Top executives at Sony Pictures received an email extorting money three days before the company's computer network was taken offline in a major hack.
The email message was among thousands released on Monday when the email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online. It was the latest release of potentially embarrassing corporate information following a major hack on the company's computer networks two weeks ago.
"We've got great damage by Sony Pictures," the message began. "The compensation for it, monetary compensation we want."
"Pay the damage, or Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a whole. You know us very well. We never wait long. You'd better behave wisely," it reads. More at link.
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We're back to Kissinger again, on the Iran-Iraq war: "It's a shame one of them has to win."
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#4
After their digital Pearl Harbor on Sony's Playstation Network, you'd think the Big Guys up above would have gone NSA on their own computer networks. Obviously, they're paying the wrong people the big bucks. Sic transit gloria
This is only round 1. Wait till the tort lawyers representing stock holders get ahold of the senior management.
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I used to be all scotch all the time. But there are some very good bourbons out there that I've discovered in the past couple of years. Flavorful and smooth.
#4
Well I've never drank paint thinner. Jim Beam Devil's cut is excellent.
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EU, I'm also an all scotch guy but was introduced to a bourbon by the guy at my local store. He said that the problem most scotch drinkers have with bourbon is that it's too sweet.
Suggested I try Buffalo Trace and I've found it to be the only bourbon I can enjoy though it will never take the place of Glen Morangie.
#6
I'll go with the others - Im an Irish Whisky drinker (Red Breast pot still, Bushmills single malts 16+ years, Jameson 18, etc), and a little of the less peaty Speyside scotch (Balvenie 12yr Single Malt Doublewood is always in stock in my cabinet).
#12
Gayot's list of 10 best bourbons. On the list is 4 Roses Small Batch. At one time 4 Roses was considered a cheap buzz. The Japanese bought the distillery sometime ago.
[AnNahar] Energy-starved Ukraine said on Tuesday it had received the first Russian natural gas shipments since a politically charged price dispute saw Moscow cut off supplies to its Westward-leaning neighbor in June.
The announcement means that the war-torn nation of 45 million people should have enough power to heat homes through the bitter winter months.
Ukraine was forced to delay school openings by a month and postpone the launch of winter household heating due to its severe fuel shortages.
"Imports from Russia began two days earlier than planned," Ukraine's gas transport company Ukrtransgaz said in a statement.
A front man for Russia's state-owned gas giant Gazprom said the shipments resumed at 10:00 am Moscow time (0700 GMT).
The former Soviet republic received nearly half its gas from Russia prior to a revolution in February that ousted a Moscow-backed president and led the new government to sign up for closer ties with the EU.
The dramatic political shift out of Russia's orbit prompted Moscow to cancel the special rates it had offered Ukraine in the past -- more than doubling the price.
Kiev called the rate hike a form of "economic aggression" and refused to pay the extra amount.
It had also accumulated debts for earlier deliveries that Moscow had been willing to forgive until the February revolt.
But Russia demanded immediate payment for past debts and future deliveries following the change of leadership in Kiev.
Months of EU-led negotiations between the two sides made no progress and Gazprom halted the flow of gas meant for Ukraine -- but not Russia's other European clients -- on June 16.
Moscow and Kiev managed to strike a short-term price formula with the help of EU mediation on October 30.
The six-month deal required Ukraine to pay Russia $3.1 billion by the end of the year to cover past debts.
Ukraine separately agreed to pay up to $1.5 billion for winter deliveries from funds made available earlier to Kiev by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the International Monetary Fund.
The country's state gas company Naftogaz transferred a payment of $378 million to Gazprom on Friday for the delivery of about one billion cubic meters of gas this month.
No, they haven't, but they say they will as the lead flies.
The Ukrainian army and pro-Russian rebel forces are laying down their arms in an attempt to revive a September cease-fire.
The sides have promised to suspend hostilities as part of Tuesday's so-called "Day of Silence."
The cease-fire appeared to be mostly holding, although scattered clashes were reported.
Peace talks also had tentatively been planned, but Kyiv officials said negotiations will probably not begin until Friday, at the insistence of the rebels.
Fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine since the signing of the September 5 cease-fire agreement, claiming nearly 1,000 lives, and the two sides have accused each other of violating the truce.
Kyiv accuses Russia of providing arms and other support to the separatist forces, a charge Moscow denies.
"Nuclear deterrence and the threat of mutually assured destruction cannot be the basis for an ethics of fraternity and peaceful coexistence among peoples and states. The youth of today and tomorrow deserve far more…. Peace must be built on justice, socio-economic development, freedom, respect for fundamental human rights, the participation of all in public affairs and the building of trust between peoples." He is beginning to sound like a Hillary-tard.
