Internet News Record 09/08/09 - 10/08/09 LibertyNewsprint.com U.S. Edition Crazy scratch UI to The First Draft: health care heat wave create cheap, unpowered By Deborah Zabarenko (Front panel. touch surfaces Row Washington) The non-partisan Factcheck.org site By John Biggs (CrunchGear) says its e-mail inbox has been Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:23:14 AM “exploding” recently with queries Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:16:26 AM The temperature’s heading toward asking whether this provision The same guys who brought you the 100 in Washington, and things are encourages suicide at the end of life. bubble input have created a crazy getting hotter in the debate over The answer, Factcheck.org said, is scratch UI that allows you to scratch health care too, even with Congress no. “Page 425 does deal with and tap almost any surface. By out of town for the traditional August counseling sessions for seniors, but it sensing the sound and the finding the recess and President Barack Obama is far from recommending a“Logan’s peaks and valleys in the waveform in Mexico for the so-called Three Run” approach to Medicare the system can tell if you’re Amigos summit. spending. In fact, it requires scratching a shape or tapping on the Taking aim at the orchestrated — Medicare to cover counseling surface. or not — attacks on congressional sessions for seniors who want to The UI can be used with any supporters of the Obama health care consider their end-of-life choices –- material - it just needs a sensitive plan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi including whether they want to microphone - and could be used to and House Majority Leader Steny refuse or, conversely, require certain follow a pen on a whiteboard surface Hoyer struck back in an opinion types of care. The claim that the bill or allow you to control programs piece in USAToday: “Drowning out would ‘push suicide’ is a falsehood.” from your desk. Imagine, if you will, opposing views is simply un- Will this be the end of the a touchpad on a laptop that consists American. Drowning out the facts is presidential candidate but still Down Syndrome” would have to discussion? Our considered opinion: of the entire wrist rest - heck, even how we failed at this task for somehow claiming attention in come before such a bureaucratic not a chance! the side panels. You just tap it and it decades.” Washington — on Facebook last panel. For more Reuters political news, senses what you’re doing. The two top House Democrats week, alleging that Obama’s health ABC News asked, reasonably, click here. This comes from some boys over at aren’t commenting in a care plan would have what she called what Palin was talking about when Photo credits: REUTERS/Yuri Carnegie Mellon, my alma mater, vacuum. Obama’s Saturday radio and a “death panel” that would let she mentioned a “death panel,” and Gripas (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which makes it ten times cooler. It’s Web address focused on bureaucrats decide who would be was referred to HR3200 p. 425, July 22, 2009, Washington DC) nice to know they’re still geeking out the“outlandish” tactics of some “worthy of health care.” Palin, who “Advance Care Planning REUTERS/Nathaniel Wilder over there. Go Tartans! opponents of health care reform. has slammed the media for focusing Consultation” about end-of-life care. (Sarah Palin, July 26, 2009. via Giz That followed a note by Sarah on her children, said her “baby with No specific mention of any death Fairbanks, Alaska) Palin — ex-governor, ex-vice- It’s official: Toshiba finally went Blu-ray today By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) Toshiba has applied for membership as February 2008. It also said finally overcome their pride: In Submitted at 8/10/2009 4:00:48 AM of the Blu-ray Disc Association customers can expect the first Blu- Japan, at least, Blu-ray products are (BDA). The BDA is a voluntary ray players and Toshiba laptops with enjoying brisk sales. Blu-ray recorder They’ve announced it back in June membership group aimed at fostering built-in Blu-ray drives within this sales, for example, have been topping and executed the plan today: Toshiba the development of the Blu-ray year. As to be expected, the word HD DVD recorder sales since November is now officially a Blu-ray supporter. format on a global scale. -DVD isn’t mentioned in the press 2008. The company issued a short press Toshiba took a long time for this own HD format, HD-DVD, as early release even once. release(in English) today, stating decision, as the company buried their It’s a good move from Toshiba to 2 Top News/ Gadgets/ Business/ Internet News Record Feds holding back $100 million in