Bernie Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom who is serving a 25-year prison term for masterminding an $11 billion accounting scandal, wants President Bush to lighten his sentence.

Bernie Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom who is serving a 25-year prison term for masterminding an $11 billion accounting scandal, wants President Bush to lighten his sentence.

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"O'Clock" by Nadine Grenier, a student at ESAD Strasbourg in France, is a kinetic installation made from 300 analog clocks set in sequence to display this sentence every 12 hours when their hands come into alignment: "le temps passe, et chaque fois qu'il y a du temps passe, il y a quelque chose qui s'efface." The quote is from Jules Romains, a French poet, which roughly translates in "Time passes, and every time the time passes, there is something that fades".

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If you said that they both posed topless, well, you’d be correct.  The actual answer I was driving at was that they’ve both had their Facebook accounts deleted.

According to Nick O’Neill at All Facebook, there are (not surprisingly) quite a few Lindsay Lohans on Facebook.

So, what did Lindsay do as soon as she found out her account was shut down?  The same thing Robert Scoble did, she blogged about her experience, only at her MySpace profile:

okay, so i love myspace, because it is secure, and the people at myspace don’t disable your account because they think that you are a fake you.

[..]

when i typed my password and “log in” name in, a red sentence came up saying..

Account Disabled
Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here.

wow! i was in shock. i clicked on the link that they told me to click on and then to another link that said: my account may of been disabled by mistake. once i got to that it gave a note saying why it was disabled which stated the note saying that it was disabled because they believe that i was a fake of myself. genius.

Lohan, in her own way, criticized the vaunted Facebook Connect, the account management system that the social network has opened up for other blogs and sites to use as a way of managing their site’s userbase.

To paraphrase Lohan, it’s infuriating that Facebook arbitrarily decides who is and isn’t the real account holder, and it’s equally infuriating that they don’t at least offer account holders the opportunity to respond to the company’s accusation before the account is shut down.

The sentiment is almost identical to the insight of Scoble’s reaction to his account being deactivated:

Facebook claims it is a “utility.” Well, I like how Kara Swisher put it. Hint: “utilities” have due process and don’t just shut down someone’s account without a warning. You should see the comments on my last post. Some people didn’t even knowingly break the rules and never got a good answer for why their accounts were shut down.

Turning away from the amusing similarities between Scoble and Lohan for a moment, it’s interesting to note the echo outside the bubble on this one.

As social networking tools go more and more mainstream, people who are real celebrities as well as those with real world influence (and not just the “Internet Famous”) will have the same scenarios have happen to them we’ve experienced a year prior. For more proof of this, see CNN’s epiphany over Twitter’s Mumbai coverage versus our epiphany over Twitter’s earthquake coverage a year earlier.

