HP's Veer gets AT&T logo, two-tone exterior

We suspected HP's diminutive webOS 2.2 smartphone might be on its way to AT&T, and now a handful of leaked photographs rocking a panda-like color scheme have further confirmed our suspicions. As you can see from the image above, the little guy's working the carrier's logo in the upper left-hand corner of its 2.6-inch display. The photos of HP's smallest webOS smartphone first appeared over at Pocketnow on Friday, just days before the Veer's May 2nd launch party is scheduled to pop off in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, we still don't know exactly when the Snapdragon-packing device will be available for purchase, or how much it will cost when it lands, but we're hoping to have more on that after tomorrow's alleged event. Until then, you can always live vicariously through our hands-on with this little multi-tasking wonder. Now, isn't that just precious?

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Coincidence! Drone Attacks Resume in Pakistan – & Yemen – After Osama Takedown

Just four days after the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden ? and seized more than 100 discs, drives, and computers from the al-Qaida hideout ? the U.S. restarted its drone attacks on Pakistan. Then, mere hours earlier, drones hit Yemen for the first time in nearly nine years. Could this be the first result of intel taken from bin Laden?s thumb drives?

The Pakistani military loudly boasted in a statement that its spy agency ought to get credit for killing bin Laden, right as it warned the U.S. against any future unilateral ops ? and, for good measure, that the U.S. military needed to pack up and leave Pakistan. Shortly after the military brass issued that statement, U.S. drones hit a compound and a vehicle in North Waziristan, ?killing eight militants,? an anonymous Pakistani security official told AFP. It?s the first drone strike in Pakistan since April 22, according to the New America Foundation.

Drones are anything but a unilateral U.S. operation: the Pakistanis have abetted the strikes for years. But the strikes have become more difficult for the Pakistanis to tolerate, at least publicly, since CIA contractor Raymond Davis walked out of a Lahore jail without facing trial for the killing of two Pakistanis whom he said tried to rob him. And the Pakistani statement yesterday made a big show of proclaiming its airspace protected. The strike makes the Pakistanis look either complicit ? and, hence, hypocritical ? or incompetent.

Meanwhile, several thousand miles southwest, the drones returned to a different theater of undeclared war after a nine year hiatus. A drone launched a missile on Thursday into Shabwah, which the Long War Journal identifies as ?a mountainous province in central Yemen that is a known safe haven for al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.? The targets were two Saudi brothers believed to be al-Qaida operatives, Musaed Mubarak Aldaghery and Abdullah Mubarak Aldaghery.

The rise of al-Qaida?s Yemen affiliate has prompted months of speculation that armed drones would be on their way back to Yemen. They haven?t haven?t launched a strike there since 2002, when they killed Ali Qaed Sunian al-Harithi, an al-Qaida operative responsible for the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole,?in what was essentially a prologue for the aerial robot war to come.

Yemeni officials have said since the fall that U.S. drones have been active in the skies over Yemen, but only in a surveillance capacity, searching for al-Qaida figures. Before Thursday, cruise missiles were the recent U.S. weapon of choice against al-Qaida in Yemen.

Counterterrorism analysts have assumed that Yemeni tolerance for the U.S. hunt on al-Qaida stalled in the wake of the massive protests against the U.S.-allied government of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Not many Yemen watchers believe that a post-Saleh government would turn down U.S. largesse. But the feeble position of the government creates an opportunity for the terrorists. ?The?under-governed spaces are getting bigger,? Christopher Boucek of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace tells Danger Room. ?There is greater and greater space for al-Qaida and like-minded organizations.?

All that raises the intriguing possibility that the strikes come as the result of intelligence exploited from the raid on bin Laden?s compound. SEALs took multiple computers from the site. Politico reported that bin Laden had two phone numbers sewn into his clothing. And Danger Room pal Eli Lake reports that intelligence officials digging through the intel trove believe bin Laden gave ?strategic guidance and direction? to al-Qaida affiliates ? including the one in Yemen. One story out Friday holds that bin Laden, who was ?in touch regularly with the terror network he created,??wanted to ?derail a train on a bridge? in the U.S. during a symbolic date.

