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Yeah, but will it have free Wikipedia Access [xkcd.com]?
I was wondering, could a newspaper sell ther editions on Amazon? If so, they could still charge their normal rate but by bypassing all the messy printing delivering and recycling, wouldn't they need fewer or no ads? Also as all of your Amazon books are still available for you to download even after you have deleted them from the Kindle, you could still go back and read stuff that is older, and not have to worry about all that paper left lying around the house 8)
Mybe there should be another class of download
and not have to worry about all that paper left lying around the house 8)
I don't think putting a kindle under the parrot is going to do the kindle much good...
I was wondering, could a newspaper sell ther editions on Amazon?
That was a feature [amazon.com] of the Kindle 1, even.
The free cell phone data access makes some things easy to do, since an e-newspaper reader isn't that much different from an e-book reader.
Agreed. I'm thinking that the Kindle market and the newspaper market probably have a decent overlap. Why not try to get newspapers going on the Kindle. Amazon could become the iTunes Store of print media.
Personally I don't really have the desire to shell out $359 for the Kindle. But I don't know anyone who will put out that money for 2 separate ebook readers. Especially if the Hearst version will be filled with ads.
Relying on ads and classifies is what got newspapers into this situation in the first place.
After borrowing a Kindle I for a weekend, I'm almost sold on the device, but not quite. The screen quality was simply amazing. The only thing I can't quite get over is that the sensory experience is very, very bland. I don't know if all the cool technology can win me over with the lack of a more sensory-rich experience.
I was simply amazed at how clear the epaper screen was and how easy it was to read in almost any light. If the light was adequate for reading a book, the kindle did great. The button layout was weak and I kept changing the page when I didn't want to. At least the update was speedy. I just can't quite get into a book on the Kindle the way I get into a real book. The rough feel of the pages, the smell of old binding glue, or the waft of a woman's perfume in a library book are great. Even the sound of turning a page, or the satisfying crackle of the fabric binding on a brand new hard cover are fantastic.
Similarly, the smell of newsprint and the act of folding and unfolding each section is very much tied up in my overall experience of reading the paper. I don't think that any e-reader, no matter the spiffy features, could replace all that.
On the other hand, I could probably learn to love an e-reader for other reasons. For example, the mass of paper waiting to be recycled in the corner of my kitchen would not be missed. I love the idea that distributing news paper electronically would save thousands of tons of trees, CO2 emissions and eventual landfill space.
If the Hurst e-reader is easy to use, inexpensive and isn't as locked down as the Kindle, I would give it a chance. I would even consider switching my subscriptions to full-week instead of Sunday only if they were cheaper and I didn't have to haul off 3 tons of newsprint each week. I hope it actually makes it to the market at a price well under $300.
Even the sound of turning a page, or the satisfying crackle of the fabric binding on a brand new hard cover are fantastic
For me, the good thing in turning pages, at least in reference books, is how your "favorites" end being implanted into the book structure itself. All my reference books open automatically in the pages I need most frequently.
But what will really convert me to ebooks someday when the cost comes down is the volume of data. The conversion factor from digital books to bookshelf space is roughl
I smell a new volume unit: The gym bag.
So how many gym bags fit in a olympic-sized swimming pool?
And how many of those fit in a SydHarb (Sydney Harbour)?
Who updates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_strange_units_of_measurement [wikipedia.org] ?
The hogshead is missing too.
I smell a new volume unit: The gym bag.
No, that's just your sneakers in there.
The hogshead is missing too.
That would be because the hogshead is a US customary unit [wikipedia.org] rather than a "strange unit"
There's certainly a big break in the very practice reading with the advent of digital media. People growing up today perhaps less concerned about the smell of the paper, the feel of the binding and so forth as you mention. But it's not just that. Traditions of typography have been eroded now that a lot of publishers are allowing layout to be done with word processors like Microsoft Word instead of a real typesetting engine, with IMO a severe loss of readability and aesthetic craft.
Nonetheless, I myself travel most of the year, so carting around a lot of books isn't possible, but reading off my notebook screen isn't so pleasant (and I'm always chasing AC power sources). Now that the Kindle 2 [amazon.com] has been released, I may get one. But it sucks to be a member of a generation torn between older traditions and these newfangled devices.
Traditions of typography have been eroded now that a lot of publishers are allowing layout to be done with word processors like Microsoft Word
Most content is written in a language that only lets you suggest which font to be used, let alone manage fancier things like kerning. You blame Word for the erosion of typography, I'll blame HTML. At least Word has a notion of "columns" and content flow. HTML doesn't even do columns, at least by name.
reading off my notebook screen isn't so pleasant
Two factors are
Bottom line is reading on your notebook screen sucks because the DPI sucks. Wait a few more years when we get 300 DPI screens and we can talk
On modern displays with a modern OS (not XP), reading text is an easy, pleasant experience. I do it all day (sigh). Even the eInk readers are only 160 DPI (the Iliad, IIRC). The higher contrast is nice. The lack of a backlight on most of the readers isn't nice though.
Every time one of these threads shows up, I go over to the Iliad site and stare a little lon
E-reader, hmm, ever sat on a paperback you where looking, or the TV remote, or even a cell phone. At $359 an e-reader is just way to expensive, it has to achieve disposable prices to survive let alone get past the issue of just way too many devices. The closest in reality that most people will get to an e-reader is a netbook with a rotating touch screen display along the lines of http://www.cnet.com.au/laptops/laptops/0,239035649,339294108,00.htm [cnet.com.au].
In a depression a mass market product like a newspaper has
As an academic, an author, and an editor, I basically spend most of my life reading. I'm probably as close as you can get to a professional reader.
And I have fallen in love with the ugly, locked-down device that is the Kindle. I know this empirically because I am reading much more on my Kindle than I off of it. The experience of reading in modern society overflows the mere pages of a book and includes things like transportability, capacity, and cost.
Kindle wins hands-down on all three. Kindle books are damned cheap in comparison to print and even to other e-book formats and Kindle's capacity is more than enough to carry an unwieldy library with you at all times. It's also very thin and very light, much moreso than most serious books of any heft.
In comparison to other devices, Kindle offers unique benefits. I am amongst those that have read serious works on my smartphone, anything from Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls to the Journal of Housing Economics.
Reading on a smartphone always feels as though it is a matter of necessity. "I am reading this here because at the moment my mobility needs ensure that there are no other options." The moment it is possible to put down the phone and "switch" to the print copy, you do; you don't stare at that tiny screen any longer than is necessary.
Laptops require more physical interaction than you want to engage in when you're reading a 1,000 page tome. To read on a laptop you have to sit up, stare in one direction, operate a scroll wheel each time you want to see the next page (or click, or drag, or reach out and press a key). You can't "lounge about" on large pieces of soft furniture, adjusting your position as bits of you become overcompressed or uncomfortable. Laptops are fine for a little light reading, but they fail miserably for long stretches.
Finally, the problem of the book. Yes, books are substantively different from e-readers. At the same time, I think that the advantages of the book address a need beyond mere reading. There are certain books that one wants on one's shelf, as a presence, a kind of authority that descends from materiality. A book is not virtual, not ephemeral; it doesn't feel as though it can be deleted. Books that are thus very important to one's identity or to one's very life practices are likely always to be bought and kept as books, so that they're present, visible, can be experienced bodily, with a kind of tactility that encompasses all of the senses, that makes the book more a part of you.
Not all kinds of reading imply this level of commitment, though. In fact, I'd suggest that for most professional readers like myself, most don't. You don't particularly care whether you ever see a given nonfiction paperback again in your life; your goal is merely to read it, ingest what you can, and move on. If it turns out to revolutionize your life by the time you've arrived at the last page, you'll buy it in hardcover, I suspect.
But in the meantime, for the rest, you get them for a fraction of the cost on Kindle and read them on the move in a way and at a level of comfort and convenience that's otherwise impossible.
My library spans over 20,000 volumes of public, pirated and paid for e-books and the Amazon Kindle 2 is simple inadequate for anything beyond a few hundred books, imho.
I usually have a laptop with me. I view it as the library and the few hundred books on my e-book reader as the subset of current interest.
Disclaimer : I don't work for Sony but I have a PRS-505. Been reading almost exclusively on it for almost two years now.
