Police action against Megaupload-Founder: Dispute over proportionality
A video could support the statement of dotcom Kim (aka Kim Schmitz aka Kimble), during the raid in connection with its investigation into Sharehoster platform Megaupload had the police acted unreasonably towards him. From the video recordings, which published the 3News television, it appears that at least two helicopters, four police cars, dogs and heavily armed members of the anti-terrorist unit Special Tactics Group were involved. Total of around 100 people were involved.
When he heard suspicious noises, he had served a panic button and pulled back through a hidden door to an accessible part of his estate not easily said of dotcom. After about a quarter of an hour the police had found him. According to police, it was gone with the application attempting to prevent possible that evidence could be destroyed. Dotcom countered that the FBI had been active even before the raid on his house, have searches performed and materials saved.
Dotcom has also abuse the police during his arrest in January accused. "They were everywhere," the online portal "Stuff.co.nz" dotcom quoted on Tuesday in a court hearing in Auckland. "I got a slap in the face, boots, kicked me, as I lay on the ground, a knee in my ribs, and a man stood on my hand," said the native of Kiel accordingly.
At the hearing focused on dotcoms property that was confiscated during the arrest. A court had found the search warrants in June to be illegal. The U.S. authorities accuse him of having made the now closed platform to one of the largest hubs for illegal copies of movies and music - the rights holders had caused half a billion dollars of damage.
The U.S. has requested his extradition. It is not until March of next year found. Dotcom is resisting the arrest, the confiscation of his possessions, and against the extradition. If found guilty dotcom threatens imprisonment up to 20 years. He is currently on bail on the loose. Dotcom lives with his family in a property north of Auckland
Halide - new programming language for applications for image processing
Researchers from the "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory" (CSAIL) at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have introduced a new programming language halides. It will facilitate the development of applications for image processing on modern computer systems. With this embedded DSL (Domain Specific Language) is the efficient use of algorithms, for example, Camera Raw pipelines, bilateral grid, Laplace filtering or image sharing possible.
Halide-programs should be not only easier to write and to read as image processing code in other conventional programming languages. Rather, the promises automated code optimization in a significantly faster execution Halide (PDF), even compared to more complex optimization händischer - the researchers say up to one-third shorter code for up to six times higher processing speed. One of the major factors is a high degree of parallelization Maximization of individual processes.
When embedded in C + + runs on platforms such as halides x86-64/SSE, ARM v7/NEON and CUDA. It supports SIMD units, multiple cores, and complex memory hierarchies. The compiler can be applied to Mac OS X systems (6.10 to 8.10, the team sets itself a) install and mainstream Linux distributions like Ubuntu (12.04). Builds for Windows should be technically possible, but the researchers tried or tested was. Halide is open source and licensed under the MIT license. The source code for the compiler and for halide itself can be downloaded from GitHub.
Top manager leaves Zynga
After disappointing financial results is one of the top managers of the game provider Zynga. For the daily operations of the responsible Chief Operating Officer John Schappert has left the company on Wednesday, Zynga announced in a stock exchange release. Zynga stressed, however, Schappert go as a "friend of the company." The company wish him well.
Zynga Zynga was recently shocked investors with such a bad quarter figures show that the already badly battered shares plummeted at one stroke by 40 percent. The game developers had lost in the last quarter, almost 23 million dollars and also slashed forecast for the year. Founder and CEO Mark Pincus said to have been cut a week ago, the powers of Schappert.
Zynga Schappert had recruited a lot of money from the industry giant Electronic Arts. Zynga offers, especially when online social network Facebook popular games such as Farmville or Cityville. The company does provide that more and more users migrate from computer to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
Curiosity Mars probe: calculated first 3D images
While further tests provide information about the state of NASA's Curiosity, installation of 2.1 meter high mast of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is prepared. Meanwhile, could be composed of first images 3D images. The anaglyph can be viewed with red-blue glasses. The raw material comes from the so-called hazard avoidance cameras (Hazcams), two of which are installed side by side. Their dust has now been removed, the picture quality has improved significantly.
But the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has forwarded his acceptance of the approach to land another picture of Curiosity. Then the scattered remnants of the Martian soil are to see the different parts of the probe. Particularly clearly the parachute and the impact of the so-called traces Sky Crane. But the remains of the heat shield and armor, go to the Curiosity during parachute flight, you can see. Around the middle of the image is Curiosity with the MSL.
