Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: We Sing Fans Are Asking for More than the Company Can Provide

HTTP:: We Sing Fans Are Asking for More than the Company Can Provide
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The karaoke game We Sing has proven to be a huge hit for Nordic Games Publishing AB. Their Nintendo Wii exclusive title is doing far better than expected and right now they might have trouble answering the demand of the public. The karaoke game took a pretty unique spin on the rhythm music genre and it might become one of a long line of similar iterations. “Ever since we first unveiled We Sing at Gamescom’09 both trade and consumers have been insatiable in their desire to discover more about the title,” stated Nik Blower, Nordic Games’ Sales & Marketing director. “Our partners throughout Europe have done a fantastic job and left us with the enviable problem of having to try and manufacture significantly more units in time for the peak-season rush.” The orders for We Sing have increased close to the limit that the company can support. The publisher offers different SKUs for the title, with some including quality microphones. Logitech is the name that Nordi!
c Games has been working with and they hope that this leading peripheral manufacturer will be able to supply them with the products in the quantity that the fans have asked. Nordic has been pushing Logitech to provide the special controllers for the karaoke game, and they've even asked them to increase...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Western Digital Officially Unleashes the WD TV Live HD Media Player

HTTP:: Western Digital Officially Unleashes the WD TV Live HD Media Player
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Western Digital, one of the world's biggest companies in the storage industry, has just announced a new addition to its line of external storage solutions, with the introduction of the WD TV Live HD media player, designed to provide users with support for network connectivity and Full-HD 1080p resolution. The new product has been built on the company's success with the WD TV HD media player and is meant to provide customers with a choice for a media player that can be used to play HD videos stored on a USB drive, network drive or even Internet content from popular web sites.“The media enthusiast community has embraced the first WD TV HD media player and given us tremendous feedback,” said Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for WD's branded products group. “With the new WD TV Live media player we're giving them what they asked for - network connectivity and Internet-content streaming capabilities - and offering them a simple way to enjoy all of their digital me!
dia and enjoy it on their HD TVs.”Leaked on the Internet since earlier this week, the new WD TV Live media player is designed to enable users to stream or transfer movies from the PC or Mac computers to a network-attached storage device, including Western Digital's own My Book World Edition and WD ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Looking for the right balance of copyright

HTTP:: Looking for the right balance of copyright
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “For many years,” writes Mike Masnick in TechDirt, “I’ve pointed out that I tend to disagree with many folks â€" who I otherwise agree with â€" in copyright debates, who argue that we should be looking for the ‘right balance’ of copyright holder rights vs. user rights.”nHe goes on [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download Patch Registration Cleanup Tool for Window 7

HTTP:: Download Patch Registration Cleanup Tool for Window 7
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Microsoft has made available for download a tool designed to ensure that software installed on top of various Windows operating systems gets updated correctly. The Patch Registration Cleanup Tool is a utility offered by the Redmond company free of charge with a rather self-explanatory name. Designed to clean the patch registration errors, the tool went live on the Microsoft Download Center on October 12th, 2009 and is currently up for grabs for all users of Windows XP, and later releases of Windows, including the latest iteration of the Windows client. “On a computer that has a Windows Installer based product installed, you may receive an error while installing an update for the product and the installation of the update may fail. Installation errors caused due to incorrect patch registration may be corrected using this tool,” Microsoft informed. According to the Redmond company, end users will be able to run the Patch Registration Cleanup Tool not just on Windows 7!
RTM, but also on older Windows platforms. The software giant pointed out that the following Windows operating systems are supported by the tool: Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Vista; [and] Windows XP. There are no less than three downloads associated ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: The last of the dinosaurs

HTTP:: The last of the dinosaurs
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The corporate music industry depends absolutely on three  (to it) essential elements, and they are »»»nnBullshitnLiesnConfusionnnAnd Nashville entertainment lawyer  and p2pnet contributor Fred Wilhelms has seen it, and heard it.nAll of it.nHe’s also the nemesis of Big Music’s  (un)SoundExchange, an (un)American organisation meant to help artists get paid, [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Motorola i9 Ferrari Goes to Brazil

HTTP:: Motorola i9 Ferrari Goes to Brazil
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Mobile phone maker Motorola has just released a new handset in collaboration with Ferrari, namely the Motorola i9 Ferrari, which is now available via Nextel Brazil. The new mobile phone can be purchased from the carrier for a price tag of R$1,199 (about $688), and users can enjoy both the Ferrari logo engraved on its case and a series of Ferrari wallpapers packed inside the new mobile phone. In addition to these special features, it seems that the new Motorola i9 Ferrari also includes a series of Ferrari screensavers, as well as an array of ringtones that mimic the engine sound of some Ferrari cars, including the F40, F50 and Enzo. All in all, the new iDEN handset, which sports a flip form factor, seems to be one of the nicest phones of the kind available on the market at the moment. The Motorola i9 Ferrari also comes to the market with two QVGA displays, with touch capabilities (the exterior one delivers fast access to contacts, messages, music player, photo and video !
files), as well as with a 3.1 megapixel photo snapper with built-in flash and auto focus. In addition, the device also includes external illuminated keys, built-in GPS receiver, push-to-talk capabilities, Bluetooth connectivity, the ModeShift Morphing technology from Motorola, and a microSD memory card slot for up to 8 GB of additional...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Corsair Adds New Voyager GT Flash drives

