Rachida Dati s’est déclarée favorable aux mesures proposées par la commission chargée de réviser l’ordonnance de 45, relative à la justice des mineurs, et notamment à l’idée de ramener à 12 ans l’âge auquel pourront être appliquées des sanctions pénales, dont éventuellement une mise en détention dans le cas d’un crime.

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We'll be totally honest -- we pretty much blew Ruslan Kogan off when he proclaimed that he was about to push out a $199 Android phone by the year's end. And truthfully, the guy still hasn't totally delivered, but you won't find us kvetching about more Googlephones, regardless of MSRP. The Agora (AU$299; US$192) and Agora Pro (AU$399; US$256) are available for pre-order as we speak, though neither are scheduled to ship out until the end of January. For those unfamiliar with Kogan, it's an online-only enterprise that has wares built specifically to its dimensions in China, and so far as we can tell, it's as legit as they come. As for specs, the Agora packs a 2.5-inch touchscreen (320 x 240), 3G networking, a backlit QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 2.0 and a microSD card slot; the Pro adds in GPS, 2-megapixel camera and WiFi. So, with unsubsidized prices this low, are you willing to take a chance?

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New proposal pitched to Treasury Department could create 'mother of all re-fi booms' with lowest rates since early '60s
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When Google pulled out of its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo last month, it was chief legal counsel David Drummond who made the announcement. He cited concerns of a “protracted legal battle,” but only now do we learn that the Justice Department was only three hours away from filing an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal. Sandy Litvack, the prosecutor hired by the justice Department to head up the case, tells Am Law Daily:

We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day. We told them we were going to file the complaint at that time of day. Three hours before, they told us they were abandoning the agreement.

. . . It would have ended up also alleging that Google had a monopoly and that [the advertising pact] would have furthered their monopoly.

When it came down to the wire, Google blinked. It was the right move. But Google is on notice that the DOJ considers it a near-monopoly, and will treat it as such if need be. At least until the Obama Administration takes over. Then Google CEO Eric Schmidt can remind them how hard he campaigned for them to win.

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The biggest film of 2008 arrives on Blu-ray and DVD this December 9th, and Cinematical is here to share our initial impressions, likes and dislikes, as well as let you know whether this monster piece of home entertainment is worth the purchase. Perhaps time will tell if The Dark Knight is the best comic book movie ever made, but in the meantime it's fairly easy to declare it the best comic book movie of 2008. Director Christopher Nolan and his team of Bat-freaks brought out the bigger guns for this sequel, adding more explosions, more depth, more darkness and more Gotham. The result is an action-packed psychological salad full of delicious performances and fantastic visuals.

In fact, that's exactly why you'll want to own this thing -- it just looks ... so ... good. On the Blu-ray disc, for example, the film alternates between aspect ratios, showing the IMAX-filmed scenes in 1.78:1, and the rest in 2.40:1. Sure, it's a bit different than watching it on a seven-story screen, but the IMAX sequences (in particular the opening bank heist) will no doubt take your television hostage and seduce every inch of your geek-obsessed body. Is it somewhat annoying to dance between two aspect ratios during the film? Not really, except that you'll wish the entire saga was shot with IMAX cameras. If you haven't yet watched a flick on Blu-ray, do yourself a favor and pop your HD cherry on The Dark Knight.

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The original Horizon H-Racer hydrogen fuel-cell toy just got an update: Before, you could fill it with water and let 'er rip. Now, you can actually steer the bastard. The new kitmdash;because it...

Here's an interesting article on Nanowerk about coating cotton yarn in carbon nanotubes (CNT) to make it conductive. While still a ways off from DIY use, this is an intriguing step forward for wearables! Looks like they could learn a thing or two about making a sewable LED, though. (Thanks, Sean!)

