebuke from his office.

Thursday ', the publication of a letter in December by Jean-Claude Killy, head of the coordination panel of the International Olympic Committee for Sochi, indicating that the IOC calls for a return to Russia during the winter, but a warning that such a decision should be made as soon as possible.

But Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who was in Sochi for a retreat year Thursday at the game, told reporters that the government took the decision to join the summer and the schedule for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are being made to accordingly.

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0 White House defends drone-war killing of Americans

The White House on Tuesday defended targeted assassinations of Americans thought to consort overseas with terrorists as “necessary,” “ethical” and “wise,” as the Obama administration faced fresh questions about its sharply expanded drone war.

"We conduct those strikes because they are necessary to mitigate ongoing actual threats—to stop plots, prevent future attacks and, again, save American lives,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. “These strikes are legal, they are ethical, and they are wise."

Carney’s comments came after NBC News published a Justice Department memo that lays out a broad rationale for targeting individual Americans anywhere outside the U.S. for assassination—without oversight from Congress or the courts, and even if the U.S. citizen in question is not actively plotting a specific terrorist attack.

The 16-page document, obtained by NBC News, emerged days before John Brennan, Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser and the foremost architect of America’s hugely controversial unmanned aerial vehicle war, goes before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a Thursday hearing on his confirmation as CIA director.

Obama campaigned in 2008 as a fierce critic of George W. Bush’s national security policies, notably interrogation practices widely seen as torture. He also left little doubt that he would order unilateral strikes inside another country if he deemed them necessary. In office, he has apparently learned to stop worrying and love executive power—the literal power of life and death over fellow U.S. citizens overseas when he suspects they are consorting with extremists groups that may be targeting America. So, under what circumstances does he have the right to act?

The memo says “an informed, high-level official of the U.S. government” must decide that the target is a "senior operational leader" of al-Qaida or "associated forces"; “poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States”; and that an attempt to capture that individual is “infeasible.”

“Targeting a member of an enemy force who poses an imminent threat of violent attack to the United States is not unlawful. It is a lawful act of self-defense,” the document asserts.

"Imminent threat"? That seems reasonable and is a traditional standard for military action. Except, as NBC investigative reporter Michael Isikoff notes, the memo adds that “the condition that an operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.”

Instead, that previously mentioned "high-level official" can determine that the potential target was “recently” involved in “activities” posing a threat of an attack and that “there is no evidence suggesting that he has renounced or abandoned such activities.”

Isikoff notes the memo does not define "activities" or "recently," leaving that up to the administration to determine on a case-by-case basis.

A reporter asked Carney about the case of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the teenage son of Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaida supporter killed by a U.S. drone in Yemen. The boy, 16, was killed in another drone strike about two weeks after his father. Was the son a “senior operational leader” of a terrorist group, a reporter asked. That seemed to stump Carney. “I’m not going to talk about individual operations that may or may not have occurred.”

But Obama wages this 21st-century war in a manner “consistent with the Constitution and our laws,” while aides review the difficult legal and ethical questions “with great care and deliberation,” Carney said.

The memo notes that the president can order a strike against al-Qaida far beyond the battlefield of Afghanistan, and it makes clear that he will not be constrained by national sovereignty. Either a country will give the green light to drone strikes on its territory, or America will strike if that country is "unable or willing" to do so.

This is no surprise. Obama famously said in the 2008 campaign that he would order an attack inside Pakistan to get Osama bin Laden, whether or not Islamabad signed off. He made good on that promise, ordering the raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1, 2011, which killed the terrorist leader.

The memo is sure to trigger another round of questions from Congress about the drone war, which has been shrouded in secrecy. And it comes at a time when that campaign is powerfully unpopular overseas, according to a June 2012 Pew Research poll. While 62 percent of Americans approve of the approach, 44 percent of respondents in staunch ally Britain do. And the numbers plummet in countries with large Muslim populations: 6 percent in Egypt, for instance, and 9 percent in NATO ally Turkey.

That's in part the reflection of anger over civilian casualties from such attacks. Obama has grappled with that problem ever since the very first drone strike on his watch, a Jan. 23, 2009, attack that reportedly claimed the life of "an innocent tribal elder" in Pakistan. A May 2012 New York Times report said the administration minimizes civilian casualties by counting "all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants."

The memo drew a withering response from the American Civil Liberties Union.

“This is a profoundly disturbing document, and it’s hard to believe that it was produced in a democracy built on a system of checks and balances,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. “It summarizes in cold legal terms a stunning overreach of executive authority—the claimed power to declare Americans a threat and kill them far from a recognized battlefield and without any judicial involvement before or after the fact.”

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0 Largest Prime Number Ever Identified

Mathematicians have discovered the largest prime number ever identified - from 17 million digits.

New record holder and his predecessor, was discovered in 2008, were both found with a vast network of computers called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).

George Woltman, scientists are creating a network of GIMPS, said that the task of finding a new prime number is "analogous to climb Mount Everest."

Scientific American said: "People enjoy the challenge of discovery to find something that you've never known before."

The number was invented by a mathematician at the University of Central Missouri.

A different computer systems running on different hardware confirms that it is a prime number.

Prime numbers are numbers that can not be divided by any other number of self or one to produce a whole number.