HTTP:: Corsair Adds New Voyager GT Flash drives
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Corsair, a leading vendor of high-performance memory and flash-based storage solutions, has just announced an update to its family of Flash Voyager GT USB drives, providing customers with a new choice for 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. Designed as a portable storage solution that can protect digital content even when exposed to improper handling, the Flash-based storage solution is also about high performance, which means it comes with a rather steep price tag.“Users of high capacity flash drives need fast transfer speeds, as they are typically moving large amounts of data,” said Jim Carlton, VP of Marketing at Corsair. “The Voyager GT combines a highly efficient controller with high density MLC flash to provide excellent bandwidth at a very attractive price.”The many features that have been enabled on said Flash Voyager GT include the USB 2.0/11.1 interface, but also the proprietary water- and shock-resistant, all-rubber casing, which was essentially designed to provi!
de the end user with the peace of mind that the digital content on the drive is protected even in the occurrence of physical damage. Designed to withstand a considerable amount of punishment, the Corsair Flash Voyager GT can now provide users with an increased storage capacity, but with the same, appreciated level of protectio...
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Pingie: HTTP:: World needs 100 CO2 capture projects by 2020 IEA

HTTP:: World needs 100 CO2 capture projects by 2020 IEA
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world will need to have 100 large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects by 2020, with thousands more built over the following three decades, the head of the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: PwnageTool 3 1 4 Available for iPhone 3 1 2 IPSW Jailbreak Unlock

HTTP:: PwnageTool 3 1 4 Available for iPhone 3 1 2 IPSW Jailbreak Unlock
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In what was very fast acting on behalf of the infamous iPhone Dev Team, PwnageTool 3.1.4 is now available for download. The tool can now jailbreak, as well as unlock devices for use under iPhone OS 3.1.2. However, the team notes that, while some devices can be jailbroken and unlocked out of the box, others must already be jailbroken in order to use the tool with IPSW 3.1.2. “Here are some details on our latest version of PwnageTool 3.1.4 for Mac OS X which supports the 3.1.2 release of the iPhone software for iPhone 2G/3G/3GS and iPod Touch 1G/2G,” the latest iPhone Dev Team update reads. “If you’re already jailbroken (by whatever means), you don’t need to mess around with DFU mode at all. Just create (or get from a friend) your custom IPSW and Option-Restore (Shift-Restore on Windows) to it via iTunes [...] Please make sure you are restoring to the custom IPSW, not the stock one from Apple!” “This release allows your baseband to remain unlocked at 3.1.2, bu!
t it does not unlock a new baseband put there by restoring to official 3.1.x,” the post continues. “It is super important that people who need the unlock to understand they can keep it only by starting at 3.0 (or earlier) and updating solely to custom IPSWs that don’t upda...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Jessica Simpson Targeted by Pranksters over Missing Dog

HTTP:: Jessica Simpson Targeted by Pranksters over Missing Dog
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For a very long while, back in the days when the dog-as-accessory trend was just picking up, Jessica Simpson and her maltipoo, Daisy, were practically inseparable. In September this year, Daisy was snatched by a coyote and was never heard of again, as Jessica herself announced on her Twitter page. Now, she’s using the same channel to beg people to stop making fun of her, as People magazine informs. At first, Jessica was so upset about Daisy’s disappearance, that she even hired a firm to help her find the dog, despite the fact that many warned her that chances of Daisy still being alive were close to none. In time, the singer gave up on the search and, as per her own admission, tried to learn to live her life without her companion. That was until days ago, when she started receiving calls related to Daisy sightings. Jessica Simpson is upset and she wants the pranksters to know it. It’s cruel and uncalled for to call someone up just to torment them over something tha!
t should have been history by now, she says in her more recent Twitter post. “People have been contacting my family and friends saying that Daisy has been found. Untrue. People are so cruel. Please respect her memory.” Simpson writes for the pranksters who fail to see that losing Daisy was indeed for Sim...
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Pingie: HTTP:: First Flying 039 Cyborg 039 Insect Demonstrated

HTTP:: First Flying 039 Cyborg 039 Insect Demonstrated
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It would finally appear that some of the money channeled into the Pentagon has yielded conclusive results. A project the institution funded, and that was conducted by experts at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), has managed to create the first cyborg flying insect, a machine of sorts that is half biological and half mechanical. The accomplishment sent ripples of amazement through the international scientific community, as this was the first time a flying insect was controlled via computer. Three “variants” of beetles were created in the new project, the UCB science team has shown. They were flown inside a room using nothing more than a laptop computer. When one of the cyborgs was tethered to a transparent plate, it became obvious how it moved its limbs, in response to the commands it received from its human operator. The two researchers in charge of the UCB team were Michel Maharbiz and Hirotaka Sato, and they “demonstrated the remote control of insec!
ts in free flight via an implantable radio-equipped miniature neural stimulating system,” the two wrote in the latest issue of the Frontiers in Neuroscience magazine. “It's because we have got much better at nanotechnology and making small probes that we are able to do this. You are plugging electri...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Nokia Ovi Suite 2 0 Gets out of Beta Download Here

HTTP:: Nokia Ovi Suite 2 0 Gets out of Beta Download Here
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just released a new version of its Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0, this time one that goes out of Beta. Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0.0.10 release has been made available for download both on Nokia's website and on Ovi, the company added. Since the software solution has been pulled out of the Nokia Beta Labs, it seems that it will also start to appear in product CD/DVDs in device sales boxes in the near future. According to the company, the new software solution is meant to replace some of the already existing PC application products form the company, including Nokia PC Suite, Nokia Ovi Suite 1.0/1.1, Nokia Nseries PC Suite. Moreover, the new application has been also developed with a series of features that are present with other software solutions from the company, including Nokia Music, Nokia Software Updater or Nokia Map Loader. To the left “you see one conceptual screenshot from Nokia Ovi Suite, which was explored during last year. Lots of end user!
surveying and explorations were done, before we decided the features for the first Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 release. But as you can see from screenshot, there are tons of things, which we are thinking, evaluating and planning for upcoming Nokia Ovi Suite releases,” is what Samuli Ylinen, Nokia Ovi Suite team, states in a blog ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: US to hold back on Iran sanctions

