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  • Obama admin: Mandated exemptions can strengthen copyright




    The Obama administration has offered up a strange mix of copyright policies in its first year (both ACTA and Creative Commons, for instance), but it has at least made clear that “better copyright law” does not always mean “more copyright protection.” In the middle of December, for instance, the administration took a stand in support of a World Intellectual Property Organization treaty on copyright exceptions for the blind. The final bit of the US statement of support is worth quoting in full (emphasis added):

    We recognize that some in the international copyright community believe that any international consensus on substantive limitations and exceptions to copyright law would weaken international copyright law. The United States does not share that point of view. The United States is committed to both better exceptions in copyright law and better enforcement of copyright law. Indeed, as we work with countries to establish consensus on proper, basic exceptions within copyright law, we will ask countries to work with us to improve the enforcement of copyright. This is part and parcel of a balanced international system of intellectual property.

    It’s a call for “balanced” copyright taken directly to the WIPO—and it’s one opposed by the deepest-pocketed copyright holders. Here’s why.

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  • Touch, smell and feel before you buy with Project Sense

    Sense wirelessly connects with a computer and will give users a sensory representation of ...

    The Sense concept designed by CD&I Associates is a wireless device that will, it’s claimed, offer a “more emotional connection between users and experiences” through touch and smell. It aims to give users haptic, thermal and olfactory sensations while playing games, watching movies and shopping online via a tactile hand sheath and flavor-ink printed output…

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  • I have a friend recently diagnosed with “Stiff Person Syndrome”

    He is in bad shape and his neurologist is not providing any answers or hope. He is unable to work, has to use a walker, can no longer drive, and when heavily medicated to ease the symptoms and pain he can barely complete a sentence… all at 55 years of age.

    I bring this up here because from what I have read, Stiff-Person’s Syndrome is related to diabetes. Yet when I ask him if he has been diagnosed with diabetes or if it has been ruled out, he says no. My friend is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He has been in and out of the hospital three times since early September and each stay was for a week or more with him being moved for another week or two to rehab centers. They have done lots of test, but they are primarily neurological in nature as his current physician is a neurologist who seems most interested in research, I fear she is treating the neurological symptoms when the root cause of those neurological problems maybe are being ignored…. if you are a hammer every solution to a problem looks like a nail, and all that.

    The problem is I can just about guarantee he is diabetic. He was diagnosed with diabetic neuropathy about a month ago, he was put on a “diabetic diet” while in the hospital the 2nd time in mid October, and this last hospital stay in early December they were giving him insulin injections!!!!! Yet he is dismissed once again without any direction other than take a bunch of pain pills, tranquilizers, neurological meds similar to seizure medications, and oh yeah, watch the fats and cholesterol. So my assumption is he has been living, and continues to live, as an untreated diabetic suffering from diabetes complications.

    I spent the better part of an hour one on one with him explain why I suspect he is an untreated diabetic and what all that means. Another mutual friend and I asked him if he would like for us to prepare a list of questions to take to his primary care physician. He said he would really appreciate that. My friend is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and under the circumstances I wonder about his wife too. I asked him as subtly as I could if his wife was always present when he talks to his doctors. She is. I am afraid that in an odd sort of way that might be a problem. I fear she knows he is diabetic and isn’t telling him. You would assume that is ridiculous but our mutual friend who is a health professional with numerous connections (he is a PhD but not a M.D) is just as suspicious as I am. We will know more about that when we deliver the questions and see if she is willing to ask them and get real answers.

    If any of you have experience with Stiff-Man’s Syndrome I would appreciate your advice.

    All the best

    Ed B

  • Biggest Delayed Games of 2009

    If one trend defined 2009, it was heavy delays on some of the year’s most anticipated games. Though we had the usual holiday flood this year, it would have been much bigger if not for all the pushed back games that are set for early 2010. We even published a feature on the trend in August, and the delays just kept coming. So as we close out the year, let’s take another look at some of the titles delayed this year, and when they’re due.

