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Lockdown is a Mac security application built from the popular iAlertU. With a new interface, splash screen, and icon, Lockdown makes securing your Mac while you step away even easier than ever. - Siddharth Deb

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Slappingturtle- Cool software for your Mac and home to the original Apple notebook alarm system iAlertU. - Siddharth Deb

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Alan Turing Home Page. Guide to a large website maintained by Andrew Hodges, biographer of Alan Turing (1912-1954). - Siddharth Deb

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تصاوير واقعي از استخر آقايان و ميلاد در حال شنا!!! اصولا استخر بانوان بوده و ما خبر نداشتيم - emin

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لایک برای عکس دوم. - fereshteh

Lovely! - Siddharth Deb

<3 - Nicholas Kreidberg

I don't know what the comments above mean, but I imagine they roughly mean "DAYUM" - Josh Haley

+1 Josh - Bryan Clark

I love FF! - Michael Fidler via twhirl

i love FF too much :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

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McCain ad questioned as word 'HANG' appears over image of Barack Obama

August 29 at 12:56 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Thomas Hawk, Ayşe E., Mike Reynolds, carlotta fancypants and 21 other people liked this

"A McCain ad aired on Fox News channel with the words "HANG" in the background along with a photograph of Barack Obama has sparked outrage after being noticed by a reporter at a local Fox television affiliate. The words "HIGHER TAXES" are transposed on an image of Obama standing in front of a crowd. The background is blurred at the edges so that the words from Obama's signature theme -- change -- has been cut down to the word "HANG." The shot appears for about a second." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

Unfortunately, there is no way this is a coincidence. Even if it wasn't initially intentional, someone had to say "F*ck it, let's run with it" - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

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messed up, right? based on the garbage i've seen and heard on fox, i wouldn't doubt they knew what was up - Cee Bee

That makes me feel ill. How sickening. - Bec

W...T...F?! - Anna Haro

"Asked about the image, the McCain camp said, "We're not even validating such an outrageous and preposterous claim with a comment."" ... refusing to acknowledge reality again, are they? disgusting - Michael W. May

How dare they not even make a statement about it. That's even more messed up. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

This is just plain scary. There is no way they didn't know about this and not acknowledging it now makes it that much worse. - Tsega Dinka

Are you kidding me? It's the middle of the word "change." - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

"I heard screamin' an' bullwhips crackin'..." - David Young

It's a poorly executed ad that does the McCain camp no credit at all. - Sally Church

Mark, if the ad looks like the picture above, the "C" in CHANGE was deliberately obscured. There's plenty of room for that letter in the picture - steplow is Steve

I'm an obama fan but, at first, I thought this seemed a little overhyped... but after viewing it I can't help but wonder why there is "over-vignetting" on the upper-left hand corner of all the crowd shots - Shawn Duffy via twhirl

I see that the Repugnicans/ Karl Rove/ Neocons are now getting into their dirty trick campaign mode. I wonder how many of the Diebold voting machines have been "fixed" nationwide? I was in the USA during the great Stolen Election of 2000 that took the Presidency away from the man who got 600,000 more votes nationwide. Dirty, dirty, dirty! - Siddharth Deb

Wow, the ad isn't that big of a problem, though I do believe they were working on a subliminal element. But the McCain campaign missed a great opportunity here. The reaction should be. This was in no way intentional but we'll remove the ad to ensure there's no misunderstanding on such an important issue. (BTW - think a McCain smear ad with the fragment 'old' in it would go unnoticed?) - AJ Kohn

i agree with sally church. why isn't this causing more waves though? that's real weird to me - Cee Bee

it was in no way shape or form intentional - i don't expect anyone to blindly accept my word on it but one of my closest friends signed off on the ad and I will stake my life on the fact that she would never, ever even think of something like this - when i mentioned it on gchat she had no idea what i was talking about until i sent her the link to the story - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

You have got to be kidding me. It is Obama supporters holding up the word Change. This is ridiculous. - tsudohnimh

+1 tsudohnimh and Mark - and it isn't causing more waves because there's nothing to it! In fact, it's so ridiculous I have to laugh! Thank you Marco for setting the record straight and injecting some reason into this thread. - Jasmin Smith

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“Wow. The guy next to me is reading the manual that came with his cell-phone.”

