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To ring in this year's Holocaust Memorial Day, the classy hackers at Anonymous took down a bunch of Israeli government websites on Sunday and say they caused over $3 billion in damage. But they didn't totally get away with it. Within a few hours of the attack which Anonymous says affected 100,000 websites, 40,000 Facebook pages, 5,000 Twitter accounts and 30,000 bank accounts, an Israeli hacker broke into the website that Anonymous had set up for the attack, dubbed Operation Israel. ...
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Within station's underground mall, there is a vegetarian eatery serving simple dishes cheaply. It is located at K area underground near exit Z3.
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This is what I had when I was there 2 years ago -- croquette curry rice with 2 side dishes.
This trip I found that along the Huai Ning street just across from the Taipei West Bus Station, there are a few vegetarian eateries. And you can have your vegetarian dumpling fixes here! Unfortunately, I did not get to try at any of the eateries this time.
However, I found two vegetarian places in the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi shopping complex.
I was actually looking for Daily Smile restaurant, when I found my way into the B1 food court in the complex. I was with a friend who wasn't keen on vegetarian food. So we settled at the food court. I was looking for vegetarian food and passed by a stall that seemed to sell meat dishes but looked like they had vegetarian options. When I asked them, I was surprised that they told me it is a vegetarian stall! The reason was that the dishes on display certainly looked meaty enough.
This is the menu. The prices are quite ok. Each order consists of the main course (in the pictures) plus a bowl of rice, drinks and 3 side dish. However, I got there late and had no more side dishes. I was charged NT100 for the main course plus rice and drink.
This is the stall. Legosu. ??.
Pork ribs in a hot plate. I didn't realize it is mock meat initially.
I had a hard time trying to decide what to eat. Everything looked interesting and good. I finally settled on this Hakka preserved vegetable with "roast pork" (?????). I like Hakka preserved vegetable. Unfortunately, it turned out to be rather disappointing. The preserved vegetable's flavour was washed out and I didn't like the sauce. I should have gone for the mushroom pot instead.?
After I had placed my order, I noticed that they had cards for the Daily Smile vegetarian restaurant. ??????. I asked where they are located and was surprised that it was just one floor down at B2 in the same building. This restaurant serve baked rice, spagetthi, pizzas, "steaks" and hot pots. So it will be suitable for someone looking for some western vegetarian food. This is the website of the restaurant:?http://www.dailysmile.com.tw/
In addition to these 2 vegetarian restaurants, there is also an stall selling Indian food in the B1 food court. Cafe India is not vegetarian stall, but it half of the menu is vegetarian. So Indian friends do have a choice too.
If you at Taipei Main Station and not sure where to get vegetarian food, do check out Shin Kong Mitsukoshi basement 1 and basement 2.
Source: http://laink.blogspot.com/2013/04/vegetarian-in-taipei-around-taipei-main.html
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By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
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The Rancho Mirage City Council could pass an ordinance that would be by far most restrictive of any in the United States, even banning the use of recreational drones in residential areas.
If passed, Rancho Mirage, California would join Charlottesville, Virginia and Seattle, Washington in restricting drone use along with the some 30 states considering anti-drone legislation.
There has even been talk of anti-drone action at the federal level, all in an attempt to push back against the massive rise of drone use in the United States by countless entities both public (ranging from US Marshals to law enforcement to the National Guard to the Department of Homeland Security to the military and more) and private (from potential use by media outlets to colleges and universities to commercial operators of all kinds).
While the vote on the proposal was delayed, according to My Desert, it is still quite noteworthy due to its highly unusual focus on the use of drones over residential neighborhoods.
?I didn?t find any ordinance such as this adopted by any municipality in the United States,? said the plan?s author, City Attorney Steve Quintanilla.
However, as My Desert points out, there was also a bill introduced in the Texas legislature which seeks to ban both possession and use of images of private property captured by drones without the permission of the property owners.
The proposed ordinance in Rancho Mirage would entirely ban the flying of ?unmanned aircraft that can fly under the control of a remote pilot or by a geographic positions system (GPS) guided autopilot mechanism? up to 400 feet above residential zones.
Drones flying higher than 400 feet fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration.
While cameras are currently not covered in the proposed ban, they could be added, ?But some of the cameras can be pretty small and hard to see, so that could be difficult to enforce,? according to Quintanilla.
?Law enforcement is a whole different issue,? Quintanilla said, adding that he never considered an expansion of ban to cover other matters. ?This is an issue of privacy between neighbors.?
Currently, according to Quintanilla, there is nothing on the books to stop brazen invasions of privacy or even ?to stop a sex offender from using a drone to search for prey,? as My Desert put it.
?Technically, people can use these things to tape people?s homes and backyards and put it on YouTube,? Quintanilla said, according to USA Today.
Interestingly, all of this stemmed from a complaint from Steve Sonneville, who works out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.
A neighbor flew their quadrotor drone some 50 feet above him while he was relaxing in his backyard and while his neighbors were very cooperative once he explained his concerns, Sonneville later emailed the mayor to voice his concerns.
