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Rhythmbox Gets iPod Support
Bhondai writes "The latest release of the popular GNOME based iTunes clone, Rhythmbox has, amongst new features, initial support for the iPod. Things are still a little unpolished at this moment (requiring manual mounting of the iPod to /mnt/ipod), but this does look promising. A list of changes and new features in Rhythmbox 0.7.1 is available at Footnotes."
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So when is Apple opening their architecture to clone manufacturers? I've been waiting for open Apple specs for a while now.
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Call them the $23 million men.
Before the government froze about $66 million of his assets, former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling supplied his high-powered legal team with $23 million for his defense.
Combined with insurance money -- some from Enron and possibly a private policy -- that's enough money to pay his brigade of attorneys for months, perhaps years.
"Maybe his lawyers are just making sure that crime doesn't pay," joked Philip Hilder, a Houston lawyer and former federal prosecutor who represents several witnesses in the Enron cases. "I'm quite sure the entire Enron Task Force, from its inception two years ago, hasn't cost anywhere near that."
Skilling faces 35 felony counts of conspiracy to commit fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud, making false statements to auditors and insider trading. But he also has potential legal liability in about 100 conglomerated civil cases and has been sued by the Securities Exchange Commission and investigated by Congress and the bankruptcy examiner.
"Millions yes, but $23 million is hard to figure. It is stunning," said Gillian Hadfield, a Los Angeles-based University of Southern California law professor specializing in the economics of legal fees. She said the enormous fee shows Skilling is expecting a major battle -- and that the legal system will find a use for as many dollars as a participant is willing to contribute.
Some criminal defense attorneys find the $23 million fair given the amount of litigation Skilling is embroiled in, the likely length of time it will take to conclude the cases, and the breadth of the criminal charges against him.
"It sounds like a lot at first. But based on the number of cases Mr. Skilling is going to have to fight it may be reasonable," said Houston defense attorney Kent Schaffer. "Just think about the millions of documents. Somebody has to read them, and nobody does that for fun."
Lawyers said there may be no other criminal case big enough to compare with Skilling's Enron indictment, which covers several years and multiple schemes.
One of the few criminal case budgets available comes from the Oklahoma City bombing. Timothy McVeigh's defense team reportedly racked up nearly $14 million in expenses paid by federal taxpayers, and that's at a federal rate much lower than private law firm rate. In contrast the McVeigh prosecution cost $82 million.
The popular conclusion on O.J. Simpson's criminal defense about 10 years ago was that it may have cost about $6 million.
Big legal bills are common in the massive and complex cases surrounding Enron's fall. The total Enron bankruptcy price tag as of this week for professionals, including lawyers and accountants, is $637 million.
So what will Skilling's $23 million buy?
From the firm of O'Melveny & Myers, which has become so well known for litigation it gets plugs on HBO's The Sopranos, come four main lawyers on the trial team.
Leading is Daniel Petrocelli, a California lawyer who has done everything from winning the civil trial verdict against O.J. Simpson for the family of Fred Goldman to successfully representing Winnie the Pooh for Disney. No stranger to the spotlight, this would-be professional trumpet player doesn't blink at the idea of Skilling being his first criminal client.
"A trial is a trial. This is a business case and Jeff Skilling is no criminal," said Petrocelli.
He brings an intensity to the case shared easily by his colleague Bruce Hiler, the Washington, D.C.-based former Securities and Exchange Commission associate director of enforcement who helped prosecute Ivan Boesky and Charles Keating Jr. Hiler sat by Skilling in his congressional testimony and on Larry King Live. His zeal in claiming Skilling's innocence is palpable.
"You have to believe in your client," said Petrocelli. "Your conviction has to be so strong that you can will the verdict."
Also from the law firm is Randy Oppenheimer, a California lawyer with a general trial practice as varied a
Firefox is a very nice browser. It's what I use when Safari is not available.
To add a device that is only compatible with windows. tsk tsk shame on them. It will probably stink any way and crash - we'll call it - the little blue screen of death. Rebecca onlymacintosh.com
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