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>Mr. Schneiderman began his investigation in November. His staff is looking at whether statements the company made to investors about climate risks — some as recently as last year — conflicted with the company’s own scientific research.

>Part of that inquiry includes the company’s funding, for at least a decade, of outside groups that worked to dispute climate science, even as its in-house scientists were describing the possible consequences of climate change, along with the areas of uncertainty.

>The company has supplied thousands of documents in response to the inquiry. While the inquiry could be expanded to include other energy companies and trade organizations, none have been named so far.

>Many legal experts have questioned whether the actions and statements by Exxon Mobil can be construed as criminal and outside the protections of the First Amendment.

>Mr. Schneiderman said, “The First Amendment, ladies and gentlemen, does not give you the right to commit fraud.”

>The attorneys general have a range of laws to work with, including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. Mr. Schneiderman has statutes specific to New York, including the Martin Act, which gives the government broad investigative powers; laws allowing the state to take action against “persistent fraud or illegality”; and the state’s deceptive business and trade practices act.
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>Mr. Schneiderman reached a settlement last year with the coal giant Peabody Energy over that company’s financial statements and disclosures with regard to climate change.

>In terms of the current investigation, Mr. Schneiderman said, “It’s too early to say what we’re going to find.” He added, “We intend to work as aggressively as possible, but also as carefully as possible.”

>California started its own investigation into Exxon Mobil this year, but no other state had announced it was joining the effort until Tuesday. States can share information under agreements of confidentiality, and speculation has grown that Mr. Schneiderman has been working to bring other attorneys general into the New York investigation.

>Last year, Inside Climate News and The Los Angeles Times published articles from Exxon Mobil archives describing the company’s research into the risks of climate change. An activist uproar ensued, complete with a popular Twitter hashtag: #ExxonKnew.
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>Suzanne McCarron, Exxon Mobil’s vice president for public and government affairs, said accusations against the company “are politically motivated and based on discredited reporting by activist organizations.”

>She added, “We are actively assessing all legal options.”

>The accusations, she said, are based on the “preposterous” claim that the company “reached definitive conclusions about anthropogenic climate change before the world’s experts” and withheld it. The company, she noted, shared its findings in peer-reviewed publications.

>The company “recognizes the risks posed by climate change,” she said, and added, “the investigations targeting our company threaten to have a chilling effect on private sector research.”

>At the news conference, Mr. Gore drew an analogy to the actions taken during the Clinton administration against the tobacco industry, which denied risks of its products for decades, and noted that state attorneys general had been crucial to that effort. “I do think the analogy may hold up rather precisely,” he said.

Is life that shitty in Japan?

>>34582
Phillipenes has it worse.

>>34582
What is do life?

US needs to have their bases back in Turkey so they won't provoke their government. It's in our best interests to be friendly to their government in order to bomb the shit out of Iraq again.

They are terrible, but the government is not to blame. These are cowardly terrorists who target innocents.

check out this crazy idiot redneck Donald Trump supporter that wants to kill all the MUSLIMS. here is a link to the video:
https://youtu.be/yaFNxV-OJK0

>>34992
Of course extortion works.

>Aliviating...

They should try paying you guys to learn to spell too...

>>35009
I'm on mobile, sorry.

I know how annoying it is to see this shit.

>1763.45 USD per month salary
Is that liveable in Tokyo?

>>34602
It's not uncommon for companies to provide housing for their employees in Tokyo so if that's the case, yes.

>>34599
>underpopulated
It's fucking overpopulated by now with housing prices through the fucking roof. 40 million people live in the Tokyo metropolitan area alone. The declining population is a good thing, and the economy will stablise along with the population.

Better article:
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/27/japan-loses-contact-with-newest-space-telescope/

>On Saturday, Japan lost contact with its newest space telescope, called Hitomi or ASTRO-H. The telescope, which includes an instrument from NASA, was intended to study the high-energy universe in X-rays and gamma rays, and observe such objects as supermassive black holes and galaxy clusters.

>Radar observations Sunday indicated that Hitomi, which launched on February 17, is in at least five pieces—and a plot of its orbit revealed a dramatic change on March 26, the date JAXA lost contact with the spacecraft.

