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The mood toughened just over a month ago, when I received a phone call from the centre of [the UK] government telling me: You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back. There followed further meetings with shadowy Whitehall figures. The demand was the same: hand the Snowden material back or destroy it. I explained that we could not research and report on this subject if we complied with this request. The man from Whitehall looked mystified. You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more.” Yet there was more to follow, as demands from Blighty's g-men went even further, the spooks seemingly unaware that Guardian staff are capable of backing up files off-site. Rusbridger added: According to Barron's source, Intel's Core chips will be available at the 14nm node in the second quarter of 2014, to be followed a mere six months later by 14nm Atom chips.With Intel continuing to struggle to move into the mobile market, such a pedal to the metal approach to making smaller, faster, less power-hungry ARM competitors is not just a good idea, it's nigh on a necessity.After such non-starters as Menlow, Moorestown, and Medfield – although to be fair, Medfield has had some design wins – and with the laptop and desktop PC market in dire straits, Intel's next Atom line may be its last chance to crack a market that's dominated by ARM-based chippery.And, of course, ARM is also making inroads into the data center, as well, so Intel's 14nm Atoms will also need to fight their way into dense servers. What's more – and as Barron's points out – even if Intel does manage to grab a healthy share of the mobile and dense-server markets, there's a vast difference in profitability between Core and Xeon processors and li'l Atoms.Intel's new CEO Brian Krzanich, who was selected by Chipzilla's board of directors in May of this year after former CEO Paul Otellini resigned last November, has his work cut out for him. The Brazilian partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald – Edward Snowden's go-to reporter for the dissemination of sensitive papers about the NSA's dragnet surveillance programmes – has been released from custody. The 28-year-old was held for almost nine hours for questioning by Metropolitan Police officers when he passed through London's Heathrow Airport en route to Brazil on Sunday night.David Michael Miranda was stopped and questioned under the Terrorism Act 2000. He was held for nine hours, the maximum allowed before police are obliged to arrest someone under that legislation. Miranda was released without charge but investigators seized his mobile phone, laptop, memory sticks, DVDs and a game console.The 28-year-old had spent the previous week in Berlin, where he stayed with Laura Poitras, the US filmmaker who has worked with Greenwald on the Snowden files. Miranda was detained on his way back home to Rio de Janeiro. The Guardian has admitted that it paid for his flights, so it would be reasonable to speculate that Miranda's trip was concerned with Greenwald and Poitras' work with the paper on Snowden's revelations.The legal grounds for his detention are currently being disputed by Labour MP Keith Vaz, among others, who told Radio 4 he was concerned about the apparent use of terrorism legislation for something that does not appear to relate to terrorism.The chances are, however, that terrorism legislation was used simply because the police officers concerned came from what is now known as the Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) of the Metropolitan Police. This organisation absorbed the former Special Branch (SO12) on being formed in 2006.
One of the functions of Special Branch was (and still is under the CTC) to employ police powers in support of the British intelligence and security services. As the spooks have no power of arrest, detention or seizure themselves, when they need such things done the CTC (or, occasionally, Special Branch officers from regional forces) handle the matter. Miranda might have been stopped and his kit seized using a variety of different legislation, but CTC coppers these days are probably most familiar with the Terrorism Act.Vaz added that he was not aware that personal property could be confiscated under the laws. Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 does provide for the search of goods and for their seizure (11.1) but only if the individual being searched fulfils the identified criteria for a terrorist under section 40 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Under the law, Miranda should get his kit back within seven days unless it is used as evidence in criminal proceedings, but Tor project developer Jacob Appelbaum was not so lucky. When US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials seized his electronic kit back in 2010 – purportedly due to his involvement with WikiLeaks – it was never returned. Many other people have had kit containing data likely to be of interest to intelligence agencies seized at airports (or elsewhere) by Special Branch cops or their overseas equivalents over the years. This is a routine hazard for people of interest to spooks or serious police investigations, and it could be seen as a little odd that Greenwald, Miranda and Poitras didn't anticipate it.Greenwald described the detention of his partner as a failed attempt at intimidation. To detain my partner for a full nine hours while denying him a lawyer, and then seize large amounts of his possessions, is clearly intended to send a message of intimidation to those of us who have been reporting on the NSA and GCHQ, Greenwald told The Guardian.In fact, however, it seems more likely that the spooks were primarily interested in any information they may be able to harvest from Miranda's gadgetry, which might give them a better picture of what yet-to-be-published information Snowden has passed to Greenwald and/or Poitras. It's known that Snowden has