Showing posts with label June 27. Show all posts
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Cyberculture agenda: “Timeline: The rise of bitcoin”…

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Timeline: The rise of bitcoin

A look at the history of bitcoin, the world’s newest and potentially most powerful currency.

The FBI has “hundreds of millions of dollars” to spend on developing technology for use in both national security and domestic law enforcement investigations — but it won’t reveal the exact amount.

4 ways gamification is advancing cybersecurity


There’s no doubt that the cybersecurity industry is in dire straits. Each year, data breaches are growing in size, numbers and severity while the cybersecurity talent gap is widening and there aren’t enough experts to fill vacant posts. And with internet-based services encroaching over every aspect of our lives and tasks, new vulnerabilities are sprouting every day, providing malicious actors with new possibilities and attack vectors to carry out their evil deeds. Every person, every connected device and every piece of software running on the network can become an exploit opportunity, and there’s only so much that can be done…
Political campaigns can be refined by the analysis of “big data” to analyse and target voters. The challenge is knowing how best to use the data, said Guillaume Liegey.

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Saturday, June 27, 2015

EFD Rights Watch: US State Department Country Report on Terrorism 2014 – Turkey

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Country Report on Terrorism 2014 – Turkey

June, 2015

Overview: Largely because of the ongoing conflict in Syria, Turkey has voiced increasing concern about terrorist groups near its border, including Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), al-Nusrah Front, and other al-Qa’ida (AQ)-affiliated groups. Throughout 2014, Turkey served as a source and transit country for foreign terrorist fighters wishing to join these and other groups in Syria. The Government of Turkey intensified efforts to interdict the travel of suspected foreign terrorist fighters through Turkey to and from Syria and Iraq. These efforts include the development and implementation of a “banned from entry list,” as well as the deployment of “Risk Analysis Units” to detect suspected foreign terrorist fighters at airports, land border crossings, and border cities. Cooperation with other source countries increased during the year in response to the foreign terrorist fighter threat, with both Turkey and source countries seeking to improve information sharing in particular. Turkey is an active member of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL.

 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has become involved as a plaintiff in a case filed against a woman who allegedly “insulted the Quran” by posting a photo on Twitter showing her foot standing on the Muslim holy book
The government claimed improbably vast conspiracies, most notably the Diyarbakir KCK (Kurdish), Ergenekon (nationalist), and Sledgehammer (military) cases. Roughly 500 people were arrested and 300 charged in the Ergenekon case alone.
FOLDED CORNER – ‘Understanding Turkey’s Kurdish Question’ edited by Fevzi Bilgin and Ali Sarıhan
A career criminal in Istanbul has brutally beaten his girlfriend on the first day of freedom, the victim says
Under compulsory drafting in Ankara, U.Ö allegedly committed suicide after shooting O.D. However, it causes suspicion that U.Ö. was shot in his forehead, eyebrow and cheek.
The Council of State has ruled that although the formal name of a mandatory class in Turkish schools is “religious culture and moral knowledge,” the content of the class is actually general “religious education,” dismissing the complaint of a family in a years-long legal saga
The youngest victim of the Gezi Park protests, 14 year-old Berkin Elvan, was commemorated June 16 where he was shot by a tear gas canister in Istanbul on June 16, 2013
An Ankara court on June 16 handed down a 21-month suspended jail sentence to an editor of an English-language Turkish daily newspaper after convicting him of “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Turkey guilty in the case of retired commander Levent Bektaş, who complained he had failed to obtain notice of the public prosecutor’s opinion during his criminal proceedings
ECtHR dismisses most charges brought by Ergenekonsuspect
Today’s Zaman
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has dismissed most of the complaints including monetary damages brought forward by Ergenekon suspect retired Col. Levent Bektaş, ruling in his favor however on one complaint. According to the judgment .
An Egyptian court’s June 16 confirmation of the death sentence for deposed President Mohamed Morsi is based on politics, not the law, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu has said
The presidency’s discretionary fund spending more than doubled in May compared to the previous month, suggesting that the fund was used to cover President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s controversial rallies before the June 7 general election, daily Cumhuriyet reported on June 16.
The business sector has become an increasingly vocal proponent of the formation of a coalition government in Turkey, with leading business organizations intensifying contacts with the leaders of four political parties that entered parliament in the June 7 election
Kurdish forces have seized control of a key border town from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), cutting a major supply line in the biggest setback yet for the jihadists in Syria, as the Turkish government clearly voiced its unease over the perceived efforts to unify Kurdish cantons in its southern neighbor.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has urged opposition parties to unclench their fists and turn swords into ploughshares if they want to form a coalition with the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Istanbul, Turkey. 23rd August 2013 -- Demolition areas have become part of community life as the Tarlabasi area of Istanbul undergoes a major redevelopment project. Children are playing there all the time. -- Istanbul's Tarlabasi area is to undergo a redevelopment project. Whole building blocks are getting demolished and people are being evicted. Expensive hotels and shopping centers will take their place. Demotix, ID: 2684393