    Alpha Protocol

    One way not to delay a game can be found in an example from Sega. Rumors spread of an Alpha Protocol delay as reviewers noticed the company hadn’t sent any copies of the game; but it took until the game’s release day to finally confirm it. Now it’s set for spring of 2010. On the other end of the spectrum, Bayonetta was pushed into early next year to “maximize [its] potential,” but seems to have leaked to the public by major retailers already. So to be clear: one game waited until its release date to announce a delay, and the other was delayed but unofficially came out early.

    The delay of BioShock 2 wasn’t quite as storied. It seemed to be a necessary move to improve the quality of the game, and now it’s due early next year. Dark Void, meanwhile, was more bluntly delayed to avoid the “crowded fall season.”


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  • John Mayer Wants You To Defragment Your Brain With A Digital Cleanse

    Anyone who follows John Mayer on Twitter knows that he’s a smart guy. A bit kooky at times, sure. But he’s definitely not just shooting his mouth off with self-promotional drivel. He’s built up quite a following on the service too, with over 2.8 million Twitter followers. So when he invites all of his fans to give up Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks for a week, you know there are a lot of people paying attention.

    Tonight, Mayer has announced a One Week Digital Cleanse. The purpose? To ring in the new year with a slightly less chaotic mental state. In his post announcing the Cleanse, Mayer likens our increasingly scattered lifestyles to fragmented hard drives. It’s an apt comparison — between sites like Twitter, Facebook, and multiple Email boxes, most of us have data and friendships scattered across a dozen different places. Mayer thinks giving some of these up for a while might be a good way to “defragment” our minds. He’s not quitting these services the way Trent Reznor and Miley Cyrus did, he’s just taking a week long break, and he wants his fans to join him.

    Unlike some similar campaigns I’ve heard of, which asked you to quit just about everything with a digital display, Mayer’s drive is probably doable for a lot of people. It doesn’t ask you to give up Email, and you can still use your cell phone for some things. Here are the guidelines :

    Begins on January 1 at 9AM and runs until January 8 at 9AM
    *email only from laptop or desktop computers
    *cell phones can only be used to make calls, and no text messages or e-mails are allowed – if you receive a text, you must reply in voice over the phone. E-mails must be returned from a laptop or desktop computer.
    *no use of Twitter or any other social networking site – this includes reading as well as posting.
    *no visiting of any entertainment or gossip sites. (No need to detail which ones – you know what they are.)

    Work commitments keep me from engaging in the Cleanse myself, but you may want to give it a try, if only for a day or two. If nothing else, consider just how attached you’ve become to these online services. Last June, when I took a weeklong vacation to the Caribbean, I found myself suffering some pretty serious withdrawals when I couldn’t compulsively check my Email or the latest tech news. It took about two full days of perfect weather and endless beaches to kick the sense of impending doom. That’s a little weird. Technology is amazing, but getting some perspective is a good thing.

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  • Nexus One trounces 3D benchmark, gets caught in high-res photoshoot

    Just when you thought you’d seen it all with Nexus One, along comes an old friend with some higher resolution shots of the handset (hooray!) and a pretty impressive 3D benchmark test using Qualcomm’s Neocore. Video’s after the break –that Snapdragon chip outputs a mean framerate, no?

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    Nexus One trounces 3D benchmark, gets caught in high-res photoshoot originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Open Thread: Mainstream Media Discovers Geekery, Is This a Good Thing?

    Facebook’s getting its own movie, Ashton Kutcher is the social web’s unpaid spokesman and now NBC is launching a show dedicated to mobile apps.

    What’s the world coming to? Call me old fashioned, but where I come from, a geek is a geek and a mainstream actor with an iPhone is still just a mainstream actor with an iPhone. The Oprahtization of technology is at least a bit demeaning, from my point of view. Sure, this trend brings exposure to our heroic exploits, but it’s often done through stereotypes about geeks and an air of naïveté about how technology really works. What do you think? Am I being a curmudgeon? Is all this mainstream-tech integration really a good thing?

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    Granted, we all have to discover technology at some point. None of us were born nerds. But there’s a certain je ne sais quoi that is unique to geeks: a melange of smarts, social pickiness, a willingness to be different, insatiable curiosity, a desire to learn and create new and amazing things, and frequently, a very necessary shell to protect oneself from the rejections of the larger world around us. As a people accustomed to being ostracized for speaking in terms too technical, having a bizarre sense of humor or caring more about bandwidth than baseball, we have generally existed far outside the cool kids’ club.

