For quite some time, Overstock's CEO, Patrick Byrne, has been on something of a... campaign a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/"against the practice of "naked short selling."/a Byrne isn't known for holding back his opinions on just about anything, and his complaints about naked short selling resulted in a rather massive Wikipedia edit war -- with folks on every side pointing fingers and arguing with each other over supposed dirty tactics by folks on the other side. Now, with the whole a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080929/0426042403.shtml"financial collapse/a thing happening, The Register (one of few publications to take Byrnes' side most of the time, often due to its irrational dislike of Wikipedia) is claiming that a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/" target="_new"Byrne has been "vindicated,"/a first on the evils of naked short selling, and second on the Wikipedia edit wars. br /br / If only it were so simple. As this excellent Alex Blumberg/Planet Money podcast makes quite clear, while naked short selling may be sketchy, a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2008/09/listen_up_naked_short_selling.html"it's impact is minimal, if anything/a. And, as anyone with a most basic understanding of markets can tell you, a href="http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/09/thoughts_on_sho.html"short selling (naked or otherwise) doesn't drive down the price of a stock/a. The Register also suggests that Byrne was vindicated in the Wikipedia edit war, by noting proof (that is not shown, and was only provided to The Register by Byrne) that a reporter who had formerly denied taking part in the edit war, actually had been involved. That's not exactly a huge smoking gun either. It may be that this guy had a personal vendetta against Byrne, but it's got little to do with the financial crisis going on today. There are lots of things that created this mess: but naked short selling (even if the SEC came out against it, in part) is currently a minor scapegoat, not the cause. br /br / a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081003/1213302448.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081003/1213302448.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081003/1213302448op=sharethis"Email This Story/a br / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8c15a34cb422cd9e3045daec0be8fe20"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8c15a34cb422cd9e3045daec0be8fe20"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8c15a34cb422cd9e3045daec0be8fe20" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=hDgRm"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=hDgRm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/413285190" height="1" width="1"/

Code: A veiled threat by Apple to close its iTunes store has emerged 18 months after it was issued and just a day before royalty rates are to be set.

The Copyright Royalty Board meets on Thursday to rule on a requested 66% increase for sales of digital music from 9 cents to 15 cents a track.

A rise would have to be paid by either Apple, the record company or consumer.

Apple opposed the rate hike and has said it is unwilling to raise its 99 cents a song price or absorb a rise.

In April 2007 the company's vice president for iTunes, Eddy Cue, submitted testimony to the Board at the Library of Congress.

"If iTS (iTunes Store) were forced to absorb any increase in the mechanical royalty rates, the result would be to significantly increase the likelihood of the store operating at a financial loss - which is no alternative at all.

"Apple has repeatedly made clear that it is in this business to make money, and would most likely not continue to operate iTS if it were no longer possible to do so profitably," said Mr Cue.

The National Music Publishers' Association has asked for the royalty rate increase and has said it believes everyone will benefit because the digital music market is growing.

"I think we established a case for an increase in the royalties," said David Israelite, president of the NMPA.

"Apple may want to sell songs cheaply to sell iPods. We don't make a penny on the sale of an iPod."

The Recording Industry Association of America said sales of digital songs and albums rose 46% last year to $1.2bn (£652m).

"Public backlash"

Apple pays an estimated 70% of digital music revenue to record companies which in turn pass on a percentage to artists. It is that percentage that is expected to be changed on Thursday.

The forthcoming decision by the three judge panel will set rates for the next five years. It will be the first affecting digital sales.

Meanwhile the Digital Media Association, which represents Apple and other online music services, has asked for the rate to be pegged at 4.8 cents a track.

With CD sales falling last year by 20% to $7.4bn (£4bn), record companies are unlikely to be willing to soak up any increase in rates.

Greg Sandoval at CNET said the timing of the emergence of the Apple document is interesting.

"When it comes down to mass appeal, Apple holds all the cards.

" If word gets out that music publishers are trying to stick it to consumers, and Apple is fighting to keep prices down on their behalf, well, there's liable to be public backlash against the labels.

"If this thing follows the normal course, there would be calls for boycotts, protests and so on."

Piper Jaffray estimates that Apple will sell 2.4 bn songs this year, giving it an 85% share of the digital music market. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7645537.stm
Oh snap.

Anubhuti Vishnoi in the Indian Express writes: The country’s biggest infrastructure upgrade under the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP) has recorded the lowest-ever progress rate under this government in 2007-08. Read More.

