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width="1" height="1" //divpRadical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada yesterday had his bail revoked and
was returned to indefinite detention in a maximum security prison pending the outcome of a legal
battle over his deportation to Jordan./ppThe Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac), in
effect Britain's national security court, ruled that evidence from the security services, heard in
secret, had convinced them there was now an increased risk of Qatada absconding./ppQatada,
described by a Spanish judge as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, was released on bail in
June to live with his family in west London under a 22-hour curfew after the court of appeal ruled
it was unsafe to return him to Jordan./ppThe preacher has spent three and half years in maximum
security jails since he was first declared a risk to national security in January 2001 on the
grounds that he encouraged other extremists to commit acts of terrorism by providing religious
sanction for them./ppThe immigration judges said their decision to revoke his bail was based on the
evidence they had heard in secret: "The secretary of state relies on information contained in the
closed case to justify the revocation of bail." This remains confidential and is only spelled out
in a separate "closed" unpublished judgment./ppThe "open" version published yesterday said none of
the reasons put forward by the Home Office in the public sessions of the commission's two-day
hearing would justify the revocation of his bail. These included the seizure at his home of memory
cards, MP3 players, computer discs and videotapes./ppThey also rejected security service arguments
that the publication of a message from a senior al-Qaida figure on a website in July, appealing to
religious scholars to return to the "battlefield", and the pending government appeal to the House
of Lords against the decision not to deport him also increased the risk of him absconding. /ppThe
judges said it has been a long-standing assessment of the security services that Qatada, also known
as Mohammad Othman, is a senior religious extremist with links to al-Qaida and these factors in
themselves did not justify revoking bail./ppBefore the Siac hearing it had been reported that
Qatada was trying to flee the country but Mr Justice Mitting, sitting with two other judges, said
the cleric's declared interest in renouncing Jordanian citizenship and attempting to go to the
country of his birth, Palestine, did not amount to a breach of bail. They said they did not regard
as significant the fact he had not formally notified the Home Office of attempts on his behalf to
find a third country, other than Jordan, willing to take him. /pp"If the appellant identifies a
state or territory willing to receive him, and seeks to put into effect his declared wish to go
there, he will be fulfilling the obligation imposed on him by the deportation order to depart the
United Kingdom ... We do not, however, see any realistic prospect that either of these two
possibilities will be open to him in the near or medium term," they added./ppDuring the hearing
Qatada's barrister, Edward Fitzgerald QC, said his lawyer, Gareth Peirce, and writer Victoria
Brittain had been involved in the initial attempts to find a country willing to take him./ppThe
home secretary, Jacqui Smith, said she was pleased Qatada's bail had been revoked: "He poses a
significant threat to our national security and I am pleased that he will be detained pending his
deportation, which I'm working hard to secure." /ppQatada was in Belmarsh prison in east London
last night but is expected to be moved to Long Lartin maximum security/pdiv style="float: left;
margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/uksecurity"UK
security and terrorism/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/alqaida"Al-Qaida/a/lilia
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Engadget -
10 hours and 33 minutes ago
div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1"
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align="left"a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/24/optoma-dlc-pico-projector-coming-soon-to-us/"Tiny
projectors/a are pretty much a a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/aiptek-pocket-cinema-v10-available-for-pre-order-on-amazon/"dime
a dozen/a these days, so we'll be honest, the Acer K10 kind of looks like more of the same. Sure,
it's small -- just 1.2 pounds -- but that's a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/tiny-wiimote-projector-is-not-nearly-as-impressive-as-it-sound/"not
nearly as small/a as some (and certainly not a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/3ms-mpro110-pico-projector-hits-the-streets-for-359-a-pop/"small
enough/a to be impressive). It's an SVGA projector with an 800 x 600 resolution, and it's got an
LED backlight with about 20,000 estimated life hours, delivering 100 ANSI lumens with a contrast
ratio of 1000:1. The K10 also boasts both S-video and VGA connections. It's a little hard to say,
but this emmight/em be what we've been searching for to project our tiny kitten photo collection
upon our walls. It's supposed to be ready for a January release and it'll go for about $443. br /br
/[Via a
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
15 hours and 43 minutes ago
