Internet providers to intervene with illegal downloads

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Internet users who illegally share music, movies or television shows online could soon receive warning notices from the nation's five major Internet service providers.

The Copyright Alert System, organized by the recording and film industry, is being activated this week to target consumers using peer-to-peer software.

Under the new system, complaints will prompt an Internet service provider ? such as Verizon or AT&T ? to notify a customer whose Internet address has been detected sharing files illegally. A person will be given up to six opportunities to stop before the Internet provider will take more drastic steps, such as temporarily slowing their connection, or redirecting Internet traffic until they acknowledge they received a notice or review educational materials about copyright law.

Consumers who maintain they have been wrongly accused would be forced to pay $35 to appeal the decision. The fee would be reimbursed if they prevail.

Proponents say the focus is on deterring the average consumer rather than chronic violators. The director of the organization behind the system, Jill Lesser of the Center for Copyright Infringement, said in a blog post Monday that the program is "meant to educate rather than punish, and direct (users) to legal alternatives."

Each Internet provider is expected to implement their own system. The program gives each customer five or six "strikes" after a music or film company has detected illegal file-sharing and lodged a complaint. The first alerts are expected to be educational, while the third and fourth would require the customer to acknowledge that they have received the warnings and understand their behavior is illegal. The final warnings are expected to lead to "mitigation measures," such as slowing a person's Internet connection speeds.

Officials involved in the effort acknowledge it's unlikely to stop the biggest violators. There are ways to disguise an IP address or use a neighbor's connection that is unlocked. Public wireless connections, such as those offered at coffee shops, also won't be monitored.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/net-providers-begin-warning-illegal-downloads-231923384--finance.html

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DealBook Judge Sides With Einhorn and Halts an Apple Shareholder Vote

International Herald Tribune Friday 22nd February, 2013

A federal judge on Friday ordered Apple to halt collecting shareholder votes on a contentious proposal to change some of its corporate charter, handing a victory to the hedge fund manager David Einhorn.The ruling issued Friday touches on a fairly narrow legal point. But it signals a clear victory for Mr. Einhorn, who has taken up a fight with Apple over using some of its $137 billion cash hoard to make additional payouts to shareholders.Mr. Einhorn's hedge fund firm, Greenlight Capital, has sued Apple in Federal District Court in Manhattan, arguing that the company improperly tied together sev...

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How to kill an asteroid? Get out a paint spray gun

Feb. 21, 2013 ? There is research that is off the wall, some off the charts and some off the planet, such as what a Texas A&M University aerospace and physics professor is exploring. It's a plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint, and the science behind it is absolutely rock solid, so to speak, so much so that NASA is getting involved and wants to know much more.

Dave Hyland, professor of physics and astronomy and also a faculty member in the aerospace engineering department at Texas A&M and a researcher with more than 30 years of awards and notable grants, says one possible way to avert an asteroid collision with Earth is by using a process called "tribocharging powder dispensing" -- as in high pressured -- and spreading a thin layer of paint on an approaching asteroid, such as the one named DA14 that came within 17,000 miles on Feb. 15.

What happens is that the paint changes the amount by which the asteroid reflects sunlight, Hyland theorizes, producing a change in what is called the Yarkovski effect (which was discovered by a Russian engineer in 1902). The force arises because on a spinning asteroid, the dusk side is warmer than the dawn side and emits more thermal photons, each photon carrying a small momentum. The unequal heating of the asteroid results in a net force strong enough to cause the asteroid to shift from its current orbit, Hyland further theorizes.

The kind of paint used is not the kind found at your local hardware store, Hyland explains.

"It could not be a water-based or oil-based paint because it would probably explode within seconds of it entering space," he notes.

"But a powdered form of paint could be used to dust on the asteroid and the sun would then do the rest. It cures the paint to give a smooth coating, and would change the unequal heating of the asteroid so that it would be forced off its current path and placed on either a higher or lower orbit, thus missing Earth.