August 26 at 6:11 am - Link

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What, people don't do that? - Yuvi

I read the manual for mine...after I played with it for a couple of days. - David Rothman

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I think that's my husband. LOL - Dani Vaughn-Tucker

Could be the only case ever...of someone RTFM :o - Mo Kargas

They come with manuals? - Trish R

I scoff at manuals!!! - Joel Martinez

Now that's a gent who wants to know every function and trick on his phone; more power to him and his tribe! The guy probably is a big help to his technically-challenged friends and family. - Siddharth Deb

probably a trainer. <g> - Baldgeekinmd

I did that when I got mine. I don't with computers, but I've used computers since I was 5; getting a cell phone was scary. :-) - Deborah Fitchett

I'm with David Rothman - play a bit, then read the manual for the parts you didn't notice.Not the computer, but the iTouch, for example, or the phone, or the DVR. There were some very useful VISTA things I found out a couple of days after installation, but that was from user groups, not manuals. - Candy Schwartz

I am just thrilled that the manual for my Singer Featherweight sewing machine showed up in my grandmother's house. I haven't wound a bobbin since I was 12 and damned if I remember how. - Laura Xett

I play until I'm bored and then go back and pour through every line in every manual. Whenever people try to call me "tech savvy" I always just tell them, "I'm not especially savvy, I just read". - Matt Hamilton

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Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

August 20 at 2:27 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar? According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured. ... Now the kicker: in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture. Someone somewhere cried out in pain for the same reasons McCain once did. And McCain let it continue." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Again "like" is a wrong word. Thanks for sharing is the right one. How about offering a reader a choice of words to express the feeling? Well, I guess this comment rather belongs to FF feedback room. - Eugene

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Still not sure where I stand on this. I think that there must be a limit to the violence involved in torture. BUT, bad people do bad things, and they are not going to tell us what they are planning if we ask them nicely...even if we say please. - Bob Blunk

They don't tell you what you want to know when you torture them either. There is some kind of myth out there still running around that says torture works. It does not work. - Brad Nickel

Didn't we get some of our worst intelligence (about the non-existent WMDs in Iraq) from someone that we tortured? People will say whatever it takes in order to get it to stop.. even admitting they did something that they did not in fact do.. - Alex Barbara

Having the Shrub as prez since they stole the election in 2001 (with 600,000 fewer votes than Gore got) has been a torture to the entire world. Period. Now that McCain's enlisted Rove and his dirty pranksters, I don't know whether Obama will get voted in or not. - Siddharth Deb

No, the WMD stuff came from a pathological liar. You do get what you want to know by torture if it's performed on the person who has that information. That still doesn't make it right. - Amit Morson

Bob: Isn't it interesting how many murders and other crimes are solved without waterboarding? And by "crimes" I'm not referring to just pickpocketing - we figured out who was responsible for bombing the USS Cole without torture, too. The world isn't an episode of 24. Here's how we did in in WWII: http://bit.ly/4AGA9K - David Worrell

This is a really good article. Puts things in perspective. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

Torture is an entirely untrustworthy method for acquiring and verifying intelligence, people will in fact say whatever they think the torturer wants to hear, just to get them to stop. Not only is it completely irresponsible military strategy, it's also severely immoral. Anyone that advocates a permissive attitude towards torture should be ashamed of themselves. - Jason Wehmhoener via NoiseRiver

Brad++, Jason W++ - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Bob, with "bad people" do you mean e.g. the (according to Wikipedia) "approximately 420" Guantano detainees who "have been released without charge"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...) Or with "bad people" do you mean e.g. politicians responsible for pre-emptive strikes against another country under false pretenses, who you think should be tortured in order for us to find out more about what their real motives were? - Philipp Lenssen

Torture doesn't work, it destroys the reputation of the torturer, and it is the favorite tool of despots, tyrants and sadistic totalitarian regimes. In American popular culture, torturers used to be portrayed as sinister villains, and with good reason. How far we have fallen. - Sean McBride

The neoconservatives behind the torture policy have repeatedly smeared as "bad people," "terrorists," "traitors," etc. anyone, including mainstream Americans, who disagrees with their extremist program. This is how it always goes with torturers -- they end up torturing anyone who gets in the way of their quest for absolute power. See Stalin and Hitler for two telling examples. - Sean McBride

Somehow it's still Clinton's fault. - Tad - just Tad

we must do what is necessary to protect the United States and bring justice to those that harm it. The prisoners at Gitmo have been treated better than what most of them deserve.Remember people, these are terrorists we're talking about. Those are the people responsible for 9/11, for car bombings and much more. - David Ward

