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Submission + - Record Companies to Colapse in a Few Months? (chron.com)

Submitted by dptalia
dptalia writes: According to Radiohead frontman Thom York, the major record companies are poised to collapse in only a few months. He recommends that all new artists avoid signing with a record company. No explanation for WHY he thinks this is going to happen. Thoughts?

Submission + - Prosecuting DDOS attacls 1

Submitted by dptalia
dptalia writes: We all have heard of major DDOS attacks taking down countries, companies, and organizations. But how many of them are ever prosecuted? And how many prosecutions are even successful?

I've done some research and it appears the answer is very few (Well duh!). And those that are successfully prosecuted tend to have teenagers as the instigators. Does this mean DDOS is a fairly safe crime to conduct? Are the repercussions nonexistent?

Does anyone have some knowledge an insight into this that I don't have? How would you go about prosecuting a DDOS attacker? As this becomes tool in the political toolbox of countries and organizations this becomes more important. So I need your help. What's your experience with getting the responsible parties to justice?

Submission + - FTC wants to tax electronics support the news (nypost.com)

Submitted by dptalia
dptalia writes: The FTC is concerned about the death of the "news." Specifically newspapers. Rather than look to how old media models can be adapted to the internet, they instead suggest taxing consumer electronics to support a huge newspaper bailout. Additionally, they suggest making facts "proprietary" and allowing news organizations to copyright them.

Comment Re:Wow, that makes so much sense! (Score 1) 310

by dptalia (#32147936) Attached to: Can We Legislate Past the H.264 Debate?
The honest truth is NOTHING is efficient. And NOTHING is really interested in anything other than collecting as much power as possible/maintaining the status quo.

I'm merely saying that expecting a solution from the government is silly. So is expecting one from industry.

However, if over time this truly becomes enough of a problem, the market will end up coming up with a solution. Right now - we're so below critical mass that expecting anything to crystallize out of the chaos is unreasonable.
The Internet

Submission + - U.K. bill would outlaw open Wi-Fi (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week.

This would leave many organizations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the internet, leading legal experts to say it will become impossible for small businesses and the like to offer Wi-Fi access.

"This is going to be a very unfortunate measure for small businesses, particularly in a recession, many of whom are using open free Wi-Fi very effectively as a way to get the punters in.

Even if they password protect, they then have two options — to pay someone like The Cloud to manage it for them, or take responsibility themselves for becoming an ISP effectively, and keep records for everyone they assign connections to, which is an impossible burden for a small cafe" Lilian Edwards, professor of internet law at Sheffield University told ZDNet UK.

ZDNet : http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,40057470,00.htm
Security

Submission + - Hackers target tsunami search results (sophos.com)

Submitted by xsee
xsee writes: Only hours after the earthquake and resulting tsunami from Chile, hackers appear to be manipulating search results to direct people seeking information on this event to infected webpages. Exercise caution as to where you get information on this tragedy.
Movies

Submission + - Software Helps Roger Ebert Find His Voice 1

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert sadly lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. But now technology is giving Ebert his voice back. Ebert sounded like his former self Friday during a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the show's producer said. It was no medical miracle, but a demo of new software that used audio recordings of Ebert to create a synthetic voice that sounds like his own. CereProc created the voice for TV's most famous movie critic using mostly audio of Ebert's DVD commentaries on Citizen Kane and Casablanca. 'I dream of hearing a voice something like my own,' Ebert wrote last year, lamenting that past attempts to use computer voiced left him sounding 'like Robby the Robot.' Ebert's appearance on Oprah will air Tuesday.
Social Networks

Submission + - Study: Ages of social network users. (pingdom.com)

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "Royal Pingdom has age statistics for nineteen/19 different social network sites (Facebook, /., Digg, etc.) and crunched the numbers (note: to get consistent age data for the various sites we used site demographics information for the United States/U.S. gathered from Google's Ad Planner service and then did some additional calculations to get all the data we needed).

Seen on Neatorama."

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