HTTP:: US to hold back on Iran sanctions
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After talks in Moscow, Clinton and Lavrov pledge to pursue diplomatic means to resolve atomic issue.
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Pingie: HTTP:: US More Iran sanctions not yet

HTTP:: US More Iran sanctions not yet
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After talks in Moscow, Clinton and Lavrov pledge to pursue diplomatic means to resolve atomic issue.
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Pingie: HTTP:: SanDisk Now Shipping Flash Memory Cards with 64Gb X4 NAND Flash Technology

HTTP:: SanDisk Now Shipping Flash Memory Cards with 64Gb X4 NAND Flash Technology
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SanDisk, one of the world's leading vendors of flash-based storage solutions, has announced today that it has begun production shipments of its next-generation flash memory cards, developed on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. According to the Milpitas, California-based flash memory vendor, the new technology, which was announced early this year, can hold four bits of data in each memory cell, twice as many as the cells that are available in conventional multi-level (MLC) NAND memory chips.   “The development and commercialization of X4 technology represents an important milestone for the flash storage industry,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, president and chief operating officer, SanDisk. “Our challenge with X4 technology was to not only deliver the lower costs inherent to 4-bits-per-cell, but to do so while meeting the reliability and performance requirements of industry standard cards that employ MLC NAND. Our world-class design and engineering team has a!
pplied its deep experience with high speed 2 and 3-bits-per-cell flash chip designs and collaborated closely with our leading design partners to develop and perfect new and powerful error correction algorithms to assure reliable operation. This intensi...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Fix Vista SP2 Intermittent Crashes Related to the Tcpip sys Driver

HTTP:: Fix Vista SP2 Intermittent Crashes Related to the Tcpip sys Driver
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Users of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 that are confronted with intermittent crashes of their machines might find a fix via a hotfix released by Microsoft and designed to resolve an issue associated with the Tcpip.sys driver. The problem, the Redmond company explained, is in the way that the Tcpip.sys driver uses the networking kernel mode stack in Vista and Windows Server 2008, and affects not only the SP2 releases of the two platforms, but also SP1. The software giant did not mention any additional Windows operating systems that might be impacted by the issue. “A computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 may crash intermittently. Additionally, you may receive the following Stop error message: *** STOP: 0x0000007F (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4) UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP,” Microsoft said. “This problem typically occurs when multiple third-party network drivers are installed on the computer. For examp!
le, this problem may occur when the following drivers are installed: Virtual private network (VPN) client drivers; antivirus drivers; third-party miniport filter drivers.” An update is not currently available from Microsoft, but customers affected by this problem can access, download and deploy a ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Heidi Klum Gives Birth to Daughter Lou Sulola Samuel

HTTP:: Heidi Klum Gives Birth to Daughter Lou Sulola Samuel
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Reports of Heidi Klum going into labor and eventually being admitted to the hospital have been making the rounds since last Friday, but they were one by one infirmed by a spokesperson for the family. Today, it has emerged that Heidi did, indeed, give birth late on Friday, she and husband Seal welcoming the fourth addition to their family, a baby girl they named Lou Sulola Samuel, as E! Online can confirm. As he’s done upon the birth of his other two children with the famous model, singer Seal spoke to the media to share the good news with the fans. In a statement released a few hours ago, Seal revealed that, while at first they were unsure they would have enough love for another, a fourth child, the moment they laid their eyes on Lou, they knew they were the happiest parents on Earth. “It’s difficult to imagine loving another child as much as you love your existing children. Anyone who has a family will tell you this. Where will one find that extra love? If you lo!
ve your existing children with all of your heart, how then can one possibly find more heart with which to love another? On Friday October ninth 2009 at 7:46pm, the answer to this question came in the form of our fourth child and second daughter.” Seal says in the statement. He then goes on to add tha...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Trucker smoked for lighting up

HTTP:: Trucker smoked for lighting up
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p2pnet news view | Freedom:- Even smokers wouldn’t deny repeatedly inhaling deeply toxic smoke from burning leaves mixed with carcinogenic substances can’t be anything but bad.nVery bad.nBut of all addictions, smoking is one of the hardest to break and people still struggling with the Big Tobacco demon are victims who deserve our sympathy.nHowever, anti-smoking [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 1

HTTP:: Download IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit Beta 1
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Concomitantly with the general availability of IIS Media Services 3.0, Microsoft has also started offering for download a testing version of IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit 1.0. Live on the Microsoft Download Center since October 12th, 2009. Beta 1 of IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit is designed to make it easy for developers to take advantage of on-demand and Live Smooth Streaming. “This is intended to aid the development of rich Smooth Streaming players and experiences. This Kit allows you to build players for both On Demand and Live playback with full DVR capabilities, Live Ad Insertion, Multiple Camera Angles and many more such rich functionalities,” revealed Vishal Sood, a program manager in the IIS team. There are no less than three components in the IIS Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit, Sood revealed. Developers will be able to leverage the Smooth Streaming Player SDK, the Push Encoder and a sample of a Smooth Streaming Player. â€!
œSmooth Streaming Player SDK â€" This enables developers and designers to build rich Smooth Streaming player experiences. We are providing a .net (Silverlight) based SDK with full XAML support. The core part of this infrastructure is Smooth Streaming Media Element that is similar to Silverlight Media Element...
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Pingie: HTTP:: GTA Chinatown Wars Hints II DS

