Bangladesh sentences Islamist party leader to death, riots leave at least 30 dead

A special tribunal in Bangladesh today sentenced a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party to death for crimes during the nation's 1971 war for independence. Party supporters rioted.

By Anis Ahmed,?Reuters / February 28, 2013

A Bangladeshi police officer escorts Delwar Hossain Sayedee, right, a leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami as he arrives at the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday. A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced Sayedee to death for crimes stemming from the nation's 1971 fight for independence, a politically charged decision that sparked violent protests.

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A Bangladeshi Islamist party leader was sentenced to death on Thursday over abuses carried out during the country's independence war, triggering riots that killed at least 30 people.

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Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice-president of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty by Bangladesh's? war crimes tribunal of mass killing, rape, arson, looting and forcing minority Hindus to convert to Islam during the 1971 war of separation from Pakistan, lawyers and tribunal officials said.

After he was convicted and sentenced, police clashed with activists from Sayedee's party and violence raged in more than a dozen areas around the country, police, witnesses and media reports said.

At least three policemen were among the dead and around 300 were wounded, they added.

Protesters, who said the verdict was politically motivated, set fire to a Hindu temple and several houses in southern Noakhali region, reporters said. In the southeastern region of Cox's Bazar, they attacked a police camp, killing one.

Two policemen were killed when Islamists stormed a police station at Sundarganj in northern Gaibandha district, police said. "We have been virtually besieged. It's a horrible situation," station officer Manzur Rahman told Reuters.

Call for strike

Members of the religious party - known simply as Jamaat - called for a national strike on Sunday and Monday, raising fears of more violence. Sayedee was the third senior party member convicted by the tribunal.

In the capital, authorities deployed extra police and paramilitary soldiers, a Home Ministry official told reporters.

Thousands of people in the capital's Shahbag square, who support the tribunal and have been protesting for weeks to demand the highest penalty for war criminals, burst into cheers as the sentence was announced.

Sayedee looked defiant but remained calm in the dock as judges read out the verdict, witnesses said.

"I didn't commit any crime and the judges are not giving the verdict from the core of their heart," Sayedee told the tribunal, said reporters at the hearing.

State prosecutor Haider Ali told reporters he was happy with the verdict which he said "appropriately demonstrated justice".

Defence attorney Abdur Razzak said the sentence was politically motivated. "He is a victim of sheer injustice. We will appeal," he said.

Critics of the tribunal

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up the tribunal in 2010 to investigate abuses during the war that claimed about 3 million lives. Thousands of women were raped during the conflict.

The tribunal has been criticized by rights groups for failing to adhere to international standards. Human Rights Watch said lawyers, witnesses and investigators reported they had been threatened.

Critics say the tribunal is being used by the prime minister as an instrument against her opponents in the two biggest opposition parties, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami. Begum Khaleda Zia, Hasina's arch rival and leader of the BNP, has called the tribunal a farce.

Hasina's party has denied allegations of bias.

On Jan. 21, the tribunal sentenced Abul Kalam Azad, a former Jamaat member, to death in absentia after he was found guilty of torture, rape and genocide during the independence war.

In its second verdict, on Feb. 5, the tribunal sentenced another senior Jamaat member, Abdul Quader Mollah, 64, to life in prison after he was found guilty of murder, rape, torture and arson.

Both verdicts triggered protests by Jamaat supporters, in which at least 15 people were killed.

Nine more people, mostly Jamaat members, are?facing trial for war crimes, tribunal officials said.

The overwhelmingly Muslim south Asian country of 160 million people would likely see more violence in the run-up to parliamentary elections in January, in which both Hasina and Khaleda will run for power, analysts said.

Bangladesh became part of Pakistan at the end of British colonial rule in 1947. But the country, then known as East Pakistan, won independence with India's help in December 1971 following a nine-month war against the then West Pakistan.

Some factions in Bangladesh opposed the break with Pakistan, including the Jamaat. Jamaat leaders have denied involvement in abuses.

(Additional reporting by Ruma Paul and Serajul Quadir; Editing by Nick Macfie and Andrew Heavens)

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Pilot badger culls to go ahead

27 February 2013 Last updated at 10:11 ET

Badger culls are set to go ahead later this year after final licence conditions were met, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has said.

The pilot culls, in Gloucestershire and West Somerset, were postponed amid fears they could not be carried out effectively last autumn.

Ministers want to hold a pilot badger cull to halt the spread of tuberculosis to cattle.

The RSPCA, which opposes the cull, said it wanted to help fund vaccination.

Mr Paterson confirmed the cull at the National Farmers Union (NFU) annual conference.

He also announced a reserve pilot will also be prepared in Dorset.

Under the plans, badgers will be shot in the open without first being trapped in cages, which is current practice.

'?1bn' cost

"I am determined that there are no further delays this year," Mr Paterson said.

"That is why we have taken the sensible step with the farming industry to elect a reserve area that can be called upon should anything happen to prevent culling in Somerset or Gloucester."

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By Helen Briggs, BBC News

Badger culls in England were postponed at the last minute in the autumn, when it came to light that the number of badgers in the pilot areas had been vastly underestimated.

Targets have now been set - farmers are allowed to shoot up to 5,094 badgers in West Gloucestershire and West Somerset over a six-week period starting as early as the summer.

Ministers have also announced a reserve area - Dorset - in case of unforeseen problems. They have commissioned a new national survey of badger numbers - the first for more than a decade - which is due to report in July or August.

