GUANTANAMO BAY (CUBA): US prosecutors on Saturday requested an extra 25 years in prison for former child soldier Omar Khadr, saying a stiff sentence for the Canadian detainee would “send a message to al-Qaida.” Khadr, in a deal with US authorities to avoid a life prison sentence, pleaded guilty last Monday to throwing a grenade that killed a US sergeant in Afghanistan in 2002, when Khadr was 15 years old….
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A comment by U.K. Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has caused a stir within the international red-haired community. Harman has been forced to apologize to a colleague of hers, Danny Alexander, for calling him a “ginger rodent,” referring malignly to Alexander’s, dare I say, unique and quite exquisite hair color and skin pigmentation. —JCL The Guardian: Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman was forced to apologise today for branding a senior coalition minister a “ginger rodent”. Harman admitted she had been “wrong” to use the description about Liberal Democrat chief treasury secretary Danny Alexander in a speech. A statement issued by Labour said: “Harriet Harman has today apologised for her comment about Danny Alexander and says it was wrong.” Read more Related Entries October 30, 2010 SB 1070’s Day in Court October 29, 2010 Oklahoma Not OK With Shariah Law
Continue reading …Think the liberals are afraid of radical Islam much ? “The inclusion of Yusuf Islam in the Rally to Restore Sanity is sure to raise a number of eyebrows, given the controversy surrounding his alleged support of the fundamentalist Islamic fatwa against author Salman Rushdie. As Andy Levy tweeted ‘Rally To Restore Fatwas?’” In case you don’t remember Yusuf Islam is the former Cat Stevens, a singer who converted to Islam and endorsed the death of Salman Rushdie because of his book The Satanic Verses . Liberals think if we just play nice with radical Islam that somehow we’ll all just get along. In reality the best they can hope for is the radicals will cut their heads off last.
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Yemeni authorities arrested a woman Saturday and searched for other suspects linked to al-Qaida’s Persian Gulf faction in the plot to mail bombs powerful enough to down a cargo plane. (Oct. 30)
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By now you’ve probably read our Desire HD review and you’ve seen how HTC’s latest Android flagship stacks up against its Windows Phone 7 sibling, the HD7 . But how does it fare against the original Android giant, Sprint’s EVO 4G ? The devices share common displays (4.3-inch WVGA) and cameras (8 megapixel with dual LED flash) — but they use different radios (HSPA+ versus CDMA / WiMAX) and processors (first-generation Snapdragon in the EVO, second-gen in the Desire). In fact, the two phones actually have very different personalities when you consider the Desire HD’s aluminum unibody case and the EVO 4G’s HDMI output and kickstand. Take a look at these mighty beasts side-by-side in our gallery — along with a video after the break! Note: In the video we mention that the Desire HD features a front facing camera. This is incorrect. Gallery: HTC Desire HD vs. EVO 4G… fight! Continue reading HTC Desire HD vs. EVO 4G… fight! HTC Desire HD vs. EVO 4G… fight! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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DUBAI: A suspected Al-Qaeda parcel bomb found on a US-bound cargo jet was designed to blow up the plane , British premier David Cameron said Saturday, as Yemeni authorities arrested a suspect in the plot. The discovery of two packages containing explosives on aircraft in Dubai and Britain on Friday sparked an international security alert, with US officials saying the parcels were addressed to synagogues in Chicago. But Cameron said that after examination of the device found at East Midlands airport in central England, British authorities “believe that the device was designed to go off on the airplane.” “There is no early evidence it was designed to take place over British soil but of course…
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In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a “sanity” rally poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, its fear-mongers and doomsayers. (Oct. 30)
Continue reading …Errand running today, and while we were out I saw a couple of interesting things. This is the season for lots of retail politicking in Mission Viejo, and that usually involves candidates standing on corners of busy intersections holding their signs and waving at passing motorists. I saw my buddy Dave Leckness, long time business owner and current City Council member doing his thing at La Paz and Marguerite. Didn’t have a chance to stop and talk, but he’s running for re-election Tuesday for one of three open seats in a field of thirteen candidates. It’s kind of hard to shout over the noise. We ate lunch at The Hat in Lake Forest which is right next to a Subaru dealership.
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YEMENI security forces have arrested a woman suspected of posting two US-bound parcel bombs. The swoop came after forces surrounded a house in Sanaa, the country’s capital, where the suspect was believed to be hiding. “Yemeni…
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What, you didn’t think Apple was just going to sit around and take it after Motorola first sued for patent infringement and then asked to court to declare some 20 of Cupertino’s patents weren’t applicable to its products, did you? Apple’s fired back with two lawsuits claiming that Motorola’s Android phones, including but not limited to the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm, infringe a total of six multitouch and OS patents. That would be pretty much par for the course — you sue me, I sue you — but there are a couple interesting strategic wrinkles to note: We’ve only seen Apple litigate one of these patents before: #7,479,949, Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics. You should remember it well — it’s the patent covering scroll behavior on multitouch screens that was hyped as “the iPhone patent” and triggered a press frenzy over a possible Apple / Palm lawsuit . As we predicted at the time, that hasn’t yet materialized, but old ’949′s gotten pretty popular: Apple’s asserting it against Nokia and HTC as well. Apple might be suing over six patents in these two cases, but ultimately Apple will claiming Motorola’s devices infringe a total of 26 patents — part of Apple’s defense to Motorola’s 20-patent lawsuit will be to claim that that Moto’s in fact infringing each of those patents. That’s a lot of patents across a lot of devices, and it’ll just take one finding of infringement to cause a lot of pain. Apple’s filed its two cases in the Western District of Wisconsin, a patent “rocket docket” that tries cases quickly and are often perceived as being plaintiff-friendly. (Part of the Apple / Nokia lawsuit is happening in this same court.) Moto’s obvious next move will be to try and consolidate all these cases into a single proceeding at one court, a procedural tactic that will take likely take months. And that’s just the first step. Don’t expect these cases to be decided for at least a year — probably many years — unless Apple and Motorola decide to settle, which is always possible. Apple’s now seriously engaged in litigation with the two largest Android handset makers (HTC and Motorola), largely over OS-level patents. At some point Google has to get involved, if only to indemnify its partners against further liability for using Android, and we can’t help but think Apple and Google are eventually bound to face off directly. Or perhaps not — by suing Android handset makers, Apple’s essentially putting a tax on Android without having to further muddy up its complex competitor / partner relationship with Google by adding in a major lawsuit. We’ve added in a list of the patents after the break, if you’re interested — and we know you’re interested, right? It’s not like it’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon or anything. Continue reading Apple sues Motorola right back over six patents Apple sues Motorola right back over six patents originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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