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Up to 100,000 customer modems are at risk of losing their internet connection from July 9 when the FBI disables rogue DNS servers seized late last year.

The affected customer modems make up about a third of the 350,000 to 400,000 internet users believed to still have the DNSChanger malware on either their modems or Windows computers.

The FBI believes that up to four million users were infected at the height of the Estonian advertising scam, which redirected legitimate searches by computer users to malicious sites via rogue DNS servers located in Chicago and New York.

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Six Estonian nationals have been arrested and are currently subject to extradition procedures to face charges in the United States.

US authorities have interim control of the rogue DNS servers but expect to shut them down on July 9, after a four-month court ordered extension of the program expires.

Any computer still infected with DNSChanger – believed to be more than 300,000 users in July – will not be able to connect to the internet.

The modem problem

While remediation support for infected users had largely focused on solving the Windows infection, Paul Vixie of the Internet Systems Consortium told AusCERT 2012 attendees this week that internet service providers would have to “truck-roll” new modems to those believed to be affected by the malware outside their PC.

“The CPE [customer premises equipment] – the DSL or cable modem – tends to be one of a small number of things that all come out of Taiwan or that part of the world and even if they’re made by different companies they will have a similar web interfaces when viewed from the inside,” he said.

The scammers, he said, “scripted [the web] interface and changed the DNS settings in the CPE”.

He noted it was “very difficult to get these re-programmed”.
Vixie and the ISC have a direct contract with the FBI to coordinate the investigation, which ultimately lead to police seizing the rogue DNS servers and operating them while they attempt to remove remaining infections worldwide.

Up to 10,000 internet users remain infected by the malware in Australia, with potential victims urged to check a specially setup website to check for infection before July 9.

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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.

In September 2011, Saverin relinquished his U.S. citizenship before the company announced its planned initial public offering of stock, which will debut this week. The move was likely a financial one, as he owns an estimated 4 percent of Facebook and stands to make $4 billion when the company goes public. Saverin would reap the benefit of tax savings by becoming a permanent resident of Singapore, which levies no capital gains taxes.

At a news conference this morning, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey, D-Pa., will unveil the “Ex-PATRIOT” – “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy” – Act to respond directly to Saverin’s move, which they dub a “scheme” that would “help him duck up to $67 million in taxes.”

The senators will call Saverin’s move an “outrage” and will outline their plan to re-impose taxes on expatriates like Saverin even after they flee the United States and take up residence in a foreign country. Their proposal would also impose a mandatory 30 percent tax on the capital gains of anybody who renounces their U.S. citizenship.

The plan would bar individuals like Saverin from ever reentering the United States again.

“Eduardo recently found it more practical to become a resident of Singapore since he plans to live there for an indefinite period of time,” Tom Goodman, Saverin’s spokesman, told Bloomberg News in an email.

Last year 1,700 people renounced their U.S. citizenship.

That’s the question of the week after Gallup’s national poll two days ago showing 50 percent support for SSM was abruptly followed by North Carolinians voting overwhelmingly to ban the practice. That makes 42 states that now define marriage as between a man and a woman. How do we get from that national point A to the state level’s point B? Can’t be that Gallup is wildly off; Pew got similar numbers when they polled this issue too.

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Planned Parenthood is wishing women a happy Mother’s Day by asking people for donations to prevent women from becoming mothers, or in other words, is asking for abortion funding. This Mother’s Day, Planned Parenthood is pushing the idea that empowering women means giving them the option to terminate a life in the womb early instead of celebrating a woman’s ability to give the precious gift of life.

Planned Parenthood has exploited Mother’s Day in the past for donation appeals and, this year, the donation requests are centered on furthering Planned Parenthood’s abortion agenda globally.

“We are proud to be taking the Planned Parenthood mission global in supporting partner organizations that share our goals,” the abortion business says in an online donation appeal. “Since 1971, Planned Parenthood has expanded its work globally to promote the reproductive health and rights of women and their families in some of the poorest places in the world. When women are able to exercise their rights and access health care, they are able to make informed decisions — free of discrimination, coercion, and violence.”

Planned Parenthood, of course, ignores the violence abortion causes women and children.

“Join us in celebrating women everywhere this Mother’s Day by making a special gift to Planned Parenthood Global,” the appeal concludes.

Meanwhile, Cecile Richards has sent a special Mother’s Day donation appeal via email in which she celebrates her own mother, the late pro-abortion Texas Gov. Ann Richards, but mentions nothing about how her own mother chose life for her.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/05/11/planned_parenthood_wants_your_money_for_abortions_on_mothers_day

SICK!

C.S. Lewis was one of the most brilliant writers who ever set pen to paper, here are his 25 greatest quotes.

25) Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

24) If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, “Sex is nothing to be ashamed of,” they may mean “the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of.” If they mean that, I think they are wrong. I think it is everything to be ashamed of. There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.

23) Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

22) The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.

21) The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.

20) A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

19) No man who says I’m as good as you believes it. He would not say it if he did. The St. Bernard never says it to the toy dog, nor the scholar to the dunce, nor the employable to the bum, nor the pretty woman to the plain. The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. What it expresses is precisely the itching, smarting, writhing awareness of an inferiority that the patient refuses to accept. And therefore resents.

18) You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred — like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.

17) There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell chose it.

16) God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

15) I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

14) What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

13) A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word “darkness” on the walls of his cell.

12) To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

11) The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

10) Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

9) All you then have to do is keep out of his mind the question, “If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?”