"I have to admit the concept does sound strange, but the odds are very high that such a plan would be successful and would be relatively inexpensive. The science behind the theory is sound. We need to test it in space."

As for getting the paint on the asteroid, a practical way to do this was discovered by a former student of Hyland's, Shen Ge, who has since started a new space company. The "tribocharging powder dispenser" would spray a mixture of inert gas and charged dry-paint powder at the asteroid that would attract the powder to its surface through electrostatics. Then solar wind and UV radiation would cure the powder, giving a smooth, thin coat on the surface.

Getting the paint in the asteroid's path in a timely manner will certainly be a challenge, Hyland observes.

"The tribocharged powder process is a widely used method of painting many products," he says. "It remains only to adapt the technology to space conditions."

NASA has approached Hyland for developing such a project to test the theory, and Earth may need it quickly. An asteroid called Apophis is due in 2029 and will come closer than many communications satellites in orbit right now. It will fly by on April 13 (Friday the 13 to be exact) of 2029 and make a return trip in 2036, and it's estimated to be more than 1,000 feet in length and is appropriately named for an evil Egyptian god of chaos and destruction. There is no chance of its hitting Earth in 2029, but a small chance in the next close approach in 2036, Hyland notes.

Asteroids have hit Earth before. One hit off the Yucatan coast of Mexico about 65 million years ago and is believed to have caused the eventual extinction of the dinosaurs. And in 1908, the fabled "Tunguska event" occurred in Siberia in which an asteroid or meteor exploded several miles above? Earth, flattening trees and killing livestock over 800 square miles. The explosion is now estimated to have been 1,000 times more powerful than the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

"There are thousands of asteroids out there, and only a small percentage of them are known and can be tracked as they approach Earth," Hyland adds.

"The smaller ones, like DA14 are not discovered as soon as others, and they could still cause a lot of damage should they hit Earth. It is really important for our long-term survival that we concentrate much more effort discovering and tracking them, and developing as many useful technologies as possible for deflecting them."

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Google adds new touch to line of Chrome laptops

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Google is adding a new and more expensive touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made by rivals Microsoft and Apple.

The Chromebook Pixel unveiled Thursday includes a nearly 13-inch display screen that responds to the touch or swipe of a finger. That duplicates a key feature in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8, a dramatic makeover of the world's leading operating system for PCs.

The Pixel's high-resolution screen displays 239 pixels per inch, slightly more than Apple Inc.'s MacBooks with high-resolution Retina displays. A MacBook Pro with a screen that measures 13.1 inches diagonally can handle 227 pixels per inch, while the 15.4-inch model is at 220 pixels per inch.

"This is the future: high-resolution screens and touch," said Sundar Pichai, a senior vice president who oversees Google's Chrome Web browser and operating system.

Google Inc. designed and built the Pixel for "power users" ? a fastidious and generally more affluent segment of the PC market willing to pay more for machines equipped with compelling features and components not found in cheaper laptops.

The strategy is a departure for Google, which had positioned Chromebooks based on its Chrome operating system as affordable options for homes and offices looking for a quick and easy way to connect to the Web. Google has been partnering with PC makers to make Chromebooks over the past two years. Among them: Acer Inc. makes a bare-bones Chromebook for just $199, while Samsung Electronics Co. sells one for $249.

The Pixel, which Google is building without a partner, will cost $1,299 for a Wi-Fi only model with 32 gigabytes of flash storage. A 64-gigabyte machine that can connect on both Wi-Fi and a 4G LTE cellular network will cost $1,499. That's the same price as the cheapest MacBook Pro with a comparable screen, though the Apple laptop comes with 128 gigabytes of storage.

Apple does have a cheaper, lighter laptop, the MacBook Air. A 13-inch model with 128 gigabytes of storage starts at $1,199. It weighs less than 3 pounds and doesn't have a high-resolution screen. The Pixel has the high-resolution screen and weighs 3.35 pounds. The 13-inch high-resolution MacBook Pro weighs 3.57 pounds.

