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It’s no secret that I’m a supporter of allowing more skilled immigrants into the US. The arguments against it make little sense and are usually thinly veiled racism against foreigners. Plenty of studies have shown that skilled immigrants help create new jobs rather than take them away. And barring skilled immigrants from coming into the US just means that they end up working for non-US competitors, rather than helping US companies grow. It’s hard to fathom a reason to be against increasing skilled immigration, other than being racist or economically illiterate. Now, that said, it’s also no secret that the H-1B process that is one of the main (though not only) routes for skilled technology foreigners to work in the US has some serious flaws and is often abused. But the response should not be to end the H-1B program, but to fix the abuses.

All that said, I’m somewhat horrified at the reports (which a whole bunch of you are sending in) about a judge ordering three anti-H-1B websites be taken totally offline. I disagree heavily with those three sites, and think that they are misleading in the extreme, but the order to take them offline goes way overboard. The judge even went further and ordered Facebook to disable the Facebook page of one of the sites.

At issue are libel and copyright charges from a company named Apex, which these sites accuse of abusing the H-1B process. Given that I’m very much against the abuses, I’m all for exposing those who abuse the process. Now here’s where things get weird. The main issue is that these sites posted a copy of what’s supposedly an employment agreement from Apex, and the discussion “alleges that employees will find it difficult to leave Apex because of its contract terms.” Apex claims that this is defamatory, and notes that it had three “consultants” refuse to report for employment because of it. Yet… it also claims that it holds the copyright on the documents. In other words, it admits that the documents are real and legitimate. Otherwise it wouldn’t hold the copyright. Thus, it’s hard to see how the two charges can stand together. Either the documents are false and defamatory, or there’s (potential) copyright infringement and the documents are accurate in portraying Apex’s contract terms. So which is it?

Unfortunately we don’t know, because the judge has shut down everything.

What’s not at all clear is why the judge would completely shut down all three websites and the Facebook page. If there are problems with just this document, order an injunction against that document. Completely shutting down all three websites goes way too far, and seems to go well beyond what either defamation law or copyright law should allow.

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Not only has acupuncture been shown to be effective at reducing hot flashes in breast cancer patients, but it may also improve their sex drive and sense of well-being. Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital compared acupuncture with drug therapy for reducing hot flashes in breast cancer patients.

The study, published in the Journal of Oncology, is the first randomly controlled trial to compare acupuncture and drug therapy for hot flash treatment.

Many breast cancer patients receive chemotherapy and five years of hormone therapy. Side effects of the hormone therapy include hot flashes and night sweats. The drug often used to manage the effects of hormone therapy is venlafaxine, but that drug has its own side effects: dry mouth, decreased appetite, nausea and constipation.

Researchers compared acupuncture and drug treatment with 50 patients from oncology clinics at Henry Ford Hospital. Obviously, a study involving acupuncture versus drugs can’t be blind, but patients were randomly assigned to receive either acupuncture or venlafaxine treatment for 12 weeks. While the group taking drugs received 37.5mg orally each night for the first week and then 75mg for the remaining 11 weeks, the acupuncture group received treatments twice each week for the first four weeks, then once each week for the last eight weeks.

After 12 weeks, patients in both groups stopped therapy. They were followed for one year, and the patients kept a diary to track hot flash frequency and severity. They also completed surveys for mental and overall health.

The study findings revealed that both groups experienced an initial 50% decline in hot flashes and depressive symptoms, showing that acupuncture is as effective as drug therapy. Yet, two weeks post-treatment, differences emerged.

In the absence of treatment, the drug group experienced a significant increase in hot flashes while the acupuncture group still had minimal hot flashes. Patients who received acupuncture didn’t feel an increase in hot flashes until three months after acupuncture treatment had stopped.

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Auto crashes are giant, complex things. There are lots of factors that influence the outcome, virtually all of them variable and dependent on human input and decision making. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t good at wrapping our minds around such a thorny ball of applied physics. Australia’s Roads and Traffic Authority has enlisted Professor Ian Johnston of Melbourne’s Monash University to break it down for the back of the class.

