Mourinho opens door for Van Nistelrooy

Madrid - Ruud van Nistelrooy's desire to return to Real Madrid was not unrequited. Coach Madrid, Jose Mourinho, claimed to be very happy if Van Nistelrooy is really back to the Santiago Bernabeu.

Madrid was hit by a crisis center striker Gonzalo Higuain ascertained after a long absence. Mourinho's desire to bring the striker was finally granted the club management, although it provided that the player must be willing to contract only until the end this season. Later, the name of Van Nistelrooy came to light. Dutch striker had reportedly already desperate back-and-white and white uniforms typical of Madrid. In fact, he threatened not want to play for his club today, Hamburg SV, when walking to Santiago Bernabeu prevented.
Van Nistelrooy's desire is turned up to ear Mourinho. Mourinho also welcomed the 34-year players desire.

"There are so many names mentioned. If in the end it Ruud, I would be very happy. We met in England and I knew him, both as players and as a person. It would be very happy if it was him, 'Mourinho said, as quoted by SkySports.

Mourinho assess players who familiarly called Ruudtje that additional players will be good for his squad. Moreover, competition is still quite long. "It would be nice for us if you have another striker because (squad) we are not a lot and we had plenty of games to play," the Portuguese coach's cap

Samsung Flexible Screen Techology At CES?

Flexible screen technology isn’t new, but there has always been a rush to perfect this technology because once perfected, it will form the backbone of a next generation of flexible electronic readers and ad screens.

CES 2011 will have companies touting their latest advances in flexible screens, but it’s very unlikely that we will see any final products that are available for consumer purchase.

Rather, all of the products will still be in the prototype stage. Samsung is one such company that will have a flexible screen to show off and theirs will be a 4.5-inch AMOLED display screen that is transparent and also flexible. This screen is different from other screens that they have been working on and it will not be of the e-ink variety

Birk Will Play In Pittsburgh

With the Ravens deactivating center/guard Bryan Mattison, it looks like six-time Pro Bowl center Matt Birk will play for Saturday’s playoff matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Birk was held out of Wednesday and Thursday’s practices with a knee injury and was questionable heading into the weekend.

But, it seemed that the Ravens were only taking precautionary measures with the veteran.
In addition to Mattison, wideout David Reed, safety Tom Zbikowski, linebacker Arthur Jones, defensive tackle Lamar Divens, and tight ends Davon Drew and Dennis Pitta are inactive.

That also means starting cornerback Chris Carr and running back Ray Rice will play.
Carr was questionable after suffering a thigh injury last week, while ESPN reported that Rice was dealing with a stomach illness.

On Thursday, Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh said he thought Carr would be fine, and Rice debunked any doubts of his status by tweeting “To clear it all up I will be playing today ain’t no questionable or none of that I’m good” Saturday morning.

For the Steelers, offensive tackles Tony Hills and Chris Scott are inactive, as is defensive end Aaron Smith, linebacker Jason Worilds, defensive tackle Steve McLendon, corner Crezdon Butler, running back Jonathan Dwyer and quarterback Charlie Batch are inactive.

Pro Bowl safety Troy Polamalu, who was probable on the final injury report, will play.

2012 Games tickets go on sale in March

Olympic organizers have announced that London 2012 tickets will go on sale on March 15.

There will be six weeks until April 26 to apply for the 6.6 million tickets at prices ranging from 20 pounds (C$31.40) for standard events to a symbolic 2,012 pounds (C$3,160) for the top-priced seats at the opening ceremony.

Applications can be made at any point as it is not a first come, first served process.
The tickets are available only to residents of Britain and some European countries, including France and Germany. Others will have to buy them through their local Olympic committee or its authorized ticket reseller.
Tickets for the Paralympics will go on sale on Sept. 9

Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay

The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal.

Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a new, equally secret role — as a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own.

Behind Dimona’s barbed wire, the experts say, Israel has spun nuclear centrifuges virtually identical to Iran’s at Natanz, where Iranian scientists are struggling to enrich uranium. They say Dimona tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a destructive program that appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and helped delay, though not destroy, Tehran’s ability to make its first nuclear arms.
“To check out the worm, you have to know the machines,” said an American expert on nuclear intelligence.

“The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out.”
Though American and Israeli officials refuse to talk publicly about what goes on at Dimona, the operations there, as well as related efforts in the United States, are among the newest and strongest clues suggesting that the virus was designed as an American-Israeli project to sabotage the Iranian program.

In recent days, the retiring chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Meir Dagan, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton separately announced that they believed Iran’s efforts had been set back by several years. Mrs. Clinton cited American-led sanctions, which have hurt Iran’s ability to buy components and do business around the world.

The gruff Mr. Dagan, whose organization has been accused by Iran of being behind the deaths of several Iranian scientists, told the Israeli Knesset in recent days that Iran had run into technological difficulties that could delay a bomb until 2015. That represented a sharp reversal from Israel’s long-held argument that Iran was on the cusp of success.

The biggest single factor in putting time on the nuclear clock appears to be Stuxnet, the most sophisticated cyberweapon ever deployed.

In interviews over the past three months in the United States and Europe, experts who have picked apart the computer worm describe it as far more complex — and ingenious — than anything they had imagined when it began circulating around the world, unexplained, in mid-2009.

Many mysteries remain, chief among them, exactly who constructed a computer worm that appears to have several authors on several continents. But the digital trail is littered with intriguing bits of evidence.
In early 2008 the German company Siemens cooperated with one of the United States’ premier national laboratories, in Idaho, to identify the vulnerabilities of computer controllers that the company sells to operate industrial machinery around the world — and that American intelligence agencies have identified as key equipment in Iran’s enrichment facilities.

Seimens says that program was part of routine efforts to secure its products against cyberattacks. Nonetheless, it gave the Idaho National Laboratory — which is part of the Energy Department, responsible for America’s nuclear arms — the chance to identify well-hidden holes in the Siemens systems that were exploited the next year by Stuxnet.

The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.

The attacks were not fully successful: Some parts of Iran’s operations ground to a halt, while others survived, according to the reports of international nuclear inspectors. Nor is it clear the attacks are over: Some experts who have examined the code believe it contains the seeds for yet more versions and assaults.

“It’s like a playbook,” said Ralph Langner, an independent computer security expert in Hamburg, Germany, who was among the first to decode Stuxnet. “Anyone who looks at it carefully can build something like it.”
Mr. Langner is among the experts who expressed fear that the attack had legitimized a new form of industrial warfare, one to which the United States is also highly vulnerable.

Officially, neither American nor Israeli officials will even utter the name of the malicious computer program, much less describe any role in designing it.