Juba Peace talks aimed at ending Ugandas brutal Lords Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency hit a snag on Saturday as the government threatened to walk out over harsh rebel rhetoric, officials said. Kampalas delegation complained that the LRA had been too "combative" in its opening statement on Friday when the rebels vowed to continue their 19-year war in northern Uganda unless all their grievances were addressed.
"We are very concerned about the combative mood of the LRA delegation. That mood is not good for peace talks. We told them that we cannot continue with that combative mood," Paddy Ankunda, the spokesman for the Ugandan team, said, adding that Ugandas lead negotiator, Interior Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, was meeting with mediators to unblock the stalemate. "We are ready to compromise because we know who they are," Akunda said.
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TEGUCIGALPA (AP) - The United States is helping Honduras establish a new military base to combat international drug trafficking, according to a senior military official quoted in a Honduran newspaper on Saturday. The base, planned for the northeastern province of Gracias a Dios near the Nicaraguan border, will allow Honduras to house aircraft and a fuel supplying system, according to the newspaper, La Prensa.
Honduran army and navy forces are already in the area, but "it's a zone where there is conflict and problems, therefore we need to have greater presence," Gen. Romeo Vasquez, head of the joint chiefs of staff of the armed forces, told the newspaper. He said that task force would initially consist of Honduran soldiers, who would be joined by U.S. forces if needed.
The base is "a long-term project, but it is being studied formally by both governments," said Col. Leonardo Munoz, spokesman for the armed forces.
The project will coincide with other U.S.-funded initiatives in the area, including bridges and a 50-mile highway between the cities of Mocoron and Puerto Lempira. More than 70,000 people live in Gracias a Dios, near the Caribbean Sea, which includes virgin jungles used by Colombian drug traffickers. According to the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, more than 100 tons of cocaine from Colombia destined for the United States passes through Honduras each year.
The United States also has maintained the Enrique Soto Cano air base, known as Palmerola, in Honduras for 23 years. The base, 28 miles northwest of the capital of Tegucigalpa, houses about 350 U.S. soldiers.
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Good move
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Halo Presidente!
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Thousands of demonstrators demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched to Haiti's National Palace on Saturday, pushing past riot police in a dramatic show of support for the exiled former leader. Chants of "Aristide or death!" and "Aristide's blood is our blood!" rang out as a crush of demonstrators pressed against a line of national police, who eventually allowed some 3,000 protesters to fill the street outside the palace.
"Aristide, we will defend you with our blood!"
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In Haiti things are never so bad that they can't get significantly worse.
Posted on the off-chance that France still matters.
The French president, Jacques Chirac, gave what was probably his last Bastille Day address to the nation yesterday, vowing to put his final months in office to good use and stop France falling into political paralysis.
Falling?
But Mr Chirac, 73, who has been in office for 11 years, refused to say he would not stand for a third term in 2007 - he would announce his decision early next year. He pointedly declined to endorse the conservative presidential frontrunner, the interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Last year Mr Sarkozy hosted a rival garden party and compared Mr Chirac to Louis XVI at Versailles.
Louis XVI got the better of that comparison ...
Though Jacque is still wearing his head...
... his term isn't over yet ...
But this year the president persuaded Mr Sarkozy to delay the launch of his latest book, which was threatening to steal the headlines this week, and assured the nation that the pair had "very good relations".
Like Lewis and Martin.
Mr Chirac has had one of his most turbulent years as president. His popularity plummeted after last autumn's riots in the suburbs, followed by serious street protests over employment laws, and allegations of a smear campaign within his government. His popularity rose slightly in the past month, boosted in part by French successes at the World Cup.
Especially the head-butt: that made everyone think of Chirac.
He promised to put the next 10 months to good use, overseeing the reform of the justice system and cutting unemployment in what he called a "great nation in a state of malaise".
How that man's lips never fall off I'll never know ...
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So can we translate "Reform of the Justice System" as "Making sure I don't do hard time for corruption once I leave office?"
ROGERS, Ark. -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, on a rare visit to her former Arkansas stomping grounds, reminisced about old times with state Democratic women and told their convention that America faces challenges including energy policy, stagnant wages and rising health-care costs.
... and, oh, yes: We're in the middle of a war...
The former first lady got an enthusiastic reception from about 650 women and men at a convention of the Arkansas Federation of Democratic Women, in a corner of the state considered a Republican stronghold. "I'm so happy to be here and to see so many friends and to see so many Democrats in Benton County," said Clinton, who also was first lady of Arkansas before husband Bill Clinton became president in 1993. The meeting at a convention center in Rogers was about 25 miles north of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville where she first came to the state as a law professor in 1974. The crowd stood, cheered and waved red signs reading "Madam President, January 20 2009," alluding to calls for her to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. Clinton says she is focused on her bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate.
