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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/GizmodoGalleryAnnex.jpg"
style="display:block;" /For a few weeks you've been hearing about the Gizmodo Gallery in NYC,
catching a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/gizmodo-gallery/"plenty of teasers/a for the cool
stuffmdash;contemporary marvels, homemade wundergear and pieces of historymdash;we're showing down
at the Reed Annex on Orchard St. from today 12 noon through Sunday 4pm. Now, for the first time,
we're revealing ithe whole list/i. And it's annotated, for your pleasure./p pbStuff You'll Never
Own/bbr a href="http://gizmodo.com/5098715/at-giz-gallery-103+inch-plasma"Panasonic 103-Inch TV/abr
The biggest production HDTV in the world, this 103-inch diagonal plasma is coincidentally the
largest set we could fit into Reed Annex./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/372072/sony-xel+1-oled-tv-review-verdict-small-on-size-large-on-beauty"Sony
11-Inch OLED TV/abr OLED technology will power all flat-screen TVs in the future, but the
beautiful, high-contrast wafer-thin screens are still excruciatingly expensivemdash;in this case
$230 per diagonal inch, or $2500 for the set./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5042268/draganfly-x6-uav-ufo-thingy-packed-with-carbon-fiber-hdnight-cameras-and-gps"Draganfly
X6 RC Helicopter/abr A carbon-fiber remote-controlled helicopter designed to be stable in 18mph
winds or even if some of its motors die. It's GPS enabled and can be armed with a high definition
camcorder or night vision. And it looks like a Terminator./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/341896/hands-on-with-optimus-maximus-keyboard"Optimus Maximus Keyboard/abr
A keyboard with little OLED screens under each key, which can be programmed to display whatever
character, picture or animation and trigger any keystrokes you want./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/carbon-butterfly-gallery-rc-plane-lighter-than-a-sheet-of-paper-251243.php"Carbon
Butterfly RC Plane/abr This remote-controlled airplane is lighter than a piece of notebook paper
because of lightweight balsa, carbon fiber and Swiss-made gears./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/curvaceous-cell/new-au-infobars-shave-corners-just-need-lube-303709.php"Au
Infobar2/abr Despite it lacking a lengthy feature list, the Infobar2 is the most beautiful phone
from Japan's AU company and I think maybe the most beautiful in the world. On Loan from Gizmodo
Japan and Au./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/nab07-hands+on-red-one-4k-digital-cinema-camera-gallery-252750.php"Red
One Movie Camera/abr A digital movie-making revolution and a future-proof modular platform, the
10-lb. digital video camera shoots pristine 4K-resolution movies with its 12-million-pixel "ultra
high def" sensor./p pbStuff You Might Convince Your Mom To Buy You/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/yamahas-ysp+4000-flagship-surround-bar-does-upscaling-hdmi-xmipods-288971.php"Yamaha
YSP-4000 Surround Sound Bar/abr This soundbar is a 5 channel surround sound system that uses cold
war submarine sonar tech to bounce beams of audio against walls and to your ears from different
angles./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/amazon-kindle-live/amazon-kindle-e+book-reader-launch-live-324292.php"Amazon
Kindle Ebook Reader/abr The first wireless E-Ink ebook reader with a cellular connection, so you
can buy and download books without the need for a computer. It bests the paperback but can't be
safely read in the bathtub./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5038693/review-pentax-w60-waterproof-camera-catching-whale-sharks"Pentax
W60 Waterproof Camera/abr I've had many happy times in Hawaii with this camera. It's my favorite
because it works to 30 feet and yet is small enough to pocket without causing a bulge./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/380767/hands-on-yamahas-tenori+on-synthesizer-we-love-it"Yamaha Tenori-On
Music Maker/abr A revolutionary rethinking of the music keyboard, this 16x16 pad of light-up keys
interprets a player's finger strokes and performs a light and sound show in response./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5096518/at-gizmodo-gallery-weird-japanese-usb-gadgets"USB Heated
Gloves/abr Thanko's Gloves use the power from a computer's USB ports to warm your fingers on cold