With this detailed information about the landing site of Curiosity, it is now much more clearly exactly how the environment looks like. On this basis, could also be the first color photo classified the probe from the Martian surface and extended by computer graphics. The result gives an impression of the horizon, as he offers Curiosity.
Such post-processed or placed in the context of NASA images found for example in the photo journal of the space agency mission or on the side. In the original images received are also being collected in a separate area, ordered only by the admission date, starting with Sol 0, Curiositys on the first day of Mars. Here, however, find many images whose content without explanation or classification is not visible or difficult.
First impression: Galaxy note 10.1
As it is, the Galaxy grade 10.1: At first glance, a conventional Android tablet with 10-inch display and compared with Nexus 7, iPad 3 or HD tablets from Acer and Asus a rather coarse resolution. But the trick is the little plastic pin that sits right in the pit bottom for sure: The music can in fact use 10.1, not only with the fingers, but this pen.
The display is in addition to capacitive finger detection, a digitizer, a special layer that responds to the plastic tip of the enclosed pen. Normal plastic pins around for resistive touch screens do not work, it must be the special pens from Samsung. Thanks to the thin tip is to write them more accurate and are characterized as the thick pins that are available for the capacitive displays the other tablets and smartphones.
One of the features of Notes 10.1: In split-screen mode you can run two apps side by side. Unfortunately that's not all, but only a few adapted from Samsung that. The pen can be used in all apps, but not adapted to the fact it only serves as a substitute for the finger. This brings about apps mainly for drawing or retouching an advantage. A handwriting recognition is not designed - unlike the smartphone Galaxy note, where Samsung has expanded the standard keyboard.
A special pin-app delivers with Samsung: S grade is also suitable for slightly more elaborate notes. The app is developed from the simple note app memo from S-grade smartphones and provides much useful as changeable backgrounds, multi-page notes and subfolders. You can insert notes into typed text passages, photos and sound recordings. The top centimeter of a lack of reasonable notice, however, can only change cumbersome scroll capability (see pictures section).
The Galaxy at the touch pen provided 1.10 (above) is slightly longer and considerably thicker than that of the Galaxy-grade smartphones (below). Both will work on both devices. By double-clicking with the stylus (hold down the button on the pen) anywhere on the screen or in another app you might create a new note. Displayed in a floating, movable window - the app in the background is conveniently operable and usable. The integration of these (derived from the older app version) notes in Memo S is solved, however unfortunate, because the missing special features such as inserting pictures or voice recordings.
The display is in addition to capacitive finger detection, a digitizer, a special layer that responds to the plastic tip of the enclosed pen. Normal plastic pins around for resistive touch screens do not work, it must be the special pens from Samsung. Thanks to the thin tip is to write them more accurate and are characterized as the thick pins that are available for the capacitive displays the other tablets and smartphones.
One of the features of Notes 10.1: In split-screen mode you can run two apps side by side. Unfortunately that's not all, but only a few adapted from Samsung that. The pen can be used in all apps, but not adapted to the fact it only serves as a substitute for the finger. This brings about apps mainly for drawing or retouching an advantage. A handwriting recognition is not designed - unlike the smartphone Galaxy note, where Samsung has expanded the standard keyboard.
A special pin-app delivers with Samsung: S grade is also suitable for slightly more elaborate notes. The app is developed from the simple note app memo from S-grade smartphones and provides much useful as changeable backgrounds, multi-page notes and subfolders. You can insert notes into typed text passages, photos and sound recordings. The top centimeter of a lack of reasonable notice, however, can only change cumbersome scroll capability (see pictures section).
The Galaxy at the touch pen provided 1.10 (above) is slightly longer and considerably thicker than that of the Galaxy-grade smartphones (below). Both will work on both devices. By double-clicking with the stylus (hold down the button on the pen) anywhere on the screen or in another app you might create a new note. Displayed in a floating, movable window - the app in the background is conveniently operable and usable. The integration of these (derived from the older app version) notes in Memo S is solved, however unfortunate, because the missing special features such as inserting pictures or voice recordings.