1/ You can buy ebooks from Sony. Or get the from Gutemberg. Or Baen. Or anywhere else you want.
2/ No GSM in it. But it means they cannot revoke any licenced/copyrighted material remotely. And hell, who really needs a gsm in their book ? Remotely downloading a newspaper ? I'm too cheap to pay both for the news AND the data download. I got a computer doing that for me already...
3/ Converting books/manga/newspaper tools available for Windows/linux/Mac. I even got a linux script to mass tranform mangas in a pdf to read on the PRS-505 (using Gimp scripts to sharpen/resize...)
4/ nice, well placed buttons.
5/ Nice and pretty body
6/ Customised firmwares exist
7 / takes SDHC and Sony memory sticks
8/ recharge using USB or a wall wart (the dedicated one or a psp charger works)I read everyday 1-2 hours on it and recharge once a week.
Only problem I have is I cannot "shuffle" the book, flipping pages to find a chapter I want to re-read as easily I Ican with a paper book.
Compare both, make your choice. I hade both the kindle 1 and the Sony to choose from, and the PRS-505 won, not even a real match. Seen the kindle 2...well : let's just say I'm still very happy with the Sony.
I took it to extended trips in on 4 continents, and nothing beats having 400 books on a card and 800 mangas when the place you go to has neither tv nor radio...the music player isn't very good, but you have the option.
On the PRS-505, there's an excellent open source management tool for the Sony readers called Calibre [kovidgoyal.net].
FD. I do work for Sony, but not in Consumer Electronics.
Problem number 1 is that the Sony uses the embedded TITLE attribute for a pdf. This wouldn't be a problem except that very few producers of pdf format ebooks or documents have a damn clue about how to set it correctly. (The US Air Force is REALLY clueless at this. I have AF Regs that have TITLES like "u_2502883823.pdf".) This wouldn't be a problem except some of them then lock the pdf with a password so the user can't fix it, either.
I have one
"2/ No GSM in it. But it means they cannot revoke any licenced/copyrighted material remotely. And hell, who really needs a gsm in their book ? Remotely downloading a newspaper ? I'm too cheap to pay both for the news AND the data download. I got a computer doing that for me already..."
Sounds like E-readers should come with either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth since a lot of cell-phones (even the cheap ones) come with not only the latter, but browsers as well.
Kindle books are damned cheap in comparison to print and even to other e-book formats
When I buy books, I typically buy paperbacks. Looking at the top 10 new york times trade paperbacks, an interesting pattern emerges.
I can buy The Shack for the same price on kindle or as a paperback on Amazon.
I'd save 38 cents buying The Reader on kindle.
I'd save $1.20 buying Sunday's at Tiffany's on kindle.
I'd save $1.02 on Firefly Lane with kindle.
I can't buy American Wife OR People of the Book on kindle.
I'd save $2.18 on Revolutionary Road
0.89 cheaper to buy A Thousand Splendid Suns on kindle.
Still Alice
Don't forget that when you buy a Kindle book you cannot lend, sell, or give it away. If you purchase an interesting book for your Kindle and your wife wants to read it, she'll have to buy her own copy or borrow your entire Kindle.
Seems to me that this severely reduces the value of eBooks, so they should really cost about 1/3 - 1/2 of the paperback price to make up for it.
As Amazon have all of your marketing data, they could even offer discounts on the hardcovers to those who have bought the ebook. If the demand is low, even doing print on demand runs at the regular cost. Surely this must be cheaper than storing tons of pulped trees hoping someone will buy a certain number of them before returning them to a publisher to be re-pulped.
"Laptops require more physical interaction than you want to engage in when you're reading a 1,000 page tome. To read on a laptop you have to sit up, stare in one direction, operate a scroll wheel each time you want to see the next page (or click, or drag, or reach out and press a key). You can't "lounge about" on large pieces of soft furniture, adjusting your position as bits of you become overcompressed or uncomfortable. Laptops are fine for a little light reading, but they fail miserably for long stretche
As another academic, the main stumbling block to me getting an e-reader has been that I'd mainly use it to read papers, and I've yet to find an e-reader that can comfortably handle 8 1/2" x 11, two-column text with small (usually 9-point) font, which is the standard for many CS publication venues. In particular, a combination of horizontal and vertical scrolling with slow refresh rate is a nightmare.
It seems like it'd be fine for books, but I rarely read books professionally, just papers. When I do read boo
I just can't quite get into a book on the Kindle the way I get into a real book. The rough feel of the pages, the smell of old binding glue, or the waft of a woman's perfume in a library book are great. Even the sound of turning a page, or the satisfying crackle of the fabric binding on a brand new hard cover are fantastic.
Here's a contrasting perspective.
I got a Rocket e-Book a few years ago (for free; I'd never have paid money for it). I've gone through a couple of others since then, and I'm now to the point where my reading choices are hugely influenced by what I can get electronically. I actively DISLIKE reading paper books. I find them inconvenient and limited. You need two hands to hold them, you can't read in the dark (nor can you with a Kindle, unfortunately), you can't adjust the font size, you can't carry a do
I swear, these are the exact same idiots who insist on vinyl records over digital music, because their nostalgia-riddled brains convince them how much "better" it is.
Take all of your arguments against the inevitability of e-books and substitute the word "horse" for "book" and the word "car" for "e-book." Here are a few examples to whet your appetite for the (really) inevitable debate in the discussion section at the end of this article.
"Books will never go away." True! Horses have not gone away either.
"Books have advantages over e-books that will never be overcome." True! Horses can travel over r
"Books provide sensory/sentimental/sensual experiences that e-books can't match." True! Cars just can't match the experience of caring for and riding a horse: the smells, the textures, the sensations, the companionship with another living being.
I daresay the smells are one of the many advantages of using a car over using a horse.
Interesting thing:
You have a lot of emotional binding-anchors with books.
I have too, they are bulky, and difficult to carry if you like to read multiple books, when I read a book I have problems with lighting when the other page tries to occlude the one I'm reading, the only solution being destroying the book...
I cant care less about "The smell and taste of newsprint". You now what? Printing ink is a
Carcinogen, no problem when its dry, a huge one when people eat breakfast reading newspaper(and its hands got
>Printing ink is a carcinogen.
No it isn't.
What about lending books to friends? I discover most books I read through having recommendations from friends and borrowing their copy (often lending back one of mine).
Heart's plan isn't going to save anything - barking up the wrong (expensive) tree IMO.
Mod parent -1: Too fucking old.
Well, I doubt it'd be immersion safe, but it should be possible to at least make it somewhat resistant to spills. At the least, a better form factor than a paper would be a plus.
Will the e-reader be cheap enough that a doctors office can leave them on the table in the waiting room and not have them stolen? Or will I have to read golf magazines from 2009 when I visit a doctor in 2012 because I forgot my e-reader at home?
When the newspaper sprawls over the entire table, it is easy to spill something on it. I doubt ereaders suffer from the same problem.
That's what was missing!
Does anyone else think this idea of trying to re-create the subscription based model of AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, etc that the Internet successfully killed off 10 years ago is a bit strange?
The proposition is "we've come up with this great new wizz-bang technology to deliver "e-book/e-newspaper" to your living room. But then you lock it down into a single device->provider->Customer model. The entry costs are relatively high, so a few early adopters buy the thing. Most people don't because they're very cautious (rightly so) about the new wizz-bang technology.
I guess my quandry is, how can the device->provider->customer model compete with the open model of the internet? What happens when someone comes up with the equivalent wizz-bang device that uses your existing wireless internet connection, and can buy from anyone directly instead of a single provider, is an open platform, and winds up being cheaper?
What happens when someone comes up with the equivalent wizz-bang device that uses your existing wireless internet connection, and can buy from anyone directly instead of a single provider, is an open platform, and winds up being cheaper?
A lawsuit?
Does anyone else think this idea of trying to re-create the subscription based model of AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, etc that the Internet successfully killed off 10 years ago is a bit strange?
I'm not sure how old you are, but if you have enough experience watching the world, then it shouldn't be too strange to see old ideas come back after seeming to be "killed off". If anything, that's the default state of things. Ideas don't disappear; they just recycled.
I think we're in a very strange place right now, because it's clear that there has to be some kind of business model that makes money from intellectual property, but selling "copies" doesn't make sense now that an unlimited number of digita
Copies are easy and free. Distribution, storage, backups-- and generally ensuring that you have what you want, when you want it, where you want it, and how you want it-- that stuff is still challenging. There's money to be made there, still.
