Facebook for Android Updates with New, Very Cool Timeline Interface [Facebook]

Android: Facebook rolled out its new Timeline feature yesterday, and if you've enabled the cool new interface, you can update the Android app to get it on your phone as well.

The new version is mostly an interface update, but if you're using Timeline, you'll definitely want to check it out. You get the cover photo, map thumbnails, and the top-down view of all your posts. You can even swipe through albums right from the Timeline view, which is a really nice touch. The update isn't out for iOS yet, but iOS users can head to m.facebook.com to see the new changes if they so desire. Hit the link to read more.

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Crimes against business in China | East Asia Forum

Author: Rod Broadhurst, ANU

Few crime victim surveys have been conducted with Chinese populations, but a recently released study, Business and the Risk of Crime in China, analyses the results of the first large scale victimisation survey of 5,117 businesses in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi?an.

This snapshot shows that the level of crime reported by Chinese businesses was lower than other emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia, Nigeria and India, and considerably lower than Western and Eastern Europe. However, incidents of bribery and extortion were more frequent in China than in Western Europe and Australia, but less frequent than in Eastern Europe. Respondents from China were much more likely to report to police than elsewhere, although the levels of reporting of fraud were comparable.

China?s transition from a command to a market economy has been supported by authoritarian policing that has helped contain most crimes against business except fraud. An annual loss to crime of US$20.4 million, most of which was due to fraud by either employees (US$7.5 million) or outsiders (US$7.6 million) was estimated for the sample as a whole. About US$6.4 billion was estimated to have been lost to crime across all the four cities. Larger businesses were most at risk especially to higher risks of victimisation for non-conventional crime. Smaller businesses had a higher prevalence of fraud by outsiders.

Over one-quarter (26.2 per cent) of businesses reported at least one incident of crime over the past year, but higher risks of non-conventional crimes (that is, fraud, bribery, and intellectual property [IP] offences) than common crime (that is, robbery assault, and theft) were found. Across the four cities, the rate of non-conventional crime (22.6 per cent) was 3.4 times that of common crime (6.7 per cent) and businesses in Shenzhen were at higher risk of non-conventional crime (27.9 per cent) than those in Xi?an (25.3 per cent) and Hong Kong and Shanghai (19.5 per cent). Just over 6 per cent of respondents mentioned incidents of bribery, but there were fewer in Hong Kong than the other cities. IP theft was reported by about 6 per cent but was more of a problem in Shenzhen (9.1 per cent) and Xi?an (7.6 per cent) than in Shanghai (6.5 per cent) and Hong Kong (2.7 per cent).

Crime in China has risen sharply over the last 40 years and is associated with a state of anomie or ?loss of social norms? that the sociologist Durkheim theorised was the result of rapid and significant societal change. Economic crime, especially fraud also rose at a much faster rate than common or street crime, supporting the hypothesis that a growth in property crime is also associated with modernisation. In times of rapid change, a lag between socio-economic transformation and institutional adaptations to these transformations (?institutional anomie?) can occur as the crime wave that engulfed the former USSR demonstrated. This institutional lag can be reduced when the economic and social transition is planned and managed by a strong authoritarian state like China. Although China may have been more capable of controlling institutional anomie, its failure to establish independent oversight and checks and balances has facilitated corruption. Corruption was more frequently reported on the mainland than in Hong Kong, and especially in Xi?an where state-owned businesses and traditional Communist Party control remain strong.

Although public police have been able to contain common or street crime they have not yet transformed into policing agencies with a capacity to focus on crime against business, which is both highly attractive to a new type of criminal and harmful to society. Identifying the ?new enemies of the state? has become harder than in the past when the simple categories ??class enemies, ?rightists?, feudal remnants and the like could be readily distinguished and demonised. Economic criminals, it seems, are hard to distinguish from valued entrepreneurs, business leaders and officials who gamble with venture capitalists and fall for fanciful and fraudulent innovators.

In addition to the impact of modernisation and urbanisation, the growth in economic activities and consumerism also increases the opportunity for property crime. The opening up of the Chinese economy has produced both an increase in consumer goods (more opportunities for common crime) and an increase in business and commercial activities (more opportunities for non-conventional crime). Related to increased opportunity is the absence of competent guardianship and target attractiveness ? the key drivers of risk of victimisation for business. Chinese businesses thus suffer similar risks as found elsewhere and could benefit from many of the measures recommended by situational crime prevention approaches. The demise of campaign-style policing and the shift to a prevention focus rather than reliance on crude deterrence and brutalising punishments should also help release police resources for greater specialisation in complex crime such as fraud and corruption.

Roderic Broadhurst is a professor in, and Deputy Director of, the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence in Policing and Security, in the Department of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy, College of Asia and the Pacific at the ANU. He is co-author (with John Bacon-Shone, Brigitte Bouhours, Thierry Bouhours, assisted by Lee Kingwa) of Business and the Risk of Crime in China, ANU E Press, Canberra, 2011.

