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ASCAP Seeks Licensing Fees For Guitar Hero Arcade 146

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @07:55AM from the understanding-is-too-much-effort dept.

Self Bias Resistor writes "According to a post on the Arcade-Museum forums, ASCAP is demanding an annual $800 licensing fee from at least one operator of a Guitar Hero Arcade machine, citing ASCAP licensing regulations regarding jukeboxes. An ASCAP representative allegedly told the operator that she viewed the Guitar Hero machine as a jukebox of sorts. The operator told ASCAP to contact Raw Thrills, the company that sells the arcade units. The case is ongoing and GamePolitics is currently seeking clarification of the story from ASCAP."

Comment Re:I disagree with the military... I am brazilian. (Score 1) 462

by jorlando on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @02:24PM (#30063218) Attached to: Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers

No. There is no evidence of hackers attacking the grid. The only news regarding that hyppothesis appeared only after the CBS article.

By the way, yesterday (oct-10) around 10:30pm there was a new blackout affecting the brazilian south western states.

Again the same stations from Furnas (the electricity transmission company for the region) were affected. These stations use capacitor banks from ABB and are (were?) the only of this kind in the world for 735kV.

Comment I disagree with the military... I am brazilian... (Score 5, Insightful) 462

by jorlando on Monday November 09, 2009 @12:32AM (#30028776) Attached to: Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers

The blackout in 2005 was a human failure. One transmission line went down, the team recovering that line made a mistake and instead of activating the repaired line disabled the backup line. Result: 3 states withou electric power.

The blackout in 2007 was due a circuit breaker shutting down one line, the same happening after in the backup line, that could manage the excess load (this happened during peak hours, 5 p.m. during a working day).

Ok, these are official explanations and the blackouts may have been caused by evil hackers but, in this case, the brazilian government made an excelent job holding that information for years, leaking now thanks to an american former military that may have some vested interest spreading fear.

2 cents..

Programming .NET 3.5 224

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 03, 2008 @01:00PM

lamaditx writes "The world of the .NET framework is taken to the next level by the release of .NET 3.5. The intended audience of this book are experienced .NET programmers. There are no sections that tell you details about C#, SQL servers or anything like that. I don't recommend this book if you never worked on a .NET project and don't know how to set up a SQL database. You should be aware that the code is written in C#. You might use one of the software code converters if you prefer Visual Basic instead. I think the code is still readable even if you do not know C#. I appreciate the fact that the authors decided to use one language only because it keeps the book smaller. The authors assume you are using Visual Studio 2008. You don't necessarily need to update to 2008 if you are working with an older edition because you can use the free Express Edition to get started." Keep reading for the rest of Adrian's review.

Submission + - A campaign to block Firefox users (whyfirefoxisblocked.com) 5

Submitted by rarwes on Friday August 17, 2007 @03:32AM

rarwes writes: A website is aiming at blocking Firefox users. This because a fraction of the Firefox users installed an Ad Blocker and thus stealing money from website owners that use ads. They recommend using IE, Opera or IE tab. From the site: Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending, therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers.

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