winter mornings./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5096518/at-gizmodo-gallery-weird-japanese-usb-gadgets"USB Neck Tie/abr
Thanko's USB powered neck ties have a built in fan for hot office afternoons./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/once-upon-a-time/using-belkins-weird-powerstrips-289558.php%3EBelkin%20Power%20Strips%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3EThe%20only%20power%20bricks%20we're%20proud%20to%20display%20have%20clever%20cable%20organizers%20and%20closing%20panels.%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href="Wicked
Lasers Torch/abr Currently pending Guinness records for being the most powerful flashlight of its
kind, the 4100 lumen Torch can easily set paper on fire./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/will-it-blend-crazy-old-man-blends-everything-in-powerful-blender-215611.php"Blendtec
Blender/abr We don't know if Blendtec makes the best blenders, but if they can shred bananas the
way they can shred gadgets on their famous YouTube videos, we're sold./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/383843/casio-exilim-ex+f1-slow+mo-super-cam-full-review-verdict-totally-unique-shockingly-powerful"Casio
Exilim EX-F1 Super-Slow-Motion Camera/abr The first consumer-grade camera to deliver
1200-frames-per-second slow-mo, it can also shoot 60 full-resolution stills per second./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/359388/hands-on-chumby-wi+fi-widget-beanbag-cuddly-in-more-ways-than-one"Chumby/abr
It's an internet machine disguised as a pillow. I use it to check the snow report, play internet
radio, tell the time, check the surf and read the news, but it can run hundreds of additional
widgets./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5099074/aiptek-pocketcinema-v10-pico-projector-review"Aiptek
V10 PMP Pico Projector/abr Battery-powered mini projector plays movies from an SD card, using an
LED to project a picture up to 50" on the wall without burning your hand. One day, all cellphones
will have these./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/wild-charge-hands+on-really-does-charge-wirelessly-227215.php"WildCharge
Charging Station/abr A charging matt that uses nubs on a matt instead of wires to charge your
devices./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5100801/at-gizmodo-gallery-a-never-seen-before-tokyoflash-watch"Tenmetsu
Tokyo Flash Watch/abr Tokyoflash's Tenmetsu watch is one of the cleanest designed of their
collection, and has never been seen before the Gizmodo Gallery./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5018137/3800+piece-death-star-diorama-is-coolest-star-wars-lego-ever"Lego
Death Star/abr This Lego diorama includes 3800 pieces, 21 minifigs and is one of the biggest sets
ever made. It's also the only one that can destroy entire brick planets at will./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/tokyo-found-godzilla-beer-dispenser-roars-when-you-pour-225195.php"Godzilla
Beer Pourer/abr This Japanese gadget looses a Godzilla roar when you lock in a can and serve beer
from its mouth./p pbStuff You'd Have To Make Yourself/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/mods/samus-wii-mod-tucks-rolls-explodes-with-goodness-303933.php"Metroid-Modded
Wii/abr Samus tucks, rolls and explodes out of this yellow light-up Wii./p pa
href="http://benheck.com/original-atari-2600-vcsp"Ben Heck Custom Atari VCSp/abr Almost a decade
ago, Ben Heckendorn sparked an entire underground scene of custom, hand-built game consoles when he
deconstructed the classic Atari 2600, transforming it into the Atari VCSp, complete with built-in
screen, sound amplifier, battery power, and aluminum frame. On loan via Ryan Block, gdgt./p pa
href="http://www.coin-operated.com/projects/ipomadness"Jonah's Slot Machine/abr This web 1.0 bubble
art project checked for short URLs and if you land on an available address, you've hit the
jackpot./p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/5098617/at-gizmodo-gallery-free-diy-laser-etching"Make's
Phil Torrone and His Laser Etcher/abr Yes, our friend Phil from MAKE Magazine is showing up with
his laser etching device to brand custom images onto any and every surface./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5099673/at-giz-gallery-reader-meetup-with-a-back-to-the-future-delorean"Back
