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An anonymous reader writes "CNET UK has written a head-to-head piece entitled Apple Newton vs Apple iPhone. Despite the Newton being released some 10 years ago, and despite the iPhone being a phone, not a tablet, the site's editors believe the Newton is the more innovative of the two Apple products. The two devices were tied over four rounds, but ...
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Apple Asks Judge To Shutter Psystar's Clone Unit
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CWmike writes "Apple wants a federal judge to shut down Psystar's Mac clone operation and order the company to pay more than $2.1 million in damages, according to court documents. The move was the first by Apple since US District Court Judge William Alsup ruled that Psystar violated Apple's copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act when ...
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Apple Newton vs Apple iPhone
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Back when CNET UK was a baby, it pitted an Apple Newton MessagePad against a Samsung Q1 UMPC in a brutal boxing match to the death. The Newton, despite being ten years the Q1's senior, emerged victorious and the crowd -- that's you lot -- went wild.
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IPhone Comics
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iPhone Comics is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is Ken Brady, who lives in both Portland and Japan. He’s a software developer who I think you’ll want to follow! He’s working on a few very cool things. One of these is a comic reader for the iPhone. You can change ...
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Chris Pirillo
My First PDA – Sharp Wizard
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My First PDA – Sharp Wizard is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My first PDA was an old Sharp Wizard which carried 64MB of data! It was over $300 back in the day, and was considered to be a high-end model. I could add things to my calendar and keep track of what I had to do. My calendar ...
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Linux Journal
Tech Tip: View Apple Movie Trailers with Firefox on Linux
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A few months ago Apple updated their movie trailers site. This update restricts the viewing of Apple Trailers on non-approved systems. Unfortunately, as Linux users, we fall into the category. Thankfully with the use of a FireFox plug-in known as "User Agent Switcher" and a little know how we can still enjoy these trailers and decide ...
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NYT
The director of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said it had been “over a year” since Iran had answered questions about its nuclear ambitions.
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IAEA Chief: Iran Not Cooperating With Probe
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that his investigation of allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms is at "a dead end." He warned that confidence in Tehran had shrunk in the wake of its belated revelation of a previously secret nuclear facility.
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Iran Reportedly Seizes Activist's Nobel Medal
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Norway's government says Shirin Ebadi's medal was seized "within the last week or so" from a safe-deposit box in Iran. The human rights lawyer won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy.
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NYT
The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of priests’ sexual abuse of children because its bishops were determined to protect the church’s reputation, an expert commission reported.
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Commission Finds Church Covered Up Child Abuse
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The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year probe into previously secret church records.
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Come early December, Oracle will meet with European Commission regulators to urge their approval of its merger with Sun Microsystems. "Two people with knowledge of the matter" tell Reuters that "Oracle has asked for a hearing which has been fixed for December 10."
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Digitaldaily.allthingsd.com
Ellison: Oracle Is the New IBM
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The European Commission’s inquiry into Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun is costing the database giant dearly. Speaking at a Churchill Club event in Silicon Valley Monday evening, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Sun is losing $100 million a month because of the extended European antitrust review.
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Linux Journal
Senators Nudge EU On Sun
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The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle has become an ongoing saga, one that is reportedly seeing Sun hemorrhage cash at an alarming rate. The company's troubles have now found their way to the hallowed halls of Congress, where a majority of the U.S. Senate has entered the fray. read more
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LWN.net
Sun Leaves License Behind
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Linux Journal reports that Sun will remove one license from its X.org contributions. " One project with a proliferation of licenses though thankfully compatible is X.org. We count some seventy-six separate licenses in the xorg/xserver's COPYING file, most of which are derivatives of the "standard" license, itself an MIT license. Most ...
Justin Ryan
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Linux Journal
Sun Leaves License Behind
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One of the biggest headaches in the Open Source world is the myriad of licenses available , many of which are incompatible with one another. These incompatibilities are troublesome enough between two separate projects, but when multiple licenses are used within the same software, the difficulties grow exponentially. Yesterday was a blow against ...
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Underbelly: Short Memories: Republicans and Civil Rights : Short Memories: Republicans and Civil Rights There's a curious case of memory loss that seems to be afflicting both left and right this morning over the history of civil rights legislation. Link, (link). Start with Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina: Just as we were the ...
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Underbelly-buce.blogspot.com
Short Memories: Republicans and Civil Rights
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There's a curious case of memory loss that seems to be afflicting both left and right this morning over the history of civil rights legislation. Link, (link). Start with Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina:Just as we were the people who passed the civil rights bills back in the '60s without very much help from our colleagues across ...
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EDWARD WONG
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NYT
President Obama and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate talks and have pledged new greenhouse gas emission targets.