I'd think this was worthy of Page 1 mention, although the track record of this site regarding news
that can be considered "negative" towards Apple certainly leans toward the fanboy side. Regardless,
here it is:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/240255/a...ac-owners.html
I for one am not going to bother. When my OS X is getting the same amount of viruses, trojans, and
spyware that my last Windows machine had when I abandoned it, that's the day I switch to Linux. The
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we make money not art -
1 days and 2 hours ago
ul lia href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/11/murakami-studio.html"Murakami
animation studio coming to L.A. | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times/abr/ Murakami already has a
studio in New York. But he has decided that Hollywood is the place to expand his filmmaking
capabilities. The new studio will operate under the umbrella of Kaikai Kiki, his production and
artist-management company./li lia href="http://badatsports.com/2008/nick-caves-soundsuits/"Nick
Caversquo;s Soundsuits : Bad at Sports/abr/ Often, Cave’s Soundsuits are assembled by a
multigenerational, multicultural group of volunteers in his Chicago neighborhood./li lia
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3536943/Pentagon-hires-British-scientist-to-help-build-robot-soldiers-that-wont-commit-war-crimes.html"Pentagon
hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes' -
Telegraph/abr/ By 2010 the US will have invested $4 billion in a research programme into
quot;autonomous systemsquot;, the military jargon for robots, on the basis that they would not
succumb to fear or the desire for vengeance that afflicts frontline soldiers./li lia
href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/the_culture_jamming_gift.html"MAKE: Blog: The
Culture Jamming gift guide at MAKE - hack, stick, throw, jam and inspire!/abr/ gift ideas for that
mischief maker in your life!/li lia href="http://artlog.com/miamifairs"Artlog / Miami Art
Fairs/abr/ printable map guide and details on Art Basel Miami Beach and the twenty satellite
fairs/li /ul
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Engadget -
1 days and 6 hours ago
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//abr / div align="left"Well, it looks like those that found TrekStor's a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/trekstor-moviestation-maxi-t-u-media-centric-hard-drive/"MovieStation
maxi t.u./a hard drive a bit too bulky for their taste now have a new option to consider in the
form of the company's new MovieStation pocket c.uc, which packs many of the same media-friendly
features, plus a memory card slot (SD, MMC, and xD) for some added convience. As you can see above,
you'll also get a remote to control the device when it's hooked up to a TV (via composite or
component), and you'll get support for most of the audio and video formats you'll likely want --
yes, including DivX and Xvid. No word on a release 'round here just yet, but folks in the UK can
apparently grab a 250GB version now for pound;99.99 (about $150) or a 500GB drive for pound;139.99
(roughly $215)./div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/homeentertainment/"
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Rage3D Discussion Area - 75,85,87,93,99 -
1 days and 11 hours ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ar-crimes.html
The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the ethics of building machines to prevent the
creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine that murders indiscriminately.
By 2010 the US will have invested $4 billion in a research programme into "autonomous systems", the
military jargon for robots, on the basis that they would not succumb to fear or the desire for
vengeance that afflicts frontline soldiers.
...
"It takes six people to operate a Predator drone round the clock. I know the Air Force has
developed software, which they claim is to train Predator operators. But if the computer can train
the human it could also ultimately fly the drone itself."
Some are concerned that it will be impossible to devise robots that avoid mistakes, conjuring up
visions of machines killing indiscriminately when they malfunction, like the robot in the film
Robocop.
Noel Sharkey, a computer scientist at Sheffield University, best known for his involvement with the
cult television show Robot Wars, is the leading critic of the US plans.
He says: "It sends a cold shiver down my spine. I have worked in artificial intelligence for
decades, and the idea of a robot making decisions about human termination is
terrifying."
Yeah same here. I appreciate the lack of retribution with robots, but one small malfunction and you
have Skynet, Terminator, ED-209, countless other tales in sci-fi to warn against autonomy with
armed robots. I approve of the Predator program, even though it takes a large manned effort to back
them up, because it removes the element of danger to our forces. It's much easier to take somebody
shooting a Predator out of the skies than a manned aircraft. That takes retribution out of the
equation without necessitating autonomous decisions about KILLING. Autopilot=yes, autofire=no. I'd
be much more interested in ground robots that detect enemy presence and alert humans to their
whereabouts, but the final decision to shoot should always be under human control.