Don't forget the generation of content, still a challenge to make it compelling and worth distributing, storing, and making backups of.
The biggest concern is making sure that people can make a living from generating content. Without the goose, there won't be any more golden eggs.
Well yes, I had in mind that the actual goal in us, as a society, supporting a business model that supplies us with intellectual content is, in the end, to financially support those who create the content.
To backtrack and restate my post a little more thoroughly, our past and current attempt to do this has been focused on the creation of copies. The people printing the books and cutting the records, and that in itself was a valid business. In addition, those businesses had an exclusive right to create th
Thanks for the clarification and expansion of your comments.
I think the key to keeping the money flowing to content creators is for them to increasingly cut out the middle man. With the advent of things like the Kindle, it is making more and more sense for an author to self-publish an ebook version only. As we move closer to that, we'll see some of the problems with the music industry. I'm sure there is lots of music out there that I would enjoy, but it is hard to find a content filter to narrow the choices
I agree, and that was more or less what I was expressing, I think. By saying that I believe the business model will shift from being copy-based to distribution-based, I'm saying that businesses that were build around "copying" (e.g. book publishers and record labels) will decrease in relevance because copying is becoming irrelevant. The business models that seem to be increasing in relevance are services like iTunes, Amazon (ebooks and MP3s), Netflix, and Steam. In other words: the distributors.
As wide
Yep. Now the question is, how much damage will the death throes of the old labels/publishers do, and how many of them will manage the transition to the new era.
"I agree, and that was more or less what I was expressing, I think. By saying that I believe the business model will shift from being copy-based to distribution-based, I'm saying that businesses that were build around "copying" (e.g. book publishers and record labels) will decrease in relevance because copying is becoming irrelevant."
The problem with your argument is the same one slashdot makes on a regular basis because they don't know any better. Book publishers and record labels regardless of ones person
I'm not sure how old you are, but if you have enough experience watching the world, then it shouldn't be too strange to see old ideas come back after seeming to be "killed off".
Old enough to know that people who bring back failed ideas are really just people that haven't learned.
but selling "copies" doesn't make sense now that an unlimited number of digital copies can be made for free (or at least virtually "free").So what's the business model going to be?
Making the copies may be free, but finding the copie
"Does anyone else think this idea of trying to re-create the subscription based model of AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, etc that the Internet successfully killed off 10 years ago is a bit strange?"
Yeah, but their business model isn't my problem.
Maybe it will result in a cool gadget for me to play with (for cheap when it ends up at the flea market) or maybe not.
(it'll be interesting to see how this gets modded)
These papers are returning a 15% profit. This would be plenty to sustain the papers, if it weren't for the debt their owners took on from these recent acquisitions.
The problem is that these papers were acquired by folks who borrowed heavily in order to make the purchases. 15% revenues isn't enough with all the outstanding debt.
The crisis with papers is the same as the rest. Greedy corps over-leveraging, and now that reality has kicked in, they find themselves in trouble.
Greed isn't the problem there, its ignorance.
Leave it be, and the market will take care of it. The companies that are over-leveraged will be bought up at discount prices and reorganized by those who have cash in hand.
Never really saw the great benefit of an e-reader for books. Last year the author Nick Hornby wrote an excellent piece in the times on the key problems [[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4321701.ece]]. Essentially pointing out that, except for manuals, you don't use book material in the same way you do music. However, I think a newspaper is a completely different proposition.
The problem with newspapers is that the content sucks. Putting together a few writers and photographers doesn't do anything more. Any idiot with a blog can do that. If you want to sell a newspaper, you need to have something that is useful and has the capital costs sufficient to throw off enough competition and allow you some rent taking. The business is about content, and the internet is just a delivery mechanism for it. Even Slashdot succeeds partially because half of us look at it, and could envisi
Even Slashdot succeeds partially because half of us look at it, and could envision something better, but its good and big and risky enough to keep us from doing so, at least for now.
And it's free. And easy to get (well, at least on a real computer, on handhelds slashcode seems to be a bit, um, lacking.). Did I mention it was free.
Good newspapers, however, are hard to make. "A few writers and photographers" is an unfair cheap shot. There is a lot behind the scenes of any real publishing firm that don'
Slashdot is not a newspaper. It links to newspapers and other outfits with paid journalists. The day "the newspaper" dies, what will all the slashdots, gizmodos, diggs, reddits, twitters and blogs link to? Who will do the reporting they all link to?
Slashdot is not a newspaper. It links to newspapers and other outfits with paid journalists. The day "the newspaper" dies, what will all the slashdots, gizmodos, diggs, reddits, twitters and blogs link to? Who will do the reporting they all link to?
Some blogs do a lot of original reporting. Huffington Post [huffingtonpost.com] and Talking Points Memo [talkingpointsmemo.com] both immidiately come to mind.
The day "the newspaper" dies, what will all the slashdots, gizmodos, diggs, reddits, twitters and blogs link to?
Each other.
Then, one day, the Internet will implode in a giant race condition.
The problem with newspapers is that the content sucks.
I don't think you and I are reading the same newspapers. My local paper, The Raleigh (NC) News & Observer (http://www.newsobserver.com/ [newsobserver.com]), has in the just past few years, put 5 elected state officials (including the Speaker of the House) in prison for corruption, uncovered systemic failures in our state mental health system and probation system, and put pressure on our state's judges to stop freeing speeding motorists with a slap on the wrist. Just this past week they told the story of a local company that sold filthy medical supplies and investigated where the FDA was when hundreds of people were getting sick and 5 people were dying from those supplies. They also find the time and money to sue the government for access to information that the government would rather we - that is, the citizens - not have access to.
That kind of journalism can't be done by any number of bloggers. It takes large staffs of trained and experienced journalists backed by an organization willing to fund multi-month investigations. It takes principled and idealistic owners to be able to stand up to the established interests when the truth comes out.
Nevertheless, with their advertising revenue gone to Craigslist the N&O has had round after round of staffing cuts. To save printing costs they've cut the paper to half its old size, and just today reduced the Sunday color comics section to 4 pages. (Bill Watterson would be ashamed.) I doubt the N&O will survive as a printed newspaper. As much as I love reading my news off of newsprint over breakfast, I'd take it in e-newspaper format in a heartbeat, if that's what it takes for them to stay in business.
Three problems. The first is that there is no mention of price in the article. In simple terms, the readers that have come out have been rather expensive; please, none of this, "well if you spread the price out over several years..." First, I am not convinced that these things will last several years, certainly not as long as physical books. For the amortization argument to work I would have to expect the device to last fifty to a hundred years, or more, just like a real book.
So, here we have one (possibly
I was reading a blog article in the LA Times [latimes.com] concerning the Internet's killing of the printed newspaper. He comes up with a solution similar to the one I'd use: Make a "news" subscription fee that would include big newspapers that are interested in charging and meet certain criteria.
This could work either through a central site (which would be great as it could provide comparison stories between Fox, CNN, and BBC for example) or simply have it as an add-on to your ISP bill (which would give you a login and password).
A service like this could certainly provide E-book downloads, etc. Information does want to be free as in freedom, but collecting and organizing it takes people who still need to eat. I'd be for paying a fee for news sites, personally, as long as (just like the blog says), it's as simple as iTunes.
I remember back before the dot.com thing, back when web was only at version 0.4, you used to go visit some place like ikea.com and instead of presenting you with an HTML, "web" catalog, they'd fire up some java-based gizmo that displayed a bitmap of the printed catalog. I think even a couple newspapers and magazines did something similar--display a bitmap ensconced in a java applet. Kind of like a poor mans PDF reader. Why did this pop into my head when I read this?
Either way, none of these will succeed
Seems that might be a rare feature in future readers.
If you can purchase the confounded thing for less then the $200-$700 price point that exists now for the bloody gadgets.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to get one, but it's hard to justify paying the same amount for a small embedded greyscale gadget that really only needs to read a pdf and text file as I would a cellphone, netbook or laptop.
Your device will fail unless you give up on what Hearst wants and figure out what the people want.
That is all.
