How to use Google for Hacking

Google serves almost 80 percent of all search queries on the Internet, proving itself as the most popular search engine. However Google makes it possible to reach not only the publicly available information resources, but also gives access to some of the most confidential information that should never have been revealed. In this post I will show how to use Google for exploiting security vulnerabilities within websites. The following are some of the hacks that can be accomplished using Google.

 

1. Hacking Security Cameras

 

There exists many security cameras used for monitoring places like parking lots, college campus, road traffic etc. which can be hacked using Google so that you can view the images captured by those cameras in real time. All you have to do is use the following search query in Google. Type in Google search box exactly as follows and hit enter

inurl:”viewerframe?mode=motion”

Click on any of the search results (Top 5 recommended) and you will gain access to the live camera which has full controls. You will see something as follows

As you can see in the above screenshot, you now have access to the Live cameras which work in real-time. You can also move the cameras in all the four directions, perform actions such as zoom in and zoom out. This camera has really a less refresh rate. But there are other search queries through which you can gain access to other cameras which have faster refresh rates. So to access them just use the following search query.

intitle:”Live View / – AXIS”

Click on any of the search results to access a different set of live cameras. Thus you have hacked Security Cameras using Google.

 

2. Hacking Personal and Confidential Documents

 

Using Google it is possible to gain access to an email repository containing CV of hundreds of people which were created when applying for their jobs. The documents containing their Address, Phone, DOB, Education, Work experience etc. can be found just in seconds.

intitle:”curriculum vitae” “phone * * *” “address *” “e-mail”

You can gain access to a list of .xls (excel documents) which contain contact details including email addresses of large group of people. To do so type the following search query and hit enter.

filetype:xls inurl:”email.xls”

Also it’s possible to gain access to documents potentially containing information on bank accounts, financial summaries and credit card numbers using the following search query

intitle:index.of finances.xls

 

3. Hacking Google to gain access to Free Stuffs

 

Ever wondered how to hack Google for free music or ebooks. Well here is a way to do that. To download free music just enter the following query on google search box and hit enter.

“?intitle:index.of?mp3 eminem“

Now you’ll gain access to the whole index of eminem album where in you can download the songs of your choice. Instead of eminem you can subtitute the name of your favorite album. To search for the ebooks all you have to do is replace “eminem” with your favorite book name. Also replace “mp3″ with “pdf” or “zip” or “rar”.
I hope you enjoy this post. Pass your comments. Cheers!

Remove Windows Genuine Notification

I recently again came up with the situation that Windows Genuine Notification popped up because Windows Update again installed it via Automatic Updates. It pops up while a user logs in to windows, displays a message near the system tray and keeps on reminding you in between work that the copy of windows is not genuine. It has been reported since its first release that even genuine users are getting this prompt, so Microsoft has them self release instructions for its removal. When I searched on Google about this issue, I landed up on pages which were providing many methods of its removal including those patching up existing files with their cracked versions which I would highly recommend avoiding them as they might contain malicious code and can be used to get you into more trouble.
I found out this method of removal of Windows Genuine Notification :

1. Launch Windows Task Manager.
2. End wgatray.exe process in Task Manager.
3. Restart Windows XP in Safe Mode.
4. Delete WgaTray.exe from C:\Windows\System32.
5. Delete WgaTray.exe from C:\Windows\System32\dllcache.
6. Launch RegEdit.
7. Browse to the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
8. Delete the folder WgaLogon and all its contents
9. Reboot Windows XP.

But the latest version of the WGN tool is a little tricky to handle. It will pop up again as soon as you end it from the task manager and while it is running in the memory, you can’t delete it too.
Here is how I did it :

• Ignore Step #2 of ending wgatray.exe before restarting to Safe Mode as it serves no purpose.
• At Step #4, wait on the deletion confirmation dialog box and then open task manager to end wgatray.exe
• When you are again prompted for a confirmation for terminating the process, align that confirmation box over the delete confirmation box.
• Press Yes on the Task Manager prompt and then quickly press Yes on the deletion confirmation. (You need to repeat this if you miss it)
• If you did it quickly then you will be able to delete the file.
• Step #5 can be missed. I was able to do it without the Step #5.
• Complete Step 6 to 9 as instructed.