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Autoblog -
1 days and 12 hours ago
pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/tunertuesdays/" rel="tag"Tuners/a, a
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href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mitsubishi/" rel="tag"Mitsubishi/a, a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/uk/" rel="tag"UK/a/pa
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hspace="4" border="1"
src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/01-mitsu_x_fq400_small_450op.jpg" alt=""
//abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for a gallery of the 2010 Mitsubishi Evolution X
FQ400/small/strong/embr //div br /emAutocar/em snagged a handful of pics and some initial specs of
the UK-only Mitsubishi Evolution X FX-400, and as suspected, the hotter Evo is a road-going version
of the a
href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/16/ready-to-race-mitsubishi-evolution-x-one-make-series-planned/"ADR
Motorsport-prepared sedan/a that successfully campaigned this past September in the 24-Hour Britcar
Championship.br /br /The turbocharged 2.0-liter 4B11 will put out approximately 405 hp and 400
lb.-ft. of torque thanks to a new turbo, retuned ECU and center-exit exhaust. As opposed to the
outgoing FQ400, the Evo X-based model won't use a race clutch, so puttering around town should be
bit more bearable, and due to the FQ400's prodigious output, the twin-clutch SST gearbox - which
can't handle more than 331 lb.-ft. of torque - won't be used. Despite this, expect the FQ400 to lay
down 0-60 times of around 3.5 seconds, 0.6 seconds faster than the Evo X FQ360.br /br /In addition
to six-pot calipers, upgraded brakes and 18-inch wheels, the FQ400 will feature a new aero kit that
includes additional cooling intakes, vents, a larger air intake in the hood and ducts cut into the
side skirts to aid rear brake cooling. Production will be limited to 100 units, unless demand calls
for more, but considering the price - between pound;45,000 and pound;50,000, or pound;14,500 more
than the FQ-360 - 100 examples should just about do it.br /br /div
class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a
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FQ400/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/mitsubishi-evolution-x-fq400/1195178/"img
src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/01-mitsu_x_fq400_small_thumbnail.jpg"
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src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/03-mitsu_x_fq400_small_thumbnail.jpg"
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src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/04-mitsu_x_fq400_small_thumbnail.jpg"
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src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/05-mitsu_x_fq400_small_thumbnail.jpg"
alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a
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Xataka -
1 days and 15 hours ago
pimg id="image53254" src="http://img.xataka.com/2008/12/o2-charger.jpg" class="derecha" alt="O2
Universal Charger" //p pEl strongO2 Universal Charger/strong es lo que deberían ofrecer
todos los fabricantes de dispositivos recargables cuando adquirimos el producto. Como, de momento,
no lo hacen, O2, la operadora inglesa que fue adquirida por Telefónica, ha decidido
distribuirlo./p pSe trata de un cargador universal mucho más eficiente que el resto de
cargadores, permitiendo reducir hasta en un 70 por ciento la energía usada para la recarga
de un teléfono. Lo hace de dos maneras, una es minimizando la cantidad de calor emitida por
el cargador, uno de los factores de pérdida de energía más importantes.br /
!--more--/p pLa otra es disminuyendo la carga una vez la batería se ha acabado de recargar y
desenchufamos el móvil. Lo ideal es, al hacerlo, desenchufar el cargador de la corriente,
pero muchas veces se nos olvida o lo dejamos allí por pura comodidad, sin pensar en que
estamos gastando energía y, por tanto, dinero, sin ninguna necesidad./p pEl strongO2
Universal Charger/strong dispone de conectores para teléfonos de Nokia, Samsung y Sony
Ericsson y, el próximo año, tendrá también disponibles otros para
Blackberry e iPhones. Lo venden por 18 euros suelto y, en oferta, por 9 euros si lo adquirimos
junto a un teléfono hasta fin de año./p pVía |Â a
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Lifehacker -
1 days and 18 hours ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/windows-7-logo.png" width="187"
height="139" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="right"/UK magazine Custom PC a
href="http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605271/windows-7-allows-directx-10-acceleration-on-the-cpu.html"reports/a
that Windows 7 will feature a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd285359.aspx"WARP/a,
which lets any computer with an 800MHz processor run Aero-style desktop transparency and, with a
certain performance hit, the Direct3D requirements for video games. Microsoft seems to have learned
something from the "Vista Capable/Ready" labeling fiasco, so expect less confusion on what can
"run" the OS due out in mid-2009. [a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5100247/windows-7-will-run-fully-accelerated-graphics-from-your-cpu"via/a]/p
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Lifehacker -
1 days and 18 hours ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/windows-7-logo.png" width="187"
height="139" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="right"/UK magazine Custom PC a
href="http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605271/windows-7-allows-directx-10-acceleration-on-the-cpu.html"reports/a
that Windows 7 will feature a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd285359.aspx"WARP/a,
which lets any computer with an 800MHz processor run Aero-style desktop transparency and, with a
certain performance hit, the Direct3D requirements for video games. Microsoft seems to have learned
something from the "Vista Capable/Ready" labeling fiasco, so expect less confusion on what can
"run" the OS due out in mid-2009. [a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5100247/windows-7-will-run-fully-accelerated-graphics-from-your-cpu"via/a]/p
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Gizmodo -
1 days and 18 hours ago
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/win7.jpg" width="494"
height="371"Adding to the a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5070219/giz-explains-why-windows-7-will-smash-vista"already impressive
pile/a of Vista-deflating features we're expecting to see in Windows 7 is WARP, a tech which will
allow your PC's CPU to act as a graphics accelerator, possibly doing away with the need for
integrated graphics hardware to render user interfaces and low-end games. Not-so-seductively
described as a ‘fully conformant software rasterizer’, WARP requires
nothing more than an 800MHz processor for completemdash;if comically slowmdash;DX10 compliance./p
pAt this stage WARP won't be intended as a gameworthy replacement for dedicated graphics cards, but
it could help avoid another "a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5097152/judge-orders-ballmer-to-testify-in-vista-capable-class+action-lawsuit"Vista
Capable/a" type debacle by standardizing essential graphics capabilities across virtually all
hardware. That said, it's not emthat/em slow: Microsoft a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd285359.aspx"reports/a that when paired with the a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5099060/giz-explains-why-intels-core-i7-processor-is-a-beautiful-monster"rather
awesome i7/a, it runs Crysis faster than Intel's integrated DX10 solutions. Like, 42% faster.