CIA officials have yet to respond to inquiries from Danger Room about the connection between the drone strikes and the bin Laden compound intelligence. Chances are they won?t confirm anything. But it?s hard to resist making an educated guess. After al-Qaida?s Yemen branch tried to sneak bombs into the U.S. packed into printers, the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command paired up to create ?kill/capture? teams, equipped with drones. And they?re precisely the ones who killed bin Laden and stole his documents.

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Hearst Corp. signs on to sell its magazines through iTunes, bringing more O to the iPad

Hearst Corp signs on to sell magazine subscriptions through iTunes, bringing more O to the iPad
Esquire, Popular Mechanics, and O are not just for your local bookstore's magazine rack any more -- assuming you still have a local bookstore and that it is still large enough to own a rack. Hearst Corporation, the force behind those printed 'zines, has become the first major publisher to terms with Apple, so those very publications will soon be on iTunes. Starting with their July editions you can subscribe for a seemingly quite reasonable $1.99 monthly, though the annual option of $19.99 seems like less of a bargain. (You can get a year of Popular Mechanics on pulp for $12.) This is just a small sampling from Heart's back catalog, but the company is promising more are coming soon, leaving us wondering just how we're supposed to fill out our Cosmo quizzes without a pen.

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Jesse James: Done Worrying About Sandra, Ready to Start Looking After Jesse


Jesse James is done worrying about Sandra Bullock.

It's nothing personal, he says, just essential that he move on. "I can't worry about her anymore," the Monster Garage star told Good Morning America.

"I think I've spent a good chunk of the last 5-6 years worrying only about her, and what she thinks, and what I should do ... controlling all my movements and everything else. I think it's time to worry about Jesse, and making sure Jesse's happy."

Umm, wasn't that what he did with Michelle McGee?

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Jesse James attempts to appear sympathetic.

On the show to promote his new book, American Outlaw, James said that since he betrayed Sandra Bullock, he's never laid eyes on Louis, the boy they adopted.

Bullock's only seen his daughter Sunny a handful of times, he adds, and notes that despite relocating to Austin, they've had "no contact for several months."

James, who announced his engagement to Kat Von D earlier this year, said that yes, he will be faithful to his soon-to-be bride, who will be his fourth wife.

He also says he's become a stronger man with thicker skin.

"I didn't hide from any of it," he said of last spring's sordid sex scandal. "I took it all on the chin, and guess what? I'm still standing."

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Was Anonymous Behind Playstation Hack?

Members of the group Anonymous protest during Spain's film Goya Awards ceremony at Teatro Real in Madrid.11.
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Members of the group Anonymous protest during Spain's film Goya Awards ceremony at Teatro Real in Madrid.11.

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Members of the group Anonymous protest during Spain's film Goya Awards ceremony at Teatro Real in Madrid.11.

Ever since April 20, when someone hacked into Sony's Playstation Network and took off with its members' personal information that might have included credit card numbers, the group Anonymous has denied any involvement.

But earlier this week, Sony pointed the finger their way in a letter to Congress:

When Sony Online Entertainment discovered this past Sunday afternoon that data from its servers had been stolen, it also discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of those servers named "Anonymous" with the words "We are Legion." Just weeks before, several Sony companies had been the target of a large-scale, coordinated denial of service attack by the group called Anonymous. The attacks were coordinated against Sony as a protest against Sony for exercising its rights in a civil action in the United States District Court in San Francisco against a hacker.

Shortly thereafter Anonymous Enterprises LLC in Bermuda, put out a press release denying any involvement, saying the group has never been known to steal credit card information.

"Whoever broke into Sony's servers to steal the credit card info and left a document blaming Anonymous clearly wanted Anonymous to be blamed for the most significant digital theft in history," they wrote. "No one who is actually associated with our movement would do something that would prompt a massive law enforcement response."