HTTP:: GTA Chinatown Wars Hints II DS
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The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon arrival in LC. He is robbed, shot and left for dead, only to survive and swear vengeance.The title uses a cel-shaded 3D Engine and implements the classic, mission-based GTA gameplay, also incorporating the newer features of the franchise, like the safehouse, where you can store cars and items or replay completed missions. The game also features a GPS, to help you navigate Liberty City more easily.The gamer can also engage in different drug trades, buying Coke, Heroin, Acid, Weed and other narcotics only to sell them for a bigger price, through the PDA system, but they need to be careful. Buying in bulk can attract the unwanted attention of the police, causing an immedi!
ate increase in the wanted level. Hijacking drug vans is also a money-making possibility, as players can drive them back to their safe house to retrieve the drugs or the money, if the transaction has already been made.The game is published by Rockstar Games, Inc., developed by Rockstar Leeds and has be...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Graphene to Be Used for Next Gen Photodetectors

HTTP:: Graphene to Be Used for Next Gen Photodetectors
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Since it was first discovered in the United Kingdom, back in 2004, the carbon compound graphene has been used for a wide variety of applications, from creating amazingly fast transistors to producing very dense memory chips. Now, with research in these areas well underway, physicists are beginning to explore its uses in optoelectronics, especially in the field of detecting photons. Researchers at IBM believe that graphene has the natural ability of making an excellent photodetector, and have started work on exploring this possibility, Technology Review reports. Usually, III-V semiconductors are used for producing this type of detectors. They include several chemicals, most commonly gallium and phosphorus, and can be a pain to manufacture. Their operating principle is fairly basic â€" light hitting them produces an electron-hole in the materials, and these electrons are then channeled out of the material, and transformed into electrical impulses. According to the IBM team,!
the one-atom-thick structure of graphene can transport these signals tens of times faster than III-V semiconductors, which would result in faster and more efficient photodetectors. Additionally, graphene is also able to absorb infrared wavelengths, whereas regular detectors can only make out a narrow range from the near-infrared...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Sell music not copies

HTTP:: Sell music not copies
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “I first started getting interested in ‘copyfight’ and issues related to filesharing in college, where I was introduced to a local network where resident students across the university campus could connect and share what they loved on- and offline,” writes Michael Castello on his mistypedURL blog.nAs the music industry [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: MediaFire controlling your browser

HTTP:: MediaFire controlling your browser
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It’s your computer and it’s no one’s busness but yours  what you choose to do with web pages you visit.nBut according to the EFF’s Fred von Lohmann, free file hosting provider MediaFire wouldn’t agree with that.nIt seems to think when you follow a link to download a file from [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download HPC Pack 2008 SDK SP1 Fix for Nehalem CPUs MPI Performance Degradation

HTTP:: Download HPC Pack 2008 SDK SP1 Fix for Nehalem CPUs MPI Performance Degradation
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Microsoft has made available a performance update designed to help customers dealing with high performance computing environments overcome issues associated with HPC Pack 2008 SDK Service Pack 1. The Redmond company reveals that applying the first service pack for the HPC Pack 2008 software development kit for Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces MPI performance degradation problems associated with machines powered by Nehalem CPUs. This is why the software giant is currently offering for download the HPC Pack 2008 SDK SP1 Fix for MPI Performance Degradation on Nehalem Processors update. “This SDK update fixes an issue where after applying Service Pack 1 you may experience a performance degradation in MPI jobs,” Microsoft explains. “Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1; Windows XP; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ; Windows XP Service Pack 3.!
An HPC Pack 2008 / HPC Server 2008 cluster. HPC Pack 2008 Service Pack 1 must be installed HPC Pack 2008 SDK with Service Pack 1.” The latest release of HPC Pack 2008 SDK SP1 has been available via the Microsoft Download Center since July 2009. It is not a coincidence that Microsoft al...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Scientists Use Hovercraft to Hunt for Arctic Asteroid Impact Site

HTTP:: Scientists Use Hovercraft to Hunt for Arctic Asteroid Impact Site
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In spite of the fact that hovercraft are usually used for navigating swamps and shallow waters, a few modifications are, apparently, enough to turn them into potent scientific tools. Researchers Yngve Kristofferson and John Hall are planning to use a modified Griffon Hovercraft 2000TD to analyze a patch of Arctic sea floor, which they believe may house the impact crater left behind by a massive asteroid hitting the Earth in the past. The craft has been endowed with a number of scientific instruments, as well as with solar panels, and has also been extensively modified so that it can withstand weeks of non-stop polar explorations. The two researchers need to cover an area of about 22,000 square miles, so they have to be as efficient about it as possible, Wired reports. John Hall, who is a retired geoscientist, first noticed the anomaly at the bottom of the ocean in the late 1960s, as part of his graduate work. In the following decades, no ships returned to the Fletcherâ€!
™s Ice Island area to conduct more measurements of the peculiarities, he says, therefore he has taken it upon himself to do so personally. Because he is the partial heir of the American Chicle Company head's fortune, he could afford to purchase the hovercraft with private funding. The ACC was the leader of the che...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Mad scientist aims to build greener future

CNN.C: Mad scientist aims to build greener future
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Pliny Fisk III has been called a "mad scientist," a "dreamer" and a "visionary." He aims to revolutionize how homes and office buildings are built using an environmentally friendly cement called "megacrete."
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Pingie: HTTP:: Guitar Hero On Tour Unlockables VII DS

