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Hi to everybody...here's some rather alarming news in Computer Shopper today...
Hackers cause migraines and seizures 10:26AM, Monday 31st March 2008
Hackers caused migraines and several fits when they placed seizure-inducing animations on an epilepsy sufferers' message board using automated scripts.

The affected forum belonged to the Epilepsy Foundation, an organisation founded to support sufferers and to promote medical research into the condition.

The attackers used Javascript to place flashing animations on the site,

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and also redirected browsers to a third party site that hosted images designed to induce fits. Moderators were forced to temporarily shut down the site, but it is now working once again.

The attacks began on 22 March, and caused several seizures amongst those who logged on. The true number of those affected will not be known for some time, though, believes Ken Lowenberg, senior director of web and print publishing at the foundation, as those users may not yet feel safe to return to the forum and comment on the issue.

One user reported that she "locked up" when she saw one of the animations, and had to be rescued by her 11 year old son who closed down the browser window. Another user described a "spike of pain" in her head when she saw the animation.

Posts on the forum claiming to be from the hacker group Anonymous have claimed responsibility, but the true culprits of the attack are not yet known.
Matthew Sparkes

Record levels of immigration have had "little or no impact" on the economic well-being of Britons, an influential House of Lords committee has said.

Benefits of immigration

It says competition from immigrants has had a negative impact on the low paid and training for young UK workers, and has contributed to high house prices.

The use of GDP as the measure of immigration's economic contribution was "irrelevant and misleading".

It went on to add: "The available evidence suggests that immigration has had a small negative impact on the lowest-paid workers in the UK and a small positive impact on the earnings of higher-paid workers."

And there was a "clear danger" immigration had hit training and apprenticeships offered to British workers.

This report is well worth a read - however many of us have been saying this for the last 5 years. It's blindingly obvious. So why does the Labour government insist on pushing ahead? The reason is that the Labour party is infested with hand wringing liberals, leftists who believe in spreading wealth to anyone, except those who have worked for it, and people who just plain hate the united kingdom.

The working man needs to wake up - Labour is his enemy not his friend.