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Yesterday was Meth Appreciation -- sorry, 'Awareness' -- Day, and the Post and Daily News are celebrating today with stories about Citigroup exec Michael Knibb, who transformed his $6,000/month penthouse into a "sophisticated" meth lab. That's a picture of the classy setup on the right. It got us to thinking -- what crank-addled friend of Tina couldn't use a few new decanters and vases that double as meth-brewin' vessels this holiday season? Well, since we're not afraid to be servicey, we thought we'd suggest a few.
European competition regulators said Tuesday that have stopped the clock in their in-depth investigation into IBM's planned $745 million takeover of Swedish software maker Telelogic.
The European Commission, Europe's top competition authority, has asked the companies for more information about the deal in order to assess whether it breaks European Union competition rules.
The Commission was due to conclude its investigation by a Feb. 20 deadline. A later date will be set once all the required information has been submitted, a Commission official said, asking not to be named.
The Commission opened a probe of the deal after reaching the preliminary conclusion that the acquisition would cause competition problems. The companies compete head-on in the areas of software modelling and building development tools.
If they join forces this "could have adverse effects on competition," the Commission said.
Telelogic has customers mainly in the aerospace and defense, telecommunications and automotive industries. IBM said when it announced the planned deal that the tie-up would give its clients a wider range of software and system development capabilities.
If the deal is approved, Telelogic will become part of IBM's Rational Software unit.
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In a month that has seen several people killed after being tasered, a UN committee of ten experts has ruled that tasers constitute torture and are capable of killing. This flies in the face of the manufacturer's statement, which is that any resulting deaths after a taser is used are "attributable to other factors." Intended to prevent officers from having to use lethal firearms, the taser has arguably become well established as just another tool in a regular officer's arsenal for use in scenarios where a firearm would never be considered. As for what effect this ruling will have on the sale of tasers, we're guessing "not much" until all the involved parties come into agreement about the lethality (or lack thereof) of the taser.
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We picked up on a story the other day about Pentax's gold-plated camera that was allegedly waterproof and dustproof, and we said it was released to celebrate the company's 60th anniversary. Not true. Our friends at Complex.com tell us they talked to Pentax reps and found out the truth: it turns out the camera was actually released in 1981 to commemorate the company's 10 millionth LX SLR camera sale. Here's the straight scoop:
They created a limited edition "LX Gold" edition which was 18 carat gold plated and wrapped in brown leather lizard skin. It came in a wooden box with red lining and silk gloves for handling. Only 300 pieces were made with 200 going to Japan and 100 for the international market. But not all were sold as some were given away for photo contests and other PR stunts making it a super rare find.Thanks, guys, for setting us straight! – Charlie White
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Admittedly, things have been a little bit Spy-heavy around here lately. Spy this, Spy that. Spy invented laughter. Spy invented magazines. Spy invented puppies. Spy raped me. We get it. We're totally down. We love laughing, and puppies, and rape. If Spy was Arrested Development, we would totally be sad that it got cancelled, and we would totally buy the DVD box sets (and we are, and we did!) Which is basically what Spy: The Funny Years is -- a book collecting some of the finer moments of the magazine's historical satire, all in one hardcover volume so that people come to your apartment and are like "What's Spy?" and you're like "It was this irreverent magazine published in the mid-80s to early 90s that gained a cult following and has left a lasting imprint on the nature of modern comedy and satire," and they're all like "Wow, you know a lot about ways to bore the shit out of me."
Last night was the official book release party celebration event at the infamous Puck Building, where Spy once kept its offices. We sent the intrepid Nikola Tamindzic, who does for nightlife what William Wegman does for dogs, makes it look like assholes, and our very own Unethicist, Gabriel Delahaye, to see what happens when the laughter gets old. Like, seriously, Graydon, Kurt, George? You guys are sooooooo old. Our gallery of misty memories is worth a laff or three, with Nikola's extended mix here. After the jump, Gabe's journey into the heart of snarkness.
As soon as I walk in to the Puck Building, even though I'm wearing a decent button-down shirt, I feel completely underdressed as everyone else in the spacious ballroom is wearing a very severe suit and tie. I should also mention that I am wearing this pair of jeans that I haven't washed in, like, six months, and it is raining out, so they kind of smell like if a wet dog that then died and as its body slowly disintegrated, instead of becoming some kind of fleshy pulp, it actually becomes a puddle of piss. All of this self-consciousness disappears, however, when a middle-aged man walks in wearing a Paul Frank t-shirt with a skateboard monkey on it. At least I'm not THAT fucking asshole.
Here's the thing, I am not good at this. I don't care about media. I don't like parties. I'm incapable of talking to people I don't know because I hate people I don't know. At one point I'm standing about two feet away from Harvey Weinstein and in my head I'm like, "Is that fucking Harvey Weinstein?" and then in my head I'm like "He's just a fat Jew, you should not think that every fat Jew you see is Harvey Weinstein," and then later it turns out it actually IS Harvey Weinstein, but at that point I'm texting my friend Lindsay saying "I can't do this."
