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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Police open fire at Bangladesh protesters, 3 dead (AP)
DHAKA, Bangladesh ? Police fired guns and used batons on crowds of stone-throwing opposition activists in several Bangladesh towns Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100, a news report and doctors at two hospitals said.
The opposition party said 1,200 of its activists were arrested, but the figure could not immediately be confirmed.
The main Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its key Islamist ally Jamaat-e-Islami are demanding an independent caretaker government oversee elections. The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina scrapped the 15-year-old system last year, saying it contradicted the constitution.
The opposition, led by Hasina's archrival former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, says elections will be rigged if held under the current government and without a caretaker system in place.
Clashes during Sunday's nationwide protests were reported in about a dozen towns, Desh television station said.
Two men died from bullet wounds at a government hospital in the eastern town of Chandpur, physician Mahmudunnabi told The Associated Press by phone.
They were shot by police who fired at a procession of protesters trying to march forward by breaking a police barricade, the United News of Bangladesh agency said.
Separately, a youth died and four people with bullet wounds were being treated at a government hospital in Laxmipur, another eastern town, said doctor Mohammad Nizam Uddin.
The identities of the dead were not immediately clear. Zia's party claimed one was a party activist while media reports said two others were rickshawpullers.
Hasan Mahmud Khandaker, the country's police chief, said authorities would investigate the violence to determine what actually happened.
Police arrested about 1,200 activists, opposition spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said. The figure could not be confirmed immediately.
The South Asian nation's politics became tense recently as the opposition has geared up its anti-government protests targeting the next general election due in 2014.
Hasina's government is also at loggerheads with Zia and the largest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami over its effort to try suspected war criminals involving the 1971 independence war against Pakistan.
Five top officials and a former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami facing charges of war crimes are currently behind bars for their alleged role in the nine-month war in which the government said at least 3 million people were killed by the Pakistani army in collaboration with the suspects. Two others of Zia's party also face similar charges of crimes against humanity that include killing, rape and arson.
Zia and Jamaat-e-Islami party have rejected the trial and said it is politically motivated to eliminate the opposition.
The opposition parties also held several general strikes in recent months.
Violent protests are common opposition tactics to embarrass the government in Bangladesh, a fragile parliamentary democracy that has a history of two successful and 19 failed military coups since 1971 when the country won independence from Pakistan.
On Jan. 19, the Bangladesh military said it foiled a plot by a group of hardline officers, their retired colleagues and Bangladeshi conspirators living abroad to overthrow Hasina.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
U.S. Android users use smartphones more in the bathroom, survey shows
Android's No. 1, apparently, when it comes to No. 1 and No. 2. That's right, a survey of 1,000 Americans by marketing agency 11mark has found that Android users are more likely to pick up their phone while in the loo, to the tune of 87 percent. That's three percentage points higher than our BlackBerry brethren, and 10 percentage points higher than iPhone users.
But it's BlackBerry users who are more likely to do business while doing their business, with 75 percent of them taking a call while answering the call. Us Android folk do so 67 percent of the time, and iPhone users take calls 60 percent of the time.
You can check out the full report at the link below. Bonus points if you do so from your phone on the throne.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
F-BOMB $50 surveillance computer hides in your CO detector, cracks your WiFi
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Screen Actors Guild votes to approve merger plan
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors has voted to approve a plan to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
In a statement, SAG says the board voted 87 percent to 13 percent Friday for the proposed merger at its meeting in Los Angeles.
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' board is scheduled to meet Saturday for a vote on the package. If approved, a referendum will be sent out for a vote by members of both unions in the coming weeks.
The merger plan comes after two years of negotiations between the groups to join forces in a bid to gain more leverage in contract negotiations.
The TV and radio artists' group supported a merger with SAG in 1998 and 2003 only to see those efforts fail.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Twitter censorship policy leads to boycott
By Suzanne Choney
Anger over Twitter's new policy to censor messages on a country-by-country basis is resulting in protests by some Twitter users who say they will refuse to tweet on Saturday.
Using the hashtags of #TwitterBlackout and #TwitterProtest, some of the short-messaging blog's 100 million users are finding each other on the site to spread the word about the boycott.
Twitter said Thursday it would begin restricting tweets, which are limited to 140 characters, in certain countries around the world?? which came as upsetting news to many who used Twitter as a means of communication to help start revolutions in the Middle East in the past year, and to those in other countries where dissidence is discouraged.