held back a lot of what he has - but not exactly what. The British spooks and their colleagues in the USA will be very interested in just what further revelations are (and are not) to be expected, far more than in the limited amount of deterrent effect one could achieve against the world's journalists with the example of a 9-hour interrogation at Heathrow. The Brazilian foreign ministry issued a statement criticising Miranda's unjustified detention. The Brazilian government expresses grave concern about the episode that happened today in London, where a Brazilian citizen was held without communication at Heathrow airport for 9 hours, in an action based in the British anti-terrorism legislation, it said.This measure is without justification since it involves an individual against whom there are no charges that can legitimate the use of that legislation. The Brazilian government expects that incidents such as the one that happened to the Brazilian citizen today [are] not repeat[ed].As is often the case in Apple's patent filings, the range of devices it envisions that could take advantage of the dock's capabilities is extensive – nay, infinite: Such devices may include, for example, a laptop computer, a tablet device, a key fob, a car key, an access card, a multi-function device, a mobile phone, a portable gaming device, a portable multimedia player, a portable music player, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a household device, and/or any portable or non-portable electronic or electro-mechanical device and/or the like. For example, a portable electronic device can include an iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, or iMac device available from Apple Inc. of Cupertino, Calif. Should you configure an Easy-Bake Oven with voice-recognition capabilities, Apple's Smart Dock will welcome you with open arms.The dock can be configured in a number of ways – a touchscreen, microphone speakers, clock, control buttons, hard drive, GPS, a variety of sensors, and a IR or RF receiver for a handheld remote are all mentioned – but the device's main purpose in life is to interface with the aforementioned portable or non-portable electronic or electro-mechanical device.
The smart dock isn't really all that smart – it's more an interface with and an extension to the device that you attach to it. What it does is accept a variety of command sources, voice recognition being the most prominent, and conveys them to the device, which then does the heavy lifting.You can, for example, ask the dock questions or give it commands that it would then transfer to the iOS device attached to it. As with the list of compatible devices, the patent's list of such Siri-like spoken commands is extensive, indeed:The user request may be a request to utilize one or more services, applications, and/or functionalities of [the] portable electronic device such as placing a phone call, playing multimedia content (e.g., playing a song from the user's music library), sending a message (e.g., a voice message, e-mail message, SMS message, video message, instant message, meeting invite, etc.), creating a calendar entry (e.g., creating a meeting, task, reminder, etc.), retrieving driving and/or walking directions, retrieving public transportation information, setting an alarm, checking the weather forecast, locating attractions, creating restaurant reservations, accessing reviews, searching the Internet, and/or the like. You might reasonably ask why a dock is needed to transmit such commands and requests, seeing as how you could simply speak them directly into your iPhone, iPad, or iWhatever. The filing's answer: the utilization of such voice recognition capabilities in existing devices typically involves an initial activation step requiring the user to interact with the finger controls and/or GUI of their device before voice commands can be processed. To save you from the inconvenience of actually having to walk a few steps and touch your iDevice, the smart dock will listen for you commands at all times, and will be able to do so from a distance far greater than your iDevice is accustomed to. It will also be user-programmable to recognize a trigger word, phrase, or sound – the filing mentions hand claps and finger snaps – to know that the next command is just that, a command, and not you yelling to your kid upstairs, listening to Li'l Wayne, Turn it down!The dock's voice-recognition capability can also be tuned to listen for only specific voices, so that it won't be fooled by voices from, say, a television or radio, and can also be distance-limited, so that it won't pick up your commands should you be speaking in an adjoining room.Finally, the dock can be configured so that it will only respond to incoming commands, and not responses spoken by the iDevice's Siri capability – useful, considering that in our experience at least, one never really knows what the wee lassie will respond to anything she's asked. Review The Bring-Your-Own-Disks home server market might not be mainstream but it's pretty lively place, with giants like Cisco mixing with obscure Taiwanese box-shifters. And although these quiet, sub-£400 servers make a useful bit of small office kit, the abundance of media awash in family homes and shared digs give them another role - of bringing some order to chaos at home.Home NAS has flourished after Microsoft decided to kneecap its very useful Home Server product, an option which gave new life to an old PC or laptop. Although Redmond never attempted to market this product very hard... if it all.The candidates in the budget home NAS market are embedded Linux boxes, and are usually sold without the disks. You're then invited to set up a RAID set and be a BOFH for an hour or two: adding users and turning on the bewildering range of features on offer, from basic media sharing and streaming to IP camera recording and, increasingly, many third-party packages.
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