To the Future-Modded DeLorean/abr Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Oh wait, yeah we
domdash;this mod is pre-Mr. Fusion./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5057856/nes-bong-is-one-third-party-nintendo-accessory-you-wont-find-at-gamestop"NES
Bong/abr A Nintendo controller modified into a contraption for smoking tobacco and only tobacco. On
loan from some stoner./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5020490/msi-wind-running-mac-os-x-also-thinks-its-a-mac-pro"PC Running Mac
OS X Using Hackintosh/abr We're partial to Macs at Gizmodo, but there's plenty of nice PC hardware
that we'd love to run Mac OS on, like this MSI Wind Nettop that uses Hackintosh to get it done. On
Loan from Brian X. Chen of WIRED.com/p pa href="http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/"Limor's
Wave Bubble Radio Jammer/abr An open source radio wave jammer that will disable connections like
those from Wi-Fi, GPS, cellular and RF. Illegal. Small enough to hide in a pack of cigarettes./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/super-tv+b+gone-bulked-up-to-90+foot-range-184527.php"TV B
Gone/abr This pocket sized remote spams IR power codes of common TVs to shut off different makes
and models. Not recommended for trade shows. Trust me./p pbThe Stuff of History/bbr a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5091517/at-gizmodo-gallery-ancient-apple-phone-prototypes"Apple Phone
Prototype/abr In the early 80's, Frog Design and Apple collaborated on this phone prototype with
electronic check payment and a stylus for use on the monochrome screen./p pa
href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffudder.de%2Fartikel%2F2007%2F07%2F17%2Fdie-design-vorfahren-des-iphone%2Fsl=detl=enhl=enie=UTF-8"Apple
Tablet Prototype/abr From Frog and Apple's "Snow White" design language comes this tablet, looking
very much like a cousin of the IIc./p pa
href="http://gizmodo.com/5098364/at-gizmodo-gallery-the-original-sony-walkman"Sony's First
Walkman/abr The TPS-L2 Walkman did not record and was panned by the press before its release in
Japan in 1979. Right before becoming a huge success. On loan from Sony Tokyo Archives./p pa
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica"First Sony Digital Mavica Cam/abr This 1988
electronic camera paved the way for modern digital cameras. It wrote to a floppy disk and had a TV
output cable./p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blickensderfer_typewriter"Blickensderfer
Portable Typewriter/abr George Blickensderfer's portable typewriters, introduced around 1892, were
advertised as "The Five-Pound Secretary." The Model 6, first sold in 1906, offered an aluminum
framework, at that time a relatively expensive and rare metal. On loan from Christopher Bonanos./p
pa href="http://www.clickondavid.com/polaroid.html"Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95/abr In the fall
of 1947, the chemist Edwin Land brought a few dozen new cameras and a pile of film to Boston's
Jordan Marsh department store, to demonstrate the instant-photography system he'd developed./p pa
href="http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/83celltech.html"Bell Labs Briefcase
Phone/abr First used in 1984 as an early example of a transportable cell phone (most other cell
phones were car only phones). On Loan from the ATT Archives and History Center./p pa
href="http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/70picture.html"Bell Labs Picturephone/abr
The first Picturephone test system, built in 1956, was crudemdash;it transmitted an image only once
every two seconds. But by 1964 a complete experimental system, the "Mod 1," had been developed and
wasbr displayed at the New York World's Fair, paired to a model at Disneyland. On Loan from the ATT
Archives and History Center./p pa href="http://www.dyson.com/about/story/"Dyson G-Force Bagless
Vacuum/abr James Dyson invented a bagless vacuum, which no one would manufacture because it would
kill bag sales. It was picked up in Japan in 1983, though, and James used the proceeds to launch a
company that today builds the world's suckiest vacs./p pa
href="http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press_Archive/200001/00-002E/"Sony Aibo ERS-111/abr Sony's
first revision of their 1st generation robot pet was able to learn and grow from having puppy-like
logic to dog-like logic. They were too unsophisticated to run or seem very lifelike, but they paved