After you have followed all the above instructions, then

• Go to Control Panel > Security Center > Automatic Update Settings.
• Select the third option “Notify me but don’t automatically download or install them“.
• Click Ok.
• Now when Windows Updates icon will appear in the system tray (it will take some time), click on the icon and it will display a list of available updates.
• This time unselect the checkbox of Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool, and click on Download.
  
• Select “Don’t notify my about these updates again” so it will ignored every time updates are downloaded.
• From the next time, make sure to check the list of download so that you might not install any new version of this tool.

How to Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications

This article applies to the version of Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications for Windows XP that is distributed during the pilot program. For example, this version is included in the pre-release version that accompanies the Microsoft Software License Terms. To safely and easily uninstall the pilot version, you must install the general release version of WGA Notifications. If you do not install this version, you can follow the steps in this article to disable or uninstall the pilot version.

Important These instructions have not been tested on the general release version of the WGA Notifications. Therefore, these instructions are not supported. Microsoft will offer the general release version of WGA Notifications to users who uninstall the pilot version at a later date. These users will obtain the general release version through the Microsoft Automatic Update service. WGA Notifications is part of the Windows Genuine Advantage program.

For more information about how to obtain the latest release of WGA Notifications, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

905474  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905474/ ) Description of the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications application

When you use a non-genuine version of Windows, you receive a message when you log on that states that the copy of Windows appears to be non-genuine. Then, you are directed to the WGA Web site to learn more. If you do not want to obtain a genuine copy of Windows, you receive periodic messages that notify you that the copy of Windows appears to be non-genuine.

Note If you are running a genuine copy of Windows and want to use WGA Notifications, you may receive messages to update Windows XP.

Regardless of genuine status, users are not denied access to critical updates. However, users who have not successfully validated their copies of Windows XP cannot install other updates such as those for Windows Internet Explorer and Windows Defender, and they will not have access to downloads that are reserved exclusively for users of genuine Windows.
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ ) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

Disable WGA Notifications

1. Log on to the computer by using an account that has administrative permissions.
2. Make sure that the WGA Notifications version that exists on the computer is a pilot version. The version format for the pilot version is 1.5.0532.x. In this case, you can uninstall versions 527-532 only. For example, you can uninstall versions that range from 1.5.0527.0 to 1.5.0532.2. To find the WGA Notifications version, follow these steps.
   
   1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
   2. Double-click Add or Remove Programs, click Windows XP - Software, click Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications, and then click Click here for support information.
   3. In the Support Info dialog box, verify the version number, and then click Close.
3. Rename the following files by changing the extension to .old:
   
   • Rename %Windir%\system32\WgaLogon.dll to %Windir%\system32\WgaLogon.old
   • Rename %Windir%\system32\WgaTray.exe to %Windir%\system32\WgaTray.old
4. Restart the computer.

Manually uninstall WGA Notifications

1. Log on to the computer by using an account that has administrative permissions.
2. Make sure that the WGA Notifications version that exists on the computer is a pilot version. The version format for the pilot version is 1.5.0532.x. In this case, you can uninstall versions 527-532 only. For example, you can uninstall versions that range from 1.5.0527.0 to 1.5.0532.2. To find the WGA Notifications version, follow these steps:
   
   1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
   2. Double-click Add or Remove Programs, click Windows XP - Software, click Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications, and then click Click here for support information.
      
      Note If Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications does not appear, the release version is installed. You cannot uninstall the release version of WGA Notifications.
   3. In the Support Info dialog box, verify the version number, and then click Close.
3. Rename the following files by changing the extension to .old:
   
   • Rename %Windir%\system32\WgaLogon.dll to %Windir%\system32\WgaLogon.old
   • Rename %Windir%\system32\WgaTray.exe to %Windir%\system32\WgaTray.old
4. Restart the computer.
5. Unregister LegitCheckControl.dll by using Regsvr32. To do this, follow these steps:
   
   1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
   2. At the command prompt, type the following, and then press ENTER:
      
      Regsvr32 %Windir%\system32\LegitCheckControl.dll /u
6. Restart the computer.
7. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
8. At the command prompt, delete the following files by typing the Del command. Press ENTER after you type each command.
   
