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PRINCESS BEATRICE has been left shaken after she was involved in a car crash on Monday morning (11Oct10).
The 22-year-old daughter of Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson was driving to study at London’s Goldsmith’s College when her car collided with a bus and a coach. Beatrice’s BMW was reportedly crushed between the two large vehicles, but the royal was unhurt in the horrific accident.A spokesperson for the Metropolitan police says, “Police are aware of a damage-only collision. There were no injuries and no further action will be taken.”Last year (09) the same car was stolen when the Princess went shopping and left the keys in the ignition. It was later safely returned to her.
Daily Star
Britain’s critical national infrastructure faces a “real and credible” threat of cyber attack, the head of the UK’s electronic spying agency warned.
In a highly unusual public speech, GCHQ Director Iain Lobban said that Britain’s future economic prosperity depended upon developing effective defences against a cyber assault.
Speaking on Tuesday night to International Institute for Strategic studies, he said that the massive growth of the internet had opened up new vulnerabilities with opportunities for attack by both hostile states and criminals.
While GCHQ is more usually associated with electronic intelligence-gathering, Mr Lobban stressed that it also had a security role, referred to as “information assurance”.
He said that they had already seen “significant disruption” to government computer systems caused by internet “worms” – both those that had been deliberately targeted and others picked up accidentally.
Each month there were more than 20,000 “malicious” emails on government networks, of which 1,000 were deliberately targeted at, while intellectual property theft was taking place on a “massive scale” – some relating to national security.
The increased use of government services online – with the prospect of over £100 billion-a-year in tax and benefits payments being processed online – only added to the security challenge.
ITN
by Gareth Morgan
Innovation is our regular column in which we highlight emerging technologies and predict where they may lead
Computer automation can take jobs away from people but, thanks to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, humans are fighting back. AMT was inspired by the 18th-century inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, who dazzled the Roman empress Maria Theresa with a chess-playing automaton. His secret: a human chess master hid inside the machine.
In 2005, online retailer Amazon developed a version that uses a human workforce “hidden” on the internet to solve problems – for a modest price. Typically, the work undertaken is for organisations that need a little human smarts applied to bulk tasks, such as identifying objects in vast collections of images.
An echo of von Kempelen’s Turk is found in the offices of robot maker Willow Garage, in Menlo Park, California. Some of the firm’s free-roaming robots rely on humans through AMT to help them get their bearings. Whenever one gets lost within the Willow Garage offices, it sends an image to AMT with a request for nearby objects to be identified, using the answers to establish its whereabouts.
At the User Interface Software and Technology symposium in New York City this week there are signs that AMT rivals computer automation on some tasks.
Michael Bernstein at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues, have developed Soylent, an add-on for Microsoft Word that uses AMT workers to check language and grammar. In tests on text from Wikipedia entries, Word’s grammar checker picked up about a third of errors; Soylent spotted two-thirds.
Solyent’s Shortn module tasks the online workers with shortening the text – to meet a word limit, for example. The Word add-on also boasts a macro-writing module, Human Macro, which lets a writer describe how they want to manipulate text – perhaps changing it into the past tense – without the complication of having to code their own set of instructions within Word.
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Bigham at the University of Rochester, New York, and colleagues, are using the image-analysis capabilities of AMT workers – predominantly based in the US and India – to help the visually impaired. They have created an iPhone app called VizWiz that gets AMT workers to interpret objects in the user’s environment – checking the small use-by date on a carton of milk, for example.
The app is able to analyse the iPhone camera’s focal length and lens distortion, and data from the built-in accelerometer, to pick out a target object in sufficient detail before sending it. After identification, the result is read aloud.
However, despite their lack of real brain power, there is one advantage that computers will continue to hold over their AMT rivals: computers don’t charge for their labour.
References: Bernstein’s Soylent research paper (pdf); Bigham’s VizWiz research paper (pdf)
, 05 October 2010
By Yossi Melman
Media outlets around the world have reported that state archive documents declassified this week showed that Israel’s leadership considered using “drastic means” during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
On October 9, a day after Egypt repulsed Israel’s counterattack on the southern front, prime minister Golda Meir convened a top-level discussion in her office.