The difference here is this bad bit of PR could be avoided for Facebook.  They’ve had a year to figure out how to straighten out their account deactivation process, and they’re in the midst of talking up how awesome Facebook Connect is to everyone. Any bit of blowback they get on this is well deserved.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/33001?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Pakistan+snubs+India+over+terrorist+%27suspects%27ch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Mumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CWorld+news%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CUS+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Vikram+Doddc7=2008_12_04c8=1128422c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Mumbai+terror+attacksc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FMumbai+terror+attacks" width="1" height="1" //divpPakistan's president yesterday rebuffed India's key demand that he hand over 20 alleged terrorists, as the US intensified its efforts to ease tensions between the two nuclear powers in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai./ppSpeaking from Delhi, the visiting US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, told Pakistan it had a "special responsibility" to help India's investigation into the terrorist attacks. Washington also sent its most senior military official to Islamabad to hammer home the same message./ppWestern powers, led by the US, are trying to stop tensions between the two countries spilling over after last week's attacks in Mumbai, which killed more than 170 people. India and Pakistan have fought three wars and had numerous skirmishes in the past 60 years. /ppIndia has demanded that Pakistan stop providing sanctuary to 20 people it alleges are linked to violence against it. But Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, yesterday appeared to reject this demand, saying the 20 would be tried in Pakistan if there was evidence to charge them./ppZardari's comments are likely to anger India's government, which is under sustained pressure from its people to take strong action in the wake of the attacks./ppDelhi says all 10 terrorists in Mumbai were Pakistani, and had received training there for a terrorist plot controlled from Pakistan that subjected India to a four-day national nightmare. /ppZardari told CNN: "If we had the proof, we would try them in our courts and we would sentence them." He said he doubted that the only terrorist captured alive was a Pakistani citizen, as India alleges. "We have not been given any tangible proof that he is definitely a Pakistani."/ppYesterday Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, arrived in Pakistan. Mullen urged Pakistan to "investigate aggressively any and all possible ties to groups in Pakistan" and "take more and more concerted action against militant extremists in the country"./ppMost analysts, though, believe the eight-month-old Zardari presidency has limited room for manoeuvre, even if it wants to help India's investigation. Zardari's civilian government faces pressure from hardline groups not only to resist Indian demands, but over the help provided to the west's war against al-Qaida and Taliban elements in its border region with Afghanistan./ppBut in Delhi, Rice said: "This is the time for everybody to cooperate and do so transparently ... Pakistan needs to act with resolve and urgency. That message has been delivered to Pakistan."/ppIn Mumbai, public confidence in India's authorities suffered another blow after it emerged that bombs lay undiscovered for a week at the city's main rail station attacked by terrorists last Wednesday. Police found explosives hidden in a bag among abandoned luggage./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/mumbai-terror-attacks"Mumbai terror attacks/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan"Pakistan/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/india"India/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/terrorism"Global terrorism/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/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/qcfnAPthCY82CKD8ZLmvDriKZME/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/qcfnAPthCY82CKD8ZLmvDriKZME/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Un juge fédéral américain a refusé de revoir la sentence du Montréalais, condamné à 22 ans de prison pour avoir voulu commettre un attentat à l'aéroport de... (LCN)

A federal judge re-imposed a 22-year prison sentence for terrorist Ahmed Ressam, an Al Qaeda-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium.

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But he certainly has the power to grant it. Article 2 section 2 of the US constitution gives the president the power to grant reprieves and pardons. The US courts have traditionally interpreted this power widely, to include amnesties, conditional pardons and blanket pardons. And all presidents have used the power – Harry Truman's 1,913 pardons is the postwar record./ppAnd these final weeks of a presidency have become, by convention, a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/nov/26/bush-administration-presidential-pardons"the pardoning season/a. Compared with Truman, Bill Clinton was a light pardoner. He awarded just 396 of them in his eight years as president. But as many as 218 of Clinton's pardons were issued during his final month in office in 2001 – beneficiaries included his brother Roger Clinton and his longtime Arkansas politicial ally Susan MacDougall. This settling of accounts could be the pattern which Bush is about to follow./ppAs of now, Bush has issued just 157 presidential pardons in nearly eight years in the White House. They have covered crimes from the manufacture of untaxed whiskey to the sale of migratory bird parts. Most of the Bush pardons involve drugs, gambling and frauds. But Bush has not issued a pardon since March 24 – when the beneficiary was a South Dakota native American called Lonnie Two Eagle who was pardoned for an assault on a reservation. But in just under seven weeks Bush's power to pardon will expire./ppNot even Richard Nixon pardoned himself. It fell to his hapless successor Gerald Ford to announce, a month after Nixon's resignation in August 1974, that it was time to draw the line. Nixon had been at the centre of "an American tragedy in which we all have played a part", Ford announced in a broadcast. "It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must."/ppBut can Bush rely on a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barackobama"Barack Obama/a to be so magnanimous? And can Obama be relied on to grant the wide-ranging executive pardons to the whole range of Bush administration officials that the outgoing White House may wish to protect? Maybe – but no, in the end, I don't think so either. Magnanimity is all very well when it comes to your defeated Democratic opponents. But it is a whole other ballgame when the petitioner is the outgoing president himself. /ppBe clear that this issue is without question in Bush's rapidly diminishing intray. Be clear too that Bush is fully prepared to protect his political allies and hitmen. He has, after all, made his own stance clear by using his powers to commute Dick Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby's prison sentence for obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame affair in 2007. So, if the matter is on Bush's agenda then it is also, in some way, on Obama's too./ppThe possibility of a Bush pardon is not a conspiracy theorist's fantasy. It is a real and present political possibility – and Americans are beginning to wake up to it. This week, Human Rights Watch and eight other organisations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, and the Open Society Policy Centre, wrote a public letter urging Bush not to issue a preemptive pardon of past or present officials implicated in torture or other abuses related to the "war on terror". The groups pointed out that formal legal investigations into US torture, rendition and other abuses have so far been only patchy – a reflection of the Bush administration's determination over several years to handle detainees outside the legal process. There is a very serious possibility that dozens of cases will make their way through the US courts in the coming months and years – and it is therefore possible that hundreds of administration officials will ultimately be forced to answer for their conduct./ppI do not know for certain that Bush is considering a comprehensive pre-emptive pardon for officials right through to his own Oval Office. Nor do I know for certain that the matter has been discussed with the Obama team. But common sense says these things must be taking place in some form or other. It says, moreover, that Bush and Obama may have a common interest in such an outcome. Bush wants it because it protects him and his lieutenants. Obama may want it too, because he wants a clean slate and does not want to have his presidency blighted by the legal cleaning-up operation that might ensue./ppIf that analysis is correct, then prepare for an unprecedented act of self-pardon by Bush that extends to dozens – perhaps hundreds – of civilian and military officials. It would be a stunning challenge to America's self-image as the upholder of law and freedom in the world. It would be a lawless outcome to a lawless war. For Bush, it would be a climactic act of the untramelled presidential authority that he and Cheney have so determinedly forged. It would send waves of outrage through America and the world. 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Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters without Borders, two groups committed to the freedom of journalists abroad, have called on the Iraqi government to free Adel Hussein, who was found guilty of violating "public custom" for publishing an article about homosexuality in April 2007 in the independent weekly Hawlati.

