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In this issue:
* Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads
* Facebook Goes To 64 Bit User IDs
* Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down
* Stallman Attacked by Ninjas
* Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter
* IFPI Domain Dispute Likely to Go To Court
* United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality'
* XBox Adding HD Tuners Next Year
* ESA Selects Next Generation Space Missions
* Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall
* Hellgate Beta's In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows
* Scientist Are Working to 'Steer' Hurricanes
* Famous Criminal Opines that Technology Breeds Crime
* Palm Before the PalmPilot
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| Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads |
| from the more-like-a-half-pounder-of-flesh dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday October 20, @21:42 (Businesses) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/0135258
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FuriousBalancing writes "MacNN is reporting that Canadians may soon
[0]pay a small tax on every legal music store download. This fee is the
work of a measure proposed by the Copyright Board of Canada. About two
cents would be added to every song downloaded, with 1.5 cents being added
to album downloads. Streaming services and subscriptions would also be
taxed, to the tune of about 6% of the monthly fee. Most interesting - the
tax would be retroactively applied to every transaction processed since
1996. 'The surcharge would help compensate artists for piracy, according
to SOCAN's reasoning. The publishing group draws similarities between
this and a 21-cent fee already applied to blank CDs in the country; the
right to copy a song from an online store demands the same sort of levy
applied to copying a retail CD, SOCAN argues. The tax may have a
significant impact for online stores such as iTunes and Canada-based
Puretracks, which will have to factor the amount both into future and
past sales.' The [1]full text of the measure is available in PDF format."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/0135258
Links:
0. http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/10/19/canada.taxing.music.sales/
1. http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/decisions/m20071018-b.pdf
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| Facebook Goes To 64 Bit User IDs |
| from the internet-users-on-mars-or-europa-can-expect-to-sign-up-s|
| posted by Zonk on Saturday October 20, @23:34 (It's funny. Laugh|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/20/1758230
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[0]NewsCloud writes "Facebook has announced to developers that they are
[1]moving to a 64 bit user ID in November. At 32 bits, the current ID
allows nearly 4.3 billion user accounts. Yet, despite having only [2]47
million users today, Facebook's move to 64 bits will allow it to have
more than 18 quintillion (18,446,744,074,000,000,000) user accounts. Of
course, there are currently only [3]about 6.5 billion people in the
world. Is Facebook setting their sights beyond Earth or just trying to
avoid what happened when [4]Slashdot ran out of space for comment IDs
last year. Perhaps they are planning to implement personas."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/20/1758230
Links:
0. http://www.newscloud.com/
1. http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=45
2. http://www.newscloud.com/read/Facebook_Promises_to_Open_Data_Ambigously
3. http://www.google.com/search?q=world+population
4. http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/1534204&tid=124
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| Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down |
| from the why-do-people-hate-the-word-free-so-much dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @01:55 (The Courts) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/0559220
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[0]Mark Rogers writes "The [1]International Music Score Library Project
has provided access to copies of many musical scores that are in the
public domain. It has just been shut down due to a [2]cease-and-desist
letter sent to the site operator by a European Union music publisher
(Universal Edition). A majority of the scores recently available at IMSLP
were in the public domain worldwide. Other scores were not in the public
domain in the United States or the EU (where copyright extends for 70
years after the composer's death), but were legal in Canada (where the
site is hosted) and many other countries. The site's maintainers clearly
labeled the copyright status of such scores and warned users to follow
their respective country's copyright law. Apparently this wasn't enough
for Universal Edition, who found it necessary to protect the interests of
their (long-dead) composers and shut down a site that has proved useful
to many students, professors, and other musicians worldwide."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/0559220
Links:
0. http://fallingfifth.com/
2. http://imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=615
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| Stallman Attacked by Ninjas |
| from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @03:22 (It's funny. Laugh.)|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/20/2322202
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vivIsel writes "When RMS [0]took the stage to address the Yale Political
Union, Yale's venerable parliamentary debate society, it was already an
unusual speech: instead of the jacket and tie customary there, he sported
a T shirt, and no shoes. But then he was [1]attacked by ninjas.
