What's in the news?

black_magnolia wrote:

That's an obvious fact, I would also go in such a situation if I had money and free time to spare. But I'm sure nobody would have gone to Afghanistan when they just started the war, and mind you Afghanistan has (or at least it had - don't know what may have been destroyed) quite a number of historical sights that are worth visiting... The problem with war is that you can't easily enter a country and walk around sightseeing...

That's true, for war areas I guess. I think for us, we probably won't be rescued by our country if we got stuck/kidnapped/held hostage in a place like Afghanistan. Don't know how it is elsewhere - Out country is stingy to even think about helping hostages as it is. I seem to recall they have the same policy if you get stuck in Israel, because of the whole Palestinian-Israeli crisis. Some newsreporters have been stuck there for a long while.

The animals continue to pick up more locations. Currently it's at Arkansas, Louisiana,Kentucky, Tenessee, Florida, couple other east coast states I can't remember, Sweden, and Italy. Supposedly now this happens all the time we've just never had anyone report on it before so no one knew. Not sure I believe that. Was a short headline on yahoo about odd animal behavior lately. Between these fish and birds, there was a story about a shark attacking a boat, and I've already forgotten what the other unusual animal behavior story was. Maybe it is 'normal' and people are just purposly looking for their end of the world prophacies? Dunno, but I bet someone somewhere isn't telling the whole story.

I think the media made too much of a fuss about this story about the dead birds and fish. I spoke with a friend that is a hobby ornithologist and he said that that happened every year all over the world and that he was surprised the media was bothering with reporting it when there are more important things in the world that need attention...

Hmm.. I will trust your friends knowledge. Wonder if they're trying to put people in a panic? Well, onto other things then. (:

I think that things that seem to be happening more often lately, might not be happening more, but are just reported more. Such as extreme weather events, shootings, the thing with the birds, etc. Now that there are so many news outlets that are publishing 24/7, I think a lot of them are just looking for things to talk about.

It's the same with the recent recession... I was talking about it with my financial advisor, and he agrees that it wasn't necessarily that much worse than other recessions (overall at least, I know everyone's situation is different), but it's just that people have access now to so much more news, that it seems worse when you're getting updates from so many different directions, which may or may not be totally accurate.

Well, they need different things to talk about in order to keep viewers, Morgana. No-one is going to watch the same thing repeated over and over.

Anyway, thought I'd post an update on the last thing I posted.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12171423

kotaku.com/5731200/sony-fires-back-at-playstation-3-hackers

(I'm quite partial to the Kotaku link but I've posted both)

I really hope Sony wins this case. Also found out additional information George \"Geohotz\" Hotz is the one who caused the OtherOS option to be removed from the Playstation 3 for security reasons. It's astounding that people, who are annoyed at the removal of the OtherOS feature, are supporting this guy. He is the one who caused us to lose a feature, direct your rage at him, not Sony.

I'm really a supporter of \"bricking\" (Rendering them useless) these consoles which have used this measure to circumvent the security, if that is possible.

Anyway I'll probably go over the pdfs and the link within the BBC article over the weekend. Seems to be an interesting read.