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Submission + - EMI only selling CDs to Mega-Chains from now on

Submitted by
farrellj
farrellj writes: "Record company EMI has been notifying all of the non-Mega-Chain music stores that it wholesales to that they will no longer be able to buy EMI CDs from EMI, and will have to buy product from Mega-Chains like Walmart according to reports at Zero Paid among others. This means that if you wanted to a CD from an EMI artist you will have to go to Walmart or HMV...or if you non-Mega-Chain store has it, it will be because *they* bought it at Walmart, and paid retail prices...so it will cost that much more to buy at your local store. Independent Record store customers are some of the most loyal music buyers around. You are not going to find the back catalog, what used to be the staple of the music business, at your local Walmart, but you probably will at your local Independent Record store. EMI's move will now mean that unless the music you want is new, or a classic album, and on the EMI label, you won't be able to find it anywhere. That will give a lot of people the justification to hit the P2P networks for EMI music that they can't get any more through legal channels. As well, it will discourage new artists from signing with EMI, since they will not get the full distribution they want. One wonders when the Music Business is going to run out of feet to shoot?"
Intel

Submission + - Intel Launches Core i7 975 Extreme Edition CPU (hothardware.com)

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "Today Intel is finally releasing new Core i7 models and speed bins to the market and announcing a new flagship chip, the Core i7-975 Extreme Edition. Though it will definitely command a hefty price tag, at a stock clock speed of 3.33GHz and Intel Turbo Boost speeds at 3.45GHz (all cores) and 3.6GHz (single core), the new Core i7 975 EX is going to be one hot-rod of a quad-core CPU. The processor comes with a standard configuration of 1MB L2 and 3MB shared L3 cache, but is based on Intel's new D0 stepping of the chip that reportedly offers a bunch more headroom in terms of overclocking and higher-end DDR3 memory speeds with the chip's on-board memory controller. In fact, early tests show the new CPU runs stable at 4.1GHz with a small voltage increase and only a stock retail cooler."

Submission + - PortableApps.com: Pidgin Portable 2.5.6 Released (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by SF:critternyc
SF:critternyc writes: Pidgin Portable 2.5.6 has been released by PortableApps.com. It\'s the popular Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, allowing you to chat on the go from an iPod, USB flash drive, portable hard drive, CD or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. It has all the same great features of Pidgin (including support for Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Jabber, Google Talk and more), but there\'s nothing to install. And it automatically integrates with the PortableApps.com Suite and menu. New in this version: - Pidgin updated - Windows 7 support - New installer More About Pidgin Portable: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable SourceForge.net Project Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps What is a portable app? http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app
Republicans

Submission + - Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley (newledger.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Republican consultant Patrick Ruffini, who counts Google as one of his clients, sketches out a way that the GOP could 'win back' Silicon Valley — but he gets smacked down by tech businessman Francis Cianfrocca. 'Patrick's basic thesis is that the VC firms that fund the Valley will rebel at being regulated by [Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner, who is talking about increasing reporting requirements for both private equity and venture capital. Assuming I understand them both correctly, something tells me that neither Geithner nor Ruffini understand deeply what venture capital is all about.'
Microsoft

Submission + - MS Inferiority Complex On Display in Latest Ads (daniweb.com)

Submitted by
rsmiller510
rsmiller510 writes: "The latest series of ads have left me wondering why Microsoft is targeting Apple at all, and if they are really rivals for the same business. I spoke to Dave Caolo, who is co-lead blogger at TUAW.com to get his view. He says Microsoft has serious identity crisis and the ads miss the mark."
Security

Submission + - Strong web passwords are a waste of time

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Team from Microsoft claims that forcing users to choose strong passwords is a waste: "Why require stronger web passwords when: 1. The strength of the password offers no defence against phishing, keylogging or other password stealing mechanisms 2. Even a 6 digit PIN yields about a 1% probability of success to 10 years of brute-force attack, so long as there is a lockout policy? [In choosing weak passwords we] argue that users show considerable wisdom from a cost benefit standpoint: choosing a strong password generates very little benefit to a user, but it does carry considerable cost. There is little benefit since phishing and keylogging are the main threats to a user's password and even a weak password will withstand ten years of sustained brute-force attack. There is cost because strong passwords are harder to remember than weak ones, and users have many passwords to remember." http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74162/hotsec07.pdf

Comment Protect your data (Score 1) 1

by thittesd0375 (#27587103) Attached to: In-house or Out-sourced email
It's all a matter of how much your data is worth to you. We have banks that use our service for e-mail and we think this is just about the dumbest thing in the world. We don't even use the same mail server as our customers for our internal communication and 99.9% of our e-mail is not sensitive.
Networking

Submission + - In-house or Out-sourced email 1

Submitted by teabaggs
teabaggs writes: I am starting work as the sole IT guy for a still small but growing starting start up company. I have been educated, but lack some experience so this is a big step up for me and I don't wanna screw this up. Currently they let Go Daddy handle their site and email hosting. They are becoming concerned about security as business is picking and they trade confidential files with their overseas parent company more frequently. They have basically asked the question what should we do? Move our servers and host everything here, or continue using a third party service. And so I ask you reader what are the pros and cons of each situation?
Privacy

20 Hours a Month Reading Privacy Policies 161

Posted by kdawson from the half-the-bailout-every-year dept.
Barence sends word of research out of Carnegie Mellon University calling for changes in the way Web sites present privacy policies. The researchers, one of whom is an EFF board member, calculated how long it would take the average user to read through the privacy policies of the sites visited in a year. The answer: 200 hours, at a hypothetical cost to the US economy of $365 billion, more than half the financial bailout package. Every year. The researchers propose that, if the industry can't make privacy policies easier to read or skim, then federal intervention may be needed. This resulted in the predictable cry of outrage from online executives. Here's the study (PDF).

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