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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Wedding Bells Will Ring In New Year For Gay Couples

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Wedding Bells Will Ring In New Year For Gay Couples

At 12:01 four couples will tie the knot, at the same time 2 gay married couples reflect on the change in Hawaii's laws

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IBM's Samuel J. Palmisano: we sold PC business due to lack of innovative opportunities

Departing IBM head honcho Samuel J. Palmisano has been known to say some outlandish things, but there's nothing comical about the information divulged in a new piece surrounding his legacy in The New York Times. Outside of looking into the details of how IBM become one of the world's most boring, highly profitable outfits, there's plenty of fascinating nuggets to be had. For one, he focused intently on getting out of "low-margin businesses that were fading," and not surprisingly, the outfit's personal computer business was first on the chopping block.

Reportedly, he saw a lack of opportunity for innovation (at least "in the corporate market"), and felt that the "hub of innovation would shift to services and software." As if a prophet, just about everything he expected has come to pass. The article explains that the jarring sale of its PC business was no easy thing to decide upon, and he even affirms that he "deflected overtures from Dell and private equity firms, preferring the sale to a company in China for strategic reasons." As the story goes, China wants its corporations to have global reach, and by helping with that, IBM "enhanced its stature in the lucrative Chinese market, where the government still steers business." Trust us -- there's far more where this came from in the source link below.

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Matt_Ginella: RT @timragones: 45-37 at Boyne's Donald Ross Memorial in MI - reminder why golf is both maddening & addicting. #2011inoneround

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Did iPhone 4S's Siri tell a 12 year old to "shut the f*** up"?

The iPhone 4S's Siri voice recognition feature can come up with some odd and funny responses at times to the questions given by users of Apple's smartphone. But if a British tabloid is to be believed (and that's always a big "if") one users got a rather vulgar response to a innocent question.

The Sun reports that a 12 year old in Coventry was using a demo version of the iPhone 4S and used the Siri feature to ask, "How many people are there in the world?". The Sun claims that Siri's response was," Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***." The child's mother claims she couldn't believe that Siri would give such a statement and asked the same question again. She says, "The same four-letter stuff blared out."

The demo version was being used in a Tesco retail store and the report says that the management of the store says that pranksters had somehow gotten a hold of the iPhone 4S and changed its set-up so that the phone's user name was in fact that seven word phrase. That meant that Siri said that phrase when asked a question.

Nevertheless, the manager is quoted as saying, "We have launched an investigation. The handset will be going back to Apple for diagnostic tests."

Lesson for the day: Demo units in stores can be messed with so be careful in assuming the demo version is the same as the actual product.

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/did-iphone-4ss-siri-tell-a-12-year-old-to-shut-the-f-up

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Mount Rainier National Park ranger killed, gunman loose (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? A gunman shot and killed a ranger in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state on Sunday after a traffic stop, and authorities shuttered the park as a search for the shooter got underway, park officials said.

Ranger Margaret Anderson, a 34-year-old mother of two young children, stopped the gunman's vehicle at a roadblock on Sunday morning shortly after another ranger tried to stop the same car about a mile away, park spokesman Kevin Bacher said in a recorded statement.

"The suspect fled and is still at-large on foot," Bacher said, adding that local law enforcement and the FBI were assisting in the manhunt.

Authorities closed the park, which welcomes around 2 million visitors a year at its site on the west side of the snow-capped Cascade mountain range, and were evacuating visitors, a spokeswoman said.

About 85 visitors and 15 park staff remained inside the park's visitor center, along with law enforcement officers, and were being held there until it was deemed safe to leave, spokeswoman Lee Taylor said.

"They're safe and secure where they are," she said. "I don't know how long we're going to ask them to stay there. We certainly don't want them driving down the road if there's a gunman who might take a pot shot at them."

Taylor had earlier told CNN that Anderson, the ranger who was killed, was married to another ranger at the park.

"She is a dedicated public servant, very committed to visitors to the park and to helping to protect park resources. Her husband is also a ranger at Mount Rainier and they have two small children... So it's a horrible tragedy. It's a terrible loss of life of somebody who had dedicated herself to serving the public," she said.

(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

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Camera at nature reserve spies panda eating meat (AP)

BEIJING ? A camera at a Chinese nature reserve has spied a wild panda eating meat.

Pandas spend most of their days eating bamboo.

Staff at the Wanglong Nature Reserve in southwest Sichuan province set up the camera after noticing dead animals with chew marks. It was not known if the panda had killed the animals.

The Pingwu County forestry bureau says the panda appears to be healthy and strong.

Conservation group WWF says only about 1 percent of a panda's diet is meat or plants that aren't bamboo.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111230/ap_on_re_as/as_china_panda

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Keen On?. Kurt Andersen: Why 2011 Has Only Just Begun (TCTV)

While 2011 is almost over, the year has only really just begun in terms of determining its historical significance. 2011 wasn't, of course, just another year. Like 1989, 1968, 1917 and 1848, 2011 was a revolutionary year, one that - from Cairo to Athens to Tunis to Wall Street to Moscow - may have changed the world forever. And to mark the historic nature of 2011, Time magazine just made The Protestor its person of the year. According to Kurt Andersen, who wrote Time's cover story for its Protestor edition, rebellion was the "defining political trope of 2011" - thereby making it a "great year in world history". And, as Andersen told me over Skype, this "contagion" wouldn't have happened without social networks like Facebook and Twitter which, he insists, were "key" to the 2011 revolutions. The Internet, Andersen thus explained, has emerged as the alternative to the free press in countries like Egypt, Russia and Tunisia; without it, he insists, there would have been no revolutions anywhere in 2011. Video ahead.

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