The outlook was grim. Troop losses were high, and ammunition and weapons stores were running out. At one point, Meir blurted out that she had a “crazy idea.”
That idea, however, was not a nuclear attack, but many believe a lightning visit to Washington to meet with U.S. president Richard Nixon. The visit was to be so secret that Meir advocated not even informing the cabinet. Defense minister Moshe Dayan supported her plan, but it was never implemented.
At the same meeting, officials also discussed the option of having the air force bomb strategic sites in Damascus.
Was the “crazy idea” connected to a critical strike at Syria. It seems the answer is yes.
In another meeting – according to Hanna Zemer, the one-time editor of the newspaper Davar – Dayan spoke of the possibility that “the Third Temple,” meaning the state, would be destroyed. Foreign news outlets have reported that Israel readied its nuclear weapons and even considered using them as a last resort.
The Dimona nuclear facility was completed in 1960. Those same foreign reports say Israel had several dozen nuclear weapons in October 1973, as well as the means to deliver them: French-made Mirage and U.S.-made Phantom aircraft and the Jericho missile, an Israeli improvement on a French model. All of these, the reports said, were at full readiness.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh called his book on Israel’s nuclear program “The Samson Option.” The implication is that Israel would use atomic weapons if it viewed itself as facing certain, imminent destruction.
If these reports are accurate – and the documents released this week do not confirm them, but possibly only hint at them through portions blacked out by the military censor – this would be neither the first nor the last time Israel’s leaders have discussed their so-called “doomsday weapons.”
International researchers have posited that Israel had a nuclear device even before the 1967 Six-Day War.
In 1991, Israel again reportedly considered using atomic weapons in response to the Scud missile attacks launched by Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. Rightist ministers, including Yuval Ne’eman (a physicist involved in Israel’s nuclear program), Rafael Eitan and Rehavam Ze’evi, urged Yitzhak Shamir’s government to respond forcefully, but Shamir rejected Israeli military action out of hand.
In recent years, as Iran emerged as Israel’s foremost threat, experts at home and abroad have raised the nuclear option once again. In lectures in Vienna and Berlin, and later in an ill-considered op-ed in The New York Times, historian Benny Morris has urged Israel’s leaders to hit Iran with a nuclear bomb.
Thankfully, government officials on both left and right have thus far shown responsibility and stuck to the ambiguity policy instituted in 1961, under which Israel promised it would not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East.
They know as well as anyone that the first country to do so will not only forfeit its seat among the community nations, but will likely cease to exist.
https://www.haaretz.com/2010-10-07/ty-article/did-israel-ever-consider-using-nuclear-weapons/0000017f-e297-d9aa-afff-fbdf7ba60000, 07.10.10
Under heavy IDF, Palestinian escort, a delegation of settler rabbis visits village of Beit Fajar, condemns mosque attack; ‘This is not how we educated our children, Islam not hostile religion,’ one rabbi says
A day after the torching of the Beit Fajar mosque near Bethlehem, apparently by a group of extreme settlers, a delegation of prominent settler rabbis visited the site and publicly condemned the attack.
The delegation included Rabbi Lichtenstein from Gush Etzion, Rabbi Menachem Fruman from Tekoa, Efrat’s Chief Rabbi Shlomi Rifkin and Rabbi Shlomo Brin from Yeshivat Har Etzion. They were escorted by IDF officers and jeeps,while dozens of Palestinian policemen deployed at the village and around the mosque – a day after a request to carry out the visit was denied.
Rabbi Brin stated that “Our goal is to share our horror at the attack of the mosque and to clearly state that this is not the way of the Torah or the Jewish way.”
“This act does nothing for the settlements; it is morally and religiously wrong and is offensive to its core,” he saidl “This is not how we educated our children; Islam is not a hostile religion even if we have a dispute with some of its followers.”
In conclusion, Rabbi Brin made it clear that “religion is religion and the mosque is a holy place to Muslims. We have no interest in offending their religious beliefs. To attack a place that is holy to our Muslim friends is a very serious offense. The person responsible for the attack is insignificant and didn’t even bother to mention his name.
Another rabbi who took part in the visit added that “the people visiting today are residents of Judea and Samaria who believe that the presence and settlement in the land of our forefathers is part of our stance. In spite of this, we condemn the attack.”
YNETNEWS