Iceland has a more robust film industry than you might expect from a small island nation of only 320,000 people, but still, it ain't exactly Hollywood. So when an Icelandic film gains worldwide attention, it's newsworthy.

Such is the case with Jar City, an excellent mystery thriller that Cinematical's Kim Voynar raved about last year at Telluride. It's the highest-grossing film in the country's history, from one of its most successful (and prolific directors), and it won a top prize at the 2007 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

And now it gets the ultimate honor: an American remake! (There may have been sarcasm in the word "honor.") According to The Hollywood Reporter, Overture Films has bought the remake rights and will employ the original writer/director, Baltasar Kormákur, as a producer. No word yet on who will direct the U.S. version, but a writer has been attached: Michael Ross, who wrote Turistas and who THR says is also penning the Near Dark remake.

The Icelandic setting will be changed, of course, to its logical American counterpart: Louisiana. No, really. I'm curious to see how the story transfers, since some of its details relate to the insularity of those small Icelandic communities. Also, I loved that the detective in the original was a total badass despite looking like a nerdy college professor. (That's him in the picture.) I hope they keep that element for the remake. William H. Macy would be perfect.

As far as I can determine, this is the first time an Icelandic film has officially gotten an American remake. If anyone knows differently, let me know. Otherwise, I'm marking this as a historic first for our friends in the North Atlantic.

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During a monologue in his October 2 broadcast, radio host Rush Limbaugh repeated numerous falsehoods about Sen. Barack Obama, including false statements about Obama's health-care plan, his legislative record, and other issues:

• Echoing a false attack on Obama's health-care plan by Sen. John McCain and others, Limbaugh stated, "Obama wants to change the American system for another system." He later added: "If somebody tells you, for example, they want the federal government to take over the health-care system lock, stock, and barrel, what do you call that?" In fact, Obama has not proposed having the federal government "take over the health-care system"; Obama's plan calls for individuals to choose their own insurance. As The New York Times reported in a May 3 article, the suggestion that Obama is "proposing a single-payer, or even nationalized health care system along the lines of those in countries like Canada and Britain ... is incorrect."

• Limbaugh asserted that Obama "has never held a real job in this country," defining "real job" as "one that requires you to get up every morning, go to work, make a profit for yourself or for your employer." Limbaugh then added: "He has been paid by foundations and the taxpayer most of his life to promote a socialist agenda that'll destroy everything that you have worked for." In fact, Obama held positions as associate and of counsel at the law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland (known as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland when Obama joined) from 1993 to 2002.

• Limbaugh falsely stated that Obama "has authored a bill ... that would require you, the hardworking people of this country, to pony up $85 billion per year to give to other countries to fight global poverty through the United Nations," a false claim Limbaugh has made in the past. Limbaugh was referring to the Global Poverty Act of 2007, a bill sponsored by Obama. However, Limbaugh's assertion that it would require Americans to "pony up $85 billion per year" is false. As Media Matters for America has documented, the bill would establish no specific funding sources and would not commit the United States to any targeted level of spending.

• Limbaugh stated: "I would ask those of you who have served in the military or are serving in the military, can you name anything -- anything Obama has done prior to running for president to show his support for you?" He added: "Did he speak to veterans groups? Did he do interviews with veteran- and military-related media? Did he visit military hospitals and shake hands with the wounded? No." In fact, in addition to serving on the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs since 2005, as Media Matters has documented, Obama has also spoken to veterans groups and visited military bases overseas before the start of his presidential campaign. According to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 22, 2005, Obama visited a group of 500 veterans at the American Legion Hall in Evergreen Park, Illinois. He also visited Iraq in January 2006 as part of a congressional delegation, during which time a January 8, 2006, Sun-Times article reported that "Obama played basketball with soldiers and dined with members of the military from Illinois."

• Limbaugh falsely claimed that Obama "didn't start putting his hand over his heart during the national anthem until a few months ago." As Media Matters has documented, on October 23, 2007, Inside Edition featured a segment on the national anthem "controversy." The segment included two photographs of Obama placing his hand over his heart during the national anthem, which Inside Edition said it received from an Obama spokesman.