   • Del %Windir%\system32\wgalogon.old
   • Del %Windir%\system32\WgaTray.old
   • Del %Windir%\system32\LegitCheckControl.dll
9. At the command prompt, type regedit.
10. Locate and then right-click the following registry subkeys. Click Delete after you locate each subkey.
    
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\ CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WgaLogon
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Uninstall\WgaNotify

For more information about WGA Notifications, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/AboutNotifications.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/AboutNotifications.aspx)

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BIG BROTHER AFRICA

M-Net has announced that a fifth edition of Big Brother Africa will begin a week after the World Cup ends and that it will air 24/7 for 91 days on DStv Channel 198, which can be accessed by DStv Premium and Compact subscribers.

Once again the prize money will be US$200,000 and the show will be aired in over 40 countries across the continent.

As a cost-cutting measure, M-Net has announced it won’t be calling for entries for the new show, instead head-hunting contestants from a database of entries submitted for previous seasons.

"We want to invest more broadly in Big Brother Africa Season 5 and having already been introduced to a world of interesting characters from previous searches, there’s limited value in spending extensively in another search for contestants," said M-Net Africa Managing Director Biola Alabi.

"We’ll still be looking for entertaining persons with a sense of humour, a love of adventure and the ability to enjoy the very exciting Big Brother experience.

"In the past we’ve spent widely to find contestants in 14 countries. This year, we’re using these funds to develop a gutsy new series, recreating the house in a very different way and focusing on putting new technology into place."

One technological change already in place is that this year DStv channel 198 will feature two television feeds. There will be two streams of video and audio coming out of the house and viewers can simply pick the one that they wish to watch.

Nigerian television and radio star I.K. Osakioduwa will return to the Big Brother stage for a second time.

Contestants will once again be drawn from 14 countries – Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Big Brother Africa 5 will be produced by Endemol and filmed on location in Johannesburg. This year, the house will feature 53 cameras and 100 microphones.

So if you entered the show before don't be surprised to get a call from a BBA producer one of these days, inviting you to spend 91 days in reality hell.

South Africa's 'quantum' football stadium

"This is the first public global event to use such a quantum-based encryption solution," says Professor Francesco Petruccione of the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Quantum Technology, which has led the project in partnership with the city of Durban.

The Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban's spectacular 2010 Fifa World Cup venue, has scored not only an engineering first for an African stadium with its majestic arch. It has also become the world's first "quantum" stadium.
Quantum "cryptography", which in layman's terms refers to anything written in secret code, is a new technique of providing ultra-high communication security by encoding data within quantum particles.

People climb the steps up the magnificent arch of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province. The stadium hailed as a masterpiece of design and technology 

A person who tries to intercept an information feed protected in this way without being noticed must first break the established laws of quantum mechanics.
"The project will provide a high-level security system along the optical fibre communication link between the stadium and the Joint Operations Centre during the World Cup," Petruccione said last week. "To achieve this, we use quantum mechanical methods to distribute ultra-secure encryption keys."
Information conveyed through optical fibre links is often not encrypted, and therefore vulnerable to tapping using equipment readily available via the internet, Petruccione noted.
The quantum-based system will make it virtually impossible for hackers to tap into communication between the two points via telephone, e-mail and video links.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize last week congratulated Petruccione and his team, comprising mainly academics and post-graduate students, for what he called a "remarkable innovation".
University of KwaZulu-Natal deputy vice-chancellor Rob Slotow said the university was pleased that it could make a contribution to the running of the World Cup. "Especially in this, the most spectacular stadium in South Africa," he added.

SA to host International Astronomical Project

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) signed an agreement concluding the selection process in Pretoria on Friday. The NRF is responsible for the SA Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, and the SA Square Kilometre Array project office.

The South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town will soon be host to the International Astronomical Union's Office for Astronomy Development, which will play a key role in taking astronomy to the developing world.

