MIAMI BEACH, FLA. -- Clinton Portis walked through the makeshift ESPN studio, set up specially for Super Bowl week, wearing shorts, a green hooded shirt and his latest fashion accessory: a pair of dark-rimmed pair eyeglasses. It's a subtle reminder that Portis is still recovering from a concussion he suffered three months ago.
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Mark Steven Kirk, a centrist Republican, will face Alexi Giannoulias, the state treasurer, in November.
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Obama has yet to fill empty seats at civil liberties watchdog committee
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It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...
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Obama administration officials said Tuesday that family members of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are trying to get the Christmas Day airline bomb suspect to talk.
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Coondoggie passes along a NetworkWorld report on the pronouncement of a judicial conference committee recommending that trial judges specifically instruct jurors not to use any electronic communications devices or sites during trial and deliberations. Here's the committee report (PDF). "If you think you're going to use your spanking new iPhone to ...
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New iPhone Attack Kills Apps, Reroutes Web Traffic
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Trailrunner7 sends in a threatpost.com article on exploiting flaws in the way the iPhone handles digital certificates. "[Several flaws] could lead to an attacker being able to create his own trusted certificate and entice users into downloading malicious files onto their iPhones. The result of the attack is that a remote hacker is able to change ...
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An anonymous reader points out an article at SavyGamer in which several game industry veterans were polled for their opinions on DRM. Cliff Harris of Positech Games said he didn't think his decision to stop using DRM significantly affected piracy of his games, accepting it as an unavoidable fact. "Maybe a few of the more honest people now buy the ...
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Coupons for 55 pounds of rice under a new U.N. food program have become more valuable than Haitian money.
Linux and Microcontroller Tips: "Since version 2.6.21, the Linux kernel has introduced a feature called tickless. the kernel no longer has a fixed 1000Hz timer tick. This will give a dramatic power savings..."
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Gaining Root Access On Linux-Based Femtocells
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ViralMeme writes "According to the Register, 'Security researchers have turned their attention to femtocells, and have discovered that gaining root on the tiny mobile base stations isn't as hard as one might hope.' One of the researchers said, 'After hours of sniffing traffic, changing IP address ranges, guessing passwords and investigating ...
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Android and the Linux kernel community
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As the Android kernel code is now gone from the Linux kernel, as of the 2.6.33 kernel release, I'm starting to get a lot of questions about what happened, and what to do next with regards to Android. So here's my opinion on the whole matter...
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In 2006, Benjamin Koellmann bought a condominium in Miami Beach. By his calculation, it will be about the year 2025 before he can sell his modest home for what he paid. Or maybe 2040.
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Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Harold E. Ford Jr. are wooing and pressuring titans of finance to pick sides in what could be the marquee political battle of 2010.
Learn how to solve the real problems you face with CSS. This cookbook offers hundreds of practical examples for using CSS to format your web pages, and includes code samples you can use right away. You'll find exactly what you need, from determining which aspects of CSS meet the specific needs of your site to methods for resolving differences in ...
I knew that the detonation of an H-bomb, which closed Season Five of Lost, would be a noisy act to follow. But I never expected the show's creators, always eager to retrace their own steps, would revisit the blast twice in the debut episode of the final season. [ more ... ] Lost - Television - Drama - Arts - Programs
My new NBR blog post is up: "You Can't Count What You Can't See." A snippet: Even with those flaws, the Administration's accounting is still one-sided. What it doesn't consider are the jobs lost due to the very policies that are "saving" jobs....The jobs that weren't created because the ...
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Zooey Deschanel sleeps with bands, stars react predictably to Oscar nominations, Hugh Jackman goes to 19th century China and Ben Silverman teams with a Murdoch. You'll catch cold out there! Come inside and have a hot glass of Trade Roundup . •Zooey Deschanel continues to play roles that make her look cool: She'll be starring in a half-hour ...
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Silverman launches Electus Distribution
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Silverman's new multimedia company, Electus (a part of Barry Diller's IAC), has struck a deal with Shine Intl. to launch Electus Distribution, which will oversee worldwide sales for Electus' TV, film and digital output. Silverman, who sold his Reveille shingle to Murdoch for $125 million in 2008, announced the alliance on Tuesday.
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Police say a roadside bomb killed six people, including three foreigners, heading to inaugurate the school in northwest Pakistan. At least 32 people were wounded. The blast went off near a security convoy heading to the ceremony in Lower Dir district's Shahi Koto area. Security forces and girls' schools have been frequent targets of attack for ...
Ubuntu User: "One way of getting involved in the Ubuntu Community is by attending events. Most of the events throughout 2010 will have some element of the Ubuntu Community involved in them."
 
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Another sweet creation from Ukrainan steampunk leather mask-makers Bob Basset, this one with a cute little breathing-tube beard in the style of the Pharaohs. Leather mask "F" Previously:Steampunk "Raptor Pilot" mask #4 Boing Boing Boing Boing: Cthulhu mask on eBay Steampunk Soviet gas-mask - Boing Boing...
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Derelict hotels around the world
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Here's a collection of photos of 24 rotting, abandoned hotels around the world, some of them looking like horror movie sets, others like enormous follies, and still others like faerie palaces. Rotting stuff kicks ass. Graham Hotel: You don't normally think of people seeking out gold in Georgia but that's exactly what happened in the town of ...
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Over the last few weeks, I've noticed more folks pointing out a paradox that has been driving me nuts. As many companies embrace open innovation and culture, there is one incredibly successful holdout: Apple. Three articles on the subject here, here, and here.
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Apple iPad: an Antisocial Device
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Unless you’ve been deep in a cave for all of last week, you probably heard that Apple announced their new product yesterday, the iPad. Opinions about the device, including mine, have been somewhat split. I’m going to leave the general pros/cons discussions for somewhere else, but I wanted to discuss one aspect I find particularly ...
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Google Says Screw You Apple
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I give you a timeline of the growing Apple versus Google feud. Look for a G-Tablet. Meanwhile a webcam coming to iPad. Why already? Controversy over iMac production. Activision out, Chegg in. Woz says that the Toyota pedel problem is a software issue. Windows Mobile not as bad as you think. Facebook craze a problem. Show sponsored by e-Harmony. ...
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President Obama is coming under pressure from Democrats and civil liberties groups for failing to fill positions on an oversight panel formed in 2004 to make sure the government does not spy improperly on U.S. citizens.
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A few weeks ago, Kathleen and I went on our first cruise together. It was her fifth and my first, so I got to experience a lot of new things. If time allows, I'll try to write about that in the future. But for now, I want to talk about one of our shore excursions. Our first day in port was in Puerto Vallarta. The weather was absolutely perfect: ...
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A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product "that will revolutionize everything" (it's a "new kind of glass," as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that's what everyone said about aerogel and the Segway, but maybe this time... They're shipping to the UK soon,
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