http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.rsms.nl/Magnitude_6.3_earthquake_shakes_Tokyo.html TOKYO (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook buildings in Japan's capital of Tokyo on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and witnesses said. The quake was initially reported at a magnitude of 6.2 off the northeast coast of the main island of Honshu at a depth of 20.5 miles, the USGS said. Japan broadcaster NHK said there was no threat of a tsunami and the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center also said there was no danger of a tsunami. (Reporting by Reuters staff) http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Verhoogde_kans_op_branden_in_natuur_Brabant.html In Midden- en West-Brabant is een verhoogde kans op bos- en natuurbranden. Dat meldt de NOS. In verband daarmee is in de veiligheidsregio code oranje afgekondigd. Dat is het op één na hoogste niveau. De brandweer noemt het ... http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Woman_who_fled_Iraq_suffers_brutal_end_in_US.html Shaima Alawadi and her family fled Iraq nearly two decades ago as Saddam Hussein crushed a Shiite uprising, settling in the U.S. so they would no longer face persecution, a family friend said. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/%22Huurverhoging_lastig_uitvoerbaar%22.html Veel woningcorporaties kunnen de huurverhoging voor 'scheefwoners' waarschijnlijk niet uitvoeren omdat de Belastingdienst niet genoeg informatie geeft. Dat zeggen corporaties en particuliere verhuurders tegen de NOS. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Teeven_wil_mogelijkheid_levenslang_toezicht.html Staatssecretaris Fred Teeven (Veiligheid en Justitie) wil het mogelijk maken dat mensen die veroordeeld zijn voor ernstige gewelds- of zedenmisdrijven, in het uiterste geval, levenslang onder toezicht kunnen worden gesteld. Hij dient daarvoor dinsdag een wetsvoorstel in, vertelde Teeven aan de NOS. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Murdoch_Faces_Allegations_of_Sabotage.html Presto Vivace writes "Neil Chenoweth, of the Australian Financial Review, reports that the BBC program Panorama is making new allegations against News Corp of serious misconduct. This time it involves the NDS division of News Corp, which makes conditional access cards for pay TV. It seems that NDS also ran a sabotage operation, hiring pirates to crack the cards of rival companies and posting the code on The House of Ill Compute (thoic.com), a web site hosted by NDS. 'ITV Digital collapsed in March 2002 with losses of more than £1 billion, overwhelmed by mass piracy, as well as technical restrictions and expensive sports contracts. Its collapse left Murdoch-controlled BSkyB the dominant pay TV provider in the UK.' Chenoweth reports that James Murdoch has been an advocate for tougher penalties for pirates, 'These are property rights, these are basic property rights,' he said. 'There is no difference from going into a store and stealing a packet of Pringles or a handbag, and stealing something online. Right?'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Aedes%3Ahuurverhoging_onuitvoerbaar.html Veel woningcorporaties kunnen de huurverhoging voor 'scheefwoners' waarschijnlijk niet uitvoeren omdat de belastingdienst niet genoeg informatie geeft. Dat zeggen corporaties en particuliere verhuurders tegen de NOS. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/No._1_Stanford_women_beat_Duke_to_reach_Final_Four.html Nnemkadi Ogwumike will end her sensational senior season right where she has the rest: at the Final Four. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Americans%27_support_for_Afghan_war_drops_sharply%3A_poll.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among Americans in recent months as they grow increasingly disillusioned with the conflict that began more than a decade ago, according to a New York Times/CBS News public opinion poll released on Monday. Two-thirds of those polled - 69 percent - said the United States should no longer be fighting in Afghanistan, up from 53 percent in November and the highest percentage since the New York Times/CBS News poll started asking that question in 2009, CBS reported. ... http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Pope_says_Church_needs_more_freedom_to_help_Cuba_change.html SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrived in Cuba on Monday and told the government it had nothing to fear from the Catholic Church, asking for more freedoms to help the communist country in times of change. Just three days after saying that communism no longer works in Cuba, the pope took a softer stance as he landed in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba for a three-day trip aimed at boosting the Church's role on the island. ... http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Justices_preview_bigger_issues_of_health_care_case.html The big thing on the first day was what didn't happen. No justice endorsed the idea that it's too soon for the Supreme Court to take on the health care law. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/U.N._Syria_investigator_resigns_to_protest_lack_of_access.html UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - One of three investigators on a U.N. panel documenting crimes against humanity in Syria, including executions and torture, has resigned in protest at the Syrian government's refusal to allow them into the country, the investigator said on Monday. Yakin Ertuk of Turkey told Reuters that she felt there was no point in continuing on the panel, whose mandate the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council decided on Friday to extend through the 47-nation body's September session. ... http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/%27Hunger_Games%27_claims_No._3_ranking_with_%24152.5M.html "The Hunger Games" shot near the top of the blockbuster list with a $152.5 million opening weekend domestically, the third-best revenue haul ever. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Chief%3A_No_conclusions_in_Iraqi-American_death_case.html Police in San Diego County say they are investigating the beating death of a 32-year-old Iraqi-American woman as a possible hate crime but are also looking at other scenarios. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/ECB_chief%3A_Emergency_loans_not_fueling_inflation.html European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said he sees no inflation threat from the bank's more than EUR1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) in emergency loans that stabilized the continent's banking system. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Parcells%3A_No_contact_from_Saints_about_coaching.html Bill Parcells says the Saints haven't contacted him about possibly coaching the team in the wake of Sean Payton's one-year suspension, which still could be appealed. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Annan%3A_Syrian_crisis_can%27t_be_allowed_to_drag_on.html Kofi Annan, the U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria, says there can be no deadline for ending the Syrian crisis but that it can't be allowed to drag on indefinitely. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Senators_Ask_Feds_To_Probe_Facebook_Log-in_Requests.html thomst writes "Cnet's Michelle Meyers reports that democratic senators Richard Blumenthal and Charles Schumer have asked the Justice Department to investigate what they call a 'new disturbing trend' of prospective employers demanding job applicants to turn over user names and passwords for their social networks. 'Employers have no right to ask job applicants for their house keys or to read their diaries — why should they be able to ask them for their Facebook passwords and gain unwarranted access to a trove of private information about what we like, what messages we send to people, or who we are friends with?' asked Schumer. Last Friday, in response to complaints from employees, Facebook published a post expressing its opposition to the practice, which it said undermines both the security and the privacy of the user and the user's friends. Erin Egan, the company's chief privacy officer for policy, offered that employers who demand password information for prospective employees might just end up getting sued." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/GM_European_unions%3A_No_local_negotiations.html Unions have warned General Motors that they won't engage in restructuring talks on the auto group's Opel and Vauxhall plants in Europe on a local level. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100 http://www.rsms.nl/Judge_Orders_Oracle_and_Google_To_Talk%2C_Again.html Reader Fluffeh snips from and links to Ars Technica with the latest chapter in the ongoing Google vs. Oracle fight involving patents, Java, and Android, writing that executives at both companies were "'ordered to hold one last round of settlement talks no later then April 9th, with the trial over Google's alleged use of Java technology in Android set to begin April 16,' though '[t]he last-ditch effort to avoid a trial seems unlikely to succeed. ... Oracle initially accused Google of violating seven patents, but has since dropped most of them. This is due to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruling the patents described technology that was not patentable. Two patents assigned to the Oracle-owned Sun Microsystems remain: #6,061,520 which covers "an improvement over conventional systems for initializing static arrays by reducing the amount of code executed by the virtual machine to statically initialize an array," and #RE38,104 which covers a type of compiler and interpreter." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://www.jouwnieuws.nl/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:37:36 +0100