The Sutherland Observatory in the Northern Cape province is home to one of the world's largest telescopes, the Southern African Large Telescope, or SALT

South Africa beat about 20 countries in its bid to host the office, which will play a central role in coordinating and managing International Astronomical Union educational activities, as well as in recruiting and mobilising volunteers.
"Finding a home for the Office for Astronomy Development is the first step in the execution of the most ambitious global plan ever conceived in astronomy for development," said IAU president Robert Williams. "On the behalf of the IAU, I congratulate the SAAO and wish the new Office for Astronomy Development every success in this exciting and important new venture."
SAAO director Phil Charles said they were delighted at the confidence expressed in them. "Astronomy is all about partnerships, and we look forward to strengthening those we already have, as well as to building new ones, as we use astronomy as a vehicle to introduce science and technology to a new generation.
"South Africa has been visionary in exploiting the country's natural strategic advantage in astronomy and using it as an integral part of its science and technology strategy," Charles said.
"We aim to show that the skies are not the limit."
Southern Africa currently boasts two of the world's most advanced telescopes – Namibia's High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) and the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere.
South Africa has also been short-listed, together with Australia, to host the most powerful radio telescope ever, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT), an SKA precursor telescope, is currently being built in South Africa's Karoo region. Construction of a seven-dish MeerKAT prototype array was recently completed.
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor, speaking after the first announcement of South Africa's winning bid in May, said the award "represents a boost to all our current astronomy-related activities, including our bid to host the SKA.
"South African universities will benefit from their proximity to the office, because of the opportunities for workshops and sharing of experiences."

Breeding ground

According to Pandor, the Office for Astronomy Development is potentially a breeding ground for African leaders in the field of astronomy and development, with many opportunities for volunteer, contract and part-time work at specific projects.
It will give South Africans access to the biggest network for astronomy outreach and education in the world – a wonderful injection of energy into an already active and effective science education community.
She said that one of the objectives of the office was to take astronomy into parts of the world where there was none at all, and the poor, rural parts of South Africa provided an ideal close location to test and validate projects for wider implementation.
"Everyone is an astronomer at heart – all young people are curious about the universe and their part in it," Pandor said. "It is not about turning people into professional astronomers; it's about harnessing their natural curiosity about their environment and turning that into a desire to learn more."

South African Education

South Africa has 12.3-million learners, some 386 600 teachers and 26 292 schools, including 1 098 registered independent or private schools. Of all schools, roughly 6 000 are high schools (grade 7 to grade 12) and the rest primary (grade 0 to grade 6).
In government-funded public schools, the average ratio of scholars (known as "learners" in terms of the country's outcomes-based education system) to teachers ("educators") is 32.6 to one, while private schools generally have one teacher for every 17.5 scholars.
The national Department of Education is responsible for education across the country as a whole, while each of the nine provinces has its own education department.
The central government provides a national framework for school policy, but administrative responsibility lies with the provinces. Power is further devolved to grassroots level via elected school governing bodies, which have a significant say in the running of their schools.
The national Department of Education is responsible for higher education. Private schools and higher education institutions have a fair amount of autonomy, but are expected to fall in line with certain government non-negotiables - no child may be excluded from a school on grounds of his or her race or religion, for example.
Three bands of education
South Africa's National Qualifications Framework (NQF) recognises three broad bands of education: General Education and Training, Further Education and Training, and Higher Education and Training.
School life spans 13 years or grades, from grade 0, otherwise known as grade R or "reception year", through to grade 12 or "matric" - the year of matriculation. General Education and Training runs from grade 0 to grade 9. Under the South African Schools Act of 1996, education is compulsory for all South Africans from age 7 (grade 1) to age 15, or the completion of grade 9. General Education and Training also includes Adult Basic Education and Training.
Levels of education in South Africa
(Source: Department of Education)
Further Education and Training takes place from grades 10 to 12, and also includes career-oriented education and training offered in other Further Education and Training institutions - technical colleges, community colleges and private colleges. Diplomas and certificates are qualifications recognised at this level.
The matric pass rate, which was as low as 40% in the late 1990s, continues to improve each year, reaching 68.3% in 2005.