And if all the people want is free content and newspapers go out of business, who's really the winner there? Sometimes to have something viable that everyone can enjoy people have to let go just a little of their selfish tendencies. The "me" generation has already messed up the world enough. e.g Worldcom, Lehman Brothers, etc. Now it's time for the "we" generation to take charge.
A moments thought after reading TFA suggest that you'd probably need to buy several readers (for hundreds of dollars each) because there'll be multiple competing devices and not every publisher will not be "allowed" on every device. There may also be an artificial separation by "format" (for example: Kindle for books, Hearst for magazines, Sony for ?)
Do they really believe that people will willingly own multiple e-readers? People will pick one reader and they will expect ALL content to be "readable" on it.
The Seattle P-I and SF Chronicle are on the chopping block...maybe the rest of the industry, too? What other Hearst properties have closed in the past few years?
This is one case where I think the technology could very well be a perfect match for the product.
Here's the thing - one of the key reasons that e-books didn't even stand a chance of taking over the regular book market is in the way that people consume books - it's long and involved. Having a huge library on disk isn't as much of a selling point when only three or four books will be relevant at once. A regular book tends to be better suited for that sort of consumption.
A newspaper, on the other hand, is co
I already have excellent software for looking at somefile.txt. I already have software for looking at HTML. Why would I want to buy any dedicated "something-reader" device?
If the screens on these things are so much better than notebook screens, then to repeat a tired cliche: "Does it run Linux?" If it's good enough to be a prefereable way of presenting an "e-book" (fuck I hate that term) or an "e-paper," then it should also be great at reading e-slashdot and running e-vim.
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My Background: 34-year old married male. Unfortunately, I am UNCIRCUMCISED. My wife is in the last month of her pregnancy and scheduled to deliver in a month. She is HIV-negative as per her Pre Natal test.
My Roots: I am in the USA on a visa and my original country is by far the worst place to be in for an HIV infected individual. There is absolutely no HIV care available and HIvers are usually pelted with stones and ostracized from the society. Sadly, HIV is rampant there and there is absolutely no hope for the situation to improve. A recent growing trend for HIV-positive people in my country is to become suicide-bombers.
My Risks: I am ashamed to admit that during my wife's pregnancy, I have cheated on her. I chatted online and met a lady who gave me a blowjob unprotected. Thats all. Couldn't see any blood stains on my white underwear later on. Unfortunately, during the event, it was dark and I have no way of knowing if she was bleeding in her mouth. I never had any penetrative intercourse nor did I perform any oral on her. I later found out that this woman's husband is an on-probation druggy who needs to get HIV-tested regularly as part of the probation conditions.
My Symptoms: This incident happened in early December 2006. Since then, I have had two of the most specific HIV related symptoms and I still have them. They both began in late December 2006.
a) A non-itchy patch on my chest that eerily resembles Seborrheic Dermatitis. b) A lump behind my left ear that eerily feels like and resembles a swollen lymph node.
I have been to my Family Physican(s) practice 3 times regarding these symptoms and each time I got a different diagnosis from 3 different doctors: "sebaceous cyst"/ "protruding bone"/ "internal sac of a ruptured sebaceous cyst" for the ear lump. I have only shown my chest patch to one doctor and he said its eczema (atopic dermatitis not seborrheic). But from my research I know that atopic dermatitis itches but mine does not whatsoever. So I am not sure if my doctors' diagnoses are correct. I am also not sure what kind of doctor should I approach for a correct evaluation.
My Concerns: I know the general consensus is to get tested but given my non-immigrant status, I am concerned that if positive, I will immediately be deported from USA to my country where I have no intention of going back to. (I literally escaped from there in 2000). Going back there is worse than death. I would rather commit suicide than going back there. I also can't break such drastic news (if positive) to my dear wife. She will be devastated. I really wanted to enjoy the birth of our child but here I am writing to a HIV specialist on the internet. I wake up each morning, feeling the backside of my ears and checking my chest patch. I keep checking those areas 24/7.
My Future: Alas, I can't really escape HIV testing. As part of the US immigration process, I have to take an HIV test but I don't think that process will begin within the next 4-5 years. So in all fairness, I have 4-5 years to live and I want to live my life to the fullest in this time frame doing all that I can for my little family.
In summary, I know I sounded selfish, insensitive and rude. Here I am willing to escape from my problems literally leaving my wife and child alone (If I have to die). But this is all that goes on in my mind 24/7 and so I thought I will write to you. I had been to a mental health counsellor but that experience was terrible. He kept looking at his watch after 15 minutes or so and did not offer any worthwile suggestion or advice.
Maybe you can help.
Response from Dr. Frascino
HIVers in your country are "usually pelted with stones and ostracized from society." That's shocking enough, of course, but then you proceed on with more horrific details: "sadly HIV is rampant there and there is absolutely no hope for the situation to improve. A recent growing trend for HIV-positive people in my country is to become suicide bombers"!!!!! YIKES! This is new information for me and I find it credible and chilling. However, I refuse to believe there is no hope. Hope, in my view, is both transferable and transformational. Hope is the opposite of suicide, that includes suicide bombers as well as your own thoughts of taking your life if you test positive.
Let's return to your situation. Your HIV risk is minimal at best. Unprotected insertive oral sex carries a negligible risk for acquiring HIV. The estimated per-act statistical risk of acquiring HIV from an unprotected blowjob with a poz partner is 0.5 per 10,000 episodes. Your statistical-risk estimate would be even less, as we don't know the HIV status of your partner.
Your symptoms are neither worrisome for nor suggestive of HIV acute retroviral syndrome (ARS)! The swollen lymph nodes associated with HIV are generalized (multiple sites), not limited to one behind the left ear. Seborrheic dermatitis and eczema are both extremely common conditions. The vast majority of folks with either condition do not have HIV.
Next, if you are concerned about your non-immigrant status and getting an HIV test, I suggest you get a Home Access HIV test. You can order these online or purchase the kit in some pharmacies. You can then run the test anonymously.
Finally, despite your initial terrible experience with the mental health counselor, there is no doubt you need psychological or psychiatric help to cope with your guilt, suicidal ideation, irrational HIV fears and other issues. Talk to your doctor or call your local AIDS service organization for a referral to a more compassionate (and competent) therapist.
Your hopelessness on many fronts should and can be turned into a plan of action of hope in the truest sense of the word. Get tested. Get informed. Get involved. Become part of the solution to the global pandemic.
Good luck.
Dr. Bob
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- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
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- 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tube (16.3 ounces) large refrigerated flaky biscuits
- Oil for deep-fat frying
- Confectioners' sugar, optional
- In a small bowl, beat the first six ingredients until smooth; set aside. On a lightly floured surface, roll out each biscuit into a 6-in. circle. Spread 1/3 cup cream cheese mixture on half of each biscuit. Bring dough from opposite side over filling just until edges meet; pinch seams to seal.
- In a deep-fat fryer, heat oil to 375°. Fry biscuits, a few at a time, for 1-2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Dust with confectioners' sugar while warm if desired. Serve immediately. Yield: 8 servings.
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"Very delicious. However, there was enough filling to fill twice as many large biscuits as the recipe states. Not a bad thing, but it's good I bought an extra tube of biscuits just in case."
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"these are very good i was a bit leary on the kind of bisquits it calls for wondering if it would really work and lo and behold it did. i didnt beat the cream cheese until smooth next time i will for appearance. i recomend mixing the chream cheese and pumpkin first so you can really get the cream cheese smooth or using whipped cream cheese. also the filling was a bit runny...maybe cutting the milk or not even using it next time over all these are very good easy and so easy to make."
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I've been SUPER bust wt work, another 50+ hour week this week, so I haven't been on much...but my Kyubey needs some good PT vibes.
He has been losing weight for a few weeks now, and at first I blamed Katie. She's a food hog AND she keeps him running around like crazy. So I put out more food, and in two different places so he has easy access to it...but he kept losing weight.
When the diarrhea started, we made him an appointment to see the white-coats.
I assumed they would find worms, so I brought a fecal sample....no worms. Uh oh. Bloodwork showed that he has a pretty serious infection going on, and X-rays showed a LOT of inflammation in his GI tract. Luckily, there is no sign of a blockage, foreign body, or mass on the X-rays.
So he got fluids and injectable antibiotics, plus he was sent home with his old nemesis....clavamox! He HATES the stuff. Last night he was too tired and feeling too crummy to put up much of a fight, but I think he was feeling better tonight because I almost couldn't get it into him!
