img src="http://planet.gnome.org/heads/logos/metacity.png" alt="" align="right" pa href=http://ftbfs.orgMatt Kraai/a noticed a stupid mistake in last night’s release, so this is a brown paper bag fix.  It was too late at night to write anything sensible, clearly./p pstrongWhat is it ?/strong/p ul li Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicelybr / with GNOME 2./li /ul pstrongWhat’s changed ?/strong/p ul li Fixes to Thomas’s earlier fixes (Matt ) (a href=http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562939 class=bug-link bug-link-gnomeGNOME bug 562939/a)/li /ul pemTranslations:/em/p ul li None/li /ul pstrongWhere can I get it ?/strong/p ul li 6149e8261e49d636d535926b7ebdc5a5br / http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.25/metacity-2.25.34.tar.bz2/li li 7a0ccb2bb6eec3bc4eb4846602fcc2d7br / http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.25/metacity-2.25.34.tar.gz/li /ul

Hi all,

I'm new in mac world, got my mac book pro recently, and now i'm trying to burn >6gb files to dual-side dvd. I got dvd's, and are obvious dual-side (cannot make mistake there ;-)), but cannot make Toast to recognize them as dual side and reports that there is not enough space to store the files. I've tried to set DVD DL from the drop-down menu, ejected dvd, put it back in, and when trying to burn it, same thing happens.

Recorder that is in this mac book pro is some Hl-dt-st DVDRW GSA-S10N. I'm not sure if this type of dvd burner can actually burn dual-side, although there is DVD DL (dual) option in Toast..

Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/88387?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Home+Office+mole+who+leaked+documents+to+Tories+acted+in+public+interest%2C+says+lawyerch=Politicsc3=The+Guardianc4=Damian+Green%2CConservatives%2CPolitics%2CWhitehall%2CFreedom+of+information%2CLabour%2CPolice+%28politics%29%2CUK+newsc5=Policy+Society%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CUnclassifed+Contributorsc6=Alan+Travis%2CNicholas+Wattc7=2008_12_02c8=1127192c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Damian+Greenc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FDamian+Green" width="1" height="1" //divpChristopher Galley, the 26-year-old civil servant at the centre of the Damian Green affair, regularly leaked documents to the Tory frontbencher for nearly two years because he believed they would be "used in a responsible manner in the public interest", his lawyer said last night./ppGalley's solicitor, Neil O'May, insisted the information involved was of the "lowest level" and attacked the nature of the police investigation, which included the Home Office official being held for 17 hours after a dawn raid on his home by anti-terrorist officers two weeks ago./ppGalley's appearance came as Ken Jones, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, defended the Metropolitan police action in arresting Green, a shadow Home Office spokesman, saying that no person, regardless of their station, should be given the opportunity to influence an inquiry in their favour./ppDavid Cameron is expected to ask two Conservative heavyweights, Ken Clarke and Michael Howard, to lead his party's assault on Gordon Brown and the Commons Speaker over Green's arrest when MPs return to Westminster tomorrow./ppO'May, who acted for Lord Levy during the "cash for honours" affair, sat alongside Galley at yesterday's press conference and said his client was unable to speak because he was still on bail and under police investigation: "If ever there is a case of 'don't shoot the messenger', this is it," said O'May. He added that Galley had been open and cooperative and had volunteered the whereabouts of his computer, mobile phone and the documents the police needed for their inquiries./ppO'May said Galley first met Green in the Commons in 2006. "He was in contact with Mr Green over the following two years, including further meetings with him. As a result, Mr Galley gave Damian Green MP information which was important for the public to know in an open and democratic parliamentary system."/ppHe confirmed the systematic nature of the leaks, which it has been claimed amounted to more than 20 documents, by admitting they had been "close to regular" over the past two years./ppO'May tried to play down their significance, saying Galley had first met Green because of his concerns over immigration and the documents amounted to "embarrassment material". He stressed that Galley had not been charged under the Official Secrets Act. "It's not really state secrets, national security, terrorism, financial jeopardy, loss, gain or otherwise - nothing remotely like that," he said./ppO'May would not comment on whether or not inducements had been offered to Galley, or on reports that his client had stood as a Tory candidate and then been interviewed by Green for a Commons job before joining the Home Office. /ppHe did however dismiss speculation that Galley had been involved in a police plot after his arrest to set up Green, describing the allegation as a "malicious rumour and wholly untrue"./ppCameron and his circle believe the arrest of Green marks a defining moment of what they describe as "state heavy-handedness". But they want to act cautiously in order to be seen as a government in waiting and because they do not want to lose sight of their main prey: Gordon Brown./ppConservative plans are to be finalised at a special meeting of the backbench 1922 committee. Clarke is expected to play a leading role in challenging the Speaker, Michael Martin, and the prime minister. Howard is also expected to be on hand, though he has less cross-party appeal./ppTheir attack is expected to:/pp· Challenge the Speaker, who will make a statement, to explain how the Commons authorities allowed police to enter the Palace of Westminster and search Green's office. The Tories are suggesting that the Commons authorities may have been misled by the police, who reportedly said their action had been approved by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer. Starmer said he was informed just before the arrest took place./pp· Maintain the pressure on Gordon Brown by asking the famous Watergate question: who knew what when? The Tories believe that home secretary Jacqui Smith, made a grave mistake in telling her officials she did not want to know about any police action against Green./ppAmid cabinet concerns at the conduct of the police, Downing Street indicated that there may be grounds for an inquiry once the investigation is over. "There may well be a time when it is right to look at any specific issues arising from this case," said a spokesman for Brown. "But we can't do that without knowing what the facts of this case or in a way that might undermine the operational independence of the police."/ppJack Straw, the justice secretary, indicated that he was surprised by the arrest of Green and search of his homes and properties. He said: "Everybody who has been made aware of these unfolding events of course is surprised by the nature of the raid, and I certainly understand the concern of my parliamentary colleagues."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/damian-green"Damian Green/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/conservatives"Conservatives/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/whitehall"Whitehall/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/freedomofinformation"Freedom of information/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/labour"Labour/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/police"Police/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/UWdQejstes_TFMoSvXh1_gs-ZK0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/UWdQejstes_TFMoSvXh1_gs-ZK0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/news/" rel="tag"News/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/blogging/" rel="tag"Blogging/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-services/" rel="tag"Web services/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-2-0/" rel="tag"web 2.0/a/pdiv align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/12/pownce-logo-tagline.png" alt="" /br //div br /Do you still use your a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/tag/pownce/"Pownce/a account? I stopped using mine months ago. I don't even know if I remember the password. If you do still use a href="http://pownce.com"Pownce/a, the a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/07/02/pownce-up-close-and-personal/"Twitter-like microblogging service/a that just never seemed to capitalize on its early hype, start preparing to migrate to something new. Today, a href="http://sixpart.com"Six Apart/a, the company behind Movable Type, TypePad and Vox, a href="http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2008/12/welcome-pownce-team.html"announced/a that it has acquired Pownce and will be a href="http://blog.pownce.com/2008/12/01/goodbye-pownce-hello-six-apart/"shuttering the service in two weeks/a. Lead Pownce developers Leah Culver and Mike Malone will continue on at Six Apart, where presumably some of Pownce's features will be rolled into a href="http://www.vox.com/"Vox/a.br /br /Hey, at least there is Twitter! Seriously though, Pownce's failure is proof that hype alone will not make a product or company a success. As our own Nik Fletcher pointed out, Pownce is the perfect example of how NOT having a useful API at launch or soon thereafter is a huge mistake. Especially if you are trying to do the whole microblogging thing. br /br /Not to get all a href="http://valleywag.com"Valleywag/a, but didn't Six Apart just a href="http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2008/11/changes-at-six-apart.html"lay off 8% of its staff/a, like three weeks ago? I don't know the particulars of either situation -- but simply on the surface, that's cold. Did something miraculously change or was this part of the plan the whole time?br /br /If you are worried about losing your messages once Pownce powers down its service, the Pownce team has created an a href="http://pownce.com/settings/export/"export tool/a which will generate a file (I'm guess its XML. I haven't had a chance to look at it) that can then be imported into Vox, WordPress or TypePad.br /br /Fittingly, the discussion of Pownce's demise is much more active on Twitter and Friendfeed than on Pownce itself.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/01/pownce-gets-pwned-six-apart-acquires-and-plans-to-shutter-servi/"Pownce gets pwned: Six Apart acquires and plans to shutter service/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com"Download Squad/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:20:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.sixapart.com/blog/2008/12/welcome-pownce-team.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/01/pownce-gets-pwned-six-apart-acquires-and-plans-to-shutter-servi/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1387733/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/01/pownce-gets-pwned-six-apart-acquires-and-plans-to-shutter-servi/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/zP5hJqYeymSyWSCWuf5vbSMkmco/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/zP5hJqYeymSyWSCWuf5vbSMkmco/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=tT5p2mCu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=tT5p2mCu" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=rHhbzEIS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=rHhbzEIS" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/Gy3SeJ0Vbqc" height="1" width="1"/