Wow, here on Friendfeed no less. Are these guys serious with the absolute faith they put in the military apparatus, and so completely willing to waive the rule of law because someone was indirectly associated with "car bombings and much more"? How can you even have a discussion with someone that has so little respect for human rights? Even during WW2 we didn't torture Nazi war criminals. Are these guys worse than Hitler? Is 9/11 worse than the execution of 3 million Jews? - ⓞnor

I guess I just have to hope that people with a viewpoint like David Ward's ("remember, these dudes are BAD, because someone said so. break out the rack! that'll get us the truth!") are in a fairly small minority and can be overcome through democratic process. - ⓞnor

People like David Ward have managed to take over the American government under the reign of Bush 43 and the neocons. We live in very scary times, in which every sacred principle of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights has been debased. - Sean McBride

David Ward - Bush and neocons have been torturing many people for seven years now. Can you name a single high-level 9/11 conspirator that they've been able to convict in a fair trial on the basis of testimony extracted by torture? If not, why not? - Sean McBride

There are *rules* for dealing with lawbreakers and enemies. And there are far worse things than 9/11. And torture is a moronic way to get information - it's not like we've actually found Osama, for example. But I do like to think that the David Ward-esque medieval viewpoint, while surely near the center of neocon policy, is not the actual will of the American people. - ⓞnor

Sean, if anything it's the democrats that want to take away our rights not the conservatives. All I'm saying is we have to stand up and defend this country by force or whatever means necessary. You don't know the whole truth nor do any of us about what really goes on or how bad/good the prisoners are treated. I will tell you we treat criminals in our state and federal prisons better than anyone would expect. I'm not advocating torture at all and don't consider waterboarding or similar methods torture. - David Ward

David -- how long would it take for you, or I, or anyone here to confess to being the mastermind of 9/11 after being waterboarded? 1 hour? 30 minutes? 5 minutes? I repeat: not a single high-level 9/11 conspirator has been convicted in a fair trial on the basis of testimony extracted by torture. People will say absolutely anything under torture (and waterboarding is indeed a form of torture). - Sean McBride

Sean, I believe we killed many of the high level terrorists. In many cases of so-called torture, we already have evidence. I am all for human rights but my belief is when you kill innocent people you lose many rights you previously had. We're not killing innocent people. - David Ward

David - you still haven't mentioned the name of a single 9/11 conspirator who has been convicted of committing 9/11 on the basis of testimony extracted by torture. Many of those who have been tortured are innocent of any crimes. The Bush 43 administration has refused to *question* (not to mention torture) one of the lead 9/11 conspirators -- the head of Pakistan's ISI, who wired $100,000 to the hijackers just before 9/11. None of this adding up. - Sean McBride

Well, David your opinion that one waives one's human rights if one is a criminal, is not commiserate with the last 200 years or so of Western democratic principles, nor does it pass Constitutional muster; in other words, the rule of law. Are you sure you're living under the appropriate system? Perhaps some Islamic countries would be better suited to your values. Most of the tyrannies that would agree with your position were dissolved when the Berlin Wall fell. - Rick Powell

And btw, the phrase "so-called torture" is Orwellian, at best. The Viet Kong and the Gestapo knew exactly what it was, and so does Cheney. After all, Cheney and John Yoo borrowed the phrase, "enhanced interrogation techniques,' from those war criminals who came before him. - Rick Powell

Sean: Just to hone your last statement a bit: The first and only conviction to come out of Guantanamo was against a taxi driver. The administration has already admitted that most, not just many, but most, of released and current detainees are innocent. Yet, prisoners have died from torture, a euphemism for murder in these cases, under the aegis of an executive power run amok. These events are not in dispute. I really can't understand why more Americans are not angry about this. - Rick Powell

See the last three months of my FriendFeed shares for more information, including this article which I shared four hours before Bucheit's. Read Andrew Sullivan's definitive essay: http://tinyurl.com/5kz74w. Find out where the phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" came from: http://tinyurl.com/3cjw3t If you're not angry, you're not paying attention. - Rick Powell

"I will tell you we treat criminals in our state and federal prisons better than anyone would expect" David, and that's likely to be one reason for the camp being where it is (Guantanamo): to escape potential restrictions (human rights) imposed by federal prisons. - Philipp Lenssen