Greater certainty over the number of badgers that can be killed without the threat of removing the local population - and the issuing of full licenses to farmers - clear some of the obstacles that led to last year's delays.

However, there are still many potential conflicts. The policy of free shooting badgers has not proved popular with either the public or the majority of independent scientists.

Opponents of the badger cull have promised to continue their action, with new protests already under way.

Mr Paterson added that tackling the spread of bovine TB had cost ?500m in the past 10 years and that figure could rise to ?1bn if action was not taken.

The authorisation from Natural England states that culling can take place from 1 June and will last for six weeks. It will be repeated annually for four years.

The pilot will be independently checked to ensure it is removing enough badgers in a humane way, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.

Labour's shadow environment secretary, Mary Creagh, said scientists had branded the cull an "untested and risky approach" while more than 150,000 members of the public had signed a petition opposing it.

She said: "As incompetent Defra ministers stagger from one crisis to the next, the policing costs, paid by the taxpayer, will balloon to ?4m while bovine TB will increase in the next two years as the shooting displaces badgers.

'Scandalous waste'

"Ministers should listen to the public and the scientists and drop this cull before any more public money is wasted."

But a Defra spokesman said a cull "carried out in the right way can make a meaningful contribution" to controlling TB.

NFU president Peter Kendall also backed the cull and called for a full roll-out in 2014.

He described the 35,000 cattle that had to be slaughtered because of the disease as a "scandalous waste".

But Gavin Grant, the RSPCA chief executive, claimed studies into a cull found it would not have a major impact on the spread of TB.

"We obviously need to do something but we have to do the right thing, the cull is wrong. So if not culling, then what? The answer is vaccination," he said.

"The RSPCA, working with others has put together a costed, practical, working programme to vaccinate the badgers of the two pilot cull zones.

"We're ready to put our effort behind a funded programme if the government will match it. We'll also try and put the people on the ground to make sure it goes ahead."

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North Korea warns U.S. forces of 'destruction' ahead of war drills

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Sunday warned the top U.S. military commander stationed in South Korea that his forces would "meet a miserable destruction" if they go ahead with scheduled military drills with South Korean troops, North Korean state media said.

Pak Rim-su, chief delegate of the North Korean military mission to the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom, gave the message by phone to Gen. James Thurman, the commander of the U.S. Forces Korea, KCNA news agency said.

It came amid escalating tension on the divided Korean peninsula after the North's third nuclear test earlier this month, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, drew harsh international condemnation.

A direct message from the North's Panmunjom mission to the U.S. commander is rare.

North and South Korea are technically still at war after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

The U.S.-South Korean Combined Forces Command is holding an annual computer-based simulation war drill, Key Resolve, from March 11 to 25, involving 10,000 South Korean and 3,500 U.S. troops.

The command also plans to hold Foal Eagle joint military exercises involving land, sea and air manoeuvres. About 200,000 Korean troops and 10,000 U.S. forces are expected to be mobilized for the two month-long exercise which starts on March 1.

"If your side ignites a war of aggression by staging the reckless joint military exercises...at this dangerous time, from that moment your fate will be hung by a thread with every hour," Pak was quoted as saying.

"You had better bear in mind that those igniting a war are destined to meet a miserable destruction."

Washington and Seoul regularly hold military exercises which they say are purely defensive. North Korea, which has stepped up its bellicose threats towards the United States and South Korea in recent months, sees them as rehearsals for invasion.

North Korea threatened South Korea with "final destruction" during a debate at the U.N. Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Sung-won Shim; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson To Split After DVD Release

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are rumored to be dunzo. Honestly I was surprised they ever got back together. But now, shady business is happening. PR Photos Apparently the two have been over for? awhile, but are going to announce the split after the DVD release of Breaking Dawn? Part 2. As if anyone cares?? I don’t see how it would affect DVD sales, if anything it may increase them when the fans realize RPatz is single and ready to mingle!People may even be excited that he decided to move on and take a stand against his cheating ex.   But the fact that I read that they would call it quits after the DVD release, way back before it was even released in theaters.   [Blind Gossip] Everyone is so excited that these two lovebirds are back together! Sorry, but that kind of naivete is going to come back to bite you on the butt. Why? Because their reunion is both fake and temporary. We told you before that they their original coupling took place in a publicist?s office. They became good friends, but nothing more. If they look like they are in love, it is only because they [...]

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Giant laser needs a revamp to achieve nuclear fusion

There's more than one way to spark a star. Although the world's biggest laser missed a key target date on the road to producing clean energy via nuclear fusion, an independent review panel says the technology holds enough promise to continue the quest ? with a few modifications.

The US National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had been working towards creating a nuclear fusion reaction. The goal is to replace uranium-based nuclear fission with cleaner, safer fusion reactions to drive power plants.

Inside a star, nuclear fusion squeezes hydrogen nuclei together to make helium nuclei, releasing huge amounts of energy. Stars are so massive they can sustain these fusion reactions due to high pressure. On Earth, a quick laser pulse aimed at a hydrogen target should be able to create similar heat and pressure. In the case of NIF, the goal was to reach what is called ignition ? the point at which the nuclear reaction puts out more energy than was needed to start it off.

Deadline missed

The US Congress had set a deadline of 30 September 2012 to achieve ignition, one that NIF failed to meet. Now a review panel convened by the US National Research Council has come up with several recommendations for fusion developers, including looking at new types of targets, a different laser design and even replacing the laser with beams of heavy ions.

