Nanno Warez: October 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

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White House Adviser: US Must Prepare for Asteroid

The White House has asked Congress to consider how to best deal with the potential threat to Earth of an impact with an asteroid from space.

If an asteroid were on a collision course with Earth, would we be ready to defend against its destructive impact or would we be helpless and defenseless?

NASA, America's space agency, is being charged with leading the way to protect not only the U.S. but the entire world in the event of such a horrifying scenario. And a top White House science adviser says we have to be prepared.

The assault may have been carried out in retaliation for the seizure of 134 tons of marijuana in the city last week.
Reporting from Mexico City —

Gunmen stormed a private drug treatment center in Tijuana and executed at least 13 men at close range, authorities in Baja California said Monday.

Who should be in charge of Enterprise 2.0?

There have been a number of discussions lately about where the leadership for internal social media should be located in an organization. For businesses, it’s an increasingly important question as the numbers continue to show that social media is becomes ever more strategic to the way organizations communicate and collaborate today.

Inside the new MacBook Air's screen

Almost immediately after Apple launched the new MacBook Air, TechRestore began offering a matte finish screen replacement for its glossy screen. I asked CEO Shannon Jean a few questions about getting inside the new MBA:

Google is feeling rekindled heat over the private data it collected without permission in more than 30 nations.

The British Information Commissioner's Office on Monday asked to take a closer look at the evidence Google made available earlier this year, after the company admitted that cars sent to take photos for its Street View mapping service also carried Internet eavesdropping gear.

Bluetooth has some competition - Wi-Fi Direct is touted to everything Bluetooth does, but with far less issues and annoyances all while using a protocol that is far more widespread and easier to setup.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is planning to increase its efforts to tackle illegal gambling in sport ahead of the 2012 London Games by working closely with governments and betting agencies.
Although the IOC said there were no reported cases of athletes being involved in illegal gambling at previous Olympics, the governing body was under no illusions that it could eventually happen.

Public wireless networks have always been perceived as generally safe. Surely, the odds of having your private details stolen out of thin air must be slim to none? And surely, the ability to steal those details must be restricted to the most knowledgeable and most evil of techies? Even Google's recent announcement that it accidentally collected complete emails, usernames and passwords using its Street View cars was treated as a one-off accident. Grabbing private data from unsecured networks isn't something that the average user can do – so the average user isn't concerned.

NFC East rivals clash tonight on Monday Night Football. The resurging New York Giants visit the Dallas Cowboys, a team in desperate need of a win. Dallas is 1-4 this season, with all four of its losses coming by seven points or fewer. It's just the 6th time in their illustrious history that the Cowboys have started 1-4 or worse. Cowboys QB Tony Romo has thrown for 1,566 yards and 10 TDs this season.

By Allison Stewart
Taylor Swift's ridiculously entertaining new album, "Speak Now," is a lengthy, captivating exercise in woo-pitching, flame tending and score-settling -- with a heavy emphasis on the latter.
The song "Innocent," written in response to last year's Kanye West contretemps on the MTV Video Music Awards, may be the most telling. It is a small masterpiece of passive aggressiveness, a vivisection dressed up as a peace offering: "It's okay, life is a tough crowd," Swift faux-consoles West, who is, apparently, "32 and still growing up now."

The story has often been told, how Michael Chiklis reinvented himself from the schlubby suburban flatfoot of his early-1990s drama "The Commish" to a ferocious rogue cop on "The Shield."
Chiklis won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance in "The Shield." It seemed Detective Vic Mackey was the role of his lifetime.

WASHINGTON -- The head of the GOP rejects charges that Republicans have refused to work with President Barack Obama.
Speaking Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said that on issues ranging from the economy to health care to the environment, the GOP has made its positions clear.

This afternoon’s U.S. Treasury auction marked the first-time ever that Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) were sold at a negative yield, meaning that investors were willing to

Apple is on a mission to cram the iPad’s and iPhone’s successes into the Mac, beginning with a brand-new software store serving Mac apps. That may be both good and bad.

The Mac App Store will create a new channel for Mac users to find software easily, and it will make it easier for programmers to reach a large audience. But some developers worry about Apple’s future road map, and the potential the App Store has to turn the Mac platform into a more closed, controlled environment subject entirely to Apple’s whims.

Not only have the Texas Rangers never been to the World Series before, they are winless in nine games at AT&T Park. And make that an 11-game losing streak in San Francisco dating back to the windy, cold nights at the Giants' former home of Candlestick Park.

People who smoke heavily in middle age seem to more than double their risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia late in life, research suggests.