"We urge you to reverse this decision, which restricts freedom of expression and runs counter to the movements opposed to censorship that have been linked to the Arab Spring, in which Twitter served as a sounding board," the Reporters Without Borders group said in a letter Friday to Twitter. "By finally choosing to align itself with the censors, Twitter is depriving cyberdissidents in repressive countries of a crucial tool for information and organization."
A sampling of some of the comments on Twitter.
Some civil liberties organizations and news sites asked Twitter users to try to understand the site's new policy before protesting it.
"Twitter's increasing need to remove content comes as a byproduct of its growth into new countries, with different laws that they must follow or risk that their local employees will be arrested or held in contempt, or similar sanctions," said the U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation on Friday.
"By opening offices and moving employees into other countries, Twitter increases the risks to its commitment to freedom of expression. Like all companies (and all people) Twitter is bound by the laws of the countries in which it operates, which results both in more laws to comply with and also laws that inevitably contradict one another."
The EFF also said that Twitter "has not yet blocked a tweet using this new system, but when it does, that tweet will not simply disappear ? there will be a message informing you that content has been blocked due to your geographical location. Fortunately, your geographical location is easy to change on the Internet. You can use a proxy or a Tor exit node located in another country."
Social media news website Mashable told Twitter users to "relax," and reminded them that "Twitter?s technology appears to be easy to circumvent. And further, Twitter appears to clearly be telling users how to get around its censors." (That's something that msnbc.com's Rosa Golijan wrote about as well).
Despite the furor, as of Friday evening ET, "TwitterBlackout" and "TwitterProtest" were not trending high on Twitter itself. Instead, the top-trending phrases referred to subjects such as "The Grey," a newly released movie, and "Happy National Chocolate Cake Day."
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Campaigning Mitt Romney seldom notes Mexican roots (AP)
COLONIA JUAREZ, Mexico ? White House hopeful Mitt Romney rarely mentions a key fact as he works to woo Hispanics ahead of Tuesday's Republican presidential nominating contest in Florida ? his own Mexican heritage.
"I would love to be able to convince people of that, particularly in a Florida primary," he said Wednesday in an interview with Univision, a Spanish-language television network. "But I think that might be disingenuous on my part."
His father, George Romney, was born in Mexico, and his extended relatives still live in that same community, the border state of Chihuahua. The younger Romney's second cousins, tall men with light hair who speak American-accented English, share the family's last name and Mormon faith. They support his White House candidacy, but not his tough stance on immigration.
They've also never met him, though Romney's siblings have been to the house where their father was born on July 8, 1907, among a colony of Mormon pioneers in a stunning agricultural valley at the foot of the Sierra Madre. George Romney's family left Mexico when he was 5, returning to the U.S. to escape the violence of the Mexican Revolution.
"A lot of people ask why hasn't Mitt come back to see where his roots are. His father left here at such a young age and I don't think that he has that culture embedded like we do," said Leighton Romney, 52, who was born in the United States and is registered to vote in Arizona. "I live here because I love my country," he added. "That's Mexico."
He manages the fruit growers cooperative Grupo Paquime in nearby Nuevo Casas Grandes, and readily showed off his elaborately researched family tree to an Associated Press reporter who visited the office where he sells fruit to Walmart de Mexico and other large chains.
A two-term Michigan governor, George Romney faced questions about his eligibility to run for president in 1968 because he wasn't born in the United States. Yet, George was born a U.S. citizen, not Mexican, because his parents were U.S. citizens. And in those days, Mexico didn't grant dual citizenship so the parents had to choose one country or the other. Mitt Romney has said neither his father nor his grandparents spoke Spanish.
Like all U.S. politicians today, Romney walks a fine line between courting voter rage against illegal immigration, mostly from Mexico, and seeking the support of Hispanics, the fastest-growing voting group in America. In the rare cases where Romney has noted that his father was born in Mexico, he has done so to illustrate how the now-wealthy family came from humble beginnings rather than using the fact as a way to discuss immigration.
He departed from that, though, during a debate in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday night, as he looked to counter a challenge by rival Newt Gingrich.
"I'm not anti-immigrant," Romney said. As proof, he added: "My father was born in Mexico."