Market research: Android and iPhone eliminate competition
Android and the iPhone dominates the smartphone business as never before. Together they now hold 85 percent of the global market, such as market research firm IDC found. Above all, Android is spreading and controlled in the last quarter, about two thirds of the market. Apple had a clear number two on the other hand can also springs. Overall sales rose in its class within one year by 42.2 percent to 154 million units.
The Android's market share jumped to 68.1 percent according to IDC, in the second quarter of 2012 from 46.9 percent year-ago quarter. Thus, overall, 104.8 million smartphones were sold with the Google system. From the strong sales results benefited primarily the hottest Apple rival Samsung, the 44 percent of all phones sold Android.
The market share of Apple's iPhone was within a year from 18.8 to 16.9 percent. However, many customers are waiting for the next generation iPhone which is expected for the autumn. According to IDC, Apple shipped the equipment to be stored while the prior-year quarter by nearly 28 percent of some 20 million to 26 million units - but growth remained behind the overall growth of the smartphone market. Apple is also trying to slow the rise of Samsung with patent lawsuits. Just a big process running in California.
Dramatically, however, is the decline in sales at third-placed RIM BlackBerry provider. Its market share fell year on year from 11.5 to 4.8 percent. Microsoft's Windows Mobile moved from 2.3 before to 3.5 percent and was able to show the greatest growth in deliveries - from 2.5 million units a year earlier to 5.4 million in the second quarter of 2012. Nokia's former number one, the Symbian operating system plays only a minor role, at 4.4 percent with 16.9 percent a year ago. In Linux, IDC recorded in the first place Samsung's Bada-house development. The Koreans and other manufacturers are focused on Android, which is why the market share of Linux systems is reduced.
The Android's market share jumped to 68.1 percent according to IDC, in the second quarter of 2012 from 46.9 percent year-ago quarter. Thus, overall, 104.8 million smartphones were sold with the Google system. From the strong sales results benefited primarily the hottest Apple rival Samsung, the 44 percent of all phones sold Android.
The market share of Apple's iPhone was within a year from 18.8 to 16.9 percent. However, many customers are waiting for the next generation iPhone which is expected for the autumn. According to IDC, Apple shipped the equipment to be stored while the prior-year quarter by nearly 28 percent of some 20 million to 26 million units - but growth remained behind the overall growth of the smartphone market. Apple is also trying to slow the rise of Samsung with patent lawsuits. Just a big process running in California.
Dramatically, however, is the decline in sales at third-placed RIM BlackBerry provider. Its market share fell year on year from 11.5 to 4.8 percent. Microsoft's Windows Mobile moved from 2.3 before to 3.5 percent and was able to show the greatest growth in deliveries - from 2.5 million units a year earlier to 5.4 million in the second quarter of 2012. Nokia's former number one, the Symbian operating system plays only a minor role, at 4.4 percent with 16.9 percent a year ago. In Linux, IDC recorded in the first place Samsung's Bada-house development. The Koreans and other manufacturers are focused on Android, which is why the market share of Linux systems is reduced.
Internet Explorer 10 is in Do-Not-Track as a default
If version is published 10 of Internet Explorer, it will default to the "do-not-track" header (DNT) to send. This has confirmed for the highest data protection company, Brendon Lynch, in a blog post. In the "Express" installation of the browser will automatically pre-DNT.
In the custom installation, however it will give the option to disable DNT, as well as later in the browser settings. This approach corresponds to Microsoft's goal to make the IE functions so that they protect privacy of users as well, writes Lynch.
DNT is an including Mozilla and Google propagated process in which prompts an HTTP header to websites, not to monitor user behavior. It relies on the cooperation of website operators. By "tracking lists" Microsoft in IE at the same time pursuing its own approach, where the browser itself prevents the logging of user behavior effectively.
The W3C is concerned with the standardization of DNT. To date, provided that browsers send the header only if explicitly requested by the user in the settings. Microsoft's decision to deviate from this rule meets with supporters of the DNT-art criticism. They fear that you set a header by default could lead to a loss of acceptance among advertisers and thus lead to failure of DNT. However, there was support from the EU that Microsoft's pre-particularly welcomed.