Rancho Mirage Mayor Steve Hines, who received a drone as a gift and has used it in his backyard and in Joshua Tree National Park, said that he thinks the language in the draft ordinance may be too broad.
?I think individuals should be able to use their own property and perhaps common areas of communities to enjoy the technology with their families,? Hines said. ?Where one crosses the line is by infringing on the privacy of others.?
Discussions surrounding the drone issue will continue until the city council?s first meeting in May.
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MANCHESTER, England, April 5 (Reuters) - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini believes a lack of goals and maverick striker Mario Balotelli's departure to AC Milan in January has harmed the defence of their Premier League crown. Second-placed City are 15 points behind rivals Manchester United, whom they face at Old Trafford on Monday, and Mancini said last week the title race was over. "Mario scored 15 goals last season. This is the difference, the goals we did not score," Mancini told a news conference on Friday. ...
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Google's latest invention, the augmented reality (AR) eyewear known simply as Glass, is not even on the market, yet along with excitement over this possible glimpse into the future, Glass is also causing controversy. It's become the focus of a Stop the Cyborgs campaign, spawned proposed legislation in the US state of West Virginia that bans its use while driving, and is device non grata at one bar in Seattle.
Dubbed Glass Explorers, 8,000 American beta users who have been given Google Glass are about to embark on an experiment documenting what Glass can and can't do; the reactions and results generated will determine its future. Until now only a select few Google employees (including co-founder Sergey Brin) have sported Glass in public, mainly eliciting curiosity. But outside the tech-friendly environs of Silicon Valley and New York, Glass Explorers are sure to get different receptions.
Steve Mann, a wearable tech pioneer (pictured below) sometimes described as a cyborg, was assaulted last July during a visit to a McDonald's in Paris when he wore his sartorially similar augmented reality device EyeTap. While no explicit reason for the attack was given, Mann inferred from words exchanged in the scuffle that his assailant feared the EyeTap was a recording device.
That sentiment has morphed into a movement with Stop the Cyborgs, a London-based organisation's campaign to ban Google Glass and similar devices. It formed in February when some friends were discussing an article that fatalistically accepted the demise of privacy.
"There were a few privacy activists voicing concerns but nobody was suggesting there was anything people could do about it," an unnamed Stop the Cyborgs spokesperson said.
Stop the Cyborgs acts as an information hub for Glass-related privacy concerns by aggregating stories on its site, and also as an advocacy effort, with a mission statement calling for selective adoption of new technologies. The core group is comprised of a programmer, an artist, and an artificial intelligence researcher, all in their late 20s, who say on the site that: "Despite what some people think we are not Neo-Luddites." The group praises Google, stresses that it is not looking for a government ban on wearable tech, and makes exceptions for assistive devices ? within limits.
While Mann does not need the EyeTap or the other devices he's created and worn, his research is designed to benefit those with vision problems. That includes Rob Spence, a filmmaker and self-described cyborg who has compensated for a lost eye with an implanted camera that he uses when making films.
"Technology is moving so rapidly many theorists are saying we're on the verge of fundamentally changing as human beings," Spence says in his documentary Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary. "In the meantime, for those of us missing parts of our bodies, we'll keep exploring and upgrading. It's possible we are the pioneers of a new cybernetic age."
Like all pioneers, they face resistance. Take Neil Harbisson. He has a disability not visually detectable by others, but one that he compensates for in a very attention-grabbing way. Harbisson was born with a condition that only allows him to see the world in black and white. He has learned to interpret colour through sound via a head-mounted device, which he calls an eyeborg. The device encodes colours as musical notes and allows Harbisson, an artist, to experience the world more fully and to interpret it in his paintings. He considers himself officially recognised as a cyborg after successfully lobbying to have the eyeborg included in his passport photo.
Harbisson's experience with the eyeborg hasn't been without its frustrations, though. He's been asked to leave cinemas and supermarkets because of fears his eyeborg could be a recording device. In response, he's created the Cyborg Foundation to help others use cybernetics, defend cyborg rights, and promote cybernetics in the arts.
In the short film Cyborg Foundation ? embedded below ? Harbisson says that a dream in which he heard colours made him realise what being a cyborg means. "It's not the union between the eyeborg and my head that converts me into a cyborg, but the union between the software and my brain," he said.
CYBORG FOUNDATION | Rafel Duran Torrent from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.
Regarding the technologies Mann, Spence, and Harbisson use, the Stop the Cyborgs spokesperson conceded that: "It certainly helps that they are entirely controlled by their wearers, are not monitored by a huge corporation, and don't encourage sharing to the cloud or social media."
While Stop the Cyborgs supports private (as opposed to government) banning of Google Glass and other wearable devices, it says it has nothing against those who identify as cyborgs. In fact, it admits, the two groups have much in common.
"There is a whole complex area here, that of cyborg rights versus privacy rights, but we are confident it can be resolved," the spokesperson said. Each side's main concern is how it identifies itself and is perceived by others. "In the end it comes down to trust and respect. We need people to have control over data and we need ways in which we can signal and assure each other that we respect each other's rights ? a new etiquette of technology."