HTTP:: Guitar Hero On Tour Unlockables VII DS
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Besides all the sequels the Guitar Hero had for the big consoles, the game also came to the Nintedo DS in the form of Guitar Hero: On Tour. This title aims to offer the same thrill of the rock star, but this time it is a simpler, but portable version. The DS makes use of an attachment that is plugged in through the cartridge slot that enables players to hit the proper color frets that slide across the screen and use the second screen to strum the chords and utilize the whammy bar. The game employs a sideways perspective to deliver the action.The DS release contains the game modes seen in the other series, like Career, Practice and Freeplay, but also Star Power, and a multiplayer mode for up to two players, via separate systems. It offers 25 songs, pop and rock, from the last few decades. The game was published by Activision Publishing, Inc. and RedOctane, Inc. and was developed by Vicarious Visions, Inc. It was released on July 22, 2008, earned a PEGI rating of 3 and is a R!
hythm game. Guitar Hero: On Tour was received very well by critics and fans alike, and won high marks on reviews. UNLOCKABLESOutfitsComplete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding outfit at the shop in Career mode:Memphis Rose's Biker Gal: Complete all songs...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Google Board Member Resigns Sticks with Apple s

HTTP:: Google Board Member Resigns Sticks with Apple s
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Search giant Google has announced the resignation of one of its directors, Arthur Levinson, who is also on Apple’s board. The announcement comes shortly after Google's Chief Executive, Eric Schmidt, left Apple's board of directors due to the increasing competition between the two giant companies. A relevant excerpt from the official report announcing Levinson's resignation can be found below. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (October 12, 2009) â€" Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that Dr. Arthur Levinson has resigned as a member of the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately. Levinson has been on the Google Board since April 2004. In the same report, Levinson is described by Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt as being a good friend and a valued colleague. "Art has been a key part of Google's success these past five years, offering unvarnished advice and vital counsel on every big issue and opportunity Google has faced," Schmidt said. "Though he leaves as a me!
mber of our Board, Art will always have a special place at Google." "Working with Eric, Larry, Sergey and the whole Google team has been a remarkable experience for me. I greatly admire what they've built and have no doubt that Google has a terrific future," Levinson shared. A B...
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Pingie: HTTP:: How Bacteria Repair Their RNA

HTTP:: How Bacteria Repair Their RNA
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Scientists were recently able to determine precisely how bacteria repaired their own RNA. This is the second such mechanism identified in any living thing, with the first having been found some time ago, in the T4 phage, a virus that attacks bacteria. The find was made by a team of scientists from the University of Illinois (UI), led by Biochemistry Professor Raven H. Huang. Details of the investigation appear in two papers, to be published in the top journal Science, and also in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), e! Science News reports. The thing about the new repair system is that it makes the damaged RNA “better than new.” That is to say, before it is “sealed” (so as to avoid future damage), a methyl group is added to the two-prime hydroxyl groups at the cleavage site. This prevents the molecule from being cleaved again in the future, the scientists report. The main class of biomolecules that use this RNA vulnerability consists of ribo!
toxins, which destroy cells by randomly cleaving RNA molecules. This impairs cellular functions, eventually leading to its destruction. “Hen1 is one of three essential enzymes in generating small noncoding RNAs for RNA interference in eukaryotes. We found out that Hen1 homologs exist in bacteria, but bacteria have no RNA interfer...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Fly By Anomalies and Dark Matter

HTTP:: Fly By Anomalies and Dark Matter
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The fly-by technique is a very common one for spacecraft, as they depart from the Earth to other destinations inside the solar system, or beyond. In order to limit the amount of fuel these probes carry, they are set on trajectories that bring them very close to a planet or other celestial body, but without being captured by that body's gravitational pull. This considerably increases their speed, without the need for very advanced motors or large fuel sources. However, as spacecraft have flown by the Earth, astronomers have detected a peculiarity that they cannot explain yet. As the probes have flown past our planet, ground-based monitoring networks have picked up step-like changes in velocity, rather than a smooth, constant increase. This has had astronomers scratching their heads for a while, as no clear answer seems to be presenting itself. Last year, Princeton University expert Stephen Adler proposed that the phenomenon might be occurring as probes started slamming into!
particles of dark matter, as they neared the point of closest approach to the Earth. Adler even calculated the hypothetical distribution of these particles, based on measurements collected from the speeds of several spacecraft using the Earth for a fly-by. He determined that a halo of them had to exist around the planet, and offered a theoretical ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Updated NET Micro Framework 4 0 Beta Available

HTTP:: Updated NET Micro Framework 4 0 Beta Available
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Developers focusing on resource-constrained devices now have a fresh build of the next generation of the .NET Micro Framework 4.0 available for download. At the start of this week, the Redmond company started offering testers and early adopters an update version of the Beta development milestone of .NET Micro Framework 4.0. According to the software giant, the refresh introduced was necessary in order to ensure that some issues affecting the initial Beta release of the development and execution environment were tackled. Still, Microsoft chose not to resolve the issues identified with the previous Beta build of .NET Micro Framework 4.0 concomitantly with the next major development milestone release of the solution. The software giant revealed it was feedback from customers currently test driving .NET Micro Framework 4.0 Beta that acted as a catalyst for the evolution of the current build, while keeping the release in Beta stage. “In this update we fix some issues with !
debugging over TCP/IP, we polished MDK3.80a support and we moved the entire DPWS stack over the XML native parser. We also removed a dependency from ATL in the runtime, which enables using Visual Studio Express with the Porting Kit to rebuild the CLR, the emulator, and the tools. As always we are looking forward to your feedback,&rd...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Storm 2 to Be Included in Verizon 039 s BOGO Promotion

