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It wasn't the pitchers duel everyone expected.

Quite the opposite, actually. After Texas scored in each of the game's first two frames, the Giants stormed back with six runs in the fifth inning to break it open, and added three more in the eighth before eventually winning, 11-7. The two teams' run total of 18 is the highest this postseason, eclipsing the 13 scored by the Rangers and Yankees in Game 4 of the ALCS.

Even after the six-run frame, the Rangers weren't ready to call it a night. Texas put up two runs in the sixth inning on two-out hits from Mitch Moreland, who lined one off Tim Lincecum's leg for a single, and David Murphy to make the score 8-4. After Murphy's hit, Lincecum yielded to Santiago Casilla, who ended the threat with a strikeout of Elvis Andrus.

The Giants weren't finished either. San Francisco tacked on three final insurance runs in the eighth inning. An RBI double to left off the bat of Travis Ishikawa got things started before the Giants got RBI singles from Sanchez and Nate Schierholz. Sanchez's RBI was his third of the contest.

San Francisco's monster fifth inning got really moving with back-to-back two-out hits from Cody Ross and Aubrey Huff, which chased Lee from the game. Juan Uribe then promptly greeted reliever Darren O'Day with a three-run blast to left.

Sanchez kicked off the scoring in the fifth inning with his third double of the game. With that two-bagger, Sanchez became the first player in World Series history to double in his first three at-bats in the Fall Classic.

It was on Sanchez's second double of the game in the third that helped his team get on the board initially. Sanchez's RBI in the third helped the Giants to capitalize on a Michael Young error at third base and a rare hit batsman from Lee.

Buster Posey followed Sanchez with another line-drive single to center to tie the game temporarily at 2.

This all turned around what appeared to be a rocky start by the Giants and Lincecum. The Freak committed a mental mistake in the first inning that set him up for a potential disaster, but he narrowly avoided big trouble.

With one out and men on the corners, the Rangers' Nelson Cruz hit a soft grounder down the third-base line, where Lincecum fielded it and trapped Young between third base and home. But instead of forcing Young into a rundown, Lincecum simply chased Young back to third base, which was unoccupied.

That gave the Rangers bases loaded with one out instead of two men on and two outs. But the next batter, Ian Kinsler, grounded into a double play on the first pitch to spare San Francisco from a big inning.

Lee helped his team increase its lead in the second frame, doubling to the left-field gap. On the ensuing play, Bengie Molina scored on an Andrus sacrifice fly to put the Rangers up, 2-0, until the Giants came back to tie it and eventually take the lead.

Bailey Stephens is a reporter for MLB.com. Reporter Anthony DiComo also contributed to this story. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Apple Taps Multi-Touch in Motorola Patent Lawsuits - PC World

Apple's patent lawsuit against Motorola is just another thread in a rather complicated litigation web, but it's also unique for busting out multi-touch, a hallmark feature of modern smartphones.

In total, Apple is wielding six patents across two lawsuits against Motorola, as detailed on Patently Apple. The lawsuit is a counter-attack against Motorola, which in October claimed that Apple infringes upon 20 of its patents, so 26 patents are actually in play.

But the two patents that raised my non-lawyer eyebrows are the following:

Ellipse Fitting for Multi-Touch Surfaces: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer input device."

Multipoint Touchscreen: "A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed."

You don't have to be a master of legal jargon to see that both patents involve touching a screen with multiple fingers at the same time. Apple has never used these patents for lawsuits before, and from what I can tell, Apple's lawsuits against other smartphone manufacturers, such as HTC and Nokia, don't specifically target multi-touch.

The closest Apple has come in the past is with "Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics," applied against both HTC and Nokia. This was once regarded as Apple's key multi-touch patent, but as Engadget's Nilay Patel points out in January 2009, there's really nothing multi-touch about it. The patent simply covers the way an iPhone can tell if you want to scroll up and down only, or side-to-side as well, based on the angle your finger hits the screen.

This seems kind of crazy now, but there was a time when other smartphones didn't use multi-touch. After Palm broke the mold with the Pre, and didn't get sued, Android followed, and multi-touch is now a standard smartphone feature. According to one rumor, Google had a gentleman's agreement with Apple not to use multi-touch in Android, as part of a fragile partnership between the two companies. Apple and Google are now bitter smartphone rivals, so the agreement has presumably fallen apart.

Apple won't attack Google directly in court, so for now Motorola's taking the blame for allegedly using one of the iPhone's most important features. The implications would appear to be huge, but as with all the other patent lawsuits in play, this one's not going to be resolved anytime soon.