From the Maker Shed:

Lilypad E-Sewing Kit

The LilyPad e-sewing kit contains the bits to sew LEDs into any piece of clothing. Add turn signals to a jacket, accentuate a t-shirt, or light-up your favorite pair of jeans with this simple to use kit. This kit contains the very basics to the LilyPad system. It's a great entry-level kit for people who want to experiment with wearable electronics. Consider adding the LilyPad Pro Kit to extend control and use of the LilyPad system.

Features:

• 5 LilyPad Bright White LEDs
• 3 LilyPad Button Boards
  
• 2 Coin Cell Batteries 20mm
  
• 1 Coin Cell Holder
• 1 Spool 4Ply Conductive Thread

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/H-Racer_2_car.jpg" width="500" height="384" /The original a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/h+racer-toy-hydrogen-car-174962.php"Horizon H-Racer/a hydrogen fuel-cell toy just got an update: Before, you could fill it with water and let 'er rip. Now, you can actually steer the bastard./p pThe new kitmdash;because it may look like a race car but let's be honest, it's a science edu-toymdash;still comes with the solar panel and hydrogen station so that you can use the sun's rays to convert H2O to H2 and O2. But the car itself now has glowing LEDs, responds to an IR remote, and runs longer and faster with the same amount of fuel. img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/H-Racer_2_kit.jpg" width="807" height="418" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/Taking a cue from auto makers and gas companies who release literally green advertisements to convince the public they aren't part of the problem, Horizon decided to change the car's translucent tint from blue to, yes, green. The difference, of course, is that Horizon definitely isn't part of the problem. Only time will tell, however, if they are part of the solution. Meantime, here's a fun Christmas gift for anyone that still has $120 to spend on progress! [a href="http://www.horizonfuelcell.com/store/h_racer20.htm"Horizon/a via a href="http://www.gizmag.com/h-racer-20-gets-more-power-and-remote-control/10496/"Gizmag/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a941de6bd634e44b9e2bfc28e1ffe934p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a941de6bd634e44b9e2bfc28e1ffe934p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a941de6bd634e44b9e2bfc28e1ffe934" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=stnXxJRk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=vPItOJbk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=FBLNfq6T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=FBLNfq6T" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=J6cv6BWE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=J6cv6BWE" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/AKPruE2j_Lc" height="1" width="1"/

It was pretty clear back in September, when the Justice Department a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080908/0236212197.shtml"hired/a well-known antitrust litigator Sandy Litvack, that it had decided that it was going to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google, even if there were a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080717/0829151708.shtml"serious questions/a about what a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080908/0236212197.shtml"harm/a its ad deal with Yahoo would actually cause. Despite plenty of a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081014/0128082537.shtml"negotiation/a and a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081103/1555562727.shtml"totally rewriting/a the deal, the Justice Department was set on opposing it, leading Google to a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081105/1000202745.shtml"give up/a. br /br / Now, that litigator, Sandy Litvack has admitted that the Justice Department was a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10112761-75.html?part=rss#038;subj=news#038;tag=2547-1_3-0-20" target="_new"three hours away from filing its antitrust suit/a, which he was "looking forward to" and he's apparently disappointed he didn't get to go to court over it. That seems troublesome. If the purpose of antitrust activity is to protect consumers, then its litigators should be pretty happy that it avoided a (taxpayer-funded) legal battle.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081203/1838283012.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081203/1838283012.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081203/1838283012op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=f987f77a26c0db4e9ad3daaf4868d4d5p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=f987f77a26c0db4e9ad3daaf4868d4d5p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=f987f77a26c0db4e9ad3daaf4868d4d5" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=ho8xo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=ho8xo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/474236126" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://www.careerjournal.com/article/SB122826483720274329.html""We're not selling here -- we're hunting!"/a The young man or woman at the mall kiosk who grabs your shoulder and says quot;Can I have twenty seconds of your time to show you something amazing?quot; might be a young Israeli saving up for a pre-army jaunt to Asia or South America. The U.S. kiosk trade has become popular enough in Israel to inspire a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cc55QnowDc"a folk-rock song/a by musician and kiosk veteran Rami Feinstein. The Wall Street Journal offers a generally admiring profile of the Israeli a href="http://www.careerjournal.com/article/SB122826483720274329.html"quot;natural-born closers.quot;/a The Capital Times, in Madison, WI, a href="http://www.madison.com/tct/business/313887"wishes they'd buzz off./a br /

TF3D should start automatic. If no user action is recognized after 30 seconds S2U2 will appear, and after another minute (aprox) device goes to standby, after standby (give it some seconds in standby) TF3D will restart. On power key device goes to standby, too.