HTTP:: Storm 2 to Be Included in Verizon 039 s BOGO Promotion
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BlackBerry Storm 2, the second touchscreen capable smartphone the Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is working on, is expected to come to the market within the following weeks, and it seems that it might even get included in Verizon Wireless' Buy One Get One promotion that currently applies to a handful of other Blackberry devices available with the carrier. A recent post on BlackBerry Rocks! shows a shot of a promo flyer that seems to have leaked directly from Verizon Wireless and which shows that the Buy One Get One BlackBerry promotion will be extended to the soon-to-come Storm 2 smartphone. The news comes rather as a surprise, in case the company indeed plans on putting the second Storm handset in the promotion right from the start. As many of you might already know, the original Storm is already included in the BOGO promotion, only that the deal kicked off about half a year after the device was launched. Considering the fact that Storm 2 is reportedly !
heading to the market with a wide range of improvements over the original model, it somehow doesn't make sense for Big Red to offer it for free with the promotion right from the start. However, there are a series of possible scenarios that should be taken into consideration. The promotion requires for two contract ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Clinton presses Russia on Iran

HTTP:: Clinton presses Russia on Iran
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US secretary of state holds talks in Moscow on Start treaty and Tehran's nuclear programme.
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Pingie: HTTP:: LHC Scientist Arrested Under Terrorism Charges

HTTP:: LHC Scientist Arrested Under Terrorism Charges
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A 32-year-old man working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), near the French-Swiss border, was detained under accusations of terrorism last week, when it was proven that he was entertaining links with the renowned terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The man, who is of Algerian descent, was working on an experiment inside the CERN facility, but the organization was quick to point out that his clearance level did not allow the suspect to come in contact with any kind of materials that might have been used for terrorist purposes, the BBC News reports. He and his brother were detained on Thursday, in the town of Vienne. French authorities say that the two were in direct contact with al-Qaeda affiliates in the Islamic Maghreb, and that they were themselves involved in planning attacks. The scientist did not show up for work for most of this year, under pretense that he was ill, but CERN officials say that he kept in contact via e-mail. French judicial laws prevent authorities fr!
om divulging the identity of the suspect, which was officially brought under charges of “criminal association with a terrorist enterprise” this week. The suspect's brother, aged 25, was released without charges this week, the same authorities reported. They told the AFP news agency that they came across the two during a sep...
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Pingie: TORRE: AFACT v iiNet Day 6 IP Address Alone Is Not Enough

TORRE: AFACT v iiNet Day 6 IP Address Alone Is Not Enough
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Day six of the copyright infringement trial between anti-piracy group AFACT and Aussie ISP iiNet. In addition to ongoing cross-examination of a DtecNet anti-piracy boss, a forensic investigator and veteran of the KaZaA case took the stand, admitting that an IP address alone is insufficient to identify an exact individual.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Custom Robo Arena Unlockables VIII DS

HTTP:: Custom Robo Arena Unlockables VIII DS
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Custom Robo sees its first DS release in Custom Robo Arena, after five previous launches on other platforms. Custom Robo Arena is the first installment of the game to be released in the PAL territories, and the second in North America. The game follows the player as they join Robo Team “Numero Uno” and fight through the tournament in order to obtain the Robo Cup.Apart from the GBA version of the title, it also follows the 3D combat model of the previous games. The Pokemon-styled combat system pits the player against their opponents and also makes use of the DS touchscreen. With it, the gamer will be able to perform maintenance on his Robo to prevent lowering its efficiency. The title is also the first of the series to offer multiplayer matches for up to two players over the Nintendo Wi-Fi. It also provides voice chat and makes use of the rival's system seen in Metroid Prime: Hunters. The game was published by Nintendo Co., Ltd. and was developed by Noise. It was launche!
d on October 19, 2006. It's an action, role-playing title played from a third-person perspective that received a PEGI rating of 7. UNLOCKABLESGrudge Match fightersComplete the indicated task to unlock the following fighters for the Grudge Match:Stark: Get the...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Weird Ceramic to Benefit Hydrogen Fuel Cell Production

HTTP:: Weird Ceramic to Benefit Hydrogen Fuel Cell Production
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have recently announced the development of a new, innovative type of ceramic that, apparently, has the ability to be a major contributor to improving the hydrogen-fuel cell battery technology and bring about the new era of all-electric cars. The new material, called Barium-Zirconium-Cerium-Yttrium-Ytterbuim Oxide (BZCYYb), is, apparently, able to make solid oxide fuel cells less costly and more efficient, while at the same time increasing their life span considerably. The thing about the new ceramic material is that not even its inventors are exactly sure how it functions, Gas 2.0 reports. They know, however, that it does, and they plan to implement it in existing technologies as soon as possible. If future innovations make solid oxide systems more affordable, then the new ceramic could lead to the complete removal of precious metals such as platinum from hydrogen fuel cells, which will make them more enviro!
nmentally friendly, and also a lot more cheaper. Advances in nanotechnology have already led to less platinum being needed in new-generation fuel cells, but experts are trying to eliminate it altogether. One thing preventing solid oxide technology from going out into mass production is heat. The yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: HTC Debuts TattooMyHTC Site

HTTP:: HTC Debuts TattooMyHTC Site
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Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced a while ago the launch of a new Android-powered handset, the HTC Tattoo, which was said to come to the market with a wide range of customization options, including personalized covers. The handset is already available for purchase, and now HTC has also launched a website that enables users to choose customized covers for their Tattoo. The TattooMyHTC website that just went live offers users the possibility to either choose one of the already existing customized covers or create one of their own. A list with the most popular designs is also present on the website, as is a page where users can see how these designs look on the phone's covers. “This HTC Service is powered by Subcostume and operated by the Norwegian company Imageware AS. Production is done in Shenzhen, China, and all orders are shipped from here. For corporate customers interested in ordering more than 50 covers, please contact us through the contac!
t form, and we will return to you asap,” the company says about the new service launched for Tattoo owners. A Design Your Own page available on the website enables users to create more personalized covers for their Android-based mobile phone, in case the already existing designs haven't appealed to them already. Tattoo owners can br...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Clinton to press Russia on Iran

