Posts for 'International Issues' Category

It is very interesting when you have to write a business letter to an organization with 90% affirmative that project is yours. More smiles when starting to write but in middle if your machine behaves oddly, how bad…….! User is so much frustrated that he wants to throw laptop away without thinking that I need to repair or think for possible solution.

These stories are common world over and almost all users are facing. Its not the problem that user want to hear or to read but its solution that they want to know about on how their computer could be fixed. How to speed up computer?

Well, my colleague was facing same problem and I found him writing many times on different forums about his problems, I'm sharing it here so that not only fellow but internet community could understand they can make their machines quick.

Read the complete story

Washington Post's Ian Shapira fired the latest salvo in the ongoing debate about paid media content with his thoughtful "rant" over the weekend about Gawker "stealing" his story. But he raised the bar by invoking legal considerations, wondering aloud if Gawker's (mis)use of his work amounted to copyright infringement.

And now, more believe he, along with many other "conventional" media outlets, may have a case. Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab has stats possibly backing Shapira's argument. So should the central issue of what constitutes "fair use" determine how things will pan out? It's not exactly prudent when most debates on that leads down a slippery slope. Besides, technologists have insisted moves made by The Associated Press last week to "protect" its content are backward and will be bad for business in the long run.

Read the complete story

In a historic speech in Moscow highlighting a message of economic and political liberalism, U.S. President Barrack Obama called on Russians to open up for a new era of U.S.-Russia relations, so that the governments of both countries could work to tackle international issues, including terrorism and nuclear proliferation.

Addressing graduates of the New Economic School in Moscow Tuesday, he urged Russia to accept a "fundamental change", without which, he said, the next two decades would inevitably bring about the further spread of nuclear weapons.

Read the complete story

Timely. Relevant. Convenient. Three words that often describe how busy professionals like to get their information. In response to these needs, SAE International will begin publishing its Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing (AEM) magazine in an all-digital, every-other-week format.

The new electronic-only delivery system and schedule -- slated to begin Aug. 5 -- will allow for more articles that better reflect the current-day issues and topics facing the aerospace engineering industry. The in-depth, technical articles that readers have come to expect from AEM will remain and new features will be added. Additional features include:

Read the complete story

One week ago today, the world was moved to tears of helpless rage as a young woman suddenly crumbled on a Tehran street, choking on blood that, while obviously similar to yours and mine in appearance, seemed somehow to be a more disturbingly brilliant hue of red.  Neda Agha-Soltan’s name would soon sweep the globe as a unifying, Twitter-borne j’accuse! of the Iranian regime for its reprisals against its own people -- reprisals which bore more resemblance to a pack of jackals let loose on corralled sheep than any respectable effort at mob suppression.  Within 24 hours, this young, beautiful, music-loving university student would become the first martyr in Iran’s popular revolt against the diabolical spiritual leaders of their nation and the puppet government they have set up as a democratic veneer in the interest of self-perpetuation.

Read the complete story

“Check the source” may be the first rule of journalism. But in the coverage of the protests in Iran this month, some news organizations have adopted a different stance: publish first, ask questions later. If you still don’t know the answer, ask your readers.CNN showed scores of videos submitted by Iranians, most of them presumably from protesters who took to the streets to oppose Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election on June 12. The Web sites of The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian newspaper in London and others published minute-by-minute blogs with a mix of unverified videos, anonymous Twitter messages and traditional accounts from Tehran.

Read the complete story

Thanks to the mainstream media, most households know the terms “Hot Coffee”, “Columbine”, and “seXbox”, and their relationship to video games. Gamers suffer a poor reputation from the distorted images painted in the news or on television. But have our own journalists done their job in defending us…or are they tossing more kindling to the flames?

In this week’s Robot Punch!, we explore a recent example in how gaming media continues to fail in lifting the stigma associated with video games.
In late March, it was reported that 25 year old Tim Eves died suddenly while playing on his Wii Fit. He’d just gotten off the phone with his mother when he dropped like a stone, dead. Eves was quite active in his life and was considered to be in excellent physical shape.

Doctors have told the family that it’s likely he died of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. If I may say, it adds an extra touch of depression for someone to die of something called “SADS”. I would have called it “Gradual Infant Death Syndrome”. In any case, no one knows the actual cause of death; Tim just kinda, well…stopped.

Read the complete story

Where does breaking news and the facts behind them come from? Mind you, it's not just opinions I'm asking about, or 'news' dished out by "cut and paste" artists! Whom do whistleblowers depend on? How do we keep our politicians in check ? Who do we depend on to look behind the cover-ups and to dig deeper on a news story ? Who are the people who make sure they're getting the facts straight?

Journalists and News Organizations -- that's who, even if they aren't a 100% unbiased! If the current chaos is any indication, newspapers are a dying breed. But wait, isn't the 'net here to step in and take over? After all, I haven't subscribed to an actual newspaper in forever and get all my news online and from NPR.

Whether we get our news from the net or the papers or TV, journalist T. J. Sullivan says if you want facts and hard investigative reporting, it's time to save journalists and news-gathering organizations, even if not the medium of paper.

Read the complete story

Tehran stood ready to work with U.S. President Barack Obama to establish better relations with Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a CNN-hosted panel at the World Economic Forum.

"I believe the president of the United States needs more time to express his ideals and objectives," Mottaki said Thursday during a debate on.

 The foreign policy challenges facing the new president."I believe the U.S. should see why it needs to change. These are strategic issues, not tactical measures.

Read the complete story

President Barack Obama correctly outlawed abusive interrogation, overseas prisons operated by national security officials and, hopefullyHowever, there are a number of factors that require to be addressed and acted upon, namely: to its eternal shame, the US acted against the international rights of prisoners-of-war; in prison camps, torture.

In its various forms, was used to obtain "confessions" from detainees, although it was likely that many of the tortured prisoners were innocent of any wrongdoing, therefore any further prosecution by the US authorities of these "guilty" prisoners based on such evidence was false; military tribunals dealing with these accused prisoners were almost undoubtedly biased as few.

If any, prisoners were declared innocent; which officials, including Donald Rumsfeld, authorised the use of torture against these prisoners and will they actually be investigated and possibly prosecuted for war crimes?; will President Obama now be strong enough to proceed with these inquiries and possible prosecutions?

Read the complete story