Google believes Pixel is a better value than the Air, given its higher-resolution screen with touch controls. Google is also throwing in 1 terabytes of free online storage in its data centers for three years ? a benefit that Pichai estimated would cost $500 to $600.

The Pixel "will stand up very, very well to the MacBook Air," Pichai said. "The goal here is to push the boundaries to deliver the best laptop at the best possible price."

Though its popular iPad has a touch screen, Apple has shunned touch-screen laptops. Apple figures that because people use laptops with the screen in front of them, rather than in their hands or laps, it's not a pleasant experience to constantly have to reach out to touch the screen.

Microsoft, on the other hand, considers touch screens to be central to all computing environments. Windows 8 was designed to make desktop and laptop computers work more like tablet computers. Computers with touch-screen monitors can respond to touch along with old-style mouse and keyboard commands.

Google's online Play store will begin selling the Pixel in the U.S. and U.K Thursday, with BestBuy.com expected to take orders on Friday. A hands-on experience with the Pixels also will be available beginning Friday in 10 of Best Buy's retail stores in California, Minnesota, Washington state, Virginia and New York.

Pichai declined to say how many of the lower-priced Chromebooks have been sold, but said the models have ranked as the most popular laptop sold by Amazon.com Inc. for the past four months.

The free online storage is being included with the Pixel to overcome the laptop's lack of a hard drive. Like other Chromebooks, the Pixel functions like a terminal dependent on an Internet connection to get to information and applications stored in large data centers run by Google or other technology providers.

Spurred by the growing popularity of smartphones and tablet computers, Google is betting more people will prefer having data, photos and video stored in remote data centers instead of individual hard drives so the content can be accessed from any Internet-connected device.

Google's expansion into the high-end of the laptop market immerses the Internet search and advertising company more deeply into the business designing and making gadgets.

The company is already a major player in the mobile device market through its Android software. To help promote Android, Google also has designed a line of smartphones and tablets under the Nexus brand. The company also owns smartphone maker Motorola Mobility, which it bought for $12.4 billion last year.

Google's deepening involvement in hardware has ignited speculation that the company might eventually open its own chain of stores to sell its products, just as Apple and Microsoft already do. Pichai didn't address that in a response to a question on that topic at Thursday's event.

Apple and Microsoft already have been hurt by the increased competition from Google. Most smartphones and tablets running on Google's free Android software cost less than Apple's iPhone and iPad, helping to siphon sales away from those devices. Sales of PCs running on Windows also have been sagging during the past year, partly because consumers are relying more on Android devices.

Google says it expects to make a small profit on each Pixel sold, but the company figures to make more money from the online traffic delivered from the machines. Like other Chromebooks, the Pixel is set up to automatically use all of Google's services, including its search engine, Gmail and YouTube video site.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/google-adds-touch-line-chrome-laptops-190133710.html

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Compuware APM Announces Annual Best of the Web Award Winners

DETROIT, Feb. 21, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced the 2013 winners of its annual Best of the Web awards honoring the top performing web, mobile and streaming sites.

The annual Best of the Web awards recognize the 'best of the best' companies across six major industries -- banking, brokerage, insurance, media, retail and travel. The winners in each industry earned top honors for web, mobile, or streaming performance excellence based on the average response time, availability and consistency of their sites throughout 2012.

The Best of the Web award winners work hard all year to ensure that their web, mobile and streaming site performances are differentiators that drive business. They also make a commitment to continuous improvement, as they evolve their sites to meet customers' needs and expectations and to provide exceptional customer experiences.

Winners in each industry receive Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards for home page or business transaction performance measured from the Internet backbone and the Gomez Last Mile, a global network of more than 150,000 desktop computers connected to 2,500 local ISPs in more than 168 countries around the globe. Winners in Mobile performance are based on measurement across three major carriers.