Sadly, he has lost almost a pound. He was 8lbs last time we brought him in, so that's more than 10% of his body weight. I was worried that he'd have a hard time keeping warm, so today I got him a heated cat bed, and he LOVES it, so I think I was right.
Hubby says Kyubey's appetite seemed better today, which is good. Unfortunately, the clavamox seems to be making his diarrhea worse. I'm going to get up early and call the vet and see if I can get him more fluids.
I HATE feeling so helpless....now that I KNOW how sick he is, I can see it and I wonder how I didn't see it before. I feel awful for delaying, and I'm hoping he feels better asap, my poor little guy. :(
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Away We Go! An Exhibition of Vintage Travel Posters
May 13—October 17, 2010
Boston Public Library, Copley Square (Changing Exhibits Gallery)
In these days of high security, expensive gas, and lost luggage, can you imagine there was ever a time when travel was thrilling, special and exotic?
The Boston Public Library invites you to journey back to the early twentieth century, the "Golden Age of Travel." Railways opened up America and Europe, luxe ocean liners introduced elegance into overseas voyages, and drivers took to the road in record numbers in their new automobiles. By the mid-1940s, new airlines crisscrossed the globe, winging adventure-seekers to far-flung destinations.
Travel agents and ticket offices during this period were festooned with vivid, eye-catching posters, all designed to capture the beauty, excitement and adventure of travel and to promote a world of enticing destinations and new modes of transportation. Individual artists gained fame for their distinctive graphic styles and iconic imagery, and many posters from this era still remain important works of art long after their original advertising purposes have faded.
The Boston Public Library is home to more than 350 vintage travel posters, most dating from the 1920s and 1930s. The library's collections also include outstanding holdings of early postcards, travel diaries, maps, guidebooks and photographs related to travel.
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Name an ugly guy you'd do............
Name an ugly guy you'd do............
Pegasus69....Oh, wait. I do myself almost everyday........ Uh, gonna have to think about this one for a bit.....
It depends on what you call ugly. Every human being has something that is beautiful in his-her own way.
K-Fed...for shizzy!!!
Check me out here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/...18&ref=profile
Eminem, 50 cent, sean paul...
Joey Fatone
He's cute, but yeah he's fugly! haha
I've found that it doesn't matter as much how ugly a guy is when his dick is buried deep in my ass....
IAN GOMEZ! Not that i'd call him ugly but y'all probably would.
all the ugly members of G-
anyone have pics of eminem's ass?
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder - having said that - I would do the Carl's Jr. milkshake guy
50 cent, usher, omarion, ray j (just because of their hot bodies)
kevin federline (just because)
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Speaking of ugly guys, has anyone ever encountered a picture of a guys' body or penis and then when you saw his face like on a webcam or picture, it was nothing like you imagined? Or it didnt match his body? I've seen some really hot bodies attached to some pretty ugly guys LOL. I recently met a guy online who has an incredible body but when he shows his face I almost get turned off to him. Strange how that works sometimes!
Travis Barker and the guys from Blink 182 and Nick Lache's younger brother.
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.'' - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who cares what a guy looks like. Looks are unimportant, it's his cock I am interested in, and most of them look quite good to me. I haven't seen many ugly ones yet!
*looks at dates* woah, a veritable zombie of a thread!
anyway, i used to have this fuckbuddy. i dont actually remember why i even agreed to go on a date with him, because he really wasnt that attractive. but i did, and woah, we clicked in the sack. we were doing each-other for several years, until he sadly moved away.
justin timberlake, hot body not so face
The ultimate 'ugly' guy I'd do is bodybuilder Pavol Jablonicky. Google him. Not ugly to me at all but some would say so.
Porn star Criss Strokes. He has a great body, great ass, and great cock but his face is not cute AT ALL.
^ agreed. great body and cock aside, his face isnt handsome, but i think there is still something oddly attractive about it...
^Kinda true.
Brad Pitt. He is not my type, exact opposite actually. I like guys more rugged. Everyone tells me I am crazy because I don't think he is cute, my definition of beauty is different I guess. I don't find him attractive but I would have sex with him lol.


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I am building a system that includes all validation, database function php pages in one global page
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Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas may yet be able to call upon striker Emmanuel Adebayor for the whole of January, as the Togolese international is set to make another U-turn.
According to the Daily Mail, the former Arsenal and Manchester City striker has fallen out with the Togo FA again and is on the verge of heading back to England.
Adebayor only this week went back on a decision to retire from international football following a previous row over bonus payments and security issues, with him expected to turn out for his nation at the Africa Cup of Nations.
His participation in South Africa had left Villas-Boas with only Jermain Defoe as a senior striker, but this may no longer be a problem.
The report says the reasons behind Adebayor's latest dispute with the Togo FA are unclear but that he is set to leave the squad's camp and return it White Hart Lane.
It also claims the row could scupper Togo's plans as the unrest has spread to the rest of the squad.
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Untold wealth, a loving family, a solid career in America: the only thing Princess Tatiana lacks is the one thing she really doesn't want—a husband. Unfortunately, her parents have just arranged her marriage to a royal from the old country. Are they kidding? It's the twenty-first century!
Police Detective Peter Roman is a royal living incognito … and escaping a secret that has haunted his family for years. He's been quietly in love with his best friend Prince Alexander's sister for as long as he can remember. Little does she know that he is secretly the Grand Duke to whom she is unwillingly betrothed…
When a series of high-end jewelry heists threatens Tatiana's exclusive charity exhibition in glamorous Monaco, the two must trap the clever jewel thief before he strikes again. In a fight for their lives, Peter's secret identity is revealed. With danger and passion increasing to the breaking point, she must decide: catch a thief…or trust the heart of her true love.
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I've been working for a while to develop a Frequently Asked Questions page to answers the most common reader questions about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Well, it's now online, and it addresses questions ranging from why HeLa cells are immortal to how the Lacks family is benefiting from the book. It also includes…


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The Akron Rams wrestling team started their season o Saturday, December 1, when they hosted the Chuck Annand Memorial Wrestling Tournament. There were 15 schools present. Highland won the tournament with 189 team points; while Sedgwick-Fleming was second with 143 points. Yuma finished in third with 105 1/2 points; Merino fourth, 105 points and Akron ended up fifth with 96 1/2 points. Rams who qualified for state last year and are returning this year are Reed Christensen, who placed 5th at state, Braden Sampson, Reid Palser and Levi Hottinger. The 106 pound class and 113 pound class were wrestled as a round robin and each wrestler was able to be in four matches. Freshman Tanner Watson of Akron placed first, JD Truax, Eads was second, David Mosqueda, Greeley Central was third and Darrion Gibbs, also an Akron freshman, placed fourth. Akron had no wrestlers in the 113 pound class. At 120 pounds, senior Braden Sampson ended in fourth place. In this class, Aaron Aagesen, Yuma was first, Marcelino Baptsta, Merino, second and Moises Vasquez, Greeley, third. Freshman Josh Quint wrestled at 126 pounds Colin Skelton of Yuma and lost in a fall at 3:33. Quint wrestled Brandon Houder of Limon and won in a 2:00 fall and then lost to Colten Smith, who won in a close 10-9 match. Austin Couch and Tyler Hottinger, both freshmen, wrestled at 132 pounds.They both had a bye in the first round and both lost their second round matches.
The two then had to wrestle each other and Couch won that match with an 8-1 decision. Couch then lost his last match to Leon Johnson of Merino with a 3-0 decision. Senior Nick Ulibarri wrestled at 138 pounds, won his first match and then lost his next two matches. Junior Levi Hottinger wrestled at 145 pounds. In his first match, he won by a fall in 1:10 against Lawrence Gore of Highland; Won by a 10-2 decision over Angel Dominquiz of Yuma and wrestled for the championship against Kris Trujillo of Highland. Trujillo won in a :55 fall and Hottinger placed second. At 152 pounds, Akron had three wrestlers; senior Garrett Florian and freshmen Trent Hill and J.R. Patterson. Although none of them placed in the top four, all of them gained a lot of experience. Senior Austin Spear placed third in the 160 pound class. Spear pinned Kaloub Zimmer of Highland in 1:27 in his first match, pinned Brandon Buhring of Brush in 5:01, Lost to Taylor Weirich of Eads in a 5:30 fall and then pinned Nick Volmer of Merino in 1:32 to place third. At 170 pounds, freshman Nolan May lost his first two matches. Senior Reed Christensen was the last Akron wrestler at 285 pounds. Christensen pinned Joash Teague of La Veta in :58, pinned Jordan Kreeger of Brush in :37, lost by a fall to Keaton Sameshima of Highland in 4:49 and then lost to Justin Lenox of Eads in a fall of 1:18. The Akron Rms wrestlers will travel to Merino on Thursday for a dual; host Yuma in a dual on Friday, December 7 and then travel to Limon for their tournament on Saturday.