the way for true robotic toys like the Pleo dinosaur./p pa
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn"First Cameraphone Prototype/abr Philippe Kahn
built the first cameraphone in 1997 out of a digital camera, a laptop and a Motorola handset with
some clever software. To date, well over a billion cameraphones have been sold. You do the math./p
p[Links above wrangled by intern Ericamdash;Thanks Erica!!! And thanks to our host a
href="http://www.thereedspace.com/"REED ANNEX/a and our benefactor a
href="http://www.gizmine.com/"gizmine.com/a]/p pbGizmodo Gallery/bbr a
href="http://www.thereedspace.com/"Reed Annex/abr a
href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=151+orchard+street+nyie=UTF8oe=utf-8client=firefox-all=40.721226,-73.989122spn=0.009741,0.015814z=16g=151+orchard+street+nyiwloc=addr"151
Orchard Street/abr New York, NY 10002/p pstrongGizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup/strongbr The a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5099673/at-giz-gallery-reader-meetup-with-a-back-to-the-future-delorean"reader
meetup/a takes place across the street from the Gallery, at a place called a
href="http://www.theannexnyc.com/"The Annex/a (not to be confused with REED ANNEX where the gallery
is hosted.) The address is a
href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=152+Orchard+Street+nyie=UTF8oe=utf-8client=firefox-all=40.721112,-73.988628spn=0.00914,0.013411z=16g=152+Orchard+Street+nyiwloc=addr"152
Orchard Street/a and we'll be there at strong9 PM SHARP on Friday December 5th/strong./p pGallery
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Today @ PC World -
5 hours and 13 minutes ago
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The Register -
9 hours and 27 minutes ago
h4Innocents win landmark case/h4 pThe European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it is illegal
for the government to retain DNA profiles and fingerprints belonging to two men never convicted of
any crime..../ppa href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/609/?td=btmtl"Free Download
- The emReg/em Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms/a/p
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
11 hours and 35 minutes ago
Hello...numpty site builder here. First site made with iWeb and pretty good I think. However
although the site has been live for over 6 months if I put my website name and my name into google
a rival site comes up because they are using my registered name and my own name as tags.
I am pretty sure this must be illegal however how can I get my site at the top? It is a dog website
and the name of it is a made up word so I get on the first page anyway and used to come out top but
this other person is obviously better at this game than I and using these tags to draw people to
their site so that they can defame me.
I cannot see anywhere to put these can anyone please help me? Thank you. And if anyone knows if
this type of practice is illegal can they tell me how to go about getting it stopped? :(
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Releaselog | RLSLOG.net » TV Shows -
15 hours and 30 minutes ago
This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our
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CTU releases the 720p first, i think the cappers had missed last weeks episode. Another Wednesday
night ABC prime time show along with ‘Pushing Dazings’. When idealistic attorney Nick
George’s (Peter Krause) father dies, he ends up taking his father’s clients, the
Darlings, led by patriarch Tripp (Donald Sutherland). It’s not always easy for Nick
handling both legal and sometimes illegal matters.
The Summer House
Originally Aired: December 03, 2008
As Karen excitedly prepares for her wedding day, she is convinced that this fifth marriage to
family nemesis Simon Elder — is the one that will end in happily ever after. But Tripp is
still suspicious of Simon’s real motives and wants Nick to make one last-ditch effort to
keep the wedding from happening. Lisa hopes taking Jeremy to the wedding will make Nick jealous.
In other developments, Patrick hires Jeremy to join his senate team, against Nola’s
protestations; Brian finds himself drawing closer to Andrea as her illness worsens; and when
Letitia sees Tripp paying too much attention to their houseguest, Wrenn, she realizes that this
pretty, young woman has overstayed her welcome.