• Limbaugh falsely claimed that Obama has not voted to fund troops "on the battlefield," stating: "Did [Obama] vote to fund the troops? To send them the armor and the bullets and the reinforcement they needed while they were on the battlefield? No." He added: "He spoke out against it. All of it." In fact, as Media Matters has documented, Obama has repeatedly voted to provide funds for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. As Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz wrote, "Obama has frequently voted to finance the war but was one of 14 Senate Democrats to oppose a war-funding bill last year -- after Republicans removed troop withdrawal deadlines -- saying he did not want to be 'validating the same failed policy in Iraq.' "

From the October 2 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: Obama wants to change the American system for another system. A system that is foreign to you and me, but which has been talked about and written about for 150 years. It's promoted in colleges and universities among far-left professors. It has been pounded into Obama's head by the likes of Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright his entire adult life.

If somebody tells you, for example, they want the federal government to take over the health-care system lock, stock and barrel, what do you call that? If somebody tells you they want the federal government to run the human resources departments of every private entity in this country -- deciding who should get paid what, and what benefits they should receive -- what do you call that? If somebody says we need to raise taxes on pensioners by increasing the capital gains tax when they sell their equities, what do we call this? When someone says that we need to increase taxes on anyone who earns $42,000 or more, what do we call that? When somebody says that we need to increase taxes on every small business in the country that makes $250,000 a year, what do we call that?

Well, I'll tell you what Obama calls it: He calls it middle-class tax relief. It is nothing of the sort. Obama intends no tax relief for anybody. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the agenda of a person who has never had a real job in this country, much less never run a business. Much less never earned -- made a payroll. He has never held a real job in this country, and by that I mean one that requires you to get up every morning, go to work, make a profit for yourself or for your employer. He has been paid by foundations and the taxpayer most of his life to promote a socialist agenda that'll destroy everything that you have worked for, and your parents, and their parents worked for. He's out to destroy it.

Let me put it this way. How smart -- all of you people who think this guy's brilliant because of the way he speaks -- could you snap out of that for a second? I understand the idea that you want to be proud of the president, you want people around the world to be proud, and you think a bumbling, stumbling, stuttering president embarrasses you. Get past that. You're looking at a bumbling, stumbling, embarrassing guy if he gets anywhere near the Oval Office.

How smart do you have to be to raise taxes and spend other people's money? That's what we're talking about here. How smart do you have to be? This is a man, Barack Obama, who has authored a bill -- one of the few, by the way -- that would require you, the hardworking people of this country, to pony up $85 billion per year to give to other countries to fight global poverty through the United Nations. In other words, he would take the New Deal and the Great Society and export them to the Third World, where you will be responsible for paying for it. Does this sound like a moderate or a centrist Democrat to you? Does it sound like a centrist-independent-moderate anything to you?

You know, these debates are all well and good, folks. But the truth is we know all we need to know about Obama, do we not? I would ask those of you who have served in the military or are serving in the military, can you name anything -- anything -- Obama has done prior to running for president to show his support for you? Did he speak to veterans' groups? Did he do interviews with veteran- and military-related media? Did he visit military hospitals and shake hands with the wounded? No. In Berlin he specifically cancelled such things.

What's he done for you? What's he done for you? He hasn't done anything for you. What he has done is impugn you. What he has done is impugn your mission. What he has done is attempt to block your success on the battlefield around the world. This man, Barack Obama, was invested along with Harry Reid and Dick Durbin. He was invested in the defeat of the United States and the United States military.

He believes, along with his brother from Illinois, Senator Durbin, that American interrogators and soldiers are no different than Pol Pot's thugs, the people that ran the Soviet gulags, and Nazi commandants. Durbin said it. While they were attempting to secure defeat in the Iraq war, Barack Obama believes the same things. He didn't start wearing the American flag lapel pin until a few months ago, and he didn't start putting his hand over his heart during the national anthem until a few months ago.

Did he support the surge in Iraq? No. Did he vote to fund the troops? To send them the armor and the bullets and reinforcement they needed while they were on the battlefield? No. He spoke out against it. All of it.

And once again, Obama's frame of reference is the far left. He spent his years in Chicago working with radical pro-Palestinian elements, although today he says he's pro-Israel. But again, where's the evidence for this? There is none. Our allies have much to fear in an Obama presidency. Our enemies have nothing to fear. And, yet, the drive-by media continually tell us that polls they take of citizens of the world desperately want Barack Obama. Nobody who understands what's at stake, nobody who has taken the time to delve into who Obama is, wants him anywhere near the presidency of the United States, except our enemies.

