CommentOld wine in new wineskins?New plan a chance to fix age-old problems. Proponents of the “not everything was bad under the Socialists” theory can feel confirmed in their views: the Wednesday before last the new government with its New Széchenyi Development Plan essentially advocated a continuation of the previous government’s New Hungary Development Plan which itself was a rehash of the original Széchenyi Plan that Fidesz undertook during its last term in power from 1998 to 2002. more
RegionFormer Yugoslavia marks anniversary of Operation Storm; Croatia unapologeticThe former Yugoslavia last week marked the 15th anniversary of Operation Storm when the Croatian army expelled Serbian forces from occupied parts of Croatia.Croatia’s Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said it was a “victory” over the policies of former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic in a ceremony at Zagreb central cemetery. more
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CultureJewish cultural celebration comes of ageInterview with Vera Vadas, director of the Jewish Summer Festival. The Jewish Summer Festival is celebrating its own Bar Mitzvah this year, and at 13 years old stands on the threshold between childhood and adulthood. The festival offers a diverse programme of events from 26 August to 6 September. The Budapest Times spoke to the director of these “days of joy”, Vera Vadas. more
Eating OutFrench charm at Lake BalatonReview: Kredenc Borbisztró, Balatonfüred. Strolling through the elegant quarter of Balatonfüred built during the Reform period (beginning of the 19th century), visitors will come across the Kredenc wine bistro right next to the Kedves confectioner’s in Blaha Lujza utca. For anyone who has been to France it will surely bring to mind the bistros there: small tables outside that invite one to linger, while the interior has a homely atmosphere with pleasant background music. more
HistoryCommunists stole labour movement’s momentBob Dent searches for some missing history. When I first came to Budapest in the 1980s there was a memorial plaque on the façade of the Mûcsarnok or Hall of Arts in Heroes’ Square. The plaque commemorated a massive workers’ demonstration of 1 September 1930. The marchers had passed through Heroes’ Square on their way to City Park. In recent years it has struck me that the plaque is no longer there. more
Wikinews has learned that according to an internet posting made just over 24 hours ago, the Church of Scientology's website is being attacked by hackers, causing the site to shut down.
The attack was launched on Wednesday by a user calling himself "Anonymous", on the website "Project Chanology". The "History" section of the site explains, in a satirical fashion, that the incident was prompted by the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove a promotional video featuring Scientologist Tom Cruise from YouTube. Though YouTube is complying with the Church of Scientology's requests to take down the video, other sites such as Gawker.com have stated that they will keep hosting the video.
Writing in a blog post, Matthew Ingram of The Globe and Mail dubbed the ongoing conflict involving the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove the Cruise video from the Internet: "Scientology vs. the Internet, part XVII". He characterized the conflict between the Church of Scientology and anonymous posters of the Cruise video as "another small skirmish in a war that Scientology has been waging for almost 15 years, since the early days of newsgroups such as alt.religion.scientology, which posted internal church documents in 1994. Lawsuits have been filed, mailing lists have been shut down, homes of discussion group participants have been raided and their computers seized -- an all-out war."
One poster admitted to being a part of the effort, writing in a blog post "I have myself, as per instructions, loaded up Gigaloader and started bombarding the Scientology homepage. Theres [sic] something in the hilarious anarchy of the net that produces these 'events' every now and again." The poster wrote that "Prompted I think by the Tom Cruise video, a new obsession is taking hold on the internet."
"Someone emailed me earlier today talking about a tool a group’s been using to attack the scientology website. It’s an interesting tool, created to overload/create malformed strings and crash a website’s database," said the post by an unknown author on pigmy.
The Church's website is currently unreachable. Some individuals report that when they are able to reach the site, all they get is a message stating, "The word scientology means search for truth...".
Posts on the message board for the Scientology-critic site Operation Clambake from Friday theorized that a denial-of-service attack had occurred, and wrote that as of Friday the Scientology.org site was either not loading at all, or loading very slowly. Critics of Scientology at the Internet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology were critical of the attacks to the Church of Scientology website, with one poster writing "How can people look at both sides if one side is gone?"
Traffic to the Scientology website had already increased 18-fold prior to the attack, following increased attention after the Tom Cruise video appeared on the Internet. Wikinews reported on this story in "Tom Cruise Scientology promotional video leaked to the Internet". At that time, one in three visits to the site came from BBC News, and the website increased to number 3 in the company Hitwise UK's Lifestyle-Religion category.
(Source: http://en.wikinews.org, released under CC-BY-2.5, for more information go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)
Attacking a website is silly. The whole cult ought to be shut down. The FBI should investigate the abusive practices. Many survived Scientology and have long sad stories to tell.
3. Written by anonymous-yid on 20-01-2008 10:50 - Guest
keep going men!
man the harpoons! double the dataforce!
xenu aint getting out of this alive
4. Written by anon on 20-01-2008 12:10 - Guest
Wikinews
Hey people,
This is not correctly cited from Wikinews. In order to re-use their content, you must link directly to the article, and link to a copy of the liscence it is released from.
Thank you. Have a nice day.
5. Written by Brian McNeil on 20-01-2008 13:11 - Guest
Link to Wikinews
This story should really link to http://en.wikinews.org and cite the CC-BY-2.5 license that it is released under.
Corporate Finance / M&A CornerManaging Risk to Build Corporate Value (Part II)
My previous column (Part I of this series) dealt with risks in the
valuation of companies, stressing in particular that the higher the risk
associated with a company, the lower the value of that company. This
is not static: investors’ perceptions of risks constantly evolve as they
assess a company and the valuation process is consequently also
evolving in tandem. In the context of privately-owned companies, few
things are more crucial than the due diligence process, when an investor
reviews — in detail — all of a company’s title documents, financial
records, contracts, etc. Because of this, it is in the interests of
all owners to identify and manage risks well in advance of engaging in
serious discussions with investors. more
What lies beneathLegal, againEscaping the Hungarian heat two weekends ago had us driving into an approaching Austrian cold front with its accompanying downbursts, thunder, lightning, dark foreboding clouds and refreshingly cool air. That cold front was a reprieve and the kind we needed on more than one front. more
Letters to the EditorRules not meant to be brokenDear Editor,I’m an Englishman who is resident in Budapest and works in the film industry.I fell in love with the city when we filmed Eragon about five years ago and decided to buy an apartment on the Buda side with a river frontage in District I, which has a World Heritage Site designation. more