• A parent's guide to schooling

Higher Education and Training, or tertiary education, includes education for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, certificates and diplomas, up to the level of the doctoral degree. A matric endorsement is required for the study of university degrees, with a minimum of three subjects passed at the higher, rather than standard, grade, although some universities set additional academic requirements. A standard school-leaving South African senior certificate is sufficient for technical qualifications and diplomas.
South Africa has a vibrant higher education sector, with more than a million students enrolled in the country's 24 state-funded tertiary institutions: 11 universities, five universities of technology, and six comprehensive institutions.
These have recently been integrated, with the country's former 36 universities and "technikons" being amalgamated into larger tertiary institutions. Higher education is also offered at hundreds of private institutions, which are registered with the Department of Education to confer specific degrees and diplomas.
Many of South Africa's universities are world-class academic institutions, at the cutting edge of research in certain spheres. Although subsidized by the state, the universities are autonomous, reporting to their own councils rather than government.

• South Africa's universities

Spending and challenges
Compared with most other countries, education gets a really big slice of the pie - usually around 20% of total government expenditure. In the 2006 Budget education received R92.1-billion, amounting to 17.8% of total spending. More money is always needed to address the huge backlogs left by 40 years of apartheid education. Under that system, white South African children received a quality schooling virtually for free, while their black counterparts had only "Bantu education".
Education was viewed as a part of the overall apartheid system, which included the "homelands", urban restrictions, pass laws and job reservation. The role of black Africans was as labourers or servants only. As HF Verwoerd, the architect of the Bantu Education Act of 1953, conceived it: "There is no place for [the African] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour. It is of no avail for him to receive a training which has as its aim, absorption in the European community."
Although today's government is working to rectify the imbalances in education, the apartheid legacy remains. The greatest challenges lie in the poorer, rural provinces like the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Schools are generally better resourced in the more affluent provinces such as Gauteng and the Western Cape.
Illiteracy rates are high at around 24% of adults over 15 years old (6- to 8-million adults are not functionally literate), teachers in township schools are poorly trained, and the matric pass rate remains low.
While 65% of whites over 20 years old and 40% of Indians have a high school or higher qualification, this figure is only 14% among blacks and 17% among the coloured population.
The government is in particular targeting education for the poorest of the poor, with two notable programmes. One is fee-free schools, institutions that receive all their required funding from the state and so do not have to charge school fees. These have been carefully identified in the country's most poverty-stricken areas, and will make up 40% of all schools in 2007.
The other is the National Schools Nutrition Programme, which feeds 1.6-million schoolchildren every day, including all those attending primary schools in 13 rural and eight urban poverty nodes. Under the programme, the Department of Education has also established 1 924 school gardens with the support of the Department of Agriculture, local government structures and a number of NGOs.
Other priorities include early childhood development, HIV-Aids awareness programmes in schools, and adult basic education and training.
A mix of public and private
Like so much else in South Africa, our education system is characterised by diversity: schools and universities vary greatly in terms of quality, financial resources, ethos and size. Top-quality schools and universities are to be found in both the state and the private education sector.
Most institutions fall under the auspices of the state, but due to an emphasis on local or community-based governance, and a strong and growing private school and higher education sector, the educational landscape is colourful.
Most state schools are state-aided to some extent: the government provides the minimum, and parents contribute to basics and extras in the form of school fees. Fees vary considerably, depending on factors such as class size, facilities and the quality of teaching offered.
Although private colleges and universities are a more recent phenomenon, South Africa has had private for centuries. There are around 1 098 registered private schools, catering for some
340 000 students - 2.8% of the total schooling population.
Many private schools chart a path of excellence, adopting cutting-edge trends, or offering solid, religious-based education since their origins as mission schools. But there are many outstanding state-aided schools, on a par with some of the top private institutions.

"South Park" Creators find no joke in Muslim Warnings

‘South Park’ Episode Altered After Muslim Group’s Warning

“South Park,” the Comedy Central series, is an animated show that tries its best to push buttons and the boundaries of free speech by mocking every high-profile target in sight, from Hollywood celebrities to religious figures. But its creators may have gotten more than they bargained for with two recent episodes that satirized the Prophet Muhammad — one that elicited an ominous message from an Islamic group based in New York, and one that was censored by the cable network that shows it.