The Romneys can trace the family history to 1555, where they have records of a Mr. Romney, no first name, born in 1555 in the town of Tonbridge, England. The Mexican roots are intertwined with their Mormon faith.
The candidate's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, was born in 1843 in Nauvoo, Ill., where Joseph Smith founded the Mormon church. Miles Park Romney had five wives and 30 children, and fled to Mexico after passage of the 1882 Edmunson Act that barred polygamy. Among the first Mormons to settle in to the rolling Mexican valley bordering Texas, Miles Park Romney married his fifth wife after the church banned the practice in 1890.
Among the 11 children borne by Miles Park Romney's first wife were brothers Gaskell and Miles Archibold Romney.
The family fled back to the U.S. in 1912, when the Mexican Revolution struck Chihuahua and revolutionary forces invaded the English-speaking communities.
Gaskell Romney stayed in the U.S., with his five children, including Mitt's father, George.
But Gaskell's brother, Miles Archibold Romney, returned to Mexico.
The Mexican Romneys, who number about 40, live in solid brick homes with gingerbread accents and green lawns. They count themselves among the most prosperous ranchers and farmers in an area just 190 miles from the border city of El Paso, Texas. They ranch cattle and grow peaches, apples and chili peppers. They also run businesses, a prestigious school with an American football team and basketball program where the students emerge speaking flawless English.
"It is a very open community, where we have been progressive, and we have shaped a life for ourselves, our children, that we think is a healthy life," said Leighton Romney. "We have been here for generations."
Colonia Juarez and its surroundings have not escaped the drug violence that first terrorized the Mexican border and has now migrated to other parts. Meredith Romney, Leighton's brother, was kidnapped in 2009 and held hostage for two days in a cave until his family paid an undisclosed ransom.
The family says the area has gotten safer in the last year and that kidnappings have decreased. They credit Chihuahua's new governor, Cesar Duarte, who took office in 2010.
The town of 1,035 people has another emblematic symbol of the community's success: a white marble temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with a golden statue of Moroni, the angel said to have visited Joseph Smith. Next to it is the LDS-affiliated Academia Juarez, with three-story brick buildings and large lawns more reminiscent of Utah than Mexico.
Leighton's nephew, Brandon Romney, 33, grows chili peppers and helps with the school's sports teams. During a recent basketball game, he ran around giving instructions in both English and Spanish to teenagers playing on the court and stopped to talk about his famous relative.
"He's just another guy to me," Brandon Romney said. "Some people get kind of a sense of pride about it. I've never known him, never talked to him."
Brandon Romney and his other relatives who are eligible to vote in America plan to support their distant cousin. Some say they will donate to him if he wins the nomination.
The family generally sees him as a smart businessman who can lead America out of its economic turmoil. They only part ways on immigration, sharing the Mexican view that migrants seeking work in the U.S. should be given a legal means to do so.
The candidate has taken a hardline against illegal immigration. He favors a U.S.-Mexico border fence and opposes education benefits for illegal immigrants. He would support legislation that seeks to award legal status to some young illegal immigrants who serve in the armed forces, but not for those who attend college.
This week, Romney said he favors policies that encourage "self-deportation," where illegal immigrants decide on their own to leave the U.S., over those that would require the government to return the immigrants to their home countries.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Jailbreaking exemption to DMCA is about to expire, EFF would rather it didn't
Back in 2010, the US Copyright Office added a set of anti-circumvention exemptions to the DMCA, effectively making it legal for smartphone users to jailbreak and/or root their devices. These exemptions, however, were never made permanent and now, they're about to expire. The EFF doesn't want this to happen, which is why it's decided to launch a campaign dedicated to the jailbreaking cause. With this initiative, the EFF is hoping to convince the Copyright Office to renew its exemptions and expand them to a wider range of devices, including tablets and video game consoles. To achieve this, the organization is calling upon programmers and other jailbreaking enthusiasts to contact the Copyright Office directly, explaining why the ability to freely modify software is so vital to their lives or livelihoods. As the EFF argues, "Concrete examples will help show the Copyright Office why they should renew and expand the exemptions for jailbreaking." If you're interested in getting involved, you can contact the Copyright Office at the coverage link below, though all comments are due by February 5th. Hit up the source link for more details on the EFF's involvement.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Senate Democrats promise to push Obama tax agenda (AP)
WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate promised Wednesday to press ahead this year with legislation drawn from his plans to require millionaires to pay at least 30 percent in taxes and curb tax preferences for companies that ship jobs overseas.