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fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news -
18 hours and 59 minutes ago
pOn Tuesday, December 2, at 10 a.m., the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will challenge the
constitutionality of a federal law aimed at granting immunity to telecommunications companies
participating in illegal domestic surveillance./p
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Guardian Unlimited -
20 hours and 22 minutes ago
divimg alt=""
src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/35029?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Man+blamed+for+Darfur+says+I+am+at+peace+with+myselfch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Sudan+%28News%29%2CHuman+rights+%28News%29%2CWar+crimes+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Simon+Tisdallc7=2008_12_04c8=1128339c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Sudanc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FSudan"
width="1" height="1" //divpThe man accused by the international criminal court of planning,
organising and directing an orgy of violence against civilians in Darfur that left up to 200,000
people dead and 2.5 million homeless has angrily protested his innocence, calling the allegations
part of a political plot by the western powers to recolonise Sudan./ppIn an exclusive interview
with the Guardian, Ahmad Muhammad Harun, Sudan's minister of state for humanitarian affairs, said
he defied the ICC and the international community to do their worst and vowed never to give himself
up to the tribunal./ppHarun claimed the evidence against him was concocted and unreliable. And he
described the court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, as a disgrace to the legal profession
who should be sacked. "My conscience is clear. I have no regrets," Harun said. "What I have done
was legal, it was my responsibility, it was my duty. I am content. I am at peace with
myself."/ppThe ICC has charged Harun, in his former capacity as Sudan's minister of state for the
interior, with 42 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Darfur in
the period from August 2003 to March 2004./ppThe eight-month period witnessed a peak in fighting
between rebel and pro-government forces. The large-scale civilian casualties, gross human rights
abuses and mass displacement later caused the US government to accuse Sudan's political leadership
of genocide and led to UN and EU sanctions against Sudan./ppThe Darfur carnage caused international
outrage that has yet to abate as the violence there continues, albeit at a reduced level. Numerous
efforts to forge a lasting peace agreement during the past five years have foundered while hundreds
of thousands of people remain in refugee camps. Meanwhile, human rights and advocacy groups have
added their voices to calls for Harun and other alleged war criminals on both sides to be
prosecuted./ppBut Sudan is not a party to the ICC. It has so far ignored UN security council
demands that it cooperate with the court and surrender Harun and his co-accused, Ali Muhammad Ali
Abd-al-Rahman, an alleged Janjaweed leader also known as Ali Kushayb. /ppICC judges are currently
considering a request by Moreno-Ocampo for an arrest warrant for Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir,
on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity also relating to events in
Darfur./ppSpeaking in his ministry's smart new offices in Khartoum, Harun said the ICC was in
effect conducting a political vendetta against Sudan that had little or nothing to do with justice.
/ppstrongRelaxed and confident/strong/ppThroughout the interview, Harun, a tall 43-year-old dressed
in a smart charcoal suit and open-necked shirt, appeared mostly relaxed and confident. Occasionally
his eyes flashed with anger as he discussed the accusations against him./pp"We believe the ICC has
digressed from its main objective and become part of the international political conflict. It is
another phase of international colonisation. It targets mainly the Africans. It reminds us of the
19th century when the white people were dominating here in Africa./pp"The main aim of the white
people in Africa at that time, the British and the Europeans, was to disseminate their culture and
their traditions. Under the flag of attractive slogans, so many things happened. Now there is a new
imperial era but this time it is led by the United States and supported by the Europeans."/ppHarun,
a trained lawyer from the Bargo tribe in western Sudan and a former judge, argued that UN security
council resolution 1593 that referred Darfur to the ICC in 2005 was discriminatory because it
exempted citizens of the US, which like Sudan is not a party to the ICC's founding treaty, from
action by the court. For this reason, the ICC prosecutor was ignoring the "first principle" of
