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Posted on 06/10/2004 2:28:29 PM PDT by JustPiper
Picture credit: TheCabal
"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
U.S. Charges Australian Linked to al-Qaida
WASHINGTON - An Australian held at the Navy's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will face a military tribunal for allegedly training and fighting alongside members of al-Qaida in Afghanistan (news - web sites), the Pentagon (news - web sites) announced Thursday.
We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm
(Excerpt) Read more at story.news.yahoo.com ...
A U.S. ICBM will lock to the GPS channel that runs at 10 times the rate of the civilian C/A channel. It is encrypted and we don't share the encryption code. The 10X rate is necessary to provide timely course updates to a vehicle moving as fast as an ICBM. My Garmin GPS V works just fine in most commercial aircraft moving around 550 knots.
The airlines can fallback on VOR/TAC for the long haul part of the flight and ILS on final approach. Ships can fallback on LORAN C. There might even be a navigator or 2 that is still competent with a sextant and compass.
Trucks only use GPS as a convenience. They can follow roads and use a paper map. Ditto for just about any user on dry land.
A friend of mine may have seen the same plume or a similar one. He said what he observed looked like a mushroom cloud!
Update- I'm posting from Harrisburg. Went outside for a break and saw one very large mil. helicopter heading south-south east from the capitol.
I came back in and looked at a map in a phone booth - that does seem to be the direction of TMI.
So many of these nuke plants are next to rivers. I imagine we have to patrol both the water and the sky.
However, the problems in the Arizona plant yesterday appear- from their reports- to be more internal. I'll post the excerpt from the Homelandsecurity.com Intel alert.
DC- In your post, you referenced observing very little, if any, aircraft. I've been noticing the same thing- has there been a decrease in regular flights over the past few days? It certainly seems so.
I don't think there are "jammers for jammers". More likely is a homing device for a missile that locks onto a GPS signal jammer as a target. If you hope to effectively jam, you must be "heard" by the receivers you intend to jam. That means you can be "heard" by a homing device too.
Tinfoil-
If we are testing our space based missile defense system,
I wonder what we are using as targets?
other than that rock that hit New Zealand, has anyone actually found anything on the ground?
I recall reading long ago that one of the reasons such a system would not work was because the advantage would be with the offense. All they would have to do is employ a large number of decoys.
Amazing picture, BearWash!
Intriguing info! Myrddin- I feel embarrassed posting some of my thoughts as obviously I have NO military experience at all.
(But I can cook a great pot of Chili!)
That is a little too far-fetched for me, given the location and circumstances.
White Sands Testing Range at 2 in the afternoon, yes. Seattle at 2 in the morning, not much chance.
Yes, it is foily!
Blackout hits major Web sites
Last modified: June 15, 2004, 11:20 AM PDT
By Jim Hu
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
A domain name outage Tuesday morning left many popular Web sites such as Yahoo, Google, Microsoft.com and Apple.com temporarily inaccessible, according to a Web research company.
For just more than two hours--from 5:30 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. PDT--many of the world's most popular sites suffered from widespread outages, according to Keynote Systems, which compiles statistics related to Web surfing. On a typical day, the top 40 sites measured by Keynote rarely dip below 99 percent availability. On Tuesday, however, Keynote saw availability drop to 81 percent.
Keynote said the site blackouts stemmed from an outage suffered by Akamai Technologies' domain name server system, which translates word-based URLs into numeric Web addresses to link surfers to company sites.
Though Keynote did not have solid confirmation of the source of the issue, one executive there speculated that Akamai may have suffered a denial-of-service attack. DoS attacks flood a company's servers with millions of simultaneous requests for data. The attacks often overwhelm and shut down servers.
"I know folks who built Akamai's infrastructure, and they are really sharp people," Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technology at Keynote, said in an interview. "While it's possible that there was internal failure, I think it's a low possibility."
An Akamai representative did not return calls requesting comment.
With the sites back up, it appears the DNS issue has been resolved, but Yahoo's new Web-based e-mail service, launched Tuesday, continues to have problems.
Since early Tuesday morning, users have experienced glitches with Yahoo Mail, such as site inaccessibility, slow page loads and inoperable buttons on the site. A Yahoo spokeswoman said the company is "investigating the potential impact of a widespread DNS issue on our services." But launch-related bugs are also a possibility.
