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F1: Vettel Captures Pole For Inaugural Indian GP
Open the first casino in Queens, New York
Europeans: EU to vote on ACTA, get informed and involved!
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn Review
Microsoft buys Skype, attacks reverse engineer with bogus takedown notices and florid language
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F1: Vettel Captures Pole For Inaugural Indian GP

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Sebastian Vettel made it 13 poles in 17 events this season with his run to P1 on Saturday at Buddh International Circuit...

Open the first casino in Queens, New York

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 02:33 AM PDT

The project to be $ 830 million, and 'was approved in 2001, but because of criticism and controversy that has aroused among the New Yorkers were needed ten years to build.

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Europeans: EU to vote on ACTA, get informed and involved!

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 01:05 AM PDT

ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a punishing, secretly negotiated copyright treaty that could send ordinary people to jail for copyright infringement. The EU will soon vote on it. Here's a video for Europeans who want to learn more before their representatives vote to criminalize them, their children and their neighbours.

On the occasion of the Free Culture Forum in Barcelona, La Quadrature du Net releases three films to inform citizens and urge them to take action against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
ACTA is a threat to Internet users' fundamental freedoms and to EU Internet companies' competitiveness and free competition. The European Parliament will soon decide whether to give its consent to ACTA, or to reject it once and for all.
Every citizen can help defeat ACTA by spreading this video across the Internet, urging their fellow citizens to mobilize, and contacting their elected representatives.

[video] ACTA: Get Informed & Take Action!

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn Review

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:36 PM PDT

The Adventures of Tintin is a dull and repetitive platformer that does no justice to the exciting exploits of its titular character.

Score: 5.0 / mediocre

Get the full article at GameSpot

"The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn Review" was posted by Mark Walton on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:36:39 -0700

Microsoft buys Skype, attacks reverse engineer with bogus takedown notices and florid language

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:30 AM PDT

Microsoft-owned Skype has launched a campaign to shut down programmers who use reverse-engineering to understand its protocol and make interoperable products. Their PR agency calls this "nefarious attempts to subvert Skype's experience." Unfortunately for Skype and Microsoft, "experience" is not something the law protects -- after all, if a Skype user wants to talk to another person who uses a third-party Skype client, why would the law want to prevent that? Meanwhile, it appears that the sourcecode over which Microsoft is asserting copyright was created by the reverse-engineer they're harassing.

The day of publishing his initial details, Google's Blogger (where his blog is hosted) received a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) notice that two of his blog entries had to be removed: the post about his success in reverse-engineering the Skype protocol and then a second post about more technical details.
The complainant issuing the DMCA notice was in fact "Skype Inc" and the basis for the complaint is "Source code. The publication of this code, in addition to infringing Skype's intellectual property rights, may encourage improper spamming activities." (Google publishes DMCA complaints to ChillingEffects.org.)
Skype issued a second DMCA copyright notice after this researcher published more Skype related code. Those files have since moved to being hosted elsewhere. Skype is claiming copyright on the code even though the open-source code was written by the researcher. Another DMCA takedown attempt regarding the same work was issued again in early August when the researcher tried doing a DMCA counter-notice, and he ended up putting up links again to this "copyrighted" work.

Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering (via /.)

iFFmpeg 2.7.1 - Convert multimedia files between formats.. (Shareware)

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:59 PM PDT

iFFmpeg is a graphical front-end for FFmpeg, a command-line tool used to convert multimedia files between formats. The command line instructions can be very hard to master/understand, so iFFmpeg does all the hard work for you. This allows you to use FFmpeg without detailed command-line knowledge.

Version 2.7.1:

Fixed issue when using video pass thru for certain containers.
Added FFmpeg VP8 option : 'ALTREF noise reduction filter type'.
Added FFmpeg option 'Request Channels to decode'.
Added FFmpeg option 'Force Progressive Encoding (x264)'.
You can now simultaneous open information HUD windows for every file in the batch list.
Fixed alignment issues within information HUD windows.
Added some more FFmpeg options help tags.
Fixed issue with iPad preset (always rescaled to 1024x768 - even if the source was smaller - mostly resulted in big file size).

Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Working FFmpeg OS X binary (available here).

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Bookends 11.2 - Reference management and bibliography software.. (Demo)

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:59 PM PDT

Bookends is a full featured and cost-effective bibliography/reference and information management system for students and professionals.

Access the power of Bookends directly from Mellel, Nisus Writer Pro, or MS Word (including Word 2011): Bookends allows you to scan your existing word processor files and automatically generate finished manuscripts with properly formatted bibliographies. You can also scan Apple Pages '08 or '09 and OpenOffice 3 files, or RTF files saved from any word processor.

Bookends allows you to share your references over the Internet with anyone, on any platform! And with Bookends you can directly search and import references from numerous sources:

EndNote
PubMed
Web of Science
JSTOR
Google Scholar
Amazon
the Library of Congress
and hundreds of other online sources.

Or use a built-in browser to download references with pdfs and/or web pages. Also, with automatic searches of PubMed you can discover articles as soon as they're published. Bookends allows for powerful group-based searches, with static, smart, and virtual groups.

Bookends also offers a robust assortment of file attachment features:

Attach any file (such as a pdf) to a reference and view or open it instantly.
Automatically rename and organize pdf files on-the-fly.
Automatically download and attach the pdf of an article from the Internet if you have access permission.
Automatically locate and attach pdfs on your hard drive.

Sync your library with Bookends On Tap on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, so that you have your references and pdfs with you, wherever you are.

Version 11.2:

Bookends 11.2 requires an Intel Mac.
Sync with Bookends On Tap.
Reference entry/editing pane integrated in the library window.
New browser pane in library window.
Single column reference display.
Two new fields: Medium and User20.
Attach folder contents with drag and drop.
Window -> Reset Window Position.
If Bookends doesn't find a recently opened library on opening, it will ask you if you want to create one.
Indicate references that have orphaned attachments.
Open an attachment in Preview or Skim.
Each library window remembers its own settings when reopened.
Database Maintenance -> Verify checks for unnormalized Unicode and offers to normalize and reindex.
Improved Remove Duplicates.
Improved Find and Replace.
The factory default link type is Book : Book Chapter.
Many small cosmetic changes.
Library window nomenclature.
Smart scanning of UTF-8 encoded text files.
Create sql searches for date added.
Create final superscripted citations that have a closing but no opening parenthesis.
The Go To Reference menu and keyboard shortcuts work when the library window is in front.
Removed menus: Peek, Insert Reference, Find Again, Hits navigation when the library window is in front.
Removed controls: the library window View pop-up and the + add reference button.
Removed features: BibTeX option to underline labels of required fields (color field is still available).
Bug fixes.

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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F1: Vettel Moves Ahead In Final India Practice

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Sebastian Vettel laid down the quickest time in P3 Saturday at Buddh International Circuit...

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Posted: 28 Oct 2011 10:18 PM PDT

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