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Lightning Goaltender Ben Bishop undergoes successful surgeryby Staff Writer / Tampa Bay Lightning
TAMPA BAY – Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop underwent a successful procedure on Tuesday at the Cleveland Clinic to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist, the team announced today. The operation was performed by Dr. Thomas Graham.
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Bishop will require a 3-4-month rehabilitation and he is expected to be ready for the start of the Lightning's 2014 training camp.
A 2014 Vezina Trophy Finalist, Bishop played in 63 games with Tampa Bay this season, posting a 37-14-7 record with a 2.23 goals-against average and a .924 save percentage with five shutouts. He set Lightning franchise records for wins, save percentage and goals-against average in a season.


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Finland now allows citizens to propose new laws online, and if an initiative gathers enough votes, the government must vote on it.
This year, Finland has taken two huge steps to make crowdsourced laws a reality. First, its constitution last March was modified to allow every citizen proposal that collects a mere 50,000 signatures to get voted on by Parliament. In response, a non-profit group of Helsinki entrepreneurs started a website called Open Ministry to allow people of voting age to propose initiatives online. The website uses APIs from banks and mobile operators to confirm identities. Recently, the Finnish Parliament approved the platform after verifying that the electronic identification process is secure.
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Home > Patients & Visitors > Health Library > Water Purification to Prevent Giardia
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any doubts, treat the water before you use it.
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I have a small problem that I am unsure on how to solve this.
I have a arrayList (arrayList_Chrom) with numbers/letters in it: 1, 2, 3 ...... 22, X, Y, M
Now I have made this for loop:
for (int x = 0; x > arrayList_Chrom.size(); x++) { String chrNumber = arrayList_Chrom.get(x); }
Now I would like this when for example chrNumber = 1, I want arrayList_Chr1 to be used.
When chrNumber = 2, I want arrayList_Chr2 to be used.
But so far I am unable to do this.
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String right_arrayList = "arrayList_Chr" + chrNumber;
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Zien — the rider of the 1st Million Mile Harley, who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident last March — seems, at the beginning of the clip, to be trying to dislodge his nonmotorized wheelchair from the foot of one of the singers. Judging from the position of the foot, it looks to me as if the singalong man had extended his foot. In any event, Zien looks determined. The singalong people are a regular group that takes over the prime rotunda space every weekday noon hour to sing about how they will overcome Scott Walker some day and how they're sticking to the union and so forth.
The report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says that, according to one of the singalong participants, Zien yelled "Walker for president." Accompanying Zien were 2 men — "Green Bay resident Henry Rahr and Shorewood, Minn., resident Eugene German" — who carried "Don't Tread on Me" flags. So these men were rivals for the greatest free-speech territory in the state: the rotunda.
A singalong participant named Sue Trace said that the men "draped Zien's 'Don't Tread On Me' flag over the singers' heads." That's not in the video, so try to picture what that might have looked like. There's a big range of possibility with respect to how much flag-head contact occurred and how intentional it was. Based on the video we have, I'd guess that the 3 pro-Walker men decided the singalong crowd had no right to control the rotunda territory and decided they would make a counter-demonstration out of taking it back.
In that situation, emotions surge in unpredictable ways. Here's the Journal Sentinel description of what happened next:
Michael Dickman, 50, said Rahr and German were bumping into him along with other singers and grabbing their banners. Dickman said he tried to pull the flag away from Rahr. Dickman said Rahr then put him in a headlock and punched him in the face, chipping his front tooth.There must be more video of this unfortunate melée. For the most part, over the long weeks of the Wisconsin protests, people supporting the Governor have stayed away, while the anti-Walker people have chanted "Whose house?/Our house!" over and over and over. Zien felt moved to take a stand — from the position of a wheelchair — and the singalong group chose not to withdraw beyond the pillars that ring the rotunda — not to let the man have the space.
Rahr, 50, was charged with battery but denied punching Dickman. Rahr said Dickman tried to tear the flag out of his hands....
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Former Qwest executive Joe Nacchio has been indicted on 42 counts of insider trading by a federal grand jury according to KUSA television in Denver.
Prosecutors allege Nacchio-who served as chief executive officer of the telecom giant from 1997 to 2002-used insider information to sell stock before the price fell.Nacchio allegedly made about 50 million dollars on the trade.
During the time Nacchio headed Qwest he made 200 million dollars in compensation even as the company dropped in value and employees lost their jobs.
Nacchio and other former Qwest employees were sued by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission in March for fraudulently boosting company revenues by 3 billion dollars.
Nacchio is expected to make a court appearance in Denver later today.
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Day before the Atmosphere Conference we invite all attendees, coders, UXers, designers, developers and students to hack allegro's 404! Within 12h you are more than welcome to our new office, where you have a great opportunity to talk to the representatives of our IT teams, play together and finally work on the new look of the 404 website.The winning design will be implemented! In addition to good company and fun we guarantee pizza and canned energy, as well as for entertainment fighting sumo robots, which you can code.
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A recently issued U.S. congressional report has cast a shadow on Chinese telecom equipment makers Huawei and ZTE. Because neither company answered congressional queries to the satisfaction of U.S. lawmakers, the report concludes that the two companies, as a result of ties to the Chinese government, cannot be trusted to supply telecommunications equipment to U.S. government agencies or U.S. companies.
Both companies vigorously argued against the report's conclusions. Huawei condemned the report as an attempt "to impede competition and obstruct Chinese [telecom] companies from entering the U.S. market." ZTE insisted its equipment is safe and that congressional concerns implicate "every company making equipment in China, including Western vendors."
U.S. lawmakers worry that Chinese-made telecom equipment could contain a hidden backdoor that could be used to eavesdrop on sensitive communications or to disrupt network infrastructure. The version of the report released to the public (a separate classified annex was withheld) contains no evidence that Huawei or ZTE have compromised their products at the behest of Chinese officials. But lack of transparency into the workings of the two companies and lack of answers to lawmakers' queries, in conjunction with ongoing reports about cyber attacks traced to China, have made it difficult for U.S. authorities to trust either company.
[ Learn more about the issue. Read Why Huawei Has Congress Worried. ]
The U.S. is not alone in such concerns. In March, Australia blocked Huawei as a potential vendor for its new national fiber network based on worries about national security. A U.K. government intelligence and security committee is investigating Huawei's longstanding provision of equipment to BT, according to The Guardian, which also reports that Canadian authorities may exclude Huawei from government communications initiatives as a security precaution. India banned the purchase of Chinese telecom equipment on national security grounds in April 2010, relented four months later, and is said to be considering whether to reinstate the ban.
Stewart A. Baker, a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, and former assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, said in a phone interview that telecom switches are particularly important for reasonably secure communication.
Anyone in the compromise business going after edge devices will find access difficult to maintain, he said. "People will do updates, they'll discard apps and phones," he said. "If you have switch access, you've got it forever, for all communications."
Baker acknowledges that the congressional report presents no specific evidence of espionage, but he believes the report's conclusions are reasonable. "You'd have to be an idiot not to realize that our security problems are bad and getting worse," he said. "I know there are people who will say about any national security claim that you're just looking for funding. But that's not a fair criticism of this report."
"We do face a serious challenge and one that could dramatically undermine our security from all the flaws we have in our IT security infrastructure," said Baker.
Publicly disclosed examples of deliberately compromised telecom equipment are few and far between--accidental vulnerabilities are more common and represent lower hanging fruit for attackers and security researchers. In May 2012, a draft of a research paper detailing a backdoor in an Actel/Microsemi ProASIC3 chip used in military applications was posted in advance of its intended September 2012 presentation date, leading to inaccurate reports that the backdoor had been installed by a Chinese manufacturer.