You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly. In the course of the last fifteen years I have found this vice so common that I have had to invent a name for it. I call it “Bulverism.” Some day I am going to write the biography of its imaginary inventor, Ezekiel Bulver, whose destiny was determined at the age of five when he heard his mother say to his father—who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than a third — ”Oh you say that because you are a man.” “At that moment,” E. Bulver assures us, “there flashed across my opening mind the great truth that refutation is no necessary part of argument. Assume that your opponent is wrong, and the world will be at your feet. Attempt to prove that he is wrong or (worse still) try to find out whether he is wrong or right, and the national dynamism of our age will thrust you to the wall.” That is how Bulver became one of the makers of the Twentieth Century.

7) You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

6) Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on (the devil’s) part, be turned into a sense of injury.

5) If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

4) We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

3) If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

2) Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

1) Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

According to these stats,Obama should have never been elected.
Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29 Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million
McCain: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2
McCain: 2.1

The territory McCain won was inhabited mainly by taxpaying citizens, while the counties Obama won were mostly in places with low income peeops who lived off of some sort of government welfare program.”

Time to get that bum out!

Now ask yourself, what if Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal illegal invaders and they’re allowed to vote. YOu know Obama would be a shoe-in. He doesn’t care..

Well I broke down and purchased Civ V. Installed it and WOW am I disapointed, back to CIV IV. Less features and dumped down interface. The game play is like CIV II I cant believe that this games has been ruined. Even the key mappings have been screwed up! I have been using the same key mappings for years and nowed they have changed.

Back to Civ IV!

While the major networks pack their summer schedules with musical chairs, palaces full of STDs and catfights,sex, and more singing than a single human can possibly consume, cable takes advantage of the open field and programs lineups that you might actually watch with your family.
USA Network has announced its summer premiere dates, meaning we finally know when we’ll be seeing more Matt Bomer. Here’s the list!

Common Law, May 11 at 10pm
This new buddy cop drama about two cops who are having trouble being buddies makes its series debut.

Royal Pains, June 6 at 9pm
The medical drama about a small-town doctor in a rich beach community kicks off its fourth season.

Necessary Roughness, June 6 at 10pm
Callie Thorne stars as a therapist to a pro football team as this drama returns for Season 2.

Burn Notice, June 14 at 9pm
Spies! Pastel-colored clothes! Swimsuits with girls’ butts hanging out! Bruce Campbell! All that and more in Season 6.

Suits, June 14 at 10pm
It’s Season 2 of the fast-paced odd couple legal drama.

White Collar, July 10 at 9pm
Matt Bomer is a con artist. Tim DeKay is an FBI agent. They’ll partner up again for wacky hijinks in Season 4.

Covert Affairs, July 10 at 10pm
More spies! This time it’s Golden Globe nominee Piper Parabo being sneaky in the third season.

Political Animals, July TBD
This six-episode miniseries follows a former first family as they hang on to what power they have left in Washington, D.C. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Carla Gugino, James Wolk, Sebastian Stan.

“Where are all the moderate Muslims?” It’s a question often posed by Americans who watch with disgust as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other apologists for radical Islam hog all of the attention. CAIR, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror financing Holy Land Foundation case, and which regularly denounces any effort to combat radical Islam as anti-Muslim prejudice, is routinely described in the press as a Muslim “civil rights” group.
Moderate American Muslims exist though. And it’s not that hard to find them. Just see who CAIR and the Muslim Public Affairs Council are denouncing.

This week, they are after Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Sen. Mitch McConnell has appointed Jasser to serve on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and this has sent the most prominent Muslim American organizations to the barricades. A dishonest character assassination campaign has been launched against Jasser, urging Muslims to protest the appointment. CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told The Blaze that Jasser “has long been viewed by American Muslims and the colleagues in the civil liberties community as a mere sock puppet for Islam haters and an enabler of Islamophobia.”

That gives you the flavor of CAIR’s level of discourse.

So who is Jasser? He’s the son of immigrants who fled Baathist Syria in the 1960s. Syrians, as we have seen in the streets of Homs and other cities over the past 12 months, are among the bravest and most oppressed people in the world. Zuhdi, a devout Muslim, attended the University of Wisconsin and then joined the U.S. Navy and earned a medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. His 11-year service in the Navy included deployments to Somalia and service as the internist on call for the U.S. Congress.
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Is President Obama such a die-hard leftist ideologue that he can’t get it right on judicial review, despite having time to reflect and regroup after his impertinent comments designed to intimidate the court?

As everyone knows, Obama said Monday, “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” That, he said, would be “judicial activism.”

For a man who promised to upgrade the dignity of the office and held himself out as a model of bipartisanship, this president manages to insinuate himself into every imaginable issue and incident on which he has a strong opinion, from the Cambridge police to Trayvon Martin to Las Vegas tourism. If he wants his administration to engage in Chicago-style political street fighting, couldn’t he at least delegate the task to one of his surrogates?

What business does he have calling out the Supreme Court while a major case is pending before it (the Affordable Care Act) and issuing an implied threat that the justices had better not defy him?

Please don’t protest that I’m making an unwarranted inference. It’s not as if he hasn’t done something like this before.

Do you remember when he looked down on members of the Supreme Court at a joint session of Congress to rebuke and ridicule them for their decision in the Citizens United case to lift limits on corporate spending on campaigns? He said, “The Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.”

In his weekly radio address, he said that the court “handed a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists” and that “this ruling strikes at our democracy itself.”

This public assault was so outrageous that the normally unflappable Chief Justice John Roberts told University of Alabama law students, “The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court — according to the requirements of protocol — has to sit there expressionless, I think, is very troubling.”

Obama has received similar blowback from his remarks on the Obamacare case, though not directly from any member of the court. While acknowledging the court’s power to declare laws unconstitutional in theory, he remains defiant about the impropriety of the court’s doing so in this case.

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