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LONDON (The Blaze/AP) — What if you could help put resume sifting aside and increase your chances to land an interview by answering just one question: Can you crack the code? That’s the question Britain’s electronic listening agency, the Government Communications Headquarters , is asking in an online campaign to find the next generation of cyber specialists, although it has said it’s not going to be the only factor giving potential candidates an edge to earn a job. GCHQ quietly launched a cryptic website last month featuring a box of code made up of numbers and letters. There is no branding on the site, only the phrase ” Can you crack it? ” The agency has now revealed it is behind the campaign, and said Friday it’s trying to reach individuals with “a keen interest in code breaking and ethical hacking” for careers at GCHQ. “It’s to arouse interest in people who perhaps might not be caught by our normal recruitment campaigns,” a GCHQ spokesman said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. In the Guardian, a spokesperson was reported as saying that with the fast moving digital market the company hopes this form of “recruitment” will allow it to “engage with prospective candidates in new and innovative ways.” Cracking the code reveals a keyword, which when entered into a space on the website prompts the GCHQ job-recruitment website to appear. The agency is currently recruiting for cyber security specialists — at a pay grade of around 25,000 pounds ($39,000) — and hopes to recruit around 35 people over the next few months, the spokesman said. More than 50 people have successfully cracked the code so far — of which 80 percent have submitted an application, the spokesman said. “With the threats to information and computer technology constantly evolving, it is essential that GCHQ allows candidates who may be self taught, but have a keen interest in code breaking and ethical hacking, to enter the recruitment route too,” it said in a statement. But career hackers beware: “Anyone applying who has hacked illegally will not be eligible to continue in the recruitment process,” GCHQ warned. And gaming the website isn’t a guarantee for joining GCHQ’s ranks. The spokesman said that while anyone who cracks the code likely has an aptitude for GCHQ’s type of work, it won’t catapult code-crackers ahead of other job applicants automatically. The agency said it has been using social media to get the word out and that the site has attracted about 8,000 hits. The Guardian reports that the agency has used unconventional scouting methods before, running an ad campaign in online games in 2007 for those interested in a career in “British intelligence.”
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We’re doooooomed! (UK Guardian) The lesson the world is learning the hard way from the financial crisis is that there is only one boat and we are all in it. To stay afloat, we need rules tough enough to stop systemic risks becoming systemic collapses. This lesson is as true for the environment
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At LAT , ” As Libya takes stock, Moammar Kadafi’s hidden riches astound “: If the values prove accurate, Kadafi will go down in history as one of the most rapacious as well as one of the most bizarre world leaders, on a scale with the late Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire or the late Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. Yeah, and some dude at The Guardian is bawling about how Gaddafi didn’t get a “private” death. Like he deserved it, idiot.
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**Written by Doug Powers I’m going to reserve judgment concerning the opinion of Starbucks’ director of sustainability until I hear back from the climatologists at Dunkin’ Donuts and Tim Hortons, but it would appear that the global warming panic-inducer du jour is “climate change will mean no more coffee.” Now will you willingly hand over control of America’s wealth to Al Gore & company? Me neither. From CBS News : Millions of people enjoy a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, but a group of scientists says that daily ritual could be on its way to extinction. The driving force behind the new information is coffee giant Starbucks, reports “Early Show” contributor Taryn Winter Brill. One of its lead scientists says global warming is threatening the world’s coffee supply — and that news isn’t being well-received by coffee drinkers around the world. On Friday, the director of sustainability for Starbucks, Jim Hanna , said climate change is threatening the world’s coffee supply, telling the Guardian newspaper , “What we are really seeing as a company as we look 10, 20, 30 years down the road — if conditions continue as they are — is a potentially significant risk to our supply chain, which is the Arabica coffee bean.” Considering what Starbucks charges, I thought there already was a coffee shortage. Global warming alarmists are hoping public reaction to the above story will be similar to the one below, but it might backfire and have some people firing up the gas-powered leaf blowers. At least global warming won’t affect beer. Whew! What? Oh jeez, where can I buy some carbon credits? (h/t Newsbusters ) **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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This rendition depicts essentially what the Spice Project will look like. (Image: The Guardian)
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I’m kinda bummed that I waited till this morning to post this fun story, as so many others beat me to the punch. Oh, well, such is life in the blogosphere. Via Tom Nelson and Tory Aardvark, we get this howler of a story from the UK Guardian Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations,
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Things Caused By Globull Warming: An Attack On Earth By Aliens
Jacket: “This is not science fiction, but terror-probability, as the England we know – “the guardian of justice and peace” – is thrown into violent convulsions by an economic depression reminiscent of the gloomy days between the two World Wars. For those who can remember those day of evil it is something to be accepted. But
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At Biased BBC , ” Myths and Facts Part 1 “: The initial lurid sensationalism is the part of a story that will always stick, never mind what emerges thereafter. Cindy Corrie’s piece in the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ (H/T Too True) reminded me how unfortunate that can be, especially if the story appears to confirm any of the commonly-held negative preconceptions about Israel. Just as people still repeat the Al Dura lies unchallenged on the BBC, the myth of Rachel Corrie’s noble martyrdom remains untarnished despite the facts that have come to light following the regrettable incident in 2003. The notorious legend of Rachel Corrie’s adventures in Gaza concerns her passage from youthful but misguided idealist, through useful idiocy, to her final, inevitable destination – being bulldozed to death. Posthumously exalted, deified and immortalised by Israel-hating dramatists and propagandists, and further elevated by having the good ship Rachel Corrie named in her honour, (and seized by the Israelis during last year’s propaganda-stunt-flotilla) her media-fuelled journey from zero to hero bears out the adage that a little knowledge is truly a dangerous thing. It is understandable that Corrie’s family should take up her cause and exploit the unassailable position their bereavement affords them. To face the stark truth about her death would be to accept the futility of it and to rub salt into a painful wound. More at the link . The Cindie Corrie article is here: ” US collusion in the Gaza blockade is an affront to human rights: My daughter’s death shows the cruelty of an America that won’t protect its own and is complicit in harming Palestinian civilians .” And at the Guardian , ” Rachel Corrie’s family claim Israeli military withheld vital video evidence ” (via Memeorandum ).
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