Istanbul, Turkey. 23rd August 2013 — Demolition areas have become part of community life as the Tarlabasi area of Istanbul undergoes major redevelopment work. Whole building blocks are getting demolished and people are being evicted. Expensive hotels and shopping centers will take their place. Demotix ID: 2684393

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Cengiz Aktar: Tabii ki devr-i sabık

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 Tabii ki devr-i sabık

 

19 Mayıs’ta “Kaosa uyanmak” başlıklı yazıdan: “Bu formüller (koalisyon, vs) gerçekleşebilir ama bir şartla: Erdoğan gölgesinde varılacak her mutabakatın AKP’ye bir biçimde ortak olacak diğer partiyi seçmeni ve kamuoyu gözünde ne duruma düşüreceğini hesaba katarak. Türkiye’de siyasetin Erdoğan’ın dolaylı veya doğrudan içinde olacağı bir denklemi sindirmesi ne kadar mümkün artık? Sadece siyasetin mi? Futboldan dış ilişkilere, dinî itikattan inşaata, çocuk sayısından anayasal hükümlere, hukukun işleyişinden medya özgürlüğüne, Gayrimüslim politikasından faiz politikasına, müdahil olduğu her konu bir reel veya potansiyel fiyasko demek değil mi?”

 

7 Haziran seçim sonucunun AKP’nin düşüşü, muhalefetin skoru ve esas HDP’nin başarısıyla yarattığı umut ve iyimserlik, kolayca öngörülebileceği gibi, yerini soru işaretlerine bıraktı. Kaos, türbülans, belirsizlik, adını ne koyarsak koyalım memleketin daha epey bir zaman bu ortamdan çıkamayacağını bilmek gerekiyor. İş dünyasının “sandıktan uzlaşın mesajı çıktı erken seçim vakit kaybettirir” çağrılarının ya da “eskiyi unutalım, olan oldu, önümüze bakalım” yollu akılların beyhude olduğunu da… Zira bu pazarlığın özü baş aktör ve onun istikbali. Türkiye’nin istikbali değil!

 

HDP ve HDP seçmeni dışında kalanların seçim sonuçlarının ne kadar okuyabildikleri meçhul.  CHP ve MHP’nin siyasetçilerinin beyanları 13 yıl sonra“iktidarları geldiği” hissi uyandırıyor. Asgarî ilkelerden ziyade hükümet olma konuşuyorlar. Koalisyon senaryolarından başımız dönmüş durumda, kulis haberleri kulakları sağır ediyor. Ama yakından bakınca bu beyanların içinin siyaseten bomboş olduğu görülüyor. Misalen MHP koalisyon hükümeti protokolüne 17/25 Aralık’ı dâhil etmek istiyor. AKP’de bazıları “4 bakanı verelim daha yukarıya dokunmak yok” diyor. Oysa böyle bir hükümet programı üzerinde anlaşma öz itibariyle çok zor olduğu gibi muhteremin bekasını gözetecek herhangi bir hükümetin bekası olmaz

 

İktidara heveskâr partiler arasında en fantastiği kuşkusuz AKP. 2011 seçiminden bu yana “Erdoğan’ın teşkilâtı” olmuş AKP sanki seçim olmamışçasına hükümet etmeye, içerisi ve dışarısıyla ilgili bağlayıcı kararlar almaya, üstten konuşmaya, tamamen kontrolü altındaki bürokrasiyi yönlendirmeye devam ediyor. Tıpkı devr-i sabıktaki gibi müflis Suriye politikası, küstah AB politikası, insan ve çevre düşmanı yapılaşma, izansız yargı kararları, Urfa Valisi’nin gazeteci gözaltıları gibi idarî tasarruflar berdevam. Kendilerinden o kadar eminler ki…

7 Haziran’ın mesajının görmezden gelindiği bu tıkanma hali siyasetin sıfır noktasıdır! Ramazan ve yaz rehavetiyle daha çok koalisyon lakırdısı dinleriz. Çünkü yapısal tıkaç Erdoğan’ın bekası olduğu ve vermediği hesapların üzerine gitmekten kaçınıldığı sürece hükümet kurmak mümkün olmaz. Kurulsa sürmez. Erken seçim olsa da olmaz.

Nitekim “devr-i sabık lafını sakın ağzınıza olmayın” diyen ya da demeye getiren iktidar kalemlerinin temennilerinin aksine, yapılması gereken tam da budur.Erdoğan’ın sınırsız hırsının, tek adamlığının, keyfîliğinin, otoriterliğinin reddi anlamına gelen seçimi doğru okuyarak geçici bir hükümet kurulmalıdır.    