>That means, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, that some kind of “energetic event” has occurred—something more than a simple failure of communications.

>“Loss of comm + orbit change + radar detecting 5 pieces of debris is much worse than just loss of comm,” tweeted McDowell, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

>It’s not clear exactly what has happened on board Hitomi. Scientists are currently investigating the situation, and JAXA reports that it has gotten a trickle of a signal from the spacecraft. That means it’s possible the five pieces detected by radar are things like insulation, rather than large chunks of debris resulting from a catastrophic explosion; it’s also possible the spacecraft is tumbling, McDowell says, and that signals from Hitomi are periodically sweeping across the Earth.
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>Still, despite all the bad news, the spacecraft might not be lost.

>“I truly have not given up hope,” McDowell says, noting that equally bad space situations in the past have been successfully resolved. “We lost contact with SOHO for months and fully recovered it. ALEXIS had a solar panel break loose and was tumbling, but they learnt how to fly it and began science mission a couple months late. So it’s a long shot — and I refuse to put a number on the probability—but there is precedent for things being this bad and it turning out OK.”

>JAXA is no stranger to second chances. Late last year, the Japanese space agency managed to place its Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around Venus, after failing on the first try. When Akatsuki originally tried to orbit Earth’s twisted sister, a valve broke and sent the spacecraft on a long, 5-year journey through the solar system. But, eventually, Akatsuki caught up with its target and slipped into Venus’ gravitational clutches.

>>34553
Aren't we seeing right here a classic case of flying retired satellites ,such as glonass, that may have collapsed with the Astro, I mean, that would explain the scattering of pieces and the change in the travel orbit

>>34357
Wow, none of those quotes were true except the one where they want everyone to just let it slide

Falcão PUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>34357

The only thing worse than commies is militant, corrupt commies.

Good luck Brazil.

They're not going to try... maybe a 12.50 dollar wage ?

They're going to go all the way ! Everyone gets left behind !

>>34315
I mean whats the worst that could happen it seems like california is doing well so far

I'm no fancy wall street economicstician, but wouldn't raising the minimum wage affect the prices of almost everything else? Does raising it have any long term benefits?

DawnNews reports there was little or no security present in the park area and around it.

An eyewitness, talking to DawnNews, said: “The park is huge and has many entrance gates. There was almost no security personnel present there.”

An emergency has been declared at all state hospitals in the city. Authorities are asking for blood donations because supplies are low.

Following the attack, the local government also ordered all public parks to be closed and announced three days of mourning in the province. The main shopping areas have also been shut down and many of the city's main roads are now deserted.

Facebook has activated its 'Safe Check' feature created to help track people after deadly incidents for Lahore.

Waqt News also reports the security personnel have surrounded the area and launched a search operation in and around the park, with rescue teams dispatched to the site.

The army was called in to control crowds outside the park, as some distraught relatives clashed with police and rescue officials.

Islamist militants in Pakistan have often attacked Christians and other religious minorities over the past decade, while Christians have accused the government of doing little to protect them.

Lahore is the capital of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's political heartland of Punjab, which is the country’s biggest and wealthiest province.

I thought India got rid of the Caste System?!

Damn. Its not just poo in the loo. India has a long fucking way to go.

>>34272

lol

1,000s is miniscule. The average 6 year old who uses /news/ isn't going to be effected.

>It seems to be happening all across the country, especially in New England and California.
I'm not surprised, those colleges are usually home to the most PC students. It's too bad that this won't give these people a wake up call about how being PC is stupid. They'll just print more fliers about BLM shit and how saying "All lives matter" is racist.

I sorta want to see some one hack the same computers but print the opposite of this flier (Make it Black panther as fuck, replace swastika with fist, replace jews with patriarchy) just to see how they react. I sorta bet they'd be hanging that shit everywhere and praising it as if it were paper Jesus.

>>34283
Are we all 6?

I live in that shit hole of a town.

Literally filled with foreigners and gypsies.

The fair comes round every year and charges over the top for visitors to go on their poorly maintained death traps.
There is more important news that is occasio house and the building development in the townpark at number 5 park lane.

Also the vast population in this town live in social housing and don't appreciate the value of money.

The middle class socialists however live in green areas or church langley which wants to be separate from Harlow.

The old people are right cunts and are a bunch of lefties even though they hate foreigners.

The young are chavs who are self centred and expect everything to be handed to them.

The middle aged are your standard boomers. So still cunts.

The foreigners have inferiority complexes and get offended if someone thinks differently to them.

Out local council is labour. So they just about keep this town going. Still can't do shit right though.

Our constituency mp is Robert Halfon, who is a Jew. He was cheating on his partner and was paying for the hotel using tax payers money.

Hag in purple lives on my street. A massive nimby. Everyone deserves a home, just no where near me.

Nutter at the back by the pillar with the smile is jake shepard. Labour voting scum. Also supports the drug addicts living in occasio house.

http://www.yourharlow.com/2015/10/03/occasio-house-if-you-make-the-trough-big-enough/

Occasio house is a homeless shelter in simple terms. The people living in it do not give a shit about it and chuck rubbish out the windows. Almost got spat on once.

What if we're all degrading intellectually and now doing beastiality and integrating into the animal civilization biosphere?!?

>>34242
So...out of all the dogs she could have fucked around with, she picked a Dachshund......the irony.

Oh well, Dubs get. I'm out.

>>34242
>Haynes “did carnally copulate against the natural order” by “performing sexual acts with a Dachshund canine”
Fuckin 1800's up in here

>Our endpoint forensic analysis revealed a linkage with the recent pattern of unauthorised crossover. Using the same credentials found on the payment app webserver, the threat actors were able to interface with the water district’s valve and flow control application, also running on the AS400 system. We also discovered four separate connections over a 60-day period, leading right up to our assessment.

>During these connections, the threat actors modified application settings with little apparent knowledge of how the flow control system worked. In at least two instances, they managed to manipulate the system to alter the amount of chemicals that went into the water supply and thus handicap water treatment and production capabilities so that the recovery time to replenish water supplies increased. Fortunately, based on alert functionality, KWC was able to quickly identify and reverse the chemical and flow changes, largely minimising the impact on customers. No clear motive for the attack was found.

>Verizon's RISK Team uncovered evidence that the hacktivists had manipulated the valves controlling the flow of chemicals twice – though fortunately to no particular effect. It seems the activists lacked either the knowledge of SCADA systems or the intent to do any harm.

>The same hack also resulted in the exposure of personal information of the utility’s 2.5 million customers. There’s no evidence that this has been monetised or used to commit fraud.

>Nonetheless, the whole incident highlights the weaknesses in securing critical infrastructure systems, which often rely on ageing or hopelessly insecure setups.
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>Monzy Merza, Splunk’s director of cyber research and chief security evangelist, commented: “Dedicated and opportunistic attackers will continue to exploit low-hanging fruit present in outdated or unpatched systems. We continue to see infrastructure systems being targeted because they are generally under-resourced or believed to be out of band or not connected to the internet.”

>“Beyond the clear need to invest in intrusion detection, prevention, patch management and analytics-driven security measures, this breach underscores the importance of actionable intelligence. Reports like Verizon’s are important sources of insight. Organisations must leverage this information to collectively raise the bar in security to better detect, prevent and respond to advanced attacks. Working collectively is our best route to getting ahead of attackers,” he added.

>Reports that hackers have breached water treatment plants are rare but not unprecedented. For example, computer screenshots posted online back in November 2011 purported to show the user interface used to monitor and control equipment at the Water and Sewer Department for the City of South Houston, Texas by hackers who claimed to have pwned its systems. The claim followed attempts by the US Department of Homeland Security to dismiss a separate water utility hack claim days earlier.

>More recently hackers caused "serious damage" after breaching a German steel mill and wrecking one of its blast furnaces, according to a German government agency. Hackers got into production systems after tricking victims with spear phishing emails, said the agency.
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So a TLDR for all this is that some skid stole some names and addresses from a water company? That's it? You made me read all this crap just for that?

>>34403
There's always at least 1 nut in the crowd...

>>34403
We are anonimoose

>>34403
wrong hand
dat retard