Here's where things get interesting: Today, the Financial Times reports that two "veterans of Anonymous" admitted to the paper that one or more members of Anonymous went further than the rest of the free-speech campaigners expected when they broke into the electronics company's network and stole account details, according to one person within the group."

As we've reported before, Anonymous is hard to describe. Some people call them a clan; others a group of hacker activists. What's fair to say is that the loose collection of sophisticated internet activists have launched a significant number of cyber attacks in support of total Internet and technological freedom.

For the most part, they attack by overwhelming servers with calls and bringing down sites. Or in the case of the Arab revolutions, they have claimed responsibility for defacing the sites of authoritarian governments. Most recently, the group exacted revenge by breaking into the servers of a security company that had vowed to unmask them.

What Sony claims is that Anonymous attacked their Playstation Network after Sony sued George Hotz, a 21-year-old who hacked into a Sony Playstation to unlock it. And it certainly is a cause Anonymous has championed.

But very early on, Anonymous said on its website that "for once we didn't do it." In an April 22 press release they said, "While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves, AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsiblity for it."

We've reached out to Anonymous for comment and we've yet to hear back, but when an organization is as decentralized as this one is, there are bound to be disagreements between members. That seems to be happening here, as this comment to the Financial Times suggests:

"If you say you are Anonymous, and do something as Anonymous, then Anonymous did it," said the hacker, who uses the online nickname Kayla. "Just because the rest of Anonymous might not agree with it, doesn't mean Anonymous didn't do it."

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Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty In USS Cole Bombing

Military prosecutors re-filed terrorism and murder charges Wednesday against the suspected mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, making it the first case to move forward since President Barack Obama ordered military trials to resume at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They also requested the death penalty in the case.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was charged with the planning and preparation for the USS Cole attack that blew a hole in the warship, killing 17 sailors and wounding another 40.

The charges were referred to the Convening Authority for Military Commissions, which presides over the war crimes tribunals at the U.S. base in Cuba.

Al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, previously faced charges in the bombing, but the charges were dropped in 2009 as the administration revamped the military commission process.

Prosecutors also alleged that al-Nashiri was involved in the planning and preparation for an attack on the French civilian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Oct. 6, 2002, that killed a crewmember and caused the release of approximately 90,000 barrels of oil.

Before being transferred to the prison at Guantanamo Bay in September 2006 for the second time, al-Nashiri spent nearly four years inside the CIA's secret prison system, according to former CIA officials and publicly released documents.

Al-Nashiri was captured in Dubai in November 2002 and flown to a CIA prison in Afghanistan known as Salt Pit before being moved to another clandestine CIA facility in Thailand, where he was waterboarded twice, a technique meant to simulate drowning.

In December 2002, he was moved yet again to a CIA prison in Poland and subjected to a series of enhanced interrogation techniques including some not authorized by Justice Department guidelines.

While in Poland, a CIA officer cocked an unloaded handgun once or twice next to al-Nashiri's head. The same CIA officer also revved a bit-less power drill near the head of al-Nashiri, who had been left naked and hooded. Al-Nashiri also spent time in Morocco while under CIA control.

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Court Ruling Clears Way for NBC Universal to Stand Trial Over Alleged 'Ghost Hunters' Theft

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down an important decision that will make it easier for writers to assert claims against Hollywood studios for ripping off their ideas. In the opinion issued Wednesday, a full panel of justices at the Ninth Circuit reversed a decision made last year that absolved NBC Universal of allegations of taking the idea behind the hit?Syfy reality show Ghost Hunters from two plaintiffs.

In 2006, Larry Montz, a parapsychologist, and Daena Smoller, a publicist, filed a lawsuit against Syfy owner NBC Universal, producer Pilgrim Films & Television, and others, claiming they conceived the idea of a show about a team of paranormal investigators who go into haunted locations. The two claimed to have presented screenplays, videos and other materials to NBCU execs between 1996 and 2003.