    Not to frame my entire argument in a high school analogy, but we have mostly been useful for one thing: Doing other people’s homework. When they – the non-technical of this world – want an application, device, website or feature, we built it and teach them how to use it. This has been the geek’s role for eons: Doing the jocks’ dirty work and then skipping prom. Can you imagine Einstein hobnobbing with Marlene Deitrich? Or a young Steve Jobs on an early ’80s red carpet with a young Harrison Ford? Yet we are seeing more and more crossover between mainstream media and our little world of technology to the point that you can’t tell the tech from the tinsel.

    Perhaps it’s just disconcerting to see those two worlds meshing for the first time. Perhaps all my angst is simply discomfort. Yet when I see and hear innovators and geeks referred to as ugly, graceless basement-dwellers, even in jest, by mainstream talking heads, it still gets to me.

    But what gets to me more is the new set of faux geeks – folks who know just enough about tech to send a misspelled Twitter update from their mobiles but who thrive on the attention and revenue they gain from this scene. They wouldn’t know an API from a IP; the red carpet is more likely their natural habitat; yet they incessantly appear in blog posts, pictures and videos until the real geeks don’t even remember how they got there. It happens on a small scale (every tech scene has its skill-free new media douchebag), and it’s starting to happen on a larger scale, as well (why is Olivia Munn a geek, again?).

    Call me bitter, call me jealous, call me cynical – but let me know what you think, too. Some of our friends on Twitter told us they didn’t like mainstream media’s encroachment onto geek territory, but others who responded to our query see this exposure as a good thing, and we want to hear this point of view, as well. After all, I was excited the first time I heard Twitter mentioned in a news report, too.

    Give us your opinions in the comments, and don’t hold back! We love a good, long-winded discourse at ReadWriteWeb.

    Note: Lest you throw stones at the writer for not being geeky enough herself, she was building LANs and playing the first version of King’s Quest when you were still in diapers.

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  • S. Korea ranks lowest in supply ratio of renewable energy – Balita News

    SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Yonhap) — The supply ratio of renewable energy in South Korea was the lowest among the world’s major economies, data showed Thursday, amid increasing calls for the development of eco-friendly energy resources. According to the data …


  • Ford dealers hoping to keep ‘Escape’ badge when Kuga based replacement arrives

    Ford Kuga - Ford Escape

    FoMoCo dealers are looking forward to a much-needed successor to the Ford Escape and if they can have their own way, the “Escape” badge would live on as the official name for the mid-size crossover.

    The current Ford Escape is scheduled to be replaced by a version of the European based Kuga, which will see production at Ford’s Louisville, KY, assembly plant starting 2011. Ford has not commented on whether it will drop the Escape badge and adopt the Kuga name for the crossover.

    “I believe the Escape is a great vehicle with a great reputation and that it would be a big mistake to kill the Escape name,” Owen Mossy, general manager of San Diego-based Mossy Ford, told WardsAuto.

    Of course if Ford ditched the Escape badge, it would be tossing away a name with significant brand recognition in turn harming sales of one of the best sellers for the Dearborn automaker.

    Your thoughts? Let us know in the comments section below.

    – By: Omar Rana

    Source: WardsAuto


  • Japanese firm buys Explay tiny projector startup for a song

    Japan’s ADM has purchased the Israeli startup Explay for $550,000. Investors put an estimated $7 million into the maker of pico-projectors, which can be used in cell phones or other devices to project bright images on walls. Texas Instruments, which makes digital light processing chips, is a leader in this market.


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  • Dutch embrace the digital strip search, U.S. next? (reader poll)

    privacyThe Netherlands will use full body scanners in screening airline passengers as a result of the lapse in security that allowed a would-be terrorist bomber on board a jet from Amsterdam on Christmas Day. The scanners will allow security personnel to see through people’s clothes and amount to what privacy advocates are calling a “digital strip search.”

    As I await my own flight plans for the Consumer Electronics Show, I’m not looking forward to this trend migrating to the U.S. I knew that I would be able to reuse the cover image from the Business Week story lamenting the loss of privacy, from a story published in 1989. But I didn’t know it would be so soon.

