Installing Pear Beta Packages | MDLog:/sysadmin

pear config-set preferred_state beta
or
pear install -f <package>
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Possible Apple TV subscription service faces uphill battle

Two major TV networks are considering joining Apple’s plan to offer TV subscriptions over the Internet in a venture that could put Apple in direct competition with cable and satellite providers. Disney and CBS are both taking a liking to the deal, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal.
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Obama Negotiates ‘Copenhagen Accord’ With Senate Climate Fight in Mind – NYTimes.com

During the round-the-clock, raucous negotiations that ended Saturday, Obama and his team worked with the leaders of China, India, Brazil, South Africa and about 20 other countries to commit to emission cuts that will be open to international review.
via Obama Negotiates ‘Copenhagen Accord’ With Senate Climate Fight in Mind – NYTimes.com.

Obama Tries to Rally U.N. Climate Conference, but Deadlock Persists – NYTimes.com

President Obama exhorted world leaders today “not to talk, but to act” as they scrambled in the closing hours of a historic U.N. global warming summit to salvage an agreement to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.
via Obama Tries to Rally U.N. Climate Conference, but Deadlock Persists – NYTimes.com.

6. Climate Change — Those hacked e-mails

8 Companies That Are Reinventing TV Online

Here are several companies that believe they are well-positioned for the transition — big and small, old and new. This isn’t a complete list by any stretch, but these samples will give you an idea of where the industry is headed in 2010.
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Further commitments needed to break negotiation deadlock – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

A blueprint, released Tuesday in Copenhagen, outlines three options for long-term climate aid from developed to developing countries. However, none of the options include any financial commitments, Bloomberg reports.
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The Climate Scoreboard — Climate Interactive

The Climate Scoreboard uses the C-ROADS simulation to calculate the long-term climate impacts of proposals under consideration in the negotiations to produce a global climate treaty. Embedded Scoreboards automatically update as the deal improves.
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What Key Countries Want at the Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference – WSJ.com

This week, officials from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen to tackle global climate change, seeking a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
Even if they can’t negotiate a binding agreement, many countries hope at least to work out commitments to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions and provide assistance to poorer countries likely to be hardest hit [...]

Global warming isn’t slowing, report says – CNET News

Despite recent fluctuations in global temperature year to year, which fueled claims of global cooling, a sustained global warming trend shows no signs of ending, according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public Tuesday.
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