This year, Compuware provides special recognition for companies that stand apart for their continued excellence year over year. Among the winners, Fidelity Investments holds a special distinction as the only Gold award winner for four consecutive years. Compuware recognizes this outstanding achievement and congratulates Fidelity for this remarkable accomplishment.

The 2012 Best of the Web awards were also expanded to include the first streaming media leader. Along with slow web and mobile performance, viewers have become less tolerant of poor video quality and/or slow performance. As online video blossoms, its impact on customer experience has become critical. This year's Streaming Media Leader award recipient is Demand Media, which provided the best combined performance for availability, start-up time and rebuffer ratio measured from the Compuware Gomez streaming network of more than 50 locations across 25 countries.

The 2013 Best of the Web top award winners in each industry and category include:

Banking

• Check Account Details Transaction ? Gold: US Bank
• Last Mile ? Gold: Charles Schwab Bank
• Mobile Leader: KeyBank

Brokerage

• Generate Order Transaction ? Gold: Fidelity
• Last Mile ? Gold: Charles Schwab

Insurance (Auto & Property)

• Last Mile ? Gold: The Hartford
• Mobile Leader: Liberty Mutual

Media News

• News Article Search Transaction - Gold: Associated Press
• Last Mile ? Gold: CNN iReport
• Mobile Leader: CNN

Retail

• Product Order Transaction ? Gold: Overstock.com
• Last Mile ? Gold: Dell
• Mobile Leader: Amazon

Travel

• Airlines: Flight Search Transaction ? Gold: JetBlue
• Airlines: Last Mile ? Gold: AirTran Airways
• Airlines: Mobile Leader: LAN Airlines
• Hotels: Hotel Room Search Transaction ? Gold: Best Western
• Hotels: Last Mile ? Gold: Best Western
• Hotels: Mobile Leader: Fairmont
• Online Agents: Last Mile ? Gold: Resort Vacations to Go
• Online Agents: Mobile Leader: Kayak

Streaming Media

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GOP-led Indiana House panel backs bill prohibiting payroll deductions for teachers union dues

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INDIANAPOLIS ? Republicans sparked protests from teachers and union officials Tuesday by pushing legislation through a House committee that would bar Indiana schools from automatically deducting union dues from teacher paychecks, an issue that critics thought was off the table this year.

The legislation, which has the support of Gov. Mike Pence, cleared the House Education Committee along party lines.

If the plan makes its way through the GOP-controlled Legislature, it would be another major blow to Indiana's unions. A right-to-work law was approved last year that banned collecting mandatory union fees at private businesses, a year after lawmakers restricted the collective bargaining power of teachers.

"This is being done, in my opinion, to do nothing but stifle their representative voice, as other legislation that has been passed in recent history," said Rick Muir, president of the Indiana Federation of Teachers.

Pence, a Republican, and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce logged their support for the measure Tuesday. Chamber President Kevin Brinegar said a school district or other government unit should not be involved in collecting money which can then be used for political purposes.

Rep. Jeff Thompson, a retired high school chemistry teacher who said he paid union dues by check, slipped the proposal in shortly before a key legislative deadline Tuesday in the House. The Republican from Lizton said deducting union dues from paychecks is equivalent to lawmakers raising political donations using their Statehouse phones.

"Even though it costs the state nothing, it's wrong for me to collect contributions using the Statehouse property," Thompson said. "It's just not the way it should be done, is it?"

But it's unclear how the legislation would fare in the Senate. The chairman of that chamber's education committee, Sen. Dennis Kruse, said he had decided not to consider a similar Senate bill on teacher union dues and wasn't sure whether he would act on the House measure.

"I think we've the teachers pretty hard the last couple of years, and I don't think we need to keep doing things that from their perspective would hurt them," said Kruse, a Republican from Auburn. "I think we should just pause for a little while and let some of these changes we've made be implemented and let things go on for a little bit."