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Utopian dreams of peace and love have failed. They have historically failed because 'evil' is a human condition of will and desire, and is 'evil' ever present. Forget the unicorns, I'm going with General Mattis on this one.
#5
The Pope is an Argentine and suffused with Jesuitical thought. After Liberation Theology failed in Europe the Spanish Jesuits exported it to Latin America. Always behind the curve, the Latins adopted it even though the "Base Communities" the movement created would have eventually destroyed the Catholic Church in South America. Really, Argentines are the last to get the word, and the Pope seems the last of the last.
It is well to remember the old aphorism, if you could buy an Argentine for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth you would be an instant millionaire.
#7
If Nuclear Deterrence is no longer justifiable that seems to force one to the idea that Nuclear War is justifiable.
The only alternative is the fantasy world of "get rid of all nuclear weapons" and peace and love will rule the earth. This is the mindset of the gun-grabbers.
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BTW, I expect 'modern' Popes to be by definition against wars. It goes along with the job description. Wars are something that should never be 'loved'. Sherman was right, it's hell. Only to be pursued as a dirty necessity of dealing with the historical unchanging record of human behavior.
#9
Nuclear deterrence worked for a long time. If one is dealing with a death cult whose highest aspiration is to send their kitties off to be suicide bombers, nuclear weapons use may fit into their death wishes and religion. However, have we tried nuclear deterrence (threats) as a part of a negotiating strategy with Iran or is it too horrible (PC) to mention to them?
I agree with the Pope in principle, but is His Holiness being a little naive about the secular world?
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This was playing to the peanut gallery, not the real powers. After cracking down and tossing out so many of those crewcut missle-silo blood-splashing nuns, I think he felt he had to throw a sop their way.
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#17 This was playing to the peanut gallery, not the real powers. After cracking down and tossing out so many of those crewcut missle-silo blood-splashing nuns sisters, I think he felt he had to throw a sop their way.
Dr. Morel Gruper of Haifa University: “autonomous unmanned submarines will be put into action in order to monitor natural phenomena such as hurricanes, oil spillages in bays and harbors, working in oil and gas fields, underwater surveys, mine sweeping, SIGINT (Signals Intelligence), EW (Electronic Warfare), anti-submarine warfare, stealth deployment of various charges, and also marine archeology, marine biology and so on.”
Eyal Shahrabani, IAI: “USVs will carry out search and destroy missions in rough seas and will become an integral part of the cooperation between manned and unmanned systems.”
Dr. Noam Brook, RAFAEL: “USVs have both military and paramilitary applications, such as opening up routes for civilian shipping and navy vessels, counter mining operations, ongoing security, counter terror and search and rescue missions.”
..The Wabbler lay in its place, with its ten foot tail coiled neatly above its lower end, and waited with a sort of deadly patience... It and all its brothers were pear-shaped, with absurdly huge and blunt-ended horns, and with small round holes where eyes might have been, and shielded vents where they might have had mouths...
Splash! The Wabbler plunged into the water with a flare of luminescence and a thirty-foot spout of spume and spray rising where it struck... It dived swiftly for twenty feet... Then its falling checked. It swung about, and its writhing tail settled down below it... and then slowly, it settled downward. Its ten-foot tail seemed to waver a little, as if groping.
Then it made small sounds from inside itself. More bubbles came from the round place like a mouth. It settled one foot, two feet, three...
The Wabbler leaned infinitesimally toward the shore. Presently its flexible tail ceased to be curved where it lay upon the ooze. It straightened out. Then the Wabbler moved. Shoreward...
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The CSA had a passing advantage in mine warfare. Remotely control big booms they were the advanced IED of its day. Just a few more bucks and it coulda been a war winner.
#7
Iff Surface Warfare UVS can one day - you know, NOW - search, attack + destroy Enemy = "Threat" vessels on their own, so why not USVS + UUVS that can "transform" into independently activated, independently targetable, self-propeeled LRBMS or ICBMS.
They're already 'Pre"-MRV/MIRV'ed.
On a higher note, Artic reminds me of an old Dream/Vision of mine where USN ships visit a future Guam as protected or lubed wid highly reflective, Anti-GWCC/Solar compunds.
THE MORE TECHY "AUTONOMOUS" THE SHIP OR AIRCRAFT, THE MORE ANTI-HEATING ELEMENTS, ETC. IT WILL NEED, ESPEC AS THE SOLAR ACTIVITIES PER SE SLOWLY OR SUDDENLY ESCALATE.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
