All of the suspects taken into custody are Muslim, which today prompted Muslim leaders in Britain to write an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
That prompted the Chinese technology giant to write an open letter to the US authorities earlier this year asking them to conduct a probe into its operations and settle the issues.
Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, had to write an open letter to the chancellor this week to explain why consumer-price inflation had diverged so far from the 2% target, reaching 3.5% in the year to January.
Meanwhile, Labour MP Maria Fyfe said she and six other Labour colleagues would write an open letter to Tyson demanding he donate his purse money to groups working with rape victims.
Apple had a strong hand in the formation last year of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance, an industry group that wants to create a blueprint for an open standard that would allow content developers to write for one format, instead of three or more as they now must do.
It took Schaeffer only five months to analyze the setup and write code that would let him, from his laptop, tell the Scada system to open and close enough breakers to bring down the mock utility--without letting the legitimate operator see what was going on.
After all the submissions are in, we'll pick the best hack for each of the two gaming systems, publish the write-ups on Engadget, and open them up to reader voting (by submitting your hack you're giving us the non-exclusive right to publish it on the site).
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Users can, for example, write or edit a document on one device, put that device to sleep, open the same document on another device, and pick up where they left off, right down to the cursor position.
"They would open the door to me and let me watch tape and write reports, so I was doing the cap stuff and contract stuff during the day and then at night they would expose me to personnel, which was my passion and what I wanted to do, " Roseman said.
Last year, Ray Cross, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, told Inside Higher Ed that he expects some students will simply take a free MOOC (massive online open course) offered by another school and then opt to write their competency exam based on the what they learned therein or knowledge they acquired independently.
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But let's say you visit an open house, fall in love, and in your excitement, forget to write your agent's name on the guest sheet.
"One thing that unfortunately I do miss out on is that sort of quiet time where I can think about something I want to write ... where, if I'm bored, I'm flipping open Word and punching something out, " he said.
By building on open Web technologies like HTML5 and Mozilla-proposed APIs, the Mozilla Marketplace will enable developers to write one app that runs across devices and platforms.
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