Changes: -add more stability
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I have about 15 lengthy slideshows to export to .mov files in iPhoto 08', this takes a while for each one. Is there anyway I can make it batch export so I don't have to keep hopping back to my computer to set the next one to export? Automator looks like a promising tool for this, but I'm not sure how to make it select a different slideshow each time and give it a different name? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hot off the heels of THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, Chandler Canterbury has landed a lead role in After.Life, starring alongside Christina Ricci, Justin Long and Liam Neeson. He recently wrapped on KNOWING, starring Nicolas Cage, and REPOSSESSION MAMBO, starring Jude Law. Being directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, the story chronicles a young woman in a transitional state between life and death who fights to avoid being buried alive and the funeral director who holds her fate in his hands.

Who are they and how long will it be until they have the iPod Touch 2nd Gen Jailbreak? Thanks! :)

The baby Jesus in the manger continues to be too enticing a prospect for some sticky-fingered pranksters, apparently. We've seen GPS tech harnessed on a small scale in the past to stave off such thievery, but now the counter-attack is going national. LightningGPS and their partner BrickHouse Security have announced that any house of worship or school can rent and use their GPS devices (and hidden cameras!) free of charge throughout the holiday season to protect the baby G and his family, the menorah, and uh... Santa. Nice to see they're covering all the religious bases here.

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lets see what makes it in your bag ..

my irons:


driver:


wedges:


putter:


bag:

Los Angeles Clippers guard Baron Davis left in the first quarter of Wednesday's game against Houston with apparent food poisoning.

It goes without saying that there is a lot of confusion about just how the $700 billion in federal bailout money is being spent.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=xVpqbAcT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=hIFz8k2k"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=T926F0nk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=T926F0nk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=8aOBvbCc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?a=qc4GevKk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_topstories?i=qc4GevKk" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~4/gOQBWlMqMsU" height="1" width="1"/

Eliot Spitzer is back in the public spotlight as a biweekly columnist for Slate. His a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2205995/pagenum/all/#p2"first column/a argues against bailouts. a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/spitzer-gets-a-new-job-as-online-columnist/?hp"More background info./a br /

While highly reminiscent of DreamWorks' WAR OF THE WORLDS poster, Summit Entertainment's official one sheet for Alex Proyas' Knowing is pretty damn cool. The image displays the Earth with a whole bunch of odd symbols bleeding out of the atmosphere; check it out inside. Arriving in theaters March 20, the film tells the story of a man (Nicolas Cage) who unearths a time capsule with children's drawings predicting the future that was buried in the 1950s. One child's drawings predicted several horrible events that already have come true; however, one of those events has not yet occurred, and the man sets out to prevent it from happening.

Asustek Improves Eee Box Nettop to Boost Popularity

So I'm looking at getting that integrated kit in my car and want to know what others have experienced with this unit. Are calls clear on your end? On their end? Does it work voice command wise? Is it worth the $100-$150 I'll pay on ebay? Should I buy used on ebay if I can find it? Any other feedback is much appreciated!

Thanks
Luke

Asian and Pacific markets were marginally up in early trading Thursday following a late rally on Wall Street that brought the Dow Jones industrial average up just over 2 percent.

is noticed that ever since I've messed with fontswap my font is 1 or 2 pixels higher than it's supposed to be...can anyone send me the REAL default font via email or something?