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Hello. I really hope someone can give me some advice on what I should do with my newly serviced IMAC. I have had the MAC since 2006 and had no issues with it. The computer had OSX Tiger on it and I was very happy with it. The MAC is an Intel based MAC with 1GB of RAM, 160GB HD, Leopard 10.5.5.

About a Month ago my hard drive crashed. Could not recover it, or fix it. Had my applecare warranty still intact so went ahead and took the computer in. Genius folks checked it out and said they would need to replace the HD. No problems as I had backed up my data using Superduper. Got my computer back and behold....it has Leopard installed on it with all my data recovered. I was surprised and also a bit excited to have the new OSX. As I begun to use the system as regularly i did, I noticed 2 significant changes over the computer I originally took in.

1. System was running signficantly slower. Almost seeing 10 seconds of hang for opening applications and approx 30 seconds of hang at times during application use.
2. Hard drive makes a lot of noise during write process (which is going on all the time). During even internet browsing, the hard drive is constantly writing. Noise is loud enough to hear it even a few feet away from the computer.

What I wanted to find out from the folks on this forum is what your thoughts are? Should I take it back to Apple and ask them to put my Tiger OSX back on? (already called the store and they said it is not regular operating procedure to upgrade the OS. May have been needed or a mistake. When I asked for new start up disc's they said I had to buy the OS. I was a bit annoyed by this response as I did not ask for the upgrade). Or is my issue more the new hard drive and should i take it back to apple for the noise and slowness due to this?

I thank you in advance for your help on this. Please let me know if there are any specifics to my case that may help in your advice. I'll provide the details as soon as I can get them.

Der Spielgel profiles a 42-year-old woman who has perfect "episodic memory" "People say to me: Oh, how fascinating, it must be a treat to have a perfect memory," she says. Her lips twist into a thin smile. "But it's also agonizing." In addition to good memories, every angry word, every mistake, every disappointment, every shock and every moment of pain goes unforgotten. Time heals no wounds for Price. "I don't look back at the past with any distance. It's more like experiencing everything over and over again, and those memories trigger exactly the same emotions in me. It's like an endless, chaotic film that can completely overpower me. And there's no stop button." She's constantly bombarded with fragments of memories, exposed to an automatic and uncontrollable process that behaves like an infinite loop in a computer. Sometimes there are external triggers, like a certain smell, song or word. But often her memories return by themselves. Beautiful, horrific, important or banal scenes rush across her wildly chaotic "internal monitor," sometimes displacing the present. "All of this is incredibly exhausting," says Price. An Infinite Loop in the Brain (Via Mind Hacks)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=58247d7f3d9f85e93e7b4d6df2dbab87p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=58247d7f3d9f85e93e7b4d6df2dbab87p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=58247d7f3d9f85e93e7b4d6df2dbab87" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

With plenty of a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081030/0222502686.shtml"bad publicity/a showing up for law firm Davenport Lyons and its ongoing campaign to a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081119/0334182883.shtml"shake people down/a with "pre-settlement" letters threatening them with copyright infringement lawsuits if they don't pay up, it appears that things aren't going quite as planned. First, the press has found a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/28/internet-porn-bill-mistake" target="_new"more people who were apparently falsely accused/a by the firm -- and this time, it's an elderly couple who are quite horrified that they're being accused of downloading gay porn (this would be the same gay porn where recent reports noted that the publishers were encouraging another company to upload it to many sites, so there would be more people to accuse of pirating it). br /br / On top of that, it appears that Atari, which had hired Davenport Lyons (and whose games were part of the original story of falsely accused people) has now a href="http://torrentfreak.com/atari-cancels-anti-piracy-witch-hunt/" target="_new"stopped the anti-piracy campaign/a, canceled requests for identification on various IP addresses and apparently a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/27/atari_davenport_lyons/"dropped Davenport Lyons/a in the process. It seems Atari realized that the campaign was generating an awful lot of negative publicity. Shaking down innocent people can do that, apparently.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081201/0233572982.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081201/0233572982.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081201/0233572982op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3f7bb7cb9f5cb5b86d5d9a490b2fa29bp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3f7bb7cb9f5cb5b86d5d9a490b2fa29bp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=3f7bb7cb9f5cb5b86d5d9a490b2fa29b" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=gelYo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=gelYo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/471669795" height="1" width="1"/