Bu, yürütmenin günlük icraatının yanında enkazın envanterini çıkaracak, içeride 17/25 Aralık 2013 iddialarını şeffaflıkla inceleyecek, dışarıda isetehlikeli ve yanlış Suriye politikasını bütün veçheleriyle gözden geçirecek bir “sağaltma” hükümetidir. Ancak bu çürümenin önü alındıktan sonra yeni bir hükümet kurulabilir ya da erken seçime gidilebilir. Eğer AKP kongrede Gül’ün öncülüğünde Erdoğan vesayetinden kurtulamazsa bu parti sağaltma hükümetinde olmaz. Zaten Davutoğlu AKP’nin böyle bir hükümette olamayacağını Erdoğan’a kol kanat gererek dolaylı olarak açıkladı. İlâveten, meclisteki yeni AKP grubunu Erdoğan’ın yarattığını hiçbir zaman unutmamak gerekir. Dolayısıyla iş diğer üç partiye düşüyor. Becerebilecekler mi?

Bu yazı ilk olarak Taraf’ta yayınlandı. Yazarın izniyle burada da yayınlanıyor. 

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Anthropology roundup: “The Archaeology of Star Wars…”Intel’s lead anthropologist: ….

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Anonymity, Ethnography, and Alice Goffman: Welcome, journalists

I think I’ve written and thrown away three separate posts on the Alice Goffman debatetrying to find something to say that people will find interesting. I personally don’t find the case to be very interesting, or to speak to core issues of what ethnography is or should be. In my opinion, the takeaway is: Goffman wrote a remarkable book at a remarkably young age, like all books it has some problems, and it is bearing an absolutely incredible amount of scrutiny fairly well. She did hard fieldwork and had to make hard choices writing her ethnography, and some people disagree with those choices. But that’s not an interesting theoretical problem. That’s just life.

Heritagedaily.com, November 11, 2013.

“These are not the ruins you’re looking for!”

In 2012 Italian photographer Rä di Martino spent more than a year wandering the desert towns of Morocco and Tunisia, on her journey she came across the curious remnants of another world…

Reckonings: Participant-Observation from a Distance

Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Sienna Craig.

I am going to use this space as a Savage Minds guest to sort through some of the images, questions, and emotions unearthed over these past six weeks or so, as communities across Nepal have lived and died under the weight of falling buildings, landslides, floods, trauma, and homelessness brought about by massive seismic shifts across the Himalayan belt. Given the dizzying pace of news cycles and our collectively short attention spans, those for whom Nepal is not an important place will refer to this disaster as an earthquake, singular. But this is no singular disaster. The country has experienced about 300 seismic events since April 25, 2015. For thousands, the initial 7.8 earthquake was sufficient to kill them. But the remains of that day rumble on and people are now living to the rhythm of expected surprise. Ayo ayo ayo. A lament. A modicum of pain. But also, simply, it has come.

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Ask Genevieve Bell a question, and she will ask you three more

Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Brian Boyd

Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present the latest in a series of essays reflecting on the decision to support the boycott until Israeli higher education ends its complicity in the violation of Palestinian rights (including academic rights).

Ask A Mind: Is Studying Witchcraft `Useful’ for Development?

Can anthropologists combine research on witchcraft with research on development? Why are some topics considered more relevant to understanding development issues than others? This post is a response to a question from a reader considering doing a research project in anthropology. It provides an overview of some recent work on witchcraft by anthropologists mostly working in Africa.

These 6 ‘Body Farms’ Help Forensic Anthropologists Learn To Solve Crimes
Forbes
Outdoor forensic anthropology research laboratories are colloquially called “body farms,” a term that many researchers find too sensational but that has stuck following the 1994 publication of Patricia Cornwell’s popular forensic novel “The Body Farm ..

Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Rosemary Sayigh

Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present Part 2 of our series of essays. This piece by Beirut-based anthropologistRosemary Sayigh joins earlier statements by Steven Caton, Talal Asad, Mick Taussig, and J. Lorand Matory in support of the boycott until Israeli higher education ends its complicity in the violation of Palestinian rights as stipulated under international law.

Anthropology Study Finds Roots of European Ancestors
Pioneer News
According to the most recent anthropological studies, DNA from the Bronze Age has provided new evidence for human migration from Europe. The study examines that approximately 5000 years ago, a mass migration occurred which spread culture from other …
Bronze Age DNA Gives Clues to How Modern Eurasia Was FormedSci-News.com
DNA Deciphers Roots of Modern EuropeansNew York Times
Ancient DNA Reveals How the Bronze Age Changed EuropeNBCNews.com
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Anthropology and the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions: Is an academic boycott effective?

Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present this final essay in a series dedicated to the issue of the boycott.  Previous essays by Talal Asad, Mick Taussig, J. Lorand Matory, Rosemary Sayigh, andBrian Boyd reflected on the decision to boycott such institutions. This piece considers whether such decisions will have the desired effect.  The evidence thus far says: yes.

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