The support marks something of a surprise from Pence, who did not mention the issue during his campaign and left it out of his policy "roadmap." A top policy adviser, however, told the committee that the governor favored the measure.

"Governor Pence supports this bill because it rewards high-performing schools and teachers with more freedom and flexibility, and he does not believe public schools should collect money for private entities," Pence spokeswoman Christy Denault said after the committee vote.

The measure now heads to the full House.

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IS IT TRUE February 19, 2013 | City-County Observer

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IS IT TRUE the question has been raised about just what it would take for David Garrett to have his CPA license activated??the City County Observer has been advised that the actions needing to be taken for Mr. Garrett to be able to put the letters CPA behind his name is 120 hours of approved continuing education credits and a request for activation would get it done??this training can be taken online so within a month without missing a day of work Mr. Garrett could have his license back??the one of the beautiful things about being an American is that in some areas we can still make a choice and Mr. Garrett made his years ago not to take the courses to keep the license active and it is his choice to become active again??that CEU based classes do not have tests and really just indicate attendance or being logged on??state controlled credentials are an industry in themselves and it often seems as though the real beneficiaries are the CEU credit mills as opposed to the buying public??having sat through many such CEU classes at stiff fees this writer can attest that one can also choose to learn something new or sit in attendance like a bump on a log and still get the CEUs faxed to the license grantors?

IS IT TRUE we just heard from our facebook ?Moles? that City Councilman, Weaver posted on his facebook the Courier and Press editorial concerning City Council members, Connie Robinson and John Friend, CPA, the alledged ?Voice of Reason?, Russ LLoyd, Jr. and others? ?that Councilman, Weaver made reference on his facebook post suggesting that hiring Mr. Garrett was a waste of taxpayers money? ?we must remind our readers that Mr. Weaver lobbied and voted for the proposed $5 million dollar ?Earthcare? deal? ?we wonder if Mr. Weaver thinks his support of the proposed Earthcare project was not a waste of tax payers dollars?

IS IT TRUE that last week the article that was written back in the Spring of 2012 by City Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley and published by the CCO regarding her findings when doing the legal research on Earthcare Energy got 450 pageviews out of the blue??this article was of course heavily read back when it was published by was off the radar for 8 months before this high interest level rose last week for two days??there are only a couple of reasons for such an interest??one would be if another city was considering making a deal with Earthcare Energy LLC and sought to leverage the legal work that Councilwoman Riley did pro-bono as part of her duties as an elected official??the other possibility is that Earthcare Energy LLC that strongly asserted that they were in compliance with the contract signed by Mayor Winnecke is having some legal research done in preparation for a lawsuit??at the time the Earthcare assertion that they were terminated while being in compliance had strong merit??there had to be a reason for Earthcare Energy LLC to have kept making the interest payments on the $200,000 loan that the Winnecke Administration snuck to Earthcare without a City Council vote??we may find out soon?

IS IT TRUE the social network Facebook had a picture of former Evansville Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel speaking at a gathering with a caption that read ?future Congressman???there were many comments of which some were supportive and others were mentioning things like SNEGAL grab for the Homestead Tax Credit, the McCurdy debacle, the Executive Inn dilemma, and the last minute Johnson Controls deal??if the former mayor comes out of his political retirement to seek elected office again it will be quite interesting just how much a future opponent will go after him for some of the large messes he left the people of Evansville??the CCO will expect record readership of our archives much like the Earthcare interest of last week if Weinzapfel?s hat is ever tossed back into the ring?

IS IT TRUE that the case brought by the VFW and others in an attempt to overturn the anti-smoking ordinance passed in 2012 by the Evansville City Council is now history??this case was dismissed last month and now the appeal of that ruling has been denied as well??the CCO wishes the people who brought this case well in their business endeavors??the reality is that this case was not even a long shot from the start as overturning such ordinances has been tried for 20 years without success??the money spent on this case without a prayer would have been better allocated to marketing efforts to attract non-smokers to these businesses??we have heard from some businesses that claim to be suffering because of the ordinance and others that are finally seeing increases in business??we wish all of these businesses success in the new and modern world?