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pemsmallGrizzly Bear photo by a href="http://www.noahm.com/"strongAhmed Klink/strong/a/small/embr /br /It was a week ago today that we posted stronga href="/article/news/147695-grizzly-bear-apologize-to-animal-collective-for-leak"stronga story/strong/a/strong about some trouble in the animal kingdom. It seems a href="http://www.grizzly-bear.net/"strongGrizzly Bear/strong/a posted "Brothersport", a track from a href="http://www.myanimalhome.net/"strongAnimal Collective/strong/a's forthcoming a href="/article/news/146944-first-listen-animal-collectives-merriweather-post-pavilion"strongemMerriweather Post Pavilion/em/strong/a, well in advance of the album's release. This was a no-no, according to the copyright-enforcin' a href="http://www.websheriff.com/"strongWeb Sheriff/strong/a, who put the e-smackdown on the Grizz./p pOver the Thanksgiving break, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste a href="http://grizzly-bear.net/blog/?p=325"stronghopped on the band's blog/strong/a to call the whole thing "overblown and rather silly," and offer an explanation of exactly what happened. [Via ema href="http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=115amp;csid2=844amp;fid1=35143"strongExclaim/strong/a/em/a href="http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/grizzly-bear-leaks-animal-collective-track/"strongthe Daily Swarm/strong/a]:br /em blockquote1. The song was played on a French podcast or radio program.br /2. Someone (not me) ripped the song.br /3. Many blogs posted the track.br /4. I was one of those blogs.br /5. The weekend hit, and the Web Sheriff went on patrol.br /6. His email to us went into our Spam folder along with Penis Enlargement emails.br /7. His email to others that work with us were in the process of being addressed, but most likely were going to wait until Monday morning, after the weekend.br /8. Suddenly it was Sunday and note two made its way to us, and the tone had become more harsh.br /9. Web Sheriff believed we were ignoring him, but it was an honest misunderstanding.br /10. The song was taken down and the Web Sheriff's pre-written apology letter was put up, along with his letter, which I found funny. The posting of his letter was a mistake and was the only reason the issue came to any else's attention.br /11. People took note and blogged about it.br /12. I decided to take down Mr. Sheriff's letter and do this quick-and-easy twelve-step explanation./blockquote /em/p pDroste adds, "If I've offended anyone in the Animal Collective family with my excited post, I apologize. It was meant to generate even more excitement for what will surely be a great album, and yes the Web Sheriff is just doing his job. I hope this makes everyone happy! If Animal Collective would like to blog a song of ours in the future, Irsquo;d be more than happy to give it to them. In fact I'd be honored." That's very cute!/p pSpeaking of the Web Sheriff, a href="http://twitter.com/THEWEBSHERIFF"strongthis is great/strong/a./p pemMerriweather Post Pavilion/em, "Brothersport" and all, is due January 12 in the UK and January 20 Stateside from a href="http://www.dominorecordco.com/"strongDomino/strong/a. Grizzly Bear, meanwhile, aren't really due anywhere a href="/article/news/147379-new-grizzly-bear-album-coming-along-nicely"strongbut the studio/strong/a and the a href="/article/news/146497-grizzly-bear-final-fantasy-team-with-orchestra-for-gig"strongBrooklyn Academy of Music/strong/a for a while./ppa href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/147799" target="_blank"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/8O5jpivd7AKukd7IWP8YmHXYAqw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/8O5jpivd7AKukd7IWP8YmHXYAqw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/EC06fiyYx04" height="1" width="1"/

Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John links to a fantastic Crave piece about master Vietnamese phone-unlockers, virtuosos of desoldering who manage the painstaking business of unlocking your iPhone so that you can which network you run it on. First, a technician opened up the phone and stripped it to the motherboard. In his skillful hands, the device seemed much easier to dismantle than I expected. The technician then extracted the baseband chip, the component that controls the connection between the phone and the mobile network, from the motherboard. (This is a painstaking task as the chip is strongly glued to the phone's motherboard. A mistake during this process could brick the phone completely.) Once the chip was extracted, it was Tuan Anh's turn. He used a chip reader to read information into a file. He then used a Hex editor to remove the locking data from the file, and after that, the chip got reprogrammed with the newly altered file. Now it was no longer programmed to work with only a specific provider. The chip then got reassembled into the motherboard, another painstaking process. As a last step, the technician put the phone back together, and it looked like nothing had been done to it. Unlocking an iPhone 3G the Vietnamese way Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=dbb205cb9e2d96de83a36ff37c2469f3amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=dbb205cb9e2d96de83a36ff37c2469f3amp;p=1" border="0" //a

Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John links to a fantastic Crave piece about master Vietnamese phone-unlockers, virtuosos of desoldering who manage the painstaking business of unlocking your iPhone so that you can choose which network you run it on. First, a technician opened up the phone and stripped it to the motherboard. In his skillful hands, the device seemed much easier to dismantle than I expected. The technician then extracted the baseband chip, the component that controls the connection between the phone and the mobile network, from the motherboard. (This is a painstaking task as the chip is strongly glued to the phones motherboard. A mistake during this process could brick the phone completely.) Once the chip was extracted, it was Tuan Anhs turn. He used a chip reader to read information into a file. He then used a Hex editor to remove the locking data from the file, and after that, the chip got reprogrammed with the newly altered file. Now it was no longer programmed to work with only a specific provider. The chip then got reassembled into the motherboard, another painstaking process. As a last step, the technician put the phone back together, and it looked like nothing had been done to it. Unlocking an iPhone 3G the Vietnamese way Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets...br style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=dbb205cb9e2d96de83a36ff37c2469f3amp;p=1img style=border:0; src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=dbb205cb9e2d96de83a36ff37c2469f3amp;p=1 border=0 //a

Maybe all roads do lead to Rome. According to The Hollywood Reporter and creator Bruno Heller, there's actually talk of continuing the brilliant HBO series on the big screen to wrap up all the historical loose ends caused by the series' abrupt cancellation. (Something which HBO now thinks was a big mistake. Between that and passing over Preacher, they're rather low in my esteem right now.)

Heller admits the talk is, at the moment, just talk. "It's moving along. It's not there until it is there. I would love to round that show off." Heller wouldn't discuss movie plot plans, but the next step for Rome was Augustus Caesar having to deal with a certain carpenter from Judea -- with a twist typical of the series.

Fans of the show will probably weep a little at Heller's unrealized plans -- Lucius Vorenus' off-camera fate wasn't as definite as we might have thought, and we would have gotten a whole season of Egyptian debauchery. "I discovered halfway through writing the second season the show was going to end," Heller said. "The second was going to end with death of Brutus. Third and fourth season would be set in Egypt. Fifth was going to be the rise of the messiah in Palestine. But because we got the heads-up that the second season would be it, I telescoped the third and fourth season into the second one, which accounts for the blazing speed we go through history near the end. There's certainly more than enough history to go around."

A Rome movie is probably nothing but a dream -- anything more than a whisper, and it will vanish, it is so fragile. But cancellation is no longer a death knell, and while they can't give me back the lost season of Antony and Cleopatra, I'm always up for more bread and circuses.