drill leases (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) affairs director for the Denver-based American Association of administration. Salazar said the Submitted at 8/10/2009 2:40:22 AM Independent Petroleum Association Professional Land Men. parcels were too close to wild areas of Mountain States. "Talk about an "It's money sitting in the or national parks. SALT LAKE CITY – Brian economic stimulus." government's bank, not doing In a rare exception, Salazar ordered Wixom's company has paid the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken anybody good," Williams said. "It's the return of that auction money. government hundreds of thousands of Salazar got an earful from oilmen on just sitting there. The government Yet, according to agency records, dollars for leases to drill for oil and the issue during a "listening tour" can't use it, because they may have to the BLM is holding leases worth gas on federal lands over the years, stop in Salt Lake City in May. Then give it back." more than $40 million in Utah, MSI X-Slim X600 only to never put a rig in the ground. only a few months on the job, Salazar BLM records show the agency has around $50 million in Wyoming and The money simply sits in a federal vowed to find out more about the been holding 46 leases belonging to $1.2 million in Colorado. BLM reviewed: an bank account as Wixom and other process. Wixom's International Petroleum, a officials say that in Colorado, that drillers wait for an agonizing "We think the government should Salt Lake City family firm with amount grows to $6.9 million 'attractive choice' bureaucratic process to run its course. issue the leases we purchased or give backing from outside investors, for including withheld leases on coal, As it turns out, the federal the money back," Wixom told administrative review since 2005. Par uranium and potash rights. By Darren Murph (Engadget) government is holding a boatload of Salazar. Five Exploration LLC of Orem, Other holdups continue. On June Submitted at 8/10/2009 7:37:00 AM money for leases it auctioned and Officials acknowledge the leasing Utah, and its affiliates have hundreds 23 in Salt Lake City, the BLM held sold but hasn't issued, holding them delays have grown worse, but say of thousands of dollars tied up for what it initially described as a protest MSI's X-Slim X600 may not be the back for bureaucratic review because their hands are tied by legal parcels that the companies paid from -free auction, which would have been quickest, most nimble or most of environmental protests and wrangling that allows anyone to as far back as 2005. the first time in seven years no parcel powerful 15.6-inch laptop on the lawsuits. The backlog grew challenge a lease on public lands. "If you don't issue them, it's the was being offered under protest of market today, bit with a thickness of exponentially under the Environmentalists seized on this same as taking them away," said any group. just 0.75-inches, it's definitely got the administration of President George option during the Bush years as the Kimball Hodges of Par Five. That changed during the auction, ultrathin motif down pat. The kind W. Bush as it pushed for more administration rushed to drill more, According to Hodges, it's like when Selma Sierra, the director of lads and ladies over at Laptop Mag domestic drilling. making the delays even longer. buying a car but not being able to the BLM's operations in Utah, recently secured one of the machines The Associated Press has "It's gotten very complex," said take delivery of it and worse, not decided that every one of the drilling for review, and they seemed calculated that the government is Kent Hoffman, deputy Utah director knowing if or when the car will ever parcels offered or sold at the auction adequately impressed with the sitting on close to $100 million paid of lands and minerals for the Bureau arrive on a dealer's lot. was, in fact, under protest. Sierra combination of a low-power CPU for millions of acres of energy leases of Land Management, the federal "When you pay for something, you decided at that point to accept (1.4GHz Core 2 Solo SU3500) and a in the Rocky Mountains that have agency in charge of energy expect to get it," he said. protests that had been filed after a multimedia-friendly discrete GPU been withheld for as long as seven development on public lands. "We The Southern Utah Wilderness deadline by the Denver-based Center (ATI's 512MB Radeon HD 4330) -- a years, according to records and have to answer the protests in a very Alliance takes credit for helping gum for Native Ecosystems and the tandem that's hard to find anywhere, interviews with BLM officials in legal fashion, knowing the next step up the works.