It’s been three weeks since Google announced that a sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed Operation Aurora recently targeted it and numerous other U.S. companies.

Until now we’ve only known that the attackers got in through a vulnerability in Internet Explorer and that they obtained intellectual property and access to the Gmail accounts of two human rights activists whose work revolves around China. We also know a few details about how the hackers siphoned the stolen data, which went to IP addresses in Taiwan. About 34 mostly undisclosed companies were breached

Kim Zetter writing for WIRED explains more

In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent.

In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in "deception detection," the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation

Eamon Javers- writing for POLITICO delves deep into a world that defies intelligence

A few days ago a boy- who will remain nameless- began talking to me, and with minimal cues starting pouring his story into my ear.  

It eventuated that he was in the Army reserves.

The end of the day arrived, and as he walked me to my car, he suggested that we walk past the army reserve college and barracks that resides on Anzac Parade across the road from UNSW, I looked at him surprised,

"Surely only army men are allowed in there? What if I get shot at?" 

To which he replied,

"Haha, no, anyone can walk through here... it's fine"

We had walked some way when he stopped me and pointed to a small demountable building, (this is where the story get a little more interesting).

He informed me that, that was the building where they kept all the loaded guns for training missions. 

"Whoa, guns"- I fooled- "What kind of guns?"

"Oh you know, pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers... the usual"

"The usual? A cupboard of loaded grenade launchers is the usual on university grounds?"

"Yeah, pretty much... we just take them out when we need them for drills"

"Cool."

And it was cool, not only do I now know where the entire artillery store of UNSW is, I now also know that if I'm ever in need of some hard core weaponry that "anyone can walk through here" and grab it.

To think I had only known this boy for a number of hours.  I know men like to associate their dicks with heavy machinery, but really? This literally? 

Click read more to see where the weapons are!

All the science of Climate Change is pointing to 2015 as being the point when we have to stabilise our emissions, then dramatically reduce them if we want a chance to save ourselves from destruction.

Looking back through history there is a clear six-year-to-destruction parallel that can be made, that was in 1933, when Hitler came to power. Then the free world saw his rise from Anti-Semitism and extreme-German Nationalism to Führer, many were scared of the future and, many like Winston Churchill advised a strong show of force against a dangerous despot.

Unfortunately, this plan of action went unheeded and instead the era relied on appeasement as a means to avoid war. Obviously the plan failed, and appeasement is now a by-word .