This is the third Mersenne prime was discovered by the university, and 48 were never found.

Mersenne primes are named after their discoverer, the 17th century French mathematician Marin Mersenne.

They are expressed as, 2P-1 or P the two powers'' 'minus one. P itself is prime. For the new prime, P is 57,885,161.

The research team will be awarded $ 3,000 (£ 1,900) by GIMPS for discovery, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has offered a $ 150,000 (£ 95,000) for the 100-million-digit first meeting first.

 

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0 Solar Superstorm: UK 'Must Brace For Threat'

 UK must do more to prepare for "solar superstorm" once-in-a-century, according to experts.

The Government has been urged by the Royal Academy of Engineering to build the Space Weather British Council to deal with the big blow radiation from the sun.

Such an explosion can cause fainting, knock out one of the 10 satellites and disrupt GPS and aircraft systems.

Statistically, a solar superstorm is likely to occur every 100 to 200 years.

Despite the weather events occur regularly sun, the Earth has not experienced a superstorm from the early space age.

The last true superstorm, known as the Carrington event occurred in 1859, when the Earth was hit by a wave of energetic particles as a result of a large solar flare.

Induced currents caused by an explosion sends sparks flying from telegraph poles and fire. Around the world, the night sky lit by magnificent aurora display.
Solar flares to light up the night sky with a magnificent aurora shows solar storm light up the night sky with aurora display

But at that time there was no satellite in orbit or in the path of the particle sensitive microchip.

Now experts warn that other solar superstorm Carrington-scale event is "inevitable" and Britain must be ready, even if the effects should not be a disaster.

Professor Paul Cannon, who led the working group of the Academy of extreme solar time, said: "Our message is: do not panic, but be prepared - a solar superstorm would happen one day, and we must be ready for it."

With SAT-NAV may be rendered useless in this case, the advice to motorists is "make sure you continue to keep a map in the car."

Space engineer Keith Ryden, at the University of Surrey, the other members of the working group, said the airline would stop failing microchip, but added: "We are not talking about a plane falling from the sky".

A solar superstorm would prove lethal to the Apollo astronauts is what happened when they were on the moon.

When an old satellite called the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) provides approximately 15 minutes of warning coronal mass ejection - a large cloud of charged plasma particles cause the most damage during a solar storm.

Scientists are worried about what will happen if Ace fails. Replacement Ace, called Discover, expected to be launched by the U.S. space agency NASA in 2014.

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0 Asteroid To Pass Earth In Record Near Miss

With Dominic Waghorn, U.S. Correspondent

A 40 m long piece of rock hurtling through space will pass close to Earth than the other near miss on record.

NASA scientists have calculated that Asteroid 2012 DA14 whistle past the Earth on February 15, closer than the orbits of some of the time and communications satellites, acceleration from a distance of 17,000 miles (27,400 km).

This shave the planet closest to flying objects identified since records began.

Asteroids and meteorites that have come closer than it ended on a collision course with the planet, but this is not considered harmful to us or satellite.

E 'was invented by a dentist Spain asteroid shot amateur spotter. It was part of a group of fans, which in turn is part of the army observers asteroids is important for early warning system for NASA.
Projected path of NASA DA14

The former shuttle astronaut Tom Jones told Sky News there are thought to be a million asteroids out there for the year 2012 DA14.

They are called "city killers" because they will be able to remove the metropolitan area should have hit the planet. NASA should have some form just 1% of them.

One struck a remote part of Russia in 1908 and leveled vast areas of forest in what was then known as the Tunguska incident.

There are believed to be 'murderess planet' 100, which NASA has observed about 90%.

A 'planet killer' is widely believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs.

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0 Apple Sued By Greenlight To Unlock Cash Pile

An investor influential Apple filed a lawsuit against the company in an attempt to open up some stacks of dollars in cash 137bn (£ 87bn) it.David Einhorn, head of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, investor asks for the hand of Apple's cash, making it almost a third of its market value.The report comes before the annual meeting of the society, in which the board of Apple may be questioned of its stock prices drop.Although still the most valuable company in the world, Apple faces increasing competition in the market of smartphones and tablet rivals such as Samsung.Growth slowed so quickly and its shares have fallen about 35% of its value since a record high in September.Mr. Einhorn, who filed the case in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, opposed a move by Apple that will make it more difficult to issue preference shares.Currently, the board is able to issue preferred shares, but wants shareholders to vote on a proposal that requires shareholder approval first.David Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital, speaks at the 6th Annual New York Value Investing Congress in New York City, David Einhorn had asked Microsoft CEO to resignThe hedge fund manager, who has a history of publicly criticizing the company, urging investors colleagues to reject the plan."Apple has a $ 145 per unit of liquidity in the financial statements. Shareholder of Quality, it's your money," Einhorn said in a letter to the company.In response, Apple said that the proposal was wrong cause."Contrary to the Greenlight statement, the adoption of the proposal # 2 would not prevent the issuance of preferred shares," he said in a statement.The company insists on the management team and the board was in "active discussions" about returning cash to shareholders.Apple has begun to be conservative in cash as a result of a near collapse in 1990, before co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the company.It is never explained why keep the money not to say that preserve choice.But analysts expect to come under pressure from shareholders at its annual meeting on February 27 to start releasing some more 'of his money.

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