Pushing a tagline of “Please, Slow Down,” Professor Johnston brings his work at the University’s Accident Research Centre to bear with an effective and visually arresting demonstration of how big a difference five little kilometers per hour (that’s 3.11 mph) can make to a panic stop. It’s a message well delivered, but we would argue that good road safety is more about driving at reasonable rates of speed for the conditions (traffic, weather, road type, vehicle type and skill level). Click through to the jump to check it out for yourself. Thanks for the tip, Mike!

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Troubled golfer Tiger Woods has reportedly checked into a suburban Phoenix treatment facility for sex adddiction.

The world’s No.1-ranked golfer has entered the posh and upscale Cottonwood de Tuscon Center one month after his public image was shattered by a sex scandal linking Woods to more than a dozen women aside from his wife of five years, Elin, X17 Online claims.

“He has been there for a few days since his handlers forced him to enter the program. They feel that if he blames his cheating on addiction, the public will forgive him,” a source told X17 Online Tuesday.

The source explains that “Tiger wants to get back on top. He agreed to put golfing on hold so he could show the world how badly he feels about what he’s done and to prove that he wants to correct the problems that led to his infidelity.”

In related news, an explosive new report today painted a disturbing picture of the night that Tiger crashed his car outside his family’ Windemere, Florida home — but the golfer’s agent insist the story is an “Internet hoax.”

According to the account, written by famed sports columnist Furman Bisher, doctors at the hospital allegedly told Tiger that he had to fly to Phoenix to meet with a plastic surgeon for reconstructive surgery on his face — which is why Tiger didn’t meet with police directly after the accident. Bisher claims to have heard the blow-by-blow account from an IMG agent who works with Steinberg.

President Barack Obama brokering an agreement at the Copenhagen climate change conference that critics say fails to address the problem of global warming.

Will the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Conference dampen investments in the clean energy sector? The short answer is no. With or without a binding agreement, demand for renewable energy will continue to grow next year and beyond. Ironically, China will lead this growth, in spite of playing an instrumental role in turning Copenhagen into a fiasco.

For 2010, New Energy Finance estimates that globally, companies and governments will invest $200 billion in renewable energy, up nearly 50 percent from $130 billion in 2009 and above the $155 billion invested in 2008.

Things are also looking good for venture capital (VC) firms, which are a key source of funding for renewable energy companies. In a recent post on RenewableEnergyWorld, Peter Nieh, founder of cleantech-focused VC fund Lightspeed predicted that the sector would see “increased availability of equity, debt, and project finance capital.”

Need further confirmation that the failed summit will not dampen investment flow into renewable energy?  On Saturday, China amended its energy law to require the country’s power utilities to increase their purchase of renewable energy, including wind, solar, or hydropower power, even if they are more expensive and less familiar than carbon-based electric generation technologies.

The new regulations come just a couple of weeks after the China-lead derailment of the climate change summit and provide investors clarity on one of the world’s largest cleantech markets. In short, one can successfully stonewall a global climate change conference and still like renewable energy. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Over the next two years, China has committed to invest $220 billion in renewable energy. As part of this massive green stimulus package China seeks to raise its wind power capacity to 100 gigawatts by 2020, or eight times the current level. Some market studies estimate the size of the clean energy market there at nearly a $1 trillion per year.

China’s green commitment is not motivated by altruistic environmental concerns. It’s about basic economics.  For one, the nation’s leadership views clean energy as a pathway to securing a technological dominance at the expense of the U.S. and European Union countries. On a more micro level, as Sam Jaffe, a senior research analyst at IDC’s Energy Insight tells GER, in China, the price differentiation between coal-generation (it feeds 70 percent of China’s power generation) and renewables is not as steep as in the U.S. For China going green make economic sense.