Senate Democratic leaders promise votes soon on such tax "fairness" initiatives, which were a key theme of Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night. They include the so-called Buffett rule, named after a recommendation by billionaire financier Warren Buffett ? who benefits from a low 15 percent tax rate on investments ? that he be required to pay a higher rate than his secretary.
The Democratic drive would follow the ongoing push to renew the payroll tax cut, a debate that has broken in Democrats' favor as House-Senate talks began this week. The initiative is laced with politics, coming immediately after GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney revealed that he pays an effective tax rate of less than 15 percent despite income exceeding $20 million a year.
"The president's blueprint for restoring economic fairness for the middle-class will be the basis of our agenda for this year," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Schumer said the decision by Republicans to embrace the payroll tax cut last year despite widespread reservations within the party bodes well for the upcoming debate.
"Don't underestimate our chances of success," Schumer said.
Both Democrats and Republicans embrace the idea of reforming the tax code but they differ over whether it should be done in a way that generates greater overall tax receipts as Democrats demand or whether it should be "revenue neutral" as most Republicans would like.
Among the ideas endorsed by the Democratic leaders Wednesday was Obama's proposal to require millionaires to pay a higher minimum tax rate, deny corporations the ability to completely avoid taxes and reward companies that create jobs in America instead of shipping them overseas.
"Nothing is more important to Congress than reducing income inequality," said Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
On a campaign swing in Florida, Newt Gingrich said Obama's proposal for a 30 percent tax rate for millionaires "would be a disaster of the first order."
Added Gingrich: "It would double the capital gains tax. Doubling the capital gains tax would lead to a dramatic decline in the stock market, which would affect every pension fund in the United States."
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Associated Press writer Brian Bakst in Doral, Fla., contributed to this report.
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Archaeopteryx wore black
Analysis compares microscopic structures to modern birds?
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It may be time to hatch a new crop of those colorful illustrations of early feathered creatures spreading their wings amid the branches of Late Jurassic trees. In life, a new study suggests, the fossil feather whose discovery gave rise to the name Archaeopteryx more than 150 years ago was actually black.
Longtime celebrities among fossils, Archaeopteryx lithographica specimens have until last year been largely accepted as the most ancient bird species known. Whether or not they end up retaining their claim as early birds, their feathers had small pigment-bearing structures that closely matched those found in today?s birds, Ryan Carney of Brown University in Providence, R.I., and his colleagues report January 24 in Nature Communications.
Archaeopteryx got its name in 1861 based on a lone fossil feather. Modern articles about the creature often show one of the daintily preserved fossils of a spread-out skeleton, but not until 2011 was any skeletal fossil designated as an official example of the species.
To examine that original dark trace of feather, Carney and his colleagues turned to a specialized scanning electron microscope in Germany. Checking points along the feather revealed evidence of rod-shaped nubbins like the structures that hold pigments called melanins inside the cells of modern feathers.
In a procedure that has identified colors on several dinosaurs as well as fossil penguins, the researchers compared dimensions of the pigment-carrying structures, called melanosomes, against measurements of melanosomes of known color from 87 kinds of modern birds. The Archaeopteryx melanosomes grouped with modern birds? black ones instead of the brown or gray ones, or the oddball melanosomes found in penguins.
The findings fit with results reported last September by another research group that detected trace metals in fossils, indicating the presence of melanin pigments in Archaeopteryx feathers.
?I absolutely buy that this Archaeopteryx feather was black, but it?s hard to say what the rest of the animal was like,? says vertebrate paleontologist Lawrence Witmer of Ohio University in Athens, who was not part of either feather study but has worked with Archaeopteryx fossils.
Melanosomes add strength to plumage, and Witmer notes that there have been questions about whether Archaeopteryx feathers would have been strong enough for the early bird to fly. ?This new finding shows that the substance of the feather material was pretty tough stuff due to the melanin,? he says, ?but it doesn?t necessarily follow that the feather as a whole had the aerodynamic stiffness for sustained, powered flight.? Most scientists, he says, have thought that Archaeopteryx was probably a pretty clumsy flier or glider.