Source: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/12/16/crimes-against-business-in-china/

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A third-party candidate in 2012? It's going to happen, pollster says. (VIDEO) (Christian Science Monitor)

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Sprint Disabled Carrier IQ on its Phones (The Atlantic Wire)

As federal investigations against Carrier IQ ramp up this week, Sprint said today it will be removing the company's software from its phones. The company has come into the public eye in recent weeks as folks on the internet found evidence that its software was collecting data, and even recording people's keystrokes, supposedly to?gauge?how well phones were working, but creating suspicion they might be?collecting?and using the data nefariously. The company has denied any claims of wrongdoing and says it will cooperate as governments begin to look into the affair. Sprint wasn't shy about saying today's decision was made with the concern of its customers, who probably didn't like finding out that an invisible something-or-other was maybe?reading?their text messages. From the Sprint statement:

We have weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected. We are further evaluating options regarding this diagnostic software as well as Sprint's diagnostic needs

They are the first company to announce they're eliminating the software, though a few phone?companies?like Verizon have already stated that they'd never included it in their phones.

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Key Sandusky witness says he believes boy molested (Reuters)

HARRISBURG, Pa (Reuters) ? A key witness in the sex abuse case of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky testified on Friday he had no doubt he saw Sandusky in a sexual act with a 10-year-old boy in 2002.

"I believe he was sexually molesting the boy," Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant in the university's football program in 2002, said in testimony at a court hearing, adding at a later point that he "has no doubt" he saw Sandusky in a sexual act.

But McQueary also said: "I did not see insertion nor was there any protest, screaming or yelling."

"I heard rhythmic slapping sounds, two or three slaps that sounded like skin on skin."

He said he was "shocked, horrified, not thinking straight. I was distraught."

McQueary was testifying at a court hearing on charges against former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and finance official Gary Schultz.

McQueary said he called his father and told him: "I just saw coach Sandusky. What I saw was wrong and sexual."

McQueary also talked to legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno about the incident.

Asked if he used the phrase "anal intercourse" in describing what he saw to Paterno, McQueary said, "No, out of respect, I would not have done it."

Paterno told him, "I'm sorry you had to see that" and that he had "done the absolute right thing," McQueary said.

Paterno appeared "shocked and saddened" after hearing what McQueary saw, and "slumped back in his chair," McQueary said.

DID NOT CONFRONT SANDUSKY

He said he had never confronted Sandusky himself about the incident.

Curley and Schultz, the latter in charge of the university's police at the time of the incident, were charged last month with perjury before a grand jury for testimony they gave about their knowledge of the alleged abuse.

McQueary told the hearing that he also talked to Schultz about the incident and in doing so, "I thought I was talking to the head of police."

He said he thought of Schultz as a sort of district attorney who "would know what to do" with the information.

The hearing was in a courtroom at the Dauphin County Courthouse with District Judge William Wenner presiding.

McQueary's story is important to the case against Sandusky and the two officials because he testified to a grand jury that he witnessed Sandusky sodomizing a boy in the showers of the football building, and reported it to then head coach Paterno.

Paterno said he told his boss, Curley, but no one told police, and Sandusky's alleged behavior continued, according to a grand jury report.

The preliminary hearing on Friday is to determine if there is enough evidence for Curley and Schultz, both of whom were present, to go to trial.

McQueary has not been charged in the case but was put on administrative leave from the university, as was Curley. Schultz retired shortly after he was arraigned November 7 in suburban Harrisburg.

Paterno and Penn State President Graham Spanier were fired for not telling police what they knew.

Sandusky waived his preliminary hearing on Tuesday and will go straight to trial on 52 counts of alleged sex abuse of boys over a 15 year period.

At issue on Friday is what McQueary, who was 28 at the time, actually saw in the football shower. Since Curley's and Schultz's arrests, different versions of what McQueary witnessed have been reported.

Penn State faces a raft of investigations into the Sandusky case and how the school handled it. The university said on Thursday it had asked for more time to respond to questions from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The university has told the NCAA that it is clear that the questions "might be answered in the course of the investigations currently in progress," it said in a statement.

(Additional reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Greg McCune and Jerry Norton)

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North Korea Threatens South Korea -- Over Christmas Lights (Time.com)

Nothing says "international feud" quite like Christmas lights. When relations between North Korea and South Korea fall on the friendly side, South Korea doesn't light up towers on its border with Christmas lights. When things aren't so lovely, they let the lights shine. This year marks a newfound effort to light towers with Christmas lights and North Korea is none too fond of it, warning of "unexpected consequences."

The "psychological warfare" alleged by North Korea comes as South Korean officials have allowed Christian groups even broader freedom to decorate towers that line the border between the two nations.

(PHOTOS: Patterns of North Korea)

South Korea held off on the traditional lighting in 2003 at the request of North Korea. But when the two sides fell back into their bickering, the towers were lit up once more last year.

As is tradition, the towers will shine for 15 days, starting this year on Dec. 23. Last year, thousands of lights on a nearly 100-foot tall tree-shaped tower about two miles from the border on the top of Aegibong Hill was reportedly seen from North Korea's Kaesong city. The North Korean government feels a repeat performance amounts to an invasion of the Christian faith into their atheist borders.

Of course, South Korea hasn't taken too lightly the invasion of space North Korea has shown by allegedly sinking one of its warships and killing 46 in March 2010 (North Korea denies involvement) and firing upon an island, killing four, in November 2010. South Korea must figure a few lights won't do that much damage.

(PHOTOS: Food Crisis in North Korea)

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South Carolina Republicans Pull Primary Funding

Spring Valley Patch:

The South Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that it would not cover all costs associated with the 2012 presidential primary as previously promised.

According to The State, SC GOP Executive Director Matt Moore said the decision came following an expensive Supreme Court case, in which four South Carolina counties attempted to block the primary.

Read the whole story: Spring Valley Patch

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