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Internet hacking blame game So just who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment?… Peter Vogel

Internet hacking blame game

So just who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment? Evidence pointing to the Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea is scant. Was it really all about a rather bad movie that benefited from Canadian tax credits?

via Internet hacking blame game So just who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment?….

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The Year in Ideas: TED Talks of 2014

Published on Dec 23, 2014

What were the most powerful ideas of 2014? Watch our 8-minute highlight reel of the Year in Ideas.
Explore a fun, interactive playlist of the TED Talks of the year at http://yearinideas.ted.com/2014/
Below, a time-coded list of the talks in this video:

00:09
Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
http://go.ted.com/8bW

00:22
Fabien Cousteau: What I learned spending 31 days underwater
http://go.ted.com/8bs

00:32
Vincent Moon and Nana Vasconcelos: Hidden musical rituals around the world
http://go.ted.com/8bZ

00:42
Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road … and in the air
http://go.ted.com/8bw

01:00
Ben Saunders: To the South Pole and back
http://go.ted.com/8b7

01:09
Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics
http://go.ted.com/8bQ

01:20
Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb, dance
http://go.ted.com/8bT

01:29
Leanna Wen: What your doctors won’t disclose
http://go.ted.com/8by

01:41
Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope
http://go.ted.com/8bX

01:52
Jorge Soto: The future of early cancer detection?
http://go.ted.com/8bd

02:08
Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power
http://go.ted.com/8bc

02:18
Pia Mancini: How to upgrade democracy
http://go.ted.com/8bU

02:25
Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like
http://go.ted.com/8bv

02:40
Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?
http://go.ted.com/8b2

02:51
Michael Green: What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country
http://go.ted.com/8b5

03:00
Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
http://go.ted.com/8bM

03:14
Thomas Pikkety: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century
http://go.ted.com/8bN

03:20
Charmian Gooch: My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business
http://go.ted.com/8b9

03:30
Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data
http://go.ted.com/8bP

03:37
Jennifer Golbeck: The curly fry conundrum: Why social media ‘likes’ say more than you think
http://go.ted.com/8bf

03:47
Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime
http://go.ted.com/8Cp

03:57
Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters
http://go.ted.com/8CC

04:09
Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED Talk
http://go.ted.com/8C6

04:19
Edward Snowden: Here’s how we take back the Internet
http://go.ted.com/8CL

04:24
Keren Elazari: Hackers: The Internet’s immune system
http://go.ted.com/8CF

04:34
Melissa Fleming: Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive
http://go.ted.com/8CK

04:40
Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law
http://go.ted.com/8CY

04:47
Eman Mohammed: Courage to tell a hidden story
http://go.ted.com/8Cj

04:54
Sebastian Junger: Why veterans miss war
http://go.ted.com/8Ci

05:00
Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life
http://go.ted.com/8CD

05:10
Sting: How I started writing songs again
http://go.ted.com/8CB

05:19
Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music
http://go.ted.com/8Cx

05:24
Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near-win
http://go.ted.com/8Cn

05:30
Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
http://go.ted.com/8C4

05:40
Jamila Lysicott: 3 ways to speak English
http://go.ted.com/8Ca

05:49
Jill Shargaa: Please, please, please, let’s put the ‘awe’ back in ‘awesome’
http://go.ted.com/8CE

06:01
Anne Curzan: What make a word ‘real?’
http://go.ted.com/8Cu

06:14
Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future
http://go.ted.com/8C8

06:28
Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
http://go.ted.com/8CS

06:34
Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age
http://go.ted.com/8CG

06:43
Ziauddin Yousafzai: My daughter, Malala
http://go.ted.com/8Ch

07:03
Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here’s how I chose peace.
http://go.ted.com/8Cq

07:12
Mellody Hobson: Color blind or color brave?
http://go.ted.com/8CH

07:23
Geena Rocero: Why I must come out
http://go.ted.com/8Cm

07:31
Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don’t define you
http://go.ted.com/8Cg

07:43
Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems … palsy is just one
http://go.ted.com/8Ck

08:04
Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly: Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
http://go.ted.com/8CW

08:12
Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are
http://go.ted.com/8CR

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CrossTalk: The Big Picture in Ukraine – RT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbEkREYtejA.

Published on Dec 22, 2014

Ukraine – the big picture: a year ago this country was at peace, economically viable and sovereign. It had a tolerant political culture. This is not the case today. On this edition of CrossTalk we discuss the tragic odyssey known as Ukraine. CrossTalking with Eric Draitser, Alexander Mercouris and Dmitry Babich.

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The Truth About The Sony Hack | North Korea Opposition to ‘The Interview’ Movie? – YouTube

Published on Dec 22, 2014

Recently a group of hackers breached the Sony network and started leaking sensitive information about the company. According to the FBI and the media, the state of North Korea carried out the attack in an attempt to suppress the release of an upcoming film called The Interview. The film is starring Seth Rogen and James Franco and features a controversial scene in which the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un gets assassinated. Sony ultimately decided to pull the release the film, a move which President Obama condemned.

What is the truth about the Sony hack?

Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/sonyhack

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Broadchurch (TV Series 2013– ) – IMDb

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

via Broadchurch (TV Series 2013– ) – IMDb.

I thought this was excellent. Watched on Netflix streaming.

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Sony Hack: Activists to Drop ‘Interview’ DVDs Over North Korea Via Balloon – The Hollywood Reporter

Whether or not North Korea is behind the Sony hack, Kim Jong Un better brace himself because The Interview is headed to his country. Human rights activists are planning to airlift DVDs of the Seth Rogen comedy into the country via hydrogen balloons.

Fighters for a Free North Korea, run by Park Sang Hak, a former government propagandist who escaped to South Korea, has for years used balloons to get transistor radios, DVDs and other items into North Korea — not to entertain the deprived masses, but to introduce them to the outside world.

via Sony Hack: Activists to Drop ‘Interview’ DVDs Over North Korea Via Balloon – The Hollywood Reporter.

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BBC News – The largest vessel the world has ever seen

Climbing onto the largest vessel the world has ever seen brings you into a realm where everything is on a bewilderingly vast scale and ambition knows no bounds.

Prelude is a staggering 488m long and the best way to grasp what this means is by comparison with something more familiar.

Four football pitches placed end-to-end would not quite match this vessel’s length – and if you could lay the 301m of the Eiffel Tower alongside it, or the 443m of the Empire State

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30394137