Nikola is running around taking all kinds of pictures, and all these Gawker people are there, like Jessica Coen is there and Emily Gould and Intern Neel and Doree Shafrir, and I'm just standing around when I'm supposed to be ... I don't know, journalising? So I start to feel kind of like when your boss comes over to your desk and catches you playing Minesweeper and you're like "On the one hand this looks bad, and on the other hand I was just about to clear the board in 98 seconds on the 'Difficult' setting, which is a totally good time, if you hadn't come and fucked that up for me."
Apparently Anna Wintour is at this party, as well as Ron Perelman. The only person I actually recognize is the creator of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Andy Borowitz. The guy is about as funny as, oh, let's say, a gallon of milk that you hid behind the radiator in your friend's room. Is that funny? I suppose it has the potential to be funny to someone. Your old college roommate probably finds it fucking hilarious. I don't mind talking shit about Andy Borowitz because what is he going to do? Write a "Shouts and Murmurs" piece about me?
The night is winding down and I have not talked to anyone and I'm sitting on this little settee or whatever, and Nikola has made some kind of comparison between talking to people at media parties and getting laid? I don't really know, I'm obviously terrible at both. I ask the bartender if he has whiskey and he says he has a single malt and I ask for it on the rocks and he gives me this look and is like "It's single malt, you should drink it neat," and I am like "That is awesome, even the guy who looks like he tears tickets at a Loews movie theater is making me feel like an asshole."
Finally, right before I go, I decide to try and get quotes from the three founding editors of Spy. The first one I approach is George Kalogerakis, because let's face it, he is the shortest. Aww. He gives me some quote about how no one can escape getting older, which, I mean, it's true, but that's the kind of thing that old people tell young people and think they're being really profound when in actuality the young person is thinking "I'm never going to look like you." I ask Kurt Andersen if he has anything to say about the party, or Spy, or Gawker, and he shakes his head and talks about how the party is really nice. Jesus Christ! If Spy magazine was really the bukkake party of hilarity (laugh on my face! laugh on my face!) that everyone keeps saying it was, you'd think I could get something a little snappier than "I am happy." Finally, I stand near Graydon Carter, print media's own John-Leguizamo-in-Spawn, waiting to ask him the same basic question, when I see that he's talking to JIM CRAMER from MAD MONEY, which is the most hilarious thing that has happened all night, and at that point I realized that I really needed to stop drinking single malt scotch on the rocks and get the fuck out of there because I don't actually care what Graydon Carter has to say, even though I'm sure that whatever it is, it would have been totally mind-blowing. Back in 1988.
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Salesforce.com is warning customers that they may be the targets of malicious software or phishing scams after one of its employees was tricked into divulging a corporate password.
In a note to customers, Salesforce said that online criminals have been sending customers fake invoices and, starting just a few days ago, viruses and key logging software. The e-mails were sent using information that was illegally obtained from Salesforce.com.
Salesforce.com bills its Web-based CRM products as easier to use and maintain than traditional CRM software, but this latest development underlines the security risks that come with this more open model.
The problems began a few months ago when a Salesforce.com employee fell for a phishing scam and divulged a company password that gave attackers access to a customer contact list. With this password, the criminals were able to obtain first and last names, company names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of Salesforce.com customers.
"As a result of this, a small number of our customers began receiving bogus e-mails that looked like Salesforce.com invoices," Salesforce.com said.
Some of those customers then fell victim to the scam and gave up their passwords to the criminals, too. When Salesforce.com started seeing malicious software being attached to these e-mails, the company decided to issue a general alert to its nearly 1 million subscribers.
According to the Washington Post, Suntrust Banks was one of the customers victimized by this scam.
Salesforce.com is working with law enforcement to resolve the problem, but in the meantime, it is recommending that customers implement a number of security measures in order to cut down on the phisher's chance of succeeding.
Suggested actions include restricting Salesforce.com account access to users who are within the corporate network, phishing education or the use of stronger authentication techniques to log on to the Salesforce.com servers.
On Tuesday, Salesforce.com declined to comment further on the matter. "Everything that they have to say about it is in this note," a spokesman with the company's public-relations agency said.
Following the Open Handset Alliance getting official, we noted the conspicuous of the US's two biggest wireless carriers, and dissected some of the reasons T-Mobile and Sprint were onboard but they weren't. According to the WSJ, Verizon's still mulling joining up, while AT&T "in part because it exclusively carries the iPhone in the U.S., is restricted from partnering with Google, people familiar with the matter say."
Another niggling issue for the juggernaut pair is Google's probable bid for wireless spectrum in the FCC's upcoming 700Mhz auction. If it winds up turning up its chunk into a mobile network, it'd be pulling a Microsoft by competing and partnering with them simultaneously, which apparently they don't take too kindly to.