Wearable tech might require external behavioural changes, and cause internal ones too. How people relate to each other when smartphones are present is a harbinger of how Glass is likely to affect human interaction.
In his 1954 text The Question Concerning Technology, German philosopher Martin Heidegger addresses the rejiggered relationship to the world that technology creates. When given a new way of interpreting reality, people lose the need to determine their relationship to it on their own, which is part of what makes us human. Heidegger says this danger can be mitigated by realising that technology is just one way of viewing the world. But heedless of Heidegger, people walk down the street, wait in line, or while away a commute relating only to the phone in their hands.
John Suler, professor of psychology at Rider University and a specialist in online behaviour, argues that those distracted by their smartphones aren't fully involved with either the world around them or the one in their phones. "Where are we, psychologically and emotionally, when we carry our communication devices with us?" Suler asked. "For many people, they are neither here nor there."
The impact extends to those conversing with someone who is wearing Google Glass. Glass removes the visual cues of distraction visible to both parties, such as tapping at a phone or glancing at something in the environment. "The added complication is that the psychological and emotional effect of the Google Glass input might be unconscious to the [wearer]," Suler said. "They might deny looking into their glasses rather than at their companion, and in fact they might not be consciously aware of the fact that they are being distracted. Don't underestimate the power of subliminal visual input."
That input might also affect the user's memories, Suler also noted. Because research suggests eye movements are associated with cognitive processing, Glass content and its placement could interfere with recall, he reasoned. "If you're thinking about something that happened last week with your mother and your eyes go up and to the right as you start to access that visual memory, will that memory be affected by the fact that there's a sports video playing in your Google Glasses?" Suler said. "Very likely, it will."
While Spence believes Google Glass itself might be a fad, he sees potential for building augmented reality into other types of glasses. "Much like phones have progressed, so will head-mounted options for easier visual access to data," Spence said. "I can see [augmented-reality] driving glasses being popular."
West Virginia state legislator Gary G. Howell, on the other hand, believes this will lead to more accidents caused by distracted drivers. Howell has introduced legislation banning the use of head-mounted gadgets while driving. Howell stated: "I think [Google Glass] is a great product with great possibilities, but an unwelcome distraction behind the wheel.?
He also said that since news of the bill has spread he's received a lot of feedback. "Many see Google Glass as an interesting and useful tool," he explained, "But nearly all have concerns about people using it to read text or watch video while driving."
There are three types of distractions that can occur while driving ? manual, visual, and cognitive. Glass fits the last two categories and, in some uses, the first as well. A CDC study found that one-third of drivers in the United States had read or sent emails or texts while driving, and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attributes 18 per cent of distraction-related fatalities to mobile phone use.
It's not that Glass has invented the invasion of privacy; it's that it makes it easier. University of South Carolina researcher and Professor Srihari Nelakuditi has been given a Google Faculty Research Award to develop a people-recognition app called InSight for Google Glass.
Spence jokes about the Stop the Cyborgs movement. "I think it's funny," he laughed. "I'd like to ask these bastards, though, who they think will stand against the robots when they come for the humans if not us cyborgs." Spence says that Google Glass does not upset him, but in some ways his views on it don't differ so much from Stop the Cyborgs.
"We are already living in a Big Brother society but we will soon be living in a transparent society and this will be much worse," the Stop the Cyborgs spokesperson said. "Not all oppression comes from the government; for some people it might be their overbearing boss, their partner, their peers, their parents, or their religious community."
The concerns Spence has regarding Google Glass and other technologies are much the same. "The truth is people are often more scared of what other people will do to their privacy," he said. "Are you more scared of what a downtown surveillance camera will do to your life? Or what some idiot friend of yours is posting about you on YouTube on Friday night at 3:30 a.m.? For me it's the latter. Especially if that person is wearing bloody Google Glasses."
It's easy enough to tell that someone is wearing Google Glass, but that might not always be the case. Babak Parviz, head of Project Glass, gave a talk on eye microsystems at Google think-tank conference Solve for X. Parviz started out speaking about the healthcare benefits of a high-tech contact lens but soon transitioned to the possibilities of integrating Glass-like augmented reality into lenses, something Google has begun work on.
Parviz has a theory of "one display per human" in which the lens precludes the need for displays for watches, smartphones, television, computer screens, and dashboards. "Including billboards," he throws in at the end, making the concept of "eyeballs reached" for an advert quite literal. Parviz said that Google has already begun to test lenses on animals for safety.
While there is still a way to see who is using Google Glass technology, Stop the Cyborgs has taken a step toward trying to define social boundaries. The group offers two posters for download with a crossed-out drawing of Google Glass ? one reading "Google Glass is Banned on these Premises," and the other, "No Surveillance Devices."
"One of us, I forget who, came up with the ban sign idea," the Stop the Cyborgs spokesperson said. "These things are 21st century cigarettes ? an addictive habit which can harm the people around you ? so why not ban them from enclosed public spaces? Why not shape the social norms before the things are out and it is too late?"
For an alternative take on Google Glass and privacy issues, see our article entitled Will Google Glass make privacy a thing of the past? You might also want to check out Google Glass: One year on.
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