Ubuntu Switches To OpenStack For Cloud

"Canonical has switched its cloud software stack to the open-source
OpenStack. The current version of its Ubuntu Server, version 11.04, uses the
Eucalyptus platform. Ubuntu Server 11.10 will include the OpenStack stack as
the core of the company's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) package. The server
release will also include a set of tools to help users move their cloud
deployments from Eucalyptus to OpenStack."

Strauss-Kahn lawyer says must remain calm over arrest

One of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's France-based lawyers said on Sunday that it
was key to avoid a media frenzy over the sex assault charges against the IMF
chief and wait for clarity on whether the allegations are true.

"We must wait until things settle and see if it's true or a provocation,"
Leon Lef Foster told Reuters.

"We must be especially careful not to get into a media circus and we must
wait until things are clear," he said, and said that it was important to
remain calm.

The International Monetary Fund chief, who had been seen making a bid for
France's 2012 presidential election, was arrested and charged with an
alleged sexual assault on a hotel maid in New York.

assault
[名][U][C]

1 （…への）猛攻撃，猛襲((on, upon, against ...))；接近［白兵］戦；（言葉による）（…への）激しい攻撃，非難((on, upon, against ...))

take [gain] a city by assault
強襲して町を攻め取る

make a violent assault on a fortress [the character of the
President]
要塞(ようさい)を猛攻する［大統領の人格を痛烈に非難する］.

2 法律（…への）暴行，（暴力による）脅迫；((婉曲))強姦(ごうかん)((on, upon
...)).

3 （困難な問題への）果敢な挑戦((on ...)).

━━[動](他)…を猛烈に攻撃する；〈人に〉暴行を加える；〈物・事が〉〈人などを〉悩ます

sexually assault a woman
女性を強姦する

The noise of the city is assaulting us.
都会の騒音に悩まされている.

［古フランス語←中ラテン語assaltus （as-へ＋salre跳ぶ＝跳びかかる）.
△ASSAIL, INSULT］

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn accused of attempting to rape NY hotel maid

NEW YORK — The leader of the International Monetary Fund was pulled from an
airplane and arrested Sunday in connection with the violent sexual assault
of a hotel maid, New York police said.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off the Air France flight at John F.
Kennedy International Airport by officers from the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey about 10 minutes before it was to take off for Paris.

He was turned over to police for questioning Saturday afternoon, said Paul
J. Browne, New York Police Department spokesman.

Strauss-Kahn, 62, was arrested at 2:15 a.m. ET Sunday on charges of a
criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, and was awaiting
arraignment, police said.

Strauss-Kahn's lawyer Benjamin Brafman told Reuters in an email that the IMF
chief "will plead not guilty."

$3000-a-night suite
The 32-year-old woman told authorities that she entered Strauss-Kahn's suite
at the luxury Sofitel hotel not far from Manhattan's Times Square at about 1
p.m. ET Saturday and he attacked her, Browne said. She said she had been
told to clean the spacious $3000-a-night suite, which she had been told was
empty.

According to an account the woman provided to police, Strauss-Kahn emerged
from the bathroom naked, chased her down a hallway and pulled her into a
bedroom, where he began to sexually assault her. She said she fought him
off, then he dragged her into the bathroom, where he forced her to perform
oral sex on him and tried to remove her underwear. The woman was able to
break free again and escaped the room and told hotel staff what had
happened, authorities said. They called police.

When New York City police detectives arrived moments later, Strauss-Kahn had
already left the hotel, leaving behind his cellphone, Browne said. "It
looked like he got out of there in a hurry," Browne said.

The NYPD discovered that he was at the airport and contacted Port Authority
officials, who plucked Strauss-Kahn from first class on the Air France
flight that was scheduled to depart at 4:40 p.m. ET and was just about to
leave the gate.

The maid was taken by police to a hospital and was being treated for minor
injuries. John Sheehan, a spokesman for the hotel, said its staff was
cooperating in the investigation.

According to New York state law, a criminal sexual act includes forcibly
compelling someone to engage in oral sex.

Browne said Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity.

NBC station WNBC reported that Strauss-Kahn would spend the night in a jail
cell at the Manhattan special-victims unit in East Harlem and would be
arraigned Sunday.

Strauss-Kahn was briefly investigated in 2008 over whether he had an
improper relationship with a subordinate female employee. The IMF board
found his actions "regrettable" and said they "reflected a serious error of
judgment."

William Murray, a spokesman for the IMF in Washington, said the IMF had no
immediate comment. Strauss-Kahn's offices in Paris couldn't be reached when
the news broke overnight in France, nor could French Socialist Party
officials.

He was supposed to be meeting in Berlin on Sunday with German Chancellor
Angela Merkel about aid to debt-laden Greece, and then join EU finance
ministers in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday. The IMF is responsible for
one-third of Greece's existing loan package, and his expected presence at
these meetings underlined the gravity of the Greek crisis.

A married father of four, Strauss-Kahn took over as head of the IMF in
November 2007. The 187-nation lending agency is headquartered in Washington
and provides help in the form of emergency loans for countries facing severe
financial problems.

Bailout efforts
Strauss-Kahn won praise for his leadership at the IMF during the financial
crisis of 2008 and the severe global recession that followed.

More recently, he has directed the IMF's participation in bailout efforts to
keep a European debt crisis which began in Greece from destabilizing the
global economy.

In October 2008, Strauss-Kahn issued an apology to the IMF staff after
accusations that he had a sexual relationship with an IMF subordinate.

"While this incident constituted an error in judgment on my part, for which
I take full responsibility, I firmly believe that I have not abused my
position," Strauss-Kahn wrote in an email to IMF staff.

The board found that the relationship was consensual. The IMF employee left
the fund and took a job with the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development.

Before taking the top post at the IMF, Strauss-Kahn had been a member of the
French National Assembly and had also served as France's Minister of
Economy, Finance and Industry from June 1997 to November 1999.

He had been viewed as a leading contender to run on the Socialist Party's
ticket to challenge the re-election of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Strauss-Kahn, dubbed DSK in France, was seen as the strongest possible
challenger to Sarkozy in next year's presidential elections. Strauss-Kahn
has not declared his candidacy, staying vague in interviews while feeding
speculation that he wants France's top job.

ony begins restoring PlayStation Network

Sony said it would restore core functions of its PlayStation Network and
other online services beginning on Sunday, three weeks after a hacker
infiltrated a customer database containing personal information on tens of
millions of people.

The Japanese technology group said PSN users in the US, Europe and other
regions would be able to access their accounts and play online games with
networked PlayStation3 consoles, the first steps in a phased restoration of
services that it hopes to complete by May 31.

Partial restoration of Sony's Music Unlimited music streaming service and
Sony Online Entertainment, a separate internet-based gaming platform, were
also planned for Sunday.

Sony had initially hoped to restore the 77m-member PlayStation Network a
week ago, but efforts to improve its security in the wake of the hacker
attack took longer than expected. The company has added new firewalls,
encryption and monitoring systems and plans to move the entire customer
database to a new location with more secure servers.

The still unidentified hacker gained access to the names, addresses and
network passwords of all PSN users. Credit card information for about 10m
users was also stored on the database, though it remains uncertain whether
the hacker was able to penetrate deeply enough to steal it.

Sony said it had appointed Fumiaki Sakai, president of Sony Global
Solutions, a business technology unit of the Sony group, as acting chief
information security officer (CISO) of the PlayStation division. Sony
created the new CISO role as one of its responses to the hacker attack.