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  • zuhaib 11:13 pm on March 23, 2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Libyan, USAF, War   

    U.S. Jets Step Up Attacks on Gadhafi’s Troops | Danger Room | Wired.com 

    The escalation has gone hand-in-hand with an Americanization of the conflict. Over the past 24 hours, coalition aircraft have flown 175 sorties over Libya, with U.S. pilots flying 113 of those missions. By contrast, on Monday, Odyssey Dawn flew fewer than 80 sorties, with “well over half” of them coming from non-U.S. planes, according to Gen. Carter Ham. Lesson: when the fighting gets serious, U.S. pilots are the ones you call.

    via U.S. Jets Step Up Attacks on Gadhafi’s Troops | Danger Room | Wired.com.

     

  • zuhaib 1:33 pm on February 17, 2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: New York Times, , Tax   

    YouTube – World: Tax-Free Living in Pakistan – nytimes.com/video 

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK5Gk1wvx10

    via YouTube – World: Tax-Free Living in Pakistan – nytimes.com/video.

     

  • zuhaib 12:32 pm on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

    CBS reporter Lara Logan assaulted in Egypt: CBS News | Reuters 

    Pakistan was the deadliest country for journalists in 2010, with eight killed, followed by Iraq with five. Indonesia, Mexico and Honduras followed, each with three reporters slain.

    via CBS reporter Lara Logan assaulted in Egypt: CBS News | Reuters.

     

  • zuhaib 11:04 am on January 28, 2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Egypt, , Prayer,   

    Prayer amongst Protest in Egypt 

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  • zuhaib 10:47 pm on January 16, 2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Loans, NPR, Planet Money   

    The most craziest mortgage you can get is a 30 year fix – Planet Money 

    Interesting podcast by NPR Planet Money on the craziest loans banks makes, the 30 year fix. Their argument is the loan is crazy because all the advantages belong to the customer and not the bank as the bank is taking on a lot of risk by locking in the loan for the long term.  And how Fannie Mae post 70s screwed it up.

     

  • admin 1:56 pm on July 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , final gear, Osama, SUV, , top gear, Toyota   

    Osama Bin Laden’s SUV 

    Well according to The DEW Line before the heat started to get on him it was an SUV of some kind with an sun roof

    “[Osama] Bin Laden, before he got smart, he had the only white SUV that had a sun roof in Afghanistan … but he figured that out pretty fast,” Schulte said.

    Does not give away too much but I going to guess it was a Toyota Land Cruiser.  You might ask why, well when I visited the area in 2003 the hot new thing in the area for the rich was Land Cruisers, so much so that many held it in higher regard then a Merc or BMW.  This is not too odd as Toyota trucks have been popular with terrorist/3rd world nations for a long time as they are nearly indestructible as proved by Top Gear.

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    makes you wonder if we should just not track every Toyota imported to the region

     

  • zuhaib 10:32 am on December 12, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , Hoax, , Kevin Mitnick, , , , , , social engineering,   

    Phone Phreaker almost started WWIII? Part 2 of 2 

    This is part two, the final part, in a short series about the attack in Bombay/Mumbai Part one here

    We looked at the story of the possibility that someone tried fooling the Pakistani president with a fake phone call tht almost started a hot war between Pakistan and Indian. In this post we explore some technical aspect of how a hoax could go down and fool some basic protection system.

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  • zuhaib 11:30 am on December 6, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Phone Phreaker almost started WWIII? Part 1 of 2 

    It what every world leader fears to hear, a phone call by a hostile nation warning you that soon you might be on the receiving end of an attack. You must act quick, get ready a defense, prepare for a counter attack and maybe be ready to pull the big guns and get ready the WMDs. But, what if that phone call never happen? What happen if it was a hoax? That is what happen (reported) between Pakistan and India just hours after the bombings in bombay.

    Click Read More to read more of the story and how can it be done

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    • Anam Ahmed 11:42 pm on December 7, 2008 Permalink

      Hi

      First i would like to correct you here: “which India has since blamed on the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), it was banned in Pakistan so its EX-militant group. And its quite interesting that we are saying it was from the Foreign Minister Office and they dont believe it…Pakistan and India are in a never ending circle of blaming and pointing fingers at each other. Its been going on for so long and to me it seems like it will never end. First India goes under attack which i feel very sorry for and i mourn for the people who died but India blamed it on Pakistan. But they dont see that we are the victims as well, Pakistan is not going thru the gloriest times of it all either we have bombings from Talibans and its getting intense but its not in the news bc our stupid senseless media is not covering it and not letting the world know they we Pakistanis are victims too. 2 days ago a van blew up infront of a mosque killing 29 people in NWFP there was a rumour for a long time that oh Indians did it as a revenge for what “we” did. I mean what is this? What is happening to us? is everytime there is going to be a attack we are going to say India did it or Pakistan? People need to get some sense and try to get to the bottom of this.

