1. A.I.G. Plan for $100 Million Bonus Payout Draws Fire 38 minutes ago   permalink

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The American International Group, the giant insurer rescued in the biggest government bailout ever, has agreed to cut its next round of bonuses by $20 million. But it plans to distribute about $100 million to current and former employees on Wednesday, according to people close to the matter, and its intentions have already run into political fire.

2. Slowly, Food Distribution in Haiti Improves 1 hour ago   permalink

Slowly, Food Distribution in Haiti Improves
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PORT-AU-PRINCE — Four days into a new food distribution program from the United Nations that aims to repair a faltering aid effort, paper coupons that can be redeemed for 55 pounds of rice have become more valuable than Haitian money.

3. THE massive Joint Strike Fighter project is in serious trouble only two months after the Australian government ... 1 hour ago   permalink

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THE massive Joint Strike Fighter project is in serious trouble only two months after the Australian government committed itself to buying the yet-to-be-completed F-35 warplane.

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Robert Merkel / Larvatus Prodeo :   JSF in trouble?

4. Critic’s Notebook: If Meals Won Medals 1 hour ago   permalink

Critic’s Notebook: If Meals Won Medals
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Top: The Olympic rings are anchored in Coal Harbour in Vancouver, B.C. Above, from left: scrapple with a fried egg at Refuel; the cooks at Vij’s; Arctic char at Market.

5. Feature: Hands-on: Mozilla's pocket-sized Firefox mobile for Maemo 2 hours ago   permalink

Feature: Hands-on: Mozilla's pocket-sized Firefox mobile for Maemo
Ars Technica

Mozilla announced last week the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia's Linux-based smartphone operating system. It offers adequate browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user interface that includes popular Firefox features like the AwesomeBar. This Firefox ...

6. Brokers must think twice before tweeting, Facebooking 3 hours ago   permalink

Brokers must think twice before tweeting, Facebooking
Ars Technica

If you're a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you'll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting ...

7. Snub for European Union as Obama ducks out of summit 6 hours ago   permalink

Ewen MacAskill / World news and comment from the Guardian

Decision is sign that promise of more international approach from US being overtaken by pressing domestic concerns Europe failed the first test of new arrangements introduced by the Lisbon treaty yesterday when the US announced that Barack Obama would not attend a joint summit in May, partly out of ­frustration in Washington over the confused ...

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Ian Sample / World news and comment from the Guardian
US retreat leaves China leading way   —  New age of space exploration beckons, say experts, as Nasa pullout leaves door open for other countries The Chinese space agency could land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade in a move that would mark the beginning of a new age of lunar exploration, experts said today. The decision by the Obama administration to scrap Nasa's plans ...

8. Formatting errors when using NTFS-3G? 5 hours ago   permalink

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In order to implement full support for the NTFS file system, you will need to install third-party software. While Apple allows you to read NTFS drives on Macs, the ability to both write to these drives and format drives for NTFS are not included in OS X. NTFS-3G is one popular option for managing NTFS partitions in OS X; however, if you have had ...

9. Barak: make peace or face apartheid 6 hours ago   permalink

Barak: make peace or face apartheid
Rory McCarthy / World news and comment from the Guardian

Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, last night delivered an unusually blunt ­warning to his country that a failure to make peace with the Palestinians would leave either a state with no Jewish ­majority or an "apartheid" regime. His stark language and the South African analogy might have been unthinkable for a senior Israeli figure only a ...

10. Addressing problems with iTunes updates 6 hours ago   permalink

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The recent iTunes update has addressed a number of issues some people have had with iPods, playlist syncing, and the capability to remember passwords. While for most users the update should work without problems, some people have experienced issues with iTunes updates in the past and there is no guarantee that new problems will not occur.

11. Tony Abbott, you’re no Mark Latham 6 hours ago   permalink

Mark / Larvatus Prodeo

Possum has compared Tony Abbott’s polling with Mark Latham’s at the start of his leadership, and found: So while Abbott and Latham have some similarities in their early polling performance, Abbott was literally miles behind where Latham was at a comparable time.

12. The politics of ‘direct action’ on Climate Change 7 hours ago   permalink

Mark / Larvatus Prodeo

After last night’s round of interviews with Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce, one thing is clear about the Coalition’s climate change policy. No one believes in it. They’ve come to this pass because of the momentum of the twin drives to dethrone Malcolm Turnbull and the internal politics of climate change denialism in the Coalition ...

13. Welcome to the httperf homepage 9 hours ago   permalink

Www.hpl.hp.com

Httperf is a tool for measuring web server performance. It provides a flexible facility for generating various HTTP workloads and for measuring server performance. The focus of httperf is not on implementing one particular benchmark but on providing a robust, high-performance tool that facilitates the construction of both micro- and macro-level ...

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14. VBulletin Publishing Suite 4.0: Not Just for Discussion Anymore 9 hours ago   permalink

VBulletin Publishing Suite 4.0: Not Just for Discussion Anymore
Sclark / WebReference News

Scott Clark was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite, which is a big step up from an ordinary discussion forum; in fact, it's a complete publishing system. Learn about the main features and find out why Scott gives it a thumbs up.

15. Building an Online Shop's Product Detail Page 9 hours ago   permalink

Sclark / WebReference News

Adding to our online store, this week we cover building the product detail page and begin creating the shopping cart.

16. Toyota accelerates into trouble 9 hours ago   permalink

Robert Booth / World news and comment from the Guardian

Japanese company criticised over 'incredibly dangerous' fault as RoSPA calls for an immediate inquiry Toyota was under pressure today over the accelerator fault that is forcing it to recall 2m cars across Europe as the RAC described the problem as "incredibly dangerous" and urged concerned owners to have their vehicles checked immediately. Amid ...

17. The Secret World of Corporate Espionage 9 hours ago   permalink

The Secret World of Corporate Espionage
Www.harpercollins.com

“Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare—a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

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18. Apple releases iPhone/iPod touch Software Update 11 hours ago   permalink

Apple releases iPhone/iPod touch Software Update
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Apple has released a software update for iPhone/iPod touch bringing the current version to 3.1.3. This update fixes several bugs and addresses stability, improving the accuracy of the reported battery level on the iPhone 3GS, resolving an issue where third party applications would not launch in some instances, and fixing a particular bug where ...

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Www.chuqui.com
The Apple TV has not failed…   —  One of the memes I’m seeing in the discussion of the iPad is that the Apple TV is one of Apple’s failures. It seems to be a common idea and an easy target, but I think that idea is dead wrong. Yes, it hasn’t sold 800 billion units like the iPod and the iPhone, but that it hasn’t been an insanely successful product doesn&# ...

19. Contacts in Mail showing wrong user photo 11 hours ago   permalink

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Some users are experiencing an issue in Apple's Mail application where messages received from contacts that have user photos are displaying the incorrect image. The issue, in some cases, even extends to applications like iChat that use the Address Book image database as well.

20. » Sai licença prévia de Belo Monte com 40 condicionantes 14 hours ago   permalink

Www.ibama.gov.br

Brasília (01/02/2010) – O Ibama acaba de emitir a Licença Prévia da Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, no rio Xingu (PA), com 40 condicionantes abrangendo questões relativas à qualidade da água, fauna, saneamento básico, população atingida, compensações sociais e recuperação de áreas já degradadas, entre outras. O projeto da ...

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