[MyAppleMenu] Jun 19, 2010

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**** Apple Quietly Includes Malware Prevention Update In Mac OS X 10.6.4 <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/18/apple_quietly_includes_malware_prevention_update_in_mac_os_x_10_6_4.html>
AppleInsider

Apple silently updated its Snow Leopard malware protection in this week's Mac OS X 10.6.4 update, targeting a Trojan that disguises itself as iPhoto.

**** Find My iPhone App Enables Mobile Device Discovery <http://db.tidbits.com/article/11368>
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

The Find My iPhone app makes this a much simpler task.

**** WWDC 2010 Wrap-Up <http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/wwdc_wrapup>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball

There’s nothing in the developer agreement guidelines to suggest these apps wouldn’t be allowed. But, they’re not. And the problem is that the developers who made these apps only found out after they had created the apps and submitted them to the store. Obviously Apple can’t write guidelines that cover scenarios it hasn’t foreseen; but once something new comes up, their policies to handle it should be documented publicly.

**** Another iPhone Mystery Explained <http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/another-iphone-mystery-explained/>
David Pogue, New York Times

“What your readers are seeing is a routine update of the daily data activity on their devices—whether the iPhone or other handsets—to ensure billing accuracy. Customers are not charged for any data usage as part of this routine update.”

**** Is The Mac Mini The New Apple TV? <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/is-the-mac-mini-the-new-apple-tv/7230?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2FApple+%28ZDNet+The+Apple+Core%29>
Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet

**** First Look: Apple' New Unibody Mac Mini <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/18/first_look_apple_new_unibody_mac_mini.html>
AppleInsider

**** Defending The iPad’s Restrictions <http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/17/apple-intellectual-property-technology-ipad.html>
Andrew McAfee, Forbes

I believe that America's extraordinary track record of innovation and creativity exists not despite its IP laws, but at least in part because of them. I applaud the fact that IP creators and owners have strong rights to exclude, even when these creators and owners are big, powerful corporations. And I really like the bundle of sticks contained in my iPad.

**** Apple Lightens Up On Some Nudity Apps <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/19/AR2010061900114.html>
Kevin Kelleher, Washington Post

As a result of Apple's decision to wade into the porn morass, it's quite possible that the company could end up being seen as both as an opponent to free speech and an purveyor of porn. Not an easy trick to pull off.



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**** Dysregulation Nation <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20fFOB-WWLN-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Judith Warner, New York Times

After the failure of the levees during Hurricane Katrina, the Wall Street meltdown of 2008, the collapse of the housing market and now the BP spill,we have come to what feels like a moment of reckoning, with some tentative signs that our country’s decades-long love affair with deregulation is starting to chill.

**** Massive: The Hunt For The God Particle By Ian Sample <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/19/massive-god-particle-ian-sample?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Graham Farmelo, The Guardian

Never has so much been expected of a scientific machine. The Large Hadron Collider, 30 years in the planning, promises to shed new light on nature's fundamental laws and particles, thus justifying its multi-billion-dollar price tag to the governments that have footed the bill. "If the Collider doesn't deliver some really sexy discoveries," one of the world's most illustrious experimenters recently whispered to me, "particle physicists will be fucked."

**** Food Writing Moves From Kitchen To Bookshelf <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/19/anthony-bourdain-food-writing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian

It is 10 years since Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential rocked into town and gave food writing such a hard slap that it has never quite known which end to stand on ever since.

**** A Village Life By Louise Glück <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/19/village-life-louise-gluck-poetry?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

Set in a village somewhere in the western Mediterranean sometime in the last 50 years, Louise Glück's captivating 11th collection is full of spacious, carefully balanced monologues and narratives.

**** One World, One Voice <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/books/review/Blount-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Roy Blount Jr., New York Times

McCrum is bullish on Globish: the reign of English as the world’s lingua franca or default tongue, “the worldwide dialect of the third millennium,” the language in which China trades with Zambia, the language in which a Greek watching CNN phones a friend from the Middle East to get him off the London bus he’s riding before it explodes. English, the author argues convincingly in “Globish,” will not break up into new languages and die, as Latin did, because it is sustained by the Internet, global marketing, mass consumerism, instant communications, international soccer, texting, and (McCrum is English) cricket and the legacy of Winston Churchill.

**** Pharma Drama <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/books/review/Scarf-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Maggie Scarf, New York Times

Belfer clearly knows her scientific material. She also knows how to turn esoteric information into an adventure story, and how to tell that story very well.

**** Inside The Box <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/books/review/Suellentrop-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Chris Suellentrop, New York Times

Video games have created what must be the biggest generation gap since rock ’n’ roll. Sure, a generational rift of sorts emerged when the World Wide Web showed up near the end of the last century, but in the case of the Web, the older cohort admired and tried to emulate the younger crowd, rather than looking down on them with befuddlement or disdain. With games, a more traditional “Get off my lawn” panic has reared its head.