Said Reporters without Borders: "Sexual practices are part of the individual freedoms that a democratic state is supposed to promote and protect. Furthermore, Hussein did not defend homosexuality. He limited himself to describing a form of behaviour from a scientific viewpoint."

CPJ reports: "The sentence handed down was based on the outdated 1969 Iraqi penal code, said Luqman Malazadah, Hussein's lawyer. Malazadah told CPJ that he has appealed the court decision. A new press law that took effect in October doesn't recognize violations of 'publish custom' (sic) as an offense and also eliminates prison terms for journalists. The new law also says that a representative of the region's Journalist Syndicate must attend a journalist's trial, but Fatih said that no representative attended Hussein's."

Hussein, who is currently imprisoned in Erbil, received a six-month jail term and was fined 125,000 dinars (85 euros).

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/50793?ns=guardianpageName=Film%3A+Polanski+seeks+dismissal+of+70s+sex+casech=Filmc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Film%2CRoman+Polanski+%28Film%29%2CCulture+sectionc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Xan+Brooks%2CBen+Childc7=2008_12_03c8=1127991c9=articlec10=GUc11=Filmc12=Roman+Polanskic13=c14=h2=GU%2FFilm%2FRoman+Polanski" width="1" height="1" //divpOne of the most notorious sex cases in Hollywood history could reach a belated conclusion if Roman Polanski gets his way. The Oscar-winning director is seeking the dismissal of a charge that saw him flee the US in 1978 after admitting "unlawful sexual intercourse" with a 13-year-old girl. /ppLawyers for Polanski filed a request in Los Angeles yesterday on the basis of new evidence brought to light by the recent documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. The request alleged that the film, which had its premiere in Cannes last May, revealed "a pattern of misconduct and improper communications" between the district attorney's office and the judge handling Polanski's case. /pp"This case serves as a classic example of how our justice system can be abused, and defendants' rights trampled, by an unholy alliance between courts and criminal prosecutors," said a statement from Polanski's lawyers, Chad Hummel and Brad Dalton. Dalton is the son of Doug Dalton, who represented the Polish-born director in the original case./ppPolanski, 75, has been living in Paris since fleeing the US to avoid a likely custodial sentence. He was originally indicted on six felony counts although all but one - unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor - were dropped. Even so, the film-maker faced a prison sentence of between 16 months and three years. The warrant issued at the time of his arrest remains in force, ensuring he would be seized by the authorities if he returned to America. /ppThe incident, which sparked a media storm, reportedly took place after Polanski booked 13-year-old Samantha Gailey as a model for a Vogue photo shoot. He is alleged to have given her champagne and Quaaludes (a sedative) before having sex with her at the Mulholland Drive home of his friend Jack Nicholson. Gailey publicly forgave the director in 1997. /ppAt the time of the incident, Polanski was one of Hollywood's most in-demand directors, thanks to the success of Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown. Despite his tarnished reputation, he continues to be well-regarded within the industry and won the 2003 best director Oscar for his work on the Holocaust drama The Pianist. The award was accepted on Polanski's behalf by the actor Harrison Ford. /ppSandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for Los Angeles district attorney Steve Cooley, said her office had not yet received the papers for Polanski's case and would not take a position until it had done so. "We're looking forward to seeing Mr Polanski in Los Angeles to litigate it," she added /ppThe case is due before the Los Angeles county superior court on January 21./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/romanpolanski"Roman Polanski/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/GggRwEDDt0lOnkj1gndJSCBagDA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/GggRwEDDt0lOnkj1gndJSCBagDA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Touted as the biggest ever anti-piracy collaboration, the MPA and several major anti-piracy groups have announced that by the time the 2012 Olympics begin, they will have made London “a fake-free zone”. This impossible mission to stamp out DVD piracy was launched by Intellectual Property Minister, David Lammy.