NIF's approach was to fire a 192-beam laser at a metal shell the size of a pencil eraser, holding a ball of frozen hydrogen. This produces a burst of X-rays that heats and compresses the hydrogen, fusing the nuclei in a brief implosion.

When NIF was being built in the 1990s, computer models predicted that short laser pulses delivering 1.8 megajoules of energy would create the pressures needed for ignition. The giant laser surpassed this energy level last year but still wasn't achieving enough pressure.

Until we know why NIF fell short, the panel recommends trying out other options, such as shifting to a different type of laser. For instance, firing an electron beam through a mixture of krypton and fluorine produces bright laser pulses at a shorter wavelength. This technology is less mature, but if it works it could implode the targets more uniformly than NIF's lasers.

Change of target

Developers might also try changing the target. NIF was designed to fire its lasers at a metal cylinder because this was thought to be the best way to spread compression energy evenly over the hydrogen ball. But new optical techniques have fired laser pulses directly at the hydrogen and still seen uniform compression. The panel wants to test this technique at NIF's energy levels.

Another suggestion is to get rid of the lasers entirely and fire heavy ions from a particle accelerator, akin to the ones used to recreate the conditions of the big bang at facilities like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. Ion beams can transfer energy to targets just as efficiently as lasers, although for now the beam energies we can achieve are far short of what's needed for fusion.

Mike Dunne, programme director for laser fusion energy at Livermore, praised the new report for continuing to support inertial confinement techniques ? the idea of heating and compressing a target. But that isn't the only avenue being explored. Teams at the Joint European Torus in Culham, UK and the ITER test reactor, under construction in Cadarache, France, are continuing to chase magnetic confinement, which uses magnetic fields to hold hot hydrogen for a few seconds. Only time will tell which, if any, method will be the first to build a star on Earth.

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Bulgaria faces deadlock after government quits

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday accepted the government's decision to resign in the face of anti-austerity protests, opening the way for an early election that may benefit fringe parties and make it hard to form a stable government.

Outgoing Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, praised by investors for cutting the budget deficit, lost support from voters in the European Union's poorest state over his failure to raise living standards or stamp out graft.

After mass protests set off by high energy bills, Borisov stepped down on Wednesday -- the latest administration to fall in Europe's four-year-old debt crisis.

Parliament voted on Thursday to accept the move and President Rosen Plevneliev will now ask the three biggest parties if they want to form a government to rule until a parliamentary election due in July.

But both Borisov's GERB party and the main opposition Socialists have said they do not want to participate in a caretaker cabinet, so Plevneliev could schedule an election for as early as April. Opinions polls put both parties on about 22-23 percent, suggesting no clear majority in the new parliament.

"We are open for dialogue with all parties but GERB, who ruined everything," said Socialist leader Sergei Stanishev, whose party was level in polls with Borisov's before the protests and may have benefited from the unrest.

The cabinet's departure brought some calm after a chaotic week of rallies against the government and foreign-owned power utilities and a threat by Bulgarian officials to strip one of them, Czech power group CEZ, of its license.

Boriana Dimitrova, an analyst with pollster Alpha Research, said it could push voters towards the political fringe.

"The two key political powers are not strong enough to form a stable government," she said. "The recent protests indicate there is growing support for radical, populist parties, which will also make it harder to form a cabinet."

CALM, FOR NOW

Borisov, a former guard to Soviet-era dictator Todor Zhivkov, won adoration from voters by building highways and improving roads so badly pot-holed that cars could lose wheels and travel across the small country could take up most of a day.

Around 2,000 Bulgarians waving GERB party flags, including farmers driving tractors and a truck full of pigs, cheered in front of parliament in support of Borisov.

"If all possibilities are exhausted...I will form an interim government, quickly and responsibly," said Plevneliev.

Borisov's administration also impressed foreign portfolio investors by freezing wages and pensions and cracking down on the grey economy by digitally linking firms ranging from the largest factory to the smallest kiosk to the tax office.

But those moves angered many in the Black Sea state of 7.3 million, who are also frustrated at his failure to make good on his 2009 election pledge to stamp out endemic corruption and reform inefficient healthcare and education systems.

"Am I pleased with Borisov's resignation? He's just the same as the ones before. They're all corrupt and they don't care about people," said Filip Ivanov, a 37-year-old taxi driver.

Borisov's popularity has suffered due to growing frustration over the slow plod from poverty of a country which has failed to grow convincingly since recession hit in 2009. Living standards are about 45 percent of the EU average, the bloc's lowest.

For many here, where wages average about 400 euros a month and pensions about half that, the final straw was winter power bills which at times exceeded incomes due to price rises that began to bite as temperatures fell.

In protests this month, tens of thousands blocked roads and some clashed with police and attacked offices of power distributors CEZ, Czech Energo Pro and Austrian EVN. The utilities say the increase was in line with a government approved hike in prices last year and said they had done nothing wrong.

Borisov's threat to strip CEZ of its power distribution license has also put Sofia at odds with fellow European Union member the Czech Republic and raised eyebrows over its adherence to the bloc's stipulation that its members follow due process.

But Bulgaria's power regulator appeared to soften its stance slightly on Wednesday, saying CEZ may be able to keep its license if it reverses violations of the public procurement law. CEZ shares fell 2.8 percent on Thursday to a four-year low and Prague urged the European Union to step in.