Newly released today:



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Fully customize your battle party - Increased customization gives each player a unique experience, allowing players to change skills, race and appearance – over 100,000 possible combinations! Select from more races (Human, Dwarf, Halfling, Elf, Machine, Akatoki (NEW!), Canine (NEW!)) and different job classes (Fighter, Mage, Priest, Thief, Knight, Samurai, Ninja, Anchor, Monk (NEW!), Guard (NEW!), Enchanter (NEW!)
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All new weapons, armors and magic - Enjoy the vast selection of weapons, armors, and enhanced magic all visible on the in-game character models
Awesome real-time battles – Intense real-time 6-on-6 battles requiring tactical combat strategies and controlling various party members rather than button mashing
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Appearance of stronger enemies and monsters - Encounter up to 245 different types of monsters, including Samurai, Zombies, Gargoyles, Dragons, and Minotaur
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Sequel to the hit PSP title released in April 2007, Valhalla Knights 2 returns with more features, content and freedom of customization, allowing players to create the ultimate battle party. Additional races, job classes, weapons and monsters enhance the real-time tactical team combat as players follow an original story created by the scenario writer of Final Fantasy XII, Miwa Shoda.

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Newly released today:



features
The epic adventure continues - An original story penned by the scenario writer of Final Fantasy XII, Miwa Shoda
Fully customize your battle party - Increased customization gives each player a unique experience, allowing players to change skills, race and appearance – over 100,000 possible combinations! Select from more races (Human, Dwarf, Halfling, Elf, Machine, Akatoki (NEW!), Canine (NEW!)) and different job classes (Fighter, Mage, Priest, Thief, Knight, Samurai, Ninja, Anchor, Monk (NEW!), Guard (NEW!), Enchanter (NEW!)
Improvements to the Quest system - Improvements to the Quest system with an increased number of quests and the ability to suspend or cancel quests
All new weapons, armors and magic - Enjoy the vast selection of weapons, armors, and enhanced magic all visible on the in-game character models
Awesome real-time battles – Intense real-time 6-on-6 battles requiring tactical combat strategies and controlling various party members rather than button mashing
More locations to play in - Huge new world with a wide variety of environments to explore
Appearance of stronger enemies and monsters - Encounter up to 245 different types of monsters, including Samurai, Zombies, Gargoyles, Dragons, and Minotaur
Play online with your friends - Network Play – Connect for two-player Co-op adventures and Versus battles, or trade items and weapons with other players

description
Sequel to the hit PSP title released in April 2007, Valhalla Knights 2 returns with more features, content and freedom of customization, allowing players to create the ultimate battle party. Additional races, job classes, weapons and monsters enhance the real-time tactical team combat as players follow an original story created by the scenario writer of Final Fantasy XII, Miwa Shoda.

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-...j-70-2tf9.html

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As anticipated, PC Zone has headlined its 200th issue with a Deus Ex 3 preview, reports its online counterpart, CVG. The second sequel to the "Best PC Game of All Time" (according to a 2007 poll conducted by -- who else? -- PC Zone) will be a prequel set in 2027 and apparently has received the blessings of the original designers, Warren Spector and Harvey Smith, along with consultative help from the original writer, Sheldon Pacotti. Still, we should remind you that Deus Ex 3 is being developed by a largely untested team, in Eidos Montreal, and the studio has made some, um, changes:

• Combat won't be influenced by stats, just your FPS skills (or is that "skillz"?)
  
• Instead, stats will affect "a vast array of fully upgradeable and customizable weapons" (there will be more than one type of ammo); experience points can be attributed to weapons or augmentations
• 20 augmentations are promised; examples: "bungee jump tentacles" that fire from your back and anchor into walls (useful when jumping off buildings / faking your death); the ability to punch through walls ... and grab enemies on the other side!
• Stealth will be implemented into a new cover system
  
• Damage will be recovered by auto-healing (think: most FPSs these days -- even ones without so-called "augmentations")

The complete 10-page preview hits UK newsstands on October 9th. Scans are hitting the internet right about ... now!

 

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On the October 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity repeatedly praised Gov. Sarah Palin for citing during the vice-presidential debate Sen. Barack Obama's August 13, 2007, remark that "[w]e've got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan] and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." However, Hannity -- who has repeatedly criticized Obama's remark, including during an October 1 interview with Palin -- did not note that Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently apologized for deaths resulting from coalition airstrikes, saying in a September 17 statement: "I offer all Afghans my sincere condolences and personal regrets for the recent loss of innocent life as a result of coalition airstrikes. While no military has ever done more to prevent civilian casualties, it is clear that we have to work even harder. I have asked for a detailed briefing this afternoon about our close air support as well as our intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations." Gates' comments were noted in an Associated Press report published, among other places, on FoxNews.com.

