It’s going to be harder for Steven Moffat and co to do it convincingly. (Oh, stop reading now if you haven’t seen it.) Moriarty is dead (or is he?) but Sherlock still must kill himself in order to save the people he might possibly have some feelings for. We see him jump, and then crumpled on the pavement, dark blood flowing from his head. That looks pretty conclusive to me.
— and the problem is that the sleight of hand is — actually — amazingly simple, and I’ll place the answer below a “read more” for those who wish to preserve a spoiler-free nature about it all —
Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco have been stolen in what is being called “an infestation” of computer viruses with origins in criminal networks in Russia, China and other countries, The Chronicle has learned.
At work for more than a decade, the viruses were detected a few days after Thanksgiving, when the college’s data security monitoring service detected an unusual pattern of computer traffic, flagging trouble.
“My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.”
— Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA and Egyptian presidential candidate, has withdrawn his bid for the position, citing an anti-democratic atmosphere still effectively in the hands of the old regime and its ways. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“Less than 24-hours after promising not to yield, the Texas congressman and author of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Lamar Smith is yielding on the bill’s controversial language that would allow the government to censor the Internet — for now.”