Before stepping down, Borisov tried to appease voters by sacking Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, a lightning rod for criticism for his leading the charge on belt tightening, and promising a cut in power bills as of March.

For their part, the Socialists have pledged to raise taxes on the rich and scrap a flat 10 percent income tax rate it introduced in 2009 They also want to raise the minimum wage, restart the Russian-backed Belene nuclear power project and to impose strict control on utilities and fight monopolies. that has been a draw for foreign investors.

(Editing by Philippa Fletcher)

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Type this: Internet advertisers kill CAPTCHA system

If you've submitted a comment, signed up for a newsletter, or uploaded a photo to the Internet at any point in the past five years, there's a good chance you're familiar with the CAPTCHA system. CAPTCHAs are the annoying little verification windows that pop up, asking you to decipher a nearly unrecognizable series of letters or words, and Web users have hated them for years. But if these silly security systems make you want to bust your keyboard in half, you'll be happy to hear that we may very well be seeing the last days of the obnoxious, text-based CAPTCHA system, and the next verification system you see online may make you happy to view advertisements for the first time ever.

Rather than taking just a mere glance to figure out, recent studies show that a typical CAPTCHA takes, on average, 14 seconds to solve, with some taking much, much longer. Multiply that by the millions and millions of verifications per day, and Web users as a whole are wasting years and years of their lives just trying to prove they're not actually computers. This has led many companies to abandon the age-old system in favor of something not only more secure, but also easier to use for your average Webgoer: Ad-based verification, which can actually cut the time it takes to complete the task in half.

Now when performing a Web task, such as purchasing event tickets from Ticketmaster, for example, you may no longer be met with a swirling mix of letters and numbers, but instead by an advertisement or common brand logo. Rather than demanding that you decipher a completely pointless combination of fuzzy words, you could simply be asked to recite a well-known company slogan. The security pop-up might even ask you to view an ad image and then type the company's name.

The new system is turning out to be a big time saver for just about everyone, and Web users are typically able to confirm their humanity much faster than with the standard verification tool. New York-based Solve Media?one of the leaders of the ad-based verification revolution?claims the ads it uses for user confirmation take about seven seconds to complete, cutting wasted time in half.

But ad-based verification isn't the only revolutionary idea looking to usurp the standard CAPTCHA's throne. Both puzzle and math-based variations on the tool have also started to gain traction. Puzzle versions of the tool ask you to perform a simple task, like draw a circle around a specific object in an image, while the mathematical option requests that you solve some simple arithmetic. Both of these variants allow you to confirm your humanity without deciphering a garbled string of text, but they lack the revenue-generating capability of the ad-based method. And because of this added monetary bonus of the commercial model, both the puzzle and math verification tools have less of a chance of becoming commonplace.

CAPTCHA?which stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"?first gained prominence in the early 2000s as a way to keep Web forms from being spammed by computer bots. It's impossible to tell how much time Web users as a whole have wasted as a result of the increasingly difficult text strings, but with much simpler alternatives finally beginning to catch on, it appears that the fuzzy text nonsense is finally meeting its end. Advertisements in general are usually seen as a hindrance to daily life, but in this case, ads will actually make your life easier. What a novel concept!

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A Mac User Tries Out Windows 8, Simon Royal, Mac Spectrum

There has been a lot of buzz around Windows 8. About a year ago I was given a half-built PC tower, which I finished off building and gave to my kids. I decided to take advantage of cheap Windows 8 upgrade offer from Microsoft ? but is it an upgrade?

This was a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo tower with 3 GB RAM and originally had an nVidia GeForce 8200GS video card, which I recently swapped out for an AMD Radeon HD 5450 with 1 GB video RAM. It ran Windows XP very nicely. Then I picked up Windows Vista, and despite its bad reputation it ran very well, especially the 64-bit edition.

So how about Windows 8?

Getting Windows 8

Let?s start at the beginning of the whole experience. To qualify for the cheap deal, you need to use the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant. You need to run it on the machine you want to upgrade. This verifies that your machine qualifies for the cheap deal and then downloads the files needed. Once downloaded, it gives you the option to save an ISO or create a bootable USB stick, which is what I did.

This process didn?t go smoothly for me. The ?creating files? failed and locked up my machine several times. I had to create a new user and restart the download/creating process for it to work. Making the USB stick took a fair amount of time too ? considering it is only a 2 GB file.

Installation

The installation process was one of the smoothest and quickest I have seen for Windows. It is also fairly unattended. I booted from the USB drive, the installer started, and I was shortly faced by a language option and then a drive partition window. I picked which drive I wanted to install to, formatted it and set the installer. Then I sat back and waited.

15 minutes later. I was being asked for my wireless password ? it had detected and installed drivers for my USB wireless adapter throughout the installation process. I logged in to my network and then set up my colour scheme and user account. That was it.

First Impression

I have used every version of Windows since 3.11 and ? despite being a prominent Mac user ? do keep my fingers in the Windows world. As the tech support for my household, building, setting up, and maintaining Windows machines for other family members keeps me fairly up-to-date.

Windows 8 is a totally different look compared to previous versions. The first thing you will notice (and have heard about) is the new tile system, previously called Metro, that you are greeted with on boot up. This is your main interface, and it takes a bit of getting used to.

Here you will find live tiles that update with new content ? such as news updates, Twitter, and Facebook feeds ? as well as big button shortcuts to your apps. It is a giant full screen Start Menu. If you want access to all your apps, right click on the background, and a bar appears at the bottom with a button saying ?All Apps?, which reveals a long list of software already installed on your computer.

