LOOK WHOSE TALKING?
The simple truths about your man
Ask Asafa
Monday, March 11, 2013
I keep getting asked the question, what do guys really want in a woman? Indeed, and I’ve said it before, we’re simple creatures and we don’t need that much to survive and be happy.
Ladies, here are the main things you should know about your man:
1. Don’t try to get rid of our friends. Talking badly about our friends is a bad idea, especially if we’ve been with you two months and they’ve been our friends 10 years. You should want us to have friends and a life because, as I said before, we want you to do the same.
2. We will never ask for directions or read the directions on assembling or operating any item. Just accept it, vent to your friends and leave us be. We know what we’re doing.
3. We can’t have too much sex. If you’re doubting whether you should make a move at 11:45 am on a Tuesday while we’re driving to Wendy’s, don’t. We will turn the car around with swiftness. So, again, for clarity, there are no time restraints.
4. Natural is nice. You don’t always have to put on a ton of make-up. Sometimes simple is just as sexy.
5. Don’t bug us. The more you badger us about this girl or that girl is the more you turn us off and more than likely turn our attention elsewhere. Back off.
6. We like it when you take care of us. Yes, an independent, self-assured woman is great, but there is nothing wrong with cooking us a meal, or if you see we forgot how a hanger works and help us out, we notice. Trust me, we notice.
7. We may lie from time to time. This to a) make you feel better (those pants really made you look fat) or b) for a peaceful life.
8. We really don’t want “to talk”. We don’t want this AT ALL. We really just listen so you don’t argue. In fact, even when it comes to BBM or WhatsApp, we just read the last few lines so we can respond.
9. Most of us just aren’t good at expressing ourselves. This is the truth. We weren’t really taught how. So just work with us and have patience.
10. Let us breathe. Yes it’s great waking up next to you but we don’t need you to be there every time we look up. Even if we are not complaining, ease off and let us have a little room. Let us ask you to come over or let you know we miss your company.
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Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/allwoman/The-simple-truths-about-your-man_13775876#ixzz2NQ3uRbb6
CHINA AND US PAN DI HACKING TING
Hack Attack: China and the U.S. Trade Barbs on Cyberwarfare
By Hannah BeechMarch 12, 201319 Comments
CARLOS BARRIA / REUTERS
Chinese pedestrians walk in front of the building housing the secretive Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army, on the outskirts of Shanghai on Feb, 19, 2013. The unit is believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks, a U.S. computer-security company said, prompting a strong denial by China and accusations that it was in fact the victim of U.S. hacking
The gloves are off. For years, the White House has danced around the sensitive topic of Chinese hacking into American computer systems that is believed to have compromised everything from electrical grids to the e-mail accounts of researchers focusing on China’s human-rights record. Public finger-pointing at Chinese hackers has been left largely to the American legislative branch or to private Western cybersecurity firms like Mandiant or McAfee, which have produced reports linking the Chinese military to online espionage. Even when U.S. President Barack Obama warned of the dangers of cyberwarfare in his State of the Union Address last month and then issued an executive order to protect America’s online borders, he declined to specifically name China as an offender.
No more. On March 11, U.S. National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon said that Chinese hacking had become a “key point of concern” in bilateral relations. “Increasingly, U.S. businesses are speaking out about their serious concerns about sophisticated, targeted theft of confidential business information and proprietary technologies through cyberintrusions emanating from China on an unprecedented scale,” Donilon said in remarks to Asia Society, a nonprofit organization based in New York City. “The international community cannot afford to tolerate such activity from any country.”
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For its part, China has consistently denied any state-sponsored hacking campaign. Only two days before Donilon’s speech, China’s outgoing Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi lashed out at the U.S. for the recent drumbeat of accusations blaming China for cyberattacks. “Anyone who tries to fabricate or piece together a sensational story to serve a political motive will not be able to blacken the name of others or whitewash themselves,” he said at a news conference during the National People’s Congress, the annual Chinese leadership confab currently underway in Beijing. Yang went on to call for increased regulation of this new frontier: “Cyberspace needs not war, but rules and cooperation. We oppose cyberspace becoming a new battlefield, and to using the Internet as a new tool to interfere in another country’s internal affairs.”
On Monday, Chinese newspapers, which are guided by propaganda directives from the government, launched their own incursion against Western accusers. “The American government should make a self-examination first before it accuses other countries of such behaviors,” the Global Times, a Beijing-based daily, wrote, citing a Chinese international-affairs expert. “No country can compete with America in terms of its hacking ability.” The Liberation Daily, the mouthpiece of the People’s Liberation Army, noted that between November 2012 and January 2013, “China suffered 5,792 hacker attacks launched from the U.S., making the U.S. the No. 1 country hacking China.”
(MORE: Putting China’s ‘Hacking Army’ into Perspective)
It’s unlikely that the U.S. has no interest in infiltrating Chinese government computer networks. Internet experts blame the U.S. and Israel for having created and unleashed the Stuxnet virus to debilitate Iran’s nuclear program. Nor is China considered the only perpetrator of aggression in American cyberspace. Security professionals also accuse Iran, Russia and even allies like France and Israel, among others, for forays into American government and corporate computer networks. “We suspect many countries,” says Murray Jennex, a cybersecurity expert at San Diego State University. “It’s not like the Chinese are the only ones.” Still the number and variety of attacks blamed on Chinese hackers is expanding so quickly that the White House may have felt compelled to finally respond, particularly given Beijing’s adamant denials of any nefarious activity. As Donilon noted, American businesses have become vocal about their concerns when dealing with China. “It’s common practice for [Silicon Valley] companies to reformat their computers any time they go to China,” says Jennex. “They don’t work that way in any other country.”
Meanwhile, in China, where more than half-a-billion wired citizens must contend with the so-called Great Firewall that filters online information the government considers sensitive, grim jokes circulated on local social-media sites. “The Great Firewall is very powerful,” went one. “Why cannot it stop the American hackers’ attacks?”
— With reporting by Gu Yongqiang / Bei
Read more: http://world.time.com/2013/03/12/hack-attack-china-and-the-u-s-trade-barbs-on-cyberwarfare/#ixzz2NPyvNdn2
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