Music exec: quit whining and dump Mac, Linux | The Register Mac owners and anyone who runs the Linux operating system should quit whining about DRM and copy-protection technologies that are incompatible with their systems and "consider purchasing a regular CD player".
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When this 'music exec' complains about piracy I'll say to him "quit whining and go to work"

Wired News: My IPod for a Random Playlist: "if there are 23 randomly selected people in a room, there is a better than 50-50 chance that at least two of them will have the same birthday. The point: Mathematical randomness often contradicts our intuitive expectations of randomness."

More on RIAA admitting bootleg CDs more a threat than P2P - CD Freaks.com
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at least, som common sense coming from RIAA

Slashdot | Google Blacklists CNet Reporters Apparently, Google was angered by an article published earlier by Cnet where all sorts of personal information about Google CEO Eric Schmidt was included. The information was obtained from Google searches.
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That's Funny!

Generation 'X & Y' still want that physical CD for music - CD Freaks.com
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Specially because buying music online is more expensive that getting the physical CD

Firefox: Doing it for love - ZDNet UK Insight We're excited about Microsoft launching IE 7 — it will remind a lot of people that if they want better features they have to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading. [...] Ben Goodger [the lead Firefox engineer] implemented some awesome installation tools so you could copy over your favourites, settings etc. It made Firefox seem like an upgrade for IE.

Students refuse to buy a single song from Napster | The Register

Live 8 concerts cause CD album sales to rocket up to 1,343% - CD Freaks.com: "So far the music industry thinks the only proper way to prop up sales is by eliminating free illegitimate sources, adding copy protection measures to media and so on. Well, the Live 8 concert has really shown the way to boost sales by giving their gusts (and others) what they really want - Enjoyable music. "

ABC News: Now, the Sun Prevents Skin Cancer -- Right?: "people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think."
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I am tired of all this non-sense, couldn't 'researchers' agree on something???

Slashdot | Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rightshe has pursued it vigorously in the courts and has even managed to shut down "stealthisemail.com" (Steal This Email.com) because the URL coincidentally contains the word "stealth".
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how can this happen?????

2000_jan_a3: "I once worked for a company that replaced their drafting boards with a CAD system. But not a dime was spent to train their people. They struggled, secretly drawing on paper, and copying that into the computer. Then the managers complained that they weren't seeing the productivity improvements promised by the CAD vendor."

Slashdot | Amazon Patents User Viewing Histories If a customer views product A, and then later views product B, and you use that to infer a relationship between A and B, then you've infringed on this patent. [...] When will this stupidity end?

Slashdot | Yahoo! Orders Wikipedia Hardware wow!

What I stole from you and why - The Peer-to-Peer Weblog - p2p.weblogsinc.com _

iTunes used by more people that most P2P networks

This should give some idea to those RIAA idiots of how wrong they are: paid online music has more users that most free P2P networks.

Wired News: Music Muffled in Star Wars Game players of multiplayer online game "Star Wars Galaxies" can't compose music because lawyers envision a legal nightmare if they could. That's funny

Slashdot | Who Should Help LinuxFund Distribute $126,155.29? Linux project closes, but its Credit Card keeps running and the bank deposits money as time passes (some kind of charity CC), that's bizarre!

SPCR :: View topic - Zalman's new 9500 LED CPU cooler @ Computex Taipei

US gov wants to refang Patriot Act | The Register

USA was about Freedom once, now is all about control.

Anti-Anti-Piracy Seal: WARNING! Artists Supports Filesharing - The Peer-to-Peer Weblog - p2p.weblogsinc.com _ Some artist created the "Anti-Anti-Piracy" seal, I hope I see it next time I go shopping :)