The paper's authors, University of Cambridge computer security researcher Sergei Skorobogatov and Christopher Woods, a computer security researcher with Quo Vadis Labs, subsequently denied having linked the backdoor to Chinese manufacturers and issued a letter to clarify their findings.
The chipmaker, U.S.-based Actel/Microsemi, claimed that the backdoor is a testing interface. "The alarmist press reports that some third party may have inserted any sort of hidden 'back door' into Microsemi devices are false," the company said.
Woods in an email acknowledged that compromised hardware is not common but suggested other unreported examples are likely to exist. "The only real-life example so far of a backdoor is in Actel's range of flash-based chips," he said. "No one else has found a real-life backdoor or Trojan in a real-world chip yet [and has] actually gone public with the results. But we very much doubt that this backdoor is an isolated case. ... This backdoor inserted into Actel's line of flash-based FPGA was deliberately inserted. Only its 'purpose' is under consideration."


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Citywire AA-rated Richard Buxton has warned that complaints about bonuses at Barclays are blinding investors to the attractions of the bank.
While Roger Barker, director of corporate governance at the Institute of Directors, was one of the sharpest critics of the bank's decision to increase its bonus payouts by 10% to £2.4 billion while its dividend distribution was £859 million, Buxton (pictured) takes a different view. His £1.1 billion Old Mutual UK Alpha fund has a 3.4% weighting to Barclays, and he is happy to stick with his call.
'We did have a very, very good meeting with the Barclays finance director post the results,' he said.
'Interestingly we begin to get the sense, talking to other brokers and shareholders, that perhaps other shareholders went steaming into their meetings with either the finance director or chief executive Antony Jenkins so indignant about the bonus issue that they backed into a corner and didn't really say very much.'
Buxton continued: 'We take a more sanguine view that actually Barclays had done a significant amount on the bonuses last year and has to relent a little bit this year.'
In its 2012 results Barclays reported that it had reduced total incentive awards by 16% at the group level and by 20% within the investment bank.
For Buxton, the more important aspect of the 2013 numbers was the improvement in the bank's capital ratio – claiming that finance director Tushar Morzaria had 'achieved wonders on that score'. This will enable the finance director to focus now on improving the investment bank.
'The market has completely given up on this company ever making a decent return and he is very clear that there are large swathes of the investment bank that are not going to cut the mustard in terms of return targets and that there has to be a substantial further reduction in the group capital allocated to that business,' relayed Buxton.
'We are absolutely sticking with this and are going to add to the position as it continues to drift off,' he concluded. Barclays' share price has plunged by 26% over the past year and is now trading at 235.4 pence.
Buxton's Old Mutual UK Alpha fund has returned 43.7% over the past three years, ahead of both the peer group average of 32.8% and the FTSE All Share index's 27.7%.


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SAN ANTONIO 108, LAKERS 105: Same old story for Lakers - LA Daily News
SAN ANTONIO 108, LAKERS 105: Same old story for Lakers
L.A. keeps contest vs. Spurs close, but it drops fifth straight game anyway.
By Mark Medina, Staff Writer
SAN ANTONIO - No matter how much the Lakers scratch and claw out of the deep hole they dug themselves, they keep falling further into the abyss.
The Lakers persistently chipped away at double-digit leads, only for missed 3-pointers from Kobe Bryant and Earl Clark on the final possession cementing a 108-105 loss Wednesday to the San Antonio Spurs at AT&T Center.
The Lakers played well enough to keep the game competitive against the Western Conference's third-best team despite missing Dwight Howard (right shoulder), Pau Gasol (concussion) and Jordan Hill (left hip) for the second consecutive game.
Too bad. The lack of depth eventually exposed the Lakers (15-20), who dropped their fifth consecutive game, the first time such a stretch has happened since April 2011. They're also 5-12 on the road and 1-4 on the second night of a road back-to-back.
The Lakers are left with an even more difficult task in climbing out of 11th place in the Western Conference. To prevent losing six consecutive games for the first time since March 2007, the Lakers will have to win their home game Friday against the Oklahoma City Thunder (27-8).
"It's a team that is getting some traction," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said of his squad. "But we're a long ways away to smile.
"We don't need to until we can start a little bit better."
It appeared the Lakers wouldn't even have a chance to gush about a moral victory, something almost unheard
of in this organization. They allowed San Antonio to build consistent double-digit leads after allowing the Spurs to go 12 of 25 from 3-point range.
Bryant, most notably, rarely rotated quickly enough on defense.
"We just got to work on our execution," said Bryant, after posting 27 points on 10-of-24 shooting. "We need to keep the guys off the paint and keep them off the middle."
Regardless, the Lakers found themselves in the game for two reasons.
The Lakers made shots. Steve Nash made two technical free throws, Bryant made a 3-pointer and Antawn Jamison made an open layup to cut the deficit to 105-102 with 2:56 remaining.
The team also made stops. Metta World Peace forced two consecutive turnovers and the Spurs also missed their next three shots.
Manu Ginobili's 3-pointer appeared to put the game away with a 108-102 lead with 43 seconds left, but Clark immediately answered with his own 3-pointer. Tony Parker's bad pass on the next possession then set up the Lakers with a chance to tie the game.
It didn't happen.
Bryant's 3-point attempt went off the rim. Clark grabbed the rebound and heaved the ball from behind the perimeter. The attempt fell short.
"I was looking for Steve and Kobe, but I didn't see how much time was on the clock," said Clark, who posted a career-high 22 points and 13 rebounds in 27 minutes. "So I threw it up and prayed it went in."
It appeared the Lakers didn't have a prayer at all.
They showed constant frustration by collecting three technical fouls spread among Bryant, Darius Morris and Chris Duhon.
The Lakers chipped away at their deficit by making a flurry of shots, mostly by Bryant, Clark, World Peace (23 points) and Nash (14 points). The Lakers then conceded wide open 3-pointers. The Lakers lathered, rinsed and repeated.
They also remained underwhelmed against a team that featured Parker (24 points), Ginobili (19), Stephen Jackson (14), Tiago Splitter (14), Gary Neal (12) and Kawhi Leonard (11).
"Guys did a great job of staying positive and fighting together and not giving in," Nash said. "It was a lot of good things out there. But it's definitely a frustrating loss."
With 26 points on 4 of 4 shots from distance in only 20 minutes of PT. Efficient eviceration.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd May 2013 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. We'll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that it's usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
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RE[2]: The Xbox One is counting on the Cloud
by TM99 on Thu 23rd May 2013 08:10 UTC in reply to "RE: The Xbox One is counting on the Cloud "
Jesus, no shit!
This guy could neither confirm nor deny anything.
You won't need always on internet....yet you will need internet to activate a game. I didn't need that with the original Xbox nor the 360 so why do I need it now?
You can play a game offline....except you have to be online to activate it.
You can play used games...but you have to pay to activate them on your console.
Oh, goodie, I can log into a friends Xbox and all of my shit will be there via the Cloud. So is the One just a fucking dumb terminal then? Wow, moving forward by moving back. I played Rogue on the dumb terminal in college in the early 1980's.
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C-USA Men's Golf Comes to Oak Tree
There's a new tournament in town!
Conference USA announced yesterday that it will hold its 2014 Men's Golf Championship at ClubCorp's Oak Tree Country Club in Edmond, Oklahoma.
The tournament will take place April 27 – 29 on Oak Tree's fierce East Course, a 7,100-yard championship layout designed by the legendary Pete Dye. Scattered with bunkers, the East Course's challenging landscape has crowned champions like Bob Tway, Gil Morgan, David Edwards, Todd Hamilton and Lucas Glover.
The course's signature hole is the #16 – a par-4 neighbored by a daunting water hazard down the entire left side of the fairway; a true embodiment of the East Course's relentless intensity.
If anyone is fit to take on the challenge, it's the men of Conference USA. We look forward to welcoming them to Oak Tree Country Club in April.


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School News
Bond walk and talk
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- Category: School News
- Published on 01 May 2014
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
At right, Coach Brad Floyd provided of tour of the school's athletic facilities and explained the need for additional competition gym. A total of four concerned citizens took part in the tour.
