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Saudi Arabia is changing fast. Its population is growing at one of the fastest rates in the world: just 7.3 million people lived there in 1975, but more than 20 million do today. The Saudis have failed to invest their vast royalties in businesses that will provide jobs when the oil runs out--as one day it will. And for most of two decades, the price of oil has been relatively low. Political tension has been injected into a fragile economy. On television, Saudis see what they believe is a ruthless, U.S.-backed Israeli army shooting their fellow Arabs...
...British journalists David Edmonds and John Eidinow exhaustively investigate the circumstances surrounding the alleged incident. Popper says Wittgenstein lost his cool; others disagree. But it's not just another senior-common-room spat. For Edmonds and Eidinow the altercation is a jumping-off point: they write around it in vast, widening concentric circles, sketching in its complex social and intellectual context...
Though not every single person on this list may be Arab, the vast majority are being contacted because they come from the Middle East. Singling out people from this area for different treatment is de facto racial profiling...
...Comdex, for those non-techie types lucky enough to have never attended, is the annual computer convention, the largest of its kind. It is a vast, sprawling mess that swallows the Las Vegas convention center along with several surrounding hotels (Microsoft, for example, took over twenty floors of the Marriot down the road). Attendance was down this year - from 200,000 to around 125,000. Perhaps it was fear of flying. Perhaps it was the rumor that terrorists were planning to release smallpox at the convention. Perhaps it was the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs that patrolled every entrance...
Steganographic images can be detected through "steg analysis," a process of hunting for small deviations in expected patterns in a file. The hard part is knowing where to look in the vast expanse of the online world. Toughest of all to catch: so-called low-tech steganography, in which the message is conveyed overtly. A photo on a website with arms crossed could mean attack an East Coast nuclear power plant; a blue bandanna could mean West Coast bridges. "Sometimes," says Ben Venzke, a terrorism specialist at the security analyst firm IntelCenter, "the best technologies are the simplest ones...