Smoking is a well-established risk factor for stroke, but the link between smoking and risk of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia has been less clear since heavy smokers often die from other ailments before smoking's toll on the brain is evident.

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp's departing software chief, has asked the company to move on from its roots as a computer-oriented company to imagine a 'post-PC world' that relies on wireless devices and the Internet to function.

The call from Ozzie, who announced his retirement from Microsoft last week, is meant to galvanize the company, which has fallen behind Apple Inc and Google Inc in the rapidly growing phone and tablet computer sector that many now see as key to the future.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett may have just made one of his boldest market bets: hiring 39-year-old Todd Combs to manage a major part of Berkshire Hathaway's investments.

On Monday Berkshire announced Combs, chief executive and portfolio manager at Castle Point Capital Management LLC, had been hired after a three-year search to "handle a significant portion of Berkshire's investment portfolio."

Castle Point is a value-oriented long-short equity fund that focuses on financial services companies. He managed $395 million on July 1, according to a July investor letter obtained by Reuters.

arzai insists that the cash transfers are legitimate and used to cover important costs

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said that his office receives cash in bags from Iran.

The Afghan leader said on Monday that this method of aid distribution is transparent and helps cover government expenses. He also said that the US makes similar cash payments.

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers finally got the best of Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings.

And with the Chicago Bears struggling, the NFC North title appears to be there for the taking.

At least for a day, the Packers could forget about their own disappointing start, recent back-to-back overtime losses and a remarkable rash of injuries. Sunday night's emotional victory over the Vikings brought renewed optimism to Green Bay on Monday.

A teenager who became famous after hiccupping uncontrollably for weeks has been charged with luring a man she met online to a house where he was robbed and fatally shot.

Jennifer Mee, 19, of St. Petersburg and two others are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shannon Griffin, 22, on Saturday.

Vivian Schiller, chief executive of NPR, apologized to colleagues for how she handled Juan Williams’s firing.

NPR's chief executive says she's sorry for how analyst Juan Williams' dismissal was handled - but not for firing him. Vivian Schiller sent an apology to National Public Radio staff members on Sunday night and wrote to managers at NPR stations. Her dismissal of Williams for saying on Fox News Channel that he gets nervous when he sees people on a plane with clothing that identifies them as Muslim became a "public relations disaster," NPR's ombudsman said.

The question now for NPR is whether the situation will cause lasting damage to public broadcasting permanently, or whether in some ways it might help it.

Williams, who was fired in a phone conversation, deserved a face-to-face meeting, Schiller wrote. She has also expressed regret for saying, after last Wednesday's firing, that whatever feelings Williams has about Muslims should be between him and "his psychiatrist or his publicist - take your pick."

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday touted his administration's job-creation efforts just eight days before elections in which voters' economic anxiety threatens his Democrats' grip on Congress.

Making a campaign stop in the tiny state of Rhode Island, Obama acknowledged some of his policies were not popular and that Americans were frustrated by the weak economic recovery. But the steps he took averted a second Great Depression, he stressed.

Twister tears through northeast Texas, local authorities say

At least one tornado ripped through northeast Texas Sunday evening, destroying homes, turning over vehicles and knocking train cars off tracks, local authorities said.

A tornado struck Rice Texas at 5:30 p.m., Navarro County Chief Deputy Mike Cox said.

The twister destroyed three homes, damaged at least two more, turned over an 18-wheeler truck onto a passenger car and knocked cars from a freight train off their tracks, he said. It also caused extensive damage to Rice Elementary School.

Antinette Keller appears in this photo supplied by NIU Police Department. Antinette Keller, a Northern Illinois University student has been missing since Oct. 14, 2010.

(Courtesy NIU Police Department)

Unease and fear hit the Northern Illinois University campus on Sunday as dormitories remained on lockdown and students waited to hear if remains found in a heavily wooded park belonged to one of their own.

Exploratory talks between the union and the mining company in the Voisey's Bay strike have broken off without resolution, opening the way for a provincial inquiry.

Bob Carter, a spokesman for nickel mining giant Vale, said the Brazilian-based company met with the United Steelworkers union and a mediator in St. John's on Friday.

If there’s one Apple product that professionals love to hate, it’s the MacBook Air, Apple’s super-lightweight notebook that was just refreshed. At the launch event, Steve Jobs said the future of notebooks can be seen today in the new MBA. Whether the sexy Air is right for everyone at this moment is questionable – although it’s always chancy to bet against Steve Jobs – but the Air likely heralds the future for the MacBook.
At the rollout event, Jobs said: ‘We asked ourselves, “What would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up?’ Well, this is the result. … We think it’s the future of notebooks.”