Click in the bottom left, and you get back your semi-familiar Windows desktop, but you will notice it has no Start Menu, something that has been there since Windows 95. Hovering your mouse to the left, where the Start Menu used to be, will pop up a thumbnail of your giant full screen tile interface, and clicking will bring it back.

Whilst in desktop mode, you have access to your regular look OS with your taskbar at the bottom. Hovering to the top right you will reveal a slide-out menu. This is where things get odd: This slide-out menu will change depending what screen or app you are in. It will give you Search and Settings amongst a few other items.

That is about it. Once you get your head around this twin interface with a few trusty fixtures and fittings moved or removed, you can start to enjoy and work your way round the new OS.

Colour Scheme

Windows 8 is a very bright and vibrant looking OS. The tile interface is big and bold, and the desktop takes the darker more serious look of Vista and 7 and gives it a more updated bold Windows XP look. This is especially noticeable around window edges and dialogue boxes.

The clean, crisp, semi-transparent rounded boxes and pop-ups of Vista and 7 that used Aero have been flattened, squared, and given a childish look.

Speed

The first thing I noticed was how fast Windows 8 is. It is a rare thing these days that a new version of an OS is faster than previous ones.

This machine is no snail. It originally had Windows XP on it, and it was a fast machine for running Windows XP. Then I installed Vista for a more modern look and while it was still pretty fast, Vista is a memory and system resource hog, even on a machine with high specs.

Windows 8 turned this around. It is blisteringly fast. It boots in under 15 seconds, and apps load instantly.

Why Am I Talking About Windows?

You might think this is an odd article for a Mac site, but a lot of Mac users live and work in mixed OS environments. Intel Macs can natively boot Windows, and with Apple dropping perfectly good hardware from its new versions of Mac OS X, Windows might be an option for some.

Microsoft claims the minimum spec for Windows 8 is a 1 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM for the 32-bit version (or 2 GB for the 64-bit version) and around 20 GB hard drive space. That covers Windows machines running back to the year 2000. I doubt that it will run amazingly well on hardware that old, but at least it will run.

When Apple introduced the Intel Macs in 2006, it started with 1.83 GHz Core Duo machines maxxing at 2 GB RAM. These won?t run Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion (as these require a Core 2 Duo machine), but these will happily run the latest offering from Microsoft. Even the paltry 1.5 GHz Core Solo Mac mini, which struggles with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, should run Windows 8 fairly well.

Running Windows on your Mac may not be ideal, but it does mean your ?Vintage Mac? (a term used by Apple and MacTracker) can still run a new OS ? even if it is from the competition.

Of course you could dual boot this new version of Windows with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and boot to Windows when there is something unsupported in your version of OS X.

Would I Recommend It?

This is a two-edged question.

Would I recommend Windows 8 over Mac OS X? Never. Mac OS X is slick, fast, intuitive, extremely stable, and a joy to use. Apple may not have overhauled Mac OS X since its inception in 2000, however that doesn?t mean it is old or outdated looking. The minor changes and tweaks have been welcome on an already fantastic OS.

However, if Windows is your thing and you already have a Windows machine, I would recommend it, despite its childish look and funny new interface. I would recommend it purely on its extreme speed.

However, I do fail to see how this will fit in to the corporate world. Windows 8 does not look very professional, and I can see the tile interface getting in the way.

There are a number of hacks online to make the desktop the default you boot to and also bring back the ?old? Start Menu ? this may be something to look at.

After testing out this new offering from Microsoft, I can hand it over to my children, then happily jump back on my Mac and breathe a sigh of relief. Windows 8 might be fast and good, but it?s not for me full time.

Source: http://lowendmac.com/wp-index.php/2013/a-mac-user-tries-out-windows-8/

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Sony's new PlayStation 4, announced Wednesday, has specs that resemble today's high-end PCs, which puts it far above the last generation of consoles and enables some incredibly realistic graphics and physics processing.

"We've created a platform attuned to the evolving needs of players," said Andrew Hall, Sony Computer Entertainment's president, said at an event in New York. The PS4's lead architect, Mark Cerny, took the stage to provide more details: "It's like a PC in many ways, but supercharged. The processing power of the system is an exponential leap over its predecessors."

The PlayStation 4 uses an 8-core processor much like desktop CPUs ? unlike the PS3's "Cell" processor, which was powerful but infamously difficult for developers to work with. The graphics use a "highly enhanced PC GPU" and the system has 8 GB of high-speed RAM. The new PlayStation will have a big local hard drive, so you won't have to stream all of your games off the Internet, as some gamers feared.

That's a lot of alphabet soup, but in fact, Sony was very vague on exactly what type of hardware is in the new console (enthusiasts will want model numbers), although that information will likely trickle out over the next few weeks and months. The PlayStation 4 will launch in time for "holiday 2013," but Sony did not reveal a specific date or a price.

There's more than just more horsepower, though: Sony has added a few interesting features that should make gaming a bit more convenient.

Players can hit the power button to instantly send the console into a sleep state, where the state of the game in play is instantly frozen and can be resumed at any time with just one more button press. As any gamer can tell you, a working "pause" button has been increasingly hard to find over the years, so this will be welcome.

A whole secondary chip has been dedicated to background processing like uploads and downloads, so players don't have to worry about downloads or video recording affecting gameplay.