    The full-body scanners have been used on a voluntary basis in test markets in the Europe and the U.S. They can highlight hidden cash, drugs or weapons under someone’s clothes. But they can also show whether you’ve got breast implants or provide images of what your body really looks like under your clothes.

    The machines cost about $150,000. The steep price and the privacy concerns have held off widespread deployment of the machines. And some security experts say they’re also not as good as a good old-fashioned strip search. The Dutch authorities can of course blame this all on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian man who tried to blow up a bomb hidden inside his underwear on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

    digital strip searchIn the U.S., the Transportation Safety Authority says it has 40 scanners at 19 airports and has ordered some 150 more. The scanners are made by Rapiscan System, a division of OSI Systems in Hawthorne, Calif. Right now, the TSA blurs images of passenger’s faces and operators are stationed far from the passengers. The scanners do not store any data and so they can’t keep a record of a person’s image. I think this is a case of an invasive technology that’s going to drive a deep wedge between people. Is it the answer?

    Please take our poll about whether you think these scanners are a good idea or not. [scanner photo: Discover Magazine]

    Should security personnel use full body scanning technology?(polls)


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  • Modern Warfare 2 wireless PS3 mod

    Can’t put down your Modern Warfare 2 even when the real world is beckoning you? Modder Techknott has found a solution to that dilemma with his homemade handheld device which sends control signals to a PS3, which

  • Make it Sir! Patrick Stewart attains knighthood

    Sir Patrick Stewart — I like the sound of that. Just for the record: he deserves it. Also, if you haven’t read his piece on domestic violence, go do so now.


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  • PSA: Watch for the blue moon this New Year’s Eve

    a_blue_moon1250259866This isn’t part of our usual beat, but I thought I’d share it with you anyway. This New Year’s Eve has a very special event associated with it, a blue moon. No, that doesn’t mean a baby smurf is going to be born, if means that there are going to be two full moons in the same month.

    The last time this happened on New Year’s Eve was 1990 and it… well, really didn’t impact anything other then the themes of New Year’s Eve parties. So I guess file this one under something to talk about around the water cooler.


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  • Trade show shocker: Sling to out some new gear at CES

    Okay, you’re not surprised that some companies are going to have new gear at CES, are you? Well, we”re hearing that Sling — a company that’s not had much news this year beyond the release of its iPhone app — will definitely unleash some new stuff in Las Vegas, including “WiFi television, ultra-slim Slingboxes, and a next-generation touch screen device.” Now, we don’t want to get everyone overly excited this early in the day, but those all definitely sound like upgrades to us. We really don’t know if Sling will let slip any more specific info between now and CES, but as you know, we’ll be In Vegas when it all goes down, so sit back and be patient. It won’t be long, now.

    Trade show shocker: Sling to out some new gear at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple tablet rumor party: Fox News, former Google China president, and the ‘iGuide’

    No words can stress how much we’re sick of Apple ‘iSlate‘ rumors right now, but when someone with powerful links speaks up, we gotta take note. Kai-fu Lee — former Google China president — has joined the Apple rumor mill by leaking what he claims to be insider knowledge of the device. Now, we’ve heard a lot of this same noise before: sub-$1000 price, an iPhone-like appearance, 10.1-inch multitouch screen, video conferencing, cellular connectivity, 3D graphics and virtual keyboard. What really got our attention is Lee’s link with Foxconn — the Apple OEM is one of the main contributors to Lee’s post-Google investment venture, Innovation Works, so there’s a good chance that Lee’s spoken to someone overlooking the manufacturing of a certain Apple device. Of course, we can’t abide Lee’s final proclamation that “Apple expects to produce near ten million units in the first year!” This is pretty bold considering Apple’s only sold five million portable computers so far this year (and ten million was the number of iPods sold in Q3 2009 alone), but hey, who knows if Steve Jobs has already worked out a subsidizing plan with some carriers to lure us all?

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  • Bugatti Renaissance Concept by Vicente makes us dream of a Veyron successor

    Bugatti Renaissance Concept

    The big bosses at Volkswagen currently have no plans to offer a successor to the 1,001-hp Bugatti Veyron (and we’re pretty sure it’s the last thing on their mind). However, if they ever do decide on a successor to the Veyron, we definitely think they should consult John Mark Vicente, a Canadian graduate of the Communication Design program at Emily Carr.

