Ungerns premiärminister Viktor Orban lovar att snabbt åtgärda ungerska lagändringar som väckt EU:s vrede, uppger EU-kommissionen.

Röster höjs inom S för att den som partiet kallar bör ta partiledaruppdraget.

An anonymous reader writes in with one of many articles about the iBooks EULA, this time questioning whether it is even enforceable. Quoting: "The iBooks Author EULA plainly tries to create an exclusive license for Apple to be the sole distributor of any worked created with it, but under the Copyright Act an exclusive license is a 'transfer of copyright ownership,' and under 17 U.S.C. 204 such a transfer 'is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed.' When authors rebel and take their work elsewhere, Apple has, at most, a claim for breach-of-EULA — but their damages are the failure to pay $0 for the program."

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Every few years I check out Linux-on-the-desktop, and every few years I’m disappointed because it seems like they’re just designing Windows clones.

The argument for this is that it made it easier for people to switch. Which I think is a terrible argument: why copy something sucky? Why not attract users by doing something new and better?

In recent years it started to get a little better, when Ubuntu started to design Mac clones instead. I say “better” because I think Mac user interface is better than Windows — but the same criticism still applies. Why not try something new? Why not shoot for better?

Maybe, finally, the Linux world is trying something new. Or, at least, Ubuntu is. See Mark Shuttleworth’s blog post about the HUD and the future of the menu.

I don’t know if it’s a good idea, or if it will prove usable. But I’m in full favor of the spirit.

al-Qaida-soldater gick på tisdagen med på att dra sig tillbaka från den jemenitiska staden Rada, som de en vecka sedan tagit över, enligt en militärkälla.

astroengine writes "A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter (PDF) to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Why? Well, a variety of 'shipwreck elements' on the Moon — described as 'structures, people/aliens, biological technology, and their plight' — were reportedly 'seen' through remote viewing (PDF) by six experts at Transception. These 'elements' can be seen, along with Apollo 16 moonwalkers John Young and Charles Duke, in photographs during that famous mission, obviously making this the first ever alien encounter."

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Since Fantastical is all about natural language processing, localization is an especially interesting issue.

With most apps, localization means translating menus and labels into other languages and displaying the right translations based on a user’s language settings. But Fantastical has to go farther: it has to understand what you type.

The first step in understanding what you type is to know what language you typed. The developers could have gone the straightforward route — look at a user’s language settings — but instead they went a step further: Fantastical detects the language based on what the user actually typed.

This means your system could be set to French but you could type Spanish text and it will work.

I like this. The best Mac developers have been famous for taking the extra steps. Most people won’t need this. But those who do it will delight.

Beväpnade män öppnade i dag eld och kastade bomber mot en polisstation i den utsatta nigerianska staden Kano.

theodp writes "'Sticks and stones will break my bones,' the old nursery rhyme goes, 'but names will never hurt me.' Unless, of course, you're on Google+. While touting what it calls a move toward a more inclusive naming policy for Google+, the search giant's Name Policy would still make Sister Aloysius Beauvier smile. Names like 'Doctor Stan Livingston,' 'Bill Smithwick DDS,' and 'Rev. Jim Copley, S. P.' are cited as examples of violations that could cost you your Google+ privileges. And since new Google account users are reportedly now forced to join Google+, one wonders if the Name Policy might even preclude one from establishing one of those adorable dear.sophie.lee or dear.hollie accounts."

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Diggester writes with an excerpt from an article at Gizmocrazed about the absurd amount of money Apple has spent suing HTC et al: "The never-ending war on Android has cost Apple more than $100 million, according to latest estimates. While a huge chunk of that money was spent (read wasted) in claims against HTC. So far, 84 claims have been filed against different Android manufacturers (HTC, Samsung, etc.) for patent infringements, out of which only 10 were proved to have been infringed and only one ruling has gone in Apple's favor."

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Jurisdictional definitions

Moose based MARC records set of tools

Interface to the Opsview REST API

An aggressive bz2/gz/zip/tar/cpio/rpm/deb/cab/lzma/7z/rar/... archive unpacker, based on mime-types

Perl extension that extends REST::Client for use with the CI-Framework REST interface