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Mona Lisa Vito: [Vinny looks at her funny] What?
Vinny Gambini: Nothing. You stick out like a sore thumb around here.
Mona Lisa Vito: Me? What about you?
Vinny Gambini: I fit in better than you. At least I'm wearing cowboy boots.
Mona Lisa Vito: Oh yeah, you blend.
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The space shuttle Discovery detached from the International Space Station early Saturday, slipping away from the research outpost after more than a week of joint operations that set the stage for future missions.
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TO THE lay observer it seems like an infinite network of computers, servers and cables stretching around the globe. But the worldwide web is filling up. So quickly, it turns out, that programmers have had to devise a new one. Of the internet addresses available, more than three quarters are already in use, and the remainder are expected to be assigned by 2009. So, what will happen as more people in developing countries come online? The answer is IPv6, a new internet protocol that has more spaces than the old one: 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 spaces, in fact. Currently theres four billion addresses available and there are six billion humans on Earth, so theres obviously an issue there, said David Kessens, chairman of the IPv6 working group at RIPE, one of five regional internet registries in charge of rolling it out.
Every device that is connected to the internet websites, computers and mobile phones needs an internet address to locate it on the network. When the internet was developed in the 1980s, programmers had no idea how big it would become. They gave each address a 16-bit number, which meant that the total number of available addresses worked out at about four billion (2 to the power of 32). But as use grew, it became clear that the old protocol, IPv4, wasnt big enough, so a new one was written based on 32-bit numbers. That increased the number of available addresses to 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion enough for the foreseeable future, Mr Kessens said.
IPv6 does not involve any new cables being laid, nor will there be any burden on customers, for whom the change will appear seamless. It will, however, greatly improve the quality of certain internet services, in particular phone calls, which are not suited to IPv4. The big change is going to be in peer-to-peer services like gaming and file-sharing, which are going to become much easier to use, Mr Kessens said.
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Somebody can't do binary arithmetic.
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I would prefer GPS coord type ips
IP-Carrier, Lat, Long, Alt. (random #)
Then one would not need DNS just a GPS on each network card and a carrier id. Local nets would be 192 type IP-Carrier code.
Wireless could do hopping and anealing really well.
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128 vs. 32, not 32 vs. 16. This is 4 billion times 4 billion times 4 billion (2^^96) times the size of the IPv4 address space (2^^32). This works out to be:
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
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My understanding is that IPv6 will be notated as a sixteen bit hexadecimal number to six numbers. So that would be 65536 to the sixth power, all written in hex.
9.7 and 23 zeros. A large number to be sure.
IPv4 was based on 8 bit numbers in four octals, 256 to the fourth power, or 4.2+ billion addresses, expressed in decimal form.
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I think it might be easier to get rid of the 2 billion extra people than to add 340,282,366,920,937,999,999,999,999,998,000,000,000 extra addresses. I've got a little list they'll none of them be missed.
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IPv6 has been in the works for over a decade. A lot of software in client machines and servers will need upgrading to use it. A bigger issue will be who allocates the space - look for more fighting about IANA and who "runs the internet".
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"My understanding is that IPv6 will be notated as a sixteen bit hexadecimal number to six numbers."
Your understanding is incorrect. IPv6 addresses are 128 bits in length and are expressed in a 16 byte hexadecimal format with colons delineating the individual bytes.
A good starting POINT for anyone interested in educating themselves on IPv6.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Juba Peace talks aimed at ending Ugandas brutal 
Thousands of demonstrators demanding the return of ousted president 
Mr Chirac has had one of his most turbulent years as president. His popularity plummeted after last autumn's riots in the suburbs, followed by serious street protests over employment laws, and allegations of a smear campaign within his government. His popularity rose slightly in the past month, boosted in part by French successes at the World Cup.
ROGERS, Ark. -- Sen. 
TO THE lay observer it seems like an infinite network of computers, servers and cables stretching around the globe. But the worldwide web is filling up. So quickly, it turns out, that programmers have had to devise a new one. Of the internet addresses available, more than three quarters are already in use, and the remainder are expected to be assigned by 2009. So, what will happen as more people in developing countries come online? The answer is IPv6, a new internet protocol that has more spaces than the old one: 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 spaces, in fact. Currently theres four billion addresses available and there are six billion humans on Earth, so theres obviously an issue there, said David Kessens, chairman of the IPv6 working group at RIPE, one of five regional internet registries in charge of rolling it out. 