They were joined by school administrators, school board candidates, and school board members. Early voting for the bond will continue through May 6 and election day is Saturday, May 10.


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USU Army ROTC Hosts Annual Jim Bridger Challenge
Thursday, Apr. 25, 2013
Utah State University's Army ROTC is hosting its annual Jim Bridger Challenge on Friday, April 26, from 12:30 to 3 p.m.
The Jim Bridger Challenge is a fundraising opportunity for the Utah State detachment of the Army ROTC. The intent is to build community awareness and support of the ROTC while promoting fitness in a fun, competitive atmosphere.
Community members are encouraged to form a team and compete against the USU cadets. The challenge will include several Army-centered events, including a knife throw, 'Wounded Soldier Carry,' rope bridges and a ruck march.
Participants should arrive at the ROTC building before 12:30 p.m. Any media who wish to attend are asked to report by noon where they will be escorted to the various areas of competition.
Contact: Major Matthew T. Badell, USU Army ROTC, (435) 797-7058


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The 30-year-old has impressed after moving to Perth on a short-term deal, scoring three times. A statement on St Johnstone's official website read: "Striker Steven MacLean has today penned an extension to his current deal which will take him through to the end of season 2013/2014.
"The 30-year-old joined Saints in September on a deal to the January transfer window but this extension covers the remainder of this season and the whole of the next.
"The former Sheffield Wednesday, Cardiff City and Plymouth Argyle man has netted three goals so far.
"His contribution might have been greater were it not for a serious elbow injury sustained in the game against Dundee at Dens Park, although his absence from that was not as long as was first feared."
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Opera is now fully Acid2 compliant. Its latest preview build fixes the last missing feature that was preventing the test page from rendering correctly. Other improvements in this release: fixed crasher on Flash; added experimental support for opening Web archives; improved display of content blocker toolbar; added keyboard shortcuts Cmd+[ and Cmd+] for back/forward on Mac; and much more.
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Semyon Varlamov has been charged with domestic violence. Despite that, he is still playing hockey for the Colorado Avalanche, and he is playing well, with a .922 save percentage and 2.39 goals-against in nine games since his arrest. Those are facts.
Here is something from the GM of Russia's national team that is not a fact. From R Sport (via Puck Daddy):
"Semyon's in good form now, continuing to show that he's one of the best goaltenders in the NHL and showing with his game that the truth is on his side," Russian national team general manager Alexei Kasatonov said on the website of the SKA St. Petersburg KHL team.
In another apparent reference to the domestic abuse charge, Kasatonov said that Varlamov "is not that kind of guy and would not be capable of such a dirty deed."
Whether Varlamov is guilty or not—his ex-girlfriend says he dragged and pushed her, and detectives noted bruises on her—that is a crazy, gross, depressing claim for Kasatonov to make. Maybe the shape of Varlamov's skull means that he's innocent, or his zodiac sign. Maybe the verdict came to Kasatonov in a dream. Or, maybe Russia, the host of the 2014 Olympics, has a lot at stake in the trial, and a vested interest in favorable outcomes for, potentially, its starting goaltender.
Yep, we'll go with that. Varlamov is due in court on Dec. 2 on third-degree assault charges. A kidnapping charge was dropped because it could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, district attorney spokesperson Lynn Kimbrough said.
"I thought it was positive for (Varlamov), but in the end I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a DA," Avalanche coach Patrick Roy said earlier this week. "I think he needs to remain focused and we'll see what transpires. The most important thing was the support he got from our fans."
Regardless, Varlamov could face two years in prison on the assault charge—and deportation. From lawyer Eric Macramella at CBS' Eye On Hockey :
Under a federal US law called the Immigration and Nationality Act, a noncitizen can be ordered deported if he or she is convicted of a crime that is listed as a "crime involving moral turpitude." One such crime is domestic violence. So a conviction on third degree assault could trigger deportation.
So given this risk, Varlamov's lawyer may pursue a plea bargain involving charges that pose less of an issue given his immigration status such as disorderly conduct or trespassing. These would be ideal as they would not trigger deportation since they are not considered crimes involving moral turpitude.
If they can't plea a lesser charge, expect Varlamov to head to trial and take his chances with a jury.
Ah yes, a jury. Hopefully "Defense Exhibit A: sweet glove save," doesn't come up.


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These are not my people. This is not my age group. This is not my door policy. I am in the foul grip of an early mid-life crisis, thanks to Touche Hombre's stealth mission to make anyone over the age of 30 feel in need of a seniors card and a night on the couch watching Taggart.
Where to begin? The name: plucked straight from the dead heart of hipsterville. The fitout: a frenetic splice of gangsta culture and a 1980s arcade, where aerosol-daubed walls meet a Ghostbusters neon light feature that would have cost a bomb on eBay. The music: loud, spilling into Lonsdale Street, where the entrance is guarded by a door bro taking names from the hopefuls who've dashed against the rocks of the no-bookings policy (NBP).
They're all part of the floorshow at this heaving new Mexican joint. For what is the NBP if not an apartheid system of haves and have-nots, one duty-bound to feel superior to the other?
It's not the fault of the staff, who look like they could fall into the too-cool-for-school ghetto but prove a chirpy lot with a healthy sideline in can-do-ism. Sure, they crouch at tables to take orders but to the eyes of an increasingly crabby 39-year-old they're disarmingly unstitched, if a little forgetful on the finer details. The meta-view is just as interesting: a Swedish waitress at a Mexican restaurant imitating downtown Los Angeleno culture in the centre of Melbourne. God bless the younger generation for its insouciant take on the global melting pot.
The food? It's not the best Mexican in Melbourne. It doesn't really trouble the Mamasita benchmark. But that is hardly the point. Some restaurants are more than the sum of their parts, and Touche Hombre is one of them, especially when your first beer arrives (sans glass, naturally - but you can ask for one, Grandad) and a phat (ahem) beat gets your pulse going that little bit faster.
Other affectations cunningly designed to separate the mutton from the lamb: food arriving on stainless-steel trays lined with paper, canteen-style (or should that be cantina-style?); miserly thin paper napkins that you need to wad up to deal with the myriad spillages of the typical handheld meal; a trio of commercial hot sauces poised to increase the voltage.
The menu is taco-centric, the flour tortillas brought in from Mexican bakehouse El Cielo. Spiced pork with apple, sage, pork rinds and habanero cream gets my tick. Battered gurnard with pickled cucumber, capers and shallot is good too. And the evening's mystery taco? Huitlacoche (corn truffle) with mushroom. Support players include lamb ribs, all earthy and sweet with cumin and honey. They're ridiculously fatty, ergo ridiculously tasty, and the meat slips off the bone if you hold them at a certain angle. Fried chicken with habanero mayo doesn't let the team down, either, with tasty seasoned batter and juicy meat, although the tostaditos (they're the little crunchy corn-chip discs laden with toppings) fight the mush factor thanks to the headlining crab meat being doused in mayo beyond the point of all recognition.
The ceviche of white fish (black bream, on this occasion) and mussels has cleaner flavours, its borderline aggressive acids soothed by guacamole. Tomatoes certainly weren't at their seasonal best but the corn chips came in handy for shovelling a dish that you don't have to think too hard about.
Touche Hombre strikes me as the kind of place you might spend longer standing in the queue than you do with your bum on a seat, although I can imagine fronting up early for a quick post-work bite and spilling out messily hours later. Just hypothesising, mind you. Us superannuated folk get our wind-up call when an impossibly gorgeous Asian girl sashays past in a mini-dress, her slouchy paramour looking proprietal and proud. Time to relinquish our coveted real estate and head home. The babysitter is waiting.
The vibe
The crowd: Young and ferociously hip.
Everybody's ordering: Tacos, tacos and tacos.
Noise: Big, bold, and you'd better like it that way.
Wine list: Short and to the point; the cocktails are more fun (there are 84 tequilas).
- Touche Hombre, corner Lonsdale Street and Tattersalls Lane, city
- 9663 0811
- Licensed
- Eftpos, Amex, MC, Visa
- Entrees $6-$12
- Mains (five DIY tacos) $25-$27
- Desserts $7-$18.50 (trio)
- Open Mon 5pm-11pm; Tues-Thurs noon-11pm; Fri and Sat noon-1am.
- Weekdays 3pm-5pm - snacks only.