The Motion Picture Association, U.K. Film Council, UK Intellectual Property Office, Federation Against Copyright Theft, London Councils, Trading Standards and the Police are teaming up to eliminate DVD piracy in London before the 2012 Olympics.

Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy endorsed the launch of the ambitious ‘Fake Free London’ project, noting that the police will be required to enforce already-existing laws: “Legislation alone will not combat counterfeiting and piracy. Good law is great but enforced law is better.” He said the aim of the campaign was send a message that people are serious about tackling the problem, and that consumers and legitimate businesses would be better off as a result.

Apparently there have already been dozens of arrests, but it is unclear if these were connected to running an operation manufacturing the counterfeit DVDs, or selling them. In the UK right now, the difference in terms of how the courts deal with the people at the top compared to the bottom is marked.

Street sellers, often from other countries, are at the bottom of the food chain and are usually cautioned by the police, DVDs confiscated and sent on their way. Some receive small fines but more usually, those that continually flout the warnings could find themselves the subject of an Anti-Social Behavior Order. If they breach the terms of those, it’s possible they’ll go to prison, but few do. It’s hard to see that this process is much of a deterrent, it relies on an offender getting caught lots of times. Besides, the UK has very little prison space right now.

Towards the top end of the food chain, things are different. Last month, another UK man Steven Adams, a fairly large-scale counterfeiter who also fitted huge numbers of XBox and Playstation modchips, received a fairly hefty sentence from the courts. He pleaded guilty to 44 charges, including the manufacture and selling around £1 million of counterfeit products. Adams had toured computer and flea markets all over the UK and at the time of his arrest, police found 31,000 counterfeit discs in his possession. He had numerous expensive properties, vehicles and possessions but didn’t try to hide his wealth, something which he will now regret as the court takes action to seize them. For his sins, Adams also received 3 years in jail.

The punishment for commercial piracy in the UK starts with a simple caution and goes up 10 years in jail and an unlimited fine, so it seems the tools to deal with the problem are already there, but is there the will to start locking more people up? Time will tell, but it seems unlikely. So can the MPA win its very own Olympic event? A bronze medal, absolute maximum.

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To anyone even remotely familiar with Nokia's history, this tidbit won't come as a surprise at all. In fact, we've been hearing "Linux" and "Nokia" in the same sentence for years. At Nokia World in Barcelona -- the same place where the almighty N97 (pictured) was unveiled -- Ukko Lappalainen, vice president at Nokia's markets unit, informed Reuters that "in the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones." Potentially more interesting was his followup line: "I don't see anything in Android which would make it better than Linux maemo." Quite frankly, we'd be entirely more interested if this was some revolutionary epiphany, but it's basically just more of the same song and dance. Now, if an N98 pops out next month with a freakishly awesome and nimble mobile variant of Ubuntu, well -- that's a horse of a different color.

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