 

Two recent “South Park” episodes on Comedy Central satirized the Prophet Muhammad — one, showing Muhammad in a bear costume, left, elicited an ominous message from an Islamic group.

On April 14 Comedy Central broadcast the 200th episode of “South Park,” a cartoon that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have produced for that channel since 1997. In honor of the occasion, Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone populated the episode with nearly all the famous people their show has lampooned in its history, including celebrities like Tom Cruise and Barbra Streisand, as well as major religious figures, like Moses, Jesus and Buddha.
Cognizant that Islam forbids the depiction of its holiest prophet, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker showed their “South Park” characters agonizing over how to bring Muhammad to their fictional Colorado town. At first the character said to be Muhammad is confined to a U-Haul trailer, and is heard speaking but is not shown. Later in the episode the character is let out of the trailer, dressed in a bear costume.
The next day the “South Park” episode was criticized by the group Revolution Muslim in a post at its Web site, revolutionmuslim.com. The post, written by a member named Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, said the episode “outright insulted” the prophet, adding: “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”
Mr. van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker and a critic of religions including Islam, was killed by an Islamic militant in Amsterdam in 2004 after he made a film that discussed the abuse of Muslim women in some Islamic societies.
In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Younus Abdullah Muhammad, a member of Revolution Muslim, repeated the group’s assertion that the post was a prediction rather than a threat. He said the post on the group’s blog “was intended in a principle that’s deeply rooted in the Islamic religion, which is called commanding the good and forbidding the evil.” He tied the group’s complaints about “South Park” to larger frustrations about American support for Israel and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Asked if the F.B.I. was investigating, Special Agent Richard Kolko, an F.B.I. spokesman in New York, said in a phone interview that the bureau did not “monitor people or groups, we investigate criminal activity.”
Mr. Kolko said: “The F.B.I. will investigate threats that occur over the Internet to determine if there is a potential for the threat to be carried out. However, in most cases these are First Amendment issues, and the F.B.I. vigorously defends people’s First Amendment rights.”
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the New York Police Department was “aware of the threat, and we’ve looked at it.”
He added, “We don’t think that this threat, as is currently assessed, rises to a crime right now.”
A law enforcement official, who requested anonymity because the investigation was continuing, said police investigators had met with people at Comedy Central and "made arrangements to address security concerns."
Comedy Central has previously given Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker a certain free rein with “South Park.” In a July 2001 episode, “Super Best Friends,” Muhammad was depicted alongside the founders of other religions, including Krishna and Lao Tzu.
But in 2006, when “South Park” wanted to weigh in on a controversy that erupted after Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, published cartoons satirizing Muhammad, it was not given the same latitude: a character said to be Muhammad was concealed behind a large black box labeled “CENSORED.” The measure was taken by the “South Park” producers partly at the insistence of Comedy Central, and partly as a commentary on the network’s policy of not allowing them to show the character, which the episode equated with giving in to the demands of extremists.
In a new episode of “South Park” broadcast Wednesday on Comedy Central, Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone exercised a degree of self-censorship. In continuing the previous week’s story line about the Prophet Muhammad, that character was hidden underneath a “CENSORED” graphic, and an audio bleep was heard when his name was said.
But in a message that appeared Thursday morning on SouthParkStudios.com, the Web site of Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker’s company, the studio said that Comedy Central had imposed further changes to the show.
“After we delivered the show, and prior to broadcast, Comedy Central placed numerous additional audio bleeps throughout the episode,” the message said. It added that the network was not allowing the episode to be streamed on the Web site, where “South Park” shows generally appear after they are broadcast on Comedy Central.
A spokesman for Comedy Central confirmed on Thursday that the network had added more bleeps to the episode than were in the version delivered by South Park Studios, and that it was not permitting the episode to be shown on the studio’s Web site. Comedy Central did not broadcast a repeat of the new “South Park” episode at midnight as it usually does, and instead showed a previous episode from this season. The channel was scheduled to do the same Thursday night.
Comedy Central declined to comment on the Revolution Muslim blog post or say if it was taking any precautions because of it.
In a statement, Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone wrote: “In the 14 years we’ve been doing ‘South Park’ we have never done a show that we couldn’t stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central, and they made a determination to alter the episode.”
The episode was to end with a speech “about intimidation and fear,” Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone wrote, adding, “It didn’t mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too.”
They continued, “We’ll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different, and we’ll see what happens to it.”

