Keep your eyes up, Mr Mayor! The moment a Canadian journalist took off her top while interviewing local government leader

cnadian journalistA Canadian radio host and newspaper columnist took off her top during an interview with her local mayor this week and continued asking him questions bare-chested.

Lori Welbourne, who hosts the radio show On The Rocks and writes a column for the Province newspaper, was talking to Walter Gray, mayor of Kelowna in

British Columbia, about whether it was legal in the town for women to bare their breasts in public.

‘What if I went walking down the street topless?’ she asked in the recorded interview.

But before Gray could answer her question, Welbourne handed him her microphone and undid the strap on her dress, exposing her breasts.
‘What are you doing,’ he asked, to which she replied, ‘it’s really hot in here.’

After regaining his composure, Gray explained that while someone may be tempted to call the police there is little authorities could do because it is in fact entirely legal for a woman to be topless anywhere a man can be.

Public toplessness is not illegal anywhere in Canada unless it’s deemed to be indecent.

Groups of women turned out shirtless in cities including New York on August 25 to celebrate a women’s right to bare her breasts in public. The annual event was started in 2007.

 

World’s first pocket calculator goes up for auction: ‘Exceptionally rare’ 17th century machine made of wood could fetch £100,000

World's first pocket calculatorAn ‘exceptionally rare’ pocket-sized calculator from the 17th Century is expected to attract £100,000 at auction.

The Arithmetical machine is one of the first mechanical calculating devices known to exist and is the first portable device.

The antique ‘pocket calculator’ will go under the hammer at Christie’s in October and is one of three examples of the design to have survived.

The wooden machine measures around 15cm in width and 32cm in length and dates from 1673.

It was crafted by René Grillet de Roven, who was a Parisian mechanician and watchmaker to His Royal Highness King Louis XIV.

James Hyslop, head of Travel, Science and Natural History at the auction house, said: ‘This pocket-sized calculator is one of the earliest surviving pieces in the history of the computer.’

The Arithmetical machine performs all the arithmetic operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through the use of these rolling rotating Napier’s ‘bones’.

There are only three other known examples of this design, two of which are in the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris and the other in the collections of IBM in New York.

 

China’s Internet hit by biggest cyberattack in its history

china-ddosInternet users in China were met with sluggish response times early Sunday as the country’s domain extension came under a “denial of service” attack.

The attack was the largest of its kind ever in China, according to the ChinaInternetNetworkInformationCenter, a state agency that manages the .cn country domain.

The double-barreled attacks took place at around 2 a.m. Sunday, and then again at 4 a.m. The second attack was “long-lasting and large-scale,” according to state media, which said that service was slowly being restored.

Official state media said the attack targeted websites with the .cn country domain, as well as the popular microblogging site Sina Weibo.

Denial of service attacks aren’t technically “hacks,” since they can be done without breaking into any systems. Typically, DoS attacks overwhelm a website’s servers by flooding them with requests. That makes websites unreachable or unresponsive.

It’s unclear whether the attack is related to political events in China, which appears to be in the midst of carrying out a crackdown on Internet dissent.