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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc lost more than one-quarter of its market value on growing
worries over whether it has enough capital to withstand billions of dollars of potential losses and
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Andrew writes -Our favorite new iPhone
hack, the duiPhone, will let you know for sure whether you should hand the car keys to a
friend after a long night in the bar... Once you blow into the mouthpiece, the application will
determine your blood alcohol level - either telling you you’re good to go, or that you
should consider calling a cab. We built this from a store-bought-and-hacked breathalyzer attached
to a 3G iPhone - our first experiment with Tellart’s newest Sketchtool: NADA Mobile. Yes, this video was taken at
our office. Yes, those are real 40s on the table.
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EZQuest has introduced the Thunder Pro Triple series of A/V RAID storage devices. Each unit offers
two FireWire 800 ports, a FireWire 400 port and a USB port. The three-drive arrangement ships
pre-configured as RAID 0 for the highest capacity and speed. The Oxford-chipset Hitachi SATA II
drives run at 7200RPM with up to 64MB buffer cache. EZQuest claims data transfer speeds up to 80MB
per second, ...
Apple has released an update to iTunes to version 8.0.2. The update is available in your Mac OS X
software update.
iTunes 8.0.2 improves stability and performance and provides a number of important bug fixes,
including:
newVideoPlayer("/bruceleenokia_gizmodo.flv", 506, 423,""); A couple of weeks ago, a ten second clip
called “Bruce Lee's secret training video,” featuring someone looking like the famous
Kung Fu...
pA large survey of studies that explore the use of the Internet by children in the second decade of
their lives find that, in general, it's acting as just another social tool, while providing them
new outlets for learning and creativity./ppa
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Michael’s here at MIT and just gave a great talk. While he was preparing for it, apropos of
conversations I’ve had recently with him and Beth Cardier, I wrote something that I think
is a story generator, and which is a self-contained 1K python program. Here it is: story.py
Let me know if you think it’s a story generator, and, whether or not you think it is, if
you think of anything interesting about stories and computation as a result of looking at the
program and running it.
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Progressive Magazine Feed: Obama Throws No Bones to
Progressive Base — When is Obama going to appoint someone who
reflects the progressive base that brought him to the White House? — He won the
crucial Iowa caucuses on the strength of his anti-Iraq War stance, and many progressive peace and
justice activists worked hard for him against John McCain.
Earlier on Boing Boing, Cory blogged that President-elect Barack Obama has appointed Net Neutrality
advocates and "virtual worlds nuts" Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford to co-chair his FCC transition
team. Okay, so we might know the guy as Kevin Werbach out here in meatspace, but to his Terror Nova
Guild buddies, he's better known as Supernovan Jenkins (the first name presumably a reference to
Werbach's Supernova tech conference series), and he's a Level 70 Tauren Shaman. Livejournaler
Waltermonkey opines on the deeper meaning of Werbach's WoW identity: What does this tell us about
him, as a person, as a gamer, as a government official? I will attempt to translate all the
dorkese. 1. - CULTURAL RELATIVISM Every player in WoW belongs to one of two warring factions,
Alliance or Horde. Werbach is Horde. Children often choose to be Alliance because they perceive
them as "the good guys", but students of history (both ours and Azeroth's) recognize that Alliance
culture is based on medieval European culture and Horde culture is based on the indigenous cultures
that were supplanted by the West. Werbach is a Tauren (a minotaur), which basically makes him a
Native Kalimdorian. The Tauren revere nature, living in wigwams near giant totem poles. As a Shaman
(see below), he could also have chosen a troll (blue-skinned Jamaican-like monster) or an orc
(green-skinned Klingon-like monster), so there must be something about the cow-man that appeals to
his liberal guilt. Read the whole thing: victory or death! yes we can! (Waltermonkey; thanks Drew
Coombs of Project Lore! Recompense of phat lewt, reagents, and pizza await thee.)...br
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Rockstar Games have released the first details of the upcoming download material for Grand Theft
Auto IV. Time to join a biker gang and take on Liberty City from...
This evening we've added our official review for Summit Entertainment's Twilight, the hotly anticipated
adaptation to Stephenie Meyer's teen vampire drama. "This entire adaptation was carried through
by my wonderful Catherine Hardwicke, who took a shiny little turd and transformed it into a
watchable, slightly enjoyable film." You can read the full review, with minor spoilers, by
clicking the title above. Don't forget to write your own review and
tell other B-D readers what you thought! The film is about a high school girl named Bella falls in
love with a vampire. The new couple leads a rival vampire clan to pursue them and attempt to force
her to decide if she, too, wishes to become one of the undead.
The EFF is representing a NYC activist who is protesting redevelopment efforts for New York City's
Union Square. The woman, Savitri Durkee, set up a website parodying the website of Union Square
Partnership, a group that is pushing to heavily redevelop Union Square. Such a parody is certainly
a reasonable and lawful way of making a point and protesting USP's actions. However, USP basically
fired off multiple shots against Durkee to get the site taken down, starting with a
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hosting company/a, followed by a copyright lawsuit against Durkee and a claim with WIPO that the
domain name Durkee used violated their IP, and demanding that it be handed over to USP. As the EFF
notes, parody is protected under fair use doctrine, and it seems quite clear that USP is doing all
this to stifle Durkee's right to speak out against USP's redevelopment efforts.br /br /a
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You probably recall that two days ago, when the new Xbox Experience launched, sadly, about 300 Sony
Pictures films were
unavailable for Netflix Watch Instantly on NXE, thus quashing your hopes of streaming The
Karate Kid series. At the time, it seemed possible that missing titles were due to the fact
that Xbox 360 manufacturer Microsoft and Sony are direct competitors. Well, according to a Sony
spokesperson, the problem isn't specific to the Xbox, nor is their beef competition-related in any
way. Sony also says it is in talks with the several "relevant parties" to work out these vague
licensing issues, though there was no word on when the issue would be resolved. We really do hope
it's soon because we're dying to see how everything turns out with the Cobra Kai.