Whats Wrong With Being a Hormosexual

The term homosexuality was coined in the late 19th century by a German psychologist Karoly Maria Benkert. Although the term is new, discussions about sexuality in general, and same-sex attraction in particular, have occasioned philosophical discussion ranging from Plato’s Symposium. However, we still cannot say for sure whether homosexuality, and hence also heterosexuality and bisexuality, is socially constructed or purely driven by biological forces.

I was born this way

Many homosexuals argue that they have not chosen their condition, but that they were born that way. It is making homosexual behavior natural for them. However, because something was not chosen does not mean it was inborn. Some desires are acquired or strengthened by habituation and conditioning instead of by conscious choice of some person. For example, no one chooses to be an alcoholic, but one can become habituated to alcohol, so just as one can acquire alcoholic desires without consciously choosing them, so one may acquire homosexual desires, by engaging in homosexual fantasies or behavior. This could happen even without consciously choosing them. Since sexual desire is subject to a high degree of cognitive conditioning in humans, it would be most unusual if homosexual desires were not subject to a similar degree of cognitive conditioning. Even if there is a genetic predisposition toward homosexuality and studies on this point are inconclusive, the behavior remains unnatural because homosexuality is still not part of the natural design of humanity. It does not make homosexual behavior acceptable. Other behaviors are not rendered acceptable simply because there may be a genetic predisposition toward them. For example, scientific studies suggest some people are born with a hereditary disposition to alcoholism. However, no one would argue someone ought to fulfill these inborn urges by becoming an alcoholic. Alcoholism is not an acceptable lifestyle any more than homosexuality is.

History of homosexuality

As has been frequently noted, the ancient Greeks did not have terms or concepts that correspond to the contemporary dichotomy of homosexual and heterosexual. Probably the most frequent assumption of sexual orientation is that persons can respond erotically to beauty in either sex. Laeurtius wrote that in his adolescence he drew away the husbands from their wives, and as a young man the wives from their husbands. Some persons were noted for their exclusive interests in persons of one gender, such as Alexander the Great was known for his exclusive interest in boys and other men. Such persons are generally portrayed as the exception. Even though the gender that one was erotically attracted to was not important, other issues were salient, such as whether one exercised moderation. Status concerns were also of the highest importance, and given that only free men had full status, women and male slaves were not problematic sexual partners. Sex between freemen, on the other hand, was problematic for status. The central distinction in ancient Greek sexual relations was between taking an active or insertive role, versus a passive or penetrated one, where the passive role was acceptable only for inferiors, such as women, slaves, or male youths who were not yet citizens. There is also evidence that penetration was often avoided by having the erastes face his beloved and place his penis between the thighs of the eromenos. This is known as intercrural sex. The relationship was to be temporary and should end upon the boy reaching his adulthood. Ancient Rome had many parallels in its understanding of same-sex attraction and sexual issues more generally to ancient Greece. This is especially true under the Republic. Yet under the Empire, Roman society slowly became more negative in its views towards sexuality. It is probably due to social and economic turmoil, even before Christianity became influential. Their viewpoint was that procreative sex within marriage is allowed, while every other expression of sexuality is sinful. The Church itself started to appeal to a conception of nature as the standard of morality. Church drew it in such a way so as to forbid homosexual sex, as well as extramarital sex, nonprocreative sex within marriage, and often masturbation. This appeal to natural law became very influential in the Western tradition. An important point to note, however, is that the key category here is the sodomite. This word differs from the contemporary idea of homosexual. A sodomite was understood as act-defined, rather than as a type of person and someone who had desires to engage in sodomy, yet did not act upon them, was not a sodomite. Also, persons who engaged in heterosexual sodomy were also sodomites, and there are reports of persons being burned to death or beheaded for sodomy with a spouse. Finally, a person who had engaged in sodomy, yet who had repented of his sin and vowed to never do it again, was no longer sodomite. The gender of one’s partner is again not of decisive importance, although some medieval theologians single out same-sex sodomy as the worst type of sexual crime person could have. For the next several centuries in Europe, the laws against homosexual sex were severe in their penalties although enforcement was episodic. In some regions, decades would pass without any prosecutions at all. At these times, even with the risk of severe punishment, same-sex oriented subcultures would flourish in cities, sometimes only to be suppressed by the authorities.