  • zuhaib 12:36 am on November 13, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Local News STILL behind the times 

    News rooms all over Americans have been sweeting bullets about how online blogging are going to kill them because of their fast reporting and today I can see why. Around 4:40pm today right in front of my office was a crazy scene you would see in a action move set. Tens of cops, uncovers, motorcycle and etc on a high speed chase of who knows why. What i caught was a man trying to car jack people as he tried to ran away from the cops which I have never seen in my whole life. So after all the rumors on the street, it was a murder, bank robbery, who knows. But I thought I would wait till it hits the local news. Well I turn on the 5:30 news.. Nothing. 6:00 news? Nothing as well. Head over the sfgate and nothing really local. The only local news is about Bad Air and the tiger lawsuit. Really? Is this local to me? Your telling me a high speed chase is not local news? I am sorry, but that is pretty important to me as I live here (ok i live a few blocks away, but my building is there). I can see why sites like sfist are so popular with locals and the -ist sites are. They are what locals really care about. We all know San Francisco is a big city and maybe we do care about bigger issues but losing on reporting local news is pretty bad. I saw a camera man there, but, could not tell what channel he was from so he could have been a freelancer. But this lack of reporting of crime is a bit scary because if I was not there I would never know about it.

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    • Waseem 8:41 pm on November 17, 2008 Permalink

      Well Local News definently is more quality news to me than blogging IMO.

      I’m not sure how they prepare their news for the day but I assume there is a process and this is some kind of loophole in the system.

  • zuhaib 2:36 am on August 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Apple Store, Apple Store protest, , , Stonestown, Union   

    Protesters at Apple Store-Stonestown in San Francisco 

    So today I had to make a trip to the Apple Store in stonestown to drop off my Macbook Pro for repairs (LCD and the Hard Drive started to die).  Just as I was leaving i noticed two people standing outside.  At first I though maybe they where the Defective by Design people as they where in Lab coats (see here) IMG_0051

    But after going up to them and getting a flier I notice it was something else and far from tech.  They where from a Union, Carpenters LU 405, and were upset over the fact a contractor that apple has hired is no longer using Union contractor.  A bit complicated, i know… Check out the flier IMG_0053 IMG_0054

    This is not a new issue for anyone that has had a business that does construction from time to time, and we have seen many company run afoul of Labor Unions, but, its a bit rare to see Apple names tied in it.  Also the novel way that these guys where doing it, almost in a “Union 2.0″ type of way (yes I just made that up) caught me off guard. No pickets, no yelling, nothing.  The lab coats kind of add that extra layer of geek to it that just makes it scream “silicon valley”.  All they need is to make a facebook group and start posting all over Digg about this and they will be complete.

    You can check out the rest of the photos here: http://flickr.com/photos/zuhaib/sets/72157606992531187/

     

    • Calvin 7:12 pm on September 24, 2008 Permalink

      Seriously? Have they considered that they’re not doing a good enough job – that’s why they changed contractor?

      Also, you’ve got to add to the fact that… okay… if the union was hired back, wouldn’t the south bay construction people lose their jobs? It’s an endless cycle – and they’ve got to admit the fact that… if you get fired, work harder to get your next job. Reflect on mistake, don’t blame others.

      Plus, everyone is have economic troubles. Not just you unions. So STFU.

    • Battles 9:29 pm on September 24, 2008 Permalink

      Calvin, I think you’re confused about the protest. They didn’t change contractors, the contractor quit the union and now the union is upset. Personally, I’m not a fan of unions.

    • Goethe 5:34 am on September 25, 2008 Permalink

      Unions are a pain in the ass, either always making crazy demands to employers or taking fees from employees.

    • Brian 7:54 am on September 25, 2008 Permalink

      The local Carpenters Union here in Dallas, TX also loves to stage these protests outside office buildings downtown, with 15 or 20 members handing out flyers. They do it everytime someone remodels an office and doesn’t do it through one of their preferred contractors. I’ve always thought that if they invested that same amount of time and energy into, you know, working, everybody would be much happier.

    • JAM 10:29 am on September 28, 2008 Permalink

      It is sad to read how ignorant people are about the labor movement!! Union does not fight people, Union fight greed! How fast do we forget that thanks to organized labor we work 8 hours a day, have a work day, work week, weekends, workers comp, pension, vacation and a lot more. Unions spend members’ money to protect you not only union members. South Bay const and their non-union subs, purchase their material in the same store that union employers do, they are cheaper because the majority of non-union corp do not provide benefits to their workers, that’s what union protest! Fair wages and benefits for all workers. Unions are not perfect, but I would rather have a union protecting my rights that the government or I should say, Corp-Government. For all of you that do not know, corporation invented a new way of exploiting workers (Salary Workers) do the math, hours worked vs. hourly wage, you will find out that thanks to union it hasn’t got any worst. Check this site http://www.worklifewizard.org/main

      Carpenter by trade, Union by choice.

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