equality before the law./pp"This is a discriminatory prosecution. It is also discriminatory because
the ICC is targeting only African countries," Harun said. "Also, any serious investigation should
begin on the ground, in theatre, in Darfur. And witnesses who are part of the problem should not be
taken into consideration. They are not reliable sources."/ppSuggesting the ICC investigation was
superfluous as well as politically motivated, Harun said a national investigation committee created
by Bashir had examined many senior officials over their roles in Darfur. "I was one of them. I gave
answers to all their questions. No action was taken. There was no evidence, so there was no reason
to take action."/ppHarun added that any future move to indict Bashir, or any backroom deal in which
he himself might be handed over to the ICC in return for Bashir being granted immunity, would only
prove his contention that the ICC proceedings were political. In such circumstances, he said, he
would never voluntarily surrender himself. And nor was he prepared to meet Moreno-Ocampo if the
latter came to Khartoum./pp"The prosecutor has brought his profession into disrespect. He is not
welcome in Sudan ... He should be replaced. This is what we are requesting. I add my voice to the
voices of the international society because he is insulting the profession of justice and insulting
African countries."/ppAsked to explain his actions in Darfur in 2003-4, Harun said he had faced an
internal, essentially local conflict between Darfurian tribes that quickly transformed into a
political conflict with encouragement from forces outside the province./ppRebel leaders Minni
Minnawi, Abd al-Wahid Muhammad Nur, and Abdallah Abbakar initially called themselves the Darfur
Liberation Movement, he said. But this later became the Sudan Liberation Movement as external
actors got involved./ppThe Darfur rebellion, also fuelled by Khalil Ibrahim's opposition-backed
Justice and Equality Movement, threatened the stability of the Sudanese state as a whole, for
example by undermining the 2005 North-South comprehensive peace agreement which was then nearing
fruition, Harun said. The government had no choice but to act./pp"The policy and tactics of the
government, like any other government when things like this are happening, is to begin by
mobilising./pp"We have a security reserve force - the Popular Defence Forces - to respond to those
attacks, a paramilitary force. Some people call the PDF by different names, some call it militia,
others are calling it Janjaweed. But it is a formal force and it works under the directions of the
army."/ppUnable to match pro-government forces militarily, the rebels changed tactics and created a
humanitarian crisis in Darfur to attract international attention and intervention, he
said./ppstrongRebels blamed/strong/pp"They started putting pressure on civilians to move out of
villages, they killed their children, women they abducted, they destroyed the infrastructure and
means of people's livelihood, and caused the mass migration of people into refugee camps."/ppIn
other words, he suggested, it was the rebel groups that were responsible for the civilian
massacres, atrocities and mass displacements in 2003-4, not himself or the government. Sudan's
government in any case disputes the UN's casualty estimates, claiming only about 10,000 people
died./ppReports that he boasted in a 2003 speech that he had "the power and the authority to kill
or forgive whoever in Darfur" were fabricated, Harun added. And he insisted his 2004 description of
the rebels as "fish" who needed the "water" of the villages to survive (thereby allegedly
justifying the destruction of villages) was a distortion of his meaning./ppPeople in Darfur knew
the truth, he said, which was why he was still welcome there. "I move freely in Darfur. I have
strong support. I am popular in Darfur because they know who protected them."/ppLeaning back in a
well-padded armchair with a broad smile on his face, Harun said he was a religious man who had done
nothing to offend against God. But he did not claim to have a close relationship with the
Almighty./pp"I am not like George Bush. I do not talk to God. In Islam, we believe Muhammad was the
last prophet. Since Muhammad, no one can talk to God."/ppAs for the future, he suggested relations
between Sudan and the international community would deteriorate further if the ICC persisted with
its present course. A total breach with the UN was not out of the question./ppHarun's openly
defiant stance underlines how difficult it may be to bring justice to Darfur while avoiding an open
confrontation with Sudan and, at one remove, its African Union and Arab League allies. If allowed
to continue unanswered, it also threatens the credibility of the ICC./pp"We don't expect anything
good from the ICC. But for every action, there will be a response," Harun said. "The ICC will do