The controller itself, as well, has been updated with a touchpad and improved wireless hardware. You can even use a PlayStation Vita to stream games, much like the Wii U.

Many more things were added, and games announced and shown ? which you can read about at our extensive liveblog of the Sony event here. One thing you won't find, though, is the console itself ? Sony decided to wait before showing it off.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Discovery bets on 2 dope series about pot growers

NEW YORK (AP) ? Cupcake makers, pawnbrokers and storage container raiders have all had their moments in reality television's spotlight. Now the time may be right for marijuana growers ? and the people who chase them.

The Discovery network debuts a six-episode series, "Weed Country," at 10 p.m. Wednesday and will replace it with "Pot Cops" in April. Both examine the marijuana trade in northern California.

It fits Discovery's efforts to introduce interesting subcultures to viewers, said Nancy Daniels, the network's executive vice president for production and development on the West Coast. Discovery tried a series about a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland two years ago, "Weed Wars," and is sticking with dope even though the show didn't do very well in the ratings.

"We still think it's an interesting world and maybe we didn't tap into the right part of it," Daniels said.

Based on its first episode, "Weed Country" is a nuanced effort at giving equal time to both sides of the issue. Producers find colorful growers who use science to make the best product possible. They don't believe what they are doing is wrong. "We're flying the flag of civil disobedience," one grower said.

The growers may be trying to dodge the law, but don't hesitate to open up different facets of their business to television cameras.

At the same time, "Weed Country" shows the challenges faced by law enforcement. It follows one group's careful training for backwoods missions to find farms guarded by growers who are armed and intent upon protecting their crops.

"It surprised me with how deep and complex it was," Daniels said.

The show does have some distracting reality TV contrivances. Before one commercial break, a grower making a late-night delivery to a customer becomes suspicious of a van that ominously pulls out behind him on a dark road. After the break, the van drives innocently by. At another point, producers lead you to believe the grower is about to be pulled over by police when, after a commercial, it becomes clear the officer is going after someone else.

The "Pot Cops" series will be told from the point of view of law enforcement, after producers reached an agreement for access to officers hunting down marijuana farms in California's Humboldt County.

Discovery had planned to air the two programs back-to-back on the same night and promote it as "Weed Wednesday" on the network. But those plans were dropped because unrelated programming expected to be available this spring had fallen through and Discovery needed "Pot Cops" to fill a hole on its schedule in April.

The change had nothing to do with feeling cold feet about a "Weed Wednesday" promotion, Daniels said.

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Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.

Seven days, 26,000 lightyears, 637 languages, two groups of terrorised rats and one computer that never, ever crashes. We're light on intro, heavy of the numbers. You know the drill by now, this is Alt-week.

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As Cindy Jones Daverin led a group of 10 Japanese students down a cactus-strewn hillside at the El Sobrante Landfill near Corona, she shouted out a warning.

?Don?t touch these,? she said of the thorn-covered prickly pear.

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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Inching toward private property

Inching toward private property

In the US, Thomas Jefferson proposed a system of surveying land that is basically still used today. He was concerned with the organized sale of "wilderness" lands that the USA claimed to own after the American Revolution.

China's system for defining land "ownership" is much more traditional and local. Add to that the land redistributions of the 1950s, the commune movement of the 1960s, and the urban migrations of the 1980s and '90s, and the system poses immense problems for new reforms centered on recreating private ownership and encouraging more efficient agriculture.

Satellites Put Small Farms on China's Map

The bare light bulbs, unheated rooms and elderly residents of the whitewashed village of Yangwang in eastern China make it seem an unlikely place for an experiment in cutting-edge satellite technology.

But the tiny village in Anhui Province was home to a pilot project that for the first time mapped farmers? land, putting Yangwang on the front line of China?s efforts to build a modern agricultural sector that can underpin the country?s food security ? a policy priority for the Communist Party.

The mapping is a tedious but crucial task to make farmers feel more secure about their rights so that they become more willing to merge fields into larger-scale farms. It could also help protect them from land grabs by local officials, a leading cause of rural unrest?

Reforms in the 1980s assigned farmland to households, with formal ownership reserved for the village collective. But land certificates are imprecise at best, and more than half of rural households lack documentation ? leaving possession dependent upon villagers? knowledge and officialdom?s whims?

Most Chinese farmers till about eight mu, or a little more than an acre? per household. Each household?s land tends to be subdivided into five or more plots?

China legalized land transfers in 2008 to formally allow villagers to aggregate land. Most Chinese agriculture remains small-scale, however, which does not facilitate investments that would increase productivity enough to feed a growing urban population?

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Five-Star Match of the Week: The Rock vs. Brock Lesnar ? Undisputed WWE Championship Match, SummerSlam 2002

SummerSlam 2002: The Rock vs. Brock Lesnar - 8/25/2002Brock Lesnar vs. Batista: OVW, Sept. 28, 2001The Minnesota Stretching Crew vs. John Cena & Rico - OVW Tag Team Championship Match: OVW, Nov. 10, 2001After Paul Heyman appears on "Miz TV," Brock Lesnar attacks The Miz: Raw, Feb. 4, 2013A look at the history between Mr. McMahon, Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman: Raw, Feb. 4, 2013WWE.com Countdown: Feats of StrengthBrock Lesnar Entrance Video

This week, WWE Classics and Greatest Matches present the final installment of Five-Star Match of the Week. For four months, we?ve asked Superstars in the WWE locker room to select one of the greatest wrestling matches of all time, and WWE.com brings you that full-length match, uncut.