Carney, who has the feather?s image tattooed on his arm, also proposes a rethink of what kind of wing feather the fossil represents. It?s been assumed to be one of the long feathers, called primaries and secondaries, along the outer edge of the wing. Yet a bird sized to go with the fossil as a primary or secondary wing ?would be super, super small,? he says.
Looking back at the original 1861 description, though, Carney realized that the measurements given indicate a longer stemlike shaft at the base of the feather than is visible in today?s trace. The signs of the longer stem have worn away, so Carney and his colleagues propose that the original trace was for one of the feathers called coverts, which grow above the long feathers on the edge. That gets the size of the creature back in the range of known skeletal fossils.
Details of the feather probably won?t influence the current debate over whether to call Archaeopteryx a bird, says vertebrate paleontologist Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The creature had reptilian traits such as a long tail and teeth but was long described as the earliest known bird.
In 2011 a research team argued that so many feathered dinosaurs have now turned up that a strict accounting of traits would transfer Archaeopteryx out of the birds and into the non-avian dinosaurs. As analyses duel on this point, Norell says he only uses the word bird for living species. ?It?s kind of a movable word,? he says.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Pakistani deaths from bad heart drugs rise to 69 (AP)
ISLAMABAD ? A senior health official says the number of people in eastern Pakistan suspected to have died in the last month from taking bad heart medicine has risen to 69.
Saeed Illahi said on Wednesday that an investigation has found that a total of 419 heart patients have become sick from taking the drugs, and that 45 of them remain in critical condition. Many of the patients are in the city of Lahore.
Illahi is the head of the health department in Punjab province, where Lahore is the capital.
The suspected drugs were given free to patients by the state-run Punjab Institute of Cardiology.
Illahi says the government has registered a case against the company accused of manufacturing the faulty medicine.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
AT&T?s Data Plans To Get Pricier Overall But (Slightly) Cheaper Per Megabyte
When our friends over at The Verge got wind of a price change coming to AT&T's data plans, AT&T responded that it was "an error. There are no changes to our data plans." What they should've said was "There are no changes to our data plans... yet." AT&T has just announced a new set of data plans for smartphones and tablets. As you'd probably guess, they're a bit pricier than those they replace. On the upside, they're (ever so slightly) cheaper per megabyte.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jIH7BQn4R7c/
Friday, January 20, 2012
Why should we stop online piracy?
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Congressional bill names are a reliable indicator of the state of conventional wisdom in the US. That Congress is weighing bills called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) tells us that, at a minimum, the idea of stopping online piracy is popular.
It shouldn't be. There's no evidence that the US is currently suffering from an excessive amount of online piracy, and there is ample reason to believe that a non-zero level of copyright infringement is socially beneficial. Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalise it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease.
Much of the debate about SOPA and PIPA has thus far centred around the entertainment industry's absurdly inflated claims about the economic harm of copyright infringement. When making these calculations, intellectual property owners tend to assume that every unauthorised download represents a lost sale. This is clearly false. Often people copy a file illegally precisely because they're unwilling to pay the market price. Were unauthorised copying not an option, they would simply not watch the movie or listen to the album.
Dead weight bounce
Critics of industry estimates have repeatedly made this point and argued against the inflated figures used by SOPA and Protect IP boosters. But an equally large problem is the failure to consider the benefits of illegal downloading. These benefits can be a simple reduction of what economists call "dead-weight loss". Dead-weight loss exists any time the profit-maximising price of a unit of something exceeds the cost of producing an extra unit. In a highly competitive market in which many sellers are offering largely undifferentiated goods, profit margins are low and dead-weight loss is tiny. But the whole point of copyright is that the owner of the rights to, say, Breaking Bad has a monopoly on sales of new episodes of the show. At the same time, producing an extra copy of a Breaking Bad episode is nearly free. So when the powers that be decide that the profit-maximising strategy is to charge more than $100 to download all four seasons of Breaking Bad from iTunes, they're creating a situation in which lots of people who'd gain $15 or $85 worth of enjoyment from watching the show can't watch it. This is "dead-weight loss", and to the extent that copyright infringement reduces it, infringement is a boon to society.
After all, things like public libraries, used bookstores, and the widespread practice of lending books to friends all cost publishers money. But nobody (I hope) is going to introduce the Stop Used-Book Stores Now Act purely on these grounds. The public policy question is not whether the libraries are bad for publishers, but whether libraries are beneficial on balance.