In a blog post on its Dutch website, Microsoft said that the next version of Windows, Windows 8, is in the works, but that the new operating system will not hit the market for about two years.

The news came at the bottom of a post commemorating Windows 7’s one-year anniversary, and suggests a substantially later deployment date than the one detailed in a leaked slide deck about the forthcoming product earlier this year.

According to the slide deck, the next version of Windows should include a Windows App Store similar to the one Apple unveiled for Mac last week, logins via facial recognition and faster boot-up times. It also cited early 2011 as the intended launch date.

* Earnings in full swing this week; Canon, Sony to report
* Eyes on companies' currency assumptions, impact on f'casts
* Toyota down; media reports to cut H2 dlr/yen rate to 80 yen
By Aiko Hayashi
TOKYO, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average inched down on Monday as investors grew cautious ahead of the peak of Japan's earnings season, with many focusing on the impact of a strong yen on companies' full-year earnings outlooks.
The benchmark Nikkei erased small earlier gains as the dollar fell broadly after investors interpreted a Group of 20 agreement to shun competitive currency devaluations as a greenlight to resume dollar selling.

Poly Real Estate, China's Property Developers Decline on Trial Tax Report

Poly Real Estate Group Co. led China’s property developers lower in Shanghai and Shenzhen trading, after a newspaper report said the country may start levying a property tax before March next year.
Poly, the nation’s second-largest publicly traded developer, dropped 2.9 percent in Shanghai as of 9:43 a.m. while China Merchants Property Development Co. fell 2.7 percent in Shenzhen. An index tracking 34 real-estate companies in Shanghai lost 0.6 percent, compared with a 0.2 percent decline in the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index.
The country may start levying the property tax on a trial basis prior to March, the China Securities Journal reported today, citing Nie Meisheng, president of the China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce. The government said last month it will speed up the introduction of a trial property tax in some cities and then expand the levy to the whole country.

SINGAPORE—Asian stock markets were modestly higher early Monday, with sentiment getting a small boost after the Group of 20 nations agreed on a truce to defuse currency-market tensions.
In Tokyo, strong-yen concerns continued to hold back buyers, while the Sydney market braced for an announcement of a US$8.2 billion takeover bid for the ASX Ltd. from Singapore Exchange Ltd.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average was up 0.6%,

Oct. 24, 2010 -- Former President Bill Clinton speaks as Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) listens at a rally to get out the vote. Clinton earlier stumped for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

DETROIT -- Former President Bill Clinton lavished praise Sunday on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero, but the Detroit rally took place in a high school gym that was only about one-third full.

Sherpa who scaled Everest 19 times feared dead on climb

Chhewang Nima hit by avalanche near summit of Baruntse in Himalayas

A famed Sherpa guide was last night feared dead after being struck by an avalanche while nearing the peak of the 7,129m Mount Baruntse in eaastern Nepal.

Chhewang Nima was leading an expedition of seven people, which included some British climbers, up the mountain when he was struck by the avalanche as he was fixing ropes, his agency said last night.

The accident happened when he was less than 100 metres from the summit. The other members of the team dug the snow but were unable to find him.

India and Japan to sign nuclear deal

India is ready to seal a civilian nuclear deal and boost trade ties with Japan, as New Delhi looks to prove its friendship in the wake of Tokyo's bitter territorial spat with Beijing.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, pictured, is heading to Tokyo to meet with his Japanese counterpart Naoto Kan Photo: REUTERS

Karzai Stands By Private Security Ban

KABUL—Afghan President Hamid Karzai is standing by his decree to dissolve the private security companies some aid organizations use for protection, although a delegation of Western diplomats warned Sunday that huge amounts of aid and development money could be affected.
Several international aid organizations are drawing up plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, worried about the ability of Afghan security forces to protect their staffs, potentially taking with them billions of dollars in development cash as well as jobs for ordinary Afghans. President Karzai's decree makes exceptions for foreign embassies and military bases, but not aid groups.
Western officials warned Mr. Karzai in the Sunday meeting that the cash these development organizations manage will not start flowing directly to the Afghan government if they leave, said people familiar with the discussion.

Associated Press

An Afghan policeman looks at weapons confiscated from private security companies.