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Zimbabwe prisons to review death sentences

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? Zimbabwe prison officials said Wednesday that they are not in a hurry to engage the services of a newly-appointed hangman to execute the 77 inmates on death row and will review their sentences.

Prison authorities want to give prisoners facing execution a "chance to live," official Huggins Machingauta said. He said all death sentences will be brought before the cabinet of ministers for a review to commute them to life.

"We are in no hurry to hang anyone. It is our wish and hope that they get a reprieve," Machingauta said.

The hangman's post was vacant for about seven years since the previous one retired in 2005. State media reported earlier this month that prison officials said they found a new hangman.

A new proposed draft constitution endorsed by the country's two main political parties exempts women, men under 21 and those over 70 from the death penalty. The charter, which will be put to a referendum on March 16, only allows for the imposition of death penalty for cases of "aggravated murder."

Civic rights groups, however, want the "total abolition" of the death penalty.

Edison Chiota, head of a prisoners' rights group, Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Offender, said Wednesday his group is against what he called the selective way the law would be applied under the new constitution.

"People are all the same without taking gender and age differences into account," Chiota said.

He said if Zimbabwe decides to continue with the executions it must adopt international best practices of execution such as the lethal injection that do not cause excessive pain.

Chiota said Zimbabwe uses the oldest method of hanging called "the long drop" where the prisoner is made to stand on a trap door. The trap door is opened for the noose to break or dislocate the neck.

"Hangings are outdated," Chiota said.

A prison officer who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job said he is still haunted by several executions he witnessed in his 20 years of service at Harare's Central Prison.

"The method is gruesome and inhumane, I wouldn't recommend anyone to witness it," he said. "One only needs to read the log book in which the executions are entered to have chills run down the spine."

The officer said it was a "harrowing ordeal to have to accompany someone to such a brutal end."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwe-prisons-review-death-sentences-151519329.html

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Fergie and Josh Duhamel are expecting a baby, the singer confirmed on Twitter Monday.

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Aus asks Israel to provide info about Prisoner X's death

Australia [ Images ] has asked Israel to provide information about the death of Prisoner X, a jailed Australian-Israeli with links to spy agency Mossad.

The Prisoner X -- identified by Australian media as Ben Zygier -- apparently hanged himself in a prison near Tel Aviv in 2010.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said his department was in a process of compiling a report on the case and has asked the Israeli government about some information.

"We have asked the Israeli government for a contribution to that report," he was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press. ?We want to give them an opportunity to submit to us an explanation of how this tragic death came about."

Earlier, Carr ordered a review of the Zygier case in? a bid to find that enough was being done by Australian consular staff and to identify any potential areas for improvement.

The Australian report quoted Attorney General Mark Dreyfus as saying he does not see the need for such a review.

Dreyfus said that he was confident that the department of foreign affairs and trade would get to the bottom of what he described as a "family tragedy".

"I haven't seen any need either for such a review to take place within the attorney-general's department," Dreyfus said.

Zygier was arrested by Israeli authorities in February 2010 and was held in a maximum security cell under a false name until he died in December 2010.

The Australian government's handling of the Zygier case has come under scrutiny after confusion over who knew about his arrest and detention.

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Sony slashes price of PlayStation Vita gaming console .... in Japan

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Sony announced on Monday that it was lowering the price on its flagship handheld gaming console, PlayStation Vita, by as as much as one-third - a step that could suggest the below-par performance of the product on its home turf.

The Japan based consumer electronic goods maker confirmed that prices of both the 3G and Wi-Fi variants of the console will be slashed by as much as a third from 28 Feb.

Both these devices will now be available for just under ?140 (24,980 Yen). That's around one-third less than ?the current suggested retail price of of the PS Vita 3G (?210) and a 20 per cent discount compared to the ?PS Vita Wi-Fi.

