Russia's Putin criticizes YouTube video of customs officials (Reuters)

Moscow (Reuters)-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticised Wednesday, a group of Customs officers to a video posted on YouTube clips that celebrate the lifestyle luxurious they say comes with their Government jobs.

The fake http://link.reuters.com/dyt97r rap video made in the city of Vladivostok on the Pacific port customs officials in sunglasses, driving a Rolls Royce and drinking champagne surrounded by scantily clad women.

"You can't even imagine how fun customs officials," official sing in the choir as one woman topless clutches customs forms for your breasts.

No action discipline has kept up to date against the officers who posted the video, but the primary leader of Putin, Russia, sentenced ironic look video full of bling corruption.

"Discipline is necessary in several divisions, we have to raise it a bit," Putin said in a meeting with the head of the Federal Customs Service.

"I like to joke and laugh a bit myself, but this kind of creativity must be saved for a talent show," said Mr Putin, who suggested that he may run for President in 2012.

Average monthly salary for customs officials--$ 1,000--is also the size of the average bribe in Russia, according to a recent report by Vedomosti financial daily.

Russians complain corruption and bribes to government officials to carry out the procedures and standard customs service is perceived as a big offender.

From cars to wine, imports are sought in Russia and often cost at least twice as much as in the country of origin.

Corruption is also considered the greatest obstacle to doing business in Russia, and investors have asked for more measures to combat the growing problem.

Berlin based graft watchdog Transparency International ranks Russia 154th individual out of 178 countries in a corruption perception index, putting it on par with Laos and Cambodia.

Government jobs are among the most sought after and often are sold for thousands of dollars in Russia, where bureaucrats modest incomes often complete with sometimes huge bribes.

Some site visitors praised the YouTube video, including a suggestion that they should go on tour. Other vehement derided and criticized the idea of the clip.

"What tour? Make more on tangents that each star. There is a flow of goods through Vladivostok derive China, they are literally raking the money, "said one person that you are identified as GiusAppuleiusDiocles.

President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday sent a draft law to Parliament by increasing fines for officials caught taking bribes of up to 100 times the size of corrupt the original.

Many Russians say pay bribes has become a regular feature in almost every sphere of life, to provide care in the health sector to achieve better marks at University or circumvent sanctions by the traffic police. Bigger bribes are paid by the companies to secure contracts or any other business.

(Editing by Jon Boyle)

3D design models on your IPad with 3D Studio Verto

If you are a 3D modeler iPad-toting, Michael l. Farrell Verto Studio 3D could be what you need for those times that you're on the go.

Verto Studio 3D modeling is a complete application designed to provide many of the features in the 3D desktop software. It combines 3D modeling, lighting and texture mapping with touch interface of iPad and offers useful features such as real-time dynamic lighting, Gouraud shading, lighting, self, changing angles and Summit, an unattended Setup mode to simultaneously manipulate all objects in the scene. Also supports the import and export OBJ format files, then you can use your existing wire mesh templates or create your own app.

In contrast with complex interfaces of typical 3D modeling software, the menu bar of Verto Studio 3D sports a buttons 15 relatively low. A group of six keys--Cars, Pan, rotate, scale, move, and select--motion controls, while the other eight--Add Undo, frame, object, Material Properties, clone, mirror, modify object and Trash--take care of most of the other requirements. Leverages the touchscreen interface of iPad display, with most of its various support tools, tap, swipe and pinch gestures to fly.

Add drop-down menu item creates a sketching plane, sphere, cube, terrain, Toro and light. The trim function allows multiple actions for annulment, and the camera view provides six standard views plus a variable view, with a choice of normal perspective or orthographic projection. The drop-down menu allows a Material Properties of precision control over RGB components of the four types of lighting (diffuse, highlighting, Emitted, Ambient), as well as the selection and tiling of Texture maps.

After selecting an object, the object to edit from the drop-down menu gives you the control vertices, meshes, triangles and extrusion. With any selected light, Edit menu object allows you to control the type of lighting, position, direction, intensity, falloff, color, angle, and more.

3D Verto Studio costs $ 8, and it requires iOS 4.2 or later.

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Mind controlled car is exactly what you think

By Megan Geuss, PCWorld

A German laboratory in Berlin has created a machine that can turn right, turn left, accelerate and brake using only your thoughts (… and some sensors electroencephalogram (EEG) and some creative software connected to the hardware of your car).

As reported by Science Daily, scientists at the laboratories of innovation AutoNOMOS at Freie Universität Berlin first asked their test subjects to move a virtual cube in "space", giving the bioelectrical computer information such as brainwaves on every topic related to driving a car. Then, scientists took that information and connected to a computer-controlled vehicle, allowing the Steering and pedals to be controlled by the thoughts of the driver in the same way that he or she controlled the virtual cube.

Apparently the driving test, which took place on an abandoned airport runway, went beautifully, with only a small delay between the drivers think the action and the car by replying to the message of thought.

Of course, cars "self help" which include radar sensors to prevent fender benders and parallel-automatic parking functions are also in existence today. So the fact that now you can turn the steering wheel with your mind is taking this concept a bit further. Just don't start thinking to reorganize your bedroom while driving.

[Autonomos-Labs and YouTube via Sciencedaily]