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ClimateGate - Climate center's server hacked revealing documents and emails (-) about 14 hours ago
YouTube - Amazon River Woodpecker vs Snake - A fight over woodpecker nest (-) on 2009-11-20
The official IPsec Howto for Linux on 2009-11-20
IPSEC: secure IP over the Internet on 2009-11-20
- Both ESP and AH rely on security associations. A security association (SA) consists of a source, a destination and an instruction. A sample
  authentication SA may look like this:
  
  add 10.0.0.11 10.0.0.216 ah 15700 -A hmac-md5 "1234567890123456";
  
  This says 'traffic going from 10.0.0.11 to 10.0.0.216 that needs an AH can be signed using HMAC-MD5 using secret 1234567890123456'.
An Illustrated Guide to IPsec on 2009-11-20
reddit.com: what's new online! (-) on 2009-11-20
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SuperFreakonomics Book Club: Ask Sudhir Venkatesh About Street Prostitution - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-19
- the pimps had a good working relationship with the police, particularly with one officer, named Charles. When he was new on the beat, Charles harassed and arrested the pimps. But this backfired. ‘When you arrest the pimps, there’ll just be fighting to replace them,’ Venkatesh says, ‘and the violence is worse than the prostitution.’
- , they use different pricing strategies for white and black customers. When dealing with blacks, the prostitutes usually name the price outright to discourage any negotiation.
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- - Of all the tricks turned by the prostitutes he tracked, roughly 3 percent were freebies given to police officers. The data don’t lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.
Your Looks and Your Inbox « OkTrends (-) on 2009-11-19
ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » GOING ROGUE on 2009-11-18
- we are faced with the daunting task of wrapping our minds around the Palin memoir Going Rogue, appearing atop a bestseller list near you. Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. God is dead.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Soviet lessons from Afghanistan on 2009-11-18
- "We just need to be sure that the final result does not look like a humiliating defeat: to have lost so many men and now abandoned it all... in short, we have to get out of there."
- The former Soviet leader's difficulties are detailed in previously secret transcripts of Politburo meetings and diary entries recently released by the Washington-based National Security Archive.
  They make sobering reading for British and American leaders, as they decide whether to double-up or cut their losses in Afghanistan.
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- - "There is no single piece of land in this country which has not been occupied by a Soviet soldier. Nonetheless, the majority of the territory remains in the hands of rebels.
    "The whole problem is that military results are not followed up by political actions. At the centre there is authority; in the provinces there is not.
    "We control Kabul and the provincial centres, but on occupied territory we cannot establish authority. We have lost the battle for the Afghan people".
  - It hoped the funds would bolster the capacity of the Afghan government and pay for projects that would benefit people, winning hearts and minds.
    However corruption rendered much of its useless.
    As the Politburo discussed a new aid request from Kabul in January 1987, Marshal Sergei Sokolov said: "In 1981, we gave them 100m roubles of free assistance. And all of that went to the elite. And there was nothing in the hamlets - no kerosene, no matches."