Rick - 1. Andrew Sullivan has done a superb job in covering the torture issue. 2. Americans should be enraged that Bush and the neocons are ruining the good name of America with their torture policies. 3. The taxi driver in question received a light sentence and had nothing to do with 9/11. After seven years of torture, the Bush 43 regime has not managed to acquire a single conviction of a high-level 9/11 conspirator. This peculiar situation raises doubts about the entire 9/11 official story. - Sean McBride

@Philipp Lenssen: you obiviously missed my point. I never said anything about supporting the illegal acts of our current administration. They hide behind a curtain of secrecy and fear to carryout illegal and immoral acts, this is true beyond doubt. But the fact remains that there are bad people in this world. It amazes me at how soon we forget about all the people that died on 9/11. But nonetheless, BAD people carried out this attack and if torturing even one person would have prevented it. I AM ALL FOR IT - Bob Blunk

Bob Blunk: 1. The U.S. government tried to block investigations of the 9/11 hijackers before 9/11. 2. The Bush 43 administration has failed to question (not to mention interrogate or torture) the head of the ISI (Pakistani CIA) who wired $100,000 to the hijackers just before 9/11. 3. The U.S. government didn't torture two persons who it claimed were responsible for the 9/11 anthrax attacks: Steven Hatfill and Bruce Ivins. You and most other Americans have been led up the garden path on these issues. - Sean McBride

Bob Blunk: Do you have some formula for determining how much torture is allowed based on how many lives would be saved? Does it take into account the fact that the person being tortured most likely doesn't know anything? - Gabe Schaffer

The whole "ticking time bomb" scenario is one that exists only in the minds of hacks writing for quasi-fascist television shows. - Rick Powell

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Praying for Ice

August 16 at 4:41 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Long before people called themselves Muslims or Hindus, long before they fought and died over these or any labels and turned a paradise into what Bill Clinton, Salman Rushdie and others have called “the most dangerous place in the world,” water dripped and froze inside the Amarnath Cave at the heart of Kashmir. It began as a trickle, but became a steady stream. Water leaked through as the July sun hit the Himalayan snowpack above, only to turn to ice again as is entered the 135-foot high grotto that maintains a wintry temperature deep into the summer. There the water gathered to form first a frozen stick, then a frozen wall, then something more mysterious, a six-foot-tall mound of ice that seemed almost ready to walk away. As July turned to August and the cave temperature rose, the ice formation melted, as they do. But the next year it formed again; it always did. " - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

It’s impossible to say how long the ice came and went hidden within the Amarnath Cave before people happened along to give it meaning. According to legend, a Muslim shepherd named Malik discovered it in the twelfth century. Kashmir at the time was an interreligious land even at the individual level. It was not unusual that this follower of Islam had spent a fair amount of time in Hindu temples, and so when he saw the column of ice—slightly taller than it was wide, with its rounded top like the crown of a man’s head—he knew just what it looked like: A lingam, the phallic symbol of the god Shiva, Hindu deity of creation and destruction. - Cee Bee

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Yes, this place is really beautiful. It rests on what is called as the 'perpetual snow line' .. but its also called as a sensitive area and yo need special permission to visit.. - Peter Dawson

Good post, Cee Bee! This ice-formation is now a major flashpoint between Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir, because of the decision by the government to allocate about 100 acres of land for the formation of a large temple/ pilgrimage complex there. Kashmir has been a Muslim-majority state for many years now; many of the old Hindu families have moved out of the state due to the climate of terror that has been fomented by the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) and their terrorist underlings. - Siddharth Deb

i've read about this and the pilgrimage that takes place, but have never seen photos.i know the area is heavily disputed, but is it that special permits are needed to visit this location because of the potential of violence that can occur in the region or because of sensitivity of the cave itself? - Cee Bee

Cee Bee -both, sensitivity of the cave and also the disputes of land between two countries - Peter Dawson

thanks! it really does look like a beautiful landscape. - Cee Bee

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Mom, baby and....where's Dad?? ;-) - Siddharth Deb

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Is your child ready to have one? - Michael Forian

wow, it took about 30seconds, but I got it :D - acedanger

Cute! - Les

hilarious! - Steven M. Cohen

maybe they talk circumcision in this issue??? - AnnaVan

Hahaha @AnnaVan - Joe Dawson

heheh. - Jason Kaneshiro

http://www.snopes.com/photos/r... False but still funny - Brian Sullivan

I like how they still kept the babies head just floating there haha! - Joe Dawson

i was about to say that it can't be real. and apparently isn't. but is still hilarious! - David Free

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