whatever they want. We will wait and see what they do. We will defend our country as best we can to
the best of our ability, according to our opinions."/ph2Backstory/h2pThe stronginternational
criminal court/strong was established in strong2002/strong as an independent tribunal to try
individuals responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was designed to
complement national legal systems, stepping in when a country appeared unable or unwilling to
prosecute. More than 100 countries are members./ppAtrocities committed by rebel commanders in the
strongDemocratic Republic of the Congo/strong and by the Lord's Resistance Army in
strongUganda/strong prompted the opening of the first cases in 2004. Investigations into abuses in
Sudan's strongDarfur/strong region began a year later. /ppIn February 2007, ICC prosecutor Luis
Moreno-Ocampo announced that Sudanese minister strongAhmad Harun/strong and Janjaweed militia
leader strongAli Kushayb/strong were suspected of committing crimes against humanity. The
indictment and warrant for their arrests, dated April 2007, specifically accuses Harun of targeting
the ethnic African Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit tribes by employing elements of the Sudanese armed
forces and Popular Defence Forces paramilitaries, and by "recruiting, arming and funding" irregular
Arab militias known as strongJanjaweed/strong/ppAccording to the court, pro-government forces over
which Harun exercised command launched a campaign of terror that included "murders of civilians,
rapes and outrages upon the personal dignity of women and girls ... and destruction of property and
pillaging of towns"./ppThe indictment claims that the campaign was of a "strongsystematic/strong
strongand/strong strongwidespread/strong strongnature/strong" conducted "over an extensive period
of time... in furtherance of a state or organisational policy consisting in attacking the civilian
population"./ppIt goes on: "Ahmad Harun intentionally contributed to the commission of the
above-mentioned crimes ... In his public speeches, Harun not only demonstrated he knew the
militia/Janjaweed were attacking civilians and pillaging towns and villages but also personally
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given shape and substance to a regime initially defined by its haplessness. For months, the Mayor
Boris story was one of drift and departing advisers. Now, at last, true political battle can be
joined. A year ago, candidate Johnson seemed too posh, too daft and too much of the cartoon right
to become London's mayor. Today, his opponents may find him a more elusive target than they'd
hoped./ppThere was widespread expectation that the Blond's ambition was to be Ken Livingstone's
antithesis. Reality is proving more complex. In keeping with his mandate and spurred by the
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complemented by his own version of its social counterpart./ppThere is more to this than his broad
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supporting the London Living Wage and in commissioning a study into the effects of granting earned
amnesties to long-term illegal immigrants./ppBoth moves have had Tory top brass leaping to safe
political distances, but they pose a greater threat to Johnson's challengers. There are cases to be
made that his housekeeping will hurt the vulnerable most and that his housing policy favours those
on middle incomes. But it's harder to depict him as a Thatcherite xenophobe when he's bumping up
working-class incomes and lobbying for 400,000 rule-breaking foreigners to be freed from the
underground economy./ppOpponents will have to respond imaginatively to his line on inclusion and
opportunity. Though he is wearingly persuaded by the rightwing whine about so-called political
correctness, he has acknowledged that the agitation for minority rights Ken Livingstone fostered in
the 80s had good reasons for existing./ppJohnson still often recoils from such stuff. Endorsing
Barack Obama in his Telegraph column he wrote that a benefit of the US electing its first black
president would be the end of "race-based politics" and the associated "grievance culture". With
typical Tory dimness, he seems to imagine that Obama's victory could still have happened had
"race-base politics" not prepared the ground./ppHis strategies on culture and equalities are
similar in disdaining the identity politics that emerged from those civil rights campaigns. Yet
they emphasise widening access and encouraging participation. Johnson's approach highlights
important questions. Identity politics are often defensive, a reaction to hostility. In the city
London has now become, is such defensiveness necessary? Is targeting grants at minority groups the
best way to tackle discrimination, or does it sometimes institutionalise a limiting introversion?
