An anonymous reader writes "European Parliament today adopted Written Declaration 12/2010 which basically tells the Commission to all but drop the negotiations. From the article: 'Citizens from all around Europe helped to raise awareness about ACTA among Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by collecting, one by one, more than 369 [of the MEPs'] signatures. With Written Declaration 12/20103, the European Parliament as a whole takes a firm position to oppose the un-democratic process of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and its content harmful to fundamental freedoms and the Internet ecosystem.'"

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In this response to Carl Malamud's Gov 2.0 Summit speech, Jim Stogdill says that demonizing the "beltway bandits" without addressing the root cause -- the lock-in incentives inherent in a single-customer market -- will just lead to new ways to lock them in. Fixing government IT means fixing incentives and making the cognitive leap to intentional emergence.

Premises across Europe, including a Swedish university, have been raided by police in a piracy crackdown

Alpha Draft of Mozilla Public License v2 Out -- The highlight of this release is new patent language, modeled on Apache’s. We believe that this language should give better protection to MPL-using communities, make it possible for MPL-licensed projects to use Apache code, and be simpler to understand. (via webmink on Twitter) Challenge.gov -- contest-like environment for solving problems....

Identifying extreme weather patterns can minimize impact when that weather arrives. But to improve long-range forecasts, we'll need to create environmental sensor networks out of phones, satellites and other technology.

Any IPhone or IPad user has grown accustomed to the native scrolling features, which has been adopted by many competitors. Those who develop for the apple devices using cocoa have the ability to tap into the native features, while those...

The new O'Reilly book Using SQLite covers version 3.6.23.1 of SQLite. As Using SQLite was finishing up its final editing and going to press, the SQLite team officially released the first 3.7 build. SQLite 3.7.0 did not introduce a large number of new features, but it included one very significant feature: a new transaction model known as write-ahead logging. Write-ahead logging offers some significant performance and concurrency benefits, and is worth a more detailed look. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers:How to use the Google Suggest API to come up with topics for AnswersHow to use iPhone's FaceTimeWhat is unstructured data?How Innovations Gain Adoption: The Truth About Ideas Before Their Time Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

The O'Reilly School of Technology is excited to announce the release of Perl 2: Intermediate Perl. This is the second course in the upcoming Perl Programming Certificate Series, and right now you can enroll at 50% off normal tuition. Check out the below video of me introducing our Perl author, Peter Scott:

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Tootech writes "Julian Assange has requested a new lawyer to represent him during a rape investigation in Sweden because his previous brief, Leif Silbersky, was not engaged enough with the case. Assange wants Bjorn Hurtig to represent him as authorities continue to investigate the allegations, according to AP. Assange told Sweden's TV4 that he had never blamed the CIA for the "smears""

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3-D technology may soon be everywhere, including in the eyeglass stores.

sciencehabit writes "To find out if certain dance moves are more attractive to women than others, researchers recruited a bunch of college guys and used motion-capture to create avatars of them dancing. When women watched the avatars (2 videos included in story), the men they found most attractive were those who kept their heads and torsos moving without flailing their arms and legs. The researchers say dancing is thus an honest signal to women of the man's strength and health, just as it is in crabs and hummingbirds, who also move in special ways to attract mates."

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bsk_cw writes "According to Computerworld's Serdar Yegulalp, there has been a lot of talk about whether the iPad will take the place of the netbook — or, in fact, whether it will eat into the market share for more mainstream desktop and laptop computers. But, he continues, the iPad has a long way to go before it becomes a netbook killer — if only because it has created a space all its own."

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Using a component cable, rather than the composite or RCA cable that comes with the Wii, will improve streaming movie quality.

Installing a Firefox add-on could make managing your social networks easier.

VillageVines, a daily deal site for restaurants in New York, is expanding to other cities.

The ruling, in a case stemming from Vodafone’s acquisition of a controlling stake in an Indian cellphone company, could deal a blow to foreign investors in India.

Ernesto Guido writes "Two small asteroids (2010 RF12 & 2010 RX30) will pass within the Moon's distance of Earth today, September 08, 2010." One is 6-14 meters and the other is 10-20, so even if they change course, don't expect Bruce Willis to be called in.

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Dealing with an "unmountable boot volume" message.

The drive to online education threatens to widen the achievement gap between the best students and others, a new study says.