Download or pizza?
By the same token, even when copyright infringement does lead to real loss of revenue to copyright owners, it's not as if the money vanishes into a black hole. Suppose Joe Downloader uses BitTorrent to get a free copy of Beggars Banquet rather than forking over $7.99 to Amazon, and then goes out to eat some pizza. In this case, the Rolling Stones's loss is the pizzeria's gain and Joe gets to listen to a classic album. It's at least not obvious that we should regard this, on balance, as harmful.
Meanwhile, the benefits of forcing copyright holders to compete with free-but-illegal downloads are considerable. I am not, personally, in the habit of infringing on copyrights (though I will cop to some book lending and the fact that my fianc?e and I, like any sensible couple, share Netflix and Hulu subscriptions) but recently have found myself firing up btjunkie.org again. Why? Because the BBC in its infinite wisdom decided to start airing season 2 of its excellent programme Sherlock in the UK without making it available at any price to Americans [including the author]. That's dumb, but until relatively recently it was a universal problem. It used to be that studios and labels didn't make their wares available to people willing to pay for them. That created an underground market for pirated TV shows and music. The pirated market, in turn, pressured the entertainment industry to create legal options such as iTunes and Hulu. The illegal competition is a valuable consumer pressure on the industry.
This is not to say that we should have no copyright law or that there should be no penalties for piracy. Used-book stores may slightly depress sales of new books, but they don't threaten to destroy the entire publishing industry. Large-scale, unimpeded, commercialised digital reproduction of other people's works really could destroy the US's creative industries. But the question to ask about the state of intellectual property policy is whether there's a problem from the consumer side. If infringement got out of hand, we might face a bleak scenario in which bands stop recording albums and no new TV shows are released.
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Texas Storms Prompt Tornado Warnings; Man Rescued From Local Creek
(January 9, 2012)--Thunderstorms in the Houston prompted tornado warnings Monday morning and knocked out electricity to nearly 20,000 homes and businesses while in Central Texas, authorities were keeping a close eye on low-lying areas as heavy rain fell.
Killeen firefighters rescued a man who was canoeing Monday morning in Nolan Creek.
Deputy Fire Chief Kenneth Hawthorne said the man was pulled from the creek at around 10 a.m. Monday in the area of Lowes Boulevard between Trimmier and W.S. Young after running into difficulties in the swift-moving water.
He was treated at the scene for minor injuries.
Killeen officials planned to keep a close eye on the creek and other flood-prone areas as rain continued to fall Monday.
The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings Monday morning for Harris County and several neighboring counties, but they expired with no confirmed reports of tornadoes on the ground.
CenterPoint Energy on Monday reported power outages affecting about 19,600 customers.
In Central Texas, rain chances stand at near 100 percent Monday and isolated thunderstorms are possible.
Rain chances continue Monday night and into Tuesday.
(Rachel Cox contributed to this story)
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back to south africa
no, we didn't fly back to south africa, I just thought I'd talk about our trip after the last post from there. I had writen about the cheeta tour (sorry for all the bad spelling) last. That afternoon we drove to knysna to go mountain biking. Oops. it was closed, it was still a holiday. so sad, I was really looking forward to it. We then broke up into 2 groups. one group when kayaking and one group went on an elephant tour. Guess which one Shelly went with, yep, you're right. I went on the elephant tour. we both had a blast.
the next day we got up early and drove a long way and then went on some wine tours. the wines were wonderful. I would love to spend extra days there to enjoy the wine. The views on all the drives were just wonderful. I can't wait to share all the pictures.
The next day was a shorter ride and we went to where we were zip lining. Shelly saw kayaking. Guess what she did instead. yep. the rest of us went zip lining in the jungle. we both had a blast and then for dinner ate on the water near where Shelly kayaked.
Then the next day we headed to Cape Town (I feel like I missed a day. I'll have to go thru all the pictures).
