“Anyone interested in offering paid-for downloads currently has to deal with 16 different licensing bodies in the EU. […] Proposals for an EU-wide licensing system for online music were first put forward by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body. The Commission has threatened to sue the music industry on competition grounds if national bodies did not change the way they enforced online copyright restrictions. […] Now the Dutch music copyright agency BUMA, and the Belgian agency SABAM, have said that they will not enforce the so-called “economic residency” clause in the case of online music.”
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"EU online music deal closer"
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Windows worms knocking out computers
“Network worms are shutting down computers running Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system, security experts warned Tuesday. Computers across the United States are being hit, including those at cable news station CNN, television network ABC and The New York Times. Tokyo-based antivirus company Trend Micro blames the havoc on various worms, including the Zotob worm that hit the Internet over the weekend and new variants of the Rbot worm.”
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SS-KB-NT Stainless Steel K/B with Raised Keys
“The SS-KB-NT stainless-steel keyboard has been specifically designed for harsh kiosk environments where a compact width is needed to suit applications where space is limited. […] The construction is virtually vandal proof and weather proof, with wipe-clean fascias and key tops.”The linking page provides better pictures of it. Also showed me they have a store called Akiba in Japan, like we have.
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Hard-drive track seeking demonstration
…among other mechatronics videos at David Alciatore’s high speed videos site (via Baby Grandpa).
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Taking on record companies
“Patricia Santangelo is […] the mother of five children, ranging in age from 6 to 19. […] Santangelo was sued by several record companies in U.S. District Court in White Plains in February. The record companies said Santangelo’s home computer and Internet account were used to illegally trade copyrighted song files. […]
She never used the Kazaa program — one of the networks that facilitates file sharing — that was downloaded onto her computer, she said. She didn’t even know what it was before she was sued, she said. The Kazaa account name in the lawsuit belongs to a friend of her children’s, not to her or anyone in her house, she said.”
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IBM Donates Code to Firefox
“IBM is donating DHTML […] accessibility technology currently wending its way through the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) standards process [to the Mozilla Foundation]. Big Blue is also contributing code that makes it possible for Web pages to be automatically narrated or magnified as well as navigated by keystrokes rather than mouse clicks. The DHTML code […] will find its way into the next major update to the Firefox browser, version 1.5, slated for release in late September.”
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"Kaupallisten kanavien digi-tv-lähetykset aikaistuvat Pohjois-Suomessa"
“MTV3:n, MTV3+:n, Subtv:n, Nelosen ja Nelonen Plussan digitaalisten lähetysten aloitus aikaistuu koko Pohjois-Suomessa. Lähetykset alkavat 1.9. Pohjois-Suomen pääasemilta ja tämän syksyn kuluessa myös täytelähetinasemilta. […]
Ensimmäisessä vaiheessa 1.9. aloittavat Inarin, Posion, Pyhätunturin, Pellon, Rovaniemen, Rukan, Taivalkosken, Tervolan, Vuotson ja Ylläksen tv-asemat. Kaikkiaan toistakymmentä täytelähetinasemaa aloittaa digi-tv-lähetykset tämän syksyn aikana.”
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WordPress 1.5.2 released
“We’re happy to announce that a new version of WordPress is now available for download. […] In addition to fixing a number of bugs and adding requested enhancements for plugin authors, this release also addresses all of the security issues that have been circulating the past few days.”
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Luottoyhtiön tietoturvajohtajaa epäillään rikoksista wlan-kaappauksella
“Suuren kansainvälisen luottoyhtiön tietoturvajohtajan epäillään siirtäneen yli 200 000 euroa yhtiön varoja väärälle tilille. Helsingin rikospoliisi epäilee 26-vuotiasta helsinkiläismiestä tietomurrosta ja törkeästä petoksesta. Epäillyt rikokset tehtiin poliisin mukaan yhtiön konttorissa ja kerrostaloasunnossa Helsingin Kalliossa kesäkuun alussa. […] Yhteys muodostui viereisen rapun, ylemmän kerroksen asunnossa olleen wlan-tukiaseman kautta, joka siis kuului siellä asuvalle ulkopuoliselle miehelle.”
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Sananvapaus on laajentunut netin ansiosta
“Yhteiskuntatieteiden tohtori Pertti Lappalainen Tampereen yliopiston Politiikan tutkimuksen laitokselta […] korostaa, että [Internet] on laajentanut ihmisten sananvapauden tasolle, jolla se ei ole ollut koskaan aiemmin maailmanhistoriassa. […] Lappalaisen mukaan valtamedia ja perinteinen politiikka ovat kohdanneet aitoja vastavoimia [Internetin] myötä. [… Internet] on demokraattinen väline, jonka käyttöä vaikkapa terrorismin ja muun rikollisuuden edistämisessä on vaikea estää.”