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Hoy ha sido publicado el texto completo del Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía Sostenible (en Meh.es, formato PDF) con los cambios introducidos en la Disposición Final Primera tras todo lo acontecido tras el manifiesto y la observación por parte de la clase política de los efectos en la opinión pública.

Sobre los cambios introducidos poco puedo añadir a los análisis realizados por gente como David Maeztu, Enrique Dans, Julio Alonso, La aldea irreductible, Andy Ramos y Versvs. El resumen de noticias es que el gobierno quiere ceder el control de internet a las gestoras de derechos y a las industrias tradicionales de los contenidos.

Sólo quería resaltar algo que me preocupa adicionalmente más allá del atropello a las libertades y al derecho a la defensa, cómo estas medidas que plantea el gobierno de cierre de webs por un órgano administrativo constituyen un incentivo negativo para la innovación. Si pensamos en servicios como Google, Flickr, Youtube, Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Blogger… todos tienen en común que son susceptibles de ser utilizados para enlazar / encontrar / almacenar contenidos con copyright, todos estarían amenazados por la censura, con una losa de inseguridad jurídica habilitada en una ley llamada de “Economía sostenible”. Pintoresco nombre, porque precisamente los modelos de distribución y promoción de contenidos dibujados por estos servicios son los que tienen sentido y están siendo adoptados en internet y no es lo que precisamente esta ley impulsa, sino todo lo contrario.

Se trata de un sacrificio de las pocas posibilidades que hay de que desde este país se contribuya a los nuevos modelos para los contenidos en la red, mientras se abraza el TDT como modelo para la red, se subvencionan los portales-coartada que sirven para decretar que “internet no funciona” y se intenta un imposible: que nada cambie, que los que hacen negocio sigan haciéndolo igual, con los mismos márgenes y que ante tal dislate nadie proteste. El próximo Google no se creará en España, es lo más probable en todo caso, pero sin duda esta ley no hará sino contribuir con ello. No está mal recordarlo cada vez que oigamos a un político hablar de innovación y cambio de modelo.

• Key Competitors: Chevrolet Camaro SS, Dodge Challenger SRT8, Nissan 370Z.
• Power: 5.0L 4-valve Ti-VCT V8 – 412-hp / 390 lb-ft.
• Transmission: 6-speed manual, 6-speed automatic.
• Performance: Somewhere in the 4.5 – 4.7 range.
• Availability: Mid-2010.
• Pricing: TBA.

The 5.0 Mustang GT is back and it has rolled into the 2010 Detroit Auto Show 412-hp and a peak torque of 390 lb-ft. Finally passing the 400-hp out, the 2011 Mustang GT should compete fairly strong against the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS and the Dodge Challenger, which produce 426-hp and 425-hp respectively.

Transmission choices will be a 6-speed automatic, which helps deliver an estimated fuel-economy of 17/25 mpg (city/highway), or a 6-speed manual, which helps return 16/24 mpg.

Pricing and other details will be announced closer to launch date later this year.

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2010 Detroit: 2011 Ford Mustang GT:

All Photos Copyright © 2009 Stephen Calogera – egmCarTech.

2011 Ford Mustang GT:

– By: Stephen Calogera

Since the Final Fantasy XIII release back in December, there has been word buzzing around that the game is an epic disappointment with frustrating linearity to boot. If this Hong Kong gaming mag is to believed, it’s

Content creators are happy to argue the same rhetoric over and over again on how online piracy is raging havoc in the established industries and continue to ask for ever-increasing penalties for users guilty or just accused of illegal sharing. At the same time, the industry is happy to ignore actual hard numbers that indicat… (read more)

Gov. Pat Quinn today named Dr. Quentin Young Illinois’ Public Health Advocate.

Dr. Young will develop wellness and education programs to help improve the health of the residents across Illinois.

“Throughout his long and distinguished career, Quentin Young has stood up for patients everywhere,” said Gov. Quinn.

“He will be a strong voice for Illinois families and will fight to ensure that everyone has easy-to-understand information about critical public health issues facing our state.”