Further, Hannity again did not note that U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan and accounts of resulting civilian casualties have been widely reported in the media and have reportedly provoked criticism from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a British commander stationed there. Additionally, the Associated Press reported in a "Fact Check" the day after Obama's remark: "Western forces have been killing [Afghan] civilians at a faster rate than the insurgents."

Moreover, during the show, Hannity mischaracterized Obama's remark, falsely claiming that Obama "said he would air-raid villages and kill civilians." Hannity said to former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: "I think there were devastating moments in this debate for Joe Biden. The white flag of surrender. 'You said, Senator, that Barack Obama voting against the troops would cost lives. You even wanted to run with him.' Barack Obama said he'd air-raid villages and kill civilians. She was on message every point." As Media Matters for America has documented, Hannity has previously falsely suggested that Obama "attack[ed] our troops as murderers," claimed that Obama's comments were "not true," and otherwise repeatedly attacked Obama's remark (here, here, here, and here) without noting the widely reported U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan.

During the October 2 debate, Palin said: "Now, Barack Obama had said that all we're doing in Afghanistan is air-raiding villages and killing civilians. And such a reckless, reckless comment and untrue comment, again, hurts our cause."

On the October 1 broadcast of his radio show, Hannity said to Palin:

HANNITY: Let me ask you this: And I, when we spoke in our interview on Fox News Channel, we were talking about your relationship, and your son, he was going to fight in Iraq. Everybody knows that Senator McCain knows the reality of war first hand, and his son also has fought in Iraq. One of the issues that has come up is now the issue of national security, and I am sure its going to be a big part of the debate tomorrow night. How do you respond to Senator Obama, who has said that he would "cut tens of billions of dollars in defense spending," that Iran is a tiny country and not a serious threat, and Senator Obama, who once accused our troops of air raiding villages and killing civilians?

Palin began her response to Hannity by saying: "Well, it's beyond naïve, it's downright dangerous to consider that those have been Obama's positions and that now that the defense of those positions of course he attempts to spin out of those statements that he's already made."

On the October 2 Hannity & Colmes, Hannity also said to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL): "Do you think that's fair to say that about our brave men and women while they're fighting a war, that they're air raiding villages and killing civilians?" In a later segment during the post-debate show, Hannity said to Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO): "I also thought, 'Finally someone brought up' -- I have been saying this for, finally she brought it up tonight, what he said about our troops, which is unforgivable, that they're air-raiding villages and killing civilians. I just got into this with the Congresswoman. That is unforgivable, Senator Obama. And he ought to apologize. And he ought to be called by the media to apologize for that."

From the October 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:

HANNITY: I think there were devastating moments in this debate for Joe Biden. The white flag of surrender. "You said, Senator, that Barack Obama voting against the troops would cost lives. You even wanted to run with him." Barack Obama said he'd air-raid villages and kill civilians. She was on message every point. It was --

GIULIANI: One of the very best debate performances I've ever seen by anyone. And only the liberal media could deny her this victory.

[...]

HANNITY: But let me ask you this. Let me tell you -- the most effective moments were on foreign policy when Joe Biden himself had said that the Presidency doesn't lend itself to on the job training, Governor Palin brought that up. "You said that if you voted against funding the troops," Joe Biden said about Barack Obama, "it would cost lives." Barack Obama said about our troops in Afghanistan, "They're air raiding villages and killing civilians," and Governor Palin brought that up tonight. Do you think that's fair to say that about our brave men and women while they're fighting a war, that they're air-raiding villages and killing civilians?

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: We're talking about someone who has been to Canada and Mexico, and has never met a world leader before. But --

HANNITY: I'm going to ask you again, do you think that's right for your candidate to accuse the American troops of air-raiding villages and killing civilians.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I think what Joe Biden talked about tonight was the fact that we really need to be investing --

HANNITY: You can't answer a question; you're just like Joe Biden.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: No. I will answer the questions that are relevant to this Presidential campaign.

HANNITY: He wants to be the commander-in-chief.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: We need to make sure that we move our troops, not from Iraq, but that we move them into Afghanistan where the war on terror really exists.

HANNITY: You don't think it's relavant that you're commander-in-chief is accusing our troops of air-raiding villages and killing civilians.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I don't think that's --

HANNITY: You don't think that's relevant?

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I don't think he's done that.

HANNITY: I'll give you ten thousand dollars if he didn't for your campaign.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: OK. I'll take your ten thousand dollars.

