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A college student told likely GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday that his brother, former President George W. Bush, was to blame for the rise of the Islamic State.

The heated confrontation took place at a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada, according to The New York Times. Ivy Ziedrich, 19, a student at the University of Nevada, approached the former Florida governor to question him about comments he had made during the event. Bush had argued that the Obama administration’s weak foreign policy was responsible for the rise of the terrorist group, also known as ISIS, in the Middle East.

Ziedrich countered that Obama wasn’t to blame — and that it was his predecessor’s decision to disband the Iraqi army that made the group’s formation possible.

“Your brother created ISIS,” she told Bush.

What followed was a contentious exchange, according to the Times. Ziedrich accused Bush of “spouting nationalist rhetoric to get us involved in more wars,” pointing out that under his brother, the U.S. had spent years in the Middle East, waging “pointless wars where we send young American men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism.”

Bush responded by defending the war in Iraq. “When we left Iraq, security had been arranged, al Qaeda had been taken out,” he said. “There was a fragile system that could have been brought up to eliminate the sectarian violence.”

Read the full Times report here.

Bush has had difficulty distancing himself from his brother’s controversial foreign policy legacy, chiefly the Iraq war. On Monday, he fumbled a question about whether he would have authorized the war if he had today’s intelligence, responding that he would have. He later claimed to have misheard the question, and then backtracked and refused to give a definitive answer, saying instead that “mistakes were made.” At the town hall on Wednesday, he shrugged off further questions about the war by claiming they were “hypotheticals” and “a disservice for a lot of people that sacrificed a lot.”

Bush has advocated a hawkish approach to dealing with the Islamic State, and has repeatedly criticized Obama for not combating the extremist group more aggressively.

“Restrain them, tighten the noose and then take them out,” Bush said in February.

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The list of countries that have mounted successful missions to Mars is not exactly long: the U.S. and Russia, as you’d expect, and more recently India. But now the United Arab Emirates has an ambitious plan to enter the race as soon as 2020.

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In just a few weeks, two to be exact, Google’s main developer conference will be taking place. And to prepare attendees as well as interested onlookers, the company has launched a couple of tools, the last bit being the annual Google I/O app. Both a virtual ticket to the I/O world as well as a reference for app designers, this … Continue reading

Many websites use JavaScript to provide user friendly and attractive web page, instead of a static page. Most of the interactive content you see on many modern websites are added using JavaScript. Although, it can be quite attractive and make it easy to use the web page, but still, it depends on browser’s settings whether you can see this content or not.

JavaScript can be easily enabled or disabled in your particular browser, and by default it is enabled. However, there is still a chance you might have disabled it for any particular reason, such as, slow connection or unnecessary data usage. Security is also quite a concern for some people while using JavaScript, one of the main reasons why people are not a big fan of Java and prefer to Uninstall it.

Whatever the reason is, if you have disabled JavaScript and now wish to enable it, we are here to help. In this tutorial, we will cover all major browsers and show you how you can enable JavaScript in your particular browser.

Tip: If you would like to disable JavaScript instead, then you can use the below mentioned process to disable as well (the process is same).

Note: After enabling or disabling JavaScript, you will have to reload the web page for it to take effect.

Quick access links

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
• Opera
  

Enable JavaScript in Google Chrome

Click on Menu located at the top right corner of the screen and from there click on “Settings”.

In Settings, click on “Show advanced settings…” and in there, click on “Content settings…” located under the heading “Privacy”.

In there, you will see the option of “JavaScript”, just enable or disable it from there.

You also have the option to “Manage exception”, where you can specify individual websites to enable or disable JavaScript for them only.

Enable JavaScript in Firefox

In the Firefox search field, type about:config and hit enter.

To find JavaScript, type “JavaScript.enabled” in the search field located at the top of all the options.

Now, double click on “JavaScript.enabled” to enable or disable it (true=enable and false=disable).

Note: There will be lots of options in the configuration page, try not to change any options (unless you know what you are doing) as they could affect your browsing experience or even make it unusable.

Enable JavaScript in Internet Explorer

Click on “Tools” located at the top right corner of the screen and from the menu click on “Internet options”.

Now, click on “Security” tab and in there, click on “Custom level…”.

In there, you will have to scroll down to the heading “Scripting” (it is the second last heading and located near to the end). Under the heading “Scripting”, you will see an option “Active scripting”, just enable or disable it. This is the option for JavaScript with a different name.

When you are done, just click on “OK” and from the prompt that comes up, click on “Yes”.

Enable JavaScript in Safari

Click on the “Gear” icon located at the top right corner of the screen and from the drop down menu click on “preferences…”.

In the next window, click on “Security” panel and in there, check or uncheck checkbox next to “Enable JavaScript” to enable or disable it.

Enable JavaScript in Opera

Click on “Opera” located at the top left corner of the screen and from the drop down menu click on “Settings”.

In “Settings”, click on “Websites” from the left Menu. There you will see an option of “JavaScript”, just enable or disable it as you may like.

You can also click on “manage exceptions…” to enable or disable JavaScript for specific websites.

If you have any questions or would like to share your experience with pop up ads, let us know in the comments.

How To Enable JavaScript (Major Browsers) , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Last year thanks to a ruling by the European Union, Google is now legally obligated to handle requests by users for the right to be forgotten, at least as far as Europe is concerned. Basically the idea behind the service is that sometimes some of us have our personal and private details splashed across the internet, so by having Google stop listing this in search results, it would allow these users to reclaim some of their privacy.

Of course as we all know, what goes on the internet never truly goes away, but at the very least with Google removing it, it makes it harder. Last we checked Google had over 70,000 requests to handle ever since it went live, and according to an updated Transparency Report (via Engadget), that number has since jumped to over 250,000 with about 59% of the requests from users to be forgotten have been denied.

While Google does not specifically mention why they have chosen to accept or deny a user’s request, they have given some examples. One example in which they agreed to the user’s request reads, “An individual who was convicted of a serious crime in the last five years but whose conviction was quashed on appeal asked us to remove an article about the incident. We removed the page from search results for the individual’s name.”

An example in which they denied the request reads, “A high ranking public official asked us to remove recent articles discussing a decades-old criminal conviction. We did not remove the articles from search results.” From what we can tell, it sounds like Google tends to deny requests from those who have been publicly convicted, while those who have been absolved have their records cleared.

It is unclear if Google’s right to be forgotten will eventually make its way stateside or to other parts of the world, but in the meantime how do you guys think Google is doing so far with it?

59% Of Google’s Right To Be Forgotten Requests Have Been Denied , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.