HTTP:: Clinton to press Russia on Iran
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US secretary of state in Moscow to discuss new Start treaty and Tehran's nuclear programme.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Snow Leopard Data Wiping Bug Acknowledged by Apple

HTTP:: Snow Leopard Data Wiping Bug Acknowledged by Apple
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Apple’s Support forums have become filled with complaints of a Snow Leopard bug eating away their data when a user logs into the 'guest' account, then logs back out of the account and back into their normal one to find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped.Many users are reporting that not only are their settings reset, but in most cases, all data is gone. Still, the home directory still exists under "/Users/username" but is completely empty. Users claim their data becomes unrecoverable, in some cases, and cannot be found / accessed anywhere on the hard drive. Only a few lucky cases are reported where the user has backed up the data. It appears that the issue had been plaguing users since day one, with reports of the bug being posted mere days after Mac OS X Snow Leopard had been released.Moreover, it is not clear exactly how many users are affected, since not every Mac user has an Apple Discussions account, or the certainty that Apple is to blame fo!
r a system wipeout. It does seem, however, that any user who performed the upgrade from OS X 10.5 Leopard, and had the guest account enabled, is affected.Apple has been quiet so far, but a CNet report now reveals that the Mac maker has acknowledged the bug, claiming to be working on a fix. Apple also claims that the ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Free Weather Channel App for BlackBerry

HTTP:: Free Weather Channel App for BlackBerry
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The Weather Channel Mobile announced on Monday the launch of a new version of its application for Blackberry devices, one that comes for free and is ad-supported. The Weather Channel app for BlackBerry comes with GPS-based Location Tracker, as well as with interactive radar maps. The new application can be downloaded for free from the BlackBerry App World, the company states. The interactive radar maps are not the only features that Weather Channel for BlackBerry comes with. In addition, the application also delivers current conditions, hourly, 36-hour and 10-day forecasts, all meant to help users who need to know these things in planning their current activities. Moreover, it also enables users to share weather alerts and current conditions and forecasts with their friends directly from the application, either via e-mail or text messages. In addition, the app also sports integration with the BlackBerry calendar and address book, so that it offers even more functionality !
to users. “Developing and releasing an ad-supported app enables us to deliver the most accurate weather content available to millions of BlackBerry users in the format they prefer,” said Cameron Clayton, vice president of mobile at The Weather Channel Interactive. “This increased accessibility is part of our ongoing effort ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Altruism Comes from Nurture Not Nature

HTTP:: Altruism Comes from Nurture Not Nature
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis (UCD) have recently just finished drawing conclusions from their latest study, which dealt with explaining the sources of socially learned behavior, as well as self-sacrifice among strangers. In their investigation, the experts determined that people such as firemen, soldiers, blood donors and food-bank donors were influenced more in doing their acts of self-sacrifice by culture, than they were by nature. Details of the results appear in the October 12 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Evolutionary social scientists have always been interested in studying altruism, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announces. From a purely evolutionary standpoint, this type of behavior does not make much sense, particularly because individuals not only risk dying, but they may also be helping others pass on their genes in the process. As a direct result, anthropologists say, this behavior should !
have not been favored by nature. But, as it stands, it is still here and, moreover, it can be found in other species of animals as well, including some primates and dolphins. In order to be able to describe how altruism came to evolve, the investigators used a mathematical set of calculations known as the Price equation. Essentially, the calcu...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Firefox 3 6 to Add Support for Computer Orientation

HTTP:: Firefox 3 6 to Add Support for Computer Orientation
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Browser makers are on somewhat of an arms race trying to one-up each other with new useful or just plain fun features. The developers can't go all out in most cases of course, as there is still this little thing called web standards to consider but there are plenty of places left for innovation. Mozilla's upcoming Firefox 3.6 will be getting some needed updates but it will also be sporting an interesting new feature that will allow the browser to determine your machine orientation and tilt. “One new feature that we’re including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if it’s available,” Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard wrote. “Originally built as something that we would include for our upcoming mobile browser release, we’ve made it available on desktop systems as well. Many modern Macbooks and Thinkpads contain devices and drivers that expose this information. We’ve added support for Linux, Macs and so!
me Thinkpads where drivers and devices are available.” Web developers will be able to access the new API and get information about the machine orientation on devices that come equipped with an accelerometer and then use the information in whichever way they see fit. There aren't that many applicat...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Paul Anka Says Michael Jackson Stole This Is It Song

HTTP:: Paul Anka Says Michael Jackson Stole This Is It Song
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The Michael Jackson Estate released yesterday “This Is It,” a never-before-heard Michael Jackson track, to promote the upcoming docu-film that drops at the end of the month. Some might have found that it sounded like a hit of 20 years ago, “I Never Heard” by Safire, and that’s because it was practically the same song, as music icon Paul Anka has stepped forward to claim, as E! Online can confirm. The truth about the “new” Michael Jackson song is that it’s actually a track dating 20 years ago that was stolen by the singer from Anka’s studio. Anka and Jackson co-wrote the original and then recorded the vocals for it for what was Anka’s duets album “Walk a Fine Line,” it has emerged. Michael Jackson later returned to the studio and took the tapes, which were just recently used by the MJ Estate to make the new song, “This Is It,” without even crediting Anka as co-writer and clearly in violation of his copyright. Understandably, the music icon imm!
ediately alerted the Estate and Sony about the infringement, threatening to pursue legal action if the parties continued to ignore him. The Estate eventually agreed to offer him 50% of the publishing rights, along with an official apology for using his song without permission...
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Pingie: HTTP:: No Comet in North America 039 s Past

