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The Volt will run for 40 miles purely on bat­tery and post that use a gaso­line engine to charge the bat­tery giv­ing it 50 miles to the gal­lon at that point.

“Open source soft­ware is free if your time is worth nothing.”

“Kuwaiti offi­cials say they have arrested six mem­bers of a “ter­ror­ist net­work”, linked to al-Qaeda, who were plan­ning to attack a US mil­i­tary base.”

“The scene would be unre­mark­able in Saudi Ara­bia or Iran, where a strict inter­pre­ta­tion of Islam man­dates hid­ing the fem­i­nine body. In Alexan­dria — a sto­ried town of sen­su­al­ity and open­ness — the veiled beach­go­ers, cou­pled with sec­tar­ian con­flicts, under­score to some res­i­dents the loss of a val­ued sense of diver­sity in favor of reli­gious uniformity.”

“But per­haps there’s a third option: Google acquir­ing On2 and promptly open sourc­ing its lat­est video codecs: VP6, VP7, and VP8. On2’s VP3 codec is the actual basis for Ogg The­ora. In 2001, On2 open sourced VP3 under an irrev­o­ca­ble free license through an agree­ment with The Xiph.org Foun­da­tion. Accord­ing to Google open source guru Chris DiBona, the com­pany con­tin­ues to avoid Ogg The­ora on YouTube because it can’t match the per­for­mance of H.264. But if Google open sources a newer On2 codec and applies that to YouTube, this would ease Mozilla’s objec­tions. Google has already mocked up a Flash-free YouTube. And with Google con­trol­ling On2’s patents, it would have that much more lever­age in its efforts to con­vince Apple that it won’t be sued.” It would be awe­some if they did.

“You have no idea what it’s like to be called into a ster­ile con­fer­ence room with a hos­pi­tal admin­is­tra­tor you’ve never met before and be told that your mother’s insur­ance pol­icy will only pay for 30 days in ICU. You can’t imag­ine what it’s like to be advised that you need to “make some deci­sions,” like whether your mother should be released “HTD” which is hos­pi­tal par­lance for “home to die,” or if you want to pay out of pocket to keep her in the ICU another week. And when you ask how much that would cost you are given a num­ber so impos­si­bly large that you real­ize there really are no deci­sions to make. The deci­sion has been made for you. “Liv­ing will” or no, it doesn’t mat­ter. The bank account and the insur­ance pol­icy have trumped any legal doc­u­ment. If this isn’t a “death panel” I don’t know what is.”

“This is a very nicely done series of videos made at the Cre­ation “Museum”…now you can see what it was like!”

“Describ­ing an agree­ment that the Depart­ment of Hous­ing and Urban Devel­op­ment (HUD) and the Depart­ment of Jus­tice helped bro­ker that would require Westch­ester County, New York, to spend more than $50 mil­lion of its own funds to develop afford­able hous­ing, Fox News’ Andrew Napoli­tano com­mented, “Big brother is here,” and he also said that “the gov­ern­ment is tak­ing money from you by sup­press­ing the value of your real estate.” But Napoli­tano never men­tioned that for years, Westch­ester County sought and received mil­lions in fed­eral hous­ing aid and that the agree­ment, if rat­i­fied, would set­tle a law­suit claim­ing Westch­ester mis­rep­re­sented its fair hous­ing efforts to fed­eral officials.”

“In this arti­cle, I’ll go over some of the issues sur­round­ing com­plex­ity and tech­niques that can be used to man­age it.” Really good arti­cle deal­ing with com­plex user interfaces.

“Thou­sands of pages of once-secret grand jury tes­ti­mony and e-mail mes­sages released on Tues­day showed that Karl Rove and other senior aides in the Bush White House played an ear­lier and more active role than pre­vi­ously known in the 2006 fir­ings of a num­ber of fed­eral prosecutors.”

“A new study of Roman Catholic nuns and priests in the United States shows that an aging, pre­dom­i­nantly white gen­er­a­tion is being suc­ceeded by a smaller group of more racially and eth­ni­cally diverse recruits who are attracted to the reli­gious orders that prac­tice tra­di­tional prayer rit­u­als and wear habits.”

“This is hor­ri­ble news to have to release, but unfor­tu­nately Cam­paign Mon­i­tor has been attacked by one or more hack­ers, and some of your accounts have been com­pro­mised. This has been a delib­er­ate, planned and com­plex intru­sion and we are still in the process of han­dling the hacks and the impact.”

“The bot­tom line is that the Catholic bish­ops have com­mit­ted both them­selves and their copi­ous resources to becom­ing the polit­i­cal ene­mies of all child sex abuse vic­tims and thus the polit­i­cal allies of all child preda­tors (whether they be priests, teach­ers, or uncles).”