“The outcome of Copenhagen does not entail a shrinking of cleantech investments,” concludes Ethan Zindler, head of North American research at New Energy Finance. “A realistic assessment of the climate change summit is that from the start it was going to be impossible to get 190-plus countries to agree to a binding agreement.” Zindler points out that New Energy Finance’s NEX – WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, which tracks the stock performance of traded clean energy companies, has continued to grow despite Copenhagen.

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The most feature-filled Reader device ever created by Sony, the Reader Daily Edition, is now hitting consumers and press worldwide and the reviews are pretty interesting. My Mom recently acquired a Kindle from a friend and I consider that this iteration of the Reader experience to be finally on par. Let’s face it – Sony was having problems competiting with a product that offered free wireless internet to connect to the Kindle Store, the ability to browse websites, and other interactive features.

Fortunately, the Reader Daily has free 3G Internet through AT&T with no reoccuring charge and a huge 1024×600 screen. Can you say widescreen newspapers and subscriptions? Nice.

After reading these reviews, I think the eBook store on the Sony Reader Daily Edition looks better than the Kindle. It also seems like the response time is on par (and perhaps slightly faster than) the Kindle. Check out these cool reviews we found of the PRS-900 (aka PRS-900BC), and we will update this post with other reviews as time goes on.

• Great initial opinions and pictures at First Look: Sony Reader Daily Edition PRS-900 eBook Reader” from MobileTechReview
• The always informative Amazon.com Sony Reader Daily Edition Reviews
• The EBook Reader’s PRS-900 Daily Edition Review with video!
• Sony Electronics Social Media Evangelist Sukhjit Ghag’s Reader Daily Edition Unboxing Video

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Most women make New Year’s resolutions, and healthier choices are often at the top of the list of to dos for the new year, according to a survey conducted by health info website VitalJuice.

Health vows abound on January 1

The site found that 89 percent of all women make resolutions, and 94 percent of women surveyed said they were planning to make a resolution for 2010. Among the most popular choices for resolutions this year included:

• Exercise more (17 percent)
• Lose weight (15 percent)
• Be a happier person (15 percent)
• Eat healthier (10 percent)
• Reduce stress (9 percent)

Of those who said they were making resolutions this year, 80 percent said they had “do over” resolutions they hadn’t been able to achieve previously, but 66 percent of women said they’ve been completely successful with a resolution in the past.

Some of the resolutions women most commonly said they’d been successful with include:

• Eating healthier (52 percent)
• Exercising more (49 percent)
• Losing weight (27 percent)
• Spending less money (22 percent)
• Being a happier person (16 percent)

Most hope they can keep their resolutions

Seventy-eight percent of respondents said they pick a resolution they hope they can achieve, while 21 percent said they resolve to do things they know they can achieve and 1 percent have serious doubts about whether they can reach their goals.

As women age, 53 percent say they choose resolutions that are easier to keep than they did when they were younger, and 78 percent say they’re better at sticking with their resolutions than they used to be.

Still, a lot of people aren’t thinking about those new year goals for very long. While just 4 percent of respondents said they think about their goals for just a week, 28 percent focus on them for only two to four weeks, 26 percent for five to eight weeks and 43 percent are still thinking about them into March.

Forty percent said the best way to keep a resolution is to make the goal manageable, while 28 percent said telling a friend or family member helped them stick to a vow. Twenty percent said writing down their goals helped. Twenty-seven percent said they shared resolutions with a significant other, and 25 percent with friends, but 21 percent told no one (and just 2 percent shared the information on a blog).

Some things off limits in January

Lots of women seem to have pretty general goals about eating healthier, losing weight and exercising more, but many women also have certain things they refuse to give up in pursuit of their goals. Sixteen percent said they wouldn’t give up chocolate, while 14 percent had some other kind of specific food item they refused to part with.

Twelve percent said they wouldn’t do without alcohol, and 8 percent wouldn’t skip sex, the same number who refused to stop eating sweets or desserts.

Cash would be a big motivator

Thirty percent of women said money would help motivate them to reach their goal, while 13 percent said a trip or vacation would help them keep their resolution. Only 11 percent said a feeling of accomplishment would be sufficient motivation, and 10 percent said looking or feeling better would do the trick.