    Known as the Bugatti Renaissance Design Concept, the study builds on the current Veyron, throws in some Audi R8 touches and steroids.

    Love it or hate it? Let us know in the comments section below.

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  • iPod bedding set redefines ‘touchably soft’

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    All you really need to do is ask yourself three things: Do I have a kid bed? Could my kid bed be so much cooler with an iPod touch duvet and pillowcase? Can I afford 349 Swedish kronor (about US $45)?

    If you answered ‘Yes! Yes! Uh… yes!’ to this informal product survey, Swedish retailer Ellos has exactly what you need. Questions raised in the TUAW offices like “Is that a touch-based capacitive sleep-enabled UI?” and “I wonder if that surface is oleophobic?” may require firsthand testing.

    The bedding set looks to be a pretty faithful iPod touch reproduction, with the exception of the misspelled legend for the Calendar icon. It’s so faithful, in fact, that I wouldn’t be surprised if the company heard from Apple’s Swedish legal representation in short order, with a suggestion that this product be sent to sleep with the fishes.

    OK, I grant you, this is no Tauntaun sleeping bag — but if you’re raising a household full of Apple geeks, it might be worth a look.

    Thanks Bertil!

    TUAWiPod bedding set redefines ‘touchably soft’ originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Wednesday Night Dawg Bites: Mike Leach/Gene Stallings/Romeo Crennel/Billy Bob Thornton Edition

    We’re now into the thick of bowl season and there are a lot of stories swirling around the world of college football, both locally and nationally. Here, for whatever they might be worth, are a few random observations regarding events this week:

    • Prior to the Independence Bowl, I mentioned the fact that the Georgia Bulldogs had been the lone victims of the Texas A&M Aggies in Bear Bryant’s first season in College Station. What you may not know about that 1954 game is that Coach Bryant brought just 31 players with him to Athens, Red and Black quarterback Jimmy Harper did not complete a pass until the game was deep into the fourth quarter, and the game’s only touchdown was scored on a 16-yard reception by Texas A&M end Gene Stallings, who would later coach both the Aggies and the Alabama Crimson Tide.
    • I know many prominent figures in the blogosphere are openly rooting for Mike Leach, who was fired earlier today as the head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Personally, I am torn. On the one hand, I have always viewed Coach Leach as rude rather than colorful, but it is equally tough for me to side with Craig James, who comes across as a smarmy character and who played for the SMU Mustangs during the scandal-riddled era that ultimately earned Southern Methodist the death penalty. I feel badly for Adam James, but, beyond that, I throw up my hands.
    • Earlier today, I received an e-mail that once again raised the name Romeo Crennel as a possibility to be Georgia’s next defensive coordinator. I can’t represent with anything approaching certainty that there is anything to the rumor at all, and I certainly would not tell you I have inside information or anything of the sort, but I can’t help noticing that a candidate whose name is off the radar keeps being mentioned as a possibility. (Incidentally, the first guy who mentioned the name Romeo Crennel to me did so after first mentioning the name Bud Foster, shortly before Coach Foster’s name surfaced publicly as the recipient of an offer.)
    • Is it just me, or did Idaho Vandals head coach Robb Akey sound like Billy Bob Thornton’s character from “Sling Blade” in his postgame interview following the Humanitarian Bowl?
    • Although the Aggies still lead the all-time series with Georgia with a 3-2 record, the ‘Dawgs lead the overall scoring by a cumulative margin of 118-80. That translates to an average score of 24-16 over the course of the series, but the Red and Black have won the last two meetings by an average margin of 43-10. The five series games have been played in four different cities, but the Bulldogs have never faced Texas A&M in College Station at “The Home of the Illegal Participation Penalty,” Kyle Field.

    Look for the latest installment of my “Don’t Bet On It!” postseason picks to be coming your way sometime tomorrow, but bear in mind that I jumped out to an impressively awful 1-7 start before the USC Trojans got me back on the winning track in the Emerald Bowl. Perhaps this reflects poorly on me, but, hey, I do warn you not to bet on it, so lighten up, slafa.

    Go ‘Dawgs!