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China Announces Plans To Cut Carbon Emissions
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The commitment from the world's largest polluter builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month. China pledges to reduce emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output.
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Boing Boing
My latest Guardian column looks at Peter Mandelson's new "Digital Economy Bill," a sweeping piece of proposed British legislation that would give Mandelson broad powers to act as the Pirate-Finder General, with the implausible aim of reducing UK file-sharing by 70 percent in one year. Mandelson argues that Britain's Digital Economy will be based ...
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Boing Boing
Musician's open letter, sung to Peter Mandelson, Britain's Pirate-Finder General
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Dan Bull (he of the musical open letter to Lily Allen about copyright) has recorded another open letter to Peter Mandelson, the UK Business Secretary who's set himself up to be Pirate-Finder General, with nearly unlimited powers to enforce copyright. Dan Bull - Dear Mandy [an open letter to Lord Mandelson] (Thanks, Toby!) Previously:Musician' ...
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WILLIAM
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NYT
Charlie Weis, Eric Mangini and Josh McDaniels all coached under Bill Belichick, were lavished with praise and are now dealing with tumultuous seasons.
26 Nov 2009 02:32 pm
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Www.theonion.com
Biden Pardons Single Yam In Vice Presidential Thanksgiving Ritual
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WASHINGTON—In keeping with a longstanding Thanksgiving tradition, Vice President Joe Biden ceremonially pardoned a 4-pound yam today at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. "Under my authority as vice president of the United States of America, I hereby grant this yam full and unconditional clemency," a smiling Biden declared as he ...
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In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just domestics that were affordable to farm. Yes, ANY ANIMAL, even rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo Dragon. We will want to taste them all. Some researchers believe we will also be able to create IVM using the DNA of extinct beasts—obviously, "DinoBurgers" will be served ...
Bringing Gilad Shalit home is going to cost human lives. We do not know how many, we do not know their faces, we do not recognize their names. But we can assume that they walk among us. As a direct result of a Shalit deal they could lose their lives. When the Israeli government approves a deal at any price, this could be the price: dozens or ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers may stretch tight budgets this year to reward loved ones after months of thrift, a softening of heart that store chains hope will erase the holiday season sales debacle of 2008.
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OStatic: "If you just can't get away from email over the holidays, you can at least help test the release candidate for Thunderbird 3.0. The Mozilla folks released Thunderbird 3.0 RC 1 on Tuesday with more than 100 changes in the release."
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LWN.net
Thunderbird 3.0 Release Candidate: Just in Time for Thanksgiving
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Joe Brockmeier looks at Thunderbird 3.0 RC 1 on ostatic. " If you just can't get away from email over the holidays, you can at least help test the release candidate for Thunderbird 3.0. The Mozilla folks released Thunderbird 3.0 RC 1 on Tuesday with more than 100 changes in the release. It's been a long time in coming, the first release in the 2. ...
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NYT
A Republican party official rejects criticisms that a 10-point list of principles would harm the campaigns of many G.O.P. lawmakers.
Yesterday, Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp unveiled a resolution to deny funding of candidates who do not uphold right-wing conservative values. The resolution, termed a “purity test,” is being touted as a mechanism for actually avoiding the party schism that occurred in the NY-23 special election, when the Republican ...
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A detailed view of the new Ronald McDonald balloon during 'Inflation Eve', the preparations on November 25, 2009 for the Macy's 83rd Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Other new giant helium character balloons include Pillsbury Doughboy, Sailor Mickey and Spider-Man. By Michael Loccisano/Getty Images.
 
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Gawker
It inevitably happens every year, someone gets trampled trying to get a DVD player for $15.99 at Walmart at 5am on Black Friday . This year, don't let tragedy strike! We have some strategies that will keep you safe while spending. The day after Thanksgiving is the most popular shopping day of the year, but it also the most deadly . Sure, there ...
David Pescovitz
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Boing Boing
 
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Scripting News
Over the years, starting in 1994 , I've written Thanksgiving messages. Essays, lists, whatever. Every year the message is the same. Thanks. It's a message that never goes out of style. Thanksgiving is the best holiday. You don't have to believe in any particular god to be part of it, or even believe in god at all. This holiday includes everyone. ...
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Davidw
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Joho the Blog
Thanksgiving without a Giver
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I very much liked James Carroll's reflections on how the sense of gratitude occurs in those who do not believe there is a Giver of the gifts we have received. When it comes to atheism, I am agnostic: I'm not sure if I believe that there isn't a Giver. But that's ...
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NATO's secretary-general is confident that "all allies will step up to the plate" and provide more soldiers to the fight in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announces his decision next week on an extra U.S. troop deployment.
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