Forty-three percent said paying a “fine” of $100 or less for breaking their resolution would be enough to keep them on track, but 22 percent said they’d need between $101 and $250 to stay with their goal.

What a woman wants

Eighty-five percent of those surveyed said they planned to get more exercise in 2010, while 45 percent said they’d diet more, and the same number were looking for more sex.

Just 12 percent of women said they’d rather see a cure for obesity in the coming year rather than a cure for cancer. And 59 percent said getting more exercise is more important than getting more sex. Fifty-eight percent said that when trying to lose weight it’s important to exercise more, while 42 percent said it’s more important to eat less.

Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed with rather give up eating sweets for a month rather than go a month without sex. But giving up the cell phone for a month just narrowly beat out skipping sex, with 52 percent saying they’d give up their phone and 48 percent saying they’d skip sex.

Eighty-nine percent said they’d rather have an extra $10,000 than lose 10 pounds.

(By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)

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Women want to exercise more in coming year, plus other resolutions

The Leo has a digital compass which is only useful by default in the HTC Digital Compass app. This is a bit of a waste of hardware, and a developer on XDA-Developers clearly agrees.

March2003 and Barty22 have been working for some time on a GPS driver for Windows Mobile which addresses the many issues seen with Qualcomm GPS chips, including the notorious GPS lag.

The GPSModDriver which is designed to increase the reliability of GPS readings has been updated to support the digital compass. This update also adds some usage of the accelerometer present in many devices.

GpsModDriver 1.50b changelog:
– Added HD2 compass and g-sensor support to ModDriver
– Hardware compass is read and averaged (only when it exists in the phone)
– G-sensor is read, averaged, and translated into orientation code (only when compass exists in phone)
– Whenever GPS has no fix, compass heading is inserted into the GPS data
– Whenever speed is below (delta speed * HDOP), compass heading is inserted.

The beauty of modifying the driver is that the modification will work for all GPS applications, but the effect will depends on the application.

In iGO8: In 3d view, your car arrow will rotate with the entire screen according to your compass heading, as long as you have a GPS fix. In 2d mode it will rotate the arrow according to your compass heading, or you can set it to rotate the map according to your heading, so that you will always move towards the top of your screen.
In Google Maps: Your current location and current heading will be displayed by means of a blue arrow. It will not rotate the map, but only the arrow.

Read more and download the modified driver at XDA-Developers.

Via WMExperts

Sure, this ain’t the first time that Seagate’s allegedly run afoul of the law, but this tale will definitely have you breathlessly demanding more (you know, if patent infringement is exciting to you — which would actually be pretty weird). Way back in July 2000, Convolve (an M.I.T. spin-off formed to market the school’s hard drive noise reduction research) sued Seagate for using patented tech in its Sound Barrier Technology — with the end result being that Seagate drives no longer support automatic acoustic management. But that isn’t the exciting part. In a dramatic turn reported by The New York Times, a former Seagate employee named Paul A. Galloway has apparently provided “an eyewitness account” of what went down, including the theft of info obtained in a meeting between the two companies held in 1998 and 1999 and the destruction of blueprints relating to Convolve’s technology. As for the whistleblower, he claims that he was kept in the dark about the nature of the research he was working on, with Seagate even going so far as to take his computer with notes pertinent to the trial. All of this (and more) are detailed in an affidavit that is available (in PDF form) by hitting that source link — and, man, is it a page-turner!

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In response to the high demand for HD video conferencing in the Asia Pacific region, Sony announced that it is introducing its latest generation HD visual communication system, the PCS-XG55. Part of the IPELA family from Sony’s current HD PCS series systems lineup, the PCS-XG55 HD incorporates the functions and features of Sony’s existing high-end, PCS-XG80, developing an enhanced video communications platform that is flexible for the education, healthcare, government and corporate environments.

