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Submission + - Doom and Gloom for web radio (dailytech.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: DailyTech posted interviews with the founder of Pandora and management from Proton Radio (and Proton Music) asking them what SoundExchange's latest rulings mean to them. A lot of net radio stations are dreading the upcoming changes in royalty rates, which are said to be around 400%... a number that would bankrupt most of the industry. An interesting read for anyone who uses online radio...

Feed Engadget: Amazon's music store going live this month? (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Portable Audio

Take this one for whatever it's worth, but reportedly, Amazon's digital music store is set to open up shop this month. Apparently, the firm has "tentatively set a mid-September target for the launch of its music service," but unsurprisingly, no one from Amazon was available to comment on the hunch. 'Course, it's not like we've got long to wait before this gets proven one way or the other, right?

[Via Reuters]

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Censorship

Submission + - Wordpress.org blocked in Turkey (webgeekworld.com) 2

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unity100
unity100 writes: "Wordpress.org domain has been blocked by monopoly infrastructure backbone provider Turkish Telekom in Turkey. Turkish internet users are not able to reach anything with wordpress.org domain extension due to DNS filtering. The move is due to a recent court order, in which a controversial religious sect leader, Adnan Oktar have sued wordpress.org for many blogs, containing criticizm about him. Since wordpress.org did not respond, Turkish courts have taken the 'Turkish' way and totally blocked wordpress.org domain instead of blocking the blogs in question one by one. Read more in below links :

http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/08/19/why-were-bloc ked-in-turkey/
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func =viewSubmission&sid=2883"
The Internet

Submission + - VirtualEarth Exposes Nuke Sub's Stealth Propeller (nwsource.com)

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NewsCloud
NewsCloud writes: "The Seattle Times reports that a local blogger Dan Twohig highlighted photos on Microsoft Virtual Earth of stealth nuclear submarine propeller technology (alternate) taken by aircraft while the submarine was in dry dock in nearby Bangor. Says Twhohig,

You can also use the zoom in and out keys and move around the Bangor Sub Base taking a close up look at the bunkers and magazines where they keep the nuclear weapons. You would think the US government would keep better tabs on this stuff.
Microsoft said it would blur the image if requested (but not this one). This is the same nuclear base the Navy has been petitioning to use trained dolphins and sea lions to patrol."
Privacy

Submission + - Anonymous Craigslist Post Leads to Arrest (missoulanews.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Criminal defamation charges have been brought against a Craigslist poster for his 2006 comments on a police arrest in Missoula, Montana. After witnessing an arrest, Brad Zimmerman anonymously posted his version of the evening's events on the Montana Craigslist "rants and raves" message board. In a report filed by Kalispell Police Detective Jim Wardensky, he writes, "In an effort to preempt any civil discord due to these postings," he called Craigslist and asked them to take down the post.

According to the report, Craig Newmark, owner of Craigslist, returned Wardensky's call the same day, said he would remove the post, and added, according to Wardensky, "If we supplied him with a subpoena, he could tell me the Internet Provider's address and e-mail account for where the original posting came from."

KPD served the subpoena and Craigslist passed on information that led the police to a service provider, CenturyTel, which company the police also subpoenaed. CenturyTel then provided Zimmerman's name, address and social security number.

Feed Tom's Hardware: Linksys NAS200 (pheedo.com)

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Linksys re-enters the consumer NAS market with a dual-drive RAID 1 BYOD NAS that will put some pricing pressure on the competition.

Feed Engadget: Will Xbox 360 Core become Xbox 360 Arcade on August 24th? (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Gaming

It appears the Xbox 360 rumor mill is hard-partying once again, this time over the fairly sketchy information that in addition to the European price cut we mentioned earlier, the game system may be receiving a "changing of the guard" on the SKU front, with the dismissal of the Core system, and the inclusion of a new "Arcade" package. Word on Box Street is that Microsoft is about to upend the low-impact Core units, add an HDMI port, throw five free XBLA games in the mix, slap on a wireless controller, and put a new line of text somewhere on the box. Otherwise the system will remain the same -- AKA no hard drive, white finish, and a target of constant ridicule by your friends, and will be made available for €279 (or about $376). The whole thing makes you wonder if this could have something to do with that discontinued SKU rumor we keep hearing about in the US. Can't wait to find out? Join the club.

[Via Joystiq]

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Space

Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary 222

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the grandpa's-space-probe-still-tellin-stories dept.
Raver32 writes to mention that 30 years after the original launch of Voyager 2, both Voyager spacecraft are still going strong. Flying away from us some billions of miles from our solar system's edge they continue to be a wealth of information more than 25 years after their original mission concluded. Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object at a distance from the sun of about 9.7 billion miles (15.6 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is about 7.8 billion miles (12.6 billion kilometers).
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Obituary for Joy Bubbles

Submitted by Elfich47
Elfich47 writes: Joy Bubbles recently passed away due to a heart attack. So who is Joy Bubbles and what does he mean to you?

He was one of the original phone phreaks who used the phone network as his own playground. Known as 'the whistler' he would unlock the phone network's tone system through whistling (and being able to whistle 2600Hz on command).

He also helped out the phone networks, did scent research and placed calls to terminally ill patients who needed someone to talk to.

An all around good guy.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft specs legal creation of Machinima

Submitted by Moe Napoli
Moe Napoli writes: Just learned over at the Thinking Machinima blog, that Microsoft has released "content usage rules" that allow the end user to create machinima with a certain set of their titles, including the Halo franchise and ShadowRun (but also Age of Empires!). This is a fairly large step into the allowance of user-generated content, but the rules are extremely limiting — the terms keep people from creating anything that extends the property's universe. Question is, isn't that the reason people make machinima in the first place?
Sony

Submission + - The CD is 25 years old

Submitted by Shinatosh
Shinatosh writes: Here is another anniversary date: the CD is a quarter century old. As the The Inquirer writes:
"As with many inventions, we were sold a pup with the CD. The old buffers' guide was that these shiny circles would last for ever and always sound crystal clear."
It may have not been the perfect storage device, but served us well. Happy birthday!

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