Dr. Young has been a constant advocate for patient rights, changing the face of medicine in Chicago and around the nation. Dr. Young founded the Committee to End Discrimination, which would eventually help to desegregate Chicago hospitals.

In 1964, he helped launch the Medical Committee for Human Rights, serving as national chairman for the group that would become the medical arm of the Civil Rights Movement. (Background Information)

Serving as personal physician to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Young marched beside him in 1966 during a peaceful protest in Chicago, treating King’s wound when an angry spectator hit him with a rock.

”I am honored to be appointed to be Illinois Public Health Advocate by Gov. Quinn,” said Dr. Young.

“I look forward to utilizing my lifetime of experience to develop effective programs that will improve the health of the people of Illinois.”

Dr. Young served successfully as chairman of the Department of Medicine at Cook County Hospital, president of the Chicago Board of Health, and president of the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Young founded the Chicago-based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and co-founded the Physicians for a National Health Program. In 2001, a 78-year-old Dr. Young walked across Illinois with Governor Quinn in support of quality healthcare for everyone.

Gov. Quinn signed an executive order to create the position of Illinois’ Public Health Advocate on Nov. 21, 2009.

The office will recommend and facilitate the development of public health strategies designed to prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure diseases. (Executive Order)

In his position Dr. Young will focus on assisting residents in understanding health coverage provisions and help them better understand their public health rights. He will also work to ensure that public health reports are easily accessible and understandable.

The position will be housed within the Department of Public Health and will utilize existing public health programs, staff and resources.

Japanese carmaker Nissan took to Detroit this week yet another crazy concept with EV capabilities, called Mixim. The concept is part of the Michelin Challenge Design display, which can be viewed at the the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS).

The Mixim, which has the same wheelbase as the Nissan Cube, is powered by two Super Motor electric motor/generators with unknown capabilities. For storage, the concept uses lithium-ion batteries, while separate electric motor… (read more)

For just a minute there, we bet you were thinking all the magic, intrigue, and mystery had gone out of your relationship with upcoming webOS devices. After the Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, there seemed to just be a long line of slightly tweaked and updated models as far as the eye could see.

Take heart, friends, for the Palm C40 has been spotted again in Sprint’s systems, according to  Phone Arena. We first spotted this mysterious beast back in August and thought then that we were looking at the Pixi. However as that connection became dubious (the Palm 120 is the Pixi), the C40 looked to just be a mirage.

It still could be a mirage, but since Verizon negotiated an exclusive on the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, Sprint-users need something to point their camels towards. In the meantime, we’re pretty much flummoxed as to what this C40 is. If you’re not, you know how to find us.

Today we officially invite you, our loyal readers, to get your thoughts out to a wider audience by having your say on FreakBits, the official side-blog of TorrentFreak.com.

While TorrentFreak was originally designed to be a purely BitTorrent news site, inevitably over the years we’ve branched out a little.

While still staying focused on file-sharing and closely related copyright issues, there are times we’d like to bring little snippets of news that lie outside our current parameters. This is where FreakBits comes in.

Since the day FreakBits went  live, we’ve always hoped that our readers would come along and have your say on any BitTorrent, file-sharing, piracy or copyright related issues. A few people have stepped forward with posts and we’ve been happy to publish a few thus far, but we know you guys can do more.

Apart from the “FIRST!!” posters and a handful of others that inevitably inhabit the TorrentFreak comments section, we have some very insightful posters whose writings absolutely deserve more attention. So we’d like to offer that opportunity.

We want to encourage debate, so while we’re not going to become a launch pad for the MPAA and RIAA to have a rant, we certainly aren’t going to reject a well-thought out post that might go against the general pro-file-sharing opinion. Especially since anyone who disagrees will be perfectly entitled to send us an article in response.

We anticipate, however, that our readers from the BitTorrent and file-sharing community will come forward and send us insightful posts on things that are important to you and you feel will be of interest to the wider readership.

Maybe you’d like to do a site review, submit a tutorial you’ve created or have a rant about something currently grinding your gears? Perhaps you have some solutions for bringing the war on piracy to an end, or a response to a big story currently doing the rounds on TorrentFreak or other news sites. Who knows? We’ll let you decide.