In Cape Town, we took the cable car up to the top of table mountain. Beautiful views but the line was toooooo long. Shelly gave up and took a train and found, guess what, kayaking. she is such a water junkie. IN the afternoon, I took a city tour. I had the option of biking, Tony did, but 1) they drive on the opposite side of the road, 2) it was in downtown with all the traffic and no traffic lanes and 3) it was with Tony who would stop and take 1000's of pictures. So, I opted for the city tour. It was very informative. That night we went to the waterfront for dinner. we ate Indian and it was great.
the next morning we woke up and did a group kayak to see the penguins. They were one boat short and our guide would not be able to go, so Shelly convinced them to let her take out a single kayak instead of a double. So that meant I became the guide for the double. it was a tough kayak ride. we kayaked into the wind and it was very brisk. We switched up some at the break, but I was still the captain of the boat (steering and commands). We got close tot he rocks this time. it was scary. Saw the penguins but i couldn't take pictures. I hope to get some from Tony's camera.
After kayaking, we then went mountain biking to cape hope and the southern most tip of Africa. We ate a picnic lunch on the route. Lots of small hills, it was a tough ride. We then had a hike to the top of the mountain with the lighthouse and then more biking. Again beautiful views.
Dinner back at the waterfront, and then our goodbyes to the group. Our flight was at 7am the next morning and we had to leave around 4:45 (and pack) so we had to get to bed early.
South Africa is great. The views are spectacular, the wildlife great. except for Krueger and the lodge, I really didn't feel like I was in Africa. It is very European. Everyone was friendly and I can definitely see I will come back some day.
Source: http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Knysna/blog-677711.html
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Sony XQD Memory Cards Operate at 125 MB/s Read/Write
Anyone who thought Lexar Media's 1000x CompactFlash cards were fast may want to take a look at the ones Sony has just announced.
They may not be quite as fast as Lexar's CF at accessing data, but they trump them by being as quick to write as they are to read.
Dubbed XQD, the memory cards get their name from their compliance with the XQD specification for high-speed, high-performance digital image capture.The CompactFlash Association only recently approved and licensed it as an open format.
About 100 frames per second can be recorded in RAW format, in continuous shooting mode, by photo cameras.
This is possible thanks to the read and write speed of up to 120 MB/s.
?Advanced shooters want to capture the moment in the highest quality possible, and that often means dealing with massive files like RAW images,? said Viviano Cantu, director of consumer media for Sony Electronics.
?Memory card technology has done a great job of keeping pace, but these new cards give an entirely new meaning to speed and performance.?
Sony claims, in its announcement, that the XQD memory cards can reliably protect the data as well, not just write it down fast.
The PCIe interface was used to achieve the performance (part of a unique controller) along with optimized flash memory.
Finally, to make sure buyers of its memory cards don't end up in the position where they can't transfer data to their PC, Sony launched an USB 2.0/3.0-compatible XQD card reader, plus an ExpressCard Adapter for systems with ExpressCard 34 card slots.
"As users' needs continue to evolve," Cantu added, "Sony will also continue to enhance the XQD memory card line-up to meet the future requirements of the high-end digital imaging market."
February is when sales will start, for $129.99/102 Euro (16 GB QD-H16 card), $229.99/180 Euro (QD-H32 32GB card), $44.99/35.20 Euro (MRW-E80 card reader) and $44.99/35.20 Euro (QDA-EX1 ExpressCard Adapter).
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sony-XQD-Memory-Cards-Operate-at-125-MB-s-Read-Write-244796.shtml
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Jeremy Renner unscathed in bloody Thai bar brawl (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? "Mission: Impossible" star Jeremy Renner emerged unscathed from a bar fight in Thailand, his spokesman said on Thursday, but a hotel manager in his party was attacked with an ax.
A spokeswoman for Renner, 40, who also played the lead in Oscar-winning Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker", denied media reports that the actor was hurt in the bloody incident in the Thai resort of Phuket early on Wednesday.
"Jeremy Renner was indeed in a bar in Phuket Thailand as a vicious attack on a patron took place but was not injured or involved. He exited as the fight took place," Renner's publicist said in a statement.
Renner, who co-stars with Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol", is currently working in the Philippines on "The Bourne Legacy" -- the latest in the Bourne action movie franchise, the publicist said.
The Phuket Gazette said on Thursday that six staff at the pub were arrested and charged with attempted murder of the general manager of a local resort hotel.
Manager Vorasit Issara was stabbed in the stomach and slashed in the neck with an ax, Phuket police told local reporters.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, editing by Christine Kearney)
Refiles to correct typo in Jeremy in headline.
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