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WikiLeaks reveals the stark reality of Iraq - The Guardian

Winston Churchill once said: "When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise." It is common practice in conflicts that governments ignore and cover up potential war crimes committed by their troops, which otherwise could reduce support for the war both on the ground and at home.

Therefore, the recent release of classified documents by WikiLeaks is not a reckless endangerment of troops as advocated by the American, Australian and British governments, but a necessity to ensure justice and morality is upheld and reinforce our position as protectors of the Iraqi people against violence and oppression (See no evil: secret files show how US ignored Iraq torture, 23 October). There is no stronger incentive for a shift towards extremism than witnessing alleged abuses first-hand, which then remain unpunished.

Yes, Iraqi militants will use the release to try and rally support. However, with so many potential cases of human rights abuses revealed, this is an opportunity for governments to take action against perpetrators, which would demonstrate to everyone that we are there to help the Iraqi people and are committed to treating all crimes – whether carried out by our own troops or by the enemy – with the severity and disdain they deserve.

Dhiraj Joti

Victoria, Australia

•?The revelations of the scale of torture and related abuses carried out by the Iraqi army and police should do more than cause us to ponder the state of the prohibition of torture in Iraq, they should also force us to confront the fact that neither the US nor UK authorities seem to see this as anything other than an inconvenience. Reliance on the strength of Iraqi military and policing authorities is the backbone of the policy by which US and UK governments can progressively disengage from Iraq – detainees in US and UK custody are regularly being transferred to Iraqi custody, and the WikiLeaks documents are a stark indication of what these detainees will face once transferred.  

Earlier this month, the European court of human rights' decision in Al-Saadoon and Mufdhi v the United Kingdom became final. The court ruled that transferring two Iraqis held by the British army to Iraqi custody breached their rights to be free from torture. The case sends an important message to all states carrying out military action in Iraq and elsewhere: if you are detaining people, not only must you ensure that the treatment accords with applicable human rights standards, you cannot transfer the individuals to the care or authority of the local authorities unless it is clear that they do not face a real risk of torture and/or other prohibited ill-treatment.

Not only do UK and US authorities have an obligation not to hand over detainees to Iraqi custody where there is a real risk of torture, they also have the obligation to do all in their power to stop the abuses, including by investigating cases that come to their attention and taking all appropriate steps to ensure prosecutions.

Carla Ferstman

Director, Redress

•?The news that Iraqi prisoners, including women, were subjected to torture and rape by Iraqi guards while in US custody is old news in Iraq. This is what prompted Dr Nawal al-Samaraie, the former minister for women's affairs, to resign her post in February 2009. Al Jazeera publicised her findings while the western media ignored her.

Tahrir Abdul Samad Numan

Orpington, Kent

•?Many thanks to WikiLeaks and the Guardian for your work on these Iraq documents, the final bloodstained nail in the coffin of the Iraq War Party. Yes, we invaded Iraq so we could make it safe for democracy. By setting up a new police force and army that could use rubber hoses, acid and electric drills on "suspects". But this time it's OK – it's in the cause of freedom. I guess the Iraqi village had to be destroyed in order to save it. The only justification (and I mean credible not believable) for the invasion made by its cheerleaders was that Saddam was a tyrant who tortured his people. Now we find out that we also gave the green light for the basement torturers to work their magic. Thank you, Tony and George. The Argentinian generals would be proud of you. And just as an aside, where are you now David Aaronovitch and Christopher Hitchens when we need you to justify this latest little indiscretion? It's not just the US occupation authorities who should stand in the dock after this. These noxious cheerleaders for the invasion, with their vaporous and corrosive criticism of anyone who disagreed with their boneheaded ends-means logic, should have to explain themselves too.

Jon Moran

Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

•?There seems to be a misrepresent–ation of the role of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange and the overall hacking movement. If we focus on what the newspapers are reporting, we would have to believe that there is an individual out there who is a genius in organisation and direction, solely responsible for what WikiLeaks is achieving, a man the Pentagon has learned to fear. On the contrary, Assange is part of a much larger movement. WikiLeaks is a project in which hundreds of anonymous hackers participate; not surprisingly, the many documents they have are stored in many different locations of the blogosphere. If anything were to happen to Assange, the movement will remain very active indeed – after all, the whole project is characterised by the co-operative labour of many people. Despite the "personality cult" the media promote, the reality is very different: there are many Julian Assanges in this world.   

David J Lobina

London

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