All published articles will be linked from the main page of TorrentFreak where they will attract millions of views per month. You will also get the opportunity to link back to your own site, blog or Twitter account.

If you’d like to write for FreakBits on a one-off or even a permanent basis, please submit your post to us at [email protected] for consideration.

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So this is how Snooki ended up on Jersey Shore!

Did you know that the loudest pouf-lovin’ guidette in Garden State was featured on an episode of MTV’s Is She Really Going Out With Him? last summer.

Check out this vintage clip of Snooki flipping into Full Bitch Mode on a wayward boyfriend!

Is a $3 million grant from Pfizer the answer to creating continuing medical education courses that are free of industry influence? Yes, according to Stanford’s med school.

In a statement this morning, Stanford said the three-year grant comes with “no conditions, and the company will not be involved in developing the curriculum.”

Drug companies, medical device makers and other health-care companies spend about $1 billion every year to sponsor the continuing medical education courses that doctors have to take to keep their licenses up to date. But as lawmakers, among others, have started to pay more attention to the financial ties between doctors and industry, there’s been a move to limit the industry’s influence on CME courses.

Stanford said back in 2008 that it would no longer accept industry financing from companies that wanted to fund specific CME courses. Also that year, Pfizer stopped funding CME provided by third-party, for-profit companies.

The new CME curriculum is being designed by Stanford docs and will aim to be more participatory and interactive than traditional lectures. The courses will take place on the Stanford campus.

This morning’s New York Times includes a report on the Stanford-Pfizer arrangement, with mixed comments from a few docs who have studied doctor-industry ties. One doc praised the move, saying Stanford “is once again leading the pack.” Another says the announcement that industry funding will lead to an independent curriculum is “self-satirizing.”

In the statement from Stanford, Pfizer’s chief medical officer says the company wants to “help redefine how CME is funded so that practicing physicians can get access to the latest science, presented in ways that unquestionably put the interests of the patient first and foremost.”

Photo: Associated Press

Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Sedan, Chrysler, Luxury

Chrysler made one of the past decade’s strongest design statements with the 2005 introduction of the 300. The rear-wheel-drive sedan with blocky styling was a knockout with both the general consumer and, maybe more specifically, the aftermarket. Five years on and the 300 is still a SEMA favorite.

Sometimes, modded 300s look pretty swank. Of course, sometimes not so much. If you’re standing in Chrysler’s shoes, obviously you want to muscle in on this market. Meet the 300 S6 and 300 S8. Essentially, these two cars are appearance packages. However, we think they’re great looking appearance packs.

The big difference between the new cars (both are badged with “300 S” instead of the more Audi-infringing S6 and S8 monikers) and the regular 300 is the grille. Gone are the full chromed snouts of the normal 300s, in are blacked-out grilles with chrome surrounds and body-colored accents. The doors are “shaved,” the mirrors are body-colored and the headlight bezels are darkened. And, of course, the 20-inch wheels are highly polished.

The interior is also done up in low-key bling. There’s a carbon weave steering wheel with red stitching and silver spokes, “track-tested” leather seats with a “300 S” logo with perforated suede inserts. The door handles are also done up in carbon weave with red stitching – a cool, thorough touch.

If you’re wondering what the difference is between the two special edition models themselves, the 300 S6 comes with a 3.5-liter V6 (250 horsepower, 250 pound-feet of torque) and the 300 S8 comes with the 5.7-liter Hemi V8 (340 hp, 390 lb-ft of torque). Visually, the difference is quite slight. The 300 S8 has twin pipes and nearly solid-red taillights, while the 300 S6’s rear lights feature a clear round circle. Also, we called Audi to ask about infringement on their S6 and S8 names. “No comment.”

Photos by Drew Phillips / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.