Granted, that's still only 7.36FPS on the game's lowest settings, but don't miss the point here:
Windows 7 will run Crysismdash;or any other gamemdash;emwithout a video card/em. [a
href="http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605271/windows-7-allows-directx-10-acceleration-on-the-cpu.html"CustomPC/a
via a href="http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/11/29/2058259.shtml"Slashdot/a]/p br style="clear:
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Guardian Unlimited -
1 days and 19 hours ago
divimg alt=""
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width="1" height="1" //divpIf the anticipated appointment of Hillary Clinton as the next US
secretary of state dismayed Barack Obama's most ardent supporters, the formal announcement of the
rest of his national security team today may tip them into a state of shock./ppThe line-up will
include "a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/us/politics/01policy.html?_r=1hp"two veteran
cold warriors and a political rival/a whose records are all more hawkish than that of the new
president", the New York Times observes./ppOn the west coast, the Los Angeles Times says that the
president-elect has signed up "a
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-security30-2008nov30,0,2375599.story"strong-willed
senior officials/a [who] are ready to argue forcefully for differing points of
view"./ppLeft-leaning Democrats who backed Obama are becoming anxious about the allocation of top
posts in the new administration, the Washington Post points out. "a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120100554.html?hpid=topnews"Obama
has favoured experience over ideology/a as he formed his national security cabinet," the paper
says./ppOn the Huffington Post there is praise for the accumulated wisdom hauled in to serve under
Obama's presidency but anxiety about whether the appointment signals a slippage in the promised a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/30/obamas-foreign-policy-tea_n_147200.html"timetable
for withdrawal from Iraq./a/ppThe Politico website characterises Obama's soon-to-be confirmed
appointees as "a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/16049.html"big names, big
intellects and big egos/a"./ppThe Obama-Clinton deal has also involved former president Bill
Clintonbr /agreeing to disclose the list of "a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/01/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-white-house"208,000
donors/a" to his political foundation, the Guardian notes./pp· Based on an extract from a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog"the Wrap/a, guardian.co.uk's digest of the day's
news/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia
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Engadget -
1 days and 21 hours ago
a href="http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=604amp;pgno=0"img vspace="4" hspace="4"
border="0" align="right"
src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/11-26-07--vista-logo.jpg" alt="" //aIn
case you missed it, last week emTechARP/em said that Vista a
href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/sp2"SP2/a is scheduled for an April 2009 release to manufacturing
-- that means emnot you/em... not yet anyway. We're guessing that it will hit a month later for
general release if a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/official-vista-sp1-released-to-manufacturing-headed-your-way/"the
Vista SP1 rollout/a was any indication. So who's emTechARP/em? Oh just the same group of Malaysian
kids that like to boast about how they broke the Vista SP1 and XP SP3 release schedules to the
world. That makes their "confidential source" worth listening to. The source adds that Microsoft
will deliver a SP2 release candidate as early as February so we'll know soon enough how accurate
this rumor is. br /br /[Via a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=107814amp;"PC
Advisor/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a, a
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style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/windows-vista-sp2-set-for-april-launch-to-manufacturers/"Windows
Vista SP2 set for April launch to manufacturers?/a originally appeared on a
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LaptopLogic: News -
2 days ago
TrekStor's second generation pocket player, the MovieStation c.uc is a pocket sized hard drive that
can be connected directly to a TV. brbr The c.uc differs from it's older sibiling in size - this
one can fit inside of a pocket, the biggest complaint against the first version. brbr The
MovieStation can be connected directly to a TV via component or composite cables, and play movies,
music, or display your photos. brbr The c.uc supports MPEG 1/2/4 + DivX and XviD for movies, MP3,
WAV, and WMA for music, and JPEG for photos. brbr The MovieStation comes bundled with Nero BackItUp
2 Essentials, a soft case, remote, power cord, AV/YUV cables, software CD, SCART adapter, and user
manual. brbr The MovieStation can be purchased with a 250GB for $150 or a 500GB hard drive for
$215. brbr a
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doggdot.us -
2 days and 2 hours ago
The American military is planning to build robot soldiers that will not be able to commit war
crimes like their human comrades in arms. The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the
ethics of building machines to prevent the creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine
that murders indiscriminately. pa
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