There is more to cheer for if you are PS Vita owner in Japan. Sony confirmed that all the owners of the device in the country's will be rewarded a week worth free PS Plus access.

However, the company refrained from disclosing whether or not it intends to introduce similar price cut for the PS Vita in other markets. Some experts believe that Sony may have saved the news until Wednesday when it will be hosting an event in New York city.

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1. Communications are NOT private with biteSMS interesting.. straight from the biteSMS User Agreement You may download and use the biteSMS software ("Software") on an iPhone device only for your own use. You must read the Agreement and press the "Agree" button and in doing so, you agree to be bound by all of the terms of this Agreement. User Submissions You agree that any material, information or other communication relating to the Software, including all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein, that you transmit to Delicious Inc will be considered non-confidential ("Communications"). Delicious Inc will have no confidentiality obligations with respect to the Communications. You agree that Delicious Inc and its designees will be free to copy, modify, create derivative works, publicly display, disclose, distribute, license and sublicense through multiple tiers of distribution and incorporate and otherwise use the Communications, including derivative works thereto, for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes without compensation or other obligation and that Delicious Inc is the sole and exclusive owner of any and all such modifications and derivative works. *most people more than likely do not care but it's easy to overlook

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   Re: Communications are NOT private with biteSMS They can data mine, and use anything you do on their app and make a profit from it with impunity and you get squat. Ain't that grand? You do get something - arguably one of the best tweaks out there If you have jailbreak woes, you can iMessage me at iDonev@me.com. I'll try to help (provided I have time to spare).

4. Re: Communications are NOT private with biteSMS They can data mine, and use anything you do on their app and make a profit from it with impunity and you get squat. Ain't that grand? exactly. people's heads just about popped off when Instagram changed their policy to say they "could" use users data why would this be any different?

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   Keith - ? iPhone4S on VZW; ? iPad(2012) - wifi with BadElf for GPS

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   Re: Communications are NOT private with biteSMS Correct me if I am wrong (and I am sure someone will), but wouldn't this apply only if you use the "Send via biteSMS Method" instead of "Send via Carrier Method". AND, I would bet if you read your Verizon, or AT&T, or T-Mpbile, or ???, EULA it would have a pretty similar clause. IMHO, anybody who sends anything via email or SMS and thinks it is totally private, never can be seen by anybody other than who one intends, has been badly deceived.

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   Re: Communications are NOT private with biteSMS I think that's less of a texting policy and More of a theming policy. On your device the texts you send to and from aren't going through bite* Unless your using bites service. But if you develop a theme and submit it to bite, or you develop a "fix" or better method In the coding and send it to bite they re saying they can legally claim it. Which judging by all the themes in cydia, they haven't done. But they could. I think it's a standard in all user agreements. That makes better sense. And standard. If you use our product, even if you make changes to it, we still own the rights to the product.

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Egypt soccer protests hit restive Suez Canal city

CAIRO (AP) ? Thousands of soccer fans enforced a work stoppage Sunday in Egypt's restive city of Port Said to protest government "injustices," disrupting rail services and forcefully evicting workers from factories and provincial government offices.

Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi had declared a state of emergency and 30-day curfew in Port Said and two other Suez Canal provinces following a wave of violence that left more than 50 people dead last month. The state of emergency is still in effect, though the curfew was reduced to only two hours after residents ignored it.

That unrest was set off when a court convicted and sentenced 21 people to death for involvement in a mass soccer riot in the city's main stadium on Feb. 1, 2012 that left 74 dead. Most of those killed in the melee were visiting fans of Cairo's Al-Ahly team.

The verdict enraged people in Port Said, where the majority of the condemned were local soccer fans, many of whom claim innocence. The ensuing security crackdown deepened a sense of persecution that residents have harbored since the stadium disaster, the worst soccer violence ever to hit Egypt.

As part of the Sunday protest, members of the "Green Eagles" fan club, supporters of Port Said's Al-Masry team, also disrupted the city's main telephone exchange and sent students home from several schools.