According to Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific is expected to contribute $1.7 billion to the video conferencing market, which is poised to grow into a $4.7 billion-dollar industry by 2014 worldwide. In India alone, the video conferencing market is growing 23 percent year-on-year due to the growing demand from the government sector, which leans towards more affordable and lower bandwidth-compatible systems. As a result, India is becoming the fourth largest market for video conferencing equipment.

“Despite the softening of the market elsewhere, there is great demand in the Asia Pacific region for HD video conferencing,” said Yoshikazu Hirano, General Manager, Business & Professional Products Asia Pacific (BPPA). “Currently, HD deployment in video conferencing has not matured and this presents a lucrative market opportunity for Sony. In response, we are making our PCS-XG55 available in March to provide customers a high-quality HD video conferencing experience.”

Although the video conferencing industry is filled with SD endpoints, Sony expects to see a marked improvement in the HD visual communication system in the very near future, with estimated revenues projected to increase by more than four times in 2010 from 2007.

To ride the changing trend, Sony’s PCS-XG55 is designed to be both HD and SD compatible. This enables enterprises’ to tailor their business needs with affordable price and lower investment in bandwidth compared to the high-bandwidth requirements for high-end (maximum 1080p) HD visual communication systems.

However, the true experience of customers’ equipped with a HD video conferencing system (minimum 720p) will be largely affected by peers, who send poor quality video signals and low-resolution pictures from low-end endpoints.

Sony IPELA PCS-XG55 HD visual communication system will be competitively priced and available for shipping in March 2010 in the Asia-Pacific region, and possibly other markets too.

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For this week between holidays, Reilly Brennan from AOL Autos stops by our clubhouse to join Chris, Sam, and Dan for Episode #159 of the Autoblog Podcast. While it’s a question-centric podcast this week, we touch on a few news items before hitting a bunch of your emails. An in-depth chat about the Ford Mustang’s new 5.0-liter V8 starts us off, before we turn to an equally pithy chat about Toyota’s hybrid braking system concerns, and we briefly consider what Volvo’s pending sale to Geely might mean. From there on out, it’s listener-interaction central, and we break the two-hour barrier this week as a holiday treat(?) for everyone.

As ever, for exceptional quality ‘casts, our colleagues at Joystiq and Engadget do fine work. Let us know what you think of our podcast by dropping us an email at Podcast at Autoblog dot com, reviewing the show in iTunes, filling out our survey, or even leaving us a voicemail on our Google Voice line 734-288-8POD (734-288-8763). Thanks for listening!

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A few of you may already know that Team Fortress 2 didn’t always look like Toy Story más violence, but for the unawares: it did. So, proof! A certain Curits Lassam, friend to all, found an old PC Gamer preview from the year two-thousand that described the game in its old, Counter-Strike-like art style. Yuck.

It’s safe to say I wouldn’t have spent nearly as much time sniping those red dogs if the game looked realistic. There’s a certain charm to mayhem and carnage when it looks like Buzz Lightyear.

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Did you buy a present via your iPhone this holiday season? eBay (EBAY) says the chances you did increased greatly this year, citing a 3x increase in items purchased via smartphones during the holiday season.

For the year, the company said, buyers and sellers did around $500 million worth of transactions using their phones.

I would also assume that Amazon saw a similar trend, particularly since it rolled out well-received shopping apps for both Research in Motion’s BlackBerry (RIMM) and Apple’s iPhone (AAPL) this year.

But note that for whatever reason, Amazon doesn’t mention mobile in its annual “let us tell you how awesome are holiday sales were, without actually attaching any real numbers to these claims” release.

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Munich Re Calls for Climate Action: German reinsurer Munich Re warned today that a lack of big earthquakes and hurricanes this year should not lead to complacency about climate change. — Financial Times

Concerns About Hong Kong Water Security: A series of droughts in China has raised concerns that Hong Kong’s water supply is threatened by […]

SoundExchange, the collections group in charge of collecting and distributing money to musicians from a variety of different services (radio, satellite, webcasting, etc.), is technically a “spinoff” of the RIAA, but as many people who have dealt with SoundExchange will tell you, it’s still tied at the hip with the RIAA. In fact, I was recently talking with someone who told the story of “negotiating” with SoundExchange, and was surprised to discover at the meeting that there was an RIAA representative who did all the talking. The SoundExchange guy stayed quiet.