Two men seem to dominate the modern-day landscape of WWE: The Rock and Brock Lesnar. The current WWE Champion shocked fans when he re-emerged as the WrestleMania host in 2011, and Lesnar elicited a similar reaction upon his return 10 months ago. Over the past year, they have both clashed with John Cena in equally epic encounters. But it was more than 10 years ago that Lesnar and The Brahma Bull first faced off with each other. (MORE ROCK)

SummerSlam 2002 marked the final step in Brock?s stunning ascent to the top of the squared circle?s ranks. But when WWEClassics.com attempted to speak with Paul Heyman about the classic main event, he was none too pleased with how we phrased our question.

?First of all, I disagree with the designation that it?s The Rock vs. Brock,? Lesnar?s longtime agent asserted. ?It is Brock Lesnar vs. The Rock. Brock deserves top billing. And he deserves top billing because he won the match.?

Indeed he did. And not by virtue of cheating, Heyman was quick to remind us.

?[Brock] did not win the match with outside interference,? the mad scientist of sports-entertainment said. ?In fact, The Rock hit me with a Rock Bottom through a table. I was not an equation.? (MORE HEYMAN)

After debuting in WWE on the night after WrestleMania X8, Lesnar ran roughshod over the entire roster, annihilating the competition and cementing his status as a legitimate threat to any competitor. Three months later, the massive rookie won the King of the Ring Tournament to earn an opportunity to challenge for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam. (MORE BROCK)

The People?s Champion defeated Hulk Hogan on the night prior to Lesnar?s debut, but did not compete much over the next several months. One month before SummerSlam, at Vengeance, however, The Rock won his seventh WWE Championship, setting up the inevitable confrontation with the newly minted King Lesnar.

?Brock Lesnar defeated The Rock cleanly to become the Undisputed WWE Champion,? Heyman reminded us. ?And in doing so, he put his boot on the neck of The Attitude Era and anointed himself the new reigning monarch of the WWE Universe.?

Today, the landscape is much different, but Brock and Rock have maintained their dominance. Each warrior can lay claim to being revered by foes and friends alike, but only one scenario can determine who the better man is: a rematch.

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PREVIOUS FIVE-STAR MATCHES:
Oct. 3, 2012: Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels, WrestleMania XII
Oct. 10, 2012: Rey Mysterio vs. Eddie Guerrero, Halloween Havoc 1997
Oct. 17, 2012: Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk, Clash of the Champions IX: New York Knockout
Oct. 24, 2012: CM Punk vs. John Cena, Money in the Bank 2011
Oct. 31, 2012: Randy Savage vs. Ted DiBiase, WrestleMania IV
Nov. 7, 2012: Bret Hart vs. The British Bulldog, SummerSlam 1992
Nov. 14, 2012: Razor Ramon vs. Shawn Michaels, WrestleMania X
Nov. 21, 2012: The Hart Foundation vs. The British Bulldogs, Madison Square Garden
Nov. 28, 2012: Eddie Guerrero vs. Brock Lesnar, No Way Out 2004
Dec. 5, 2012: Ric Flair vs. Big Van Vader, Starrcade 1993
Dec. 12, 2012: Bret Hart vs. Mr. Perfect, SummerSlam 1991
Dec. 19, 2012: Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage, WrestleMania III
Dec. 26, 2012: Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko, ECW, Aug. 26, 1995
Jan. 2, 2013: Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho, WrestleMania XIX
Jan. 9, 2013: Kerry Von Erich vs. Ric Flair, David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions
Jan. 16, 2013: The Rock 'n' Roll Express vs. The Midnight Express, WrestleWar 1990
Jan. 23, 2013: Rey Mysterio & Billy Kidman vs. The World's Greatest Tag Team, Vengeance 2003
Jan. 30, 2013: Daniel Bryan vs. William Regal, ?WWE Superstars,? Nov. 10, 2011
Feb. 6, 2013: Rey Mysterio vs. Dean Malenko, The Great American Bash 1996

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Google Serves BT With Patent Suit In The UK Using Motorola TV Patents

Following up from its legal filing yesterday in the U.S., Google has now officially served BT with legal papers for patent infringements in its home market of the UK. While yesterday's suit concerned enterprise services, the UK finding reveals that Google is using Motorola patents to go after BT, claiming it is making infringements in its IPTV services and its set-top boxes. Thus a legal battle between the two companies ratchets up another notch, and now the question is whether the two sides will settle outside of court, or whether BT plans to file a countersuit in the UK. BT already filed one patent suit against Google in December, 2011, which is what spurred Google's actions in the two countries.

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By guessing, clinicians may miss 3/4 of alcohol problems

Public release date: 13-Feb-2013
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University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Practices should ask patients questions on initial and subsequent visits

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Feb. 13, 2013) By relying on hunches rather than posing a few screening questions, primary care clinicians may be missing three-fourths of the alcohol problems in their patients, a newly released analysis shows.

"It's often off the radar people come in for hypertension and are not asked how much they drink," said study co-author Barbara J. Turner, M.D., M.S.Ed., M.A., M.A.C.P., of UT Medicine San Antonio. Primary care offices typically don't have good systems to administer questionnaires to screen for certain problems, including alcohol consumption, she noted.

UT Medicine is the clinical practice of the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. Dr. Turner is a professor in the School of Medicine and director of the Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) Center, a collaboration of the Health Science Center, the University Health System and the UT School of Public Health.