Several hundreds of protesters marched through the Mediterranean city at the mouth of the Suez Canal, chanting against the government and raising pictures of those killed in the violence.

"Port Said has always been treated unjustly over the years," a statement by the Green Eagles said. The group said the verdict exonerated state institutions ? including the interior ministry and the military ? which it said should be held responsible for failing to prevent the massacre.

"The city's revolt comes because of a deep sense of injustice," the statement said, adding that this was aggravated by the use of gunfire by the interior ministry against unarmed civilians under orders from the regime.

The group called for retribution and compensation for those killed during the recent unrest, and a retrial for those found guilty in the soccer massacre.

There was no immediate government comment on the situation in Port Said.

The violence in Port Said, and the subsequent emergency measures Morsi attempted to impose are the latest sign of Egypt's deepening malaise.

Morsi and his government are struggling to impose order as discontent widens beyond the capital Cairo in the face of growing social and economic problems.

Morsi is also facing an increasingly vocal political opposition which complains that he and his Islamist backers in the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest political force, are attempting to monopolize power and have adopted practices similar to longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.

Mubarak was forced to step down in the face of popular protests in 2011 after ruling Egypt for nearly 30 years under a tight security regime.

The Popular Current group, one of the main opposition groups, expressed its support for the Port Said work stoppages Sunday, saying the city's anger is "part of the popular anger" against Morsi.

"What is happening in Port Said is a legitimate right in the face of an authority that has adopted repression and tyranny," the group said in a statement.

Mohammed Fouad, a representative of Port Said's business community, told the privately-owned ONTV channel that the work stoppage tactic was used out of desperation after much injustice.

"The officials have done nothing for us ... The presidency is not moving a finger," he said.

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Published: Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 8:22 p.m.

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Two anatomic pathology residents at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine were honored during the 2012 meeting of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists held recently in Seattle.

The honorees are:

Sophie Wickins, a third-year resident, received the 2012 C.L. Davis Foundation Scholarship Award for Veterinary Pathology in recognition of scholarship.

Angelique Leone, also a third-year resident, received a young investigator award in the natural disease section for her poster, ?Giant Cell Meningoencephalomyelitis in a Pregnant Andalusian Mare.?

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Darba Owens-Simmons, senior library specialist at Library Partnership, is the recipient of the 2012 Guy Hudspeth Award. She is being recognized for 30 years of service with the library district in a variety of positions at several locations, and for her superior public relations and public service skills.

Owens-Simmons?s name has been etched on a leaf and placed on Katherine?s Tree, a 10-foot etched-glass rendition of the Tree of Knowledge. Other award recipients include Memree Stewart in 2008, Martha Roberts in 2009, Phillis Filer in 2010, and Ike Welch in 2011.

The Guy Hudspeth Award, sponsored for the past six years by the Kosman Foundation, is named for Guy Hudspeth, the manager of the Archer Branch Library.

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Buchholz High School senior Zachary Hodges recently received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy class of 2017, and will begin his studies in June 2013. Hodges received a congressional nomination from U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and was a principal nominee of former U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns.

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Gainesville sailor Lt. Lincoln Schneider was recently recognized as one of the Navy?s 2012 Recruiters of the Year. He is a recruiting officer at the University of Florida for areas that include the Navy Medical Corps, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and Judge Advocate General?s Corps. Schneider is pursuing a master?s degree in public health at UF.

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The Gainesville Fine Arts Association?s new board members include Karen Koegel, a Realtor; Tony Barrett, owner of Talking Walls Frame Shop in Haile Square; and Matt Lang, owner of Lang Jewelers in Tioga Town Center.

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Keystone Heights resident Evelyne McKean was named to the Dean?s List at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., for the fall 2012 semester. To qualify for the Dean?s List, McKean earned at least a 3.5 grade-point average while carrying 14 or more semester hours.

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