Of course, this is on top of all the other reasons they weren't exactly clamoring to jump aboard in the first place. [WSJ]
Aruba Networks is the last major wireless LAN vendor to launch 802.11n fast Wi-Fi wireless LAN products - but it claims to have better power-over-Ethernet support and central switching than the competition.
Your favorite Cheers star goes a wee crazy in this episode of Masters of Horror. See it tonight on Showtime.
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The Blackberry Pearl 8130 is confirmed for a 11/23 launch on Sprint, according to the Boy Genius Report. [BGR]
Flumotion Streaming Server is a streaming server that supports streaming in free formats. It uses a distributed architecture, and sports an easy-to-use configuration GUI.Even pouring rain and gusty winds didn't stop the Mac faithful from turning out for the release of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard at the Apple Store in New York's SoHo neighborhood Friday night.
The sidewalk in front of the store and around the corner was a sea of colored umbrellas as about 200 people lined up to be among the first to purchase Leopard in North America. Those who hadn't prepared for the weather hunched under pieces of cardboard or just got wet as people bustled past on busy Prince Street and wondered aloud what all the fuss was about.
The New York launch was part of a worldwide rollout of Leopard, which went on sale at 6 p.m. local time around the world Friday, beginning in Australia and New Zealand. Rain also plagued the Leopard launch in Tokyo, which marked the first place the OS went on sale at an official Apple Store, but didn't deter users from lining up ahead of the time there, either.
A New York Mac enthusiast named Adam was first in line outside the SoHo store, saying he arrived at 2:00 p.m. and was joined about a half hour later by other Mac enthusiasts. Strangely enough, Adam, who owns three Mac computers and frequents Apple Stores when the company launches new products, was not there to buy Leopard. He merely wanted the free T-shirt Apple was giving out to people waiting in line to purchase the OS.
"They're difficult to get unless you live in Cupertino and can go to the Apple store," he said, adding that he would purchase Leopard in about six months after Apple had "worked out the kinks."
Unlike Adam, others shivering in line said they were there to be among the first to get their hands on Leopard. Still, it wasn't just the OS that inspired people to wait in the rain. Douglas Packer, also of New York, said that although he was looking forward to using Leopard -- particularly its new Time Machine and Spaces features -- he was also was there "for the experience."
"Everyone's more excited about it, and being here with other people waiting makes it more fun than just a piece of software," said Packer, who works in video production.
Time Machine is a new feature in Leopard that allows for automatic backup of files, while Spaces enables the user to create and manage virtual desktops.
Another user waiting to purchase Leopard who gave props to Time Machine was Evan Herman, also of New York. But he also said he was "probably the only person in line" excited about the Back to My Mac feature of Leopard, which makes it easy for users to set up the ability to remotely log in to a Leopard machine from anywhere.
Herman said this feature will make it easy for him to help troubleshoot problems on his parents' Mac, which he finds himself doing often enough on the phone anyway.
Herman switched from Microsoft Windows to a Mac three years ago when he left a position providing desktop support to PCs. He said he regularly joins the queue for major Apple releases and has stood in line for both the Tiger release of OS X and the iPhone.
Leopard is the first major upgrade Apple has made to its OS in two and a half years. The software will be installed on all new Apple computers, or costs $129 for an upgrade. Apple has said the vast majority of Macs sold over the past four years will be able to run Leopard, as well as some older machines, depending on their configuration.
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Learn about the features and specifications of the Cisco ASA 5505 Series and how it can help you protect your small business or remote office. More info: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/ Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
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• Music industry decides that illegal downloaders are people too. Which means they can be marketed to. [WSJ]
• Or sued. [Reuters]
• "By contrast, I don't know anyone who comes to a Web site out of a feeling of obligation. People gravitate to the Internet because they want to, not because they need to. The public's rallying cry might well be, in Nirvana's memorable words: 'Here we are now, entertain us.'" Okay, now Jon Friedman is starting to freak us out a little bit. [Marketwatch]
• Time Warner Cable files for $100 million IPO. The company will be listed on the NYSE some time in the next three weeks between the hours of nine and four. [Reuters]
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Levon Helm Review: The sole American in the Band, singer-drummer Levon Helm --the son of an Arkansas cotton farmer -- knew firsthand the hard labor, family ties and Dixie fireside tales that were the roots and soil of guitarist Robbie Robertson's songs. On Dirt Farmer, Helm goes home to the tunes and fables of his boyhood, including the traditional "Blind Child," the Stanley Brothers standard "False -Hearted Lover Blues" and A.P. Carter's cheeky "Single Girl, Married Girl," singing them next to rough modern diamon... Rating: 3.5 Stars |
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East Berlin Oi!-Punk Legend Rainfall re-united for that day performing their 10th anniversary show at their former homelocation the Maxim. This is scene one out of two.