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A police state would be where ministers were directing a police operation." /ppWhen Green, the shadow immigration minister, was arrested last week over allegations that he had procured leaked documents from a civil servant, the police were not following orders from ministers, Straw said. /pp"We have an independent police service. What's important here is that politicians do not interfere with the natural course of an investigation."/ppStraw also said that he expected parliament to review the procedures that led to the police raiding Green's office in the Commons. Green strongly denies any wrongdoing. /ppWith MPs from all parties still furious about the way the police were allowed to search Green's office last week and take away his computer and details of constituency correspondence, Straw said that he was "pretty certain" that there would be a parliamentary inquiry into the affair when the case was closed./ppThe justice secretary also defended Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, over her decision not to apologise for what happened to Green./pp"If any home secretary had offered an apology, there would have then been a huge furore about the fact that the home secretary was prejudging the actions and activities of the police without an investigation," Straw said. /ppStraw said that if the Tories were unhappy about what had happened, they could complain to the independent police complaints authority. /ppMPs have complained that the raid on Green's office in the House of Commons was a breach of parliamentary privilege – the principle the MPs are entitled to special protection to enable them to carry out their work as members of the Commons./ppStraw said that he accepted that in this case competing constitutional principles were in play – the right of MPs being free to carry out "legitimate business" on behalf of their constituents, the independence of the police to investigate, and the importance of protecting secrecy and confidentiality "where it is necessary" in government. /ppMichael Martin, the Commons Speaker, will make a statement about the affair to MPs when the new session of parliament begins with the Queen's speech on Wednesday. /ppToday Denis MacShane, the Labour former minister, said that Martin had to assure MPs that what happened to Green would not happen again. /pp"The police have made a mistake, I think the Home Office bureaucracy have made a mistake, and I think the Speaker on Wednesday has to say this will not happen again," he told Today. /pp"The inner sanctum of our parliamentary democracy is the Palace of Westminster and, in the Palace of Westminster, MPs, yes they are protected under privilege when they speak in the House of Commons, but there is a broader constitutional privilege that says they can meet anyone, talk about anything, discuss their political passions, they can hold files, and the police, the agents of the state, do not storm in there and start breaking in or going into offices and taking away confidential files that all our constituents think will be treated confidentially." /ppHe suggested that the situation could not happen if the UK had its own written constitution: "In other countries ... the police would never be allowed into a parliament." /ppBut one of Britain's leading constitutional experts, Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at the University of Oxford, told the programme: "This does seem to me something of a storm in a teacup. /pp"The important principle is that MPs, apart from when they are speaking in the chamber and dealing with constituents' correspondence, are as subject to the law as the rest of us. /pp"If the police decide not to take action against an MP which they would against an ordinary citizen then that would be discriminatory./pp"Then people might say: 'Well, we are not living in a police state but a state where people, because they have been elected to parliament, have certain exemptions from the law.' 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img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image001_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compLOS ANGELES #151; Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries #151; vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin #151; and now scientists at UCLA have accidentally discovered a material that could make digital cameras as we know them obsolete./p pGraduate student Hsiang-Yu Chen was working on a new formula for solar cells when something went wrong. Instead of creating electricity when hit with light, the conductivity of the material she was working with changed./p p"The original purpose [was] to make a solar cell more efficient," says Chen. "However, during the research we found the solar cell phenomenon [had] disappeared." Instead, the test material showed high gain photoconductivity, indicating potential use as a photo sensor./p pThanks to this lucky mistake, a new breed of camera sensors that are cheaper, higher-resolution and have lower distortion could be on the horizon. Click through the gallery to learn how this new breakthrough works and tour the labs where the magic happens./p pstrongLeft:/strong A piece of glass houses five strips of this new material, held between tweezers in a glove box./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image003_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compHere, materials science Ph.D. student Hsiang-Yu Chen takes a polymer sample from a tray inside a glove box. Researchers in this lab test hundreds of samples before a material with desirable properties is found./p pWhen Chen made the discovery, she was working on plastic-like substances with quantum dots #151; nanoparticles (roughly the size of a virus) with properties similar to a semiconductor. /p pThe nano-size quantum dots could give photo sensors much higher resolution than current models. And because this new photo-sensing material is a polymer film, it's flexible and could someday be inexpensive to produce./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image005_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compAt left is a pair of stills that concentrate polymer solutions. Later, the solutions will be tested for their response to light. /p pCurrently, the sensor in your camera that detects light and allows you to capture an image is made out of silicon. This makes it relatively expensive as well as flat and inflexible. /p pHaving a flat sensor doesn’t seem like a big deal until you consider how your lens works. Lenses are curved, which shapes the image they see. When you project the spherical image onto a flat surface you get distortion around the edges. A flexible sensor would prevent this distortion./p img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image007_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compThe polymer- and metal-coated slide from the first photo of the gallery is now placed into an electrode clip (the white, rectangular portion of the setup). The electrodes on the clip will enable sensors to take readings from the material when it's exposed to light./pimg src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image009_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compThe sample in the electrode clip is inserted into the test chassis. The wires on the right send any electrical activity from the material to a computer for analysis./pimg src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image011_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compA very bright, wide-spectrum light source is connected to the glove box. It's attached to the portal using a standoff header that keeps the light a fixed distance from the sample. The light appears blue because the light in the room has a yellow cast, it's actually much closer to the color of daylight./pimg src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/12/gallery_photodetector/image013_t.jpg'/img: Photo: Dave Bullock/Wired.compHsiang-Yu Chen checks the results of the test using a compu