“This how-to guide is sup­posed to walk you through the steps to make your idea for an iPhone app a real­ity. This post presents var­i­ous ideas, tech­niques, tips, and resources that may come in handy if you are plan­ning on cre­at­ing your first iPhone appli­ca­tion.” Just in case.

“A Nasa space tele­scope has found evi­dence of a high-speed col­li­sion between two bur­geon­ing plan­ets orbit­ing a young star. Astronomers say the cos­mic smash-up is sim­i­lar to the one that formed our Moon some four bil­lion years ago, when a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth. In this case, two rocky bod­ies are thought to have slammed into one another in the last few thou­sand years.” So cool.

“Adobe’s stu­pid­ity is com­pounded by the obnox­ious atti­tude of the per­son who han­dled my call. Rather than pro­pose a solu­tion, he went on about how we got such a good deal, we should be happy with it. I ended the con­ver­sa­tion by say­ing that we should have done like most of the other stu­dents here: just stolen the soft­ware.” Awe­some Adobe.

“Every time a bunch of aca­d­e­mics show vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties in elec­tronic vot­ing machines, crit­ics com­plain that the attacks aren’t real­is­tic, that attack­ers won’t have access to source code, or design doc­u­ments, or be able to manip­u­late the hard­ware, etc. So this time a bunch of com­puter sci­en­tists from UCSD, Michi­gan, and Prince­ton offered a rebut­tal. They com­pletely own the AVC Advan­tage using no access to source code or design doc­u­ments (PDF), and deliver a com­plete work­ing attack in a plug-in car­tridge that could be used by any­one with a few pri­vate min­utes with the machine. More­over, they came up with some cool tricks to do this on a machine pro­tected against tra­di­tional code injec­tion attacks (the AVC proces­sor will only exe­cute instruc­tions from ROM). The research was pre­sented at this week’s USENIX EVT.”

“On August 10 and 11, numer­ous media fig­ures, includ­ing Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck, mis­char­ac­ter­ized a USA Today op-ed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Major­ity Leader Steny Hoyer to falsely claim they called health reform oppo­nents “un-American.” In fact, in their op-ed, Pelosi and Hoyer wrote that “it is now evi­dent that an ugly cam­paign is under­way not merely to mis­rep­re­sent the health insur­ance reform leg­is­la­tion, but to dis­rupt pub­lic meet­ings and pre­vent mem­bers of Con­gress and con­stituents from con­duct­ing a civil dia­logue” and that “[d]rowning out oppos­ing views is sim­ply un-American.””

“Author­i­ties in Iran say 4,000 peo­ple were detained in protests that fol­lowed June’s dis­puted pres­i­den­tial elec­tion — many more than pre­vi­ously stated. A spokesman for the judi­ciary, Ali Reza Jamshidi, said about 3,700 had been freed within a week, but that those involved in riots were in detention.”

“Every opin­ion is equally valid. My arse.”

“Fin­land, the Nether­lands and Swe­den have the low­est prices for mobile phone calls among OECD coun­tries, accord­ing to the lat­est OECD Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Out­look. The high­est were found in Canada, Spain and the United States.”

“As final edit­ing was being done on a con­cert DVD of the tour, which included footage from the video pro­jected on stage, Lego declined to grant per­mis­sion to use its fig­ures, which are pro­tected by copy­right. “We love that our fans are so pas­sion­ate and so cre­ative with our prod­ucts,” said Julie Stern, a spokes­woman for Lego Sys­tems, the United States divi­sion of the Lego Group, a Dan­ish com­pany founded in the 1930s. “But it had some inap­pro­pri­ate lan­guage, and the tone wasn’t appro­pri­ate for our tar­get audi­ence of kids 6 to 12.”” That bites.

“Blam­ing the slow nature of the global eco­nomic recov­ery, Opec now expects demand for its crude to aver­age 27.97 mil­lion bar­rels per day in 2010.”

“Ms. Palin had turned down the $28 mil­lion in financ­ing this spring; it was the only por­tion of Alaska’s stim­u­lus pack­age allot­ment that she rejected. At the time, she cited con­cern that stip­u­la­tions attached to the funds would oblig­ate Alaska to enact more strin­gent build­ing codes. A recent let­ter from the Depart­ment of Energy to an Alaskan leg­isla­tive aide clar­i­fied that Alaska did not need to enact stricter statewide build­ing codes. Rather, the state must offer assur­ances that it will “encour­age, pro­mote and assist” munic­i­pal­i­ties that adopt their own energy-efficiency codes. The leg­isla­tive vote on Mon­day was 45–14 in favor of the over­ride.” Wrong and rejected.

“Just as users and the entire Twit­ter devel­oper ecosys­tem was get­ting back on its feet after last week’s multi-day out­age, Twit­ter goes down again.”

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