HANNITY: And you give me a thousand dollars if I don't.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: And I'll make sure that we have Joe Biden and Barack Obama leading this country --

HANNITY: Barack Obama said our troops were air raiding villages and killing civilians.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: -- move the troops to Afghanistan where the war on terror exists today. That's what Joe Biden was making the case for.

[...]

HANNITY: Good to see you. The white flag of surrender, Obama air raiding villages and killing civilians, that in spite of what you said would turn unflinchingly and look right at him, and say, "In spite of your warning to him, he still voted to cut off funding for the troops." I thought it was a masterful performance.

LIEBERMAN: She was brilliant tonight -- all the more impressive because there were so many people, who either had doubts about her, or were trying to create doubts. I mean, she hit it out of the ballpark.

[...]

HANNITY: She even said at one time, talking about meeting with preconditions with rogue dictators, "It's beyond naïve. It's beyond judgment. It's outright dangerous." And when she brought up the line about air-raiding villages and killing civilians and using Senator Obama in his own words, and even saying, "Senator Biden, even you said this about Senator Obama." Did you think that was an effective technique?

WOLFSON: Well, Sean, my attitude is if I'm willing to come on this show and sit down with you without preconditions, the Government of the United States should be able to engage our adversaries diplomatically, as well.

[...]

HANNITY: I also thought, "Finally someone brought up" -- I have been saying this for, finally she brought it up tonight, what he said about our troops, which is unforgivable, that they're air-raiding villages and killing civilians. I just got into this with the Congresswoman. That is unforgivable, Senator Obama. And he ought to apologize. And he ought to be called by the media to apologize for that.

A new security hole that exploits the iPhone's emergency call feature in password-protected mode was stumbled upon by a 12 year old and his father. The flaw is almost the same as the one discovered a few weeks back.

This was in iPhone version 2.1 (5F136), the currently shipping version. Since I have no access to beta of non-released firmwares I can’t test to see if it has been fixed since then. For those how care, this is bug 6267416. I don’t have much hope for it being fixed soon, because my security bug 5368148 from July of 2007 is still marked as open, and still unfixed in 10.5.5.

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Le nouveau P.D.G. de Numéricable souhaite que l’entreprise continue d’améliorer sensiblement la formation des personnels en charge de sa hotline. La DGCCRF a d’ailleurs constaté une baisse remarquable des réclamations depuis 2007. Il est clair que le câblo-opérateur vise désormais l’indispensable retour de confiance de ses clients et prospects. “Moins d’un an”, c’est l’estimation de l’entreprise [...]

Recently, there has been increasing demand for ISPs to filter and block illegal filesharing by their users. Many forum-goers on the net have laughed at this idea, that it's utterly impossible to filter with such accuracy, and it seems they have been proved right. After being told by the courts that it had to block any illegal traffic in 2007, Belgian ISP Scarlet has now told them it is completely unfeasable. They are seriously hoping the court takes this into account, as they are currenlty paying 2,500euros in compensation per day traffic goes unfiltered. Utter madness. sidenote: appologies for the lack of entries last week, have bad some internet troubles. All back now though. See full article.
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i got a macbook as an early christmas present around this time last year - the update logs say it got a bunch on 1st Dec '07, so i presume that's when i first used it. it's a 13 inch, white, 2.2Ghz intel core 2 duo macbook with 1Gb of memory, currently running 10.5.5, and started off with leopard, plus i have the install disks that came with it.

i recently got a copy of XP off a friend who found he didnt need it, and wanted to install it on my macbook, but after finding out how to, i found that boot camp assistant was missing. i checked the apple website, and it said that this was the case with a few of the late 2007 macbooks, and all i needed to do was insert install disk 1, and use BootCamp.pkg to install it. so, i tried to, but couldnt find BootCamp.pkg, despite searching everywhere for it. i also tried doing the bundled package install (all the programs, just not the operating system) but that still didnt work. all the info i can find says that you can only get boot camp with leopard, but i can't afford to shell out £85 for a new copy. i even tried downloading the old beta off the internet as a stopgap, but as it's expired, that won't work either.

can anyone help me?

The ID Theft Resource Center reports 516 large security breaches, exceeding the total for 2007, partly due to an increase in companies' disclosures.

The ID Theft Resource Center reports 516 large security breaches, exceeding the total for 2007, partly due to an increase in companies' disclosures.

The ID Theft Resource Center reports 516 large security breaches, exceeding the total for 2007, partly due to an increase in companies disclosures.