Apparently some students took it into their head to duplicate an [2]XKCD
webcomic before a live audience ��� luckily, though, Stallman didn't resort
to violence. Instead, he delivered an [1]excellent speech about DRM."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/20/2322202
Links:
0. http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21889
1. http://www.yale.edu/ypu/blog.html
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| Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter |
| from the putting-a-lid-on-free-speech dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @07:09 (Businesses) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/063200
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slashqwerty writes "Unsatisfied with the proprietary copyright filter
Google recently unveiled, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has called for an
[0]industry standard to filter copyrighted material. Mr. Dauman has the
backing of Microsoft, Disney, and Universal. 'They reflect the fact that
there ought to be a filtering system in place on the part of technology
companies,' he noted. 'Most responsible companies have followed that
path. What no one wants is a proprietary system that benefits one
company. It is a big drain to a company like ours to have to deal with
incompatible systems.' How would an industry standard impact freedom of
speech and in particular censorship on the internet? How would it affect
small, independent web sites?"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/063200
Links:
0. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138717-c,copyright/article.html
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| IFPI Domain Dispute Likely to Go To Court |
| from the big-shock-here dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 21, @09:03 (The Courts) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/1214245
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fgaliegue writes "[0]Ars Technica has a follow-up on the [1]ifpi.com
domain takeover by The Pirate Bay. The [2]International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry, ifpi.org, is quite unhappy that the .com is now a
link to the (still not live) [3]International Federation of Pirates
Interests. The ifpi.com domain has been free [4]as soon as March of this
year, according to WebArchive. Nevertheless, the "real" IFPI wants to
[5]take it to the WIPO under the accusation of cybersquatting."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/1214245
Links:
0. http://arstechnica.com/index.ars
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/106221&tid=141
4. http://web.archive.org/web/20070313223830/http://www.ifpi.com/
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| United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' |
| from the too-strange-to-fathom dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 21, @10:15 (The Almighty Buc|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/1216255
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[0]theodp writes "If you need a clue as to how creative ISP execs might
get in the absence of [1]network neutrality, look no further than United
Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton, who is [2]wowing Wall Street with his
willingness to examine new ways to wring money out of the carrier,
including making economy passengers pay a fee unless they want their
luggage to come last off the plane." Now I think when i was like gold
ultimate handjob elite years ago my bags had tags that usually made them
come out first, but this seems just kinda crappy. I mean, remember when
you got a meal on airplanes? No wonder people hate to fly.
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/1216255
Links:
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/03/fcc_neutrality.html
2. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-fri_united_1019oct19,0,6673281.story
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| XBox Adding HD Tuners Next Year |
| from the convergence-or-some-crap dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 21, @11:20 (XBox (Games)) |
|
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/1411243
|
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iloveCarla writes "Microsoft is partnering with Toshiba to [0]turn the
Xbox into a full fledged HTPC. With built-in HD DVD, a larger hard drive,
revamped "MCE" interface, and possibly HDTV tuners, the Xbox would be in
a better position to compete against the PS3 in the race to serve as the
defacto entertainment hub for couch potatoes. According to the article
"The new device is expected to be released late in 2008 or at the 2009
CES show in Las Vegas."
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/1411243
Links:
0. http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Gaming/Console/P4G5C3U2?page=1
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| ESA Selects Next Generation Space Missions |
| from the can't-they-just-make-orange-juice-spheres dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 21, @12:29 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/1540215
|
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[0]davecl writes "The European Space Agency has announced the results of
its [1]Cosmic Visions 2015-2025 call for proposals. Fifty space science
missions for the next decade were proposed, with just seven selected.
They range from X-ray and far-infrared observatories to planet finders
and a near-earth asteroid sample return mission. These seven, together
with the LISA gravitational wave observatory, will go ahead for further
study in the next few years, and then two will be chosen for launch in
2015-2017."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/1540215
Links:
0. http://www.hastur.org.uk/blog
1. http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=100
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| Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall |
| from the blood-pressure-lowering-sight-returning dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @13:23 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/1627230
|
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Rumours of [0]financial schemes surrounding the botnet aside, PC World
has an article that should lower the blood pressure of some SysAdmins.
The [1]Storm Worm botnet is apparently shrinking. A researcher out of UC
San Diego who has been tracking the network has published a report
indicating it is now only 10% of its former size. "Some estimates have
put Storm at 50 million computers, a number that would give its
controllers access to more processing power than the world's most
powerful supercomputer. But Enright said that the real story is
significantly less terrifying. In July, for example, he said that Storm
appeared to have infected about 1.5 million PCs, about 200,000 of which
were accessible at any given time. Enright guessed that a total of about
15 million PCs have been infected by Storm in the nine months it has been
around, although the vast majority of those have been cleaned up and are
no longer part of the Storm network."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/1627230
Links:
0. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/155209&tid=172
1. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138721-c,virusesworms/article.html
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| Hellgate Beta's In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows |
| from the use-the-coke-luke dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @14:29 (Privacy) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/1623205
|
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ari wins writes "IGN.com has up a post discussing the new EA/Flagship
game Hellgate: London, and the in-game advertisements it includes to
facilitate targeted marketing. Though ads in games aren't exactly new,
some Beta testers are objecting to their apparently off-putting presence.
Users have also noted that accepting the game's EULA means you submit to
[0]the collection of 'technical and related information that identifies
your computer, including without limitation your Internet Protocol
address, operating system, application software and peripheral
hardware'."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/1623205
Links:
0. http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/34926/Hellgate-London-Includes-Adware
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| Scientist Are Working to 'Steer' Hurricanes |
| from the just-like-that-episode-of-ds9-on-risa-where-worf-is-a-je|
| posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @16:45 (Sci-Fi) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/2024251
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[0]E++99 writes "In the wake of Katrina, two teams of climate scientists
have been [1]working to steer hurricanes. Both teams are using the
technique of removing power and speed from strategic points in the
hurricane, effectively refracting its path. The American team is
approaching this by warming the areas of the tops of the hurricane
clouds, either by dropping ash to absorb heat from the sun, or directly
beaming microwaves on those areas from space. The Israeli team is taking
the approach of cooling the bottom of the hurricane by releasing dust
along its base."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/2024251
Links:
0. http://erikmartin.com/
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/21/wstorm121.xml
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| Famous Criminal Opines that Technology Breeds Crime |
| from the not-the-only-thing-that-breeds-online dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @17:36 (Security) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/216228
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[0]jcatcw writes "In an interview with Computerworld's editor in chief,
Don Tennant, [1]Frank Abagnale spoke about his life of crime and crime
prevention. [2]Abagnale is a notorious criminal, whose exploits were
portrayed in the movie 'Catch Me If You Can.' Abagnale claims: 'It would
be 4,000 times easier to do today, what I did 40 years ago, and I
probably wouldn't go to prison for it. Technology breeds crime ��� it
always has, it always will ... I really think the more technology there
is in the world, the more you have to instill character and ethics. You
can build all the security systems in the world; you can build the most
sophisticated technology, and all it takes is one weak link ��� someone who
operates that technology ��� to bring it all down." This would seem to echo
commentary in a New York Times article about the [3]rise of Russian
hackers in recent years.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/216228
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/carpenter
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9043254
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/weekinreview/21levy.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
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| Palm Before the PalmPilot |
| from the deep-in-the-mysts-of-the-past dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Sunday October 21, @18:33 (Handhelds) |
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/21/2152228
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Gammu writes "SiliconUser has an in-depth [0]history of the Palm,
starting with its humble roots. The Pilot (later PalmPilot and finally
just Palm) saved Palm Computing. Before the release of the Pilot, the
company was subsisting (barely) on revenue from connectivity packages for
HP PDA's and a version of Graffiti for the Newton. This was because its
first PDA hardware product had failed under the weight of feature creep
and design by committee. The first article in a series follows the early
days of this company-reforming product."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/21/2152228
Links:
0. http://siliconuser.com/?q=node/17
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