Why the government has granted exclusive rights to this industry group to collect and distribute money to musicians is troubling enough. But it’s made worse by the fact that if SoundExchange “can’t find” musicians to give the money to, it gets to keep the money. Thus, for years there’s been a struggle over the fact that SoundExchange seems to have incredible trouble finding musicians — including some huge rock stars, and that means that SoundExchange, officially a non-profit, is holding on to a ton of cash (currently somewhere around $200 million). There are also questions about how SoundExchange has violated the law that created it, in order to lobby for even more rights to collect money from radio stations.

Based on all this, we’ve always had trouble taking SoundExchange seriously, so consider us skeptical now that the organization claims that it’s going to be much more open and communicative and has launched a new website to help be more open. Only problem? The big list of artists that SoundExchange can’t find has gone missing. In the link above to P2Pnet, entertainment lawyer Fred Wilhelms goes through a variety of questions that SoundExchange hasn’t answered, and he asks what happened to that list (while also noting how the list almost never seemed to change):

The new website is a lot cleaner and easier to use, but there’s one thing the old site had that the new site doesn’t; the unregistered artist list.

As of now, there’s no way for anyone outside the organization to assist in the effort to locate artists that SoundExchange has been unable to register since 2006. Despite your glowing reports on how many artists SoundExchange has been finding, you and I both know that, before the list disappeared, no names had been removed from the published list in over seven months, and only a couple dozen in the last 18 months. I’ll take your subsequent assertion that the full and updated list will appear on the website at face value. Is there any schedule for that? Please don’t tell me “soon.” That’s a devalued coin in the SoundExchange treasury.

Wilhelms also notes that for all of SoundExchange’s claims to be “open” it’s also conveniently not explaining how it determines who gets paid:

There’s another thing that is missing from the new website which was repeatedly promised to me by John Simson and Neeta Ragoowansi; an explanation of how SoundExchange uses samples to determine which artists get what share of the royalty revenue when complete census data is not available. I was told two years ago that this information would be provided on the website, but I find that, not only is sampling not mentioned, SoundExchange continues to say things like “Get Paid When You Get Played.” That’s the header on the Featured Registered Artist page.

I have clients who have gotten a lot of play, but haven’t gotten paid, and they’ve been told it was because their plays were not in the sample playlists provided by the webcasters who play them. Perhaps you can explain why SoundExchange has decided not to mention sampling on the website. I come back to related problems later on in this letter, but I would like to know if SoundExchange is ever going to explain how it samples, or even that it relies on sampling at all.

This is a big issue. As we’ve seen over and over again, many of these collections societies use sampling and counting methods that greatly overvalue big stars (who need the money less) at the expense of up-and-coming artists. It’s like the poor get to pay the rich.

From there, Wilhelm’s letter goes on in great detail responding to claims from SoundExchange and debunking them one by one. SoundExchange claims that they’re now going to be much more open and respond to these types of questions. We’ll be interested to see what they have to say.

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Last week, Formula One’s commercial overseer Bernie Ecclestone said he didn’t think USF1 was going to line up for the first race of 2010. To quote the man, “I think the people we expected to perform will and those that we thought wouldn’t, won’t.” It sounds like he never expected USF1 to be a team worth consideration.

Peter Windsor responded by essentially saying “Silly rabbit…” and about the same time a flood of content was added to the USF1 web site detailing the team’s progress. With a newly renovated HQ in Charlotte and a newly built European HQ in Aragon, Spain, not to mention making a new car, the team can be excused for being quiet. We only hope they make the right noises in Bahrain on March 1.

Follow the jump watch the USF1 vid, and check out its new site for news on plans for the latest American invasion of European motorsport. Hat tip to Carlo.

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