Hurricane Richard Makes Landfall

AT 400 PM...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE RICHARD WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 17.2 NORTH...LONGITUDE 88.0 WEST. RICHARD IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 13 MPH....AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TONIGHT WITH A DECREASE IN FORWARD SPEED ON MONDAY. ON THE FORECAST TRACK...THE CENTER WILL CROSS THE COAST OF BELIZE IN A COUPLE OF HOURS AND MOVE OVER LAND TONIGHT AND MONDAY.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 90 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. RICHARD IS A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE WIND SCALE. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN STRENGTH IS EXPECTED BEFORE LANDFALL...AND WEAKENING WILL BEGIN AFTER THE CENTER CROSSES THE COAST.
THE MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE ESTIMATED FROM HURRICANE HUNTER
AIRCRAFT DATA IS 981 MB...28.97 INCHES.

Prince Charles' friend dies in helicopter crash

Prince William and Prince Harry say they are "shocked and deeply saddened" by the death of their friend Charles Stisted in a helicopter crash in Northern Ireland.

Rescue teams work at the isolated scene

Mr Stisted, 47, was the chief executive officer of The Guards Polo Club in Windsor, Berkshire, and a close friend of their father The Prince of Wales.

Singapore says pirates seized a liquefied gas tanker registered in the city-state 105 miles (165 kilometers) off the coast of Kenya.

The Singapore Maritime and Port Authority said in a statement Sunday that the YORK was traveling from Mombasa to Mahe in the Seychelles with 17 crew when pirates commandeered it late Saturday.

The authority says it is working with the ship's owner, York Maritime Co., and government agencies to recover the ship.

It did not give the size of the vessel or the value of the gas it was carrying.

Foreign troop deaths in Afghanistan near 600 for 2010

Total foreign military deaths in Afghanistan in 2010 neared 600 with the death of another service member on Sunday, an unwelcome figure that will likely weigh heavily on Western leaders amid declining support for the war.

LONDON (AP) — Accounts of prisoner abuse and civilian killings in Iraq that are contained in a trove of leaked United States military documents are extremely serious and must be investigated, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Sunday.

Apple Inc said on Friday it will no longer ship Mac computers with Adobe Systems Inc's Flash player pre-installed, as the company continues to erect barriers to the software.
Apple's decision does not ban Flash software from its computers as it has from the iPhone and iPad. Users will still be able to download and install a Flash player, which is widely-used to view videos on the Web.

Apple has been publicly hostile towards Flash and Steve Jobs has criticized it as a buggy battery hog. Adobe has responded by calling Apple overly restrictive.
In addition, Apple had effectively banned developers from using Flash to build applications for its mobile devices, but the company relented last month in the face of scrutiny from US regulators.
Apple unveiled on Wednesday an updated version of its ultra-thin MacBook Air laptop. The computer is shipping without the Flash software installed, as will all Mac computers in the future, Apple confirmed.
Apple spokesman Bill Evans said Apple simply wanted to make sure users had the most recent version of the software, which is frequently updated.
"We're happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download it directly from Adobe," he said.
In an emailed statement, an Adobe spokeswoman said: "As always, Adobe recommends that users download the most up to date version of Adobe Flash Player from Adobe.com."
Apple shares fell 0.7% to close at USD 307.47, while Adobe shares rose 1.8% to USD 28.21.

HP, RIM Tablets Duel for Enterprise Customers

Hewlett Packard and Research in Motion demonstrated at the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo in Orlando that there is more than one way to slice the tablet market.
Both companies highlighted their tablets, both aimed at the enterprise market, and both tablets were completely different from the Apple iPad and from each other. Could this mean a fragmentation of the tablet market or simply a market that is too broad for one device to satisfy?

Microsoft's Kinect hits stores next week. Available Nov. 4, Kinect is an Xbox 360 add-on that allows users to play games without a controller.
The Kinect is a slim bar that is placed near a TV to detect players movements. It lets users control games, music, and movies with hand movements and voice commands.
As a standalone product, Kinect costs $149.99. A bundle that includes an Xbox 360 250GB and the game Kinect Adventures is also available for $399.99. Sales of the bundle have already been popular and were a top 40 purchase on Amazon.com this week.
Many Kinect games have a family or group-focus. Last week, Microsoft revealed 17 Kinect-enabled games for Xbox. on the Nov. 4 launch, games like "Kinect Joy Ride," "Sonic Free Rider," and the "Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout" will go on sale. Five more games such as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" and "EA Sports Active 2" will be released throughout November and Decemeber.
Kinect will launch in Europe on Nov. 10, in Australia on Nov. 18, and in Japan on the 20th.
Microsoft is taking Kinect on a media Blitz that includes appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Ellen Degeneres Show. Microsoft said in a press release that pre-order sales have been strong.
"For me it is a big, big deal," Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer said in a New York Times story. "There's nothing like it on the market." There's a lot at stake for Ballmer, whose bonus was slashed in half after the failure of the Kin phone.