If the goal is to break down barriers against full participation in society, what is the best way
for the mayor to help achieve it?/ppJohnson is feeling his way towards a formula that works for
him, a blend of can-do, moral intervention and an old-fashioned Tory pragmatism that recognises
that the capital is the loser if hundreds of thousands of people are marooned in its social
margins. At the same time, it seeks to address Johnson's image problem. Yet paradoxically, it's
also one that could build on some of the finest achievements of the left. If it does, how will the
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CNET News.com -
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A new Firefox extension adds Pirate Bay BitTorrent links to product pages on Amazon.com, putting
the retailer in a tough position.
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A new Firefox extension adds Pirate Bay BitTorrent links to product pages on Amazon.com, putting
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Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technology News -
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Rallies scheduled to take place throughout the country to protest govt plan for mandatory Internet
filtering of "offensive and illegal material"by ISPs. It all started as a voluntary effort to
"protect children," but quickly spiraled into an all out attempt by the Australian govt to make it
mandatory for ISPs to filter the Internet of all "inappropriate content" and "offensive and illegal
material." It quickly deteriorated from an attempt to somehow safeguard children from things like
child pornography to things like legal pornography and gambling and has made Australian citizens
rightly upset. Protests have been organized by groups like the Electronic Freedom Project and
Digital Liberty Coalition, and will be held throughout the country on December 13th. The list of
locations includes: Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart, and Perth.
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Ignores the fact that mother makes a mere $8 bucks/hr, and both are already overwhelmed with
medical debts. The RIAA has managed to outdo itself once again and target an even more economically
disadvantaged individual than ever before. This time it's 19yo teen transplant candidate Ciara
Sauro who's been diagnosed with pancreatitis and awaiting a islet cell transplant. Hospitalized
weekly, and in the care of here mother who makes only $8.25p/hr, the family is unable to pay the
nearly $8,000 in fines the RIAA is demanding.
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which side of the political aisle you fall on, this should be extremely disturbing. It basically
lets the President decide that certain companies don't need to obey the constitution. That, by
itself, seems to be unconstitutional. br /br / Not surprisingly, the EFF and the ACLU a
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for the judicial system to be a check on the power of Congress and the White House -- specifically
on making sure they don't do anything unconstitutional? It's not clear when the judge will rule,
but I've yet to see a single reasonable explanation for why telcos should be granted immunity. If
what they did wasn't illegal, then there's nothing to worry about. If what they did was illegal,
but they felt that it was in the best interests of the country, then let them explain that in court
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iPod touch Fans forum -
1 days and 15 hours ago
I just jailbroke my OS2.2 ipod touch and cannot seem to get the accelerolog app to work. (it's the main reason I did the
jailbreak)
It doesn't show up in either Cydia or Installer (Community sources installed). In installer, I
tried adding the http://iphone.robota.nl/ source and then accelerolog shows up,
but when I click on it to install it, I get the error:
URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL ((null))
I can't seem to add the robota source in Cydia.
I also downloaded the app from their website and used winscp to transfer it via SSH to the
applications folder. The app shows up on the ipod, and when I click it, the screen turns white like
it's starting, but then 1 second later it goes back to the home screen. I tried setting the
permissions to 0755 & 0775, but neither worked.
I had previously jailbroken my ipod before paying for the software update and accelerolog worked
great.
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iPod touch Fans forum -
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Post: Applications on
none-jailbroken iTouch 1gen 2.1
User: ZoZo
Infraction: Illegal/pirated material
Points: 0
Administrative Note:
Message to User:
Original Post: Quote: Hey all!
I tried to search a bit but it's completely impossible with all these threads :p
I just have a question about programs who people crack..
Can you, without jailbreaking your iTouch/iPhone, put in those cracked applications to iTunes and
uploading them to your iTouch/iPhone or do you have to be jailbroken first?
I would never ever download something illegal, it's just a simple question :D:cool:
Muhaha
Thanks in advance :)
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