So far, many sites use different methods, which are grouped under the term "tracking" to investigate user behavior. The goal is to sell advertising and matching to place. DNT and the tracking list to allow users to browse without logging
Apple vs. Samsung: The Korean stumbling over internal memo?
Samsung must accept that a spicy paper is allowed from March 2010 in California patent litigation with Apple as evidence. The memo entitled "Relative Evaluation Report on S1, iPhone," which was completed by IT Blog All Things D on the document platform Scribd describes, at a total of 132 richly illustrated pages, such as the Galaxy and iPhone are different in terms of user interface - the Home screen on the calculator to the scope of the included apps. This will not only many of the potential weaknesses in the Galaxy software into the light - it follows also emulate a specific recommendation, the iPhone.
That on Tuesday in the court documents recorded document could provide in the eyes of the nine jurors "smoking gun" that Apple seeks to substantiate his allegations against Samsung copy. This involves some of the tiniest details, such as displaying the number of outstanding sites on the web browser or the ability to copy a word by tapping on it. Thus, the paper suggests, for example, icons "less monotonous" to make. If Apple would give these users a "luxurious feel" while they were at the Galaxy too flat. Ironically, the Samsung product developers also write, design conveys the strong impression that the iPhone-icon concept has been copied.
The approval of the "Relative Evaluation Report", which the court is in a Korean from the translated version is already the second damper for Samsung in two days. On Monday, an e-mail with sharp utterances of Samsung's mobile chief JK Shin was accepted as evidence. The manager there said, among other things, the iPhone, Samsung have a "design crisis" revealed, and he often get to hear the proposal to imitate Apple solutions.
On Tuesday also said the long-Apple designer Susan Kare, who was responsible among others for the icons of the original Macintosh. She herself had once been mistaken for a Samsung device with an iPhone, even though she herself comes to graphic design very carefully. Both designs were "confusingly similar" Kare was the comparison of Apple and Samsung smartphones. Samsung's lawyers responded by presenting the start screen of a "Droid" phone of the manufacturer. This initially shows a prominent Samsung logo and a tonunterlegtes video. To maintain the view that Apple designates as unlawful, the user must take two additional steps.
LibreOffice 3.6 with numerous improvements
The Libre Office team has released version 3.6 of the open-source office suite released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Although they can not come up with spectacular new features, but offers several improvements. These include among others within data bars and color gradients of cells in Calc spreadsheets that can be used in series of numbers easier to read. Microsoft had already been introduced in Excel 2007.
When importing Word documents Writer now supports Smart Arts. The PDF export now makes it possible to deposit the document with a watermark. A new filter can now also be imported into CorelDraw drawings LibreOffice. In addition, the developers have revised slightly the surface, which comes now with frameless flat toolbars with icons. A detailed list of changes has listed the development team here.
New features for Windows Movie Maker and Photo Gallery
Microsoft released on Tuesday the Windows Essentials 2012 for Windows 7 and Windows 8th The former are called Live Essentials suite is available in the Windows team blog as a web-installer (1.2 MB) or a full installation package (131 MB) available for free download. The installation succeeds only if at least. NET Framework 3 is present. Included in the package the app SkyDrive, Live Messenger, Live Mail are, Live Writer, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. The changes are limited, however, the latter two.
For the complete installation of Windows Essentials 2012 six applications end up in a separate group on the Home screen. The movie maker has a new function for the stabilization of videos that allegedly just run the often shaky movies from mobile phones and small cameras quiet. The function used for the correction of the films new features in Windows 8 For better readability of text effects, the pasted text will now receive a frame.
Additional options are amateur filmmakers to acoustic background of film projects. To quickly find suitable music, allow their rights to use also, Movie Maker related to the services AudioMicro, Free Music Archive and Vimeo. Is something suitable is found, the new feature helps to fade the waveform in the audio and video tracks in accurately positioning and cutting. For the voice-over editing program now offers a third audio track that accepts non-audio files and videos. Add there a video, so does the movie maker, only the sound of it. The finished version of the video stores in 2012 in the default H.264 format.
There are fewer new in the Photo Gallery. This gets to the "Auto Collage" collection is a function that automatically creates a collage of at least seven images. Both the Photo Gallery and Movie Maker recently the possibility of images and videos directly provide services such as Facebook, Vimeo and Flickr to share with others.
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