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12 Apr 2011 10:56

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World: Belarus authorities lacking leads in train-station bombing

  • issue Belarus suffered its first major post-Russia terror attack yesterday at a train station in Minsk. The bombing killed 12 and injured more than 150. President Alexander Lukashenko says authorities plan to “turn everything inside out” to catch the suspects.
  • confusion The problem baffling experts? They don’t know of any major ethnic or religious divides, and most of Lukashenko’s political opponents (he’s been in office 17 years) are under constant surveillance.  So they don’t really have an idea of any sort of motive. source

17 Sep 2010 21:14

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Tech: Diaspora, post-release: No love at all from programmers

  • Haters gon’ Hate. If you’ve read Hacker News lately, you might have noticed a recent trend of programmers basically tearing apart the code from Diaspora. There are lots of reasons for this, but the biggest one is that the security backbone appears to be lacking. This guy put it this way: “The more I read, the more bad things I found. They’re going to need a complete overhaul to fix this.” These wet-behind-the-ears college students have now been accused of creating some of the worst clearly marked pre-alpha code known to man. Which leads us to ask, have they seen the new Chatroulette? If they really want to feel manly, they should stop ripping on NYU students and start ripping on 17-year-old Russian kids that are friends with Sean Parker. That’ll show ’em.  source