General News Stories, Discussions, etc

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Couldn't really find anywhere to post articles etc. in general and give opinions/start discussions on them so first cab off the rank:

Facebook killer Ramazan Acar refused leave to appeal sentence | Herald Sun

Good. Let the bastard rot.

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So much wtf in that story, can't believe there are people like that in this world.

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BBC News - Papua New Guinea ferry: Fears grow for 120 missing

Ships and helicopters are continuing to search for more than 120 people missing after a ferry sank off Papua New Guinea's north coast on Thursday.

More than 230 people rescued in a joint Australian-PNG operation have reached the eastern PNG town of Lae, officials said on Friday.

The search for the missing - mostly university students - resumed at daylight.

An official said there were fears people had been trapped in the ferry.

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Flag-maker says Swastika will stay despite Jewish anger | News.com.au

A DEFIANT flag-maker says Nazi flags flying outside his home will not be removed.
Angry members of the Melbourne Jewish community have demanded the swastika and SS flags flying outside the Carrum property be removed, according to Mordialloc Chelsea Leader.
Flag-maker Rob Boot said he would not remove the flags from his front yard along the Nepean Highway because of the complaints.
"I’m just a flag salesman and it's just merchandise to me," Mr Boot said.
"I’m at liberty to display what I want on my own property.
"There’s no political message behind it at all."
Mr Boot said he did not believe the flags were offensive.

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His name is mr boot?

How apt.

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His name is mr boot?

How apt.

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It's pretty long, but thought this was a pretty fascinating article about the death penalty and its application in the US.

The Last Line of Defense - Magazine - The Atlantic

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Couple of Stories
CIA website knocked offline in Anonymous attack

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Uzbek pleads guilty to Obama kill plot

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Pay for our trips home - the Islamic Women's Welfare Association | News.com.au

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Couple of Stories
CIA website knocked offline in Anonymous attack

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Uzbek pleads guilty to Obama kill plot

That dude that wanted to kill obama looks strange :|

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Uzbek pleads guilty to Obama kill plot

The agreement says Kodirov became disheartened when he realised how expensive sniper rifles are and realised he lacked the skill to pull off the shot. Kodirov then decided he could shoot the president from a closer distance in public.

Fucking lol, what kind of operation were these guys running

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Fucking lol, what kind of operation were these guys running

Too much COD.

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Aaron's web disaster followed by $150,000 legal threat

"I have just lost my entire business and now they [are] trying to sue me?"
February has not been a good month for Perth journalist Aaron Ryan, owner of the TVCentral.com.au website.
Ryan, who has limited tech knowledge, had only owned the website for about four months when a week ago it was lost forever after a botched attempt to move it to a new server.

Ryan admits that he was partly at fault in the data loss matter because he did not have a private back up but still believes VentraIP staff were negligent in allowing his site data to be deleted before it had been transferred to the new server.

"They will talk about emails that were ignored or back ups not done but the actual cause of the data loss was that I cancelled the account ... why did I cancel the account? Simply because they sent me an email instructing me to," he said.
"I had two accounts with them as one account was being migrated to another and they instructed me to cancel the original one. Problem was the site had not migrated to the other as yet so boom all lost."

Who's the web host of TIA
Would be so so mad if something like this happened here

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LONDON: Osama bin Laden was in routine contact with several senior figures from Pakistan's military intelligence agency while in hiding in the country, according to a large cache of secret intelligence files.
The disclosure was contained in emails from the private American security company Stratfor which were published by WikiLeaks on Monday after being obtained by the Anonymous hacking group.

Files reveal bin Laden ties to Pakistan agency

And here we go...

200 Stratfor emails released by Wikileaks

They have 5,000,000

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Kennett pushes Vic merger Tasmania News - The Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania