A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly hacking into an email account and website tied to a recall effort — and then intimidating those associated with the site.Felix Roque, 55, the Democratic mayor of West New York, N.J., and his son Joseph, 22, allegedly accessed and cancelled the domain registration for Recallroque.com, a website that was critical of the mayor and associated with a movement to recall him in early February. Continue Reading Joseph Roque learned how to hack email accounts and GoDaddy.com, a domain registration company, by searching the Internet, according to a criminal complaint unsealed after the arrests. After RecallRoque.com was taken down, the criminal complaint says, Roque placed a telephone call to the proprietor ... Continue reading →

CPA Australia Presents An Audience with Neil Armstrong In this four part series the first man to walk on the moon, gives a personal commentary on Apollo 11’s historic lunar landing, his thoughts on leadership and taking risks to innovate for the future. Part 1 – Space Race now available Part 2 – Blast Off now available Part 3 – Giant Leap now available Part 4 – Presidential Pride now available Continue reading →

FLORENCE — The decision to suspend Greece from the common currency became inevitable when it emerged that Athens had fiddled with the accounts yet again amid chronic economic weakness, forfeiting what credibility in the international arena it still had left. That was in 1908. After diluting the gold content in its coins, Greece left the Latin Monetary Union, whose founding members included France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland. More than a century later, history may repeat itself, albeit in vastly different circumstances. From the dual currency economy of 14th-century Florence to the monetary union of Austria-Hungary and Argentina’s abandoned dollar peg, the past is littered with examples of countries’ weighing the costs and benefits of different monetary regimes. What can history teach us about the options ... Continue reading →

What was presented as genuine emotional loss sometimes looked like competitive grieving — sadness mixed with the performance art of social media. Or as Jacob Silverman witheringly sighed on Jewcy.com, “On Twitter, grief is just another meme.” If your Facebook feed was free of Gibb adulation, then it might have been nostalgia-bombed by Donna Summer retrospectives, Adam “MCA” Yauch tributes, Levon Helm memories, Maurice Sendak mash notes, and Chuck Brown YouTube videos, photographs and moldering interviews. Everyone was sad, so sad. Everyone was everyone’s favorite artist.In the boomer icon death flood of recent weeks, certain behaviors have emerged, the new rules for mourning online: Sorrow is poignant. Sorrow is public. Sorrow is pithy. “He finally reached Brooklyn. ­#RIPMCA,” one Twitter user wrote. (Actually, dozens wrote ... Continue reading →

A few dozen protesters met him with chants of “Get out, Romney, get out!”Madaline G. Dunn, 78, who said she has lived there for 50 years, said she is “personally offended” that Romney would visit her neighborhood.“It’s not appreciated here,” she said. “It is absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.”Romney took his campaign to the Universal Bluford Charter School in West Philadelphia aiming to highlight his education agenda but also to connect with voters who were not part of his political calculus during the primary campaign. “I come to learn, obviously, from people who are having experiences that are unique and instructive,” he said.Despite the obvious difficulties, Romney’s outreach to black voters could reap dividends even if he is ... Continue reading →

24 May 2012 Last updated at 21:47 ET Siting decision due on Square Kilometre Array By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News The Karoo Array Telescope (Meerkat) is being built as a precursor instrument for the SKA A decision is due later on where to site one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century. Australia and South Africa have been competing to host the 1.5bn-euro (£1.2bn) Square Kilometre Array, a giant next-generation radio telescope. The SKA's huge fields of antennas will sweep the sky for answers to the major outstanding questions in astronomy. They will probe the early Universe, test Einstein's theory of gravity and even search for alien intelligent life. Nations belonging to the SKA Organisation are meeting in a hotel at ... Continue reading →

25 May 2012 Last updated at 00:01 Cookie law: websites must seek consent from this weekend By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News The EU wants to put a stop to tracking cookies logging a user's activity without their knowledge Friday marks the last working day for UK businesses to prepare their websites for a new law governing the use of cookies. From Sunday, sites must obtain "informed consent" from visitors before saving cookies on a machine. Cookies are pieces of personal data stored when users browse the web, sometimes to power advertising. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is to launch a tool for the public to report non-compliant sites. It is expected that the vast majority of websites will not be ready in time. ... Continue reading →