The duo asserted a claim for a "breach of an implied contract," which essentially means that when a screenplay is submitted and accepted for review, there's an expectation that if the material is later used, the writer will get something. Smart plaintiffs have been arguing contract breaches instead of copyright infringement ever since the Grasso case six years ago involving the film?Rounders?prompted judges to set a high bar in analyzing similarities between copyrighted works and allegedly stolen ideas.

Up until now, the chief legal defense by Hollywood studios against allegations of an implied contract breach has been that writers are merely disguising their copyright claims as contract claims, and since federal copyright law trumps state contract law, plaintiffs should either assert copyright infringement or go home.?

When the Ghost Hunters case hit the Ninth Circuit last year, a three-judge panel agreed with this theory, but left open the possibility that an "extra element" could transform a copyright claim into a bona fide contract breach claim.

More specifically, the three-judge panel said that if there was an implied promise to pay for use of the idea, the contract claim would survive.?In the Ghost Hunters case (officially, Montz v. Pilgrim Films), the court had only found there was an implied promise for partnership, not for payment, which the three-judge panel didn't find met the "extra element" sniff test.

The Ninth Circuit granted rehearing en banc (before every judge on the court), which led to yesterday's opinion. The key part:

"We see no meaningful difference between the conditioning of use on payment in Grasso and conditioning use in this case on a granting of a partnership interest in the proceeds of the production. Montz...has alleged he revealed his concept to defendants reasonably expecting to be compensated, if his concept was used. We conclude that the district court's judgment dismissing the contractual claim as preempted must be reversed."

A couple of judges dissented strongly, but assuming this doesn't land before the U.S. Supreme Court -- and it probably won't -- NBCU now will have to face a jury for allegedly stealing Ghost Hunters. We can also expect more writers to assert this claim in other cases given the wider birth passage. A secondary ramification of this decision may be that Hollywood studios become even more careful than they already are in the way they agree to hear ideas from writers and their agents.

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Why Prices Are So High At One D.C. Gas Station

There's a service station near Georgetown in Washington, D.C., where regular gas has been selling at a whopping $4.99 a gallon. You might expect to pay more in a posh part of town ? and especially on a street right next to a highway. But here's the strange thing: There's another service station on the same street where gas sells for about 80 cents less.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135610168/why-prices-are-so-high-at-a-d-c-gas-station?ft=1&f=1018

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Donald Trump Takes Credit for Obama Birth Certificate Release; Questions Authenticity

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Even though President Barack Obama has released his birth certificate, Donald Trump is still questioning it.

"[We're] going to look at it. We have to see if it's real, if it's proper," Trump said a press conference in New Hampshire Wednesday. The Republican presidential hopeful added that he's "sure it's the right deal" and that he is going to move on from birther questions to more important issues like OPEC and China.

Trump also took full credit Obama releasing the document.

"I feel I've accomplished something really really important and I'm honored by it," he said, adding that despite the calls for Obama to release his birth certificate, he was the only one who prompted action. He thinks this will boost his chances at being elected president.

A spokesperson for Obama explained why he finally felt the need to release proof he was born in Hawaii. (Conservatives doubted he was an American citizen because of the time he spent in Indonesia as a child.)

"The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn't good for the country. It may have been good politics and good T.V., but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement.

Obama first released his certificate of live birth in 2008, but birthers wanted proof of a long-form birth certificate.

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Morrissey's 660-Page Memoir May Be Published by Penguin

Guess who?s going to be publishing Morrissey's lengthy memoir? Penguin Books.

The singer, who made the announcement that he had finished the book in an interview with BBC Radio 4's "Front Row," said he wasn?t sure anyone would want to read his autobiography.

"I'm really not that interesting, so I don?t know why I?ve written so much," he confessed.

The completed book is apparently 660 pages long.

A Penguin spokesperson told the Independent: "There is a natural fit between Morissey?s sensibility, his artistic achievements and Penguin Classics. [His] book could be published as a Penguin Classic because it?s a classic in the making."

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