Moon’s rich surface contains silver, carbon dioxide

The surface of the moon contains not just water, but a rich mix of elements, including silver and carbon dioxide, astronomers said Thursday.

The findings to be published in the journal Science come from an analysis of data from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) experiment that crashed into the moon last year.

Virgin Galactic's Sir Richard Branson, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and prospective astronauts gathered in the southern New Mexico desert on Friday to celebrate the completion of the runway at the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport.
Spaceport America is the world's first facility designed specifically to launch commercial spacecraft. The celebration of its nearly 3km-long runway comes less than two weeks after another major step for Virgin Galactic: the first solo glide flight of its space tourism rocket ship.
"Today is very personal as our dream becomes more real," Branson said. "People are beginning to believe now. I think the drop flight two weeks ago, which went beautifully, I think it made people sit up and realize this is really reality."

Two call centers with previous experience working for Verizon are both looking to staff up—adding thousands of customer service representatives for a, "major wireless cell phone service retailer" that many postulate could be Verizon itself.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The earthquake that devastated Haiti's capital and killed as many as 300,000 people in January may have been caused by an unseen fault and pressure could be building for another quake, seismic experts said on Sunday.
Two papers, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, take different approaches but both conclude the fault originally blamed for the quake was not the real source, and that it remains a threat.
"As the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault did not release any significant accumulated elastic strain, it remains a significant seismic threat for Haiti and for Port-au-Prince in particular," Eric Calais of Purdue University in Indiana and colleagues wrote.

In a bit of news from the not-quite-so-unexpected department, a recent interview with the New York Times once again confirms that no, Virginia, Apple devices are not allowed inside the homes or lives of Microsoft's founding family.
It was Melinda Gates this time who again made mention of one of the top rules in the Gates household: No Apple. In an interview with the Times' Deborah Solomon, Gates was asked whether she owns one of Apple's iPods. Her response was as short as it was telling: "No, I have a Zune." Solomon continues.
"What if one of your children says, 'Mom, I have to have an iPod?'" she asks.
"I have gotten that argument — 'You may have a Zune,'" retorts Gates.

Sony to Stop Producing the Walkman

Time to retire those tapes. Sony has said that it's stopping production of the Walkman, due to lackluster sales of the outdated music player.
According to the company, the last round of the portable cassette player was produced in Japan in April, and once that batch sells out, the Walkman is history.

Privacy body to re-examine Google

Google's Peter Barron: "We're determined to learn the lessons from this mistake"

Britain's privacy watchdog is to look again at what personal information internet giant Google gathered from private wi-fi networks.

The Information Commissioner's Office had investigated a sample earlier this year after it was revealed that Google had collected personal data during its Street View project.

Is Fallout: New Vegas too buggy to be great?

Fallout: New Vegas might have faired well in terms of review scores generally, but it's been bugs from the kookie to the crippling that have been the main point of conversation surrounding Bethesda's latest.

Blizzcon 2010: Diablo 3, WoW Details

Blizzard Entertainment kicked off its annual BlizzCon expo with a bang and some rumbling with news on Diablo III and the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, Cataclysm.

Apple has jumped up to second place for worldwide smartphone shipments, finally passing Research in Motion for third-quarter smartphone sales. However, Apple still has a ways to go before it even begins to pose a threat to market leader Nokia.
That's all according to new numbers

It was only a matter of time. Amazon will be introducing a 14-day lending feature for Kindle ebooks later this year, the Kindle team announced yesterday.

A recap of the week's security news follows privacy flaps affecting Facebook and MySpace as well as the growth of attacks on Java.

Top Gear on 60 Minutes tonight

Tonight's CBS 60 Minutes show (7 p.m., Ch. 2) will feature interviews with the folks from Top Gear. I won't get to check it out because I'll be working, but I'm excited just the same.
It's the ridiculously popular British car show that I rave about at work, but nobody's ever heard of (or they've heard of it, but never seen it). Sometimes it's hard to explain its awesomeness.
Behold a clip of said Top Gear.

Paranormal Activity 2 delivered the highest-grossing opening weekend ever for a supernatural horror movie, while the other new supernaturally-themed entry, Hereafter, had a quieter launch. Overall business was up nearly 12 percent from the same weekend last year, when the first Paranormal Activity led.

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Prince William and Prince Harry say they are "shocked and deeply saddened" by the death of their friend Charles Stisted in a helicopter crash in Northern Ireland.

A recap of the week's security news follows privacy flaps affecting Facebook and MySpace as well as the growth of attacks on Java.