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In an example of "no concept is too trashy" a Los Angeles-based company is trying to sell a new game show called Who Wants to Marry a U.S. Citizen which shows matrimony between immigrants and legal citizens of the United States. The show's creator Adrian Martinez and their backer Morusa Media apparently want to show that true love knows no boundaries.Continue reading New reality show: Who Wants to Marry a U.S. Citizen?
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We weren't sure that our government would ever actually, you know, listen to the people that it apparently serves -- at least so far as electronic voting goes. That may soon change, given that internetnews.com is reporting that the National Institute of Standards and Technology will recommend "the 2007 version of the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) decertify direct record electronic (DRE) machines." (Those would be the non-"software independent" boxes whose votes cannot be audited and certified, yet which are used in 30% of jurisdictions.) Why the sudden change of heart? Well, apparently all of the attention that's been put on the lack of a paper trail or some kind of verified voting system has actually made a difference -- huh, fancy that. Of course, predictably, there remains a naysayer in the midst, an election expert named Roy Saltman, who told internetnews.com: "If you insist on paper you're tying elections to an old technology." Um, Mr. Saltman, that may be true, but until we can get our new tech to work as well as our old tech, then the new tech is sorta useless, isn't it?
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The ratings for President Bush have fallen below zero....
Australian police stopped a robbery in Sydney,
arresting three men. The funny part? We think one of them may have
been wearing an iPod, given that trademark white earbud cord
sticking out of his pocket (hit jump for mega version). It's
possible that, having cold feet at the last second, this scared
masked man cranked some Judas Priests to get in that important
armed robbery state of mind. Or maybe he wanted to ensure that his
Nike+iPod account gave him credit for all those steps he'd be
making later, sprinting from the cops. Either way, it's a bit funny
and a bit sad. But from our perspective, mostly just funny.
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We feel desperately sympathetic towards still-employed members of the media who will have no holiday party to celebrate not being fired at this Christmas. Newsweek moved their party to April, and Hearst, Conde Nast, Viacom and ABC News have canceled their celebrations altogether. But for those richheads who haven't been touched by the grim finger of the recession, it's important to cut back a bit on private parties, writes the Wall Street Journal. This way, the little people know you're feeling the pinch, too:
The WSJ offers a litany of tips for throwing a slightly less expensive party. It's just polite:
"People are looking to scale back a little bit and do more with less," says Debi Lilly, who calls herself chief eventeur of A Perfect Event, her Chicago-based event-planning company.
Ms. Lilly's client list ranges from Oprah Winfrey to luxury-goods company Bulgari to the University of Chicago. "Many of my customers don't think it's appropriate to throw a large, fancy event this year — even if they can afford it," she says. "They just don't think it sends the right message."
One Grey Goose fountain is probably enough this year. Will this also mean no elf waiters? Don't be a grinch, Patrick!
We Didn't Want a Christmas Party, Anyway [Gawker]
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Far from being the first artificial heart we've seen, the latest iteration unveiled by a team of French scientists is easily the most sophisticated. Built from technology used in satellites and airplanes, the prototype heart is said to "beat almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow." Reportedly, the device boasts "the same tiny sensors that measure air pressure and altitude in an airplane or satellite," enabling it to theoretically react in an instant if the patient suddenly needs more or less blood. Thus far, the heart has only been tested in animals, and now gurus behind it are hoping to net approval from authorities in order to forge ahead with clinical trials. Of course, a "lifelike" heart made from polymer and pig tissue won't come cheap, with initial pricing estimates putting it just south of 200 grand. Or, just enough to give you a heart attack.Prototype artificial heart unveiled, expected to cost $192k originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsThe future holds more acquisitions for Symantec as it looks to strengthen key business areas and keep pace with evolving online security threats, its CEO said Friday.
While dismissing as "speculation" recent press reports that Symantec is close to buying San Francisco data-loss prevention software company Vontu, CEO John Thompson said Symantec is interested in expanding in that technology area.
"If I were to think about broad categories of technology where we have an interest they might include three or four important areas: data loss prevention, transaction-based security, server management, and then complementary services across those three software domains," he said at a Tokyo news conference held alongside the company's Symantec Vision event.
He said Symantec typically looks to acquire a company when its own work might not be fast enough to take advantage of a market opportunity, or when it believes it can acquire a leading company and substantially grow its own business.
"And so a company like Vontu that has achieved leadership in the category of data-loss prevention certainly would be an interesting target," he said.
Earlier in October, InfoWorld reported that Symantec would pay between $300 million and $350 million for Vontu, with which it already has an OEM business partnership.
"Our industry is entering a very obvious phase of maturity where growth rates are starting to slow from the hectic pace of the 80s and 90s, and therefore strong companies with strong balance sheets and strong cash positions and leadership technologies are looking to add components to their overall portfolio," Thompson said. "As you look ahead you should assume that Symantec will continue to be an acquisitive company as we also match that acquisition strategy with 15 percent of revenue spent on internally developed products."
Looking ahead over the next few years Thomson, who has more than three decades experience in the industry, said he believes a couple of trends will dominate.
"The first is perhaps the realization by many users that anti-virus technology alone is not enough to protect them from today's threats," he said. Security will need to be deployed at several layers of the information infrastructure to protect not just the devices on the network, but the information and transactions that occur as well.
Secondly, he sees a shift away from rules- to policy-based security.
"In the world of security 1.0 we thought about firewall rules or rules for the intrusion device or rules for the configuration of the antivirus agent. Those were things that were typically black or white," said Thompson. "The security 2.0 world assumes a significant increase in collaboration, a much more significant increase in the layering of technology to asses multiple factors associated with a threat, and a dramatic shift in the implementation techniques to be much more policy-based than the historical rules-based approach."