Natural law

Today natural law theory offers the most common intellectual defense for differential treatment of gays and lesbians, and merits attention. The development of natural law is a long and very complicated story. However, it is reasonable place to begin is with the dialogues of Plato, for this is where some of the central ideas are first articulated, and are immediately applied to the sexual domain. Some other figures played important roles in the development of natural law theory. Aristotle, with his emphasis upon reason as the distinctive human function helped to shape the natural law perspective which says that true law is right reason in agreement with nature. Aristotle, in his approach, did allow for change to occur according to nature, and therefore the way that natural law is embodied could itself change with time. That was an idea Aquinas later incorporated into his own natural law theory. Aristotle did not write extensively about sexual issues, since he was less concerned with the appetites than Plato was. Probably the best reconstruction of his views places him in mainstream Greek society. The main issue is that of active versus a passive role, with only the latter problematic for those who either are or will become citizens. Contrary, Cicero, a later Stoic, was dismissive about sexuality in general, with some harsher remarks towards same-sex pursuits.

Queer theory

With the rise of the gay liberation movement in the post-Stonewall era, overtly gay and lesbian perspectives began to be put forward in politics and philosophy. Initially these often were overtly linked to feminist analyses of patriarchy or other, earlier approaches to theory. There are a number of ways in which queer theory differed from earlier gay liberation theory, but an important initial difference can be gotten at by examining the reasons for opting for the term queer as opposed term to gay and lesbian. Some versions of lesbian theory portrayed the essence of lesbian identity and sexuality in very specific terms. These were non-hierarchical, consensual, and, specifically in terms of sexuality, as not necessarily focused upon genitalia. Lesbians arguing from this framework, for example, could very well criticize natural law theorists as inscribing into the very law of nature, an essentially masculine sexuality, focused upon the genitals, penetration, and the status of the male orgasm. This approach, based upon characterizations of lesbian and gay identity and sexuality, suffered from some difficulties. It appeared even though the goal was to critique a heterosexist regime for its exclusion and marginalization of those whose sexuality is different, any specific or essentialist account of gay or lesbian sexuality had absolutely the same effect.

Conclusion about homosexuallity

The debates about homosexuality, in part because they often involve public policy and legal issues, always tend to be sharply polarized. Those most concerned with homosexuality, positively or negatively, are also those most engaged, with natural law theorists arguing for gays and lesbians having a reduced legal status. In the same time queer theorists engaged in critique and deconstruction of what they see as a hetero sexist regime. Yet the two do not talk much to one another, but rather ignore or talk past one another, and there are some theorists in the middle. For example it is Michael Sandel who takes an Aristotelian approach from which he argues that gay and lesbian relationships can realize the same goods that heterosexual relationships do. He largely shares the account of important human goods that natural law theorists have. Yet in his evaluation of the worth of same-sex relationships, he is clearly sympathetic to gay and lesbian concerns. Similarly, Bruce Bawer and Andrew Sullivan have written eloquent defenses of full legal equality for gays and lesbians, including marriage rights. Yet neither argue for any systematic reform of broader American culture or politics, and in this they are essentially conservative. Therefore, rather unsurprisingly, these centrists are attacked from both sides. Sullivan, for example, has been criticized at length both by queer theorists and natural law theorists. Yet as the foregoing also clearly shows, the policy and legal debates surrounding homosexuality involve fundamental issues of morality and justice, where perhaps most centrally of all, they cut to issues of personal identity and self-definition. Hence there is another, and even deeper, set of reasons for the polarization that marks these constant debates.


No. God didn't say homosexuality is wrong. Humans did. Humans wrote all scriptures from all religions. There is no god, so you can stop stressing about what god said. God said nothing. No god. Now go forth, be fruitful and party.

 

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality
• http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexuality
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