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NBC Universal’s Syfy network and California-based game development company Trion World Network are about to revolutionize the way you watch TV shows and play video games. Spurred on by an investment from NBCU’s and GE Capital’s Peacock Equity fund — which invests in digital media companies in the venture capital space — the two are developing an online video game in tandem. As Lars Butler, CEO of Trion, says in the video below about the project, which has the working title One Earth: “In this unique set-up, we can do things that other people would never even dare before: create a video game world and a television show… They not only promote each other, they literally depend on each other and co-evolve.” Rob Hill, the senior producer for Trion, adds: “This project, in collaboration with Syfy, in and of itself, is completely different from anything I’ve worked on …Usually you have a game that’s based off of a book or television show or movie, or a movie that’s based off a game…. Some of the implications of what we are trying to accomplish here are to really be able to broaden the audience,” by bringing viewers from the show into the game and vice versa.

Tomorrow, we’ll bring you Part 2 of our video series — “Peacock Equity: Investing in Next-generation Media” — which will take a closer look at the unique collaboration between Trion and NBCU by examining the Peacock Equity fund itself. In that video, we’ll hear strategy from Michael Chen, President and CEO of Media, Communications & Entertainment for GE Capital, and we’ll hear about some of the fund’s recent investments from Lauren Zalaznick, who heads NBCU’s Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks.

* Read about the Peacock Fund’s investment in BlogHer
* Read about Peacock’s investment in EveryZing
* Read “What’s On? A new Comcast/NBCU media venture” on GE Reports
* Read updates about the recently announced deal between NBCU and Comcast
* Learn more about GE Capital in our recent GE Reports stories

Although Flavio Briatore’s lawyers told the media in recent days that there would be no point in the International Automobile Federation (FIA) launching an appeal to the verdict issued by the Paris’ Tribunal de Grande Instance, the ruling body today confirmed that it has decided to do just that.

In a press release released by the international federation earlier today, it is mentioned that the new president of the FIA Jean Todt also agreed to launch the legislative appeal over the… (read more)

Una de las terapias a las que recurren cada vez más argentinos con dolor de espalda o de cuello, ciática, migrañas o con artritis es la quiropraxia, una técnica de manipulación espinal para alinear la columna y controlar el dolor que aparece cuando una vértebra aprieta alguno de los nervios que parten de la médula.

The 2012 Ford Focus is generating huge buzz at today’s 2010 Detroit Auto Show. We now have a video of the 2012 Focus in action with some of Ford of Europe’s development team taking us through FoMoCo’s new compact.

Click here for our original post on the 2012 Ford Focus.

Refresher: Power for the 2012 Ford Focus comes from a 2.0L DI Ti-VCT engine making 155-hp and a peak torque of 145 lb-ft. It is mated to a 6-speed manual or Ford’s latest dry-clutch 6-speed Ford PowerShift automatic transmission. Sales of the 2012 Focus will begin in early 2011.

Click through for the video.

2012 Ford Focus:

2012 Ford Focus:

– By: Kap Shah

As if streets didn’t have enough pandemonium, Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki has created a White Noise Machine. He put it in a street in Delhi, India, and this is what happened.

The White Noise Generator analyzes the sound coming into it, and spits it back at you as gibberish. Sometimes I believe that Times Square does this on its own, out of pure acoustics. [Designboom]

Article Tags: ClimateGate, James Delingpole

But only in a Crecy (1346) way rather than an Agincourt (1415) way – which is to say we’ve got an awful long way to go before this war’s over.

Still, I do think we evil Climate Change Deniers can take heart from this characteristically incisive piece by Brian Micklethwait at the libertarian/classical liberal website Samizdata. (Hat tip: Richard North).

Micklethwait draws parallels between “climate change” and the Cold War

Meanwhile, the AGW debate has arrived at the same position that the Cold War argument had arrived at in or around about 1970 to 1980. An informed minority of pro-economic-progress critics had won the academic argument against the pro-economic-derangement academics, and word of this victory was spreading. And a particular thing that happened then is starting to happen now, which is that even intelligent layman critics of the John Redwood (and Brian Micklethwait) variety are starting to understand the details of the argument better than even the very smartest of the pro-derangement scientists, of the sort who are still advising governments, or who are still receiving and still trying still to believe this advice.

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