The study analyzed data from 1,664 patients in 40 primary care practices spread throughout the central part of the country from Colorado to Kentucky. Patients were asked five questions such as: "In the past 12 months, how often have you had a drink containing alcohol?" and "In the past 12 months, how often have you been under the influence of alcohol in situations where you could have caused an accident or gotten hurt?" Based on their scores, patients were classified into four drinking status categories ranging from nondrinker to harmful drinker.

Clinical intuition

Clinicians were asked, "Does this patient have problems with alcohol (check each that applies)?" Options included "yes," "hazardous drinking" and "don't know." When clinicians checked an affirmative answer, this was considered a suspicion of an alcohol problem.

If clinicians suspected a problem, they were usually right, Dr. Turner said. However, clinical intuition misses too many people, the findings indicated.

"When clinicians do assess alcohol consumption, it is usually limited to the first encounter. Afterward, it is only assessed when there is an evident problem," Dr. Turner said.

Societal issue

Alcohol problems are insidious and pervade all aspects of society, from work productivity to health decline to family and personal issues. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010 the number of alcoholic liver disease deaths totaled 15,990 and the number of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides, was 25,692.

More than half of adults age 18 and older described themselves as current regular drinkers (at least 12 drinks in the previous year), according to the 2011 National Health Interview Survey. Lost workdays related to alcohol use numbered 570 million over a 12-month period, the survey reported. According to the CDC, one in six U.S. adults binge drinks about four times a month, consuming about eight drinks per binge.

Regular screening

"Brief alcohol screening questions far outperform clinical intuition in identifying people with alcohol problems, and brief counseling interventions can significantly reduce risky drinking in these individuals," Dr. Turner said.

"Patients should be screened for alcohol problems on a regular basis," she added.

Although medical students and residents are increasingly being trained to ask questions that can identify patients for counseling, lack of time remains a problem. "We need to involve the entire practice team in addressing this issue," Dr. Turner said.

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The study is reported in Annals of Family Medicine (January/February 2013). Funding is by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded to Dr. Barbara J. Turner, principal investigator, while she was at the University of Pennsylvania. Daniel C. Vinson, M.D., M.S.P.H., of the University of Missouri at Columbia, is the lead author. The authors acknowledge the collaboration of the affiliate networks of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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Contact: Will Sansom
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University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Practices should ask patients questions on initial and subsequent visits

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Feb. 13, 2013) By relying on hunches rather than posing a few screening questions, primary care clinicians may be missing three-fourths of the alcohol problems in their patients, a newly released analysis shows.

"It's often off the radar people come in for hypertension and are not asked how much they drink," said study co-author Barbara J. Turner, M.D., M.S.Ed., M.A., M.A.C.P., of UT Medicine San Antonio. Primary care offices typically don't have good systems to administer questionnaires to screen for certain problems, including alcohol consumption, she noted.

UT Medicine is the clinical practice of the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. Dr. Turner is a professor in the School of Medicine and director of the Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) Center, a collaboration of the Health Science Center, the University Health System and the UT School of Public Health.

The study analyzed data from 1,664 patients in 40 primary care practices spread throughout the central part of the country from Colorado to Kentucky. Patients were asked five questions such as: "In the past 12 months, how often have you had a drink containing alcohol?" and "In the past 12 months, how often have you been under the influence of alcohol in situations where you could have caused an accident or gotten hurt?" Based on their scores, patients were classified into four drinking status categories ranging from nondrinker to harmful drinker.

Clinical intuition

Clinicians were asked, "Does this patient have problems with alcohol (check each that applies)?" Options included "yes," "hazardous drinking" and "don't know." When clinicians checked an affirmative answer, this was considered a suspicion of an alcohol problem.

If clinicians suspected a problem, they were usually right, Dr. Turner said. However, clinical intuition misses too many people, the findings indicated.

"When clinicians do assess alcohol consumption, it is usually limited to the first encounter. Afterward, it is only assessed when there is an evident problem," Dr. Turner said.

Societal issue

Alcohol problems are insidious and pervade all aspects of society, from work productivity to health decline to family and personal issues. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010 the number of alcoholic liver disease deaths totaled 15,990 and the number of alcohol-induced deaths, excluding accidents and homicides, was 25,692.

More than half of adults age 18 and older described themselves as current regular drinkers (at least 12 drinks in the previous year), according to the 2011 National Health Interview Survey. Lost workdays related to alcohol use numbered 570 million over a 12-month period, the survey reported. According to the CDC, one in six U.S. adults binge drinks about four times a month, consuming about eight drinks per binge.

Regular screening

"Brief alcohol screening questions far outperform clinical intuition in identifying people with alcohol problems, and brief counseling interventions can significantly reduce risky drinking in these individuals," Dr. Turner said.

"Patients should be screened for alcohol problems on a regular basis," she added.

Although medical students and residents are increasingly being trained to ask questions that can identify patients for counseling, lack of time remains a problem. "We need to involve the entire practice team in addressing this issue," Dr. Turner said.

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The study is reported in Annals of Family Medicine (January/February 2013). Funding is by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded to Dr. Barbara J. Turner, principal investigator, while she was at the University of Pennsylvania. Daniel C. Vinson, M.D., M.S.P.H., of the University of Missouri at Columbia, is the lead author. The authors acknowledge the collaboration of the affiliate networks of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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