with hundreds of billion$ of dollar$ in aid spent... - LAT - FriendFeed

with hundreds of billion$ of dollar$ in aid spent yearly on help to Africa, everybody would have to have a Porsche down there.

The problem is wild capitalism, aid is stolen by corrupted generals, who promptly stolen money deposit back in Western banks, or spend on arms and wars.... capitalist aid - IMF, World Bank - keeps countries actually dependent, underdeveloped, impoverished, ready to be exploited by western monopolies and colonial powers.

with hundreds of billion$ of dollar$ in aid spent... - LAT - FriendFeed

In 2010, Your iPhone Could Be a Credit Card Reader

In 2010, Your iPhone Could Be a Credit Card Reader - This "new hardware" to me is a misconception and en error. iPhone itself should be - and, practically is - BOTH credit card /cc/ reader and credit card itself.

WHY to carry another piece, a cc? That would be so 2009nish. SERVER, SOFTWARE ought to do it, and can do it, all. That is the only correct, and lowest costs, solution path.

Customers will setup their credit cards with PayServer, tied to their IPhone/cpu unique id and their password.

'CC Reader" iPhone will display the merchandise, the amount to be paid, and/or any other info, and an ID code/bar, QR?/, readable to PayServer.

"CC Customer" iPhone will "Take a snapshot" of this info, and this will constitute, for any and all purposes, a swipe of the card.

Why the heck to require physical presence of a credit card, a physical presence on a cc reader, and plus the physical act of swiping the card ?? It would be a half mad mistaken anachronism bordering on ridiculousness.

There is more solutions to this act of software cyber cc payment, none with redundant environment unfriendly material of plastic and swiper. Example, without any setup, cc reader /merchant/ iPhone will take a snapshot of customer cc in the form of a passworded cc picture displayed on customer iPhone. Then, a request for approval will arrive on customer iPhone.

NO other iPhone will be able to approve the transaction. It is possible to fortify the security via connecting the ccc - customer credit card - to their iPhone cpu id, to their email login, and/or even to GPS position of both customer and merchant /ccr/ iPhones. ... JUST, NO additional hardware, please ! -We are Americans. :]

In 2010, Your iPhone Could Be a Credit Card Reader

Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning that they can cause brain cancer

Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.. Many countries have issued warnings. Although research has not consistently demonstrated a link between cellular telephone use and cancer, scientists still caution that further surveillance is needed before conclusions can be drawn.. Levels of cellphones radiation at == http://kl.am/cell == more than 270 million people subscribed to cellular telephone service last year in the United States, an increase from 110 million in 2000... http://ewg.org

Toxic Chemical Diacetyl Still Finding Its Way Into Microwave Popcorn - Sphere News

Toxic Chemical Diacetyl Still Finding Its Way Into Microwave Popcorn, in the form of substitute. Destroys lungs.

Public health advocates told themselves that when Democrats took over the health and safety agencies, the Bush regulations-are-bad era would vaporize.

One measure was going to be how quickly the Obama team addressed something as well-researched as diacetyl.

Toxic Chemical Diacetyl Still Finding Its Way Into Microwave Popcorn - Sphere News

Gorbačov: Kdybychom v roce 1989 zas�hli, zřejmě by vypukl jadern�konflikt | Zahranicni.iHNed.cz -

Gorbačov: Kdybychom v roce 1989 zasáhli, zřejmě by vypukl jaderný konflikt. ~Katastroficke dobyti a rozpad narodu stredni a vychodni Evropy. Namisto reforem prisla hrozba zaniku nezavislosti. Gorbačov ocenil, že Putin během svého prvního prezidentského období zastavil hrozící rozpad Ruska a stabilizoval situaci

Gorbačov: Kdybychom v roce 1989 zas�hli, zřejmě by vypukl jadern�konflikt | Zahranicni.iHNed.cz -

Germans seek to oust Czech president Vaclav Klaus over EU treaty

Brussels furious diplomats were calling for his impeachment and even his country’s expulsion from the European Union because of his obstinate refusal to sign the Lisbon treaty. Klaus, now the only European leader holding out against ratifying the document, made it clear he did not give a damn.

European leaders were told he was not available to take their calls.

Germans seek to oust Czech president Vaclav Klaus over EU treaty

Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan - Telegraph

Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan asking for 40 000 more US soldiers. Their relationship under severe strain. Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London.

The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen. Gen McChrystal, who heads the 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan as well as the 100,000 Nato forces, flatly rejected proposals to switch to a strategy more reliant on drone missile strikes and special forces operations against al-Qaeda.

Some commentators regarded the general's London comments as verging on insubordination.

Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan - Telegraph: