http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1536414.1536440

Using this scheme, one can arbitrarily compute on encrypted data – i.e., one can process encrypted data (query it, write into it, do anything to it that can be efficiently expressed as a circuit) without the decryption key. A user can store data on an untrusted
server in encrypted form, yet still allow the server to process it, respond to (encrypted) queries etc... There is a list of “killer” applications for fully homomorphic encryption. For example, you can now process data on a completely untrusted cloud provider.

In the movie you'll see

• "Continue numbering" with the previous number as 1, turn a number to 97 or something
• Set number value (how can that be misinterpreted OR difficult to program??) turn a number to 97 and indent it by the wrong amount which then can't be undone without turning all the numbers in the entire document to one long list...
• Various failed attempts to copy bits from numbering parts which turned out OK but mysteriously screw up when pasted in this bit
• Starting a new line does not produce a new number for some reason

Step 1 - find this file
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Step 2 - open it

Step 3 - save it on the desktop (Vista won't let you save it even as admin)

Step 4 - find a line in the hosts file that says
::1 localhost

Step 5 Copy it to overwrite the original at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Voila'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7972702.stm
"The spokesman of the Chinese embassy in London said that there was no evidence to show Beijing was involved.

He suggested the findings were part of a "propaganda campaign" by the Tibetan government in exile. "

"BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese officials on Wednesday denied a so-called "media war" over the March 14 riot in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, saying that the majority of foreign journalists were covering the issue fairly."

http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/zgxz/t423192.htm (OK that one is from the Chinese embassy but I bet it was reported verbatim elsewhere)

President Robert Mugabe has said Zimbabwe has contained cholera - as the UN and a UK charity warned the deadly outbreak was getting worse.

Save the Children said: "If anything is certain in the chaos of Zimbabwe today it is that the cholera outbreak is not under control."

Mr Mugabe also said Western powers were plotting to use cholera as an excuse to invade and overthrow him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7777178.stm

"The Zimbabwean Government has rejected widespread criticism of a new media law passed by parliament on Thursday.

Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told the BBC there was nothing in the legislation which was intended to stifle dissent. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1795125.stm

But how do you let someone use online sources and type their exam answers without opening up to a cheating-fest? Is it better to keep to the old crap system just in order to avoid this? Also what skills should we be measuring nowadays even assuming we could make a viable cheat-proof system?

My initial answer is - yes we should definitely update the exam system. One obvious answer would be to sniff all network traffic of people doing the exams and log it in a non-repudiatable way. Then do spot checks on every 20th candidate (say) and really check out what they were doing during the exam. If there is any foul play, then you throw out that person's submission and apply the usual deterrents...

"Many of the developers of so-called 'intelligent systems' have not yet grasped this reality. They see themselves at the forefront of the new technology that is spawning 'Cyberspace,' and yet they are drenched in the mind-set and ritual of the defunct machine age. Theirs is an arrogance that persists in spreading the malignant lie, that knowledge and intelligence can be disembodied, discerned through the application of logic and mathematical models, and finally automated. Bunkum! This is just the latest in a long line of nonsense, of 'knowledge engineering,' 'data mining' and 'inference engines,' that has been inflicted on a world made gullible through ritualized technology. Mega-millions of dollars have been wasted in the 'knowledge scam,' the futile quest to categorize common sense knowledge and basic human intelligence in this daft way. Thankfully it will soon be dumped in the garbage bin of technological history."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7865332.stm

Here are my favourite quotes:

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
Washington DC, 27 October, 2003

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.''
Townsend, Tennessee, 21 February, 2001

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
Reuters, 5 May, 2000