HughPickens.com (3830033) writes “David Knowles reports at Bloomberg that former Hewlett-Packard CEO and potential 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina called out Apple CEO Tim Cook as a hypocrite for criticizing Indiana and Arkansas over their Religious Freedom Restoration Acts while at the same time doing business in countries where gay rights are non-existent. “When Tim Cook is upset about all the places that he does business because of the way they treat gays and women, he needs to withdraw from 90% of the markets that he’s in, including China and Saudi Arabia, ” Fiorina said. “But I don’t hear him being upset about that.” In similar criticism of Hillary Clinton on the Fox News program Hannity, Fiorina argued that Clinton’s advocacy on behalf of women was tarnished by donations made to the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments where women’s rights are not on par with those in America. “”I must say as a woman, I find it offensive that Hillary Clinton travels the Silicon Valley, a place where I worked for a long time, and lectures Silicon Valley companies on women’s rights in technology, and yet sees nothing wrong with taking money from the Algerian government, which really denies women the most basic human rights. This is called, Sean, hypocrisy.” While Hillary Clinton hasn’t directly addressed Fiorina’s criticisms, her husband has. “You’ve got to decide, when you do this work, whether it will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country, ” former president Bill Clinton said in March. “And I believe we have done a lot more good than harm. And I believe this is a good thing.”” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Carly Fiorina Calls Apple’s Tim Cook a ‘Hypocrite’ On Gay Rights
slew writes “Apparently none of the 24K+ students who sat for the 2013 Liberia University entrance exam got a passing mark, and fewer than a hundred managed to pass the either the english (pass level 70%) or math (pass level 50%) sections required to qualify to be part of the normal class of 2k-3k students admitted every year… Historically, the pass rate has been about 20-30% and in recent years, the test has been in multiple-guess format to facilitate grading. The mathematics exam generally focuses on arithmetic, geometry, algebra, analytical geometry and elementary statistic and probability; while the English exam generally focuses on grammar, sentence completion, reading comprehension and logical reasoning. However, as a testament to the over-hang of a civil war, university over-crowding, corruption, social promotion, the admission criteria was apparently temporarily dropped to 40% math and 50% English to allow the provisional admission of about 1.6K students. And people are calling foul…” Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
New submitter cpitman writes “In a house hearing Wednesday the NSA admitted that it could query not only a suspect’s records, but also perform up to a ‘three hop query’. Considering that most people in the world are separated by under 6 degrees of separation, the NSA essentially claims that any single suspect gives them rights to investigate a large chunk of the world’s population. With the terror watch list having over 700, 000 names, just how many times has Kevin Bacon been investigated?” Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
More than two dozen advanced weapons systems were accessed, although documents obtained by The Washington Post do not indicate whether the breaches occurred on government or contractor networks. [Read more]