HTTP:: No Comet in North America 039 s Past
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Many geologists and biologists believe that a huge comet impact devastated North America some 13,000 years ago, killing off many species of land animals, and completely destroying the Clovis culture. While this idea has been debated in the scientific community for a very long time, it would appear that its critics were correct. A new study has determined that there are little to no pieces of evidence to prove that an impact did occur, and that explanations for the sudden, “little extinction” need to be sought for elsewhere, Nature News reports. In the latest issue of the respected journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), experts report on the soil samples they collected from seven sites across the United States, all determined to be from the Clovis age. The investigations revealed little to no traces of magnetic cosmic debris, which was to be expected if North America was, indeed, hit by a comet. This is not the first paper to cast doubt on the !
impact hypothesis. Other researches were also unable to establish a direct correlation between the geological record and the theory itself. The idea appeared back in 2007, in a study conducted by Californian researchers. They analyzed evidence and soil samples from 25 locations, and determined that they contained magnetic microspherules,...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download Logic Pro 9 0 2 for Mac OS X

HTTP:: Download Logic Pro 9 0 2 for Mac OS X
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In just under a month since the release of update 9.0.1 for Logic Pro and Logic Express, Apple has issued a new software update for users of the Pro version of the digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer for Mac OS X. The update, weighing in at 183MB, improves the overall stability and provides numerous fixes and enhancements, according to the company behind the Mac operating system. As usual, Apple uses its Support section to describe the contents of its Logic Pro 9.0.2 update. There, customers can find out that, in addition to improving the overall stability, Logic Pro 9.0.2 provides numerous fixes and enhancements. According to the Mac maker, the issues addressed include: - Flex Markers can align & snap to MIDI notes; - Performing a punch-in recording with Replace Mode now behaves correctly; - The I/O plug-in adds an option for latency measurement; - TDM plug-ins now behave as expected (only affects users with Pro Tools HD audio hardware). The update is recom!
mended for all users of Logic Pro 9, Apple says, not only to address these particular issues, but also because it includes all the fixes and enhancements delivered in last month’s update â€" Logic Pro 9.0.1. “For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: Logic Pro Relea...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Romania to Host Most Powerful Laser in the World

HTTP:: Romania to Host Most Powerful Laser in the World
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Three former Soviet-Bloc countries in Eastern Europe have recently been selected to host one of the most ambitious physics experiments devised by the European Union. The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) aims to build the most powerful exawatt-class laser in the world near the Romanian capital, Bucharest, which will enable scientists to perform a wide range of experiments at never-before-reached light intensities. Additionally, the facility will also be dedicated to investigating the laser-matter interactions in the unexplored ultra-relativistic regime, as well as to developing unprecedented, intense, ultra-short particle and radiation sources for fundamental and applied sciences.The pioneering laser facility has been equally awarded to Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic, it's total worth being estimated to be of around 500 million euros (some $728.5 million). According to preliminary plans, scientific research will be conducted on issues such as nuclear physics, astr!
ophysics, cosmology, and high-energy physics, although research into cancer therapies and other courses of treatment will also take place, Hungary's Prime Minister, Gordon Bajnai, has recently announced. The construction of the impressive facilities, which will employ some 300 scientists and 600 supporti...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download Google Chrome 3 0 195 27 Beta and Stable

HTTP:: Download Google Chrome 3 0 195 27 Beta and Stable
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Google Chrome has made yet another step forward with the availability of two new releases for version 3.0. At the start of October 2009, the Mountain View-based search giant kicked up a notch both the Stable and the Beta flavors of Chrome. It appears that Google is ready to make a habit of this, because, as of October 12, fresh new Beta and Stable builds of Chrome are now available for download. Users of Google Chrome will be able to update to version 3.0.195.27, up from 3.0.195.25. The build string is an indication that the latest releases of Google Chrome Beta and Stable bring to the table minor fixes, focused on stability, reliability and security. “Both the beta and stable channel have been updated to 3.0.195.27 and contain the following fixes: Fixed an issue where menu items for certain Indian languages were not properly visible. Add support to blacklist the faux www.paypal.com certificate. Added NTLMv2 support on Windows. FFmpeg files now properly have NX/DBCompat!
enabled. ([The] issue will be made public once this release is fully deployed). V8 crash fix,” revealed Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager. The first time that Google joined the Beta and Stable channels of Chrome at the hip, it did it for the sake of introducing new artist themes for the open-source browser. ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: HTC Dragon 039 s CPU to Be OMAP

HTTP:: HTC Dragon 039 s CPU to Be OMAP
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation was rumored not too long ago to plan on releasing to the market a new handset running under Google's Android operating system, namely the HTC Dragon. The first reports on this device showed that we'd soon have the chance to enjoy a really powerful Android phone, powered by a 1GHz processor, supposedly a Snapdragon. However, the most recent rumors on the device unveil the fact that, while the 1GHz chipset will still be included with the HTC Dragon, it will not come from Qualcomm. It will actually be an OMAP 3640 chipset from Texas Instruments, based on an ARMv7 Cortex A8 CPU. According to a recent article on PCGeecks, we're still waiting for one of the fastest devices around, only that it will feature another processor than originally expected. Moreover, the news site also suggests that the yet unannounced HTC Dragon will come to the Chinese market only as a CDMA device. It seems that the Taiwan-based handset vendor will releas!
e the phone only in China, and it is testing it with the OMAP chipset on board. Moreover, apparently the Dragon will have a similar fate to HTC Qilin, which was reported back in August to head to China as Dopod T8388, based on an OMAP3 chipset and sporting GSM and TD-SCDMA connectivity. There are no details here that the HTC Dragon will ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Raid reveals Talibans Punjab links

HTTP:: Raid reveals Talibans Punjab links
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Rawalpindi attack demonstrates Pakistani Taliban's reach beyond northwestern region.
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