Only a few days ago it was announced that SHq and noth1ng are leaving aAa to join up with former
emuLate player mSx, leaving aAa shocked with a three man lineup. Now they decided to remove the
three remaining players Geno, MarM and TDSI in order to pick up eSport-eu which qualified for this
years World Cyber Games.
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating
system, I want to spend a bit of time talking about data encryption, focussing on how...
The Trail / Washington Post: Obama
Raised Half a Billion Online — Barack Obama raised half a billion
dollars online in his 21-month campaign for the White House, dramatically ushering in a new
digital era in presidential fundraising. — In an exclusive interview with The
Post, members of the vaunted Triple O …
EZQuest has introduced the Thunder Pro Triple series of A/V RAID storage devices. Each unit offers
two FireWire 800 ports, a FireWire 400 port and a USB port. The three-drive arrangement ships
pre-configured as RAID 0 for the highest capacity and speed. The Oxford-chipset Hitachi SATA II
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night, while fears of a long and painful economic slump continued to stalk the markets./ppBoth
stockmarket indices in the US - the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Standard Poor's 500 index -
closed the day at levels not seen since before the burst of the dotcom bubble in 2000. And the
price of oil dropped below $50 a barrel for the first time in 3frac12; years./ppYesterday
afternoon, what little confidence remained in the market was sapped by a record rise in US
unemployment, and Washington's refusal to offer a financial bail-out to the country's so-called Big
Three carmakers./ppIn the final two hours of trading, the sell-off was brutal: the Dow plunged
444.99 points - or 5.6%- to 7552.29. The SP 500 slid 6.7% to 752.44, its lowest close since 1997.
Banking shares were perhaps the hardest hit, with Citigroup closing the day down 26%. This latest
share collapse left Citigroup - once the biggest bank in the world - with a market value of $25bn.
Less than two years ago, the group was worth more than $250bn./ppGM And Ford both closed up but
lost massive gains made earlier in the day when the prospect of a bail-out was still on the cards.
Their share prices plunged as Paulson revealed his distaste for government intervention in the car
market ./pp"No one thinks a failure of any company in [the auto] industry would be a good thing.
It's something to be avoided," Paulson said. But: "It doesn't make any sense to put any money in,
if there isn't a clear path to viability."/ppThe slumping markets were further buffeted by the
worst unemployment data in the US for 16 years. /ppInitial claims for state unemployment benefits
were a seasonally adjusted 542,000 in the week to November 15, compared with 515,000 a week before,
the biggest weekly increase since 1992. /ppCalifornia had the worst increase, with 15,000 more out
of work over the week. New York also posted record gains, with 3,700 newly unemployed people as a
large number of layoffs from Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup begin./pp"These
numbers are rotten," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard Poor's in New York. He said
California's losses were so high because many businesses had been affected by the recent wildfires.
America's national unemployment rate is running at 6.5%, while total claims lasting more than one
week broke through the 4m mark, to hit a 25-year high./ppTo compound it all, the dollar weakened
further still against major currencies. A euro cost $1.2534, up from $1.2526 on Wednesday. /ppIn
the oil market, the cost of a barrel of benchmark Brent crude fell by almost $3 to $49.83 on
commodity markets. US light crude, which tends to be slightly dearer than Brent, briefly dipped
below the $50 level in New York trading./ppThe slump means British motorists are likely to see
petrol prices come down by a further 7p a litre before Christmas./ppThe Opec oil cartel is
contemplating supply curbs when it meets in Cairo next week, but oil analysts said the prospect of
tumbling demand for oil outweighed any possible cut in production. /ppThe RAC said the tumbling
cost of crude - dropping almost $100 a barrel since its July peak of more than $147 - would mean
that it would be pound;17 cheaper to fill up the average car. But AA spokesman Luke Bodset warned
that, while wholesale prices were being pushed down, "they are not necessarily being passed on to
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Orb Networks on Thursday launched OrbLive 2.0, the latest version of its media application for the
iPhone 3G and iPod touch. The original version was created before the App Store was opened, and
required users to jailbreak their phones. The new (official) app allows the mobile devices to
access media that is available on a home PC, including videos, music, live television and webcams.
OrbLive work...
German company Ultrasone has released the smallest headphone in its HFI line, the HFI-15G. The
open-back supra-aural design features a decentralized driver position that is claimed to widen the
sound-stage by directing the waves to the outer ear, instead of straight into the ear canal. The
company lists a frequency range of 20Hz to 20kHz, with a sound pressure level of 96dB. The 40mm
Mylar drivers...
Incroyable, mais vrai : c’est hier que fut annoncé qu’un radar de la
NASA avait détecté un glacier caché sous de la roche sur Mars. Ca me
rappelle une autre découverte sur cette planète, récente… Pour ceux
qui ne comprennent pas l’histoire, c’est
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