**** Do I Contradict Myself? <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/books/review/Senior-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Jennifer Senior, New York Times

The truth is, by Hitchens’s standards, his examination of how he and the left parted company is surprisingly un strident and nonpolemical. It is, in fact, almost melancholic. He’s not claiming with his typical adamantine force that the balance sheets work out. And perhaps the strongest theme in “Hitch-22” is just this — that sometimes the balance sheets are an unholy mess.



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**** High-level Ministry Departures A Sign Of Impending Election? <http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/06/high-level-ministry-departures-a-sign-of-impending-election/>
Gerald Giam

The PAP always accuses the opposition of showing up just before elections, but they overlook the fact that many of their new candidates have barely started climbing down from their ivory towers when they are fielded as candidates under the wings of powerful Cabinet ministers in a GRC (Group Representation Constituency).

**** Too Busy Punching Back To Deal With Human Trafficking <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/too-busy-punching-back-to-deal-with-human-trafficking/>
Yawning Bread

Singapore deserves to be on the watchlist. And if the government insists on maintaining an attitude of combative denial, that itself is a sign that it’s not doing enough.

**** Capture More Accurate Data With Broader Criteria <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_542643.html>
Constance Singam, Straits Times

The State has the obligation to broaden its definition of trafficking in order to capture more accurately the data and ensure that it is the perpetrators and not the victims who are punished.

**** Sungei Buloh, Johor In Joint Study To Develop Cross-border Eco-tourist Attraction <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1064285/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Sungei Buloh will be conducting a joint study with Johor to develop a cross-border tourist attraction involving Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and three Ramsar sites of Sungai Pulai, Pulau Kukup and Tanjong Piai at Iskandar Malaysia.

**** The Dark Side Of The Boom <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2010/6/19/columnists/insightdownsouth/6500752&sec=insightdownsouth>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

With so many foreigners buying real estate, the over-heating market is both a blessing and a curse.

**** Australians Sue Singapore Power Over 2009 Firestorm <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hCuzP_Tztkaznn9fs7oWe8Oj6HtA>
AFP

Victims of Australia's deadly 2009 firestorm have launched legal action against a Singapore power firm alleging poorly-maintained electrical wires sparked the blaze, reports said Saturday.

**** Town Council Performance....What It Actually Shows... <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2010/06/town-council-performancewhat-it.html>
Diary of A Singaporean Mind

The Town Council Management Report which tracks a narrow set of measures that puts the opposition constituencies is a completely meaningless exercise and a waste of tax payers money that serve only to score political points for the ruling PAP party.

**** A Bit Of Good News For A Change <http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/18/a_bit_of_good_news_for_a_change>
Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy

With both sides feeling relatively secure, compromise on issues like the KTM rail properties no longer carried large political consequences and agreement became much easier to reach. The lesson, if it weren't obvious, is that mutual security is the foundation of far-reaching international cooperation.

**** Embracing Everyone From The US To India <http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/embracing-everyone-from-the-us-to-india/story-e6frg6so-1225881536852>
Greg Sheridan, The Australian

George Yeo is an old, old friend of Australia, and in a sense a long-term champion of Australia's involvement in Southeast Asia. He has been a minister in the Singapore government for more than 20 years. He embodies a great deal of institutional memory and strategic continuity, not just within Singapore but within the broader councils of the region.

**** 李光耀体验中医治疗的小故事 <http://www.sh.chinanews.com.cn/pageurl/20106191733317.html>
王姿英 陈静, 上海新闻网

李光耀虽然与中医药接触的时间不长，但作为长期在西方文化熏陶下成长的一代，能够在这么短的时间内信任和欣赏中医，正显示了中医药文化的无穷魅力和丰富内涵。

**** Govt To Review Canals Across S'pore As Part Of Effort Against Floods <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1064320/1/.html>
Jeremy Koh, Channel NewsAsia

Environment and water resources minister Yaacob Ibrahim said that new buildings and construction in the area are not a contributing factor to the floods, contrary to what some believe.

**** The TCMR Finger-pointing Farce <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/06/the-tcmr-finger-pointing-farce/>
Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen

Perhaps in this whole TCMR fiasco, instead of finger-pointing, our MPs should consider if it is time for them to put in more time and effort running the towns, rather than looking for convenient scapegoats to lay blame on.

Yes, service comes with sacrifice – but at $14,000 a month, an MP can live a relatively comfortable life.

**** MAS, MHA, NEA, ENV, SMRT/LTA, PUB… Who’s Next? <http://civicadvocator.net/mas-mha-nea-env-smrtlta-pub-whos-next>
Civic Advocator

Perhaps these are signs that we really need a change in government, new blood to shake things up and people out of their incompetence and complacency.

**** International Law In Yong Vui Kong’s Case <http://aussgworldpolitics.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/international-law-in-yong-vui-kongs-case/>
Readings From A Political Duo-Ble

There are various reasons why the ICJ may not interfere in this matter.

**** CWO Still Curbs Littering <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_542827.html>
Goh Chin Lian, Straits Times

The 18-year-old corrective work order for litterbugs is still feared, said the National Environment Agency (NEA).




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