"As we upgrade tens of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts for consumers worldwide, some users may experience temporary fluctuations in the service as we update our systems," said Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako. "We expect Yahoo Mail accounts to resume to normal after the upgrades are completed."
http://news.com.com/Blackout+hits+major+Web+sites/2100-1038_3-5234500.html?tag=nefd.top
Well gosh darn it, how in the heck is Al Qaeda going to get anything done with Hotmail and Yahoo Mail down?
Seriously though, the jihadi boards have been up and down today too.
Akamai blames Net outage on attack
Yahoo, Microsoft, Google inaccessible early TuesdayThe Associated Press
Updated: 3:30 p.m. ET June 15, 2004SAN JOSE, Calif. - Several major Web sites, including Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google, were inaccessible at times early Tuesday due to what the company that distributes them online called an attack.
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The problem began about 9 a.m. EDT and lasted less than two hours, said Jeff Young, a spokesman for Akamai Technologies Inc., whose network of servers mirror some of the Web's top destinations to improve their performance.
Young called it a "large scale, international attack on Internet infrastructure." However, there was no evidence that non-Akamai infrastructure was affected.
Keynote Systems Inc., a Web performance measurement service, said the only sites where it saw trouble Tuesday were those served by Akamai.
Young said he had no immediate information on the nature of the alleged attack, nor did he know where it originated or other Internet infrastructure companies that might have been targeted.
Amit Yoran, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division, declined to comment on the alleged attack and its scope, deferring questions to Akamai. The government-funded CERT network emergency response team did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Keynote said the availability of the top 40 sites it monitors dropped from 100 percent to just over 80 percent during the outage.
"We discovered it wasn't the Internet as a whole but a few large sites that dropped to nearly zero," said Lloyd Taylor, Keynote's vice president of technology and operations.
Major Web sites hire Akamai to distribute their content on its servers around the world, which helps balance demand, improve reliability and speed up delivery.
Taylor said the outage was consistent with a technical failure or an attack on Akamai's domain name server system, which routes traffic by translating Internet text addresses to the numerical addresses of actual computers.
During Tuesday's incident, Akamai's systems were slow in this regard, Young said. Users either experienced sluggish performance or time-out errors.
The company claims to have the world's largest distributed content network, consisting of more than 15,000 servers in more than 60 countries. At peak times, it can handle as much as 15 percent of the Internet's traffic, Young said.
The Akamai network experienced another technical problem in May, an issue Akamai said was software-related.
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5217330/
See Ma, the 70's and that generation were extremely wise, he and my mother are right! She would be 89 today.
I wouldn't be surprised at all. I know they have been threatening attacks against a couple of sites. I just couldn't resist the sarcasm when the jihadis do something that shuts down their own communications channels.
[Capital News 9] CALIFORNIA - Sniper shoots three in California
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=79288&SecID=33
[Arizona Republic] USA - Most-affluent in US worried by terrorism
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0613wealthy13.html
[AP] CANADA - Houston Muslim leader detained at Canadian airport
http://www.news24houston.com/content/headlines/?ArID=30619&SecID=2
Breaking NEWS!
FNC reporting Terminal 1 being evacuated at JFK due to an explosive device was found through the metal detector!
WHITE HOUSE ANGER AFTER TIME MAGAZINE DETAILS LOCATION OF CHENEY'S 'SECRET BUNKER'
Tue Jun 15 2004 11:11:34 ET
Top White House officials expressed anger after TIME magazine detailed the location of Vice President Dick Cheney's secret bunker, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
In new editions, TIME revealed "Site R," an underground bunker on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border where the Vice President spent much of his time in 2001.
TIME wrote: "Deep under Raven Rock Mountain, Site R is a secret world of five buildings, each three stories tall, computer filled caverns and a subterranean water reservoir. It is just 7 miles from Camp David."
Raven Rock Mountain is easily found using basic geographical maps.
One White House official fumed Monday night: "TIME magazine would have revealed the secret location of Anne Frank, if they knew it."
Developing...
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm
FNC showing Terminal 1 evacuation, confirmed explosive device in an xray machine
Explosive device not yet confirmed
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