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Comment Re:anyone else curious (Score 2) 113

by edcalaban on Monday November 12, 2012 @02:05PM (#41958403) Attached to: Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business In China

Probably because most people won't know how to fix it.

Comment Re:How About Calling It RRR (Score 1) 116

by edcalaban on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:41AM (#41740025) Attached to: NASA Working On Refueling Satellites

If we're going to do that, make sure it has the A for Autonomous (or Automatic?). ARRR!

Comment I'll take a third option... (Score 2, Informative) 376

by edcalaban on Monday October 15, 2012 @04:50PM (#41662983) Attached to: FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels

And cut the cord. The streaming services out there are good enough for me.

Comment Re:It demonstrate how inefficient desktop software (Score 1) 87

by edcalaban on Thursday October 11, 2012 @08:25AM (#41617953) Attached to: Stress-Testing Software For Deep Space

I wonder what the CPU and memory load graphs would look like for a probe versus some standard desktop applications. Might explain a lot.

Comment Re:Babylon 5 (Score 1) 409

by edcalaban on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @09:38AM (#41606697) Attached to: Aircraft Carriers In Space

There's actually a novel that touches on this (I think one of the the Familias Regnant series by Elizabeth Moon?) - a character mentions having been crew on a ship where the captain changed the default audio so every weapons battery sounded like a different instrument.

Comment Re:The Real Reason Samsung Lost. (Score 1) 282

by edcalaban on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @11:39AM (#41538935) Attached to: Unredacted Filings Reveal Claims of Juror Misconduct in Apple vs Samsung Trial

The critical point in all of this is that Velvin Hogan's personal feelings were legally allowed to be part of the decision making process at that point. There is no misconduct.

Lying to the court is still misconduct, so whether or not his personal feelings were allowed at that point they shouldn't have reached that point.

Submission + - Internet Radio to be killed by the RIAA

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on Monday March 19, 2007 @05:22PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Just got this in the mail from Tim Westergren, Pandora's CEO: "I'm writing today to ask for your help. We've had a disastrous turn of events recently for internet radio: Following an intensive lobbying effort on the part of the RIAA, an arbitration committee in Washington DC has just dramatically increased the fees internet radio sites must pay to the record labels — tripling fees and adding enormous retroactive payments! Left unchanged by Congress, this will kill all internet radio sites, including Pandora. Tomorrow afternoon there is an important U.S. Senate hearing on the future of internet radio."

This issue has started to get blog coverage: http://gigaom.com/2007/03/05/webcaster-royalty-rat es-go-up/ and http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007 /03/the_vast_potent.html

If you live in the US, please contact your local Congressman now!

Please note that I have no Pandora affiliation except as a very happy user."

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